Firewall Jobs in the East Midlands

Firewall
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 15 March 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 63 82
Rank change year-on-year -20 +19 +20
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 55 136 100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.45% 3.67% 3.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 23.21% 26.98% 20.83%
Number of salaries quoted 41 128 53
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,425 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £34,375 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £44,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -7.37% +5.56%
75th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £52,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £59,500
England median annual salary £53,000 £50,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year +6.00% -3.85% +4.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 237 504 480
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 10.54% 13.59% 16.46%
Number of salaries quoted 123 396 207
10th Percentile £25,850 £24,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,000 £27,445 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -5.88% +13.33%
75th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £65,500 £60,000 £66,750
England median annual salary £52,500 £48,500 £51,350
% change year-on-year +8.25% -5.55% -1.25%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the East Midlands

Firewall
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Firewall in the East Midlands.

Salary trend for Firewall in the East Midlands

Firewall
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 15 March 2025.

Salary histogram for Firewall in the East Midlands

Firewall
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 March 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
Northamptonshire +2 20 £65,000 +30.00% 7
Leicestershire +7 14 £40,000 +17.65% 4
Nottinghamshire +7 7 £35,000 -39.13% 5
Derbyshire -10 7 £42,500 +7.59% 6
Lincolnshire -8 5 £32,000 -20.00% 2
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 11 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 11 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 7 (12.73%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (7.27%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.82%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 38 (69.09%) Azure
2 20 (36.36%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (23.64%) Entra ID
4 5 (9.09%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 5 (9.09%) IaaS
4 5 (9.09%) PaaS
5 4 (7.27%) GCP
6 3 (5.45%) AWS
6 3 (5.45%) OneDrive
6 3 (5.45%) SaaS
7 2 (3.64%) Cloudflare
8 1 (1.82%) Google Play
8 1 (1.82%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 25 (45.45%) VPN
2 19 (34.55%) DNS
2 19 (34.55%) WAN
3 18 (32.73%) DHCP
4 17 (30.91%) LAN
5 14 (25.45%) SD-WAN
6 11 (20.00%) SAN
7 10 (18.18%) Cisco Firepower
7 10 (18.18%) TCP/IP
7 10 (18.18%) Wi-Fi
8 7 (12.73%) Network Security
9 6 (10.91%) Wireless
10 5 (9.09%) VLAN
11 2 (3.64%) BGP
11 2 (3.64%) MPLS
11 2 (3.64%) Remote Desktop
12 1 (1.82%) EIGRP
12 1 (1.82%) Intrusion Detection
12 1 (1.82%) IP Telephony
12 1 (1.82%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (23.64%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.45%) Amazon RDS
General
1 18 (32.73%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.73%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (12.73%) Law
3 6 (10.91%) Legal
3 6 (10.91%) Retail
4 3 (5.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (5.45%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.82%) Automotive
5 1 (1.82%) Finance
5 1 (1.82%) Marketing
5 1 (1.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (27.27%) Support Engineer
2 13 (23.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 12 (21.82%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 10 (18.18%) 3rd Line Support
4 10 (18.18%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 10 (18.18%) Cisco Engineer
5 9 (16.36%) Network Engineer
5 9 (16.36%) Project Engineer
5 9 (16.36%) Senior
6 7 (12.73%) Cisco Support
6 7 (12.73%) Cisco Support Engineer
7 5 (9.09%) 2nd Line Support
7 5 (9.09%) Analyst
7 5 (9.09%) IT Support
8 4 (7.27%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 4 (7.27%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 4 (7.27%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (7.27%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (7.27%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 4 (7.27%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.45%) 802.1X
1 3 (5.45%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.09%) Clustering
1 5 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 4 (7.27%) Driving Licence
2 4 (7.27%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.45%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.82%) CCTV
4 1 (1.82%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 38 (69.09%) Windows
2 37 (67.27%) Windows Server
3 3 (5.45%) Linux
3 3 (5.45%) Windows 10
4 2 (3.64%) Android
4 2 (3.64%) Apple iOS
4 2 (3.64%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (3.64%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (1.82%) CentOS
5 1 (1.82%) Rocky
5 1 (1.82%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (23.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (20.00%) High Availability
3 10 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
3 10 (18.18%) Presales
3 10 (18.18%) Zero Trust
4 8 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (12.73%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (12.73%) IT Strategy
5 7 (12.73%) Migration
6 5 (9.09%) Cloud Security
6 5 (9.09%) ITIL
6 5 (9.09%) Mobile Device Management
6 5 (9.09%) Patch Management
6 5 (9.09%) Project Management
7 4 (7.27%) Computer Science
7 4 (7.27%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (7.27%) Information Security
7 4 (7.27%) Project Delivery
7 4 (7.27%) Server Management
7 4 (7.27%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 5 (9.09%) SQL
2 3 (5.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (29.09%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (25.45%) CCNP
3 9 (16.36%) CCIE
4 8 (14.55%) Azure Certification
5 7 (12.73%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (9.09%) Degree
7 4 (7.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (7.27%) Network+ Certification
8 2 (3.64%) A+ Certification
8 2 (3.64%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (3.64%) MCSA
8 2 (3.64%) SC Cleared
8 2 (3.64%) Security Cleared
9 1 (1.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (1.82%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.82%) CCNA
9 1 (1.82%) CCSA
9 1 (1.82%) CCSP
9 1 (1.82%) CEH
9 1 (1.82%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (7.27%) NIST
2 2 (3.64%) SLA
3 1 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.82%) GDPR
3 1 (1.82%) QA
System Software
1 32 (58.18%) Active Directory
2 19 (34.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (29.09%) Hyper-V
4 4 (7.27%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (3.64%) Terminal Services
5 2 (3.64%) vSphere
6 1 (1.82%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (12.73%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (9.09%) Microsoft Clustering
3 2 (3.64%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.82%) Ansible
4 1 (1.82%) SCCM
Vendors
1 29 (52.73%) Microsoft
2 22 (40.00%) Cisco
3 21 (38.18%) VMware
4 13 (23.64%) HP
5 11 (20.00%) Fortinet
5 11 (20.00%) Meraki
5 11 (20.00%) Palo Alto
6 9 (16.36%) Aruba
7 6 (10.91%) Sophos
8 5 (9.09%) Google
9 4 (7.27%) Apple
9 4 (7.27%) TP-LINK
10 3 (5.45%) SolarWinds
11 2 (3.64%) Barracuda Networks
11 2 (3.64%) Dell
11 2 (3.64%) Imperva
11 2 (3.64%) NetApp
12 1 (1.82%) CheckPoint
12 1 (1.82%) Citrix
12 1 (1.82%) Veeam