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 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 85 45
Rank change year-on-year +42 -40 -2
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 190 117 272
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.02% 3.27% 4.60%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 41.67% 20.24% 33.29%
Number of salaries quoted 149 95 230
10th Percentile £31,800 £35,350 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £39,380
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £46,298
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -2.80% +2.88%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £76,500 £65,150
South East median annual salary £47,750 £46,500 £44,089
% change year-on-year +2.69% +5.47% -2.03%

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 456 578 817
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.24% 16.15% 13.81%
Number of salaries quoted 338 277 559
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,750 £29,959
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,166 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.81% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £59,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £73,750
South East median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +11.76% -10.53% +2.15%

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 job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Firewall
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

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

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 23 July 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 23 July 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 +54 93 £52,500 - 10
Buckinghamshire +8 66 £62,500 +38.89% 9
Oxfordshire -16 31 £41,250 -0.60% 12
Firewall
South East

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (18.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 34 (17.89%) SharePoint
3 7 (3.68%) Apache
4 4 (2.11%) Confluence
4 4 (2.11%) nginx
5 1 (0.53%) IIS
Business Applications
1 6 (3.16%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 96 (50.53%) Azure
2 61 (32.11%) Microsoft 365
3 56 (29.47%) AWS
4 25 (13.16%) Entra ID
5 14 (7.37%) Azure Sentinel
6 11 (5.79%) GCP
7 10 (5.26%) OpenShift
7 10 (5.26%) Power Automate
8 8 (4.21%) Cloudflare
9 6 (3.16%) Google Workspace
9 6 (3.16%) OneDrive
10 5 (2.63%) Apigee
10 5 (2.63%) IaaS
10 5 (2.63%) Kong
11 4 (2.11%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (1.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (1.58%) Power Platform
13 1 (0.53%) AWS CloudFormation
13 1 (0.53%) Nutanix
13 1 (0.53%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 98 (51.58%) DNS
2 81 (42.63%) VPN
3 46 (24.21%) Wi-Fi
4 43 (22.63%) DHCP
5 37 (19.47%) WAN
6 34 (17.89%) TCP/IP
7 33 (17.37%) LAN
8 32 (16.84%) VLAN
9 25 (13.16%) Network Security
10 22 (11.58%) VoIP
10 22 (11.58%) Wireless
11 14 (7.37%) SD-WAN
12 12 (6.32%) SAN
13 11 (5.79%) Remote Desktop
14 9 (4.74%) HTTP
14 9 (4.74%) PBX
14 9 (4.74%) SSL
15 8 (4.21%) iSCSI
15 8 (4.21%) Unified Communications
15 8 (4.21%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.26%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.21%) MySQL
2 8 (4.21%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.58%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (6.32%) GitLab
2 6 (3.16%) Git
3 4 (2.11%) JIRA
General
1 77 (40.53%) Social Skills
2 23 (12.11%) Telecoms
3 18 (9.47%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.42%) Documentation Skills
5 15 (7.89%) Organisational Skills
6 10 (5.26%) Finance
7 9 (4.74%) Retail
8 7 (3.68%) Manufacturing
9 6 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (2.11%) Marketing
11 2 (1.05%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.53%) Aviation
12 1 (0.53%) Digital Health
12 1 (0.53%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 42 (22.11%) Senior
2 32 (16.84%) IT Support
3 31 (16.32%) Architect
4 30 (15.79%) IT Engineer
4 30 (15.79%) Network Engineer
5 27 (14.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 21 (11.05%) IT Support Engineer
6 21 (11.05%) Support Engineer
7 18 (9.47%) Applications Architect
8 15 (7.89%) Analyst
8 15 (7.89%) Security Architect
9 13 (6.84%) Security Engineer
10 12 (6.32%) Support Technician
11 11 (5.79%) IT Support Technician
11 11 (5.79%) IT Technician
12 10 (5.26%) Automation Engineer
12 10 (5.26%) Telecoms Engineer
13 8 (4.21%) Linux Engineer
