Firewall Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Firewall
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Firewall skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 38 43
Rank change year-on-year -10 +5 +52
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 11 20 32
As % of all permanent jobs in South Yorkshire 1.62% 3.77% 4.03%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.02% 35.71% 28.83%
Number of salaries quoted 11 12 29
10th Percentile £26,250 £50,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £53,438 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £58,250 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -31.33% +55.33% -7.41%
75th Percentile £42,500 £75,000 £41,750
90th Percentile - - £65,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £40,000 £51,250 £47,500
% change year-on-year -21.95% +7.89% +5.56%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 122 56 111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 18.02% 10.57% 13.96%
Number of salaries quoted 96 27 105
10th Percentile - £29,450 £24,900
25th Percentile £25,087 £47,500 £31,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £57,500 £37,000
Median % change year-on-year -47.83% +55.41% +2.78%
75th Percentile £32,750 £75,000 £46,250
90th Percentile £36,875 £76,000 £59,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £30,500 £45,000 £40,500
% change year-on-year -32.22% +11.11% -4.71%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Firewall job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Firewall
Salary Trend in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Firewall.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Firewall

Firewall
Salary Histogram in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 23 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Firewall in South Yorkshire

Firewall
Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 23 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield -1 9 £40,000 -32.20% 4
Rotherham - 2 £32,500 - 1
Firewall
Yorkshire

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 10 (90.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (36.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (54.55%) Azure
3 2 (18.18%) OneDrive
4 1 (9.09%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) SAN
2 4 (36.36%) DHCP
2 4 (36.36%) DNS
2 4 (36.36%) TCP/IP
3 2 (18.18%) VPN
4 1 (9.09%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) MySQL
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
General
1 8 (72.73%) Manufacturing
2 6 (54.55%) Law
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) IT Support
2 5 (45.45%) 3rd Line Support
3 4 (36.36%) Support Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) IT Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) IT Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Driving Licence
1 2 (18.18%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Windows
1 11 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 4 (36.36%) Windows 10
3 2 (18.18%) Linux
3 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) ITIL
2 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (18.18%) Customer Service
3 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (18.18%) Project Delivery
3 2 (18.18%) Server Migrations
4 1 (9.09%) Cyber Resilience
4 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (9.09%) Data Encryption
4 1 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (9.09%) Patch Management
4 1 (9.09%) Server Patching
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
1 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
System Software
1 8 (72.73%) Hyper-V
2 5 (45.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Plesk
Vendors
1 10 (90.91%) Microsoft
2 8 (72.73%) VMware
3 2 (18.18%) Draytek
4 1 (9.09%) Cisco
4 1 (9.09%) Citrix