Firewall Jobs in the East of England

Firewall
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 13 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 47 52
Rank change year-on-year -35 +5 +21
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 120 250 184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 3.15% 3.88% 4.59%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.04% 25.38% 20.02%
Number of salaries quoted 94 224 138
10th Percentile £29,000 £25,500 £26,550
25th Percentile £40,250 £27,500 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £41,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.48% -7.78% -14.29%
75th Percentile £63,688 £48,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £67,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,985
% change year-on-year +5.26% -6.84% -2.89%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 855 985 919
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 22.45% 15.28% 22.91%
Number of salaries quoted 236 752 353
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £27,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% -20.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £66,875 £72,375 £72,500
England median annual salary £37,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -21.05% -5.00% -4.76%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the East of England

Firewall
Salary Trend in the East of England

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

Salary trend for Firewall in the East of England

Firewall
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in the East of England over the 6 months to 13 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Firewall in the East of England

Firewall
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the East of England region over the 6 months to 13 July 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
Hertfordshire -3 58 £62,000 +37.78% 27
Cambridgeshire +15 16 £47,500 +18.75% 29
Bedfordshire -4 15 £53,000 +46.21% 5
Essex -11 12 £30,000 - 14
Suffolk -40 12 £50,000 +17.65% 3
Norfolk +5 7 £32,000 +10.34% 9
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 33 (27.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (13.33%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.50%) Apache
3 3 (2.50%) IIS
4 1 (0.83%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 68 (56.67%) Azure
2 58 (48.33%) Microsoft 365
3 43 (35.83%) Entra ID
4 20 (16.67%) AWS
5 14 (11.67%) Power Platform
6 13 (10.83%) PowerApps
7 11 (9.17%) Azure Logic Apps
8 9 (7.50%) Cloud Computing
9 8 (6.67%) OneDrive
10 5 (4.17%) IaaS
10 5 (4.17%) Mimecast
11 3 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (2.50%) Nutanix
11 3 (2.50%) PaaS
12 2 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (1.67%) GCP
12 2 (1.67%) Google Workspace
13 1 (0.83%) Amazon EC2
13 1 (0.83%) GitHub
13 1 (0.83%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 43 (35.83%) VPN
2 39 (32.50%) DNS
3 30 (25.00%) TCP/IP
4 29 (24.17%) WAN
5 28 (23.33%) DHCP
5 28 (23.33%) LAN
6 18 (15.00%) Network Security
7 13 (10.83%) VLAN
8 12 (10.00%) FTP
8 12 (10.00%) HTTP
8 12 (10.00%) SMTP
9 11 (9.17%) Internet
10 10 (8.33%) SD-WAN
11 9 (7.50%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (5.00%) NGFW
12 6 (5.00%) SAN
13 4 (3.33%) BGP
14 3 (2.50%) Intrusion Detection
15 2 (1.67%) MPLS
15 2 (1.67%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.17%) SQL Server
2 8 (6.67%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.67%) MySQL
4 1 (0.83%) Big Data
4 1 (0.83%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.83%) MariaDB
4 1 (0.83%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.83%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (3.33%) JIRA
2 1 (0.83%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.83%) Git
2 1 (0.83%) GitLab
2 1 (0.83%) Jenkins
General
1 37 (30.83%) Social Skills
2 15 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (5.83%) Retail
4 6 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (4.17%) Finance
6 4 (3.33%) Aerospace
6 4 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.33%) Local Government
7 3 (2.50%) Aviation
8 2 (1.67%) Legal
8 2 (1.67%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.83%) Back Office
9 1 (0.83%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 30 (25.00%) Analyst
2 26 (21.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 16 (13.33%) Support Analyst
4 14 (11.67%) 1st Line Support
4 14 (11.67%) IT Support
5 13 (10.83%) 1st Line Support Analyst
5 13 (10.83%) 2nd Line Support
5 13 (10.83%) Technical Support
6 12 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 11 (9.17%) Azure Engineer
7 11 (9.17%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (9.17%) IT Engineer
