Firewall Jobs in the Thames Valley

Firewall
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Firewall skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Firewall over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 59 64
Rank change year-on-year +17 +5 -4
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 323 297 312
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 4.82% 4.85% 4.49%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 33.51% 30.34% 22.00%
Number of salaries quoted 293 240 252
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,500 £27,825
25th Percentile £36,750 £31,250 £35,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,750 £45,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.89% -8.16% -10.91%
75th Percentile £59,000 £57,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £63,500 £74,575 £75,000
South East median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% -8.16% +3.16%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

Firewall is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 964 979 1,418
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.39% 15.97% 20.39%
Number of salaries quoted 684 554 758
10th Percentile £28,325 £26,250 £27,350
25th Percentile £34,500 £30,750 £35,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £59,000 £58,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £74,138 £79,125
South East median annual salary £47,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% -1.04%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 +43 167 £50,000 +7.53% 27
Oxfordshire +33 93 £42,500 +18.06% 15
Buckinghamshire -42 64 £41,500 +18.57% 5
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 73 (22.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 40 (12.38%) SharePoint
3 21 (6.50%) IIS
4 17 (5.26%) Apache
5 16 (4.95%) WordPress
6 14 (4.33%) CMS
7 13 (4.02%) nginx
8 3 (0.93%) Exchange Server 2013
9 1 (0.31%) Confluence
Applications
1 26 (8.05%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (7.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.24%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 146 (45.20%) Azure
2 143 (44.27%) Microsoft 365
3 41 (12.69%) AWS
4 33 (10.22%) Entra ID
5 22 (6.81%) Azure Storage
6 21 (6.50%) OneDrive
7 17 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
8 15 (4.64%) Azure Sentinel
9 12 (3.72%) iTunes
9 12 (3.72%) OCI
10 9 (2.79%) GCP
11 8 (2.48%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (1.55%) Amazon S3
13 5 (1.55%) SaaS
14 4 (1.24%) Dynamics 365
14 4 (1.24%) Google Workspace
15 3 (0.93%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 3 (0.93%) Azure Stack
15 3 (0.93%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 92 (28.48%) DNS
2 63 (19.50%) DHCP
3 54 (16.72%) VPN
4 41 (12.69%) WAN
5 40 (12.38%) Network Security
6 39 (12.07%) Wireless
7 38 (11.76%) SSL
8 34 (10.53%) TCP/IP
9 31 (9.60%) SAN
10 29 (8.98%) Intrusion Detection
10 29 (8.98%) Wi-Fi
11 28 (8.67%) SNMP
12 25 (7.74%) SD-WAN
13 22 (6.81%) LAN
14 21 (6.50%) VoIP
15 19 (5.88%) Internet
15 19 (5.88%) OSPF
15 19 (5.88%) VLAN
16 18 (5.57%) BGP
17 16 (4.95%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (13.62%) SQL Server
2 13 (4.02%) MySQL
3 5 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (1.55%) MongoDB
4 3 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (0.93%) Power BI
5 1 (0.31%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (0.31%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (1.24%) JIRA
2 3 (0.93%) Git
General
1 99 (30.65%) Social Skills
2 34 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (6.19%) Documentation Skills
4 15 (4.64%) Law
5 13 (4.02%) Finance
5 13 (4.02%) Marketing
6 10 (3.10%) Legal
6 10 (3.10%) Telecoms
7 9 (2.79%) Retail
8 8 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.55%) Games
10 4 (1.24%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.62%) Electronics
11 2 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.31%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 78 (24.15%) IT Engineer
2 75 (23.22%) Support Engineer
3 65 (20.12%) IT Support
4 62 (19.20%) IT Support Engineer
5 50 (15.48%) 3rd Line Support
6 48 (14.86%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 43 (13.31%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 40 (12.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 28 (8.67%) Analyst
10 26 (8.05%) Network Engineer
11 22 (6.81%) Senior
12 18 (5.57%) Architect
12 18 (5.57%) SOC Analyst
12 18 (5.57%) Systems Engineer
13 16 (4.95%) Lead
14 15 (4.64%) 2nd Line Support
14 15 (4.64%) IT Manager
14 15 (4.64%) Windows Engineer
15 14 (4.33%) Project Engineer
15 14 (4.33%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.33%) ARM Templates
2 12 (3.72%) 802.1X
3 5 (1.55%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (1.55%) Web Services
3 5 (1.55%) YAML
4 4 (1.24%) .NET
4 4 (1.24%) LAMP
