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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 47 31
Rank change year-on-year -35 -16 +64
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 103 121 268
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 2.30% 5.22% 5.33%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.14% 37.00% 39.35%
Number of salaries quoted 95 87 226
10th Percentile £27,600 £35,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £38,500 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £57,239 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile - £75,000 £68,125
England median annual salary £48,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -11.82% +10.00% -4.76%

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 601 327 681
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 13.45% 14.10% 13.54%
Number of salaries quoted 292 222 537
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,025 £26,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £29,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,750 £42,000 £40,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.79% +3.70% -4.71%
75th Percentile £47,500 £55,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £58,750 £75,000 £72,433
England median annual salary £42,500 £53,300 £48,500
% change year-on-year -20.26% +9.90% -5.55%

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 9 March 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 9 March 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 -46 27 £45,250 +0.56% 11
South Yorkshire -24 14 £38,000 -45.71% 8
North Yorkshire -7 12 £30,000 -33.33% 7
East Yorkshire -25 12 £45,000 - 2
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 25 (24.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (18.45%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.97%) IIS
Applications
1 25 (24.27%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 43 (41.75%) Azure
1 43 (41.75%) Microsoft 365
2 41 (39.81%) Entra ID
3 21 (20.39%) Microsoft Purview
4 13 (12.62%) AWS
5 5 (4.85%) OCI
6 4 (3.88%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (3.88%) GCP
6 4 (3.88%) GitHub
6 4 (3.88%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (2.91%) OneDrive
8 2 (1.94%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 2 (1.94%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (35.92%) VPN
2 28 (27.18%) WAN
3 26 (25.24%) LAN
4 25 (24.27%) VLAN
5 22 (21.36%) DNS
5 22 (21.36%) TCP/IP
6 18 (17.48%) DHCP
7 16 (15.53%) Network Security
8 9 (8.74%) Wireless
9 8 (7.77%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (5.83%) SAN
10 6 (5.83%) VoIP
11 5 (4.85%) NGFW
11 5 (4.85%) VXLAN
11 5 (4.85%) Wireshark
12 4 (3.88%) HTTP
12 4 (3.88%) Remote Desktop
12 4 (3.88%) SD-WAN
12 4 (3.88%) Unified Communications
13 3 (2.91%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.80%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.85%) MySQL
3 3 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (3.88%) Jenkins
General
1 59 (57.28%) Social Skills
2 28 (27.18%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (16.50%) Manufacturing
4 12 (11.65%) Law
5 10 (9.71%) Telecoms
6 8 (7.77%) Retail
7 7 (6.80%) Public Sector
8 5 (4.85%) Advertising
9 4 (3.88%) Finance
9 4 (3.88%) Legal
10 3 (2.91%) Aerospace
10 3 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.97%) Electronics
11 1 (0.97%) Marketing
11 1 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (29.13%) IT Support
2 23 (22.33%) Support Engineer
3 21 (20.39%) Lead
4 16 (15.53%) IT Engineer
5 14 (13.59%) Support Technician
6 13 (12.62%) 2nd Line Support
6 13 (12.62%) IT Support Engineer
7 11 (10.68%) Senior
8 10 (9.71%) 2nd Line Support Technician
9 9 (8.74%) 3rd Line Support
10 8 (7.77%) IT Support Technician
10 8 (7.77%) IT Technician
10 8 (7.77%) Network Engineer
10 8 (7.77%) Technical Engineer
10 8 (7.77%) Technical Support
10 8 (7.77%) Technical Support Engineer
11 6 (5.83%) Help Desk Support
11 6 (5.83%) Help Desk Support Technician
11 6 (5.83%) Help Desk Technician
12 5 (4.85%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.88%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 21 (20.39%) Data Protection Act
2 14 (13.59%) Driving Licence
3 13 (12.62%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (10.68%) Data Centre
5 8 (7.77%) Management Information System
6 5 (4.85%) PKI
7 3 (2.91%) Cloud Native
7 3 (2.91%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.94%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.94%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.97%) Life Science
9 1 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.97%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 48 (46.60%) Windows
2 44 (42.72%) Windows Server
3 10 (9.71%) Linux
4 5 (4.85%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (3.88%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.94%) Android
6 2 (1.94%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.97%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (35.92%) Disaster Recovery
2 31 (30.10%) Cybersecurity
3 26 (25.24%) Continuous Improvement
3 26 (25.24%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (24.27%) Incident Response
5 24 (23.30%) Decision-Making
6 23 (22.33%) Data Protection
6 23 (22.33%) SIEM
7 22 (21.36%) Security Architecture
7 22 (21.36%) Stakeholder Management
8 21 (20.39%) BCP
8 21 (20.39%) Business Continuity
8 21 (20.39%) Business Continuity Planning
8 21 (20.39%) Customer Service
8 21 (20.39%) Information Governance
8 21 (20.39%) Risk Management
8 21 (20.39%) Risk Register
9 14 (13.59%) ITIL
9 14 (13.59%) Mentoring
9 14 (13.59%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (8.74%) Python
2 7 (6.80%) PowerShell
3 4 (3.88%) Bash
3 4 (3.88%) Go
3 4 (3.88%) VBA
4 2 (1.94%) Bicep
4 2 (1.94%) Shell Script
4 2 (1.94%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (13.59%) Degree
2 8 (7.77%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (6.80%) CCNP
4 5 (4.85%) CCNA
5 4 (3.88%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.97%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.97%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (28.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (25.24%) GDPR
3 24 (23.30%) Cyber Essentials
4 23 (22.33%) NIST
5 3 (2.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.94%) GRC
6 2 (1.94%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.97%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.97%) NCSC
System Software
1 45 (43.69%) Active Directory
2 27 (26.21%) Hyper-V
3 15 (14.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.94%) vSphere
5 1 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.97%) XenApp
5 1 (0.97%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 15 (14.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (11.65%) Terraform
3 9 (8.74%) Ansible
4 4 (3.88%) Grafana
4 4 (3.88%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.94%) FortiGate
5 2 (1.94%) Plesk
6 1 (0.97%) Kibana
6 1 (0.97%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.97%) SCCM
Vendors
1 70 (67.96%) Microsoft
2 25 (24.27%) VMware
3 16 (15.53%) Cisco
4 8 (7.77%) Fortinet
5 7 (6.80%) Citrix
6 6 (5.83%) Meraki
6 6 (5.83%) SonicWALL
7 5 (4.85%) Arista
7 5 (4.85%) Aruba
7 5 (4.85%) NetScout
8 4 (3.88%) Adobe
8 4 (3.88%) Apple
8 4 (3.88%) Sage
8 4 (3.88%) Veeam
9 3 (2.91%) WatchGuard
10 2 (1.94%) Datto
10 2 (1.94%) Draytek
10 2 (1.94%) Huawei
11 1 (0.97%) Duck Creek
11 1 (0.97%) Trend Micro