Firewall Job Trends in the South East

Firewall
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Firewall skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 51 37
Rank change year-on-year -26 -14 +35
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 269 410 502
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 2.56% 4.57% 5.27%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.85% 29.43% 37.46%
Number of salaries quoted 210 271 460
10th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £30,875
25th Percentile £33,375 £42,500 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £53,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.21% +11.58% +5.56%
75th Percentile £58,438 £62,500 £59,000
90th Percentile £76,000 £70,000 £74,250
England median annual salary £46,000 £54,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year -14.81% +6.93% -3.81%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,507 1,393 1,340
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 14.36% 15.53% 14.07%
Number of salaries quoted 672 722 1,139
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,938 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +12.24% +3.16%
75th Percentile £59,500 £63,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £73,500 £77,500 £74,250
England median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -4.76%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Firewall relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Firewall job vacancy trend in the South East

Firewall
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Firewall.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Firewall

Firewall
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in the South East over the 6 months to 19 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Firewall in the South East

Firewall
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the South East region over the 6 months to 19 January 2026. 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
Thames Valley +4 101 £46,750 -16.52% 44
Hampshire -19 73 £52,500 -0.94% 30
Berkshire +3 61 £49,000 -12.50% 30
Surrey -2 50 £37,500 -31.82% 16
Kent -18 25 £37,500 -21.05% 17
Oxfordshire +10 22 £31,000 -49.39% 3
Buckinghamshire -4 18 £47,000 -6.00% 11
West Sussex -11 13 £60,000 +26.32% 4
East Sussex +6 2 £26,000 -40.57% 3
Sussex -8 2 £42,500 - 2
Middlesex - 1 £37,500 - 1
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 35 (13.01%) SharePoint
2 25 (9.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.23%) IIS
4 3 (1.12%) Exchange Server 2013
4 3 (1.12%) WinCC
5 2 (0.74%) CMS
5 2 (0.74%) FactoryTalk
5 2 (0.74%) WordPress
6 1 (0.37%) Apache
6 1 (0.37%) ArchestrA
Applications
1 17 (6.32%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.74%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.49%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 111 (41.26%) Azure
2 97 (36.06%) Microsoft 365
3 43 (15.99%) AWS
4 29 (10.78%) Entra ID
5 16 (5.95%) GCP
6 10 (3.72%) Google Workspace
7 8 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (2.60%) IaaS
8 7 (2.60%) PaaS
8 7 (2.60%) SaaS
9 6 (2.23%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (1.86%) Azure AKS
10 5 (1.86%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (1.12%) GitHub
13 2 (0.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 2 (0.74%) Amazon EKS
13 2 (0.74%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (0.74%) Nutanix
13 2 (0.74%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 90 (33.46%) VPN
2 64 (23.79%) DNS
3 57 (21.19%) VLAN
4 56 (20.82%) DHCP
5 51 (18.96%) TCP/IP
6 49 (18.22%) WAN
7 38 (14.13%) Wi-Fi
8 37 (13.75%) Wireless
9 35 (13.01%) Network Security
10 33 (12.27%) LAN
11 26 (9.67%) BGP
12 16 (5.95%) OSPF
13 15 (5.58%) Cisco ISE
13 15 (5.58%) VoIP
14 13 (4.83%) Cisco Firepower
14 13 (4.83%) MPLS
14 13 (4.83%) Wireshark
15 12 (4.46%) SAN
15 12 (4.46%) SD-WAN
16 11 (4.09%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.46%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.37%) MySQL
3 1 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.37%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (1.49%) JIRA
2 3 (1.12%) GitLab
3 2 (0.74%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.37%) Bitbucket
General
1 92 (34.20%) Social Skills
2 22 (8.18%) Telecoms
3 21 (7.81%) Finance
4 20 (7.43%) Retail
5 13 (4.83%) Marketing
6 12 (4.46%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (4.09%) Manufacturing
8 9 (3.35%) Legal
9 8 (2.97%) Public Sector
10 5 (1.86%) Billing
11 4 (1.49%) Banking
11 4 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.12%) Law
13 2 (0.74%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.74%) Military
14 1 (0.37%) Advertising
14 1 (0.37%) Electronics
14 1 (0.37%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 43 (15.99%) IT Support
2 42 (15.61%) Support Engineer
3 38 (14.13%) Network Engineer
4 36 (13.38%) 2nd Line Support
5 34 (12.64%) Senior
6 32 (11.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 24 (8.92%) IT Engineer
8 21 (7.81%) Cloud Engineer
8 21 (7.81%) Technical Support
