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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 45 43
Rank change year-on-year -17 -2 +46
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 115 167 220
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 2.39% 5.11% 4.87%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.08% 28.89% 26.70%
Number of salaries quoted 75 122 196
10th Percentile £26,500 £25,275 £25,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £30,000 £26,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £44,750 £39,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.91% +13.29% -12.22%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £50,063
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,400 £65,000
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 715 578 824
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 14.86% 17.68% 18.24%
Number of salaries quoted 259 292 645
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,138 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,438 £31,890 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +17.65% -
75th Percentile £58,375 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £72,000
England median annual salary £42,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -23.64% +10.00% -3.05%

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 20 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 20 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 -7 53 £55,000 -10.57% 23
Cambridgeshire -6 25 £67,500 +107.69% 14
Suffolk -1 15 £40,000 -11.11% 5
Bedfordshire +28 8 £27,000 -49.53% 8
Essex -12 8 £49,500 +2.06% 15
Norfolk -23 6 £35,000 +25.00% 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 26 (22.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (9.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (5.22%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (4.35%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (2.61%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 78 (67.83%) Microsoft 365
2 77 (66.96%) Azure
3 39 (33.91%) Entra ID
4 9 (7.83%) AWS
4 9 (7.83%) Azure Logic Apps
5 8 (6.96%) IaaS
5 8 (6.96%) PaaS
6 7 (6.09%) Power Platform
6 7 (6.09%) PowerApps
7 6 (5.22%) OneDrive
7 6 (5.22%) Power Automate
8 4 (3.48%) SaaS
9 2 (1.74%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.87%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.87%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.87%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (0.87%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 40 (34.78%) VPN
2 34 (29.57%) DNS
3 31 (26.96%) LAN
4 28 (24.35%) WAN
5 27 (23.48%) DHCP
6 21 (18.26%) VLAN
7 20 (17.39%) TCP/IP
8 16 (13.91%) Network Security
9 10 (8.70%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (6.96%) WLAN
11 7 (6.09%) Wireless
12 6 (5.22%) OSPF
12 6 (5.22%) SMTP
13 5 (4.35%) DMZ
13 5 (4.35%) EIGRP
13 5 (4.35%) IMAP
13 5 (4.35%) Intrusion Detection
13 5 (4.35%) POP3
13 5 (4.35%) SAN
13 5 (4.35%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.96%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.74%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (4.35%) JIRA
2 1 (0.87%) Visual Studio
General
1 56 (48.70%) Social Skills
2 10 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (6.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (6.09%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (5.22%) Legal
5 6 (5.22%) Telecoms
6 5 (4.35%) Finance
6 5 (4.35%) Retail
7 4 (3.48%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.74%) Law
Job Titles
1 43 (37.39%) IT Support
2 31 (26.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 26 (22.61%) Support Engineer
4 24 (20.87%) Senior
5 23 (20.00%) IT Engineer
6 21 (18.26%) Network Engineer
7 20 (17.39%) IT Support Engineer
8 19 (16.52%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 19 (16.52%) 2nd Line Support
8 19 (16.52%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 14 (12.17%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (10.43%) Administrator
10 12 (10.43%) Analyst
10 12 (10.43%) IT Administrator
11 11 (9.57%) 1st Line Support
11 11 (9.57%) IT Support Specialist
11 11 (9.57%) Support Specialist
12 10 (8.70%) Infrastructure Support
12 10 (8.70%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
13 9 (7.83%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.87%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.96%) Driving Licence
1 8 (6.96%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (6.09%) Data Centre
3 6 (5.22%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (5.22%) Security Posture
4 4 (3.48%) Blog
4 4 (3.48%) Client/Server
4 4 (3.48%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.48%) Cloud Security Posture
4 4 (3.48%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 4 (3.48%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.48%) PKI
5 3 (2.61%) iPad
6 2 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.87%) CCTV
7 1 (0.87%) Clustering
7 1 (0.87%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.87%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 81 (70.43%) Windows
2 64 (55.65%) Windows Server
3 16 (13.91%) Windows Server 2019
4 14 (12.17%) Windows Server 2016
5 13 (11.30%) Windows 10
6 8 (6.96%) Android
7 7 (6.09%) Mac OS
8 5 (4.35%) Apple iOS
9 4 (3.48%) VMS
10 3 (2.61%) Linux
11 1 (0.87%) Windows 2000
11 1 (0.87%) Windows 8
11 1 (0.87%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (33.04%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (28.70%) Cybersecurity
3 32 (27.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 16 (13.91%) Continuous Improvement
5 13 (11.30%) AI
5 13 (11.30%) Mentoring
5 13 (11.30%) Network Monitoring
6 12 (10.43%) ITIL
7 11 (9.57%) Asset Management
8 10 (8.70%) Service Delivery
8 10 (8.70%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (7.83%) Customer Service
9 9 (7.83%) Network Virtualisation
10 8 (6.96%) Network Management
10 8 (6.96%) Roadmaps
11 7 (6.09%) ERP
11 7 (6.09%) Technology Roadmap
12 6 (5.22%) Incident Response
12 6 (5.22%) Preventative Maintenance
12 6 (5.22%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 22 (19.13%) PowerShell
2 2 (1.74%) Python
3 1 (0.87%) Bash
3 1 (0.87%) Bicep
3 1 (0.87%) SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 23 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 20 (17.39%) Microsoft Certification
3 19 (16.52%) CCNA
4 15 (13.04%) CCNP
5 11 (9.57%) Azure Certification
6 10 (8.70%) SC Cleared
7 8 (6.96%) DBS Check
8 7 (6.09%) DV Cleared
9 6 (5.22%) Degree
10 5 (4.35%) Network+ Certification
11 4 (3.48%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (1.74%) CompTIA CySA+
12 2 (1.74%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (1.74%) GSEC
12 2 (1.74%) MCSA
12 2 (1.74%) MCSE
13 1 (0.87%) MCDST
13 1 (0.87%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.35%) GDPR
1 5 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.48%) GRC
2 4 (3.48%) ISO/IEC 42001
2 4 (3.48%) JSP 440
2 4 (3.48%) NCSC
2 4 (3.48%) NIST
2 4 (3.48%) PCI DSS
2 4 (3.48%) SLA
System Software
1 67 (58.26%) Active Directory
2 22 (19.13%) Virtual Desktop
3 17 (14.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (9.57%) Hyper-V
5 5 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (3.48%) vSphere
7 1 (0.87%) Docker
7 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.87%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 32 (27.83%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (4.35%) SCCM
3 4 (3.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 4 (3.48%) FortiGate
3 4 (3.48%) SolarWinds Orion
3 4 (3.48%) vCenter Server
4 2 (1.74%) Nagios
5 1 (0.87%) Ansible
5 1 (0.87%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.87%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.87%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 95 (82.61%) Microsoft
2 29 (25.22%) Cisco
2 29 (25.22%) VMware
3 14 (12.17%) Palo Alto
4 13 (11.30%) Fortinet
5 9 (7.83%) SolarWinds
6 8 (6.96%) CrowdStrike
6 8 (6.96%) ServiceNow
7 5 (4.35%) Apple
7 5 (4.35%) Aruba
7 5 (4.35%) CheckPoint
8 4 (3.48%) Blue Coat
8 4 (3.48%) F5
8 4 (3.48%) Freshdesk
8 4 (3.48%) Juniper
9 3 (2.61%) Citrix
9 3 (2.61%) Remedy
10 2 (1.74%) Darktrace
10 2 (1.74%) Sophos
10 2 (1.74%) Veeam