Firewall Jobs in Oxfordshire

Firewall
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 32 60
Rank change year-on-year -24 +28 +4
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 18 95 63
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 2.60% 5.30% 4.28%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.95% 41.30% 32.98%
Number of salaries quoted 17 90 62
10th Percentile - £35,300 -
25th Percentile £39,750 £41,000 £30,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £40,250
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +5.59% -19.50%
75th Percentile £63,750 £55,938 £52,188
90th Percentile £94,250 £62,500 £59,875
South East median annual salary £48,250 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +13.53% -5.56% -5.26%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 129 230 191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 18.64% 12.83% 12.98%
Number of salaries quoted 73 194 151
10th Percentile £25,750 £29,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £36,000 £35,563 £30,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -23.81%
75th Percentile £60,000 £55,750 £52,250
90th Percentile £70,200 £65,000 £60,000
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 Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Oxfordshire

Firewall
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Salary trend for Firewall in Oxfordshire

Firewall
Salary Histogram in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Firewall in Oxfordshire

Firewall
Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 30 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
Oxford -3 7 £61,250 +28.95% 24
Woodstock - 5 £41,500 - 1
Firewall
South East

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 5 (27.78%) Exchange Server 2013
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.56%) Apache
2 1 (5.56%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 11 (61.11%) Azure
2 8 (44.44%) AWS
3 7 (38.89%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (16.67%) Entra ID
5 2 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (11.11%) Amazon S3
5 2 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (11.11%) SaaS
5 2 (11.11%) Serverless
5 2 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (5.56%) Azure AI
6 1 (5.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (5.56%) PaaS
6 1 (5.56%) Power Automate
6 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (50.00%) WAN
2 8 (44.44%) Wi-Fi
3 7 (38.89%) SAN
4 5 (27.78%) DNS
4 5 (27.78%) LAN
4 5 (27.78%) VLAN
5 4 (22.22%) SD-WAN
5 4 (22.22%) VPN
6 1 (5.56%) DHCP
6 1 (5.56%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
2 1 (5.56%) MySQL
2 1 (5.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Git
General
1 9 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support
2 5 (27.78%) 3rd Line Support Technician
2 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Support Technician
3 4 (22.22%) Senior
4 3 (16.67%) IT Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) IT Support
4 3 (16.67%) IT Support Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Network Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Support Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Support
5 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Identity Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Replication
2 3 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 3 (16.67%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (11.11%) IoT
3 2 (11.11%) Security Posture
3 2 (11.11%) Self-Driving Car
3 2 (11.11%) Virtual Team
4 1 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (5.56%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 12 (66.67%) Windows
2 10 (55.56%) Windows Server
3 9 (50.00%) Linux
4 3 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (11.11%) Apple iOS
5 2 (11.11%) Mac OS
5 2 (11.11%) Unix
6 1 (5.56%) Windows 10
6 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Agile
1 8 (44.44%) Information Security
1 8 (44.44%) ITIL
2 7 (38.89%) Knowledge Transfer
3 6 (33.33%) Migration
4 5 (27.78%) Business Continuity
4 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (16.67%) Load Balancing
6 2 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (11.11%) Logistics
6 2 (11.11%) Mentoring
6 2 (11.11%) Patch Management
6 2 (11.11%) SIEM
6 2 (11.11%) Software Engineering
6 2 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (11.11%) Threat Detection
6 2 (11.11%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) Bash
2 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 2 (11.11%) Python
4 1 (5.56%) Bicep
4 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.56%) CCNA
2 1 (5.56%) CCNP
2 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.56%) DBS Check
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (44.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (38.89%) Cyber Essentials
2 7 (38.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (5.56%) GDPR
3 1 (5.56%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (61.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (38.89%) Hyper-V
3 5 (27.78%) Active Directory
4 4 (22.22%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (5.56%) NFS
5 1 (5.56%) Squid
5 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (5.56%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (44.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (38.89%) SCCM
3 2 (11.11%) Ansible
3 2 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (11.11%) Terraform
3 2 (11.11%) ZENworks
4 1 (5.56%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 11 (61.11%) Microsoft
1 11 (61.11%) VMware
2 5 (27.78%) arcserve
3 4 (22.22%) Meraki
4 2 (11.11%) Apple
4 2 (11.11%) Sophos
5 1 (5.56%) Databricks
5 1 (5.56%) HP
5 1 (5.56%) Veeam