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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 88 42
Rank change year-on-year +41 -46 -5
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 189 117 286
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.02% 3.24% 4.62%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 41.72% 20.03% 33.53%
Number of salaries quoted 147 94 242
10th Percentile £32,000 £35,200 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £45,048
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -0.11% +0.11%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £57,256
90th Percentile £70,000 £76,750 £64,875
South East median annual salary £47,500 £46,500 £43,500
% change year-on-year +2.15% +6.90% -3.33%

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 453 584 853
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.24% 16.16% 13.77%
Number of salaries quoted 333 279 586
10th Percentile £28,050 £25,750 £29,521
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,166 £45,000 £44,982
Median % change year-on-year +4.81% +0.04% -5.30%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £59,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £71,250
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 20 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 20 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 +46 94 £52,500 - 12
Buckinghamshire +10 64 £62,500 +38.89% 10
Oxfordshire -12 31 £41,250 -0.60% 11
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 34 (17.99%) Microsoft Exchange
1 34 (17.99%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.17%) Apache
3 4 (2.12%) Confluence
4 3 (1.59%) nginx
5 1 (0.53%) IIS
Business Applications
1 6 (3.17%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 94 (49.74%) Azure
2 60 (31.75%) Microsoft 365
3 55 (29.10%) AWS
4 23 (12.17%) Entra ID
5 13 (6.88%) Azure Sentinel
6 11 (5.82%) GCP
7 10 (5.29%) OpenShift
7 10 (5.29%) Power Automate
8 8 (4.23%) Cloudflare
9 6 (3.17%) OneDrive
10 5 (2.65%) Apigee
10 5 (2.65%) IaaS
10 5 (2.65%) Kong
11 4 (2.12%) Google Workspace
12 3 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (1.59%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (1.59%) Power Platform
13 1 (0.53%) AWS CloudFormation
13 1 (0.53%) Mimecast
13 1 (0.53%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 95 (50.26%) DNS
2 80 (42.33%) VPN
3 44 (23.28%) Wi-Fi
4 42 (22.22%) DHCP
5 38 (20.11%) WAN
6 33 (17.46%) LAN
6 33 (17.46%) TCP/IP
7 31 (16.40%) VLAN
8 24 (12.70%) Network Security
8 24 (12.70%) Wireless
9 20 (10.58%) VoIP
10 14 (7.41%) SD-WAN
11 12 (6.35%) SAN
12 11 (5.82%) Remote Desktop
13 9 (4.76%) HTTP
13 9 (4.76%) PBX
14 8 (4.23%) iSCSI
14 8 (4.23%) Unified Communications
14 8 (4.23%) Wireshark
15 7 (3.70%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.29%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.23%) MySQL
2 8 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.59%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (6.35%) GitLab
2 6 (3.17%) Git
3 4 (2.12%) JIRA
General
1 74 (39.15%) Social Skills
2 22 (11.64%) Telecoms
3 18 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.47%) Documentation Skills
5 15 (7.94%) Organisational Skills
6 10 (5.29%) Finance
7 8 (4.23%) Retail
8 6 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (3.17%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.12%) Marketing
10 2 (1.06%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.53%) Aviation
11 1 (0.53%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.53%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 41 (21.69%) Senior
2 32 (16.93%) Architect
3 30 (15.87%) Network Engineer
4 29 (15.34%) IT Support
5 28 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 27 (14.29%) IT Engineer
7 18 (9.52%) Applications Architect
7 18 (9.52%) IT Support Engineer
7 18 (9.52%) Support Engineer
8 15 (7.94%) Analyst
8 15 (7.94%) Security Architect
9 13 (6.88%) Security Engineer
10 12 (6.35%) Support Technician
11 11 (5.82%) IT Support Technician
11 11 (5.82%) IT Technician
12 10 (5.29%) Automation Engineer
12 10 (5.29%) Telecoms Engineer
13 9 (4.76%) 3rd Line Support
13 9 (4.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 8 (4.23%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (12.17%) Regular Expression
2 19 (10.05%) LDAP
2 19 (10.05%) XMPP
3 17 (8.99%) JSON
4 12 (6.35%) XML
5 10 (5.29%) Jinja
5 10 (5.29%) YAML
6 7 (3.70%) JSON Schema
