Firewall Job Trends in Basingstoke

Firewall
Hampshire > Basingstoke

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Basingstoke requiring Firewall skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 18 20
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 +5
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 25 52 29
As % of all permanent jobs in Basingstoke 7.69% 8.41% 9.60%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 27.17% 32.91% 33.72%
Number of salaries quoted 23 49 24
10th Percentile £50,050 - £31,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,000 £45,950
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% +15.34% -29.31%
75th Percentile £62,000 £54,500 £61,900
90th Percentile £79,200 £59,000 £70,250
Hampshire median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year - +31.25% -12.57%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Basingstoke

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 Basingstoke.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 92 158 86
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Basingstoke 28.31% 25.57% 28.48%
Number of salaries quoted 86 132 64
10th Percentile £48,625 £46,250 £28,950
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,500 £32,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% +5.77% +15.56%
75th Percentile £72,313 £62,000 £62,813
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,625 £72,850
Hampshire median annual salary £51,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.36% +10.00% +5.26%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Basingstoke

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

Firewall job vacancy trend in Basingstoke

Firewall
Salary Trend in Basingstoke

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing Firewall.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing Firewall

Firewall
Salary Histogram in Basingstoke

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Basingstoke over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Firewall in Basingstoke

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Basingstoke 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:

Applications
1 2 (8.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.00%) Azure
1 1 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (60.00%) VPN
2 13 (52.00%) LAN
2 13 (52.00%) WAN
3 11 (44.00%) Cisco ISE
4 9 (36.00%) Cisco Firepower
4 9 (36.00%) Cisco IOS
4 9 (36.00%) Junos
4 9 (36.00%) NX-OS
5 8 (32.00%) Network Security
6 6 (24.00%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (8.00%) BGP
7 2 (8.00%) IPv4
7 2 (8.00%) IPv6
7 2 (8.00%) OSPF
7 2 (8.00%) TCP/IP
7 2 (8.00%) VLAN
7 2 (8.00%) WLAN
8 1 (4.00%) DNS
8 1 (4.00%) EIGRP
8 1 (4.00%) IPsec
General
1 2 (8.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (8.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 17 (68.00%) Network Engineer
2 9 (36.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 6 (24.00%) Design Engineer
3 6 (24.00%) Network Design Engineer
4 5 (20.00%) Architect
4 5 (20.00%) Network Architect
4 5 (20.00%) Senior
4 5 (20.00%) Senior Design Engineer
4 5 (20.00%) Senior Network Design Engineer
4 5 (20.00%) Senior Network Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Network Security Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Network Security Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Security Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Security Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Network Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Server Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Service Desk Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Team Leader
6 1 (4.00%) Windows Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (36.00%) PKI
2 8 (32.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (8.00%) Life Science
3 2 (8.00%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (4.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Windows
1 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) Network Design
2 9 (36.00%) Change Management
2 9 (36.00%) ITSM
3 8 (32.00%) Service Management
4 6 (24.00%) Decision-Making
4 6 (24.00%) Requirements Gathering
5 5 (20.00%) High Availability
5 5 (20.00%) Requirements Management
6 2 (8.00%) Capacity Management
6 2 (8.00%) Customer Service
6 2 (8.00%) ERP
6 2 (8.00%) ITIL
6 2 (8.00%) Mentoring
6 2 (8.00%) Network Management
6 2 (8.00%) Performance Testing
6 2 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (8.00%) Task Automation
6 2 (8.00%) Vulnerability Management
7 1 (4.00%) Collaborative Culture
7 1 (4.00%) Network Segmentation
Qualifications
1 18 (72.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (68.00%) DV Cleared
3 10 (40.00%) SC Cleared
4 7 (28.00%) CCNA
4 7 (28.00%) CCNP
4 7 (28.00%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (24.00%) JNCIS
6 2 (8.00%) JNCIA
7 1 (4.00%) CISSP
7 1 (4.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
System Software
1 9 (36.00%) Firmware
1 9 (36.00%) VMware NSX
2 2 (8.00%) KVM
2 2 (8.00%) RHEV
2 2 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (8.00%) Xen
3 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (36.00%) vCenter Server
2 5 (20.00%) Endace
3 2 (8.00%) Nagios
3 2 (8.00%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 22 (88.00%) Cisco
2 20 (80.00%) Juniper
3 11 (44.00%) SolarWinds
4 9 (36.00%) Broadcom
5 6 (24.00%) F5
6 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
7 2 (8.00%) CheckPoint
7 2 (8.00%) HP
7 2 (8.00%) Sage
7 2 (8.00%) VMware
7 2 (8.00%) Zscaler
8 1 (4.00%) Citrix
8 1 (4.00%) Palo Alto