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 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 45 40 91
Rank change year-on-year -5 +51 -28
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 155 256 184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 4.83% 4.82% 3.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.14% 26.72% 18.79%
Number of salaries quoted 123 238 137
10th Percentile £25,500 £24,925 £25,300
25th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £48,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £57,875 £80,000
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 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 532 958 979
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 16.56% 18.03% 17.16%
Number of salaries quoted 263 749 463
10th Percentile £28,000 £24,833 £25,550
25th Percentile £31,780 £28,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% - -5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £70,000
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 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 15 March 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 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
Hertfordshire -7 54 £62,500 +47.06% 36
Cambridgeshire +17 38 £46,250 +15.63% 24
Norfolk +4 25 £28,000 -3.45% 4
Suffolk -7 18 £45,000 -28.00% 4
Bedfordshire -26 11 £52,500 +110.00% 7
Essex -9 9 £41,250 +37.50% 12
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 54 (34.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 48 (30.97%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.94%) Apache
3 3 (1.94%) nginx
4 2 (1.29%) SAS
5 1 (0.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.65%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (5.16%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Dynamics GP
1 1 (0.65%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 82 (52.90%) Azure
2 79 (50.97%) Microsoft 365
3 50 (32.26%) Entra ID
4 22 (14.19%) AWS
5 7 (4.52%) Mimecast
5 7 (4.52%) OneDrive
6 5 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (3.23%) Power Platform
7 4 (2.58%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (2.58%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.29%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.29%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (1.29%) GCP
9 1 (0.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.65%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.65%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.65%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.65%) Rubrik
9 1 (0.65%) SaaS
9 1 (0.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 70 (45.16%) DNS
2 63 (40.65%) VPN
3 44 (28.39%) WAN
4 43 (27.74%) LAN
5 37 (23.87%) TCP/IP
6 29 (18.71%) DHCP
7 27 (17.42%) VLAN
8 22 (14.19%) Network Security
9 18 (11.61%) Internet
10 16 (10.32%) Wi-Fi
11 13 (8.39%) HTTP
12 11 (7.10%) FTP
13 10 (6.45%) BGP
13 10 (6.45%) SAN
13 10 (6.45%) SMTP
14 8 (5.16%) Intrusion Detection
15 7 (4.52%) MPLS
16 5 (3.23%) IPv6
16 5 (3.23%) SNMP
17 4 (2.58%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.74%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.45%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.65%) Big Data
5 1 (0.65%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.65%) MySQL
5 1 (0.65%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.65%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (3.87%) JIRA
2 4 (2.58%) Git
2 4 (2.58%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.58%) Subversion
3 3 (1.94%) GitLab
3 3 (1.94%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.65%) Bitbucket
General
1 35 (22.58%) Social Skills
2 10 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (5.16%) Retail
4 6 (3.87%) Finance
5 4 (2.58%) Aviation
5 4 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (2.58%) Law
5 4 (2.58%) Manufacturing
6 3 (1.94%) Legal
6 3 (1.94%) Publishing
7 2 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.29%) Front Office
7 2 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.29%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.65%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.65%) Back Office
8 1 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.65%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 32 (20.65%) IT Support
2 26 (16.77%) Analyst
3 23 (14.84%) IT Technician
4 19 (12.26%) 2nd Line Support
5 18 (11.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 17 (10.97%) 1st Line Support
6 17 (10.97%) Support Technician
7 16 (10.32%) IT Engineer
8 15 (9.68%) IT Support Technician
9 12 (7.74%) Network Engineer
10 10 (6.45%) Cloud Engineer
10 10 (6.45%) Lead
10 10 (6.45%) Support Analyst
10 10 (6.45%) Support Engineer
11 8 (5.16%) 1st Line Support Technician
11 8 (5.16%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 8 (5.16%) Administrator
11 8 (5.16%) Security Engineer
11 8 (5.16%) Systems Administrator
12 7 (4.52%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.39%) LDAP
2 1 (0.65%) Akka
2 1 (0.65%) SAML
2 1 (0.65%) ServiceStack
2 1 (0.65%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 25 (16.13%) Driving Licence
2 19 (12.26%) Data Centre
3 14 (9.03%) Security Operations Centre
4 11 (7.10%) Client/Server
5 10 (6.45%) Security Posture
6 8 (5.16%) Management Information System
7 7 (4.52%) Cloud Security Posture
7 7 (4.52%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.58%) IoT
9 3 (1.94%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (1.29%) Biopharmaceutical
10 2 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.29%) Replication
11 1 (0.65%) CSOC
11 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.65%) Housing Association
11 1 (0.65%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.65%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.65%) Robotics
11 1 (0.65%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 98 (63.23%) Windows
2 59 (38.06%) Windows Server
3 23 (14.84%) Linux
4 13 (8.39%) Windows 10
5 10 (6.45%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (5.16%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (2.58%) Mac OS
7 4 (2.58%) Unix
8 3 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.94%) VMS
9 2 (1.29%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.65%) CentOS
10 1 (0.65%) Rocky
10 1 (0.65%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (21.94%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 21 (13.55%) Customer Service
4 20 (12.90%) SIEM
5 18 (11.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 17 (10.97%) Security Operations
7 14 (9.03%) Cloud Security
7 14 (9.03%) ITIL
7 14 (9.03%) ITSM
7 14 (9.03%) Malware Analysis
8 13 (8.39%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 12 (7.74%) Incident Response
10 11 (7.10%) Disaster Recovery
10 11 (7.10%) Roadmaps
10 11 (7.10%) Service Delivery
11 10 (6.45%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (6.45%) Reverse Engineering
11 10 (6.45%) Technology Roadmap
12 9 (5.81%) Computer Science
12 9 (5.81%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 27 (17.42%) PowerShell
2 24 (15.48%) Python
3 20 (12.90%) Bash
4 8 (5.16%) SQL
5 6 (3.87%) C++
6 5 (3.23%) Perl
7 4 (2.58%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.65%) C
8 1 (0.65%) C#
8 1 (0.65%) Java
8 1 (0.65%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 19 (12.26%) Security Cleared
2 17 (10.97%) Degree
3 16 (10.32%) DV Cleared
4 15 (9.68%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (8.39%) SC Cleared
6 7 (4.52%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (4.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.23%) CCNA
7 5 (3.23%) MCSA
8 4 (2.58%) AWS Certification
8 4 (2.58%) CCNP
8 4 (2.58%) CISM
8 4 (2.58%) CISSP
9 3 (1.94%) A+ Certification
9 3 (1.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 3 (1.94%) Network+ Certification
10 2 (1.29%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.29%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.65%) CISA
11 1 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (5.16%) NIST
2 7 (4.52%) GDPR
3 6 (3.87%) PCI DSS
4 5 (3.23%) Government Security Classifications
5 3 (1.94%) COBIT
5 3 (1.94%) NCSC
5 3 (1.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.65%) QA
6 1 (0.65%) SLA
System Software
1 84 (54.19%) Active Directory
2 18 (11.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (10.32%) Hyper-V
4 12 (7.74%) Docker
5 11 (7.10%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (4.52%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (2.58%) Firmware
7 4 (2.58%) VMware NSX
8 3 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (1.94%) vSphere
9 2 (1.29%) pfSense
10 1 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 21 (13.55%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (9.03%) Ansible
3 11 (7.10%) Puppet
3 11 (7.10%) QRadar
4 8 (5.16%) Kubernetes
4 8 (5.16%) Progress Chef
5 6 (3.87%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (2.58%) Avamar
6 4 (2.58%) Nagios
6 4 (2.58%) vCenter Server
6 4 (2.58%) VxRail
7 3 (1.94%) Graylog
7 3 (1.94%) Rundeck
8 2 (1.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (1.29%) cPanel
8 2 (1.29%) Nessus
8 2 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.29%) Terraform
9 1 (0.65%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 1 (0.65%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 91 (58.71%) Microsoft
2 21 (13.55%) Cisco
3 18 (11.61%) VMware
4 11 (7.10%) Splunk
5 9 (5.81%) Palo Alto
6 8 (5.16%) Aruba
7 7 (4.52%) Citrix
7 7 (4.52%) Dell
8 5 (3.23%) HP
8 5 (3.23%) Juniper
8 5 (3.23%) Veeam
8 5 (3.23%) WatchGuard
9 4 (2.58%) EMC
9 4 (2.58%) Fortinet
9 4 (2.58%) SolarWinds
10 3 (1.94%) NetApp
10 3 (1.94%) Netskope
10 3 (1.94%) PagerDuty
10 3 (1.94%) Pure Storage
10 3 (1.94%) SonicWALL