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

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 44 23
Rank change year-on-year -26 -21 +70
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 110 191 152
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 3.11% 4.55% 7.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.41% 27.60% 39.79%
Number of salaries quoted 79 128 121
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,600 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £30,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,213 £42,500 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.68% -12.37% +7.78%
75th Percentile £67,500 £59,375 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,875 £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 632 692 382
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 17.89% 16.47% 18.13%
Number of salaries quoted 309 345 271
10th Percentile £26,850 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,000 £75,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £40,000 £53,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year -24.53% +2.91% -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 14 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 14 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 +7 70 £53,000 +7.61% 29
Cambridgeshire -2 14 £50,000 +51.52% 15
Essex -12 13 £26,500 -43.92% 9
Suffolk -29 7 £40,000 -46.67% 3
Bedfordshire +13 4 £47,500 -5.00% 4
Norfolk -21 2 £40,000 +25.00% 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 31 (28.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (4.55%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 80 (72.73%) Azure
2 75 (68.18%) Microsoft 365
3 45 (40.91%) Entra ID
4 11 (10.00%) Power Platform
5 10 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
5 10 (9.09%) PowerApps
6 9 (8.18%) IaaS
7 6 (5.45%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (5.45%) OneDrive
7 6 (5.45%) PaaS
7 6 (5.45%) Power Automate
8 4 (3.64%) AWS
8 4 (3.64%) Google Workspace
8 4 (3.64%) SaaS
9 3 (2.73%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (2.73%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (0.91%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 35 (31.82%) VPN
2 29 (26.36%) DNS
3 26 (23.64%) WAN
4 23 (20.91%) DHCP
5 20 (18.18%) TCP/IP
6 19 (17.27%) LAN
7 11 (10.00%) Network Security
7 11 (10.00%) SAN
8 10 (9.09%) VLAN
8 10 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (6.36%) IP Telephony
10 6 (5.45%) SMTP
11 5 (4.55%) IPsec
11 5 (4.55%) SD-WAN
12 4 (3.64%) FTP
12 4 (3.64%) HTTP
12 4 (3.64%) Internet
12 4 (3.64%) OSPF
12 4 (3.64%) SSL
12 4 (3.64%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.45%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.73%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.91%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (6.36%) JIRA
2 1 (0.91%) GitLab
2 1 (0.91%) Visual Studio
General
1 39 (35.45%) Social Skills
2 10 (9.09%) Legal
3 6 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.55%) Retail
5 3 (2.73%) Finance
6 2 (1.82%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (1.82%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.82%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.91%) Law
Job Titles
1 29 (26.36%) Analyst
2 27 (24.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 23 (20.91%) IT Support
4 19 (17.27%) IT Engineer
5 18 (16.36%) 1st Line Support
6 17 (15.45%) Senior
6 17 (15.45%) Technical Support
7 16 (14.55%) 1st Line Support Analyst
7 16 (14.55%) Support Analyst
8 15 (13.64%) Network Engineer
9 14 (12.73%) Support Engineer
10 13 (11.82%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 12 (10.91%) 1st Line Technical Support
11 12 (10.91%) IT Analyst
12 11 (10.00%) Technical Analyst
13 10 (9.09%) Administrator
13 10 (9.09%) Technical Support Analyst
14 9 (8.18%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
14 9 (8.18%) IT Support Engineer
15 8 (7.27%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.45%) LDAP
2 1 (0.91%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.91%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 8 (7.27%) Driving Licence
3 6 (5.45%) Management Information System
4 5 (4.55%) Security Operations Centre
5 4 (3.64%) Client/Server
5 4 (3.64%) Clustering
5 4 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.73%) iPad
6 3 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.82%) Biopharmaceutical
7 2 (1.82%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.82%) MISP
7 2 (1.82%) PKI
7 2 (1.82%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.91%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.91%) Smartcard
8 1 (0.91%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 88 (80.00%) Windows
2 72 (65.45%) Windows Server
3 22 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 20 (18.18%) Mac OS
5 10 (9.09%) Android
6 8 (7.27%) Linux
7 7 (6.36%) Windows 10
8 6 (5.45%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (4.55%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.91%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.91%) Windows 2000
10 1 (0.91%) Windows 8
10 1 (0.91%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (29.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 27 (24.55%) Customer Service
3 22 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 20 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (14.55%) Preventative Maintenance
6 15 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
6 15 (13.64%) ITIL
7 12 (10.91%) Server Management
8 11 (10.00%) Incident Response
9 10 (9.09%) Service Delivery
10 9 (8.18%) ITSM
10 9 (8.18%) Roadmaps
10 9 (8.18%) SIEM
11 8 (7.27%) Technology Roadmap
12 7 (6.36%) Information Security
12 7 (6.36%) Mentoring
12 7 (6.36%) Proactive Monitoring
13 6 (5.45%) Network Monitoring
13 6 (5.45%) Task Automation
13 6 (5.45%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (25.45%) PowerShell
2 4 (3.64%) Python
3 2 (1.82%) Bash
4 1 (0.91%) Bicep
4 1 (0.91%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (22.73%) Cisco Certification
2 23 (20.91%) Microsoft Certification
3 21 (19.09%) CCNA
4 16 (14.55%) Security Cleared
5 9 (8.18%) Azure Certification
5 9 (8.18%) DBS Check
5 9 (8.18%) SC Cleared
6 7 (6.36%) CCNP
7 6 (5.45%) CompTIA Security+
7 6 (5.45%) Degree
7 6 (5.45%) DV Cleared
8 4 (3.64%) CEH
8 4 (3.64%) CISM
9 3 (2.73%) CISSP
9 3 (2.73%) MCDST
9 3 (2.73%) MCSE
10 2 (1.82%) GSEC
10 2 (1.82%) MCP
10 2 (1.82%) MCSA
10 2 (1.82%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.55%) GDPR
1 5 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (4.55%) PCI DSS
2 4 (3.64%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (3.64%) NIST
3 2 (1.82%) GxP
3 2 (1.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 74 (67.27%) Active Directory
2 21 (19.09%) Virtual Desktop
3 13 (11.82%) Hyper-V
4 11 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (2.73%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.91%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 46 (41.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (10.91%) SCCM
3 5 (4.55%) FortiGate
4 4 (3.64%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (2.73%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (1.82%) Ansible
6 2 (1.82%) Nagios
6 2 (1.82%) QRadar
7 1 (0.91%) CSIRT
7 1 (0.91%) Endace
7 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (0.91%) Nessus
7 1 (0.91%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.91%) Puppet
7 1 (0.91%) WhatsUp Gold
7 1 (0.91%) WMI
7 1 (0.91%) WSUS
Vendors
1 93 (84.55%) Microsoft
2 25 (22.73%) Cisco
3 23 (20.91%) VMware
4 11 (10.00%) ServiceNow
5 8 (7.27%) Fortinet
5 8 (7.27%) Palo Alto
6 6 (5.45%) Apple
7 5 (4.55%) Juniper
7 5 (4.55%) Remedy
8 4 (3.64%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (3.64%) Dell
8 4 (3.64%) Google
8 4 (3.64%) Okta
8 4 (3.64%) Splunk
9 3 (2.73%) Nimble Storage
9 3 (2.73%) Veeam
10 2 (1.82%) Blue Coat
10 2 (1.82%) F5
10 2 (1.82%) Meraki
10 2 (1.82%) SolarWinds