Firewall Job Trends in Yorkshire

Firewall
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Firewall skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 49 37
Rank change year-on-year -54 -12 +55
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 100 130 262
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.55% 4.90% 4.62%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.69% 32.02% 35.41%
Number of salaries quoted 93 76 208
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,188 £35,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £43,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.66% -4.44% -2.70%
75th Percentile £57,239 £55,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £69,878 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £51,500 £48,837
% change year-on-year +6.80% +5.45% -2.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Yorkshire

Firewall falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 599 406 740
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 9.30% 15.29% 13.04%
Number of salaries quoted 305 275 571
10th Percentile £25,500 £26,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £28,375 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £33,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% -22.35% -
75th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £59,750
90th Percentile £66,500 £73,831 £72,500
England median annual salary £47,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -6.00% +5.26% -5.00%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Firewall relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Firewall job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Firewall
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Firewall.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Firewall

Firewall
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Firewall in Yorkshire

Firewall
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 21 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Yorkshire -47 29 £48,445 +9.85% 16
South Yorkshire -42 18 £42,500 +6.25% 11
North Yorkshire -26 11 £30,000 -14.29% 4
East Yorkshire -36 4 £45,000 -10.00% 1
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 20 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (19.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.00%) IIS
Applications
1 13 (13.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 42 (42.00%) Entra ID
2 41 (41.00%) Azure
3 35 (35.00%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (21.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 16 (16.00%) AWS
6 8 (8.00%) Power Platform
7 5 (5.00%) OCI
8 3 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.00%) GCP
8 3 (3.00%) GitHub
8 3 (3.00%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (2.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (2.00%) IaaS
9 2 (2.00%) PaaS
10 1 (1.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (1.00%) Azure Functions
10 1 (1.00%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (1.00%) OneDrive
10 1 (1.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 33 (33.00%) WAN
2 30 (30.00%) LAN
2 30 (30.00%) VPN
3 21 (21.00%) DNS
4 18 (18.00%) VLAN
5 16 (16.00%) DHCP
5 16 (16.00%) TCP/IP
6 15 (15.00%) Network Security
7 13 (13.00%) Wi-Fi
8 10 (10.00%) SD-WAN
8 10 (10.00%) VXLAN
9 8 (8.00%) BGP
10 7 (7.00%) NGFW
10 7 (7.00%) OSPF
11 6 (6.00%) Wireless
12 5 (5.00%) Wireshark
13 4 (4.00%) HTTP
13 4 (4.00%) MPLS
13 4 (4.00%) Unified Communications
14 3 (3.00%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.00%) MySQL
4 1 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.00%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 3 (3.00%) Jenkins
General
1 59 (59.00%) Social Skills
2 31 (31.00%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (9.00%) Manufacturing
4 7 (7.00%) Law
4 7 (7.00%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.00%) Retail
6 5 (5.00%) Telecoms
7 4 (4.00%) Finance
7 4 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (3.00%) Advertising
8 3 (3.00%) Aerospace
8 3 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.00%) Electronics
9 1 (1.00%) Marketing
9 1 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (21.00%) IT Support
1 21 (21.00%) Lead
2 18 (18.00%) Support Engineer
3 15 (15.00%) IT Engineer
3 15 (15.00%) Senior
4 14 (14.00%) Network Engineer
5 12 (12.00%) IT Support Engineer
6 9 (9.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (9.00%) Support Technician
7 8 (8.00%) IT Support Technician
7 8 (8.00%) IT Technician
8 7 (7.00%) Architect
9 6 (6.00%) Network Architect
10 5 (5.00%) 3rd Line Support
10 5 (5.00%) Help Desk Adviser
10 5 (5.00%) Network Manager
10 5 (5.00%) Network Operations Manager
10 5 (5.00%) Operations Manager
10 5 (5.00%) Senior Network Engineer
11 4 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.00%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 21 (21.00%) Data Protection Act
2 12 (12.00%) Data Centre
3 8 (8.00%) Driving Licence
3 8 (8.00%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (5.00%) PKI
5 4 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (4.00%) Management Information System
6 3 (3.00%) Cyber Security Posture
7 2 (2.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (2.00%) Life Science
7 2 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (2.00%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.00%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.00%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 36 (36.00%) Windows
2 28 (28.00%) Windows Server
3 6 (6.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 6 (6.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 5 (5.00%) Linux
5 3 (3.00%) VMS
6 2 (2.00%) Android
7 1 (1.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (38.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 34 (34.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 33 (33.00%) Cybersecurity
4 30 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (27.00%) Decision-Making
6 26 (26.00%) Business Continuity
6 26 (26.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 25 (25.00%) Incident Response
8 24 (24.00%) BCP
9 21 (21.00%) Business Continuity Planning
9 21 (21.00%) Data Protection
9 21 (21.00%) Information Governance
9 21 (21.00%) Risk Management
9 21 (21.00%) Risk Register
9 21 (21.00%) Security Architecture
9 21 (21.00%) SIEM
10 16 (16.00%) Mentoring
11 12 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 11 (11.00%) Coaching
12 11 (11.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 9 (9.00%) Python
3 4 (4.00%) SQL
4 3 (3.00%) Bash
4 3 (3.00%) Go
5 2 (2.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 13 (13.00%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (9.00%) Degree
3 8 (8.00%) CCNP
4 7 (7.00%) CCNA
5 4 (4.00%) Azure Certification
5 4 (4.00%) SC Cleared
5 4 (4.00%) Security Cleared
6 3 (3.00%) CCIE
6 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.00%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 29 (29.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 26 (26.00%) GDPR
4 21 (21.00%) NIST
5 4 (4.00%) SLA
6 3 (3.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 35 (35.00%) Active Directory
2 11 (11.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (9.00%) Hyper-V
4 3 (3.00%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.00%) vSphere
6 1 (1.00%) Docker
6 1 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.00%) XenApp
6 1 (1.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 19 (19.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (10.00%) Terraform
3 8 (8.00%) Ansible
4 4 (4.00%) Grafana
5 3 (3.00%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.00%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 57 (57.00%) Microsoft
2 25 (25.00%) Cisco
3 14 (14.00%) VMware
4 11 (11.00%) Fortinet
4 11 (11.00%) Juniper
5 9 (9.00%) Veeam
6 7 (7.00%) Arista
7 6 (6.00%) Palo Alto
8 5 (5.00%) Aruba
8 5 (5.00%) NetScout
9 3 (3.00%) Citrix
9 3 (3.00%) F5
9 3 (3.00%) Meraki
9 3 (3.00%) WatchGuard
10 2 (2.00%) Datto
10 2 (2.00%) SonicWALL
11 1 (1.00%) Duck Creek
11 1 (1.00%) Polycom
11 1 (1.00%) SolarWinds
11 1 (1.00%) Trend Micro