Firewall Jobs in Yorkshire

Firewall
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire requiring Firewall skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Firewall over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 36 86
Rank change year-on-year -35 +50 +6
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 95 269 311
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 3.28% 4.60% 3.94%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 21.74% 34.31% 24.51%
Number of salaries quoted 77 210 181
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £27,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -2.70% -2.63%
75th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £65,313
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £76,316
England median annual salary £51,729 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.57% -2.00% -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 437 784 1,269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 15.09% 13.40% 16.07%
Number of salaries quoted 305 575 473
10th Percentile £25,087 £25,850 £26,250
25th Percentile £26,968 £31,250 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% - -15.00%
75th Percentile £50,000 £59,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £73,886 £72,500 £73,750
England median annual salary £47,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -4.76%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Yorkshire

Firewall
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Firewall in Yorkshire.

Salary trend for Firewall in Yorkshire

Firewall
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 19 May 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 19 May 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 -51 29 £44,100 -16.00% 62
North Yorkshire -15 23 £35,000 -1.41% 37
South Yorkshire +36 21 £40,000 +7.38% 30
East Yorkshire +3 13 £50,000 +17.65% 16
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (9.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.11%) Confluence
2 2 (2.11%) Tomcat
2 2 (2.11%) WebSphere
2 2 (2.11%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (1.05%) IIS
3 1 (1.05%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (9.47%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (9.47%) Microsoft Office
1 9 (9.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (6.32%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 39 (41.05%) Azure
2 26 (27.37%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 15 (15.79%) AWS
5 6 (6.32%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (5.26%) GCP
6 5 (5.26%) SaaS
7 4 (4.21%) GitHub
7 4 (4.21%) Power Platform
8 3 (3.16%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (2.11%) Azure AI
9 2 (2.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (2.11%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (2.11%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (2.11%) IaaS
9 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (2.11%) Mimecast
9 2 (2.11%) Nutanix
9 2 (2.11%) OCI
9 2 (2.11%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 40 (42.11%) VPN
2 30 (31.58%) LAN
3 29 (30.53%) WAN
4 23 (24.21%) TCP/IP
5 21 (22.11%) DNS
5 21 (22.11%) Network Security
6 13 (13.68%) SD-WAN
7 12 (12.63%) DHCP
7 12 (12.63%) Wireless
8 10 (10.53%) BGP
8 10 (10.53%) Cisco Nexus
8 10 (10.53%) OSPF
9 8 (8.42%) VoIP
10 6 (6.32%) DWDM
10 6 (6.32%) MPLS
10 6 (6.32%) SAN
11 5 (5.26%) NAS
11 5 (5.26%) VLAN
11 5 (5.26%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (5.26%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.42%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.21%) Power BI
3 2 (2.11%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.11%) MySQL
3 2 (2.11%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.11%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 8 (8.42%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (5.26%) JIRA
3 4 (4.21%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.11%) Git
4 2 (2.11%) Spinnaker
General
1 34 (35.79%) Social Skills
2 10 (10.53%) Public Sector
3 8 (8.42%) Law
4 6 (6.32%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.26%) Finance
6 4 (4.21%) Local Government
7 3 (3.16%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.11%) Banking
8 2 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.11%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.11%) Police
9 1 (1.05%) Automotive
9 1 (1.05%) Legal
9 1 (1.05%) Marketing
9 1 (1.05%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (17.89%) Network Engineer
2 12 (12.63%) Analyst
3 11 (11.58%) Security Engineer
4 10 (10.53%) Service Desk Engineer
4 10 (10.53%) Technical Support
5 9 (9.47%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 9 (9.47%) Support Analyst
6 8 (8.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (8.42%) Infrastructure Manager
