Firewall Job Trends in Surrey

Firewall
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Firewall skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 50 54
Rank change year-on-year +17 +4 -31
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 126 53 73
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 5.01% 4.69% 4.32%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 44.06% 36.81% 23.32%
Number of salaries quoted 66 49 43
10th Percentile £31,000 £30,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £35,250 £30,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,481 £36,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +48.56% -34.55% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £42,500 £59,375
90th Percentile £71,875 £53,750 £65,000
South East median annual salary £47,166 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.81% -10.00% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 286 144 313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 11.38% 12.75% 18.51%
Number of salaries quoted 188 114 100
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,328 £28,675
25th Percentile £35,250 £30,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £37,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -31.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £50,250 £61,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £67,500 £65,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +11.76% -19.05% +5.00%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Firewall job vacancy trend in Surrey

Firewall
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Firewall.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Firewall

Firewall
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Surrey over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Firewall in Surrey

Firewall
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 14 October 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
Redhill +5 23 £32,000 +3.23% 9
Epsom - 23 £66,250 -
Guildford -9 18 £60,000 +11.63% 3
Woking -13 11 £65,000 +35.42%
Reigate -19 4 £49,500 +32.00% 3
Staines - 3 £32,500 -
Chertsey - 2 £47,500 - 1
Egham - 2 £75,000 - 1
Tadworth - 2 - -
Walton-on-Thames - 1 £55,000 -
Sunbury-on-Thames - 1 £55,000 - 3
Firewall
South East

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.79%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 21 (16.67%) Azure
1 21 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 17 (13.49%) AWS
3 11 (8.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 11 (8.73%) GitHub
3 11 (8.73%) GitHub Actions
4 8 (6.35%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (4.76%) Entra ID
5 6 (4.76%) Google Workspace
6 5 (3.97%) GCP
7 4 (3.17%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (3.17%) Mimecast
8 1 (0.79%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 62 (49.21%) LAN
2 59 (46.83%) WAN
3 49 (38.89%) Wi-Fi
4 43 (34.13%) Cisco Nexus
5 30 (23.81%) VPN
6 26 (20.63%) Internet
7 24 (19.05%) TCP/IP
8 12 (9.52%) VLAN
9 11 (8.73%) LTE
10 10 (7.94%) DNS
10 10 (7.94%) VoIP
11 8 (6.35%) Wireless
12 7 (5.56%) Network Security
12 7 (5.56%) VSAT
13 6 (4.76%) NGFW
14 5 (3.97%) Asterisk PBX
14 5 (3.97%) SD-WAN
15 3 (2.38%) WLAN
16 2 (1.59%) BGP
16 2 (1.59%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.79%) MySQL
General
1 32 (25.40%) Social Skills
2 12 (9.52%) Retail
3 7 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
3 7 (5.56%) Electronics
3 7 (5.56%) Military
4 6 (4.76%) Telecoms
5 4 (3.17%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.59%) Legal
6 2 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.59%) Police
7 1 (0.79%) Finance
Job Titles
1 61 (48.41%) Senior
2 32 (25.40%) Analyst
2 32 (25.40%) Senior Analyst
3 27 (21.43%) Network Analyst
3 27 (21.43%) Senior Network Analyst
4 26 (20.63%) Security Analyst
4 26 (20.63%) Senior Security Analyst
5 25 (19.84%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 25 (19.84%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
6 22 (17.46%) Network Engineer
7 21 (16.67%) Network Security Analyst
8 20 (15.87%) Security Engineer
9 18 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
10 14 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 14 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 14 (11.11%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
10 14 (11.11%) Senior Security Engineer
11 12 (9.52%) Network Security Engineer
11 12 (9.52%) Senior Network Security Engineer
12 11 (8.73%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (12.70%) Terraform
2 1 (0.79%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.79%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 20 (15.87%) Driving Licence
2 12 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (8.73%) Private Cloud
4 8 (6.35%) Security Posture
5 6 (4.76%) Data Centre
6 5 (3.97%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.97%) Replication
7 4 (3.17%) Enterprise Storage
7 4 (3.17%) iSeries
8 3 (2.38%) PKI
8 3 (2.38%) Smartphone
9 2 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 28 (22.22%) Linux
1 28 (22.22%) Windows
2 23 (18.25%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.38%) Android
3 3 (2.38%) Apple iOS
3 3 (2.38%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.79%) CentOS
4 1 (0.79%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (43.65%) Cybersecurity
2 52 (41.27%) Vulnerability Management
3 43 (34.13%) SIEM
4 39 (30.95%) Data Security
4 39 (30.95%) Network Load Balancing
5 37 (29.37%) Incident Management
5 37 (29.37%) Penetration Testing
6 32 (25.40%) Disaster Recovery
6 32 (25.40%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (24.60%) Security Operations
8 30 (23.81%) Business Continuity
9 23 (18.25%) BCP
9 23 (18.25%) Business Continuity Planning
10 22 (17.46%) Threat Detection
11 14 (11.11%) Cloud Security
12 12 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 12 (9.52%) Mentoring
13 11 (8.73%) DevOps
13 11 (8.73%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (14.29%) Bash
2 13 (10.32%) Python
3 8 (6.35%) Go
4 5 (3.97%) Perl
5 2 (1.59%) SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (18.25%) Security Cleared
2 21 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 16 (12.70%) Cisco Certification
4 13 (10.32%) Degree
5 10 (7.94%) CCNA
5 10 (7.94%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (7.14%) AWS Certification
7 8 (6.35%) DV Cleared
7 8 (6.35%) HNC
7 8 (6.35%) HND
8 7 (5.56%) CISSP
9 6 (4.76%) CCNP
9 6 (4.76%) CompTIA Security+
10 5 (3.97%) Azure Certification
11 2 (1.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (1.59%) CCSP
11 2 (1.59%) CREST Certified
11 2 (1.59%) DBS Check
11 2 (1.59%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 2 (1.59%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (6.35%) NIST
3 6 (4.76%) GDPR
4 3 (2.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (2.38%) SLA
5 2 (1.59%) GRC
5 2 (1.59%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 2 (1.59%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (15.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (13.49%) Hyper-V
3 9 (7.14%) Active Directory
4 6 (4.76%) Firmware
5 5 (3.97%) Docker
6 1 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.79%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (12.70%) Ansible
2 13 (10.32%) Kubernetes
3 11 (8.73%) Grafana
3 11 (8.73%) Prometheus
4 8 (6.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (6.35%) Proxmox
5 5 (3.97%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.59%) Autotask
7 1 (0.79%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 56 (44.44%) Cisco
2 48 (38.10%) Palo Alto
3 44 (34.92%) Aruba
4 43 (34.13%) Qualys
5 30 (23.81%) Microsoft
5 30 (23.81%) VMware
6 11 (8.73%) Veeam
7 9 (7.14%) Google
8 5 (3.97%) Citrix
8 5 (3.97%) Fortinet
8 5 (3.97%) Huawei
9 4 (3.17%) Acronis
9 4 (3.17%) Commvault
9 4 (3.17%) EMC
9 4 (3.17%) HP
9 4 (3.17%) IBM
9 4 (3.17%) N-able
10 2 (1.59%) ConnectWise
10 2 (1.59%) Datto
10 2 (1.59%) Ericsson