Firewall Jobs in Reading

Firewall
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 50 34 66
Rank change year-on-year -16 +32 +14
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 19 100 71
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 3.64% 5.87% 4.40%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 46.34% 35.97% 31.28%
Number of salaries quoted 15 80 35
10th Percentile - - £34,600
25th Percentile £34,000 £34,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% -12.59% +22.73%
75th Percentile £61,250 - £80,000
90th Percentile £63,250 £78,750 £85,000
Berkshire median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% +7.53% -2.11%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 41 278 227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 7.85% 16.32% 14.07%
Number of salaries quoted 26 183 90
10th Percentile £34,000 £31,000 £23,500
25th Percentile £34,188 £34,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £54,000 £51,750
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +4.35% -5.91%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £74,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,500 £85,125
Berkshire median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year - +2.04% -7.98%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Reading

Firewall
Salary Trend in Reading

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

Salary trend for Firewall in Reading

Firewall
Salary Histogram in Reading

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

Salary histogram for Firewall in Reading

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 (26.32%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (26.32%) SharePoint
2 3 (15.79%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 8 (42.11%) AWS
2 5 (26.32%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (21.05%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (21.05%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 4 (21.05%) Amazon S3
3 4 (21.05%) AWS KMS
3 4 (21.05%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (21.05%) Serverless
3 4 (21.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 3 (15.79%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 9 (47.37%) DHCP
1 9 (47.37%) DNS
2 7 (36.84%) TCP/IP
3 5 (26.32%) Remote Desktop
4 4 (21.05%) Network Security
4 4 (21.05%) SSL
4 4 (21.05%) VPN
5 3 (15.79%) LAN
5 3 (15.79%) WAN
6 2 (10.53%) DWDM
6 2 (10.53%) Wireless
7 1 (5.26%) BGP
7 1 (5.26%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (5.26%) DMZ
7 1 (5.26%) Internet
7 1 (5.26%) MPLS
7 1 (5.26%) OSPF
7 1 (5.26%) SD-WAN
7 1 (5.26%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (5.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Bitbucket Server
1 4 (21.05%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 4 (21.05%) Retail
2 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Help Desk Engineer
1 5 (26.32%) Help Desk Support
1 5 (26.32%) Help Desk Support Engineer
1 5 (26.32%) Support Engineer
1 5 (26.32%) Technical Engineer
1 5 (26.32%) Technical Support
1 5 (26.32%) Technical Support Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Manager
3 3 (15.79%) Security Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Senior
3 3 (15.79%) Senior Security Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Network Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) IT Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Data Centre
2 3 (15.79%) Clustering
2 3 (15.79%) Management Information System
2 3 (15.79%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (47.37%) Windows
2 8 (42.11%) Windows Server
3 6 (31.58%) Linux
3 6 (31.58%) Mac OS
4 5 (26.32%) Ubuntu
5 1 (5.26%) CentOS
5 1 (5.26%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (26.32%) Capacity Management
2 5 (26.32%) CRM
3 4 (21.05%) Agile
3 4 (21.05%) DevOps
3 4 (21.05%) Key Management
3 4 (21.05%) Patch Management
4 3 (15.79%) Application Security
4 3 (15.79%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (15.79%) Computer Science
4 3 (15.79%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (15.79%) Information Security
4 3 (15.79%) ITIL
4 3 (15.79%) Penetration Testing
4 3 (15.79%) Security Operations
4 3 (15.79%) SIEM
4 3 (15.79%) Vulnerability Management
5 2 (10.53%) High Availability
5 2 (10.53%) IT Strategy
5 2 (10.53%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) Python
1 4 (21.05%) Shell Script
2 3 (15.79%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) CCNP
1 4 (21.05%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.79%) CCNA
2 3 (15.79%) CISSP
2 3 (15.79%) CompTIA Security+
2 3 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (15.79%) Degree
2 3 (15.79%) GCIA
2 3 (15.79%) SANS
2 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (15.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.26%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (68.42%) Active Directory
2 8 (42.11%) Hyper-V
3 5 (26.32%) Docker
3 5 (26.32%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (26.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (21.05%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (21.05%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (5.26%) Firmware
5 1 (5.26%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) vCenter Server
2 4 (21.05%) Ansible
2 4 (21.05%) Nessus
2 4 (21.05%) Proxmox
2 4 (21.05%) Terraform
3 3 (15.79%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (5.26%) Grafana
4 1 (5.26%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (42.11%) Microsoft
2 5 (26.32%) Sophos
2 5 (26.32%) Ubiquiti
2 5 (26.32%) VMware
3 4 (21.05%) Cisco
3 4 (21.05%) Juniper
4 1 (5.26%) Nokia
4 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow