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 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 48 35
Rank change year-on-year -5 -13 +41
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 51 57 63
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 3.12% 4.76% 5.73%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.45% 35.85% 31.98%
Number of salaries quoted 48 35 54
10th Percentile £29,750 £42,050 £34,375
25th Percentile £31,000 £42,500 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £49,063 £59,375 £59,375
90th Percentile £65,000 £68,400 £65,000
South East median annual salary £46,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.21% +6.00% +11.11%

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 488 159 197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 29.88% 13.27% 17.93%
Number of salaries quoted 122 61 149
10th Percentile £28,000 £36,250 £28,600
25th Percentile £31,500 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £69,750 £67,500 £68,750
South East median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +5.26%

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 13 January 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 13 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
Redhill -4 12 £31,000 -43.64% 1
Reigate - 7 £37,500 - 3
Godstone - 6 £36,000 -
Staines - 3 £82,500 -
Woking +8 2 £37,500 -37.50% 1
Dorking +4 2 £80,000 +23.08%
Leatherhead -3 1 - -
Guildford -8 1 £60,000 +4.35% 5
Godalming - 1 £52,500 -
Farnham - 1 £47,500 -
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 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.96%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 22 (43.14%) Microsoft 365
2 18 (35.29%) Azure
3 7 (13.73%) Entra ID
4 4 (7.84%) AWS
5 1 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.96%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.96%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (1.96%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.96%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (1.96%) AWS KMS
5 1 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.96%) SaaS
5 1 (1.96%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (23.53%) Wi-Fi
2 9 (17.65%) DNS
2 9 (17.65%) VLAN
3 8 (15.69%) DHCP
3 8 (15.69%) VSAT
4 7 (13.73%) TCP/IP
4 7 (13.73%) VPN
5 3 (5.88%) LAN
5 3 (5.88%) WAN
6 2 (3.92%) Internet
6 2 (3.92%) Network Security
6 2 (3.92%) Wireless
7 1 (1.96%) 5G
7 1 (1.96%) BGP
7 1 (1.96%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (1.96%) IPsec
7 1 (1.96%) LTE
7 1 (1.96%) OSPF
7 1 (1.96%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (1.96%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (1.96%) Relational Database
1 1 (1.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Bitbucket
1 1 (1.96%) GitLab
1 1 (1.96%) Jenkins
General
1 25 (49.02%) Social Skills
2 8 (15.69%) Retail
3 5 (9.80%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.88%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.92%) Law
6 1 (1.96%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.96%) Local Government
6 1 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (31.37%) Technical Support
2 13 (25.49%) Support Engineer
3 12 (23.53%) Technical Engineer
3 12 (23.53%) Technical Support Engineer
4 11 (21.57%) 2nd Line Support
5 10 (19.61%) IT Support
6 7 (13.73%) NOC Engineer
7 5 (9.80%) IT Manager
8 4 (7.84%) 1st Line Support
8 4 (7.84%) 1st Line Technical Support
8 4 (7.84%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 4 (7.84%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 4 (7.84%) 2nd Line Technical Support
8 4 (7.84%) 2nd Line Technical Support Engineer
8 4 (7.84%) 3rd Line Support
8 4 (7.84%) Network Engineer
8 4 (7.84%) Support Technician
9 3 (5.88%) IT Security Manager
9 3 (5.88%) Risk Manager
9 3 (5.88%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.96%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 10 (19.61%) Driving Licence
2 9 (17.65%) Onboarding
3 4 (7.84%) Security Posture
4 3 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (5.88%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.96%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (37.25%) Windows
2 18 (35.29%) Windows Server
3 6 (11.76%) Windows 10
4 3 (5.88%) Linux
5 1 (1.96%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (39.22%) Customer Service
2 15 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (19.61%) Client Onboarding
3 10 (19.61%) Mentoring
4 8 (15.69%) Kalman Filter
4 8 (15.69%) Web Filtering
5 7 (13.73%) Commercial Awareness
5 7 (13.73%) Proactive Management
6 6 (11.76%) Customer Experience
7 5 (9.80%) Business Continuity
7 5 (9.80%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (9.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (7.84%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (7.84%) Information Security
9 3 (5.88%) BCP
9 3 (5.88%) Information Security Management
9 3 (5.88%) ISMS
9 3 (5.88%) Risk Assessment
9 3 (5.88%) Risk Management
9 3 (5.88%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (11.76%) PowerShell
2 2 (3.92%) Python
3 1 (1.96%) Bash
3 1 (1.96%) Java
3 1 (1.96%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (19.61%) Security Cleared
2 9 (17.65%) CCNA
2 9 (17.65%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (15.69%) JNCIA
3 8 (15.69%) SC Cleared
4 6 (11.76%) Degree
5 3 (5.88%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 3 (5.88%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 1 (1.96%) CCNP
6 1 (1.96%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.96%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.69%) GDPR
2 5 (9.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (5.88%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.96%) NIST
4 1 (1.96%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (37.25%) Active Directory
2 12 (23.53%) Hyper-V
3 6 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.92%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.96%) Firmware
5 1 (1.96%) pfSense
5 1 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (19.61%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (5.88%) Ansible
2 3 (5.88%) FortiGate
3 2 (3.92%) Terraform
3 2 (3.92%) ZABBIX
4 1 (1.96%) Grafana
4 1 (1.96%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (25.49%) VMware
2 12 (23.53%) Microsoft
3 11 (21.57%) Veeam
4 9 (17.65%) Citrix
5 7 (13.73%) Cisco
5 7 (13.73%) Starlink
6 5 (9.80%) Fortinet
7 2 (3.92%) F5
7 2 (3.92%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.96%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.96%) Freshdesk
8 1 (1.96%) Juniper
8 1 (1.96%) Oracle