Firewall Jobs in Berkshire

Firewall
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 79 83
Rank change year-on-year +39 +4 +5
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 169 115 111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 5.48% 3.62% 3.26%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 34.28% 25.50% 20.44%
Number of salaries quoted 149 60 96
10th Percentile £33,100 £35,075 £30,625
25th Percentile £36,000 - £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -20.83%
75th Percentile £59,000 £75,063 £61,563
90th Percentile £69,000 £80,250 £78,125
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
Berkshire

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 Berkshire with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 493 451 543
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 15.99% 14.18% 15.95%
Number of salaries quoted 359 188 356
10th Percentile £28,970 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,500 £32,500 £36,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% -4.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £61,250 £69,063 £68,750
90th Percentile £74,000 £80,000 £78,750
South East median annual salary £47,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% -5.00%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 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
Reading +42 99 £59,000 -11.61% 27
Newbury +5 25 £50,000 +11.11% 1
Slough +41 13 £36,000 +2.86% 1
Bracknell +8 9 £41,250 -16.67%
Ascot - 6 £42,500 -
Wokingham -7 5 £40,000 +12.68% 2
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 38 (22.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (11.24%) IIS
3 17 (10.06%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.96%) Apache
5 4 (2.37%) WordPress
6 2 (1.18%) CMS
7 1 (0.59%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (2.37%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.78%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 78 (46.15%) Azure
2 61 (36.09%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (8.28%) Azure Monitor
3 14 (8.28%) Azure Storage
3 14 (8.28%) Entra ID
4 12 (7.10%) iTunes
4 12 (7.10%) OCI
5 6 (3.55%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (2.96%) Amazon S3
7 4 (2.37%) OneDrive
8 3 (1.78%) AWS
9 1 (0.59%) GCP
9 1 (0.59%) IaaS
9 1 (0.59%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 53 (31.36%) DNS
2 44 (26.04%) DHCP
3 32 (18.93%) Network Security
4 30 (17.75%) VPN
4 30 (17.75%) WAN
5 29 (17.16%) SNMP
6 22 (13.02%) SAN
7 21 (12.43%) SSL
7 21 (12.43%) Wireless
8 19 (11.24%) SD-WAN
9 18 (10.65%) Internet
9 18 (10.65%) OSPF
10 16 (9.47%) IPsec
10 16 (9.47%) LAN
11 14 (8.28%) BGP
12 11 (6.51%) Intrusion Detection
13 9 (5.33%) Intranet
13 9 (5.33%) NAS
14 8 (4.73%) HSRP
14 8 (4.73%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.96%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (2.96%) MongoDB
1 5 (2.96%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.59%) Hadoop
2 1 (0.59%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.59%) Oracle Database 11g
2 1 (0.59%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (0.59%) JIRA
General
1 43 (25.44%) Social Skills
2 11 (6.51%) Finance
3 9 (5.33%) Legal
4 5 (2.96%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.37%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.18%) Retail
7 1 (0.59%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 25 (14.79%) IT Engineer
2 18 (10.65%) Architect
2 18 (10.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 18 (10.65%) Network Engineer
2 18 (10.65%) Systems Engineer
3 17 (10.06%) Support Engineer
4 15 (8.88%) Windows Engineer
4 15 (8.88%) Windows Systems Engineer
5 14 (8.28%) Active Directory Specialist
5 14 (8.28%) Active Directory Support
5 14 (8.28%) Azure Specialist
5 14 (8.28%) Project Engineer
5 14 (8.28%) Solutions Architect
5 14 (8.28%) Support Specialist
6 13 (7.69%) IP Architect
7 12 (7.10%) IT Support
7 12 (7.10%) IT Support Engineer
8 10 (5.92%) 3rd Line Support
8 10 (5.92%) Network Support
8 10 (5.92%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.28%) ARM Templates
2 10 (5.92%) 802.1X
3 5 (2.96%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (2.96%) YAML
4 4 (2.37%) LAMP
4 4 (2.37%) Web Services
