Firewall Jobs in the Thames Valley

Firewall
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Firewall skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Firewall over the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 77 40 73
Rank change year-on-year -37 +33 -4
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 156 233 288
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.30% 6.07% 4.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 23.08% 36.58% 21.04%
Number of salaries quoted 89 202 210
10th Percentile £34,900 £31,250 £28,725
25th Percentile £41,000 £34,438 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -0.52%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £68,000 £79,875 £70,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%

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 676 637 1,369
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.28% 16.59% 19.65%
Number of salaries quoted 294 456 694
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,625 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,688 £34,469
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £66,875 £63,563 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,250 £80,000
South East median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £48,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% +4.17% +6.67%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the Thames Valley

Firewall
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Firewall in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Firewall in the Thames Valley

Firewall
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 6 October 2024.

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 6 October 2024. 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 -14 91 £53,625 -5.13% 13
Oxfordshire -25 35 £45,096 -9.81% 13
Buckinghamshire -32 31 £42,500 - 16
Firewall
South East

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 26 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (10.26%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.92%) Apache
3 3 (1.92%) CloudStack
3 3 (1.92%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.64%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (5.77%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 55 (35.26%) Azure
2 43 (27.56%) Microsoft 365
3 23 (14.74%) AWS
4 17 (10.90%) Entra ID
5 12 (7.69%) Azure Storage
6 11 (7.05%) Azure Monitor
7 6 (3.85%) GCP
8 5 (3.21%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (3.21%) OneDrive
9 4 (2.56%) iTunes
10 3 (1.92%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.28%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (1.28%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (1.28%) WhatsApp
12 1 (0.64%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.64%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 1 (0.64%) Azure Functions
12 1 (0.64%) Azure Stack
12 1 (0.64%) Mimecast
12 1 (0.64%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 51 (32.69%) WAN
2 48 (30.77%) Network Security
3 43 (27.56%) VPN
4 32 (20.51%) LAN
5 30 (19.23%) Wi-Fi
6 29 (18.59%) DNS
7 23 (14.74%) DHCP
8 14 (8.97%) SD-WAN
8 14 (8.97%) VLAN
9 12 (7.69%) OSPF
10 11 (7.05%) MPLS
10 11 (7.05%) TCP/IP
11 10 (6.41%) Wireless
11 10 (6.41%) WLAN
12 9 (5.77%) Cisco ISE
12 9 (5.77%) Internet
13 7 (4.49%) Cisco Firepower
14 6 (3.85%) Cisco ASA
14 6 (3.85%) Intrusion Detection
14 6 (3.85%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.85%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (1.92%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.64%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (1.28%) JIRA
General
1 47 (30.13%) Social Skills
2 33 (21.15%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (4.49%) Manufacturing
3 7 (4.49%) Retail
4 6 (3.85%) Pharmaceutical
5 5 (3.21%) Finance
5 5 (3.21%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.56%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.28%) Automotive
8 2 (1.28%) Billing
8 2 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.28%) Law
9 1 (0.64%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 43 (27.56%) Network Engineer
2 30 (19.23%) Senior
3 23 (14.74%) IT Engineer
4 17 (10.90%) Senior Network Engineer
5 14 (8.97%) Support Engineer
6 13 (8.33%) Analyst
7 12 (7.69%) Architect
8 10 (6.41%) Active Directory Specialist
8 10 (6.41%) Active Directory Support
8 10 (6.41%) Azure Specialist
8 10 (6.41%) Consultant
8 10 (6.41%) IT Support
8 10 (6.41%) Support Specialist
9 9 (5.77%) IT Support Engineer
9 9 (5.77%) Project Engineer
10 8 (5.13%) Field Engineer
10 8 (5.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (4.49%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 7 (4.49%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (4.49%) Network Field Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.33%) 802.1X