7 5 (2.65%) REST
7 5 (2.65%) YANG
8 3 (1.59%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 24 (12.70%) Self-Motivation
2 22 (11.64%) Driving Licence
3 16 (8.47%) PKI
4 10 (5.29%) Cyber Defence
5 9 (4.76%) Cyber Threat
6 8 (4.23%) Cloud Native
6 8 (4.23%) Data Centre
6 8 (4.23%) Management Information System
6 8 (4.23%) Private Cloud
6 8 (4.23%) Security Posture
7 7 (3.70%) Web Conferencing
8 6 (3.17%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (3.17%) CCTV
8 6 (3.17%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (3.17%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.65%) Security Operations Centre
10 4 (2.12%) CSOC
10 4 (2.12%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 112 (59.26%) Windows
2 82 (43.39%) Linux
3 77 (40.74%) Windows Server
4 31 (16.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (5.29%) Windows 10
6 9 (4.76%) Mac OS
7 5 (2.65%) Unix
8 4 (2.12%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (1.06%) CentOS
10 1 (0.53%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.53%) OpenBSD
10 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
2 47 (24.87%) SIEM
3 41 (21.69%) Cybersecurity
4 38 (20.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 37 (19.58%) Continuous Improvement
6 34 (17.99%) Disaster Recovery
7 30 (15.87%) ITIL
8 26 (13.76%) Validation
9 23 (12.17%) Customer Service
9 23 (12.17%) High Availability
10 20 (10.58%) Zero Trust
11 19 (10.05%) Application Security
12 18 (9.52%) Platform Engineering
12 18 (9.52%) Time Management
13 17 (8.99%) Antivirus Management
13 17 (8.99%) Incident Response
13 17 (8.99%) Task Automation
13 17 (8.99%) Vulnerability Management
14 16 (8.47%) Pattern Matching
14 16 (8.47%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 51 (26.98%) PowerShell
2 37 (19.58%) Python
3 25 (13.23%) Bash
4 7 (3.70%) Search Processing Language
4 7 (3.70%) Shell Script
5 6 (3.17%) Korn
6 5 (2.65%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.65%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (1.06%) C
8 1 (0.53%) Bicep
8 1 (0.53%) SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (26.46%) Security Cleared
2 32 (16.93%) Degree
2 32 (16.93%) DV Cleared
3 23 (12.17%) Cisco Certification
4 18 (9.52%) CCNA
4 18 (9.52%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (8.47%) CCNP
6 15 (7.94%) SC Cleared
7 14 (7.41%) GCIA
8 12 (6.35%) CompTIA Security+
9 11 (5.82%) GIAC
10 10 (5.29%) SANS
10 10 (5.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 8 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (4.23%) CREST Certified
11 8 (4.23%) GCIH
11 8 (4.23%) Network+ Certification
12 7 (3.70%) CISSP
12 7 (3.70%) DBS Check
12 7 (3.70%) GCED
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (10.58%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (4.23%) GDPR
2 8 (4.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.70%) NCSC
3 7 (3.70%) SLA
4 5 (2.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (1.59%) QA
5 3 (1.59%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.06%) NIST
7 1 (0.53%) GRC
System Software
1 87 (46.03%) Active Directory
2 35 (18.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (17.46%) Hyper-V
4 29 (15.34%) vSphere
5 12 (6.35%) Docker
6 10 (5.29%) VMware NSX
7 9 (4.76%) KVM
8 8 (4.23%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 7 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (1.59%) BitLocker
10 3 (1.59%) Squid
10 3 (1.59%) Terminal Services
10 3 (1.59%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (1.06%) Samba
Systems Management
1 22 (11.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (6.88%) Kubernetes
3 9 (4.76%) Graylog
3 9 (4.76%) Proxmox
4 8 (4.23%) Kibana
4 8 (4.23%) ZABBIX
5 6 (3.17%) Terraform
6 4 (2.12%) Ansible
6 4 (2.12%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (2.12%) vRealize
7 3 (1.59%) FortiGate
7 3 (1.59%) Grafana
7 3 (1.59%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.53%) Autotask
8 1 (0.53%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.53%) QRadar
Vendors
1 116 (61.38%) Microsoft
2 77 (40.74%) VMware
3 37 (19.58%) Cisco
3 37 (19.58%) Red Hat
4 20 (10.58%) Palo Alto
5 17 (8.99%) Fortinet
6 16 (8.47%) Veeam
7 15 (7.94%) McAfee
8 12 (6.35%) Aruba
9 11 (5.82%) Juniper
10 10 (5.29%) Splunk
11 9 (4.76%) CrowdStrike
12 8 (4.23%) Dell
13 7 (3.70%) Carbon Black
14 5 (2.65%) Datto
14 5 (2.65%) F5
14 5 (2.65%) Google
15 4 (2.12%) Apple
15 4 (2.12%) NetApp
15 4 (2.12%) Sophos