6 8 (8.42%) Lead
6 8 (8.42%) Support Engineer
7 7 (7.37%) Senior
8 6 (6.32%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (6.32%) Technical Analyst
8 6 (6.32%) Technical Support Analyst
9 5 (5.26%) Architect
9 5 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (5.26%) Help Desk Team Lead
9 5 (5.26%) IT Support
9 5 (5.26%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.21%) Middleware
2 2 (2.11%) HTML
2 2 (2.11%) LDAP
2 2 (2.11%) SOAP
2 2 (2.11%) XML
2 2 (2.11%) XSLT
3 1 (1.05%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.47%) Onboarding
1 9 (9.47%) Security Posture
2 7 (7.37%) Cloud Security Posture
3 6 (6.32%) Data Centre
4 5 (5.26%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.16%) CCTV
5 3 (3.16%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.16%) Clustering
5 3 (3.16%) Driving Licence
5 3 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.11%) HP Storage
6 2 (2.11%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.11%) NHS
6 2 (2.11%) PKI
6 2 (2.11%) Replication
7 1 (1.05%) Fat Client
7 1 (1.05%) Tandem
7 1 (1.05%) Thin Client
7 1 (1.05%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 44 (46.32%) Windows
2 25 (26.32%) Windows Server
3 20 (21.05%) Linux
4 6 (6.32%) Windows 10
5 5 (5.26%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (2.11%) Mac OS
6 2 (2.11%) Solaris
6 2 (2.11%) Unix
7 1 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.05%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (30.53%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (14.74%) Customer Service
2 14 (14.74%) Service Delivery
3 13 (13.68%) Continuous Improvement
3 13 (13.68%) DevOps
4 12 (12.63%) ITIL
4 12 (12.63%) Mentoring
4 12 (12.63%) Migration
4 12 (12.63%) Vulnerability Management
5 11 (11.58%) Roadmaps
6 10 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 10 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
7 9 (9.47%) Incident Management
7 9 (9.47%) Security Monitoring
7 9 (9.47%) Technology Roadmap
7 9 (9.47%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 8 (8.42%) Cloud Security
8 8 (8.42%) Runbook
8 8 (8.42%) Security Operations
8 8 (8.42%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 24 (25.26%) SQL
2 13 (13.68%) PowerShell
3 12 (12.63%) Python
4 5 (5.26%) Bash
5 2 (2.11%) Bicep
5 2 (2.11%) C
5 2 (2.11%) Java
5 2 (2.11%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.11%) Jython
5 2 (2.11%) Perl
Qualifications
1 18 (18.95%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (14.74%) CCNA
3 13 (13.68%) CCNP
4 12 (12.63%) SC Cleared
4 12 (12.63%) Security Cleared
5 10 (10.53%) Degree
6 8 (8.42%) AWS Certification
7 7 (7.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (6.32%) Azure Certification
8 6 (6.32%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (6.32%) JNCIA
8 6 (6.32%) JNCIS
9 4 (4.21%) A+ Certification
10 3 (3.16%) CCSA
11 2 (2.11%) CISMP
11 2 (2.11%) DBS Check
11 2 (2.11%) GSEC
12 1 (1.05%) CCSE
12 1 (1.05%) SANS
12 1 (1.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.32%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.16%) ISO 14001
3 3 (3.16%) ISO 9001
4 2 (2.11%) GDPR
4 2 (2.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (2.11%) SLA
5 1 (1.05%) NIST
5 1 (1.05%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.05%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 41 (43.16%) Active Directory
2 20 (21.05%) Hyper-V
2 20 (21.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (11.58%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (3.16%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (3.16%) vSphere
5 2 (2.11%) Firmware
5 2 (2.11%) KVM
5 2 (2.11%) NFS
5 2 (2.11%) pfSense
5 2 (2.11%) SRDF
5 2 (2.11%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 2 (2.11%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (2.11%) Xen
6 1 (1.05%) Terminal Services
6 1 (1.05%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (1.05%) XenApp
6 1 (1.05%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 12 (12.63%) Ansible
2 10 (10.53%) Kubernetes
3 9 (9.47%) FortiGate
3 9 (9.47%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (9.47%) Terraform
4 5 (5.26%) WSUS
5 2 (2.11%) Puppet
5 2 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.05%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (1.05%) Nessus
6 1 (1.05%) NetBackup
6 1 (1.05%) SCCM
6 1 (1.05%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 45 (47.37%) Microsoft
2 31 (32.63%) VMware
3 27 (28.42%) Cisco
4 7 (7.37%) Citrix
4 7 (7.37%) Meraki
5 6 (6.32%) Arista
5 6 (6.32%) CheckPoint
5 6 (6.32%) Fortinet
6 5 (5.26%) Draytek
6 5 (5.26%) Ubiquiti
7 4 (4.21%) Oracle
7 4 (4.21%) Palo Alto
8 3 (3.16%) SonicWALL
8 3 (3.16%) Veeam
9 2 (2.11%) Dell
9 2 (2.11%) EMC
9 2 (2.11%) F5
9 2 (2.11%) Google
9 2 (2.11%) HP
9 2 (2.11%) ServiceNow