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 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 71 39
Rank change year-on-year -9 -32 +31
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 123 144 207
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.30% 3.32% 6.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.08% 25.90% 36.51%
Number of salaries quoted 102 84 195
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,375 £31,750
25th Percentile £39,750 £41,263 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £65,938 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £75,600
South East median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +5.26%

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 438 556 567
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 11.76% 12.82% 16.71%
Number of salaries quoted 248 264 434
10th Percentile £27,850 £31,250 £28,290
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £77,000
South East median annual salary £42,500 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -21.30% +8.00% +1.73%

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 28 October 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 28 October 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 -30 49 £50,000 -4.76% 61
Buckinghamshire +15 41 £46,000 +1.66% 15
Oxfordshire +19 33 £41,500 -21.02% 18
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 33 (26.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (13.82%) SharePoint
3 12 (9.76%) Exchange Server 2013
4 7 (5.69%) IIS
5 3 (2.44%) WinCC
6 2 (1.63%) Confluence
6 2 (1.63%) FactoryTalk
7 1 (0.81%) ArchestrA
7 1 (0.81%) CMS
7 1 (0.81%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (4.88%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 63 (51.22%) Azure
2 59 (47.97%) Microsoft 365
3 42 (34.15%) AWS
4 17 (13.82%) Entra ID
5 6 (4.88%) GCP
6 5 (4.07%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (4.07%) Amazon S3
6 5 (4.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (3.25%) SaaS
8 3 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.44%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (2.44%) PaaS
8 3 (2.44%) Serverless
9 2 (1.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.63%) Amazon Glacier
9 2 (1.63%) Azure AI
9 2 (1.63%) OCI
9 2 (1.63%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 33 (26.83%) DNS
2 29 (23.58%) SAN
3 26 (21.14%) VPN
4 25 (20.33%) WAN
5 22 (17.89%) VLAN
6 21 (17.07%) DHCP
7 20 (16.26%) TCP/IP
8 19 (15.45%) LAN
8 19 (15.45%) Wi-Fi
9 13 (10.57%) Network Security
10 12 (9.76%) Wireless
11 9 (7.32%) IP Telephony
11 9 (7.32%) iSCSI
11 9 (7.32%) Remote Desktop
12 6 (4.88%) SD-WAN
12 6 (4.88%) VoIP
13 4 (3.25%) Modbus
13 4 (3.25%) NAS
14 2 (1.63%) SSH
14 2 (1.63%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.20%) SQL Server
2 14 (11.38%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (8.94%) MySQL
4 9 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.63%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.63%) Power BI
6 1 (0.81%) DTS
Development Applications
1 5 (4.07%) Git
2 3 (2.44%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.63%) JIRA
3 2 (1.63%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (1.63%) Vagrant
4 1 (0.81%) Maven
4 1 (0.81%) MSBuild
General
1 57 (46.34%) Social Skills
2 9 (7.32%) Organisational Skills
3 6 (4.88%) Telecoms
4 3 (2.44%) Finance
4 3 (2.44%) Manufacturing
4 3 (2.44%) Retail
4 3 (2.44%) Spanish Language
5 2 (1.63%) Marketing
5 2 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (0.81%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.81%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.81%) Humanities
6 1 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 31 (25.20%) Senior
2 21 (17.07%) Support Technician
3 16 (13.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 14 (11.38%) IT Support
5 12 (9.76%) 3rd Line Support
5 12 (9.76%) 3rd Line Support Technician
5 12 (9.76%) Infrastructure Manager
6 11 (8.94%) Analyst
6 11 (8.94%) Linux Engineer
7 10 (8.13%) Security Engineer
7 10 (8.13%) Support Engineer
8 9 (7.32%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 9 (7.32%) IT Engineer
8 9 (7.32%) Senior Linux Engineer
8 9 (7.32%) Senior Security Engineer
8 9 (7.32%) Technical Support
9 8 (6.50%) IT Support Engineer
9 8 (6.50%) Security Manager
10 7 (5.69%) Cisco Engineer
10 7 (5.69%) IT Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.81%) .NET
1 1 (0.81%) ARM Templates
1 1 (0.81%) RFC 2544
1 1 (0.81%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.01%) Replication
