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

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 83 48
Rank change year-on-year +34 -35 -11
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 193 135 209
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.81% 3.55% 4.05%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 41.51% 22.65% 31.38%
Number of salaries quoted 157 110 164
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £33,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £37,250 £40,753
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £47,750
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -5.76% -4.50%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,938 £56,769
90th Percentile £69,250 £70,500 £66,850
South East median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £45,096
% change year-on-year +5.56% -0.21% -5.06%

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 465 596 666
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 6.76% 15.68% 12.90%
Number of salaries quoted 361 290 437
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,950 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £34,000 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,500 £45,000 £49,881
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% -9.79% -0.24%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,438 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £73,875 £80,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £41,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.46% -17.00% +3.63%

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 August 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 August 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 +44 93 £52,500 +6.06% 11
Buckinghamshire +6 63 £62,500 +38.89% 4
Oxfordshire -14 37 £45,500 +9.64% 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 49 (25.39%) SharePoint
2 45 (23.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.63%) Apache
4 5 (2.59%) nginx
5 4 (2.07%) Confluence
6 1 (0.52%) IIS
Business Applications
1 6 (3.11%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 104 (53.89%) Azure
2 68 (35.23%) Microsoft 365
3 53 (27.46%) AWS
4 35 (18.13%) Entra ID
5 15 (7.77%) Azure Sentinel
6 11 (5.70%) GCP
7 10 (5.18%) Google Workspace
7 10 (5.18%) IaaS
7 10 (5.18%) Power Automate
8 8 (4.15%) Cloudflare
9 6 (3.11%) OneDrive
9 6 (3.11%) OpenShift
10 5 (2.59%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (1.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (1.55%) Apigee
11 3 (1.55%) Kong
11 3 (1.55%) Power Platform
12 1 (0.52%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.52%) PaaS
12 1 (0.52%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 107 (55.44%) DNS
2 82 (42.49%) VPN
3 54 (27.98%) DHCP
4 49 (25.39%) Wi-Fi
5 36 (18.65%) VLAN
6 34 (17.62%) TCP/IP
7 31 (16.06%) Network Security
7 31 (16.06%) WAN
8 30 (15.54%) LAN
9 23 (11.92%) Wireless
10 21 (10.88%) VoIP
11 15 (7.77%) SD-WAN
12 14 (7.25%) SSL
13 11 (5.70%) SAN
14 10 (5.18%) Remote Desktop
15 8 (4.15%) Cisco Firepower
15 8 (4.15%) HTTP
16 7 (3.63%) iSCSI
16 7 (3.63%) NAS
17 5 (2.59%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.18%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.63%) MySQL
2 7 (3.63%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.55%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (4.15%) GitLab
2 4 (2.07%) JIRA
3 3 (1.55%) Git
General
1 80 (41.45%) Social Skills
2 15 (7.77%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (7.77%) Documentation Skills
3 14 (7.25%) Telecoms
4 13 (6.74%) Retail
5 10 (5.18%) Finance
6 9 (4.66%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (4.15%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (3.11%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (3.11%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.04%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.52%) Aviation
10 1 (0.52%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 47 (24.35%) Senior
2 35 (18.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 34 (17.62%) IT Support
4 32 (16.58%) Network Engineer
5 31 (16.06%) IT Engineer
6 30 (15.54%) Architect
7 25 (12.95%) Support Engineer
8 22 (11.40%) IT Support Engineer
9 18 (9.33%) Applications Architect
10 17 (8.81%) Security Engineer
11 15 (7.77%) Security Architect
12 14 (7.25%) Analyst
13 12 (6.22%) Senior IT Engineer
14 11 (5.70%) Support Technician
15 10 (5.18%) IT Support Technician
15 10 (5.18%) IT Technician
15 10 (5.18%) Senior IT Support
15 10 (5.18%) Senior Support Engineer
16 9 (4.66%) 3rd Line Support
17 8 (4.15%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (11.92%) Regular Expression
2 19 (9.84%) LDAP
2 19 (9.84%) XMPP
3 13 (6.74%) JSON
4 10 (5.18%) XML
5 7 (3.63%) JSON Schema
6 6 (3.11%) Jinja
6 6 (3.11%) YAML
7 5 (2.59%) Web Services
8 4 (2.07%) Terraform
9 3 (1.55%) REST
9 3 (1.55%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 30 (15.54%) Driving Licence
2 21 (10.88%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (7.77%) PKI
4 10 (5.18%) Cyber Defence
5 8 (4.15%) Cyber Threat
5 8 (4.15%) Private Cloud
6 7 (3.63%) Cloud Native
6 7 (3.63%) Data Centre
6 7 (3.63%) Management Information System
6 7 (3.63%) Security Operations Centre
6 7 (3.63%) Security Posture
7 6 (3.11%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (3.11%) CCTV
7 6 (3.11%) CSOC
7 6 (3.11%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (3.11%) Virtual Team
8 4 (2.07%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.55%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.55%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 119 (61.66%) Windows
2 80 (41.45%) Windows Server
3 78 (40.41%) Linux
4 30 (15.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (6.74%) Windows 10
6 10 (5.18%) Mac OS
7 9 (4.66%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (1.55%) Unix
9 2 (1.04%) CentOS
9 2 (1.04%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (25.91%) SIEM
2 49 (25.39%) Disaster Recovery
3 47 (24.35%) Cybersecurity
4 45 (23.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 45 (23.32%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (20.73%) Continuous Improvement
6 31 (16.06%) ITIL
7 30 (15.54%) High Availability
8 28 (14.51%) Validation
9 25 (12.95%) Project Delivery
9 25 (12.95%) Zero Trust
10 23 (11.92%) Customer Service
11 20 (10.36%) Application Security
12 19 (9.84%) Vulnerability Management
13 18 (9.33%) Incident Response
13 18 (9.33%) Platform Engineering
13 18 (9.33%) Root Cause Analysis
13 18 (9.33%) Stakeholder Management
14 17 (8.81%) Antivirus Management
15 16 (8.29%) Pattern Matching
Programming Languages
1 57 (29.53%) PowerShell
2 36 (18.65%) Python
3 25 (12.95%) Bash
4 7 (3.63%) Kusto Query Language
4 7 (3.63%) Search Processing Language
4 7 (3.63%) Shell Script
5 5 (2.59%) Korn
6 3 (1.55%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.04%) C
7 2 (1.04%) Go
Qualifications
1 52 (26.94%) Security Cleared
2 36 (18.65%) Degree
3 31 (16.06%) Microsoft Certification
4 30 (15.54%) DV Cleared
5 28 (14.51%) Cisco Certification
6 20 (10.36%) CCNA
6 20 (10.36%) CCNP
6 20 (10.36%) CompTIA Security+
7 19 (9.84%) SC Cleared
8 16 (8.29%) GCIA
9 14 (7.25%) Azure Certification
9 14 (7.25%) Network+ Certification
10 13 (6.74%) DBS Check
10 13 (6.74%) GIAC
11 11 (5.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 10 (5.18%) SANS
13 9 (4.66%) CISSP
14 8 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
14 8 (4.15%) CREST Certified
14 8 (4.15%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (16.06%) Cyber Essentials
2 11 (5.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 9 (4.66%) NCSC
4 8 (4.15%) GDPR
4 8 (4.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (3.11%) SLA
6 3 (1.55%) QA
6 3 (1.55%) SOC 2
7 2 (1.04%) NIST
System Software
1 93 (48.19%) Active Directory
2 42 (21.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (18.65%) Hyper-V
4 29 (15.03%) vSphere
5 11 (5.70%) Docker
6 8 (4.15%) KVM
7 7 (3.63%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 7 (3.63%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (3.63%) VMware NSX
8 5 (2.59%) Squid
8 5 (2.59%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (1.55%) BitLocker
9 3 (1.55%) Terminal Services
10 2 (1.04%) iptables
10 2 (1.04%) Samba
11 1 (0.52%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 41 (21.24%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (6.22%) Kubernetes
3 10 (5.18%) Jamf Pro
4 9 (4.66%) Graylog
5 8 (4.15%) Kibana
5 8 (4.15%) Proxmox
5 8 (4.15%) ZABBIX
6 7 (3.63%) FortiGate
7 3 (1.55%) Ansible
7 3 (1.55%) Grafana
7 3 (1.55%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.55%) Stealthwatch
8 2 (1.04%) vRealize
9 1 (0.52%) Autotask
9 1 (0.52%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.52%) QRadar
Vendors
1 125 (64.77%) Microsoft
2 82 (42.49%) VMware
3 46 (23.83%) Cisco
4 32 (16.58%) Red Hat
5 24 (12.44%) Fortinet
6 23 (11.92%) Veeam
7 17 (8.81%) Palo Alto
8 15 (7.77%) McAfee
9 12 (6.22%) Aruba
10 11 (5.70%) Apple
10 11 (5.70%) Datto
10 11 (5.70%) Google
11 10 (5.18%) SonicWALL
11 10 (5.18%) Splunk
12 9 (4.66%) CrowdStrike
12 9 (4.66%) Juniper
13 7 (3.63%) Carbon Black
13 7 (3.63%) Dell
14 4 (2.07%) Citrix
14 4 (2.07%) Sophos