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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 64 66
Rank change year-on-year +34 +2 +7
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 17 19 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 4.36% 1.62% 2.64%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.00% 22.35% 11.63%
Number of salaries quoted 10 17 10
10th Percentile £30,925 £28,000 £35,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £37,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -31.82% -
75th Percentile £70,938 £57,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £74,625 £67,000 £66,450
South Yorkshire median annual salary £45,500 £37,500 £40,250
% change year-on-year +21.33% -6.83% -26.82%

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 85 85 172
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 21.79% 7.26% 22.72%
Number of salaries quoted 69 71 91
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,500 £27,600
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £32,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £37,500 £36,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% +4.17% -29.41%
75th Percentile £49,000 £54,375 £44,125
90th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £59,500
South Yorkshire median annual salary £25,267 £36,250 £36,000
% change year-on-year -30.30% +0.69% -28.00%

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 16 July 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 1 (5.88%) Confluence
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
1 1 (5.88%) Tomcat
1 1 (5.88%) WebSphere
1 1 (5.88%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (35.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) Entra ID
2 6 (35.29%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (17.65%) Azure
4 2 (11.76%) AWS
5 1 (5.88%) Azure AI
5 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (5.88%) GCP
5 1 (5.88%) GitHub
5 1 (5.88%) IaaS
5 1 (5.88%) PaaS
5 1 (5.88%) Power Automate
5 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (82.35%) VPN
2 9 (52.94%) Network Security
2 9 (52.94%) WAN
3 7 (41.18%) Cisco Nexus
3 7 (41.18%) DNS
3 7 (41.18%) LAN
4 6 (35.29%) DWDM
4 6 (35.29%) TCP/IP
5 2 (11.76%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (11.76%) SD-WAN
6 1 (5.88%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (5.88%) FCoE
6 1 (5.88%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (5.88%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (5.88%) iSCSI
6 1 (5.88%) Multicast
6 1 (5.88%) NAS
6 1 (5.88%) NetScaler
6 1 (5.88%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Data Lake
1 1 (5.88%) MySQL
1 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
1 1 (5.88%) Power BI
1 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (41.18%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (5.88%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Finance
2 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
2 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Network Engineer
2 6 (35.29%) Lead
3 5 (29.41%) Help Desk Team Lead
3 5 (29.41%) Team Leader
4 4 (23.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Architect
5 2 (11.76%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Consultant
6 1 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Manager
6 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Lead Network Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Network Consultant
6 1 (5.88%) Network Security Consultant
6 1 (5.88%) Python Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Security Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Security Manager
6 1 (5.88%) Security Technical Consultant
6 1 (5.88%) Technical Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) LDAP
1 1 (5.88%) Middleware
1 1 (5.88%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Onboarding
2 2 (11.76%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.88%) Clustering
3 1 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (5.88%) NHS
3 1 (5.88%) Operational Technology
3 1 (5.88%) Replication
3 1 (5.88%) SCADA
3 1 (5.88%) Security Posture
3 1 (5.88%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Windows
2 5 (29.41%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.88%) Linux
3 1 (5.88%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (64.71%) Mentoring
3 8 (47.06%) Migration
4 7 (41.18%) Technical Leadership
4 7 (41.18%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 6 (35.29%) Computer Science
5 6 (35.29%) Customer Service
5 6 (35.29%) Full-Stack Development
5 6 (35.29%) Network Architecture
5 6 (35.29%) Runbook
5 6 (35.29%) Task Automation
6 5 (29.41%) Client Onboarding
6 5 (29.41%) Process Improvement
7 2 (11.76%) B2B
7 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
7 2 (11.76%) High Availability
7 2 (11.76%) Incident Response
8 1 (5.88%) Project Management
8 1 (5.88%) Risk Management
8 1 (5.88%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) Python
2 2 (11.76%) SQL
3 1 (5.88%) Bicep
3 1 (5.88%) Java
3 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (47.06%) CCNP
1 8 (47.06%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (41.18%) CCNA
3 6 (35.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (35.29%) Degree
3 6 (35.29%) JNCIA
3 6 (35.29%) JNCIS
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Certification
4 2 (11.76%) CCSA
5 1 (5.88%) CCSE
5 1 (5.88%) CEH
5 1 (5.88%) CISM
5 1 (5.88%) CISSP
5 1 (5.88%) DBS Check
5 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
5 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (35.29%) Hyper-V
3 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
3 2 (11.76%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (5.88%) KVM
4 1 (5.88%) NFS
4 1 (5.88%) SRDF
4 1 (5.88%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (5.88%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (5.88%) Xen
4 1 (5.88%) XenApp
4 1 (5.88%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 7 (41.18%) Ansible
2 6 (35.29%) Terraform
3 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.88%) Puppet
3 1 (5.88%) SCCM
3 1 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (76.47%) Microsoft
2 9 (52.94%) Cisco
3 7 (41.18%) VMware
4 6 (35.29%) Arista
5 3 (17.65%) Fortinet
6 2 (11.76%) CheckPoint
6 2 (11.76%) Palo Alto
7 1 (5.88%) Citrix
7 1 (5.88%) Commvault
7 1 (5.88%) Databricks
7 1 (5.88%) EMC
7 1 (5.88%) F5
7 1 (5.88%) Google
7 1 (5.88%) Meraki
7 1 (5.88%) NetApp
7 1 (5.88%) Oracle