Firewall Jobs in Basingstoke

Firewall
Hampshire > Basingstoke

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Basingstoke 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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 24 19
Rank change year-on-year +12 -5 +51
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 74 34 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Basingstoke 17.29% 6.07% 10.83%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 39.36% 25.37% 31.93%
Number of salaries quoted 69 33 16
10th Percentile - £31,050 £28,350
25th Percentile £46,250 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £50,000 £49,750
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% +0.50% -11.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £55,625
90th Percentile £59,000 - £57,500
Hampshire median annual salary £53,000 £40,000 £46,000
% change year-on-year +32.50% -13.04% +2.22%

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 188 134 119
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Basingstoke 43.93% 23.93% 33.90%
Number of salaries quoted 166 113 65
10th Percentile £46,250 £31,050 -
25th Percentile £51,500 £46,500 £23,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% +27.50% -21.95%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £52,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £71,000 £67,550
Hampshire median annual salary £55,000 £48,750 £45,000
% change year-on-year +12.82% +8.33% -5.26%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Basingstoke

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Basingstoke

Firewall
Salary Trend in Basingstoke

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

Salary trend for Firewall in Basingstoke

Firewall
Salary Histogram in Basingstoke

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Basingstoke over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Firewall in Basingstoke

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Basingstoke 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 9 (12.16%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (9.46%) Azure
1 7 (9.46%) GCP
2 6 (8.11%) AWS
2 6 (8.11%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 52 (70.27%) Network Security
2 49 (66.22%) BGP
2 49 (66.22%) OSPF
3 48 (64.86%) EIGRP
4 8 (10.81%) DHCP
4 8 (10.81%) DNS
4 8 (10.81%) SMTP
5 6 (8.11%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (8.11%) DMVPN
5 6 (8.11%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (4.05%) VPN
7 2 (2.70%) GPON
7 2 (2.70%) WAN
8 1 (1.35%) Cisco Firepower
8 1 (1.35%) DWDM
8 1 (1.35%) Ethernet
8 1 (1.35%) LAN
8 1 (1.35%) MPLS
8 1 (1.35%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.11%) Amazon RDS
General
1 6 (8.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (6.76%) Social Skills
3 4 (5.41%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 42 (56.76%) Network Engineer
2 26 (35.14%) Network Security Engineer
2 26 (35.14%) Security Engineer
3 14 (18.92%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 14 (18.92%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
4 13 (17.57%) Analyst
5 11 (14.86%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 11 (14.86%) Senior
5 11 (14.86%) Senior Analyst
5 11 (14.86%) Senior Test Analyst
5 11 (14.86%) Test Analyst
6 10 (13.51%) Support Engineer
7 8 (10.81%) Designer
7 8 (10.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (10.81%) Network Designer
8 7 (9.46%) Infrastructure Support
8 7 (9.46%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 4 (5.41%) Cisco Engineer
9 4 (5.41%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 4 (5.41%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.81%) Clustering
1 8 (10.81%) PKI
2 6 (8.11%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.35%) Client/Server
3 1 (1.35%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (16.22%) Windows
2 9 (12.16%) Windows Server
3 7 (9.46%) Linux
4 3 (4.05%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (16.22%) Agile
2 11 (14.86%) Manual Testing
2 11 (14.86%) Test Automation
2 11 (14.86%) V-Model
2 11 (14.86%) Waterfall
3 8 (10.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (10.81%) Network Design
4 6 (8.11%) Application Virtualisation
4 6 (8.11%) Boundary Protection
4 6 (8.11%) Disk Encryption
4 6 (8.11%) High Availability
4 6 (8.11%) Incident Management
4 6 (8.11%) RBAC
4 6 (8.11%) Task Automation
5 3 (4.05%) Customer Service
6 2 (2.70%) Information Security
6 2 (2.70%) ITIL
6 2 (2.70%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (2.70%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (2.70%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 8 (10.81%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 69 (93.24%) Security Cleared
2 60 (81.08%) SC Cleared
3 57 (77.03%) DV Cleared
4 11 (14.86%) ISTQB
5 10 (13.51%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (5.41%) CCNA
7 3 (4.05%) CCNP
8 2 (2.70%) CCDA
8 2 (2.70%) MCSD
8 2 (2.70%) MCSE
8 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.35%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.70%) ISO 9001
1 2 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (2.70%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (12.16%) Active Directory
1 9 (12.16%) VMware ESXi
2 8 (10.81%) BitLocker
2 8 (10.81%) Hyper-V
2 8 (10.81%) Microsoft App-V
2 8 (10.81%) Terminal Services
2 8 (10.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (9.46%) vSphere
4 6 (8.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (27.03%) FortiGate
2 8 (10.81%) vCenter Server
2 8 (10.81%) vMotion
3 6 (8.11%) Ansible
3 6 (8.11%) Kubernetes
3 6 (8.11%) Nagios
3 6 (8.11%) Puppet
4 1 (1.35%) WSUS
Vendors
1 53 (71.62%) Cisco
2 48 (64.86%) Fortinet
3 21 (28.38%) Juniper
4 11 (14.86%) Microsoft
5 9 (12.16%) Citrix
5 9 (12.16%) VMware
6 7 (9.46%) Google
6 7 (9.46%) HP
7 6 (8.11%) Symantec
8 1 (1.35%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.35%) Dell
8 1 (1.35%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.35%) Veeam