Firewall Jobs in Cambridgeshire

Firewall
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 63 59
Rank change year-on-year +32 -4 -10
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 30 42 63
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 5.91% 2.66% 4.46%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 34.09% 14.74% 31.98%
Number of salaries quoted 25 37 25
10th Percentile £25,800 £26,000 £30,800
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £40,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% +6.67% -25.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £47,500 £52,500
90th Percentile £85,400 £54,250 £64,600
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £41,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +20.48% -2.35% -15.00%

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 88 285 197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 17.32% 18.06% 13.94%
Number of salaries quoted 54 222 88
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,517 £25,250
25th Percentile £31,194 £37,500 £31,993
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £41,250
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +27.27% -17.50%
75th Percentile £63,438 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,200 £69,975 £67,500
East of England median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £42,250
% change year-on-year +5.88% +0.59% -15.50%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Cambridgeshire

Firewall
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Salary trend for Firewall in Cambridgeshire

Firewall
Salary Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

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 17 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
Cambridge +28 15 £47,500 +18.75% 15
Peterborough +4 6 £69,500 +54.44% 4
Huntingdon - 6 £34,000 - 1
Firewall
East of England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 6 (20.00%) Apache
2 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (13.33%) SharePoint
3 3 (10.00%) IIS
3 3 (10.00%) nginx
4 2 (6.67%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 8 (26.67%) Azure
1 8 (26.67%) Entra ID
2 6 (20.00%) AWS
2 6 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (10.00%) Mimecast
3 3 (10.00%) Nutanix
4 2 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (6.67%) OneDrive
5 1 (3.33%) Azure AI
5 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (3.33%) GCP
5 1 (3.33%) GitHub
5 1 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.33%) IaaS
5 1 (3.33%) Power Automate
5 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 14 (46.67%) DNS
2 9 (30.00%) VLAN
3 8 (26.67%) DHCP
3 8 (26.67%) TCP/IP
4 7 (23.33%) VPN
5 6 (20.00%) WAN
6 5 (16.67%) LAN
7 4 (13.33%) Network Security
8 3 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (10.00%) HTTP
9 2 (6.67%) BGP
9 2 (6.67%) Ethernet
9 2 (6.67%) Internet
9 2 (6.67%) MPLS
9 2 (6.67%) VPLS
9 2 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (3.33%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.33%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.33%) MySQL
3 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) GitLab
1 3 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (10.00%) JIRA
1 3 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (3.33%) Git
General
1 5 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (10.00%) Retail
3 2 (6.67%) Finance
3 2 (6.67%) Front Office
3 2 (6.67%) Legal
3 2 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 6 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (13.33%) 2nd Line Support
2 4 (13.33%) Analyst
2 4 (13.33%) IT Support
2 4 (13.33%) Security Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) 1st Line Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Administrator
3 3 (10.00%) Architect
3 3 (10.00%) Security Analyst
3 3 (10.00%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (6.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 2 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) IT Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) IT Support Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Lead
4 2 (6.67%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 8 (26.67%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (23.33%) Data Centre
2 7 (23.33%) Security Posture
3 5 (16.67%) Driving Licence
4 4 (13.33%) Cloud Security Posture
4 4 (13.33%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (13.33%) Management Information System
5 3 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (6.67%) Biopharmaceutical
7 1 (3.33%) NHS
7 1 (3.33%) PKI
7 1 (3.33%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 15 (50.00%) Windows
2 12 (40.00%) Windows Server
3 6 (20.00%) Linux
4 3 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (6.67%) Windows 10
5 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (46.67%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (23.33%) Agile
2 7 (23.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (13.33%) Computer Science
5 4 (13.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 4 (13.33%) Identity Access Management
5 4 (13.33%) ITIL
5 4 (13.33%) Service Management
5 4 (13.33%) SIEM
5 4 (13.33%) Software Engineering
5 4 (13.33%) Threat Detection
5 4 (13.33%) Threat Intelligence
5 4 (13.33%) Vulnerability Management
6 3 (10.00%) Analytics
6 3 (10.00%) Change Control
6 3 (10.00%) Hardware Maintenance
6 3 (10.00%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 7 (23.33%) Bash
2 5 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 5 (16.67%) Python
2 5 (16.67%) SQL
3 4 (13.33%) TypeScript
4 1 (3.33%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) Degree
1 5 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (10.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (6.67%) CCNA
4 2 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (6.67%) CISM
4 2 (6.67%) CISSP
4 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.33%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) GDPR
1 4 (13.33%) NIST
2 3 (10.00%) Government Security Classifications
3 2 (6.67%) COBIT
3 2 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (6.67%) NCSC
3 2 (6.67%) PCI DSS
3 2 (6.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (20.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (16.67%) Docker
5 3 (10.00%) Hyper-V
5 3 (10.00%) VMware NSX
6 1 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (36.67%) Ansible
2 6 (20.00%) Puppet
3 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (10.00%) Avamar
4 3 (10.00%) Graylog
4 3 (10.00%) Nagios
4 3 (10.00%) Progress Chef
4 3 (10.00%) Rundeck
4 3 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (10.00%) vCenter Server
4 3 (10.00%) VxRail
5 2 (6.67%) Kubernetes
6 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (36.67%) Cisco
2 10 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 8 (26.67%) VMware
4 3 (10.00%) Aruba
4 3 (10.00%) Citrix
4 3 (10.00%) Dell
4 3 (10.00%) EMC
4 3 (10.00%) Juniper
4 3 (10.00%) NetApp
4 3 (10.00%) PagerDuty
4 3 (10.00%) Palo Alto
4 3 (10.00%) Pure Storage
4 3 (10.00%) SolarWinds
5 2 (6.67%) Nokia
6 1 (3.33%) Databricks
6 1 (3.33%) Meraki