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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 30 61
Rank change year-on-year -33 +31 -5
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 16 94 64
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 2.14% 5.60% 4.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.80% 40.69% 32.65%
Number of salaries quoted 15 91 63
10th Percentile £39,450 £31,000 -
25th Percentile £39,750 £41,000 £30,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £39,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +8.97% -21.21%
75th Percentile £63,750 £55,000 £48,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £62,500 £59,750
South East median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -8.16%

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 125 231 196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 16.69% 13.77% 12.83%
Number of salaries quoted 71 199 154
10th Percentile £25,750 £29,250 £22,000
25th Percentile £36,125 £35,250 £30,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -23.81%
75th Percentile £60,000 £55,750 £48,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £59,625
South East median annual salary £47,500 £47,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +1.06% +4.44% -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 14 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 14 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 -5 9 £61,250 +28.95% 10
Woodstock - 4 £41,500 -
Witney -2 1 £42,500 +1.19% 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 (31.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2013
3 1 (6.25%) Apache
3 1 (6.25%) nginx
3 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Azure
2 5 (31.25%) AWS
2 5 (31.25%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (25.00%) SaaS
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
5 1 (6.25%) Azure AI
5 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (6.25%) IaaS
5 1 (6.25%) OneDrive
5 1 (6.25%) PaaS
5 1 (6.25%) Power Automate
5 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (56.25%) WAN
2 7 (43.75%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (31.25%) LAN
3 5 (31.25%) VLAN
4 4 (25.00%) SAN
4 4 (25.00%) SD-WAN
5 3 (18.75%) DNS
6 2 (12.50%) VPN
7 1 (6.25%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
1 1 (6.25%) MySQL
1 1 (6.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) 3rd Line Support
2 4 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support Technician
2 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Support Technician
3 3 (18.75%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Identity Management Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) IT Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Network Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
5 1 (6.25%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (6.25%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) IT Support
5 1 (6.25%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Project Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Replication
2 3 (18.75%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
3 2 (12.50%) IoT
3 2 (12.50%) Security Posture
3 2 (12.50%) Self-Driving Car
4 1 (6.25%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 9 (56.25%) Windows
2 8 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 6 (37.50%) Linux
4 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (6.25%) Windows 10
5 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Information Security
2 5 (31.25%) Agile
2 5 (31.25%) ITIL
2 5 (31.25%) Migration
3 4 (25.00%) Business Continuity
3 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 3 (18.75%) Data Security
4 3 (18.75%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (18.75%) Information Security Management
4 3 (18.75%) Regulatory Compliance
4 3 (18.75%) Security Management
5 2 (12.50%) Cloud Security
5 2 (12.50%) Data Protection
5 2 (12.50%) Logistics
5 2 (12.50%) Patch Management
5 2 (12.50%) Project Management
5 2 (12.50%) SIEM
5 2 (12.50%) Virtual Environments
6 1 (6.25%) API Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) Bash
2 1 (6.25%) Bicep
2 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
1 1 (6.25%) CCNA
1 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (6.25%) DBS Check
1 1 (6.25%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (43.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (18.75%) GDPR
3 3 (18.75%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (31.25%) Hyper-V
3 4 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (6.25%) Squid
4 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (6.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (25.00%) SCCM
2 4 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (12.50%) ZENworks
4 1 (6.25%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 8 (50.00%) VMware
3 4 (25.00%) arcserve
3 4 (25.00%) Meraki
4 2 (12.50%) Veeam
5 1 (6.25%) Cisco
5 1 (6.25%) ConnectWise
5 1 (6.25%) Databricks
5 1 (6.25%) HP