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 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 48 40
Rank change year-on-year +7 -8 +46
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 6 16 19
As % of all permanent jobs in Sheffield 1.43% 2.11% 4.92%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.34% 34.04% 17.76%
Number of salaries quoted 5 11 18
10th Percentile - £51,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £26,250 £52,500 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £57,500 £40,500
Median % change year-on-year -43.48% +41.98% -
75th Percentile £33,750 £64,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £57,750 £70,000 £65,000
South Yorkshire median annual salary £32,500 £55,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year -40.91% +42.86% -1.28%

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 58 47 107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 13.78% 6.18% 27.72%
Number of salaries quoted 52 21 96
10th Percentile - £29,000 £27,550
25th Percentile £28,250 £51,250 £31,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £55,000 £36,000
Median % change year-on-year -40.91% +52.78% -15.29%
75th Percentile £49,000 £65,000 £50,000
90th Percentile £63,500 £84,964 £57,500
South Yorkshire median annual salary £25,087 £55,000 £36,000
% change year-on-year -54.39% +52.78% -11.11%

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 2 November 2025.

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 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Azure AI
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (16.67%) IaaS
3 1 (16.67%) PaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Power Automate
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) VPN
2 3 (50.00%) DNS
3 2 (33.33%) DHCP
3 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
4 1 (16.67%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (16.67%) SD-WAN
4 1 (16.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (16.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
1 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Help Desk Team Lead
1 2 (33.33%) Lead
1 2 (33.33%) Support Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Team Leader
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Driving Licence
1 2 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) NHS
2 1 (16.67%) Operational Technology
2 1 (16.67%) SCADA
2 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
1 4 (66.67%) Windows Server
2 2 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Windows 10
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Customer Service
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Client Onboarding
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) Process Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Server Migrations
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) AI
4 1 (16.67%) Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) B2B
4 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (16.67%) Data Integration
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
4 1 (16.67%) ITIL
4 1 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Threat Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
4 1 (16.67%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 1 (16.67%) Bicep
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 1 (16.67%) CEH
1 1 (16.67%) CISM
1 1 (16.67%) CISSP
1 1 (16.67%) DBS Check
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Hyper-V
2 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Plesk
2 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 4 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) Draytek
3 1 (16.67%) Databricks
3 1 (16.67%) Meraki