2 10 (6.41%) ARM Templates
3 5 (3.21%) Web Services
4 3 (1.92%) EDI
4 3 (1.92%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (1.92%) YAML
5 1 (0.64%) .NET
5 1 (0.64%) Azure Blueprints
5 1 (0.64%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 37 (23.72%) Data Centre
2 19 (12.18%) Management Information System
3 15 (9.62%) Driving Licence
4 14 (8.97%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (6.41%) PKI
6 7 (4.49%) Cyber Threat
6 7 (4.49%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (3.21%) Virtual Team
8 4 (2.56%) Biopharmaceutical
8 4 (2.56%) Clustering
8 4 (2.56%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 4 (2.56%) Replication
8 4 (2.56%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.92%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.92%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (1.28%) CCTV
10 2 (1.28%) Cyberattack
10 2 (1.28%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.64%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 56 (35.90%) Windows
2 31 (19.87%) Windows Server
3 29 (18.59%) Linux
4 13 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
4 13 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (4.49%) Windows 10
6 5 (3.21%) Kali Linux
7 4 (2.56%) Mac OS
8 3 (1.92%) Android
8 3 (1.92%) CentOS
8 3 (1.92%) Data ONTAP
8 3 (1.92%) Ubuntu
9 2 (1.28%) Windows Mobile
10 1 (0.64%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.64%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.64%) Windows 8
10 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (35.26%) Problem-Solving
2 37 (23.72%) Cybersecurity
3 27 (17.31%) ITIL
4 19 (12.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 18 (11.54%) Agile
6 16 (10.26%) Mentoring
6 16 (10.26%) Project Management
6 16 (10.26%) Service Management
7 15 (9.62%) Change Control
8 14 (8.97%) Collaborative Working
8 14 (8.97%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 13 (8.33%) Incident Response
9 13 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 13 (8.33%) Network Monitoring
9 13 (8.33%) Project Delivery
9 13 (8.33%) Release Management
10 12 (7.69%) CI/CD
10 12 (7.69%) DevOps
11 11 (7.05%) Creative Thinking
11 11 (7.05%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 23 (14.74%) PowerShell
2 16 (10.26%) Python
3 14 (8.97%) SQL
4 13 (8.33%) C#
5 10 (6.41%) Bicep
5 10 (6.41%) VB
5 10 (6.41%) VBScript
6 4 (2.56%) Bash
7 2 (1.28%) Go
7 2 (1.28%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.64%) Java
8 1 (0.64%) Perl
8 1 (0.64%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (27.56%) Security Cleared
2 36 (23.08%) Degree
3 32 (20.51%) SC Cleared
4 27 (17.31%) Cisco Certification
5 23 (14.74%) CCNA
6 22 (14.10%) CCNP
7 17 (10.90%) DV Cleared
8 12 (7.69%) CISSP
9 10 (6.41%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (6.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 7 (4.49%) CTC Cleared
11 6 (3.85%) Azure Certification
12 5 (3.21%) AWS Certification
12 5 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (3.21%) Network+ Certification
13 4 (2.56%) CompTIA Security+
14 3 (1.92%) CEH
14 3 (1.92%) CISM
15 2 (1.28%) GCIA
15 2 (1.28%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 16 (10.26%) SLA
2 10 (6.41%) NIST
3 7 (4.49%) PCI DSS
4 6 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (3.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 5 (3.21%) QA
6 4 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (2.56%) GDPR
7 1 (0.64%) GRC
System Software
1 44 (28.21%) Active Directory
2 17 (10.90%) Firmware
3 15 (9.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (8.97%) Hyper-V
5 13 (8.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.92%) Docker
6 3 (1.92%) pfSense
7 2 (1.28%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.64%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 21 (13.46%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (10.90%) Kubernetes
3 11 (7.05%) SCCM
3 11 (7.05%) WSUS
4 10 (6.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 10 (6.41%) SCOM
5 7 (4.49%) Ansible
5 7 (4.49%) FortiGate
6 5 (3.21%) Suricata
6 5 (3.21%) Terraform
7 4 (2.56%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.92%) Prometheus
9 2 (1.28%) Backup Exec
9 2 (1.28%) Nessus
9 2 (1.28%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.64%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 1 (0.64%) Network Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 50 (32.05%) Cisco
2 47 (30.13%) Microsoft
3 33 (21.15%) Fortinet
4 30 (19.23%) Palo Alto
5 23 (14.74%) VMware
6 21 (13.46%) Juniper
7 10 (6.41%) Extreme Networks
7 10 (6.41%) HP
7 10 (6.41%) Veeam
8 9 (5.77%) Aruba
9 8 (5.13%) Apple
9 8 (5.13%) Citrix
10 7 (4.49%) CheckPoint
10 7 (4.49%) Infoblox
10 7 (4.49%) Splunk
11 6 (3.85%) McAfee
11 6 (3.85%) Red Hat
12 5 (3.21%) Blue Coat
12 5 (3.21%) F5
12 5 (3.21%) Google