Firewall Jobs in Sheffield

Firewall
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 63 74
Rank change year-on-year +42 +11 -8
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 20 21 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 6.99% 1.92% 2.85%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 27.40% 22.83% 11.98%
Number of salaries quoted 12 18 7
10th Percentile - £26,500 £34,050
25th Percentile £31,250 £27,125 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,250 £37,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% -37.92% +9.09%
75th Percentile £74,063 £39,875 £65,625
90th Percentile £75,000 £48,750 £67,050
South Yorkshire median annual salary £40,000 £37,000 £44,000
% change year-on-year +8.11% -15.91% -20.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 73 92 217
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 25.52% 8.42% 23.77%
Number of salaries quoted 55 81 86
10th Percentile £29,300 £26,500 £22,000
25th Percentile £30,625 £29,000 £27,600
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £35,000 £36,750
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -4.76% -33.18%
75th Percentile £64,375 £46,250 £43,750
90th Percentile £73,650 £60,000 £59,500
South Yorkshire median annual salary £32,500 £35,000 £36,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% -2.78% -34.55%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Sheffield

Firewall
Salary Trend in Sheffield

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

Salary trend for Firewall in Sheffield

Firewall
Salary Histogram in Sheffield

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Sheffield over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Firewall in Sheffield

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 2 (10.00%) Confluence
1 2 (10.00%) Tomcat
1 2 (10.00%) WebSphere
1 2 (10.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (30.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) Entra ID
2 6 (30.00%) Azure
2 6 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (15.00%) AWS
4 2 (10.00%) GCP
4 2 (10.00%) GitHub
5 1 (5.00%) Azure AI
5 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (5.00%) IaaS
5 1 (5.00%) PaaS
5 1 (5.00%) Power Automate
5 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (80.00%) VPN
2 12 (60.00%) WAN
3 11 (55.00%) Network Security
4 9 (45.00%) LAN
5 8 (40.00%) Cisco Nexus
6 7 (35.00%) DNS
7 6 (30.00%) DWDM
7 6 (30.00%) TCP/IP
8 4 (20.00%) SD-WAN
9 2 (10.00%) Cisco Firepower
9 2 (10.00%) FCoE
9 2 (10.00%) Fibre Channel
9 2 (10.00%) iSCSI
9 2 (10.00%) Multicast
9 2 (10.00%) NAS
9 2 (10.00%) SAN
9 2 (10.00%) WebEx
9 2 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (5.00%) Cisco ASA
10 1 (5.00%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (5.00%) MySQL
2 1 (5.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (40.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.00%) JIRA
3 1 (5.00%) Git
General
1 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Finance
2 1 (5.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Network Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Lead
3 5 (25.00%) Help Desk Team Lead
3 5 (25.00%) Team Leader
4 4 (20.00%) Architect
4 4 (20.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Lead Network Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Network Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Network Security Consultant
6 1 (5.00%) Network Security Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Security Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Security Technical Consultant
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Technical Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) LDAP
1 2 (10.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (15.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (10.00%) Clustering
3 2 (10.00%) Replication
4 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.00%) NHS
4 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (5.00%) Tandem
4 1 (5.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (5.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (35.00%) Windows
2 5 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (10.00%) Linux
3 2 (10.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (55.00%) Mentoring
3 8 (40.00%) Migration
3 8 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
4 7 (35.00%) Network Architecture
5 6 (30.00%) Computer Science
5 6 (30.00%) Customer Service
5 6 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 6 (30.00%) Runbook
5 6 (30.00%) Task Automation
5 6 (30.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 5 (25.00%) Client Onboarding
6 5 (25.00%) Process Improvement
7 4 (20.00%) High Availability
8 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
8 3 (15.00%) Privileged Access Management
8 3 (15.00%) Roadmaps
9 2 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
9 2 (10.00%) Incident Response
9 2 (10.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) Python
2 3 (15.00%) SQL
3 2 (10.00%) Java
4 1 (5.00%) Bicep
4 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (55.00%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (45.00%) CCNP
3 8 (40.00%) CCNA
4 6 (30.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (30.00%) Degree
4 6 (30.00%) JNCIA
4 6 (30.00%) JNCIS
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Certification
5 2 (10.00%) CCSA
6 1 (5.00%) CCSE
6 1 (5.00%) DBS Check
6 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
6 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (35.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (15.00%) Active Directory
4 2 (10.00%) KVM
4 2 (10.00%) NFS
4 2 (10.00%) SRDF
4 2 (10.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 2 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (10.00%) Xen
5 1 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (5.00%) XenApp
5 1 (5.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 8 (40.00%) Ansible
2 6 (30.00%) Terraform
3 2 (10.00%) FortiGate
3 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (10.00%) Puppet
4 1 (5.00%) SCCM
4 1 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (65.00%) Cisco
3 8 (40.00%) VMware
4 6 (30.00%) Arista
5 4 (20.00%) Fortinet
6 3 (15.00%) Meraki
7 2 (10.00%) CheckPoint
7 2 (10.00%) EMC
7 2 (10.00%) F5
7 2 (10.00%) Google
7 2 (10.00%) NetApp
7 2 (10.00%) Oracle
7 2 (10.00%) Palo Alto
8 1 (5.00%) Citrix
8 1 (5.00%) Commvault
8 1 (5.00%) Databricks
8 1 (5.00%) Zscaler