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 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 70 46
Rank change year-on-year -5 -24 +32
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 122 124 256
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.96% 4.16% 4.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 21.67% 19.28% 24.52%
Number of salaries quoted 82 102 241
10th Percentile £26,500 £27,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,750 £27,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £41,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +20.48% -2.35%
75th Percentile £57,500 £66,000 £48,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,625 £55,000
England median annual salary £54,498 £52,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year +3.80% +7.14% -2.00%

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 563 643 1,044
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 9.03% 21.56% 17.07%
Number of salaries quoted 263 247 793
10th Percentile £26,500 £28,000 £24,872
25th Percentile £30,125 £32,750 £28,621
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% +5.88% -
75th Percentile £58,125 £58,875 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £68,750
England median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +5.26% -5.00%

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 16 May 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 16 May 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 -34 38 £52,500 -15.32% 9
Cambridgeshire -25 29 £55,000 +15.79% 10
Essex -8 23 £33,750 +12.50% 6
Bedfordshire +22 16 £40,000 -25.93% 4
Suffolk +15 10 £40,000 -20.00% 2
Norfolk -25 6 £30,000 -3.23% 2
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 27 (22.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (19.67%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.64%) WordPress
4 1 (0.82%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (4.10%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.46%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (4.10%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (2.46%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 73 (59.84%) Microsoft 365
2 55 (45.08%) Azure
3 48 (39.34%) Entra ID
4 13 (10.66%) AWS
5 8 (6.56%) OneDrive
6 5 (4.10%) IaaS
6 5 (4.10%) PaaS
7 3 (2.46%) Mimecast
8 2 (1.64%) Google Ads
9 1 (0.82%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.82%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.82%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.82%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.82%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 47 (38.52%) VPN
2 33 (27.05%) DNS
3 25 (20.49%) DHCP
3 25 (20.49%) LAN
4 24 (19.67%) WAN
5 20 (16.39%) Wi-Fi
6 19 (15.57%) TCP/IP
7 16 (13.11%) VLAN
8 15 (12.30%) Network Security
9 13 (10.66%) VoIP
10 12 (9.84%) Wireless
11 7 (5.74%) Internet
11 7 (5.74%) SMTP
12 6 (4.92%) DMZ
13 4 (3.28%) FTP
13 4 (3.28%) HTTP
13 4 (3.28%) WLAN
14 3 (2.46%) EIGRP
14 3 (2.46%) OSPF
14 3 (2.46%) POP3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.10%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.82%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (2.46%) JIRA
General
1 47 (38.52%) Social Skills
2 17 (13.93%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (13.11%) Telecoms
4 10 (8.20%) Documentation Skills
4 10 (8.20%) Public Sector
5 9 (7.38%) Retail
6 8 (6.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (4.92%) Finance
8 4 (3.28%) Aerospace
8 4 (3.28%) Marketing
9 3 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.46%) Law
10 2 (1.64%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.82%) Games
11 1 (0.82%) Local Government
11 1 (0.82%) Police
Job Titles
1 40 (32.79%) IT Support
2 30 (24.59%) IT Engineer
3 29 (23.77%) Support Engineer
4 23 (18.85%) IT Support Engineer
5 18 (14.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 14 (11.48%) Senior
7 13 (10.66%) Network Engineer
8 12 (9.84%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 12 (9.84%) 2nd Line Support
8 12 (9.84%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 12 (9.84%) Analyst
9 10 (8.20%) Consultant
9 10 (8.20%) Infrastructure Support
9 10 (8.20%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 9 (7.38%) Lead