13 8 (4.21%) Senior Architect
13 8 (4.21%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (12.11%) Regular Expression
2 19 (10.00%) LDAP
2 19 (10.00%) XMPP
3 17 (8.95%) JSON
4 12 (6.32%) XML
5 10 (5.26%) Jinja
5 10 (5.26%) YAML
6 7 (3.68%) JSON Schema
7 5 (2.63%) REST
7 5 (2.63%) YANG
8 4 (2.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 24 (12.63%) Driving Licence
2 23 (12.11%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (7.89%) PKI
4 10 (5.26%) Cyber Defence
5 9 (4.74%) Cyber Threat
6 8 (4.21%) Cloud Native
6 8 (4.21%) Data Centre
6 8 (4.21%) Management Information System
6 8 (4.21%) Private Cloud
6 8 (4.21%) Security Posture
7 7 (3.68%) Web Conferencing
8 6 (3.16%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (3.16%) CCTV
8 6 (3.16%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (3.16%) Security Operations Centre
9 5 (2.63%) CSOC
9 5 (2.63%) Onboarding
10 4 (2.11%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.58%) Life Science
11 3 (1.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 114 (60.00%) Windows
2 83 (43.68%) Linux
3 78 (41.05%) Windows Server
4 31 (16.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (5.79%) Mac OS
5 11 (5.79%) Windows 10
6 5 (2.63%) Unix
6 5 (2.63%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.05%) CentOS
8 1 (0.53%) FreeBSD
8 1 (0.53%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
2 48 (25.26%) SIEM
3 44 (23.16%) Cybersecurity
4 37 (19.47%) Continuous Improvement
4 37 (19.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 36 (18.95%) Disaster Recovery
6 29 (15.26%) ITIL
7 26 (13.68%) Validation
8 24 (12.63%) Customer Service
8 24 (12.63%) High Availability
9 20 (10.53%) Zero Trust
10 19 (10.00%) Application Security
11 18 (9.47%) Platform Engineering
11 18 (9.47%) Time Management
11 18 (9.47%) Vulnerability Management
12 17 (8.95%) Antivirus Management
12 17 (8.95%) Incident Response
12 17 (8.95%) Stakeholder Management
13 16 (8.42%) Project Delivery
13 16 (8.42%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 50 (26.32%) PowerShell
2 38 (20.00%) Python
3 26 (13.68%) Bash
4 7 (3.68%) Search Processing Language
4 7 (3.68%) Shell Script
5 6 (3.16%) Korn
5 6 (3.16%) Kusto Query Language
6 5 (2.63%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.05%) C
8 1 (0.53%) SQL
Qualifications
1 51 (26.84%) Security Cleared
2 33 (17.37%) Degree
3 31 (16.32%) DV Cleared
4 22 (11.58%) Cisco Certification
5 21 (11.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (8.95%) CCNA
6 17 (8.95%) SC Cleared
7 16 (8.42%) CCNP
8 15 (7.89%) CompTIA Security+
8 15 (7.89%) GCIA
9 12 (6.32%) GIAC
10 11 (5.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 10 (5.26%) Network+ Certification
11 10 (5.26%) SANS
12 9 (4.74%) DBS Check
13 8 (4.21%) CISSP
13 8 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
13 8 (4.21%) CREST Certified
13 8 (4.21%) GCIH
14 7 (3.68%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (11.58%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (4.21%) GDPR
2 8 (4.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 7 (3.68%) NCSC
3 7 (3.68%) SLA
4 3 (1.58%) QA
4 3 (1.58%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.05%) NIST
6 1 (0.53%) GRC
System Software
1 88 (46.32%) Active Directory
2 38 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (17.89%) Hyper-V
4 29 (15.26%) vSphere
5 12 (6.32%) Docker
6 9 (4.74%) KVM
6 9 (4.74%) VMware NSX
7 8 (4.21%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 7 (3.68%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (2.11%) Squid
9 4 (2.11%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (1.58%) BitLocker
10 3 (1.58%) Terminal Services
11 2 (1.05%) Samba
Systems Management
1 25 (13.16%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (6.84%) Kubernetes
3 9 (4.74%) Graylog
3 9 (4.74%) Proxmox
4 8 (4.21%) Kibana
4 8 (4.21%) ZABBIX
5 6 (3.16%) Jamf Pro
6 5 (2.63%) Terraform
7 4 (2.11%) Ansible
8 3 (1.58%) FortiGate
8 3 (1.58%) Grafana
8 3 (1.58%) Prometheus
8 3 (1.58%) vRealize
9 1 (0.53%) Autotask
9 1 (0.53%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.53%) QRadar
Vendors
1 118 (62.11%) Microsoft
2 80 (42.11%) VMware
3 40 (21.05%) Cisco
4 37 (19.47%) Red Hat
5 19 (10.00%) Palo Alto
6 18 (9.47%) Fortinet
6 18 (9.47%) Veeam
7 15 (7.89%) McAfee
8 12 (6.32%) Aruba
9 11 (5.79%) Juniper
10 10 (5.26%) Splunk
11 9 (4.74%) CrowdStrike
12 8 (4.21%) Dell
13 7 (3.68%) Carbon Black
13 7 (3.68%) Datto
13 7 (3.68%) Google
14 6 (3.16%) Apple
14 6 (3.16%) SonicWALL
15 5 (2.63%) F5
16 4 (2.11%) Sophos