Firewall Job Trends in Abingdon

Firewall
Oxfordshire > Abingdon

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Abingdon requiring Firewall skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 - 20
Rank change year-on-year - - +52
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 3 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Abingdon 1.65% - 2.42%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.71% - 21.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £45,200
25th Percentile £41,250 - £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 - £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.65%
75th Percentile £43,750 - £55,000
90th Percentile - - -
Oxfordshire median annual salary £34,000 £43,750 £42,500
% change year-on-year -22.29% +2.94% +14.86%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Abingdon

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 Abingdon.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 28 1 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Abingdon 15.38% 6.67% 11.29%
Number of salaries quoted 14 1 13
10th Percentile £14,000 - £31,250
25th Percentile £19,563 £28,250 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £29,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +52.54% -26.25% +30.17%
75th Percentile - £30,750 £53,750
90th Percentile - - £54,750
Oxfordshire median annual salary £35,000 £40,000 £42,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% -4.76% +6.33%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Abingdon

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Firewall relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Abingdon.

Firewall job vacancy trend in Abingdon

Firewall
Salary Trend in Abingdon

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Abingdon citing Firewall.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Abingdon citing Firewall

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Abingdon 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (33.33%) IaaS
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (33.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DHCP
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) VLAN
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (66.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Life Science
1 2 (66.67%) Private Cloud
1 2 (66.67%) Public Cloud
1 2 (66.67%) Renewable Energy
1 2 (66.67%) Self-Motivation
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (100.00%) Task Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Backlog Refinement
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 2 (66.67%) Data Encryption
2 2 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) GitOps
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Kalman Filter
2 2 (66.67%) Kanban
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Secrets Management
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Sprint Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Sprint Retrospective
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) Bash
2 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (33.33%) MCSE
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
1 2 (66.67%) SOC 2
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (33.33%) GDPR
2 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 2 (66.67%) Hyper-V
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Grafana
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft