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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 75 41
Rank change year-on-year +5 -34 +20
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 120 142 196
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.36% 3.28% 5.77%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 33.90% 26.69% 35.13%
Number of salaries quoted 102 85 186
10th Percentile £32,750 £33,900 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,125 £41,263 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £52,000 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% +5.05% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £69,000 £74,250
South East median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +6.38%

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 354 532 558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.90% 12.31% 16.43%
Number of salaries quoted 234 249 428
10th Percentile £27,250 £31,250 £28,290
25th Percentile £31,406 £38,750 £35,300
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +6.06%
75th Percentile £62,993 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £84,000 £77,500
South East median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +2.75%

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 18 November 2025.

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 18 November 2025. 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 -15 56 £50,000 -9.09% 43
Oxfordshire +29 33 £41,500 -7.97% 19
Buckinghamshire +18 31 £60,000 +22.45% 19
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 26 (21.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (14.17%) SharePoint
3 10 (8.33%) Exchange Server 2013
4 7 (5.83%) IIS
5 3 (2.50%) WinCC
6 2 (1.67%) CMS
6 2 (1.67%) Confluence
6 2 (1.67%) FactoryTalk
6 2 (1.67%) WordPress
7 1 (0.83%) ArchestrA
Applications
1 5 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 57 (47.50%) Azure
1 57 (47.50%) Microsoft 365
2 39 (32.50%) AWS
3 13 (10.83%) Entra ID
4 7 (5.83%) GCP
5 4 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (3.33%) Amazon S3
5 4 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (2.50%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (2.50%) Google Workspace
6 3 (2.50%) SaaS
7 2 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (1.67%) Amazon ELB
7 2 (1.67%) Amazon Glacier
7 2 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.67%) AWS KMS
7 2 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.67%) OCI
7 2 (1.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 34 (28.33%) DNS
2 29 (24.17%) VPN
3 27 (22.50%) SAN
4 25 (20.83%) DHCP
4 25 (20.83%) VLAN
5 23 (19.17%) WAN
6 22 (18.33%) TCP/IP
7 19 (15.83%) Wi-Fi
8 17 (14.17%) LAN
8 17 (14.17%) Wireless
9 13 (10.83%) Network Security
10 8 (6.67%) iSCSI
10 8 (6.67%) Remote Desktop
10 8 (6.67%) VoIP
11 6 (5.00%) IP Telephony
12 5 (4.17%) DECT
12 5 (4.17%) DSL
12 5 (4.17%) NAS
12 5 (4.17%) PBX
12 5 (4.17%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.67%) SQL Server
2 10 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (6.67%) MySQL
3 8 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.83%) DTS
Development Applications
1 3 (2.50%) Git
1 3 (2.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.67%) JIRA
2 2 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (1.67%) Vagrant
3 1 (0.83%) Maven
3 1 (0.83%) MSBuild
General
1 54 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
2 8 (6.67%) Telecoms
3 6 (5.00%) Retail
4 5 (4.17%) Marketing
5 3 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.50%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.83%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.83%) Finance
7 1 (0.83%) Humanities
7 1 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 29 (24.17%) Senior
2 16 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 16 (13.33%) Support Technician
3 15 (12.50%) IT Support
4 13 (10.83%) Infrastructure Manager
4 13 (10.83%) Support Engineer
5 11 (9.17%) IT Engineer
5 11 (9.17%) Linux Engineer
6 10 (8.33%) 3rd Line Support
6 10 (8.33%) 3rd Line Support Technician
6 10 (8.33%) IT Support Engineer
6 10 (8.33%) Security Engineer
7 9 (7.50%) Cisco Engineer
7 9 (7.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 9 (7.50%) Field Engineer
7 9 (7.50%) Senior Security Engineer
8 8 (6.67%) 2nd Line Support
8 8 (6.67%) Cisco Field Engineer
8 8 (6.67%) Lead
8 8 (6.67%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.67%) Web Services
2 1 (0.83%) .NET
2 1 (0.83%) ARM Templates
2 1 (0.83%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.67%) Replication
