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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 46 54
Rank change year-on-year +7 +8 +36
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 172 159 177
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 4.79% 3.76% 5.42%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 30.99% 39.95% 32.30%
Number of salaries quoted 94 97 154
10th Percentile £26,250 £33,450 £29,163
25th Percentile £28,000 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,750 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -31.90% +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £47,500 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £66,375 £77,500 £79,909
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - -

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 555 398 548
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 15.46% 9.40% 16.79%
Number of salaries quoted 359 194 412
10th Percentile - £26,250 £27,615
25th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £31,094
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £45,445 £41,750
Median % change year-on-year -32.89% +8.85% -9.24%
75th Percentile £46,250 £64,625 £61,949
90th Percentile £63,750 £78,750 £77,542
England median annual salary £40,000 £53,300 £52,000
% change year-on-year -24.95% +2.50% -0.95%

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 6 November 2025.

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 6 November 2025. 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 +8 72 £40,000 -33.33% 13
North Yorkshire -12 37 £27,500 -42.11% 10
South Yorkshire +12 25 £40,000 -27.27% 9
East Yorkshire -4 24 £28,000 -37.78% 5
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 32 (18.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (8.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (8.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 71 (41.28%) Azure
2 59 (34.30%) Microsoft 365
3 33 (19.19%) Entra ID
4 21 (12.21%) AWS
5 9 (5.23%) SaaS
6 8 (4.65%) GCP
7 7 (4.07%) OCI
8 6 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.16%) Azure AI
9 2 (1.16%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (1.16%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (1.16%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.16%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (1.16%) IaaS
9 2 (1.16%) PaaS
9 2 (1.16%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.16%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.58%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.58%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 45 (26.16%) VPN
2 44 (25.58%) VLAN
3 36 (20.93%) WAN
4 34 (19.77%) LAN
5 33 (19.19%) DNS
5 33 (19.19%) VoIP
6 28 (16.28%) TCP/IP
7 27 (15.70%) DHCP
8 25 (14.53%) Network Security
9 16 (9.30%) SAN
9 16 (9.30%) Wireless
10 15 (8.72%) BGP
11 13 (7.56%) WLAN
12 10 (5.81%) SD-WAN
13 9 (5.23%) Remote Desktop
14 8 (4.65%) OSPF
15 7 (4.07%) MPLS
15 7 (4.07%) Wi-Fi
16 6 (3.49%) ADSL
16 6 (3.49%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.33%) MySQL
2 2 (1.16%) Data Lake
2 2 (1.16%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (1.16%) Git
2 1 (0.58%) JIRA
General
1 43 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (6.40%) Manufacturing
3 9 (5.23%) Telecoms
4 5 (2.91%) Finance
5 4 (2.33%) Law
5 4 (2.33%) Legal
6 2 (1.16%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.58%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (28.49%) IT Engineer
2 23 (13.37%) IT Support
3 22 (12.79%) Support Technician
4 20 (11.63%) Support Engineer
5 19 (11.05%) Analyst
5 19 (11.05%) Instrumentation Engineer
6 17 (9.88%) Technical Support
7 16 (9.30%) Network Engineer
8 12 (6.98%) Support Analyst
9 11 (6.40%) Technical Engineer
9 11 (6.40%) Technical Support Engineer
10 10 (5.81%) IT Support Technician
10 10 (5.81%) IT Technician
10 10 (5.81%) Security Specialist
10 10 (5.81%) Senior
11 9 (5.23%) 2nd Line Support
11 9 (5.23%) 2nd Line Support Technician
11 9 (5.23%) Cybersecurity Specialist
12 8 (4.65%) Lead
13 7 (4.07%) Senior Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.58%) ARM Templates
1 1 (0.58%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 60 (34.88%) Operational Technology
2 17 (9.88%) Data Centre
3 13 (7.56%) Clustering
4 8 (4.65%) Onboarding
5 7 (4.07%) Driving Licence
6 6 (3.49%) FMCG
6 6 (3.49%) Handset
7 5 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.33%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.74%) Cloud Native
10 2 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.16%) NHS
10 2 (1.16%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.58%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.58%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.58%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.58%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.58%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 128 (74.42%) Windows
2 38 (22.09%) Windows Server
3 30 (17.44%) Linux
4 16 (9.30%) Windows 10
5 15 (8.72%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.16%) Check Point GAiA
7 1 (0.58%) Unix
7 1 (0.58%) VMS
7 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (46.51%) Cybersecurity
2 66 (38.37%) Network Management
3 64 (37.21%) Network Design
4 28 (16.28%) Customer Service
5 25 (14.53%) ITIL
6 23 (13.37%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (8.14%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (7.56%) Penetration Testing
8 13 (7.56%) Project Delivery
9 12 (6.98%) Incident Response
9 12 (6.98%) Proactive Monitoring
10 11 (6.40%) Security Architecture
11 10 (5.81%) DevOps
11 10 (5.81%) Incident Management
11 10 (5.81%) SIEM
11 10 (5.81%) SOAR
11 10 (5.81%) Vulnerability Management
12 9 (5.23%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
12 9 (5.23%) Interactive Application Security Testing
12 9 (5.23%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (8.14%) PowerShell
2 10 (5.81%) Python
3 5 (2.91%) SQL
4 4 (2.33%) VBA
5 3 (1.74%) Bash
6 2 (1.16%) Bicep
6 2 (1.16%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (8.72%) Microsoft Certification
2 14 (8.14%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (6.40%) CCNA
4 7 (4.07%) CCNP
5 6 (3.49%) CISMP
5 6 (3.49%) Degree
5 6 (3.49%) GSEC
5 6 (3.49%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (1.74%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.16%) CCSA
7 2 (1.16%) CCSE
7 2 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.16%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.16%) MCSE
7 2 (1.16%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.58%) CEH
8 1 (0.58%) CISM
8 1 (0.58%) CISSP
8 1 (0.58%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.58%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.49%) GDPR
2 5 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.33%) NCSC
4 2 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.16%) NIST
4 2 (1.16%) SLA
5 1 (0.58%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 100 (58.14%) Active Directory
2 58 (33.72%) Virtual Servers
3 35 (20.35%) Hyper-V
4 9 (5.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (2.91%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.16%) vSphere
7 1 (0.58%) Docker
7 1 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 28 (16.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (5.23%) Ansible
3 5 (2.91%) FortiGate
3 5 (2.91%) Terraform
4 3 (1.74%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.16%) Plesk
5 2 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.58%) Kibana
6 1 (0.58%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 70 (40.70%) Microsoft
2 23 (13.37%) Cisco
3 22 (12.79%) SonicWALL
4 15 (8.72%) Meraki
5 14 (8.14%) VMware
6 13 (7.56%) Dell
6 13 (7.56%) HP
6 13 (7.56%) Supermicro
7 11 (6.40%) Fortinet
8 9 (5.23%) Apple
8 9 (5.23%) Citrix
8 9 (5.23%) Sage
9 8 (4.65%) Sophos
10 7 (4.07%) Huawei
11 6 (3.49%) Aruba
11 6 (3.49%) Polycom
12 4 (2.33%) Adobe
12 4 (2.33%) CheckPoint
13 2 (1.16%) arcserve
13 2 (1.16%) Forcepoint