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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 47 41
Rank change year-on-year -17 -6 +52
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 111 166 222
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 2.35% 4.99% 4.93%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.63% 28.09% 27.11%
Number of salaries quoted 70 119 196
10th Percentile £26,500 £25,200 £25,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £30,000 £26,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,970 £42,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.25% +6.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,500 £67,500
England median annual salary £48,445 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -11.92% +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 710 591 819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 15.06% 17.76% 18.19%
Number of salaries quoted 254 294 644
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,406 £32,000 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +17.65% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £57,813
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £72,500
England median annual salary £41,250 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% +10.00% -3.69%

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 February 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 February 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 -4 52 £55,000 -8.33% 19
Cambridgeshire -8 25 £55,000 +71.88% 19
Suffolk +3 14 £40,000 -11.11% 4
Bedfordshire +26 7 £27,000 -49.53% 11
Essex -8 7 £36,500 -24.74% 16
Norfolk -20 6 £35,000 +19.15% 3
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 24 (21.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (9.91%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (6.31%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (3.60%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (2.70%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 76 (68.47%) Azure
2 75 (67.57%) Microsoft 365
3 38 (34.23%) Entra ID
4 9 (8.11%) AWS
4 9 (8.11%) Azure Logic Apps
5 8 (7.21%) IaaS
5 8 (7.21%) PaaS
6 7 (6.31%) Power Platform
6 7 (6.31%) PowerApps
7 6 (5.41%) OneDrive
7 6 (5.41%) Power Automate
8 4 (3.60%) SaaS
9 2 (1.80%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.80%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.90%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.90%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.90%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (0.90%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 36 (32.43%) VPN
2 33 (29.73%) DNS
3 28 (25.23%) LAN
4 26 (23.42%) DHCP
4 26 (23.42%) WAN
5 21 (18.92%) TCP/IP
6 19 (17.12%) VLAN
7 16 (14.41%) Network Security
8 9 (8.11%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (7.21%) WLAN
10 6 (5.41%) OSPF
10 6 (5.41%) SMTP
10 6 (5.41%) Wireless
11 5 (4.50%) DMZ
11 5 (4.50%) EIGRP
11 5 (4.50%) IMAP
11 5 (4.50%) Intrusion Detection
11 5 (4.50%) POP3
11 5 (4.50%) SAN
11 5 (4.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.21%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.80%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (4.50%) JIRA
2 1 (0.90%) Visual Studio
General
1 54 (48.65%) Social Skills
2 10 (9.01%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (7.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (6.31%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (5.41%) Legal
6 5 (4.50%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.60%) Finance
7 4 (3.60%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.60%) Retail
8 2 (1.80%) Law
Job Titles
1 43 (38.74%) IT Support
2 28 (25.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 25 (22.52%) Support Engineer
4 24 (21.62%) Senior
5 23 (20.72%) IT Engineer
6 20 (18.02%) IT Support Engineer
7 19 (17.12%) Network Engineer
8 18 (16.22%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 18 (16.22%) 2nd Line Support
8 18 (16.22%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 14 (12.61%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (10.81%) Administrator
10 12 (10.81%) Analyst
10 12 (10.81%) IT Administrator
11 11 (9.91%) 1st Line Support
11 11 (9.91%) IT Support Specialist
11 11 (9.91%) Support Specialist
12 9 (8.11%) IT Analyst
13 8 (7.21%) Infrastructure Support
13 8 (7.21%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.90%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.21%) Driving Licence
1 8 (7.21%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (5.41%) Data Centre
2 6 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (5.41%) Security Posture
3 4 (3.60%) Blog
3 4 (3.60%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.60%) Cloud Security Posture
3 4 (3.60%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 4 (3.60%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.60%) PKI
4 3 (2.70%) Client/Server
4 3 (2.70%) iPad
5 2 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.90%) CCTV
6 1 (0.90%) Clustering
6 1 (0.90%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (0.90%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 78 (70.27%) Windows
2 62 (55.86%) Windows Server
3 16 (14.41%) Windows Server 2019
4 14 (12.61%) Windows Server 2016
5 12 (10.81%) Windows 10
6 8 (7.21%) Android
7 7 (6.31%) Mac OS
8 5 (4.50%) Apple iOS
9 4 (3.60%) VMS
10 3 (2.70%) Linux
11 1 (0.90%) Windows 2000
11 1 (0.90%) Windows 8
11 1 (0.90%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (29.73%) Cybersecurity
3 29 (26.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 15 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
5 13 (11.71%) AI
5 13 (11.71%) Mentoring
5 13 (11.71%) Network Monitoring
6 11 (9.91%) ITIL
7 10 (9.01%) Asset Management
7 10 (9.01%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (8.11%) Customer Service
8 9 (8.11%) Service Delivery
9 8 (7.21%) Network Management
9 8 (7.21%) Network Virtualisation
9 8 (7.21%) Roadmaps
10 7 (6.31%) Technology Roadmap
11 6 (5.41%) Incident Response
11 6 (5.41%) Preventative Maintenance
11 6 (5.41%) Project Delivery
11 6 (5.41%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 21 (18.92%) PowerShell
2 2 (1.80%) Python
3 1 (0.90%) Bash
3 1 (0.90%) Bicep
3 1 (0.90%) SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (20.72%) Cisco Certification
2 22 (19.82%) Security Cleared
3 20 (18.02%) Microsoft Certification
4 19 (17.12%) CCNA
5 15 (13.51%) CCNP
6 11 (9.91%) Azure Certification
7 9 (8.11%) SC Cleared
8 8 (7.21%) DBS Check
9 7 (6.31%) DV Cleared
10 6 (5.41%) Degree
11 5 (4.50%) Network+ Certification
12 4 (3.60%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (1.80%) CompTIA CySA+
13 2 (1.80%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (1.80%) GSEC
13 2 (1.80%) MCSA
13 2 (1.80%) MCSE
14 1 (0.90%) MCDST
14 1 (0.90%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.41%) GDPR
1 6 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.60%) GRC
2 4 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 42001
2 4 (3.60%) JSP 440
2 4 (3.60%) NCSC
2 4 (3.60%) NIST
2 4 (3.60%) PCI DSS
2 4 (3.60%) SLA
3 1 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 65 (58.56%) Active Directory
2 21 (18.92%) Virtual Desktop
3 15 (13.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (8.11%) Hyper-V
5 5 (4.50%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (3.60%) vSphere
7 1 (0.90%) Docker
7 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.90%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 32 (28.83%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (4.50%) SCCM
3 4 (3.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 4 (3.60%) FortiGate
3 4 (3.60%) SolarWinds Orion
3 4 (3.60%) vCenter Server
4 2 (1.80%) Nagios
5 1 (0.90%) Ansible
5 1 (0.90%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.90%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.90%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 92 (82.88%) Microsoft
2 27 (24.32%) Cisco
2 27 (24.32%) VMware
3 13 (11.71%) Palo Alto
4 12 (10.81%) Fortinet
5 9 (8.11%) SolarWinds
6 8 (7.21%) CrowdStrike
6 8 (7.21%) ServiceNow
7 5 (4.50%) Apple
7 5 (4.50%) Aruba
8 4 (3.60%) Blue Coat
8 4 (3.60%) CheckPoint
8 4 (3.60%) Freshdesk
8 4 (3.60%) Juniper
9 3 (2.70%) Citrix
9 3 (2.70%) F5
9 3 (2.70%) Remedy
10 2 (1.80%) LogRhythm
10 2 (1.80%) Splunk
10 2 (1.80%) Veeam