Firewall Jobs in Oxfordshire

Firewall
South East > Oxfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire with a requirement for Firewall skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Firewall over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 63 52
Rank change year-on-year +32 -11 +6
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 93 64 74
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 5.58% 4.15% 4.66%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 40.09% 32.16% 32.46%
Number of salaries quoted 90 63 68
10th Percentile £31,000 - £29,975
25th Percentile £41,000 £30,750 £36,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £37,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.86% -24.49% +8.89%
75th Percentile £54,375 £48,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £62,500 £58,750 £76,125
South East median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% -8.16% +3.16%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Oxfordshire

Firewall is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 232 199 228
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 13.91% 12.90% 14.35%
Number of salaries quoted 200 157 167
10th Percentile £29,175 £22,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,063 £30,750 £35,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £40,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -23.81% +9.38%
75th Percentile £55,269 £48,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £59,250 £95,000
South East median annual salary £47,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% -1.04%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Oxfordshire

Firewall
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Salary trend for Firewall in Oxfordshire

Firewall
Salary Histogram in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Firewall in Oxfordshire

Firewall
Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. 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
Oxford +9 42 £47,500 -13.64% 2
Witney -4 21 £42,000 +8.39% 5
Eynsham - 5 £42,000 -
Bicester - 4 £31,500 - 1
Abingdon +53 3 £50,000 +17.65%
Banbury - 3 £65,000 -
Kidlington - 1 £49,881 - 1
Wallingford - 1 £27,000 -
Firewall
South East

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 26 (27.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (18.28%) SharePoint
3 13 (13.98%) nginx
4 12 (12.90%) Apache
4 12 (12.90%) CMS
4 12 (12.90%) WordPress
5 3 (3.23%) IIS
Applications
1 23 (24.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (20.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 54 (58.06%) Microsoft 365
2 24 (25.81%) AWS
2 24 (25.81%) Azure
3 17 (18.28%) OneDrive
4 11 (11.83%) Entra ID
5 5 (5.38%) Azure Storage
6 4 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.30%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (3.23%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.15%) AWS Direct Connect
8 2 (2.15%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (2.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.08%) GCP
9 1 (1.08%) Google Workspace
9 1 (1.08%) Rubrik
9 1 (1.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (32.26%) DNS
2 20 (21.51%) Wi-Fi
3 17 (18.28%) SSL
4 15 (16.13%) DHCP
5 12 (12.90%) VPN
6 11 (11.83%) TCP/IP
7 8 (8.60%) VLAN
7 8 (8.60%) WAN
8 7 (7.53%) SAN
8 7 (7.53%) Wireless
9 6 (6.45%) NAS
9 6 (6.45%) SD-WAN
10 4 (4.30%) LAN
11 3 (3.23%) BGP
11 3 (3.23%) Intranet
11 3 (3.23%) OSPF
12 2 (2.15%) MPLS
12 2 (2.15%) VoIP
12 2 (2.15%) VXLAN
12 2 (2.15%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (41.94%) SQL Server
2 13 (13.98%) MySQL
3 3 (3.23%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (3.23%) JIRA
General
1 43 (46.24%) Social Skills
2 20 (21.51%) Documentation Skills
3 15 (16.13%) Law
4 13 (13.98%) Marketing
5 8 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (5.38%) Games
6 5 (5.38%) Retail
7 4 (4.30%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (3.23%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.15%) Electronics
9 2 (2.15%) Finance
10 1 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 50 (53.76%) IT Support
2 49 (52.69%) Support Engineer
3 47 (50.54%) IT Engineer
3 47 (50.54%) IT Support Engineer
4 40 (43.01%) 3rd Line Support
5 39 (41.94%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 39 (41.94%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 12 (12.90%) Web Manager
7 11 (11.83%) 2nd Line Support
8 10 (10.75%) Developer
9 8 (8.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (7.53%) Network Engineer
10 7 (7.53%) Senior
10 7 (7.53%) Web Developer
11 6 (6.45%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 6 (6.45%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 6 (6.45%) Development Manager
11 6 (6.45%) Lead
12 5 (5.38%) Infrastructure Support
12 5 (5.38%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.23%) .NET
1 3 (3.23%) AngularJS
1 3 (3.23%) ASP.NET
1 3 (3.23%) ASP.NET MVC
1 3 (3.23%) CSS
1 3 (3.23%) HTML
1 3 (3.23%) jQuery
1 3 (3.23%) React
1 3 (3.23%) REST
1 3 (3.23%) Tailwind CSS
1 3 (3.23%) Twitter Bootstrap
1 3 (3.23%) Vue
1 3 (3.23%) WPF
2 2 (2.15%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.08%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 17 (18.28%) Replication
2 9 (9.68%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (4.30%) Driving Licence
4 3 (3.23%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.23%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (2.15%) Fibre Optics
5 2 (2.15%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.15%) Molecular Biology
5 2 (2.15%) PKI
6 1 (1.08%) CCTV
6 1 (1.08%) Handset
6 1 (1.08%) Mobile Computing
Operating Systems
1 69 (74.19%) Windows
2 26 (27.96%) Windows Server
3 15 (16.13%) Linux
4 5 (5.38%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (4.30%) Android
5 4 (4.30%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (3.23%) Apple iOS
6 3 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.08%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.08%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.08%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.08%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (1.08%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (24.73%) Cybersecurity
3 17 (18.28%) Change Control
3 17 (18.28%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 15 (16.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 15 (16.13%) Web Development
5 14 (15.05%) Collaborative Working
6 12 (12.90%) Content Management
6 12 (12.90%) Malware Detection/Protection
6 12 (12.90%) Marketing Strategy
7 9 (9.68%) ITIL
8 7 (7.53%) IT Strategy
9 6 (6.45%) DevOps
9 6 (6.45%) Information Security
9 6 (6.45%) Mentoring
10 5 (5.38%) Customer Service
10 5 (5.38%) Network Monitoring
10 5 (5.38%) User Experience
11 4 (4.30%) Network Management
11 4 (4.30%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 41 (44.09%) SQL
2 12 (12.90%) PHP
3 3 (3.23%) C#
3 3 (3.23%) XAML
4 2 (2.15%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 25 (26.88%) Degree
2 11 (11.83%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (7.53%) CCNA
4 6 (6.45%) MCSE
4 6 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (5.38%) MCP
6 4 (4.30%) CCNP
7 2 (2.15%) CCIE
8 1 (1.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.45%) SLA
2 2 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.15%) QA
System Software
1 54 (58.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 39 (41.94%) Active Directory
3 10 (10.75%) Hyper-V
4 5 (5.38%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.08%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (10.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (4.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.08%) Grafana
3 1 (1.08%) Icinga
3 1 (1.08%) PaperCut
3 1 (1.08%) SCCM
3 1 (1.08%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 57 (61.29%) VMware
2 55 (59.14%) Microsoft
3 38 (40.86%) Veeam
4 35 (37.63%) Citrix
5 9 (9.68%) Cisco
6 6 (6.45%) Sophos
6 6 (6.45%) WatchGuard
7 5 (5.38%) Datto
8 4 (4.30%) Aruba
9 3 (3.23%) CheckPoint
9 3 (3.23%) Commvault
9 3 (3.23%) Fortinet
9 3 (3.23%) Meraki
9 3 (3.23%) Red Hat
9 3 (3.23%) SolarWinds
10 2 (2.15%) HP
10 2 (2.15%) Snow
11 1 (1.08%) CrowdStrike
11 1 (1.08%) Nimble Storage
11 1 (1.08%) Palo Alto