11 8 (6.56%) 1st Line Support
11 8 (6.56%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (5.74%) Security Engineer
13 6 (4.92%) Administrator
13 6 (4.92%) IT Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.28%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.30%) Driving Licence
2 10 (8.20%) Onboarding
3 7 (5.74%) Client/Server
3 7 (5.74%) Security Posture
4 6 (4.92%) Blog
4 6 (4.92%) Cloud Native
4 6 (4.92%) Cloud Security Posture
4 6 (4.92%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 6 (4.92%) PKI
5 4 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.28%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.28%) Security Operations Centre
5 4 (3.28%) Social Network
6 3 (2.46%) CCTV
6 3 (2.46%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.64%) Fibre Optics
7 2 (1.64%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.82%) Clustering
8 1 (0.82%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.82%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 57 (46.72%) Windows
2 36 (29.51%) Windows Server
3 11 (9.02%) Windows Server 2016
4 9 (7.38%) Windows 10
4 9 (7.38%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (4.92%) Mac OS
6 5 (4.10%) Linux
7 4 (3.28%) VMS
8 3 (2.46%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.82%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.82%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (44.26%) Problem-Solving
2 52 (42.62%) Cybersecurity
3 25 (20.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 20 (16.39%) Continuous Improvement
5 15 (12.30%) Asset Management
6 14 (11.48%) ITIL
6 14 (11.48%) Mentoring
7 13 (10.66%) AI
8 12 (9.84%) Customer Service
9 11 (9.02%) Cloud Security
9 11 (9.02%) SIEM
9 11 (9.02%) Stakeholder Management
10 10 (8.20%) Disaster Recovery
10 10 (8.20%) Risk Management
10 10 (8.20%) Root Cause Analysis
10 10 (8.20%) Use Case
10 10 (8.20%) Virtual Environments
11 9 (7.38%) Network Monitoring
11 9 (7.38%) Remote Monitoring and Management
12 8 (6.56%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 26 (21.31%) PowerShell
2 6 (4.92%) Bash
3 5 (4.10%) Python
4 4 (3.28%) C++
4 4 (3.28%) Perl
4 4 (3.28%) SQL
5 1 (0.82%) C#
5 1 (0.82%) VB
Qualifications
1 30 (24.59%) Microsoft Certification
2 21 (17.21%) Security Cleared
3 17 (13.93%) CCNA
3 17 (13.93%) Cisco Certification
4 11 (9.02%) CCNP
4 11 (9.02%) Degree
5 9 (7.38%) CompTIA Security+
5 9 (7.38%) SC Cleared
6 8 (6.56%) CEH
7 7 (5.74%) Azure Certification
7 7 (5.74%) DV Cleared
8 6 (4.92%) DBS Check
8 6 (4.92%) Network+ Certification
9 4 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (3.28%) CISSP
9 4 (3.28%) CREST Certified
10 3 (2.46%) CISM
10 3 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (2.46%) MCDST
10 3 (2.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.20%) GRC
2 9 (7.38%) GDPR
2 9 (7.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (6.56%) NIST
4 7 (5.74%) SLA
5 6 (4.92%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 6 (4.92%) JSP 440
5 6 (4.92%) NCSC
5 6 (4.92%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.64%) QA
System Software
1 59 (48.36%) Active Directory
2 20 (16.39%) Hyper-V
3 19 (15.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (9.84%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (4.92%) vSphere
6 5 (4.10%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.64%) Docker
7 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 2 (1.64%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 16 (13.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (3.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 4 (3.28%) QRadar
2 4 (3.28%) SolarWinds Orion
2 4 (3.28%) vCenter Server
3 2 (1.64%) FortiGate
3 2 (1.64%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.82%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 1 (0.82%) Podman
Vendors
1 86 (70.49%) Microsoft
2 20 (16.39%) Cisco
3 19 (15.57%) VMware
4 12 (9.84%) Sophos
5 11 (9.02%) Fortinet
6 9 (7.38%) Apple
6 9 (7.38%) Meraki
7 7 (5.74%) Aruba
7 7 (5.74%) Palo Alto
7 7 (5.74%) SolarWinds
8 5 (4.10%) Splunk
9 4 (3.28%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (3.28%) Freshdesk
10 3 (2.46%) Adobe
10 3 (2.46%) CheckPoint
10 3 (2.46%) Citrix
10 3 (2.46%) Synology
10 3 (2.46%) Ubiquiti
11 2 (1.64%) Blue Coat
11 2 (1.64%) Ruckus Wireless