5 1 (0.59%) .NET
5 1 (0.59%) LDAP
5 1 (0.59%) REST
5 1 (0.59%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 25 (14.79%) Data Centre
2 19 (11.24%) CMDB
3 18 (10.65%) PKI
4 15 (8.88%) Management Information System
5 14 (8.28%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (5.33%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (4.73%) Driving Licence
8 5 (2.96%) Replication
9 4 (2.37%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 4 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.37%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (2.37%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.78%) Security Posture
11 2 (1.18%) Digital Signage
11 2 (1.18%) IPTV
11 2 (1.18%) Operational Technology
12 1 (0.59%) IoT
12 1 (0.59%) Renewable Energy
12 1 (0.59%) SCADA
12 1 (0.59%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 87 (51.48%) Windows
2 71 (42.01%) Windows Server
3 58 (34.32%) Linux
4 33 (19.53%) Windows Server 2016
5 30 (17.75%) Windows Server 2019
6 28 (16.57%) Windows 10
7 15 (8.88%) Windows Server 2012
8 12 (7.10%) Windows XP
9 5 (2.96%) Data ONTAP
10 4 (2.37%) Ubuntu
10 4 (2.37%) VMS
11 3 (1.78%) Kali Linux
12 2 (1.18%) Android
13 1 (0.59%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (22.49%) ITIL
2 31 (18.34%) Agile
3 29 (17.16%) Project Management
4 28 (16.57%) Cybersecurity
5 25 (14.79%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (11.24%) Configuration Management
6 19 (11.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 19 (11.24%) Release Management
7 17 (10.06%) Mentoring
7 17 (10.06%) Project Planning
7 17 (10.06%) Service Management
7 17 (10.06%) Storage Management
8 15 (8.88%) DevOps
8 15 (8.88%) Waterfall
9 14 (8.28%) Analytics
9 14 (8.28%) Continuous Improvement
9 14 (8.28%) Data Protection
9 14 (8.28%) Disaster Recovery
9 14 (8.28%) Identity Management
9 14 (8.28%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 39 (23.08%) PowerShell
2 31 (18.34%) SQL
3 15 (8.88%) C#
4 14 (8.28%) Bicep
4 14 (8.28%) VB
4 14 (8.28%) VBScript
5 12 (7.10%) Python
6 4 (2.37%) Bash
7 1 (0.59%) Java
Qualifications
1 80 (47.34%) Security Cleared
2 64 (37.87%) SC Cleared
3 49 (28.99%) Degree
4 44 (26.04%) DV Cleared
5 33 (19.53%) Cisco Certification
6 25 (14.79%) CCNA
7 22 (13.02%) CCNP
8 14 (8.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 6 (3.55%) CISSP
10 5 (2.96%) Network+ Certification
11 4 (2.37%) Azure Certification
11 4 (2.37%) Master's Degree
11 4 (2.37%) MCSE
11 4 (2.37%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (1.78%) AWS Certification
12 3 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
13 2 (1.18%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (1.18%) GCIA
13 2 (1.18%) JNCIA
13 2 (1.18%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (3.55%) NIST
1 6 (3.55%) PCI DSS
2 5 (2.96%) SLA
3 3 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.59%) COBIT
System Software
1 88 (52.07%) Active Directory
2 36 (21.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (13.61%) Hyper-V
4 15 (8.88%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (8.28%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (7.10%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (4.14%) vSphere
8 5 (2.96%) Docker
9 4 (2.37%) Firmware
10 1 (0.59%) NFS
10 1 (0.59%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.59%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 45 (26.63%) SCOM
2 35 (20.71%) Microsoft Intune
3 30 (17.75%) SCCM
4 26 (15.38%) WSUS
5 20 (11.83%) Kubernetes
5 20 (11.83%) vCenter Server
6 14 (8.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 12 (7.10%) EMC NetWorker
7 12 (7.10%) NetBackup
8 5 (2.96%) Ansible
8 5 (2.96%) Prometheus
9 3 (1.78%) Suricata
10 1 (0.59%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 1 (0.59%) Nessus
10 1 (0.59%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 92 (54.44%) Microsoft
2 54 (31.95%) VMware
3 48 (28.40%) Cisco
4 45 (26.63%) Juniper
5 24 (14.20%) Palo Alto
6 16 (9.47%) Extreme Networks
6 16 (9.47%) HP
6 16 (9.47%) Veeam
7 15 (8.88%) Dell
7 15 (8.88%) Dynatrace
7 15 (8.88%) Fortinet
8 14 (8.28%) Oracle
9 12 (7.10%) 3PAR
9 12 (7.10%) EMC
9 12 (7.10%) Symantec
10 8 (4.73%) Aruba
10 8 (4.73%) Sage
11 6 (3.55%) F5
11 6 (3.55%) ServiceNow
12 5 (2.96%) SolidFire