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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 78 47
Rank change year-on-year +14 -31 +8
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 160 120 231
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 2.38% 3.45% 3.78%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.41% 18.32% 25.05%
Number of salaries quoted 117 92 205
10th Percentile £26,500 £29,000 £25,600
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,188 £28,621
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +17.65% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £63,750 £48,750
90th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £62,000
England median annual salary £52,250 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +4.50% +5.26% -6.86%

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 544 655 922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 8.08% 18.83% 15.09%
Number of salaries quoted 353 240 696
10th Percentile £26,500 £27,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - +6.25%
75th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £44,720 £47,500
% change year-on-year +6.22% -5.85% -5.94%

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 19 July 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 19 July 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 -29 51 £50,000 -19.35% 13
Cambridgeshire -10 34 £52,000 +9.47% 8
Essex -1 28 £35,000 +16.67% 7
Bedfordshire +14 22 £34,000 -35.85% 3
Norfolk -18 13 £40,000 +25.00% 1
Suffolk +23 12 £43,870 -12.26% 1
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 34 (21.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 33 (20.63%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.13%) WordPress
4 3 (1.88%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (6.88%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.88%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (3.13%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (1.88%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 98 (61.25%) Microsoft 365
2 68 (42.50%) Azure
3 64 (40.00%) Entra ID
4 17 (10.63%) AWS
5 12 (7.50%) OneDrive
6 5 (3.13%) Google Ads
7 3 (1.88%) IaaS
7 3 (1.88%) Mimecast
7 3 (1.88%) PaaS
8 2 (1.25%) GCP
9 1 (0.63%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 58 (36.25%) VPN
2 44 (27.50%) DNS
3 34 (21.25%) DHCP
3 34 (21.25%) TCP/IP
4 29 (18.13%) LAN
5 28 (17.50%) WAN
6 20 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
7 19 (11.88%) VLAN
7 19 (11.88%) Wireless
8 15 (9.38%) Network Security
9 13 (8.13%) VoIP
10 10 (6.25%) Internet
11 7 (4.38%) FTP
11 7 (4.38%) HTTP
11 7 (4.38%) SMTP
12 6 (3.75%) WLAN
13 4 (2.50%) DMZ
14 3 (1.88%) Intrusion Detection
14 3 (1.88%) NAS
15 2 (1.25%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.13%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (1.88%) JIRA
General
1 59 (36.88%) Social Skills
2 18 (11.25%) Retail
3 17 (10.63%) Finance
4 16 (10.00%) Telecoms
5 15 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (8.13%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (5.63%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (5.63%) Public Sector
8 7 (4.38%) Aerospace
8 7 (4.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.50%) Law
9 4 (2.50%) Marketing
10 3 (1.88%) Games
10 3 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.88%) Legal
11 2 (1.25%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.63%) Electronics
12 1 (0.63%) Local Government
12 1 (0.63%) Police
Job Titles
1 43 (26.88%) IT Support
2 42 (26.25%) IT Engineer
3 35 (21.88%) Support Engineer
4 28 (17.50%) IT Support Engineer
5 24 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 22 (13.75%) Analyst
7 17 (10.63%) Network Engineer
8 14 (8.75%) Senior
9 13 (8.13%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 13 (8.13%) 2nd Line Support
9 13 (8.13%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 13 (8.13%) Support Technician
10 12 (7.50%) Infrastructure Support
10 12 (7.50%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
11 10 (6.25%) 1st Line Support
11 10 (6.25%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (5.63%) Administrator
12 9 (5.63%) Security Engineer
