Firewall Jobs in the Thames Valley

Firewall
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Firewall skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Firewall over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 48 51
Rank change year-on-year -42 +3 +28
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 109 324 297
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.10% 4.43% 5.49%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 18.60% 33.30% 31.07%
Number of salaries quoted 86 279 243
10th Percentile £34,375 £32,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,500 £37,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £46,750 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.74% +3.89% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,188 £58,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £80,625 £65,000 £74,250
South East median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -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 586 973 956
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 16.64% 13.29% 17.67%
Number of salaries quoted 271 658 539
10th Percentile £25,750 £28,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,313 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £44,089 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.07% -2.03% -10.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £59,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £74,250
South East median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
% change year-on-year -10.53% +3.83% -3.68%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 -40 46 £51,250 +2.50% 118
Buckinghamshire +11 38 £37,500 -9.64% 43
Oxfordshire -10 25 £41,500 -2.35% 33
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 36 (33.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (21.10%) SharePoint
3 9 (8.26%) Exchange Server 2013
4 8 (7.34%) IIS
5 5 (4.59%) Apache
6 2 (1.83%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (7.34%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.67%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 52 (47.71%) Azure
2 48 (44.04%) Microsoft 365
3 36 (33.03%) AWS
4 20 (18.35%) Entra ID
5 9 (8.26%) Amazon S3
5 9 (8.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 7 (6.42%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (6.42%) Serverless
7 6 (5.50%) AWS KMS
8 5 (4.59%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (3.67%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (3.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 3 (2.75%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.75%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.75%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (1.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (1.83%) Amazon Glacier
11 2 (1.83%) Azure Key Vault
11 2 (1.83%) GCP
11 2 (1.83%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 32 (29.36%) VPN
2 31 (28.44%) DNS
3 25 (22.94%) WAN
4 19 (17.43%) LAN
4 19 (17.43%) SAN
5 17 (15.60%) DHCP
5 17 (15.60%) VLAN
6 16 (14.68%) Wi-Fi
7 13 (11.93%) Network Security
8 12 (11.01%) VoIP
9 11 (10.09%) IP Telephony
9 11 (10.09%) Remote Desktop
10 10 (9.17%) SD-WAN
10 10 (9.17%) TCP/IP
11 6 (5.50%) BGP
11 6 (5.50%) iSCSI
11 6 (5.50%) OSPF
12 4 (3.67%) Cisco ASA
12 4 (3.67%) Cisco Nexus
12 4 (3.67%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (14.68%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (13.76%) SQL Server
3 8 (7.34%) MySQL
4 6 (5.50%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (4.59%) Relational Database
6 4 (3.67%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.83%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.83%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (6.42%) Jenkins
2 5 (4.59%) Git
3 4 (3.67%) Bitbucket Server
4 2 (1.83%) JIRA
4 2 (1.83%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (1.83%) Vagrant
5 1 (0.92%) Maven
5 1 (0.92%) MSBuild
General
1 52 (47.71%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.26%) Telecoms
3 8 (7.34%) Finance
3 8 (7.34%) Spanish Language
4 6 (5.50%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (4.59%) Back Office
5 5 (4.59%) Local Government
5 5 (4.59%) Manufacturing
5 5 (4.59%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.83%) Retail
7 1 (0.92%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (22.02%) Analyst
2 20 (18.35%) Senior
2 20 (18.35%) Support Technician
3 16 (14.68%) Technical Support
4 14 (12.84%) 1st Line Support
4 14 (12.84%) 1st Line Support Analyst
4 14 (12.84%) IT Support
4 14 (12.84%) Support Analyst
5 13 (11.93%) Support Engineer
6 11 (10.09%) Help Desk Support
6 11 (10.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (10.09%) Network Engineer
7 10 (9.17%) 3rd Line Support
7 10 (9.17%) IT Engineer
8 9 (8.26%) 3rd Line Support Technician
