Firewall Jobs in Leeds

Firewall
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 31 67
Rank change year-on-year -29 +36 +39
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 14 130 126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 1.81% 5.52% 4.39%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.74% 38.81% 45.16%
Number of salaries quoted 12 102 73
10th Percentile £53,000 £36,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £45,000 £34,025
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £53,750 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +39.53% +19.44% -10.00%
75th Percentile £83,125 £72,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,625 £76,316
West Yorkshire median annual salary £44,700 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.86% +5.00% +8.11%

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 95 335 279
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 12.29% 14.23% 9.72%
Number of salaries quoted 77 229 134
10th Percentile £26,750 £32,500 £26,700
25th Percentile £27,750 £41,250 £32,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £55,000 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +18.92% -7.50%
75th Percentile £73,886 £71,725 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,174
West Yorkshire median annual salary £40,000 £50,750 £46,875
% change year-on-year -21.18% +8.27% -5.30%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Leeds

Firewall
Salary Trend in Leeds

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

Salary trend for Firewall in Leeds

Firewall
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Leeds over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Firewall in Leeds

Firewall
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 8 (57.14%) Azure
2 7 (50.00%) AWS
3 6 (42.86%) GCP
3 6 (42.86%) OCI
4 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 2 (14.29%) Nutanix
5 1 (7.14%) Azure AI
5 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (7.14%) IaaS
5 1 (7.14%) PaaS
5 1 (7.14%) Power Automate
5 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
5 1 (7.14%) Rubrik
5 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (78.57%) VPN
2 7 (50.00%) Network Security
2 7 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 6 (42.86%) BGP
3 6 (42.86%) OSPF
3 6 (42.86%) VLAN
4 3 (21.43%) DNS
5 2 (14.29%) NAS
5 2 (14.29%) SAN
5 2 (14.29%) SD-WAN
5 2 (14.29%) WAN
6 1 (7.14%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (7.14%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
2 1 (7.14%) MySQL
2 1 (7.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Git
General
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Network Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Lead
2 3 (21.43%) Lead Network Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Network Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Network Security Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Security Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Security Technical Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Service Desk Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Service Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
1 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (7.14%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Windows
2 3 (21.43%) Windows Server
3 2 (14.29%) Linux
4 1 (7.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (42.86%) Load Balancing
3 6 (42.86%) Network Design
3 6 (42.86%) Task Automation
3 6 (42.86%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (21.43%) Decision-Making
4 3 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Management
4 3 (21.43%) Migration
5 2 (14.29%) Analytical Thinking
5 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (14.29%) ITIL
5 2 (14.29%) Network Virtualisation
5 2 (14.29%) Performance Metrics
5 2 (14.29%) Runbook
5 2 (14.29%) Server Building
5 2 (14.29%) Server Management
6 1 (7.14%) B2B
6 1 (7.14%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
3 2 (14.29%) SQL
4 1 (7.14%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.14%) CCNP
2 1 (7.14%) CCSA
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (7.14%) DBS Check
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (7.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (21.43%) VMware ESXi
1 3 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 2 (14.29%) Firmware
2 2 (14.29%) Hyper-V
2 2 (14.29%) pfSense
3 1 (7.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) Ansible
2 1 (7.14%) NetBackup
2 1 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (7.14%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) VMware
2 1 (7.14%) CheckPoint
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco
2 1 (7.14%) Commvault
2 1 (7.14%) Databricks
2 1 (7.14%) Fortinet
2 1 (7.14%) Meraki
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Palo Alto
2 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow
2 1 (7.14%) Veeam