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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 41 25
Rank change year-on-year -22 -16 +59
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 104 195 145
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 2.77% 4.70% 7.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.97% 28.30% 39.08%
Number of salaries quoted 75 132 118
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,800 £27,450
25th Percentile £37,500 £30,000 £35,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £42,500 £48,800
Median % change year-on-year +1.18% -12.91% +8.44%
75th Percentile £67,500 £56,688 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - -

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 613 689 371
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 16.34% 16.60% 18.29%
Number of salaries quoted 295 348 268
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £66,313
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £73,750
England median annual salary £40,000 £54,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year -25.93% +4.85% -1.90%

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 30 November 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 30 November 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 +6 60 £54,000 +12.50% 26
Cambridgeshire -2 15 £55,000 +66.67% 11
Essex -12 13 £26,500 -42.39% 4
Suffolk -19 10 £40,000 -11.11%
Norfolk -19 4 £40,000 +27.49% 3
Bedfordshire +19 2 £50,220 +0.44% 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 29 (27.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (10.58%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (9.62%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (4.81%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 77 (74.04%) Azure
2 73 (70.19%) Microsoft 365
3 40 (38.46%) Entra ID
4 10 (9.62%) Azure Logic Apps
4 10 (9.62%) Power Platform
5 9 (8.65%) PowerApps
6 7 (6.73%) IaaS
6 7 (6.73%) OneDrive
7 6 (5.77%) AWS
7 6 (5.77%) Power Automate
8 5 (4.81%) PaaS
8 5 (4.81%) SaaS
9 4 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (2.88%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (2.88%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.92%) Google Workspace
12 1 (0.96%) Azure Sentinel
12 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Copilot
12 1 (0.96%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 31 (29.81%) VPN
2 28 (26.92%) DNS
3 25 (24.04%) WAN
4 21 (20.19%) DHCP
5 19 (18.27%) LAN
6 17 (16.35%) TCP/IP
7 11 (10.58%) Network Security
7 11 (10.58%) VLAN
8 9 (8.65%) SAN
8 9 (8.65%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (6.73%) IP Telephony
10 5 (4.81%) OSPF
10 5 (4.81%) SD-WAN
10 5 (4.81%) SMTP
11 4 (3.85%) EIGRP
11 4 (3.85%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (3.85%) POP3
11 4 (3.85%) SSL
11 4 (3.85%) Wireless
11 4 (3.85%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.77%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (3.85%) JIRA
2 1 (0.96%) Visual Studio
General
1 42 (40.38%) Social Skills
2 8 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (7.69%) Legal
3 4 (3.85%) Retail
4 3 (2.88%) Finance
4 3 (2.88%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.92%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (1.92%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.96%) Law
Job Titles
1 27 (25.96%) IT Support
2 24 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 21 (20.19%) Analyst
4 19 (18.27%) IT Engineer
4 19 (18.27%) Senior
5 16 (15.38%) 1st Line Support
6 15 (14.42%) Support Engineer
6 15 (14.42%) Technical Support
7 14 (13.46%) 1st Line Support Analyst
7 14 (13.46%) Support Analyst
8 13 (12.50%) Network Engineer
9 12 (11.54%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (10.58%) Administrator
10 11 (10.58%) IT Analyst
10 11 (10.58%) IT Support Specialist
10 11 (10.58%) Support Specialist
11 10 (9.62%) 1st Line Technical Support
11 10 (9.62%) IT Support Engineer
12 9 (8.65%) IT Administrator
13 8 (7.69%) Technical Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.88%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.62%) Driving Licence
2 9 (8.65%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.85%) Clustering
3 4 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (3.85%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.88%) iPad
4 3 (2.88%) Security Posture
4 3 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.92%) Biopharmaceutical
5 2 (1.92%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.92%) PKI
6 1 (0.96%) Blog
6 1 (0.96%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.96%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.96%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (0.96%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 86 (82.69%) Windows
2 68 (65.38%) Windows Server
3 20 (19.23%) Windows Server 2019
4 16 (15.38%) Mac OS
5 10 (9.62%) Android
6 8 (7.69%) Linux
7 6 (5.77%) Windows 10
7 6 (5.77%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (4.81%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.96%) Windows 2000
9 1 (0.96%) Windows 8
9 1 (0.96%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (27.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 25 (24.04%) Customer Service
3 24 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (20.19%) Cybersecurity
5 14 (13.46%) Continuous Improvement
5 14 (13.46%) Preventative Maintenance
6 13 (12.50%) ITIL
7 11 (10.58%) Service Delivery
8 9 (8.65%) Roadmaps
8 9 (8.65%) Server Management
9 8 (7.69%) Network Monitoring
9 8 (7.69%) Technology Roadmap
10 7 (6.73%) Incident Response
10 7 (6.73%) Information Security
10 7 (6.73%) ITSM
10 7 (6.73%) Proactive Monitoring
11 6 (5.77%) Cost Reduction
11 6 (5.77%) Mentoring
11 6 (5.77%) Network Virtualisation
11 6 (5.77%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 27 (25.96%) PowerShell
2 4 (3.85%) Python
3 3 (2.88%) Bash
4 1 (0.96%) Bicep
4 1 (0.96%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (24.04%) Cisco Certification
2 21 (20.19%) CCNA
2 21 (20.19%) Microsoft Certification
3 12 (11.54%) Security Cleared
4 11 (10.58%) DBS Check
5 9 (8.65%) Azure Certification
5 9 (8.65%) CCNP
6 7 (6.73%) SC Cleared
7 6 (5.77%) CompTIA Security+
7 6 (5.77%) Degree
8 4 (3.85%) CEH
8 4 (3.85%) CISM
8 4 (3.85%) DV Cleared
9 3 (2.88%) CISSP
9 3 (2.88%) MCDST
9 3 (2.88%) MCSE
10 2 (1.92%) GSEC
10 2 (1.92%) MCP
10 2 (1.92%) MCSA
10 2 (1.92%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.73%) GDPR
1 7 (6.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (5.77%) PCI DSS
3 5 (4.81%) NIST
4 4 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.92%) GxP
5 2 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.96%) GRC
6 1 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (0.96%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.96%) NCSC
System Software
1 69 (66.35%) Active Directory
2 19 (18.27%) Virtual Desktop
3 10 (9.62%) Hyper-V
3 10 (9.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 3 (2.88%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.96%) Docker
5 1 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 42 (40.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (9.62%) SCCM
3 4 (3.85%) FortiGate
4 3 (2.88%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (1.92%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (1.92%) Nagios
6 1 (0.96%) Ansible
6 1 (0.96%) CSIRT
6 1 (0.96%) Endace
6 1 (0.96%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 1 (0.96%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.96%) Puppet
6 1 (0.96%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 85 (81.73%) Microsoft
2 25 (24.04%) Cisco
3 22 (21.15%) VMware
4 9 (8.65%) ServiceNow
5 8 (7.69%) Fortinet
5 8 (7.69%) Palo Alto
6 6 (5.77%) Apple
7 5 (4.81%) Juniper
7 5 (4.81%) Remedy
8 4 (3.85%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (3.85%) SolarWinds
9 3 (2.88%) Dell
10 2 (1.92%) Blue Coat
10 2 (1.92%) CheckPoint
10 2 (1.92%) Google
10 2 (1.92%) HP
10 2 (1.92%) Meraki
10 2 (1.92%) Nimble Storage
10 2 (1.92%) Sophos
10 2 (1.92%) Veeam