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 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 66 86 68
Rank change year-on-year +20 -18 -33
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 176 133 145
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.32% 3.51% 3.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 34.04% 24.86% 23.65%
Number of salaries quoted 139 110 81
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £39,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.63% -3.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £70,000
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
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 517 535 613
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 6.81% 14.12% 13.64%
Number of salaries quoted 369 260 275
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,475 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year - -11.76% -2.86%
75th Percentile £62,000 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £70,125 £80,000
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 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 14 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 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
Berkshire +29 83 £47,500 -5.00% 30
Buckinghamshire -6 49 £60,000 +33.33% 17
Oxfordshire -24 44 £45,500 +9.64% 16
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 56 (31.82%) SharePoint
2 44 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.84%) Apache
3 5 (2.84%) nginx
4 4 (2.27%) Confluence
5 1 (0.57%) FactoryTalk
Business Applications
1 6 (3.41%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 104 (59.09%) Azure
2 68 (38.64%) Microsoft 365
3 41 (23.30%) Entra ID
4 39 (22.16%) AWS
5 17 (9.66%) Azure Sentinel
6 11 (6.25%) Google Workspace
7 9 (5.11%) IaaS
8 8 (4.55%) Cloudflare
8 8 (4.55%) OneDrive
9 7 (3.98%) Power Automate
10 6 (3.41%) GCP
11 5 (2.84%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (1.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (1.14%) Azure Monitor
13 1 (0.57%) AWS CloudFormation
13 1 (0.57%) Mimecast
13 1 (0.57%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 103 (58.52%) DNS
2 84 (47.73%) VPN
3 65 (36.93%) DHCP
4 53 (30.11%) Wi-Fi
5 51 (28.98%) VLAN
6 44 (25.00%) TCP/IP
7 41 (23.30%) WAN
8 40 (22.73%) LAN
8 40 (22.73%) Network Security
9 35 (19.89%) Wireless
10 17 (9.66%) SD-WAN
10 17 (9.66%) SSL
11 12 (6.82%) VoIP
12 8 (4.55%) Cisco Firepower
12 8 (4.55%) HTTP
13 7 (3.98%) OSPF
13 7 (3.98%) Remote Desktop
14 5 (2.84%) BGP
14 5 (2.84%) SAN
14 5 (2.84%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.70%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.14%) MySQL
2 2 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (2.27%) JIRA
2 2 (1.14%) GitLab
General
1 75 (42.61%) Social Skills
2 15 (8.52%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (7.95%) Retail
4 12 (6.82%) Finance
5 11 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (6.25%) Manufacturing
6 6 (3.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.41%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (3.41%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.27%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.14%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.57%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.57%) Military
9 1 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 39 (22.16%) Senior
2 37 (21.02%) IT Support
3 32 (18.18%) Network Engineer
4 31 (17.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 30 (17.05%) IT Engineer
6 26 (14.77%) Support Engineer
7 23 (13.07%) IT Support Engineer
8 17 (9.66%) Architect
9 15 (8.52%) Security Engineer
10 13 (7.39%) Lead
11 11 (6.25%) Analyst
11 11 (6.25%) Senior IT Engineer
11 11 (6.25%) Senior IT Support
11 11 (6.25%) Senior Support Engineer
12 10 (5.68%) Applications Architect
12 10 (5.68%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (5.11%) 3rd Line Support
14 8 (4.55%) IT Support Technician
14 8 (4.55%) IT Technician
14 8 (4.55%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.95%) Regular Expression
2 13 (7.39%) XMPP
3 11 (6.25%) LDAP
4 6 (3.41%) Terraform
5 5 (2.84%) Web Services
6 4 (2.27%) JSON
6 4 (2.27%) JSON Schema
6 4 (2.27%) XML
7 2 (1.14%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 30 (17.05%) Driving Licence
2 15 (8.52%) Cyber Defence
2 15 (8.52%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (7.95%) PKI
