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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 31 57
Rank change year-on-year -23 +26 -8
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 36 27 22
As % of all permanent jobs in South Yorkshire 2.10% 4.48% 2.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 18.46% 17.20% 31.88%
Number of salaries quoted 30 10 15
10th Percentile £34,000 £30,925 £34,550
25th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £32,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% -40.91% +37.50%
75th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £61,625 £63,625 £68,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £40,000 £36,500 £52,250
% change year-on-year +9.59% -30.14% +10.00%

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 195 157 69
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 11.38% 26.04% 6.74%
Number of salaries quoted 89 110 30
10th Percentile £23,250 £24,000 £28,275
25th Percentile £28,000 £25,087 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £25,177 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +58.88% -54.22% +52.78%
75th Percentile £60,000 £46,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £50,000 £71,496
Yorkshire median annual salary £40,000 £32,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -28.89% +8.78%

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 -4 34 £42,500 +30.77% 7
Doncaster -28 1 £20,000 -
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 9 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 9 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 17 (47.22%) Microsoft 365
2 15 (41.67%) Azure
2 15 (41.67%) Entra ID
3 8 (22.22%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 9 (25.00%) VPN
2 7 (19.44%) Internet
2 7 (19.44%) TCP/IP
3 5 (13.89%) DHCP
3 5 (13.89%) DNS
3 5 (13.89%) Network Security
3 5 (13.89%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (11.11%) LAN
4 4 (11.11%) WAN
5 3 (8.33%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (8.33%) Cisco Firepower
6 2 (5.56%) VLAN
6 2 (5.56%) Wireless
7 1 (2.78%) ADSL
7 1 (2.78%) Broadband
7 1 (2.78%) ISDN
7 1 (2.78%) VDSL
7 1 (2.78%) VoIP
General
1 21 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (19.44%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (19.44%) Law
3 4 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.78%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 19 (52.78%) Network Engineer
2 7 (19.44%) Support Engineer
3 6 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (16.67%) IT Support
4 5 (13.89%) IT Engineer
4 5 (13.89%) IT Support Engineer
4 5 (13.89%) Microsoft Engineer
4 5 (13.89%) Senior
5 3 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Customer Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Senior Network Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) 3rd Line Support
6 2 (5.56%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Network Security Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Security Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Senior Network Security Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.67%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 7 (19.44%) Life Science
1 7 (19.44%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (13.89%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.56%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.78%) Cyber Security Posture
4 1 (2.78%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.78%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 16 (44.44%) Windows
2 15 (41.67%) Windows Server
3 7 (19.44%) Linux
4 5 (13.89%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (13.89%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (61.11%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (30.56%) Disaster Recovery
3 10 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 9 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
5 8 (22.22%) Project Delivery
6 7 (19.44%) Business Continuity
7 6 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (16.67%) Service Management
8 5 (13.89%) Identity Management
8 5 (13.89%) ITIL
9 4 (11.11%) Coaching
9 4 (11.11%) Mentoring
10 3 (8.33%) Infrastructure Transformation
11 2 (5.56%) Customer Engagement
11 2 (5.56%) Email Filtering
11 2 (5.56%) Kalman Filter
11 2 (5.56%) Presales
11 2 (5.56%) Time Management
11 2 (5.56%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 10 (27.78%) PowerShell
2 6 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (27.78%) CCNA
1 10 (27.78%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (19.44%) Network+ Certification
3 5 (13.89%) Azure Certification
3 5 (13.89%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (13.89%) SC Cleared
3 5 (13.89%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.78%) CCNP
4 1 (2.78%) CCSA
4 1 (2.78%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (19.44%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (11.11%) SLA
3 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 15 (41.67%) Active Directory
2 5 (13.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (11.11%) Hyper-V
4 3 (8.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (5.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (36.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (16.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 16 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 9 (25.00%) Veeam
3 7 (19.44%) Cisco
4 5 (13.89%) Fortinet
4 5 (13.89%) VMware
5 4 (11.11%) Juniper
6 1 (2.78%) CheckPoint
6 1 (2.78%) Palo Alto