Firewall Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Firewall
East of England > Cambridgeshire

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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 37 28
Rank change year-on-year -12 -9 +42
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 19 43 40
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridgeshire 2.16% 4.91% 6.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 22.62% 22.16% 26.85%
Number of salaries quoted 9 30 28
10th Percentile £31,450 £25,000 £30,850
25th Percentile £42,000 £25,688 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £32,500 £40,500
Median % change year-on-year +107.69% -19.75% -22.86%
75th Percentile £82,500 £64,892 £63,125
90th Percentile £96,250 £79,650 £65,450
East of England median annual salary £43,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +1.18% -5.56% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 84 194 149
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 9.55% 22.17% 22.99%
Number of salaries quoted 65 105 85
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,450 £31,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £43,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -37.04% -1.82% +22.22%
75th Percentile £68,750 £57,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,000 £72,500 £70,000
East of England median annual salary £40,000 £50,500 £48,000
% change year-on-year -20.79% +5.21% +12.94%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Firewall job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Firewall
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Firewall.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Firewall

Firewall
Salary Histogram in Cambridgeshire

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

Salary histogram for Firewall in Cambridgeshire

Firewall
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 6 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
Cambridge -11 8 £55,000 +71.88% 7
Huntingdon +1 4 - - 2
Peterborough -9 4 £86,250 +16.55% 1
Firewall
East of England

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 (10.53%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (10.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (84.21%) Azure
2 10 (52.63%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (31.58%) Entra ID
4 3 (15.79%) AWS
5 1 (5.26%) IaaS
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (5.26%) Nutanix
5 1 (5.26%) OneDrive
5 1 (5.26%) PaaS
5 1 (5.26%) Power Automate
5 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (42.11%) VPN
2 7 (36.84%) LAN
2 7 (36.84%) WAN
3 4 (21.05%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (21.05%) DHCP
3 4 (21.05%) DNS
3 4 (21.05%) WLAN
4 3 (15.79%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (10.53%) DMZ
5 2 (10.53%) IPsec
5 2 (10.53%) Network Security
5 2 (10.53%) SSL
5 2 (10.53%) TCP/IP
5 2 (10.53%) VLAN
6 1 (5.26%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
General
1 11 (57.89%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (21.05%) IT Engineer
1 4 (21.05%) Network Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Lead
2 3 (15.79%) Support Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Technical Leader
3 2 (10.53%) Consultant
3 2 (10.53%) Information Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Information Security Manager
3 2 (10.53%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) IT Support
3 2 (10.53%) IT Support Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Security Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Senior
4 1 (5.26%) 1st Line Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) 1st Line Support Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) IT Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Data Centre
2 4 (21.05%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (15.79%) Client/Server
4 2 (10.53%) Biopharmaceutical
4 2 (10.53%) Blog
4 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
4 2 (10.53%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (10.53%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 2 (10.53%) Management Information System
4 2 (10.53%) PKI
4 2 (10.53%) Security Posture
5 1 (5.26%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 9 (47.37%) Windows
2 4 (21.05%) Windows Server
3 2 (10.53%) Linux
3 2 (10.53%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (68.42%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (36.84%) Network Virtualisation
3 5 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (21.05%) ISMS
4 4 (21.05%) Network Management
4 4 (21.05%) Network Monitoring
4 4 (21.05%) Risk Management
5 3 (15.79%) Containerisation
5 3 (15.79%) Data Protection
5 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (15.79%) Migration
5 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (10.53%) Cloud Security
6 2 (10.53%) Due Diligence
6 2 (10.53%) Incident Response
6 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Maintenance
6 2 (10.53%) Key Management
6 2 (10.53%) RBAC
6 2 (10.53%) Risk Register
6 2 (10.53%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.26%) Bash
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) CCNA
1 6 (31.58%) Cisco Certification
1 6 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 4 (21.05%) CCNP
2 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.53%) CEH
3 2 (10.53%) CISM
3 2 (10.53%) CISSP
3 2 (10.53%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (10.53%) DV Cleared
3 2 (10.53%) MCSE
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (31.58%) GDPR
1 6 (31.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (21.05%) NIST
2 4 (21.05%) PCI DSS
3 3 (15.79%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (10.53%) GRC
4 2 (10.53%) GxP
4 2 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 2 (10.53%) JSP 440
4 2 (10.53%) NCSC
4 2 (10.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (26.32%) Active Directory
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 3 (15.79%) Virtual Servers
2 3 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.26%) Docker
3 1 (5.26%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) FortiGate
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.26%) Ansible
2 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (73.68%) Microsoft
2 5 (26.32%) Palo Alto
3 4 (21.05%) Cisco
3 4 (21.05%) CrowdStrike
3 4 (21.05%) Fortinet
4 3 (15.79%) VMware
5 2 (10.53%) Apple
6 1 (5.26%) Aruba
6 1 (5.26%) Progress
6 1 (5.26%) Veeam