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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 49 71
Rank change year-on-year -35 +22 -4
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 119 257 190
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 3.61% 4.03% 3.79%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.15% 24.38% 17.96%
Number of salaries quoted 93 243 138
10th Percentile £27,650 £25,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £27,500 £33,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £41,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.48% -2.35% -15.00%
75th Percentile £66,000 £48,750 £56,438
90th Percentile £73,500 £57,250 £67,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -4.76%

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 841 1,054 1,058
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 25.52% 16.54% 21.11%
Number of salaries quoted 228 802 394
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £29,000 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% - -15.00%
75th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £70,175
England median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -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 29 May 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 29 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
Hertfordshire -4 53 £62,000 +37.78% 38
Cambridgeshire +19 24 £46,250 +15.63% 27
Bedfordshire 0 16 £53,000 +135.56% 16
Suffolk -40 12 £50,000 +17.65% 6
Norfolk -5 7 £32,000 +10.34% 4
Essex -11 7 £30,000 - 17
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 29 (24.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (13.45%) SharePoint
3 6 (5.04%) Apache
4 3 (2.52%) IIS
4 3 (2.52%) nginx
5 1 (0.84%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.84%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (3.36%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Dynamics GP
1 1 (0.84%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 59 (49.58%) Azure
2 51 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
3 38 (31.93%) Entra ID
4 21 (17.65%) AWS
5 12 (10.08%) Power Platform
6 11 (9.24%) Azure Logic Apps
6 11 (9.24%) PowerApps
7 8 (6.72%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (6.72%) OneDrive
8 5 (4.20%) Mimecast
9 3 (2.52%) IaaS
9 3 (2.52%) Nutanix
10 2 (1.68%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.68%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.68%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.68%) GCP
10 2 (1.68%) PaaS
10 2 (1.68%) SaaS
11 1 (0.84%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 41 (34.45%) VPN
2 35 (29.41%) DNS
3 31 (26.05%) LAN
3 31 (26.05%) WAN
4 30 (25.21%) TCP/IP
5 23 (19.33%) DHCP
6 20 (16.81%) Network Security
7 18 (15.13%) VLAN
8 15 (12.61%) HTTP
9 12 (10.08%) FTP
9 12 (10.08%) Internet
9 12 (10.08%) SMTP
10 11 (9.24%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (7.56%) SD-WAN
12 7 (5.88%) NGFW
13 4 (3.36%) BGP
13 4 (3.36%) Intrusion Detection
14 3 (2.52%) Cisco Nexus
14 3 (2.52%) SAN
15 2 (1.68%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.92%) SQL Server
2 8 (6.72%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.68%) Big Data
3 2 (1.68%) MySQL
4 1 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.84%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.84%) MariaDB
4 1 (0.84%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.84%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (3.36%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.52%) GitLab
2 3 (2.52%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (1.68%) Git
3 2 (1.68%) JIRA
4 1 (0.84%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.84%) Subversion
General
1 35 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 14 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (5.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (4.20%) Aerospace
5 4 (3.36%) Aviation
5 4 (3.36%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (3.36%) Finance
5 4 (3.36%) Legal
5 4 (3.36%) Local Government
5 4 (3.36%) Retail
6 2 (1.68%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.84%) Back Office
7 1 (0.84%) Front Office
7 1 (0.84%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.84%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 29 (24.37%) Analyst
2 24 (20.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 14 (11.76%) 2nd Line Support
3 14 (11.76%) IT Support
4 13 (10.92%) Support Analyst
5 12 (10.08%) Cloud Engineer
6 11 (9.24%) 1st Line Support
6 11 (9.24%) Azure Engineer
6 11 (9.24%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (9.24%) Lead
7 10 (8.40%) 1st Line Support Analyst
7 10 (8.40%) Security Analyst
7 10 (8.40%) Senior
8 9 (7.56%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (7.56%) Technical Support
9 8 (6.72%) Administrator
9 8 (6.72%) Network Engineer
9 8 (6.72%) Security Engineer
