Firewall Job Trends in Sheffield

Firewall
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Firewall skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 31 45
Rank change year-on-year -11 +14 +33
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 10 16 32
As % of all permanent jobs in Sheffield 1.94% 4.24% 4.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.39% 33.33% 30.77%
Number of salaries quoted 10 10 29
10th Percentile £26,250 £48,750 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,875 £53,938 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £70,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% +86.67% -7.98%
75th Percentile £42,500 £75,000 £41,750
90th Percentile £43,250 £75,750 £65,000
South Yorkshire median annual salary £40,000 £70,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year -42.86% +86.67% -7.41%

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 61 48 104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 11.84% 12.73% 13.37%
Number of salaries quoted 49 25 97
10th Percentile - £29,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £55,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -44.55% +46.67% -
75th Percentile £33,750 £75,000 £46,250
90th Percentile £42,500 £79,500 £60,500
South Yorkshire median annual salary £30,500 £58,250 £37,000
% change year-on-year -47.64% +57.43% -1.33%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Firewall job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Firewall
Salary Trend in Sheffield

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Firewall.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Firewall

Firewall
Salary Histogram in Sheffield

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Sheffield over the 6 months to 20 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Firewall in Sheffield

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 9 (90.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (30.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (70.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) SAN
2 2 (20.00%) DHCP
2 2 (20.00%) DNS
2 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (20.00%) VPN
3 1 (10.00%) DMZ
3 1 (10.00%) NetScaler
3 1 (10.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) MySQL
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (60.00%) Law
1 6 (60.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 5 (50.00%) IT Support
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) IT Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Driving Licence
1 2 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (90.00%) Windows
1 9 (90.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (20.00%) Linux
2 2 (20.00%) Windows 10
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) ITIL
2 3 (30.00%) Customer Service
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Server Migrations
4 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (10.00%) Cyber Resilience
4 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (10.00%) Data Encryption
4 1 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (10.00%) High Availability
4 1 (10.00%) Patch Management
4 1 (10.00%) Performance Metrics
4 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (10.00%) Server Patching
4 1 (10.00%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 8 (80.00%) Hyper-V
2 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (10.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (10.00%) XenApp
3 1 (10.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Plesk
2 1 (10.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Microsoft
1 9 (90.00%) VMware
2 2 (20.00%) Citrix
2 2 (20.00%) Draytek
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco
3 1 (10.00%) Commvault
3 1 (10.00%) Fortinet