4 8 (4.55%) Cyber Threat
5 7 (3.98%) Data Centre
5 7 (3.98%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (3.98%) Private Cloud
5 7 (3.98%) Security Operations Centre
5 7 (3.98%) Security Posture
6 6 (3.41%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (3.41%) CCTV
6 6 (3.41%) CSOC
7 5 (2.84%) IoT
7 5 (2.84%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.84%) Operational Technology
7 5 (2.84%) Virtual Team
8 4 (2.27%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.27%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.27%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 104 (59.09%) Windows
2 63 (35.80%) Windows Server
3 57 (32.39%) Linux
4 16 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (6.25%) macOS
6 10 (5.68%) Windows Server 2019
7 9 (5.11%) Windows 10
8 2 (1.14%) Android
8 2 (1.14%) Apple iOS
8 2 (1.14%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.57%) CentOS
9 1 (0.57%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (33.52%) Cybersecurity
2 49 (27.84%) Disaster Recovery
3 47 (26.70%) Problem-Solving
4 46 (26.14%) SIEM
5 42 (23.86%) Continuous Improvement
5 42 (23.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 25 (14.20%) Customer Service
6 25 (14.20%) Validation
7 24 (13.64%) Project Delivery
7 24 (13.64%) Zero Trust
8 23 (13.07%) High Availability
9 22 (12.50%) Incident Response
9 22 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
10 21 (11.93%) ITIL
11 20 (11.36%) Kalman Filter
12 19 (10.80%) Migration
12 19 (10.80%) Root Cause Analysis
12 19 (10.80%) Stakeholder Management
13 18 (10.23%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
13 18 (10.23%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 53 (30.11%) PowerShell
2 29 (16.48%) Python
3 21 (11.93%) Bash
4 7 (3.98%) Kusto Query Language
4 7 (3.98%) Search Processing Language
5 4 (2.27%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.14%) Bicep
6 2 (1.14%) Go
6 2 (1.14%) Korn
Qualifications
1 44 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 34 (19.32%) Degree
3 31 (17.61%) Cisco Certification
3 31 (17.61%) Microsoft Certification
4 23 (13.07%) CCNA
5 22 (12.50%) DV Cleared
6 20 (11.36%) CCNP
6 20 (11.36%) CompTIA Security+
7 19 (10.80%) SC Cleared
8 15 (8.52%) GCIA
9 14 (7.95%) Azure Certification
10 13 (7.39%) DBS Check
10 13 (7.39%) GIAC
10 13 (7.39%) Network+ Certification
11 10 (5.68%) CISSP
11 10 (5.68%) SANS
11 10 (5.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 8 (4.55%) CREST Certified
12 8 (4.55%) GCIH
13 7 (3.98%) GCED
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (17.05%) Cyber Essentials
2 12 (6.82%) GDPR
3 11 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 10 (5.68%) NCSC
5 7 (3.98%) NIST
6 5 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.70%) NIST 800
8 2 (1.14%) QA
8 2 (1.14%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.57%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.57%) GxP
System Software
1 81 (46.02%) Active Directory
2 42 (23.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (22.73%) Hyper-V
4 21 (11.93%) vSphere
5 8 (4.55%) KVM
6 7 (3.98%) VMware NSX
7 6 (3.41%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (2.84%) Squid
8 5 (2.84%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (2.27%) Docker
9 4 (2.27%) Firmware
10 2 (1.14%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (1.14%) iptables
10 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (1.14%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.57%) LXC
Systems Management
1 46 (26.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (7.39%) Jamf Pro
3 9 (5.11%) Graylog
4 8 (4.55%) FortiGate
4 8 (4.55%) Kibana
4 8 (4.55%) Proxmox
4 8 (4.55%) ZABBIX
5 6 (3.41%) Kubernetes
6 5 (2.84%) Ansible
7 3 (1.70%) Stealthwatch
8 2 (1.14%) Autotask
8 2 (1.14%) Grafana
8 2 (1.14%) N-central
8 2 (1.14%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.14%) SCCM
9 1 (0.57%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.57%) Puppet
9 1 (0.57%) QRadar
9 1 (0.57%) vRealize
Vendors
1 119 (67.61%) Microsoft
2 67 (38.07%) VMware
3 48 (27.27%) Cisco
4 34 (19.32%) Fortinet
5 24 (13.64%) Veeam
6 16 (9.09%) Apple
6 16 (9.09%) Red Hat
7 14 (7.95%) Palo Alto
8 13 (7.39%) Datto
9 12 (6.82%) Aruba
9 12 (6.82%) Google
10 11 (6.25%) CrowdStrike
10 11 (6.25%) SonicWALL
11 10 (5.68%) McAfee
11 10 (5.68%) Splunk
12 8 (4.55%) Juniper
13 7 (3.98%) Carbon Black
13 7 (3.98%) Meraki
14 4 (2.27%) Rockwell
14 4 (2.27%) Ruckus Wireless