Firewall Specialist Jobs in Leeds

Firewall Specialist
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Firewall Specialist salary in Leeds is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 August 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Firewall Specialist 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 0.098% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 - -
75th Percentile £48,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Leeds. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Leeds with a recognized job title 973 1,919 2,322
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.21% 95.71% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 625 1,315 1,469
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,875 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,074 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £72,500 £69,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Firewall Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings that featured Firewall Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall Specialist in Leeds

Firewall Specialist
Salary Trend in Leeds

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

Salary trend for Firewall Specialist in Leeds

Firewall Specialist Skill Set
Top 28 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 3 August 2025, Firewall Specialist job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Leeds region featuring Firewall Specialist in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) CCSA
1 1 (100.00%) CCSE
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) FortiGate
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Check Point GAiA
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Management
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response

Firewall Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Check Point GAiA
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Management
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCSA
1 1 (100.00%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow