Firewall Job Trends in the East of England

Firewall
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Firewall skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 40 33
Rank change year-on-year -26 -7 +56
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 106 181 200
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 2.42% 5.22% 5.45%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.66% 27.85% 29.76%
Number of salaries quoted 68 126 176
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,375 £25,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £30,000 £29,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £68,750 £58,438 £52,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -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 723 650 672
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 16.50% 18.74% 18.30%
Number of salaries quoted 272 326 528
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,500 £30,044
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £58,750 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £73,750
England median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -4.76%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Firewall relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Firewall job vacancy trend in the East of England

Firewall
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Firewall.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Firewall

Firewall
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in the East of England over the 6 months to 26 January 2026.

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 26 January 2026. 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 +1 54 £55,000 - 19
Cambridgeshire -9 23 £67,500 +110.94% 9
Suffolk -1 11 £40,000 -11.11% 4
Essex -13 7 £27,500 -40.22% 9
Bedfordshire +30 6 £33,970 +4.52% 5
Norfolk -21 5 £40,000 +27.49% 5
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 23 (21.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (9.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (8.49%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (3.77%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.94%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 73 (68.87%) Azure
2 69 (65.09%) Microsoft 365
3 36 (33.96%) Entra ID
4 9 (8.49%) Azure Logic Apps
5 7 (6.60%) AWS
5 7 (6.60%) Power Platform
5 7 (6.60%) PowerApps
6 6 (5.66%) IaaS
6 6 (5.66%) PaaS
6 6 (5.66%) Power Automate
7 5 (4.72%) OneDrive
7 5 (4.72%) SaaS
8 2 (1.89%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.94%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.94%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (0.94%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 32 (30.19%) VPN
2 27 (25.47%) DNS
3 26 (24.53%) WAN
4 23 (21.70%) LAN
5 20 (18.87%) DHCP
5 20 (18.87%) TCP/IP
6 17 (16.04%) Network Security
7 15 (14.15%) VLAN
8 8 (7.55%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (5.66%) IP Telephony
9 6 (5.66%) OSPF
9 6 (5.66%) SMTP
10 5 (4.72%) DMZ
10 5 (4.72%) EIGRP
10 5 (4.72%) IMAP
10 5 (4.72%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (4.72%) POP3
10 5 (4.72%) SAN
10 5 (4.72%) Wireless
10 5 (4.72%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.66%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 5 (4.72%) JIRA
2 1 (0.94%) Visual Studio
General
1 48 (45.28%) Social Skills
2 11 (10.38%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (6.60%) Legal
4 6 (5.66%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.72%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.83%) Finance
7 3 (2.83%) Retail
8 2 (1.89%) Law
9 1 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (33.02%) IT Support
2 22 (20.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 19 (17.92%) Senior
4 18 (16.98%) IT Engineer
5 17 (16.04%) Support Engineer
6 16 (15.09%) Network Engineer
7 15 (14.15%) Analyst
8 14 (13.21%) 1st Line Support
8 14 (13.21%) IT Support Engineer
9 13 (12.26%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 13 (12.26%) 2nd Line Support
9 13 (12.26%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 12 (11.32%) Administrator
10 12 (11.32%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (10.38%) IT Administrator
11 11 (10.38%) IT Support Specialist
11 11 (10.38%) Support Specialist
12 9 (8.49%) 1st Line Support Analyst
12 9 (8.49%) IT Analyst
12 9 (8.49%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.89%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.43%) Driving Licence
2 8 (7.55%) Data Centre
3 6 (5.66%) Security Posture
4 5 (4.72%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.77%) Blog
5 4 (3.77%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.77%) Cloud Security Posture
5 4 (3.77%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 4 (3.77%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.77%) PKI
6 3 (2.83%) Client/Server
6 3 (2.83%) iPad
6 3 (2.83%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.89%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.89%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.94%) Biopharmaceutical
8 1 (0.94%) Clustering
8 1 (0.94%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 79 (74.53%) Windows
2 60 (56.60%) Windows Server
3 17 (16.04%) Windows Server 2019
4 11 (10.38%) Windows Server 2016
5 10 (9.43%) Mac OS
6 9 (8.49%) Android
7 8 (7.55%) Windows 10
8 5 (4.72%) Apple iOS
9 4 (3.77%) Linux
10 2 (1.89%) VMS
11 1 (0.94%) Windows 2000
11 1 (0.94%) Windows 8
11 1 (0.94%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (31.13%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (25.47%) Cybersecurity
3 24 (22.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 16 (15.09%) Customer Service
5 13 (12.26%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (10.38%) AI
6 11 (10.38%) ITIL
7 10 (9.43%) Network Monitoring
8 9 (8.49%) Mentoring
8 9 (8.49%) Preventative Maintenance
9 8 (7.55%) Network Virtualisation
9 8 (7.55%) Roadmaps
9 8 (7.55%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (6.60%) Incident Response
10 7 (6.60%) Risk Management
10 7 (6.60%) Service Delivery
10 7 (6.60%) Technology Roadmap
11 6 (5.66%) ISMS
12 5 (4.72%) Network Management
12 5 (4.72%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (20.75%) PowerShell
2 3 (2.83%) Python
3 2 (1.89%) Bash
4 1 (0.94%) Bicep
4 1 (0.94%) SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (22.64%) Cisco Certification
2 20 (18.87%) CCNA
2 20 (18.87%) Microsoft Certification
3 17 (16.04%) Security Cleared
4 11 (10.38%) CCNP
4 11 (10.38%) DBS Check
5 8 (7.55%) Azure Certification
5 8 (7.55%) DV Cleared
6 7 (6.60%) SC Cleared
7 6 (5.66%) Degree
8 5 (4.72%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (3.77%) Network+ Certification
10 3 (2.83%) CEH
10 3 (2.83%) CISM
10 3 (2.83%) MCDST
11 2 (1.89%) CISSP
11 2 (1.89%) CompTIA CySA+
11 2 (1.89%) GSEC
11 2 (1.89%) MCP
11 2 (1.89%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.49%) GDPR
1 9 (8.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (6.60%) NIST
2 7 (6.60%) PCI DSS
3 4 (3.77%) GRC
3 4 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 4 (3.77%) JSP 440
3 4 (3.77%) NCSC
4 3 (2.83%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.89%) SLA
6 1 (0.94%) GxP
6 1 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 62 (58.49%) Active Directory
2 19 (17.92%) Virtual Desktop
3 11 (10.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (5.66%) Hyper-V
5 3 (2.83%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 2 (1.89%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (1.89%) vSphere
7 1 (0.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 35 (33.02%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (6.60%) SCCM
3 4 (3.77%) FortiGate
4 2 (1.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (1.89%) Nagios
4 2 (1.89%) SolarWinds Orion
4 2 (1.89%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.94%) Ansible
5 1 (0.94%) CSIRT
5 1 (0.94%) Endace
5 1 (0.94%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.94%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.94%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 83 (78.30%) Microsoft
2 27 (25.47%) Cisco
3 23 (21.70%) VMware
4 10 (9.43%) Palo Alto
5 9 (8.49%) Fortinet
5 9 (8.49%) ServiceNow
6 7 (6.60%) SolarWinds
7 6 (5.66%) Apple
8 5 (4.72%) CrowdStrike
8 5 (4.72%) Juniper
9 4 (3.77%) Blue Coat
9 4 (3.77%) CheckPoint
9 4 (3.77%) Remedy
10 3 (2.83%) F5
11 2 (1.89%) Darktrace
11 2 (1.89%) Freshdesk
11 2 (1.89%) LogRhythm
11 2 (1.89%) Meraki
11 2 (1.89%) Splunk
11 2 (1.89%) Veeam