9 20 (7.43%) Analyst
9 20 (7.43%) Security Engineer
10 19 (7.06%) IT Support Engineer
11 14 (5.20%) 3rd Line Support
11 14 (5.20%) Architect
12 13 (4.83%) Infrastructure Manager
13 12 (4.46%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 12 (4.46%) IT Manager
13 12 (4.46%) Senior Network Engineer
13 12 (4.46%) Technical Engineer
13 12 (4.46%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.60%) REST
2 4 (1.49%) LDAP
3 3 (1.12%) .NET
4 2 (0.74%) Web Services
5 1 (0.37%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.37%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.37%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 31 (11.52%) Data Centre
2 22 (8.18%) Driving Licence
3 15 (5.58%) Onboarding
3 15 (5.58%) PKI
4 13 (4.83%) Security Posture
5 9 (3.35%) Web Conferencing
6 8 (2.97%) Cloud Native
7 7 (2.60%) Renewable Energy
7 7 (2.60%) Security Operations Centre
8 6 (2.23%) Replication
8 6 (2.23%) Video Conferencing
9 4 (1.49%) Life Science
9 4 (1.49%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.49%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.49%) SCADA
10 3 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.12%) Cyber Defence
10 3 (1.12%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 112 (41.64%) Windows
2 80 (29.74%) Windows Server
3 34 (12.64%) Linux
4 23 (8.55%) Windows 10
5 9 (3.35%) Mac OS
5 9 (3.35%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (2.60%) Android
6 7 (2.60%) Apple iOS
7 5 (1.86%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.37%) Unix
9 1 (0.37%) VMS
9 1 (0.37%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (23.05%) Problem-Solving
2 44 (16.36%) Customer Service
3 43 (15.99%) Cybersecurity
3 43 (15.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 34 (12.64%) ITIL
5 28 (10.41%) Mentoring
6 23 (8.55%) Business Continuity
7 22 (8.18%) Project Delivery
7 22 (8.18%) Security Operations
8 21 (7.81%) Infrastructure as Code
8 21 (7.81%) SIEM
9 20 (7.43%) Network Design
10 19 (7.06%) High Availability
11 17 (6.32%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (6.32%) Incident Response
11 17 (6.32%) Information Security
11 17 (6.32%) Kalman Filter
12 16 (5.95%) Presales
13 15 (5.58%) Disaster Recovery
13 15 (5.58%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 26 (9.67%) PowerShell
2 20 (7.43%) Python
3 11 (4.09%) Bash
4 5 (1.86%) SQL
5 3 (1.12%) Bicep
6 2 (0.74%) Go
6 2 (0.74%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.37%) C#
7 1 (0.37%) C++
7 1 (0.37%) Java
7 1 (0.37%) Korn
7 1 (0.37%) Ladder Logic
7 1 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 59 (21.93%) Security Cleared
2 38 (14.13%) Cisco Certification
3 33 (12.27%) DV Cleared
4 30 (11.15%) SC Cleared
5 29 (10.78%) Degree
6 25 (9.29%) CCNP
7 23 (8.55%) CCNA
8 10 (3.72%) CISSP
8 10 (3.72%) JNCIA
9 9 (3.35%) CompTIA Security+
9 9 (3.35%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (2.97%) Azure Certification
11 6 (2.23%) AWS Certification
11 6 (2.23%) JNCIS
12 5 (1.86%) CEH
12 5 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (1.86%) GCIA
12 5 (1.86%) SANS
13 4 (1.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (1.49%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (7.81%) Cyber Essentials
3 12 (4.46%) GDPR
4 10 (3.72%) SLA
5 8 (2.97%) NIST
6 6 (2.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 6 (2.23%) GRC
7 5 (1.86%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.12%) IEC 61508
8 3 (1.12%) NCSC
8 3 (1.12%) QA
8 3 (1.12%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.74%) IEC 61131
9 2 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.74%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.37%) NIST 800
System Software
1 84 (31.23%) Active Directory
2 52 (19.33%) Hyper-V
3 39 (14.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (8.18%) VMware NSX
5 14 (5.20%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (4.46%) Firmware
7 5 (1.86%) vSphere
8 4 (1.49%) Docker
9 2 (0.74%) KVM
9 2 (0.74%) RHEV
9 2 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.74%) Xen
10 1 (0.37%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.37%) pfSense
10 1 (0.37%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 48 (17.84%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (7.06%) Terraform
3 18 (6.69%) FortiGate
4 16 (5.95%) Ansible
5 14 (5.20%) vCenter Server
6 8 (2.97%) SCCM
7 7 (2.60%) Kubernetes
7 7 (2.60%) vRealize
8 6 (2.23%) Nagios
8 6 (2.23%) ZABBIX
9 5 (1.86%) Endace
9 5 (1.86%) Prometheus
10 4 (1.49%) Proxmox
11 3 (1.12%) Grafana
11 3 (1.12%) Nessus
11 3 (1.12%) WSUS
12 2 (0.74%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.74%) WMI
13 1 (0.37%) AirWatch
13 1 (0.37%) SCOM
Vendors
1 103 (38.29%) Microsoft
2 78 (29.00%) Cisco
3 73 (27.14%) VMware
4 28 (10.41%) Meraki
5 26 (9.67%) Fortinet
5 26 (9.67%) Juniper
6 21 (7.81%) Veeam
7 19 (7.06%) Palo Alto
8 16 (5.95%) SolarWinds
9 13 (4.83%) CheckPoint
9 13 (4.83%) Google
10 12 (4.46%) Citrix
10 12 (4.46%) Sophos
11 11 (4.09%) Draytek
12 10 (3.72%) Broadcom
12 10 (3.72%) F5
13 7 (2.60%) Aruba
13 7 (2.60%) Starlink
13 7 (2.60%) WatchGuard
14 5 (1.86%) LogicMonitor