Firewall Job Trends in Leeds

Firewall
West Yorkshire > Leeds

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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 65 55
Rank change year-on-year -14 -10 +32
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 24 25 57
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 1.80% 2.42% 4.31%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 22.22% 26.32% 42.86%
Number of salaries quoted 22 23 48
10th Percentile £31,325 £36,200 £29,425
25th Percentile £32,000 £42,750 £37,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.48% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £47,500 £56,875 £67,500
90th Percentile £69,375 £79,500 £78,750
West Yorkshire median annual salary £39,900 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -24.00% -4.55% +10.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 108 95 133
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 8.08% 9.18% 10.06%
Number of salaries quoted 86 56 109
10th Percentile - £29,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £34,938 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £51,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -33.66% -2.38% +13.51%
75th Percentile £60,938 £66,094 £77,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £35,250 £45,445 £50,000
% change year-on-year -22.43% -9.11% +11.11%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Firewall job vacancy trend in Leeds

Firewall
Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Firewall.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Firewall

Firewall
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Leeds over the 6 months to 6 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Firewall in Leeds

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 8 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.17%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (75.00%) Azure
2 14 (58.33%) Entra ID
2 14 (58.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.17%) AWS
3 1 (4.17%) GCP
3 1 (4.17%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 10 (41.67%) VLAN
2 9 (37.50%) VoIP
3 8 (33.33%) SAN
4 6 (25.00%) VPN
5 5 (20.83%) DNS
5 5 (20.83%) Network Security
6 4 (16.67%) DHCP
6 4 (16.67%) TCP/IP
7 1 (4.17%) BGP
7 1 (4.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Legal
3 2 (8.33%) Finance
4 1 (4.17%) Electronics
4 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.17%) Marketing
4 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (50.00%) IT Support
1 12 (50.00%) Support Technician
2 8 (33.33%) Senior
3 7 (29.17%) IT Support Technician
3 7 (29.17%) IT Technician
4 5 (20.83%) Senior Support Technician
4 5 (20.83%) Senior Technician
5 4 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
5 4 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support Technician
5 4 (16.67%) IT Manager
5 4 (16.67%) IT Support Manager
5 4 (16.67%) Support Manager
6 3 (12.50%) Field Support Technician
6 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (8.33%) Architect
7 2 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (4.17%) 3rd Line Support
8 1 (4.17%) Security Architect
8 1 (4.17%) Security Engineer
8 1 (4.17%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 8 (33.33%) Clustering
2 6 (25.00%) Data Centre
3 4 (16.67%) Driving Licence
3 4 (16.67%) Management Information System
4 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
5 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
5 1 (4.17%) Operational Technology
5 1 (4.17%) Private Cloud
5 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (66.67%) Windows
2 9 (37.50%) Linux
3 8 (33.33%) Windows 10
3 8 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 8 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (33.33%) Data Security
3 5 (20.83%) Mentoring
3 5 (20.83%) Project Delivery
4 4 (16.67%) Asset Management
4 4 (16.67%) Case Management
4 4 (16.67%) IT Asset Management
4 4 (16.67%) ITIL
4 4 (16.67%) Server Management
5 3 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 3 (12.50%) DevOps
5 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (8.33%) Agile
6 2 (8.33%) Roadmaps
6 2 (8.33%) Technology Roadmap
7 1 (4.17%) Digital Marketing
7 1 (4.17%) Load Balancing
7 1 (4.17%) Migration
7 1 (4.17%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 4 (16.67%) VBA
2 1 (4.17%) Python
2 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (20.83%) Degree
3 4 (16.67%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (4.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 14 (58.33%) Hyper-V
2 8 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 7 (29.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (4.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (45.83%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (12.50%) Terraform
3 1 (4.17%) Ansible
3 1 (4.17%) FortiGate
3 1 (4.17%) Kibana
3 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 18 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (37.50%) VMware
3 8 (33.33%) Dell
3 8 (33.33%) HP
3 8 (33.33%) SonicWALL
3 8 (33.33%) Supermicro
4 4 (16.67%) Adobe
4 4 (16.67%) Citrix
5 1 (4.17%) Duck Creek
5 1 (4.17%) F5
5 1 (4.17%) LogRhythm
5 1 (4.17%) New Relic
5 1 (4.17%) Okta
5 1 (4.17%) Oracle
5 1 (4.17%) Palo Alto
5 1 (4.17%) SAP
5 1 (4.17%) Trend Micro
5 1 (4.17%) Veeam