Firewall Jobs in Hertfordshire

Firewall
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Firewall skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Firewall over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 31 68
Rank change year-on-year -4 +37 +14
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 54 103 58
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 6.51% 4.98% 3.35%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 21.86% 27.47% 14.29%
Number of salaries quoted 39 100 41
10th Percentile £41,274 £26,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £39,750 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +37.78% +5.88% -17.07%
75th Percentile £70,000 £50,000 £51,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £52,625 £55,750
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £41,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +20.48% -2.35% -19.05%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 247 375 406
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 29.76% 18.13% 23.45%
Number of salaries quoted 85 298 144
10th Percentile £31,750 £24,250 £23,000
25th Percentile £41,280 £26,250 £29,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% +12.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £57,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £73,250 £69,875 £62,500
East of England median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +5.88% - -15.00%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Job postings citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Hertfordshire

Firewall
Salary Trend in Hertfordshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Firewall in Hertfordshire.

Salary trend for Firewall in Hertfordshire

Firewall
Salary Histogram in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Firewall in Hertfordshire

Firewall
Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 30 May 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
Hemel Hempstead +20 14 £62,000 +24.00% 32
Borehamwood +5 10 £43,250 +8.13% 5
Stevenage -4 5 £42,085 -11.40% 28
Hertford +12 4 £73,750 +173.15% 1
St Albans +16 3 £55,000 +29.41% 2
Watford +1 3 £43,000 -18.10% 34
Hitchin +10 1 £45,000 +12.50% 5
Letchworth +8 1 £40,000 - 2
Firewall
East of England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (27.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (5.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 25 (46.30%) Azure
2 19 (35.19%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (25.93%) Entra ID
4 11 (20.37%) Azure Logic Apps
4 11 (20.37%) Power Platform
4 11 (20.37%) PowerApps
5 5 (9.26%) AWS
6 3 (5.56%) IaaS
7 2 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (3.70%) Google Workspace
7 2 (3.70%) Mimecast
7 2 (3.70%) PaaS
8 1 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.85%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.85%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.85%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 18 (33.33%) VPN
2 16 (29.63%) WAN
3 15 (27.78%) LAN
4 14 (25.93%) TCP/IP
5 12 (22.22%) FTP
5 12 (22.22%) HTTP
5 12 (22.22%) SMTP
6 10 (18.52%) Internet
7 9 (16.67%) Network Security
8 5 (9.26%) DNS
9 4 (7.41%) DHCP
9 4 (7.41%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (3.70%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (1.85%) Remote Desktop
11 1 (1.85%) SAN
11 1 (1.85%) SD-WAN
11 1 (1.85%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 8 (14.81%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.85%) MariaDB
3 1 (1.85%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (3.70%) JIRA
2 1 (1.85%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.85%) Git
2 1 (1.85%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.85%) Subversion
General
1 7 (12.96%) Social Skills
2 5 (9.26%) Aerospace
3 4 (7.41%) Local Government
4 3 (5.56%) Retail
5 2 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.70%) Legal
6 1 (1.85%) Back Office
6 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Finance
6 1 (1.85%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 13 (24.07%) Analyst
1 13 (24.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
2 9 (16.67%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 9 (16.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (16.67%) Lead
2 9 (16.67%) Senior
2 9 (16.67%) Technical Support
3 8 (14.81%) Technical Analyst
4 7 (12.96%) 1st Line Support
4 7 (12.96%) 1st Line Support Analyst
4 7 (12.96%) 1st Line Technical Support
4 7 (12.96%) Support Analyst
4 7 (12.96%) Technical Support Analyst
5 5 (9.26%) Administrator
5 5 (9.26%) Systems Administrator
6 4 (7.41%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 4 (7.41%) Security Engineer
6 4 (7.41%) Senior Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (27.78%) LDAP
2 1 (1.85%) ServiceStack
Miscellaneous
1 13 (24.07%) Security Operations Centre
2 12 (22.22%) Client/Server
3 8 (14.81%) Data Centre
4 3 (5.56%) Cyber Defence
4 3 (5.56%) MISP
5 1 (1.85%) Clustering
5 1 (1.85%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.85%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 33 (61.11%) Windows
2 26 (48.15%) Windows Server
3 9 (16.67%) Mac OS
4 8 (14.81%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (12.96%) Linux
6 2 (3.70%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.85%) Unix
7 1 (1.85%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (24.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 13 (24.07%) Security Operations
1 13 (24.07%) SIEM
2 12 (22.22%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 10 (18.52%) Customer Service
3 10 (18.52%) Malware Analysis
3 10 (18.52%) Reverse Engineering
4 9 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 9 (16.67%) Cost Management
4 9 (16.67%) Incident Response
4 9 (16.67%) People Management
4 9 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
4 9 (16.67%) Use Case
5 8 (14.81%) ITIL
5 8 (14.81%) Line Management
5 8 (14.81%) Server Management
6 7 (12.96%) Blue Team
6 7 (12.96%) Cybersecurity
6 7 (12.96%) Preventative Maintenance
7 6 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 15 (27.78%) PowerShell
2 12 (22.22%) Python
3 11 (20.37%) Bash
4 6 (11.11%) C++
4 6 (11.11%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 10 (18.52%) DV Cleared
2 10 (18.52%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (14.81%) SC Cleared
4 5 (9.26%) CREST Certified
5 4 (7.41%) CEH
5 4 (7.41%) CISM
5 4 (7.41%) CISSP
5 4 (7.41%) Degree
5 4 (7.41%) GIAC
5 4 (7.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.85%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.85%) CCNA
6 1 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.85%) GCIA
6 1 (1.85%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.26%) Cyber Essentials
1 5 (9.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (7.41%) NCSC
2 4 (7.41%) NIST
2 4 (7.41%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.85%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (40.74%) Active Directory
2 8 (14.81%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (7.41%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.70%) Docker
5 1 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (24.07%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (20.37%) QRadar
3 4 (7.41%) FortiGate
3 4 (7.41%) Jamf Pro
3 4 (7.41%) Nessus
4 2 (3.70%) SCCM
5 1 (1.85%) Ansible
5 1 (1.85%) Autotask
5 1 (1.85%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 1 (1.85%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (1.85%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.85%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 42 (77.78%) Microsoft
2 13 (24.07%) Splunk
3 4 (7.41%) Qualys
3 4 (7.41%) Tenable
4 2 (3.70%) Google
4 2 (3.70%) Okta
4 2 (3.70%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.85%) Barracuda Networks
5 1 (1.85%) Cisco
5 1 (1.85%) Commvault
5 1 (1.85%) LogRhythm
5 1 (1.85%) Nimble Storage
5 1 (1.85%) Sophos
5 1 (1.85%) VMware
5 1 (1.85%) WatchGuard
5 1 (1.85%) Zerto