4 4 (1.24%) REST
5 3 (0.93%) AngularJS
5 3 (0.93%) ASP.NET
5 3 (0.93%) ASP.NET MVC
5 3 (0.93%) Azure Blueprints
5 3 (0.93%) CSS
5 3 (0.93%) HTML
5 3 (0.93%) jQuery
5 3 (0.93%) React
5 3 (0.93%) Tailwind CSS
5 3 (0.93%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 3 (0.93%) Vue
5 3 (0.93%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 42 (13.00%) Management Information System
2 34 (10.53%) Data Centre
3 23 (7.12%) Self-Motivation
4 22 (6.81%) Replication
5 20 (6.19%) PKI
6 18 (5.57%) CMDB
6 18 (5.57%) Cyber Threat
7 17 (5.26%) Driving Licence
7 17 (5.26%) Security Operations Centre
8 13 (4.02%) Client/Server
9 9 (2.79%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (2.48%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.86%) CCTV
12 4 (1.24%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 4 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (1.24%) Security Posture
13 3 (0.93%) Video Conferencing
14 2 (0.62%) Digital Signage
14 2 (0.62%) IPTV
Operating Systems
1 185 (57.28%) Windows
2 111 (34.37%) Windows Server
3 86 (26.63%) Linux
4 43 (13.31%) Windows Server 2016
5 41 (12.69%) Windows Server 2019
6 32 (9.91%) Windows 10
7 21 (6.50%) Windows Server 2012
8 12 (3.72%) Windows XP
9 6 (1.86%) Android
9 6 (1.86%) Windows Server 2008
10 5 (1.55%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (1.55%) Ubuntu
11 4 (1.24%) Kali Linux
11 4 (1.24%) VMS
12 3 (0.93%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 2 (0.62%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.62%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (23.22%) Problem-Solving
2 72 (22.29%) Cybersecurity
3 52 (16.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 50 (15.48%) ITIL
5 34 (10.53%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 34 (10.53%) Project Management
6 33 (10.22%) Agile
7 32 (9.91%) SIEM
8 30 (9.29%) DevOps
8 30 (9.29%) Incident Response
9 29 (8.98%) Security Operations
10 26 (8.05%) Mentoring
11 25 (7.74%) Computer Science
12 23 (7.12%) Analytics
13 20 (6.19%) CI/CD
13 20 (6.19%) Infrastructure as Code
13 20 (6.19%) Service Management
14 19 (5.88%) Change Control
14 19 (5.88%) Disaster Recovery
14 19 (5.88%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 79 (24.46%) SQL
2 47 (14.55%) PowerShell
3 18 (5.57%) C#
4 15 (4.64%) VBScript
5 14 (4.33%) Bicep
5 14 (4.33%) VB
6 13 (4.02%) Python
7 12 (3.72%) PHP
8 7 (2.17%) Bash
9 3 (0.93%) XAML
10 1 (0.31%) Java
Qualifications
1 96 (29.72%) Degree
2 81 (25.08%) Security Cleared
3 66 (20.43%) SC Cleared
4 44 (13.62%) Cisco Certification
5 43 (13.31%) DV Cleared
6 34 (10.53%) CCNA
7 24 (7.43%) CCNP
7 24 (7.43%) CISSP
8 20 (6.19%) Computer Science Degree
9 19 (5.88%) CompTIA Security+
10 14 (4.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 11 (3.41%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (3.10%) MCSE
13 5 (1.55%) Azure Certification
13 5 (1.55%) MCP
13 5 (1.55%) Network+ Certification
14 4 (1.24%) AWS Certification
14 4 (1.24%) Master's Degree
15 2 (0.62%) GCIA
15 2 (0.62%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (4.02%) SLA
3 7 (2.17%) NIST
3 7 (2.17%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.55%) QA
5 4 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 3 (0.93%) GDPR
7 2 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.31%) COBIT
8 1 (0.31%) IASME
System Software
1 140 (43.34%) Active Directory
2 99 (30.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (13.93%) Hyper-V
4 19 (5.88%) Virtual Desktop
5 18 (5.57%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (4.33%) Docker
7 12 (3.72%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (2.48%) vSphere
9 4 (1.24%) Firmware
10 1 (0.31%) NFS
10 1 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.31%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 51 (15.79%) Microsoft Intune
2 44 (13.62%) SCOM
3 33 (10.22%) SCCM
4 29 (8.98%) Kubernetes
5 26 (8.05%) WSUS
6 20 (6.19%) vCenter Server
7 18 (5.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 14 (4.33%) Ansible
9 12 (3.72%) EMC NetWorker
9 12 (3.72%) NetBackup
10 6 (1.86%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (1.55%) Prometheus
12 4 (1.24%) Suricata
13 3 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.31%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
14 1 (0.31%) Grafana
14 1 (0.31%) Icinga
14 1 (0.31%) Nessus
14 1 (0.31%) Network Intrusion Detection System
14 1 (0.31%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 174 (53.87%) Microsoft
2 128 (39.63%) VMware
3 59 (18.27%) Cisco
4 54 (16.72%) Veeam
5 47 (14.55%) Juniper
6 38 (11.76%) Citrix
7 28 (8.67%) Palo Alto
8 22 (6.81%) HP
9 19 (5.88%) Fortinet
10 16 (4.95%) Aruba
10 16 (4.95%) Dell
10 16 (4.95%) Extreme Networks
11 14 (4.33%) Dynatrace
11 14 (4.33%) Oracle
12 13 (4.02%) EMC
13 12 (3.72%) 3PAR
13 12 (3.72%) Symantec
14 9 (2.79%) Sage
14 9 (2.79%) WatchGuard
15 8 (2.48%) Red Hat