Firewall Jobs in Berkshire

Firewall
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 40 77
Rank change year-on-year -39 +37 +17
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 46 171 116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.88% 5.41% 3.79%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.57% 34.20% 26.91%
Number of salaries quoted 38 147 66
10th Percentile £34,000 £33,700 £34,750
25th Percentile £37,250 £37,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £67,188 £59,000 £74,250
90th Percentile £83,925 £70,000 £80,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -5.26%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 161 500 431
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 10.07% 15.83% 14.07%
Number of salaries quoted 122 362 184
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,865 £24,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,063 £34,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £79,875 £73,625 £79,625
South East median annual salary £46,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.16% +5.56% -5.26%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Berkshire

Firewall
Salary Trend in Berkshire

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

Salary trend for Firewall in Berkshire

Firewall
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Berkshire over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Firewall in Berkshire

Firewall
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 28 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
Reading -10 18 £42,500 -27.97% 48
Bracknell +28 8 £52,500 +27.27% 9
Wokingham +5 4 £77,500 +93.75% 2
Windsor - 3 £33,500 - 2
Slough -45 1 £57,500 +59.72% 134
Maidenhead - 1 £37,500 - 5
Firewall
South East

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (19.57%) SharePoint
2 8 (17.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (15.22%) IIS
4 5 (10.87%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (8.70%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 14 (30.43%) AWS
1 14 (30.43%) Azure
2 9 (19.57%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (10.87%) Amazon S3
3 5 (10.87%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (10.87%) Serverless
3 5 (10.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 4 (8.70%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (8.70%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 4 (8.70%) AWS KMS
5 3 (6.52%) Entra ID
6 2 (4.35%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.17%) Azure AI
7 1 (2.17%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.17%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.17%) IaaS
7 1 (2.17%) PaaS
7 1 (2.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (52.17%) DNS
2 20 (43.48%) VPN
3 16 (34.78%) DHCP
4 10 (21.74%) Network Security
5 9 (19.57%) WAN
6 8 (17.39%) LAN
6 8 (17.39%) TCP/IP
6 8 (17.39%) VLAN
7 5 (10.87%) BGP
7 5 (10.87%) Intrusion Detection
7 5 (10.87%) OSPF
7 5 (10.87%) Remote Desktop
8 4 (8.70%) Cisco ASA
8 4 (8.70%) Cisco Firepower
8 4 (8.70%) Cisco ISE
8 4 (8.70%) Cisco Nexus
8 4 (8.70%) HSRP
8 4 (8.70%) Internet
8 4 (8.70%) IPsec
8 4 (8.70%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (21.74%) SQL Server
2 5 (10.87%) Relational Database
3 4 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.17%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.17%) MySQL
4 1 (2.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (8.70%) Bitbucket Server
1 4 (8.70%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.17%) Git
General
1 15 (32.61%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.87%) Back Office
2 5 (10.87%) Local Government
2 5 (10.87%) Public Sector
3 4 (8.70%) Manufacturing
4 2 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (19.57%) Analyst
2 8 (17.39%) Support Engineer
3 7 (15.22%) Senior
4 6 (13.04%) Infrastructure Manager
4 6 (13.04%) Network Engineer
4 6 (13.04%) Technical Engineer
5 5 (10.87%) Help Desk Engineer
5 5 (10.87%) Help Desk Support
5 5 (10.87%) Help Desk Support Engineer
5 5 (10.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (10.87%) Technical Support
5 5 (10.87%) Technical Support Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) IT Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) IT Support
7 3 (6.52%) Lead
7 3 (6.52%) Senior IT Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Senior IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.70%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.17%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 16 (34.78%) Data Centre
2 8 (17.39%) Onboarding
3 5 (10.87%) Client/Server
3 5 (10.87%) Management Information System
4 4 (8.70%) Operational Technology
4 4 (8.70%) Security Posture
5 3 (6.52%) Driving Licence
6 2 (4.35%) Clustering
6 2 (4.35%) PKI
6 2 (4.35%) Replication
6 2 (4.35%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (2.17%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (2.17%) NHS
7 1 (2.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (54.35%) Windows
1 25 (54.35%) Windows Server
2 8 (17.39%) Mac OS
3 5 (10.87%) Linux
4 4 (8.70%) Ubuntu
4 4 (8.70%) Windows 10
5 3 (6.52%) Android
5 3 (6.52%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (32.61%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (28.26%) Project Delivery
3 11 (23.91%) Cybersecurity
4 10 (21.74%) Analytics
4 10 (21.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 9 (19.57%) Customer Service
6 8 (17.39%) Disaster Recovery
7 7 (15.22%) ITIL
7 7 (15.22%) Service Management
8 6 (13.04%) Capacity Management
8 6 (13.04%) Project Management
8 6 (13.04%) Risk Management
9 5 (10.87%) Business Continuity
9 5 (10.87%) Change Management
9 5 (10.87%) CRM
9 5 (10.87%) DevOps
9 5 (10.87%) High Availability
9 5 (10.87%) Incident Management
9 5 (10.87%) ITSM
9 5 (10.87%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 9 (19.57%) PowerShell
1 9 (19.57%) Python
2 6 (13.04%) SQL
3 4 (8.70%) Shell Script
4 2 (4.35%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (2.17%) Bash
5 1 (2.17%) Bicep
5 1 (2.17%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 12 (26.09%) Security Cleared
2 11 (23.91%) SC Cleared
3 9 (19.57%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (15.22%) Degree
5 6 (13.04%) CCNP
6 4 (8.70%) DBS Check
7 3 (6.52%) Azure Certification
7 3 (6.52%) CISSP
7 3 (6.52%) MCP
7 3 (6.52%) MCSA
7 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (4.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (4.35%) CCNA
8 2 (4.35%) CCSP
8 2 (4.35%) CISM
9 1 (2.17%) CEH
9 1 (2.17%) CISA
9 1 (2.17%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (2.17%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.87%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (4.35%) SLA
3 1 (2.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 24 (52.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 22 (47.83%) Active Directory
3 17 (36.96%) Hyper-V
4 10 (21.74%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (15.22%) Docker
5 7 (15.22%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (8.70%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (2.17%) Firmware
7 1 (2.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (17.39%) vCenter Server
2 7 (15.22%) Terraform
3 5 (10.87%) Ansible
3 5 (10.87%) ZABBIX
4 4 (8.70%) FortiGate
4 4 (8.70%) Nessus
4 4 (8.70%) Proxmox
5 3 (6.52%) WSUS
6 2 (4.35%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (54.35%) Microsoft
2 24 (52.17%) VMware
3 11 (23.91%) Cisco
4 8 (17.39%) Juniper
5 6 (13.04%) Sophos
6 5 (10.87%) Oracle
6 5 (10.87%) Ubiquiti
7 4 (8.70%) Apple
7 4 (8.70%) F5
7 4 (8.70%) Fortinet
8 3 (6.52%) SonicWALL
9 2 (4.35%) Meraki
10 1 (2.17%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (2.17%) Databricks
10 1 (2.17%) Draytek
10 1 (2.17%) HP