Firewall Job Trends in Cambridge

Firewall
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Firewall skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 36 32
Rank change year-on-year -7 -4 +49
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 8 21 32
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridge 1.58% 4.52% 6.60%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 36.36% 28.38% 25.20%
Number of salaries quoted 5 17 26
10th Percentile £32,550 £25,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £26,250 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £32,000 £40,500
Median % change year-on-year +71.88% -20.99% +24.62%
75th Percentile £68,750 £34,500 £62,500
90th Percentile - £90,000 £65,000
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £67,500 £32,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year +107.69% -20.73% -8.89%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 22 74 127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 4.34% 15.91% 26.19%
Number of salaries quoted 16 51 77
10th Percentile £26,875 £26,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,375 £31,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% - +29.13%
75th Percentile £75,000 £57,500 £65,000
90th Percentile - - £69,550
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £34,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -37.04% -1.82% +28.84%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Firewall job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Firewall
Salary Trend in Cambridge

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Firewall.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Firewall

Firewall
Salary Histogram in Cambridge

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Cambridge over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Firewall in Cambridge

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (12.50%) AWS
4 1 (12.50%) Nutanix
4 1 (12.50%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) DHCP
1 3 (37.50%) DNS
1 3 (37.50%) LAN
1 3 (37.50%) WAN
1 3 (37.50%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (25.00%) IPsec
2 2 (25.00%) SSL
2 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (25.00%) VLAN
3 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) IT Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Information Manager
3 2 (25.00%) Information Security Manager
3 2 (25.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) IT Support
3 2 (25.00%) IT Support Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Security Manager
3 2 (25.00%) Support Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Administrator
4 1 (12.50%) IT Administrator
4 1 (12.50%) IT Systems Administrator
4 1 (12.50%) Senior
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Biopharmaceutical
1 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 4 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (25.00%) Linux
3 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (37.50%) Data Protection
2 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Due Diligence
3 2 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (25.00%) Information Security
3 2 (25.00%) Information Security Management
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Maintenance
3 2 (25.00%) ISMS
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (25.00%) Risk Register
3 2 (25.00%) Security Management
3 2 (25.00%) Validation
4 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Data Governance
4 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
4 1 (12.50%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) CCNA
1 2 (25.00%) CEH
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (25.00%) CISM
1 2 (25.00%) CISSP
1 2 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (25.00%) MCSE
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) GDPR
1 4 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (37.50%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (25.00%) GxP
3 2 (25.00%) NIST
3 2 (25.00%) PCI DSS
3 2 (25.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 3 (37.50%) Virtual Servers
1 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (37.50%) VMware
3 1 (12.50%) Aruba
3 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto
3 1 (12.50%) Veeam