Firewall Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Firewall
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Firewall skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 17 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	69	84	74
Rank change year-on-year	+15	-10	-36
Permanent jobs citing Firewall	175	127	143
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley	2.28%	3.35%	3.24%
As % of the Communications & Networking category	32.77%	23.92%	24.49%
Number of salaries quoted	140	105	81
10^th Percentile	£32,500	£36,250	£35,000
25^th Percentile	£38,500	£39,750	£41,250
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£50,000	£49,000	£50,000
Median % change year-on-year	+2.04%	-2.00%	-4.76%
75^th Percentile	£63,750	£66,250	£62,500
90^th Percentile	£68,750	£70,000	£67,500
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
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

	6 months to 17 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills	534	531	584
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley	6.97%	14.02%	13.22%
Number of salaries quoted	377	257	272
10^th Percentile	£29,000	£28,000	£31,250
25^th Percentile	£32,500	£35,000	£38,750
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£45,000	£45,000	£52,250
Median % change year-on-year	-	-13.88%	-0.48%
75^th Percentile	£62,500	£63,750	£67,500
90^th Percentile	£72,500	£70,500	£80,000
South East median annual salary	£47,500	£42,500	£53,000
% change year-on-year	+11.76%	-19.81%	+6.00%

Firewall Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Firewall Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Firewall.

Firewall Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 17 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Firewall in the Thames Valley

Firewall Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 17 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
Berkshire	+26	83	£47,500	-5.00%	32
Buckinghamshire	-6	47	£62,500	+38.89%	17
Oxfordshire	-22	45	£45,500	+9.64%	17
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Firewall Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 17 October 2026, job vacancies citing Firewall also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Thames Valley region with a requirement for Firewall.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Microsoft	68.6%	120
2	Azure	60.0%	105
3	Windows	58.3%	102
4	DNS	57.7%	101
5	VPN	49.1%	86
6	Active Directory	45.1%	79
7	Microsoft 365	38.9%	68
8	VMware	38.3%	67
9	DHCP	37.1%	65
10	Windows Server	34.9%	61
11	Cybersecurity	32.6%	57
11	Linux	32.6%	57
13	SharePoint	30.9%	54
14	VLAN	30.3%	53
15	PowerShell	29.7%	52
15	Wi-Fi	29.7%	52
17	Cisco	28.0%	49
17	Disaster Recovery	28.0%	49
19	Microsoft Intune	27.4%	48
19	Problem-Solving	27.4%	48
21	SIEM	25.7%	45
22	Entra ID	24.6%	43
22	Security Cleared	24.6%	43
24	Microsoft Exchange	24.0%	42
24	TCP/IP	24.0%	42
24	VMware Infrastructure	24.0%	42
24	WAN	24.0%	42
28	Infrastructure Engineering	23.4%	41
28	LAN	23.4%	41
30	AWS	22.9%	40

Firewall Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Communications & Networking

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	DNS	57.7%	101
2	VPN	49.1%	86
3	DHCP	37.1%	65
4	VLAN	30.3%	53
5	Wi-Fi	29.7%	52
6	TCP/IP	24.0%	42
6	WAN	24.0%	42
8	LAN	23.4%	41
9	Network Security	22.9%	40
10	Wireless	20.0%	35
11	SD-WAN	9.7%	17
11	SSL	9.7%	17
13	VoIP	6.9%	12
14	Cisco Firepower	5.1%	9
15	HTTP	4.6%	8
16	OSPF	4.0%	7
16	Remote Desktop	4.0%	7
18	Cisco Nexus	3.4%	6
19	BGP	2.9%	5
19	Modbus	2.9%	5