9 8 (7.34%) IT Support Engineer
10 7 (6.42%) DevOps Engineer
11 6 (5.50%) Linux Engineer
11 6 (5.50%) Senior Linux Engineer
11 6 (5.50%) Software Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.67%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.92%) .NET
2 1 (0.92%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 19 (17.43%) Onboarding
2 16 (14.68%) Data Centre
3 11 (10.09%) Management Information System
3 11 (10.09%) Replication
4 6 (5.50%) Cloud Native
4 6 (5.50%) Security Posture
5 5 (4.59%) Client/Server
5 5 (4.59%) Operational Technology
6 3 (2.75%) Driving Licence
6 3 (2.75%) PKI
6 3 (2.75%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (2.75%) Video Conferencing
6 3 (2.75%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.83%) IoT
7 2 (1.83%) NHS
7 2 (1.83%) Self-Driving Car
8 1 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.92%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 63 (57.80%) Windows
2 53 (48.62%) Windows Server
3 23 (21.10%) Mac OS
4 22 (20.18%) Linux
5 7 (6.42%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (5.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (5.50%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (4.59%) Windows 10
8 4 (3.67%) Apple iOS
8 4 (3.67%) Ubuntu
8 4 (3.67%) Unix
9 3 (2.75%) Android
10 2 (1.83%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (1.83%) VMS
11 1 (0.92%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (27.52%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (26.61%) ITIL
3 21 (19.27%) Agile
4 18 (16.51%) Cybersecurity
4 18 (16.51%) Information Security
5 16 (14.68%) Business Continuity
5 16 (14.68%) Project Delivery
6 15 (13.76%) Customer Service
6 15 (13.76%) Server Management
7 14 (12.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 13 (11.93%) Disaster Recovery
8 13 (11.93%) Knowledge Transfer
8 13 (11.93%) Service Delivery
9 11 (10.09%) Analytics
9 11 (10.09%) Migration
10 9 (8.26%) Case Management
10 9 (8.26%) DevOps
10 9 (8.26%) Remote Monitoring and Management
11 8 (7.34%) Mentoring
11 8 (7.34%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (22.02%) PowerShell
2 14 (12.84%) Python
3 12 (11.01%) Bash
4 7 (6.42%) SQL
5 6 (5.50%) Korn
6 4 (3.67%) Kusto Query Language
6 4 (3.67%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.83%) Bicep
7 2 (1.83%) Groovy
7 2 (1.83%) Java
7 2 (1.83%) Perl
8 1 (0.92%) C#
8 1 (0.92%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.92%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 18 (16.51%) Degree
2 15 (13.76%) Security Cleared
3 14 (12.84%) Cisco Certification
3 14 (12.84%) SC Cleared
4 10 (9.17%) CCNP
5 7 (6.42%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (4.59%) Azure Certification
6 5 (4.59%) CCNA
6 5 (4.59%) CISSP
6 5 (4.59%) DBS Check
6 5 (4.59%) MCP
6 5 (4.59%) MCSA
7 4 (3.67%) MCSE
8 3 (2.75%) CISM
9 2 (1.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (1.83%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.83%) CCIE
9 2 (1.83%) CCSP
9 2 (1.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.92%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (16.51%) Cyber Essentials
2 15 (13.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (11.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 4 (3.67%) SLA
5 3 (2.75%) GDPR
6 1 (0.92%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.92%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 44 (40.37%) Active Directory
2 40 (36.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (26.61%) Hyper-V
4 14 (12.84%) Docker
5 11 (10.09%) Terminal Services
5 11 (10.09%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (7.34%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (5.50%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 4 (3.67%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (1.83%) DFS Replication
10 1 (0.92%) Firmware
10 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.92%) NFS
10 1 (0.92%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.92%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 26 (23.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (11.93%) SCCM
3 11 (10.09%) Terraform
4 8 (7.34%) Ansible
5 7 (6.42%) Kubernetes
6 6 (5.50%) vCenter Server
7 5 (4.59%) FortiGate
7 5 (4.59%) ZABBIX
8 4 (3.67%) Nessus
8 4 (3.67%) Proxmox
9 2 (1.83%) Grafana
9 2 (1.83%) Prometheus
9 2 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.83%) ZENworks
10 1 (0.92%) WSUS
Vendors
1 81 (74.31%) Microsoft
2 42 (38.53%) VMware
3 20 (18.35%) Apple
4 14 (12.84%) Cisco
5 11 (10.09%) Sophos
6 10 (9.17%) Juniper
7 9 (8.26%) arcserve
8 7 (6.42%) Dell
9 6 (5.50%) Meraki
9 6 (5.50%) Oracle
9 6 (5.50%) Red Hat
9 6 (5.50%) Splunk
10 5 (4.59%) Ubiquiti
11 4 (3.67%) F5
11 4 (3.67%) Fortinet
12 3 (2.75%) HP
12 3 (2.75%) SonicWALL
13 2 (1.83%) Databricks
13 2 (1.83%) ServiceNow
14 1 (0.92%) CrowdStrike