Firewall Jobs in South Yorkshire

Firewall
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 70 84
Rank change year-on-year +49 +14 -4
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 33 28 48
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 7.66% 1.90% 3.40%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 24.44% 24.35% 10.81%
Number of salaries quoted 11 25 14
10th Percentile - £26,500 £27,075
25th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £31,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £37,000 £40,250
Median % change year-on-year -12.16% -8.07% -26.82%
75th Percentile £60,000 £45,000 £63,125
90th Percentile £73,750 £57,500 £65,875
Yorkshire median annual salary £41,250 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -13.16% +5.56% -5.26%

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 135 115 444
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 31.32% 7.82% 31.47%
Number of salaries quoted 82 96 105
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,125 £24,400
25th Percentile £25,267 £29,000 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,875 £35,000 £36,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.93% -2.78% -34.55%
75th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £43,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £58,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £30,825 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -27.47% - -15.00%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Job postings citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in South Yorkshire

Firewall
Salary Trend in South Yorkshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Firewall in South Yorkshire.

Salary trend for Firewall in South Yorkshire

Firewall
Salary Histogram in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

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 31 May 2025. 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 +41 17 £32,500 -13.33% 16
Doncaster +6 7 - - 1
Barnsley - 1 £55,000 - 2
Firewall
Yorkshire

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 2 (6.06%) Confluence
1 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (6.06%) Tomcat
1 2 (6.06%) WebSphere
1 2 (6.06%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (18.18%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (18.18%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 9 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (24.24%) Entra ID
3 6 (18.18%) Azure
4 5 (15.15%) AWS
5 2 (6.06%) GCP
5 2 (6.06%) GitHub
6 1 (3.03%) Azure AI
6 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.03%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (3.03%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.03%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (3.03%) IaaS
6 1 (3.03%) PaaS
6 1 (3.03%) Power Automate
6 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (45.45%) VPN
2 11 (33.33%) WAN
3 10 (30.30%) Network Security
4 9 (27.27%) LAN
5 8 (24.24%) Cisco Nexus
5 8 (24.24%) DNS
6 6 (18.18%) DWDM
6 6 (18.18%) TCP/IP
7 2 (6.06%) Cisco Firepower
7 2 (6.06%) FCoE
7 2 (6.06%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (6.06%) iSCSI
7 2 (6.06%) Multicast
7 2 (6.06%) NAS
7 2 (6.06%) SAN
7 2 (6.06%) SD-WAN
8 1 (3.03%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (3.03%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (3.03%) NetScaler
8 1 (3.03%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.06%) NoSQL
1 2 (6.06%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.03%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.03%) MySQL
2 1 (3.03%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (24.24%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (6.06%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.06%) JIRA
3 1 (3.03%) Git
General
1 8 (24.24%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.03%) Finance
2 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (24.24%) IT Engineer
2 7 (21.21%) Network Engineer
3 6 (18.18%) Lead
4 5 (15.15%) Help Desk Team Lead
4 5 (15.15%) Team Leader
5 4 (12.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Instrumentation Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) Architect
7 2 (6.06%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Cybersecurity Specialist
7 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
7 2 (6.06%) Security Specialist
7 2 (6.06%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (3.03%) Cloud Architect
8 1 (3.03%) IT Infrastructure Manager
8 1 (3.03%) Network Security Consultant
8 1 (3.03%) Python Engineer
8 1 (3.03%) Security Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.06%) LDAP
1 2 (6.06%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 12 (36.36%) Operational Technology
2 5 (15.15%) Onboarding
3 3 (9.09%) Data Centre
4 2 (6.06%) Clustering
4 2 (6.06%) Replication
5 1 (3.03%) NHS
5 1 (3.03%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 22 (66.67%) Windows
2 6 (18.18%) Windows Server
3 2 (6.06%) Linux
3 2 (6.06%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (42.42%) Cybersecurity
1 14 (42.42%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (36.36%) Network Design
2 12 (36.36%) Network Management
3 11 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 8 (24.24%) Migration
4 8 (24.24%) Technical Leadership
5 6 (18.18%) Computer Science
5 6 (18.18%) Customer Service
5 6 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
5 6 (18.18%) Network Architecture
5 6 (18.18%) Runbook
5 6 (18.18%) Task Automation
5 6 (18.18%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 5 (15.15%) Client Onboarding
6 5 (15.15%) Process Improvement
7 3 (9.09%) CI/CD
7 3 (9.09%) High Availability
7 3 (9.09%) Incident Response
8 2 (6.06%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.18%) Python
2 4 (12.12%) SQL
3 2 (6.06%) Java
4 1 (3.03%) Bicep
4 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (24.24%) CCNP
1 8 (24.24%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (21.21%) CCNA
3 6 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (18.18%) Degree
3 6 (18.18%) JNCIA
3 6 (18.18%) JNCIS
4 2 (6.06%) Azure Certification
4 2 (6.06%) CCSA
5 1 (3.03%) CCSE
5 1 (3.03%) DBS Check
5 1 (3.03%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (3.03%) MCSE
5 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.03%) NCSC
1 1 (3.03%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (48.48%) Active Directory
2 13 (39.39%) Virtual Servers
3 8 (24.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (21.21%) Hyper-V
5 2 (6.06%) KVM
5 2 (6.06%) NFS
5 2 (6.06%) SRDF
5 2 (6.06%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 2 (6.06%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (6.06%) Xen
6 1 (3.03%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (3.03%) XenApp
6 1 (3.03%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 8 (24.24%) Ansible
2 6 (18.18%) Terraform
3 2 (6.06%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.06%) Puppet
4 1 (3.03%) SCCM
4 1 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (51.52%) Microsoft
2 10 (30.30%) Cisco
3 8 (24.24%) VMware
4 6 (18.18%) Arista
5 3 (9.09%) Fortinet
6 2 (6.06%) CheckPoint
6 2 (6.06%) EMC
6 2 (6.06%) F5
6 2 (6.06%) Google
6 2 (6.06%) NetApp
6 2 (6.06%) Oracle
6 2 (6.06%) Palo Alto
7 1 (3.03%) arcserve
7 1 (3.03%) Citrix
7 1 (3.03%) Commvault
7 1 (3.03%) Databricks
7 1 (3.03%) Forcepoint
7 1 (3.03%) Meraki
7 1 (3.03%) Sophos