2 9 (7.50%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.50%) Driving Licence
2 9 (7.50%) Security Operations Centre
3 8 (6.67%) Management Information System
4 7 (5.83%) Data Centre
5 6 (5.00%) Onboarding
6 5 (4.17%) Web Conferencing
7 4 (3.33%) Operational Technology
7 4 (3.33%) SCADA
8 3 (2.50%) Fibre Optics
8 3 (2.50%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (1.67%) Clustering
9 2 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.67%) PKI
9 2 (1.67%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.83%) CMDB
10 1 (0.83%) Cyber Defence
10 1 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.83%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 73 (60.83%) Windows
2 46 (38.33%) Windows Server
3 28 (23.33%) Linux
4 16 (13.33%) Windows Server 2019
5 12 (10.00%) Mac OS
6 9 (7.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (5.00%) Apple iOS
8 4 (3.33%) Unix
8 4 (3.33%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (2.50%) Windows 10
10 2 (1.67%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (1.67%) Android
10 2 (1.67%) VMS
10 2 (1.67%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (28.33%) Cybersecurity
1 34 (28.33%) ITIL
2 23 (19.17%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (17.50%) Agile
4 18 (15.00%) Business Continuity
5 17 (14.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 15 (12.50%) Information Security
6 15 (12.50%) Mentoring
7 14 (11.67%) Disaster Recovery
7 14 (11.67%) Knowledge Transfer
7 14 (11.67%) Project Delivery
8 13 (10.83%) Security Operations
8 13 (10.83%) Time Management
9 12 (10.00%) Migration
10 11 (9.17%) Presales
10 11 (9.17%) SIEM
11 10 (8.33%) High Availability
12 9 (7.50%) Service Delivery
13 8 (6.67%) Penetration Testing
13 8 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 21 (17.50%) PowerShell
2 15 (12.50%) Bash
3 10 (8.33%) Python
4 8 (6.67%) Korn
5 4 (3.33%) SQL
6 3 (2.50%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (1.67%) Groovy
7 2 (1.67%) Java
7 2 (1.67%) Perl
7 2 (1.67%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.83%) Bicep
8 1 (0.83%) C#
8 1 (0.83%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.83%) Ladder Logic
8 1 (0.83%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (21.67%) Degree
2 16 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
3 12 (10.00%) CISSP
4 11 (9.17%) CCNA
5 10 (8.33%) CCNP
6 9 (7.50%) Security Cleared
7 8 (6.67%) SC Cleared
8 7 (5.83%) CompTIA Security+
8 7 (5.83%) GCIA
8 7 (5.83%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (5.83%) SANS
9 5 (4.17%) MCSE
10 4 (3.33%) CISM
11 3 (2.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (2.50%) Azure Certification
11 3 (2.50%) CCSP
11 3 (2.50%) MCP
11 3 (2.50%) MCSA
11 3 (2.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (1.67%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (22.50%) Cyber Essentials
1 27 (22.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (13.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 6 (5.00%) SLA
4 3 (2.50%) GDPR
4 3 (2.50%) GRC
4 3 (2.50%) IEC 61508
4 3 (2.50%) QA
5 2 (1.67%) IEC 61131
5 2 (1.67%) NIST
5 2 (1.67%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.83%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.83%) NIST 800
System Software
1 44 (36.67%) Active Directory
2 31 (25.83%) Hyper-V
3 29 (24.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (10.83%) Docker
5 10 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (6.67%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 6 (5.00%) Terminal Services
8 5 (4.17%) vSphere
9 2 (1.67%) DFS Replication
9 2 (1.67%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.83%) NFS
10 1 (0.83%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.83%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 36 (30.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (12.50%) SCCM
3 9 (7.50%) Kubernetes
3 9 (7.50%) Terraform
4 5 (4.17%) Ansible
5 2 (1.67%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (1.67%) Grafana
5 2 (1.67%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.83%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.83%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (0.83%) vRealize
6 1 (0.83%) WSUS
Vendors
1 69 (57.50%) Microsoft
2 43 (35.83%) VMware
3 22 (18.33%) Cisco
4 16 (13.33%) Sophos
5 12 (10.00%) Draytek
6 10 (8.33%) Apple
6 10 (8.33%) arcserve
7 9 (7.50%) Meraki
7 9 (7.50%) Red Hat
7 9 (7.50%) Splunk
8 8 (6.67%) Dell
8 8 (6.67%) Palo Alto
9 5 (4.17%) Aruba
9 5 (4.17%) Google
9 5 (4.17%) LogicMonitor
10 4 (3.33%) Fortinet
11 3 (2.50%) Atlassian
11 3 (2.50%) Forcepoint
11 3 (2.50%) ServiceNow
11 3 (2.50%) Siemens