12 9 (5.63%) Systems Administrator
13 8 (5.00%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.38%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (11.88%) Driving Licence
1 19 (11.88%) Onboarding
2 9 (5.63%) Security Operations Centre
3 8 (5.00%) Client/Server
3 8 (5.00%) Cyber Threat
3 8 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (4.38%) Security Posture
5 6 (3.75%) CCTV
6 5 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.50%) Blog
7 4 (2.50%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.50%) Cloud Security Posture
7 4 (2.50%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 4 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.50%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.50%) PKI
7 4 (2.50%) Social Network
8 3 (1.88%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.88%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 85 (53.13%) Windows
2 56 (35.00%) Windows Server
3 21 (13.13%) Linux
4 17 (10.63%) Windows 10
5 9 (5.63%) Mac OS
6 7 (4.38%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (3.75%) Apple iOS
7 6 (3.75%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (1.88%) VMS
9 1 (0.63%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.63%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (45.00%) Problem-Solving
2 67 (41.88%) Cybersecurity
3 42 (26.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 35 (21.88%) Continuous Improvement
5 28 (17.50%) SIEM
6 23 (14.38%) Customer Service
7 19 (11.88%) Disaster Recovery
8 17 (10.63%) AI
8 17 (10.63%) ITIL
9 16 (10.00%) Asset Management
10 14 (8.75%) Incident Response
10 14 (8.75%) Security Operations
11 12 (7.50%) Antivirus Management
11 12 (7.50%) Vulnerability Management
12 11 (6.88%) Mentoring
12 11 (6.88%) Remote Monitoring and Management
12 11 (6.88%) Service Delivery
12 11 (6.88%) Use Case
13 10 (6.25%) Virtual Environments
14 9 (5.63%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 38 (23.75%) PowerShell
2 14 (8.75%) SQL
3 8 (5.00%) Python
4 7 (4.38%) Bash
5 6 (3.75%) C++
5 6 (3.75%) Perl
6 1 (0.63%) C#
6 1 (0.63%) VB
Qualifications
1 29 (18.13%) Microsoft Certification
2 25 (15.63%) Degree
3 22 (13.75%) Security Cleared
4 21 (13.13%) CCNA
4 21 (13.13%) Cisco Certification
5 17 (10.63%) CompTIA Security+
6 14 (8.75%) CCNP
7 13 (8.13%) SC Cleared
8 11 (6.88%) CEH
9 8 (5.00%) Azure Certification
10 7 (4.38%) DV Cleared
10 7 (4.38%) Network+ Certification
11 6 (3.75%) CREST Certified
12 4 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (2.50%) CISSP
12 4 (2.50%) DBS Check
13 3 (1.88%) A+ Certification
13 3 (1.88%) CISM
13 3 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (1.88%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (9.38%) SLA
3 8 (5.00%) GRC
4 7 (4.38%) GDPR
4 7 (4.38%) PCI DSS
5 6 (3.75%) NIST
6 5 (3.13%) QA
7 4 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 4 (2.50%) JSP 440
7 4 (2.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 76 (47.50%) Active Directory
2 37 (23.13%) Hyper-V
3 24 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (5.63%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (3.13%) vSphere
6 4 (2.50%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 4 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (2.50%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (1.88%) VMware Server
8 1 (0.63%) Docker
8 1 (0.63%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 19 (11.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (4.38%) Proxmox
3 6 (3.75%) QRadar
4 3 (1.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (1.88%) SolarWinds Orion
4 3 (1.88%) vCenter Server
5 2 (1.25%) FortiGate
5 2 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.63%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.63%) Podman
Vendors
1 118 (73.75%) Microsoft
2 30 (18.75%) Cisco
3 27 (16.88%) VMware
4 16 (10.00%) Fortinet
5 14 (8.75%) Meraki
5 14 (8.75%) Sophos
6 11 (6.88%) Apple
7 10 (6.25%) Splunk
8 7 (4.38%) Aruba
8 7 (4.38%) Freshdesk
8 7 (4.38%) Google
9 6 (3.75%) Palo Alto
9 6 (3.75%) SonicWALL
10 5 (3.13%) Citrix
10 5 (3.13%) Ubiquiti
11 4 (2.50%) CrowdStrike
12 3 (1.88%) Draytek
12 3 (1.88%) F5
12 3 (1.88%) SolarWinds
12 3 (1.88%) Synology