2 10 (8.13%) Cloud Native
3 9 (7.32%) Data Centre
3 9 (7.32%) Management Information System
3 9 (7.32%) Onboarding
3 9 (7.32%) Security Operations Centre
4 7 (5.69%) Driving Licence
5 4 (3.25%) Operational Technology
5 4 (3.25%) SCADA
6 3 (2.44%) PKI
6 3 (2.44%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (2.44%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.63%) Clustering
7 2 (1.63%) Fibre Optics
7 2 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.63%) NHS
7 2 (1.63%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.63%) Web Conferencing
8 1 (0.81%) CMDB
8 1 (0.81%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 74 (60.16%) Windows
2 51 (41.46%) Windows Server
3 28 (22.76%) Linux
4 15 (12.20%) Windows Server 2019
5 14 (11.38%) Mac OS
6 10 (8.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (4.07%) Apple iOS
7 5 (4.07%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (3.25%) Unix
9 2 (1.63%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (1.63%) VMS
9 2 (1.63%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.81%) Android
10 1 (0.81%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (31.71%) ITIL
2 32 (26.02%) Cybersecurity
3 24 (19.51%) Agile
3 24 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (15.45%) Business Continuity
5 17 (13.82%) Information Security
6 16 (13.01%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 16 (13.01%) Knowledge Transfer
6 16 (13.01%) Mentoring
6 16 (13.01%) Migration
7 14 (11.38%) Disaster Recovery
8 13 (10.57%) Project Delivery
8 13 (10.57%) Security Operations
9 12 (9.76%) SIEM
10 11 (8.94%) Time Management
11 10 (8.13%) Server Management
11 10 (8.13%) Service Delivery
12 9 (7.32%) Customer Service
12 9 (7.32%) High Availability
13 8 (6.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 25 (20.33%) PowerShell
2 17 (13.82%) Bash
3 11 (8.94%) Python
4 9 (7.32%) Korn
5 5 (4.07%) SQL
6 3 (2.44%) Bicep
6 3 (2.44%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (1.63%) Groovy
7 2 (1.63%) Java
7 2 (1.63%) Perl
8 1 (0.81%) C#
8 1 (0.81%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.81%) Ladder Logic
8 1 (0.81%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.81%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (18.70%) Degree
2 14 (11.38%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (8.94%) CCNA
4 10 (8.13%) CCNP
4 10 (8.13%) CISSP
4 10 (8.13%) SC Cleared
4 10 (8.13%) Security Cleared
5 8 (6.50%) CompTIA Security+
5 8 (6.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (5.69%) GCIA
6 7 (5.69%) SANS
7 6 (4.88%) MCSE
8 5 (4.07%) Azure Certification
9 4 (3.25%) DBS Check
9 4 (3.25%) MCP
9 4 (3.25%) MCSA
10 3 (2.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (1.63%) AWS Certification
11 2 (1.63%) CISM
12 1 (0.81%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (21.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (21.14%) Cyber Essentials
3 16 (13.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 5 (4.07%) SLA
5 3 (2.44%) GDPR
5 3 (2.44%) IEC 61508
5 3 (2.44%) QA
6 2 (1.63%) IEC 61131
6 2 (1.63%) NIST
7 1 (0.81%) GRC
7 1 (0.81%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.81%) NIST 800
System Software
1 45 (36.59%) Active Directory
2 32 (26.02%) Hyper-V
3 31 (25.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (11.38%) Docker
5 11 (8.94%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (7.32%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 9 (7.32%) Terminal Services
7 4 (3.25%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (3.25%) vSphere
8 2 (1.63%) DFS Replication
9 1 (0.81%) NFS
9 1 (0.81%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 38 (30.89%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (13.82%) SCCM
3 10 (8.13%) Kubernetes
4 9 (7.32%) Terraform
5 5 (4.07%) Ansible
6 2 (1.63%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (1.63%) Grafana
6 2 (1.63%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.81%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.81%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (0.81%) WSUS
7 1 (0.81%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 78 (63.41%) Microsoft
2 44 (35.77%) VMware
3 20 (16.26%) Cisco
4 14 (11.38%) Sophos
5 13 (10.57%) Apple
6 12 (9.76%) arcserve
7 10 (8.13%) Draytek
7 10 (8.13%) Meraki
7 10 (8.13%) Red Hat
7 10 (8.13%) Splunk
8 9 (7.32%) Dell
9 5 (4.07%) Aruba
9 5 (4.07%) Palo Alto
10 4 (3.25%) Fortinet
10 4 (3.25%) LogicMonitor
11 3 (2.44%) Forcepoint
11 3 (2.44%) Rockwell
11 3 (2.44%) ServiceNow
11 3 (2.44%) Siemens
12 2 (1.63%) Databricks