9 8 (6.72%) Systems Administrator
9 8 (6.72%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (12.61%) LDAP
2 1 (0.84%) Akka
2 1 (0.84%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.84%) SAML
2 1 (0.84%) ServiceStack
2 1 (0.84%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 22 (18.49%) Data Centre
2 19 (15.97%) Security Operations Centre
3 12 (10.08%) Client/Server
3 12 (10.08%) Driving Licence
4 9 (7.56%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (6.72%) Management Information System
6 7 (5.88%) Security Posture
7 4 (3.36%) Cloud Security Posture
7 4 (3.36%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (2.52%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.52%) MISP
9 2 (1.68%) Biopharmaceutical
10 1 (0.84%) Clustering
10 1 (0.84%) CSOC
10 1 (0.84%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.84%) PKI
10 1 (0.84%) Replication
10 1 (0.84%) Robotics
10 1 (0.84%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 77 (64.71%) Windows
2 58 (48.74%) Windows Server
3 15 (12.61%) Linux
4 8 (6.72%) Mac OS
4 8 (6.72%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (3.36%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (2.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (2.52%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.84%) CentOS
7 1 (0.84%) Debian
7 1 (0.84%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.84%) Unix
7 1 (0.84%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (25.21%) Cybersecurity
2 27 (22.69%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (21.01%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 21 (17.65%) SIEM
5 19 (15.97%) Security Operations
6 18 (15.13%) ITIL
6 18 (15.13%) Malware Analysis
7 17 (14.29%) Customer Service
7 17 (14.29%) Incident Response
8 13 (10.92%) Cloud Security
9 12 (10.08%) Artificial Intelligence
9 12 (10.08%) MITRE ATT&CK
10 10 (8.40%) Line Management
10 10 (8.40%) Mentoring
10 10 (8.40%) Performance Optimisation
10 10 (8.40%) Reverse Engineering
11 9 (7.56%) DevOps
11 9 (7.56%) People Management
11 9 (7.56%) Use Case
11 9 (7.56%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (18.49%) PowerShell
2 19 (15.97%) Bash
2 19 (15.97%) Python
3 6 (5.04%) C++
3 6 (5.04%) Perl
4 5 (4.20%) SQL
5 4 (3.36%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.84%) Bicep
6 1 (0.84%) Java
6 1 (0.84%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 19 (15.97%) Microsoft Certification
2 16 (13.45%) Security Cleared
3 11 (9.24%) DV Cleared
4 10 (8.40%) Degree
5 8 (6.72%) SC Cleared
6 5 (4.20%) CISM
6 5 (4.20%) CISSP
6 5 (4.20%) CREST Certified
7 4 (3.36%) CEH
7 4 (3.36%) GIAC
7 4 (3.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (2.52%) A+ Certification
8 3 (2.52%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.68%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.68%) CCNA
9 2 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.68%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.68%) MCSA
9 2 (1.68%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.84%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (5.04%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (5.04%) NIST
3 4 (3.36%) NCSC
3 4 (3.36%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.68%) GDPR
4 2 (1.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.84%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.84%) SLA
System Software
1 63 (52.94%) Active Directory
2 14 (11.76%) Hyper-V
3 12 (10.08%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (8.40%) Docker
4 10 (8.40%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (3.36%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.68%) Firmware
6 2 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.84%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 21 (17.65%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (9.24%) Ansible
2 11 (9.24%) QRadar
3 6 (5.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 6 (5.04%) Kubernetes
4 4 (3.36%) FortiGate
4 4 (3.36%) Nessus
4 4 (3.36%) Puppet
5 3 (2.52%) Graylog
5 3 (2.52%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (2.52%) Nagios
5 3 (2.52%) Rundeck
5 3 (2.52%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (2.52%) Terraform
6 1 (0.84%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (0.84%) CSIRT
6 1 (0.84%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.84%) Grafana
6 1 (0.84%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.84%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 77 (64.71%) Microsoft
2 13 (10.92%) Cisco
2 13 (10.92%) Splunk
3 12 (10.08%) Citrix
4 10 (8.40%) Palo Alto
4 10 (8.40%) VMware
5 6 (5.04%) WatchGuard
6 5 (4.20%) Fortinet
7 4 (3.36%) Qualys
7 4 (3.36%) Tenable
8 3 (2.52%) Aruba
8 3 (2.52%) Juniper
8 3 (2.52%) NetApp
8 3 (2.52%) PagerDuty
8 3 (2.52%) Pure Storage
8 3 (2.52%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.68%) Dell
9 2 (1.68%) EMC
10 1 (0.84%) Adobe
10 1 (0.84%) Commvault