Firewall Jobs in Suffolk

Firewall
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Suffolk 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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 20 27
Rank change year-on-year -29 +7 +5
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 14 27 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Suffolk 2.92% 5.50% 4.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 41.18% 25.71% 18.33%
Number of salaries quoted 8 23 11
10th Percentile £37,425 - -
25th Percentile £41,438 £27,000 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -45.16% +96.20%
75th Percentile £50,000 £69,375 £80,625
90th Percentile £55,625 £75,000 £85,000
East of England median annual salary £47,500 £41,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +14.46% -2.35% -15.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 34 105 60
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Suffolk 7.08% 21.38% 22.64%
Number of salaries quoted 23 63 28
10th Percentile £31,250 £25,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £26,250 £29,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £35,000 £42,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -16.67% -16.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £78,750
90th Percentile - £75,000 £88,000
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 Suffolk

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Suffolk

Firewall
Salary Trend in Suffolk

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

Salary trend for Firewall in Suffolk

Firewall
Salary Histogram in Suffolk

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Suffolk over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Firewall in Suffolk

Firewall
Job Locations in Suffolk

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Suffolk region over the 6 months to 9 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
Ipswich -4 12 £45,000 -28.00% 8
Bury St Edmunds +9 1 £67,500 +28.57%
Firewall
East of England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Suffolk 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 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (71.43%) Azure
2 7 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (35.71%) AWS
4 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (35.71%) LAN
3 4 (28.57%) TCP/IP
3 4 (28.57%) VPN
3 4 (28.57%) WAN
4 3 (21.43%) BGP
5 2 (14.29%) DNS
5 2 (14.29%) VLAN
6 1 (7.14%) DHCP
6 1 (7.14%) Internet
6 1 (7.14%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Big Data
General
1 10 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Law
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Analyst
1 6 (42.86%) Support Analyst
2 4 (28.57%) IT Support
3 3 (21.43%) 1st Line Support
3 3 (21.43%) 1st Line Support Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) 2nd Line Support
3 3 (21.43%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) IT Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) IT Support Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Network Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Security Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Support Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) 3rd Line Support
5 1 (7.14%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) IT Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (7.14%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Cloud Security Posture
1 2 (14.29%) Security Posture
2 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
1 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
2 1 (7.14%) CentOS
2 1 (7.14%) Debian
2 1 (7.14%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Ubuntu
2 1 (7.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Service Delivery
2 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (28.57%) Customer Service
3 4 (28.57%) Mentoring
4 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
4 3 (21.43%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (21.43%) DevOps
4 3 (21.43%) IT Strategy
4 3 (21.43%) Network Management
4 3 (21.43%) Network Monitoring
4 3 (21.43%) Remote Monitoring and Management
4 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (14.29%) Data Engineering
5 2 (14.29%) Roadmaps
5 2 (14.29%) Security Monitoring
5 2 (14.29%) Security Operations
5 2 (14.29%) Technology Roadmap
5 2 (14.29%) Time Management
5 2 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.14%) Bash
2 1 (7.14%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 2 (14.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (7.14%) MCITP
3 1 (7.14%) MCSA
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.14%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) Firmware
2 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Ansible
1 1 (7.14%) Grafana
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
1 1 (7.14%) Proxmox
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) Cisco
2 3 (21.43%) Citrix
2 3 (21.43%) Fortinet
3 1 (7.14%) Mitel