7 11 (9.17%) Senior
7 11 (9.17%) Technical Analyst
8 10 (8.33%) 1st Line Technical Support
8 10 (8.33%) Network Engineer
8 10 (8.33%) Technical Support Analyst
9 9 (7.50%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (7.50%) Lead
10 8 (6.67%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (13.33%) LDAP
2 1 (0.83%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.83%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.83%) SAML
2 1 (0.83%) ServiceStack
2 1 (0.83%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 17 (14.17%) Data Centre
3 12 (10.00%) Client/Server
4 11 (9.17%) Driving Licence
5 6 (5.00%) Management Information System
6 5 (4.17%) Security Posture
6 5 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (3.33%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (2.50%) Clustering
8 3 (2.50%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.50%) MISP
8 3 (2.50%) PKI
9 2 (1.67%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.67%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (0.83%) NHS
10 1 (0.83%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.83%) Replication
10 1 (0.83%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 79 (65.83%) Windows
2 64 (53.33%) Windows Server
3 13 (10.83%) Windows Server 2019
4 12 (10.00%) Linux
4 12 (10.00%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.67%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.67%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.83%) CentOS
6 1 (0.83%) Debian
6 1 (0.83%) VMS
6 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (24.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 25 (20.83%) Cybersecurity
3 22 (18.33%) Customer Service
4 21 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (16.67%) ITIL
5 20 (16.67%) SIEM
6 18 (15.00%) Security Operations
7 17 (14.17%) Malware Analysis
8 15 (12.50%) Incident Response
9 13 (10.83%) Cloud Security
10 12 (10.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
10 12 (10.00%) Server Management
11 11 (9.17%) Artificial Intelligence
11 11 (9.17%) Mentoring
12 10 (8.33%) Performance Optimisation
12 10 (8.33%) Preventative Maintenance
12 10 (8.33%) Reverse Engineering
13 9 (7.50%) Cost Management
13 9 (7.50%) People Management
13 9 (7.50%) Proactive Maintenance
Programming Languages
1 23 (19.17%) PowerShell
2 18 (15.00%) Python
3 14 (11.67%) Bash
4 6 (5.00%) C++
4 6 (5.00%) Perl
5 4 (3.33%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.67%) SQL
7 1 (0.83%) Bicep
7 1 (0.83%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 23 (19.17%) Microsoft Certification
2 19 (15.83%) Security Cleared
3 12 (10.00%) DV Cleared
4 10 (8.33%) SC Cleared
5 9 (7.50%) Degree
6 6 (5.00%) CISM
6 6 (5.00%) CISSP
7 5 (4.17%) CEH
7 5 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (4.17%) CREST Certified
8 4 (3.33%) Azure Certification
8 4 (3.33%) CCNA
8 4 (3.33%) GIAC
8 4 (3.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (1.67%) A+ Certification
9 2 (1.67%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.67%) MCSA
10 1 (0.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.83%) CASP
10 1 (0.83%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (5.00%) PCI DSS
3 5 (4.17%) NIST
4 4 (3.33%) NCSC
5 1 (0.83%) GDPR
5 1 (0.83%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 66 (55.00%) Active Directory
2 19 (15.83%) Hyper-V
3 12 (10.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (6.67%) Docker
5 7 (5.83%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (1.67%) Firmware
6 2 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.83%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.83%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (8.33%) QRadar
3 9 (7.50%) Ansible
4 6 (5.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (4.17%) FortiGate
5 5 (4.17%) Nessus
6 4 (3.33%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (3.33%) Kubernetes
7 2 (1.67%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (1.67%) NetBackup
7 2 (1.67%) Puppet
7 2 (1.67%) SCCM
7 2 (1.67%) Terraform
8 1 (0.83%) Avamar
8 1 (0.83%) CASB
8 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.83%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.83%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.83%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 80 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 13 (10.83%) Cisco
3 12 (10.00%) Splunk
4 10 (8.33%) Palo Alto
5 9 (7.50%) Citrix
6 7 (5.83%) VMware
7 5 (4.17%) Dell
7 5 (4.17%) Fortinet
7 5 (4.17%) WatchGuard
8 4 (3.33%) Qualys
8 4 (3.33%) Tenable
9 3 (2.50%) Aruba
9 3 (2.50%) SolarWinds
10 2 (1.67%) EMC
10 2 (1.67%) Google
10 2 (1.67%) HP
10 2 (1.67%) Nimble Storage
10 2 (1.67%) Okta
10 2 (1.67%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.83%) SAP