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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 91 46
Rank change year-on-year +43 -45 +3
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 183 112 319
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.00% 3.15% 4.55%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 40.76% 19.38% 34.26%
Number of salaries quoted 137 89 276
10th Percentile £31,000 £34,600 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £37,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £45,096
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -0.21% +0.21%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £79,500 £65,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year - +11.76% -5.56%

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 449 578 931
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.37% 16.27% 13.28%
Number of salaries quoted 321 277 653
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,750 £28,050
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £35,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £44,089
Median % change year-on-year - +2.07% -3.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £59,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +11.76% -10.53% +3.83%

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 +47 97 £52,500 - 20
Buckinghamshire +11 59 £62,500 +66.67% 13
Oxfordshire -9 27 £37,500 -9.64% 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 32 (17.49%) SharePoint
2 31 (16.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.19%) Apache
3 4 (2.19%) Confluence
4 1 (0.55%) IIS
4 1 (0.55%) nginx
Business Applications
1 5 (2.73%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 87 (47.54%) Azure
2 59 (32.24%) Microsoft 365
3 52 (28.42%) AWS
4 20 (10.93%) Entra ID
5 13 (7.10%) GCP
6 11 (6.01%) Azure Sentinel
7 10 (5.46%) OpenShift
8 8 (4.37%) Cloudflare
8 8 (4.37%) Power Automate
9 6 (3.28%) OneDrive
10 5 (2.73%) Apigee
10 5 (2.73%) Google Workspace
10 5 (2.73%) Kong
11 3 (1.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (1.64%) IaaS
11 3 (1.64%) Power Platform
12 1 (0.55%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.55%) Azure Logic Apps
12 1 (0.55%) Mimecast
12 1 (0.55%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 86 (46.99%) DNS
2 76 (41.53%) VPN
3 43 (23.50%) Wi-Fi
4 36 (19.67%) DHCP
4 36 (19.67%) WAN
5 29 (15.85%) LAN
6 28 (15.30%) TCP/IP
6 28 (15.30%) VLAN
7 22 (12.02%) VoIP
8 20 (10.93%) Wireless
9 19 (10.38%) Network Security
10 12 (6.56%) SAN
11 11 (6.01%) PBX
12 10 (5.46%) Remote Desktop
12 10 (5.46%) Unified Communications
12 10 (5.46%) Wireshark
13 9 (4.92%) DECT
13 9 (4.92%) HTTP
13 9 (4.92%) SD-WAN
14 8 (4.37%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.46%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.37%) MySQL
2 8 (4.37%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.64%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (7.10%) GitLab
2 6 (3.28%) Git
3 4 (2.19%) JIRA
General
1 71 (38.80%) Social Skills
2 24 (13.11%) Telecoms
3 18 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.74%) Organisational Skills
5 14 (7.65%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (6.01%) Finance
7 6 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (3.28%) Marketing
7 6 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.73%) Retail
9 4 (2.19%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.09%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.55%) Aviation
11 1 (0.55%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.55%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 37 (20.22%) Senior
2 31 (16.94%) Architect
3 27 (14.75%) Network Engineer
4 26 (14.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 26 (14.21%) IT Support
5 23 (12.57%) IT Engineer
6 18 (9.84%) Applications Architect
7 17 (9.29%) Support Engineer
8 16 (8.74%) Analyst
9 15 (8.20%) IT Support Engineer
9 15 (8.20%) Security Architect
10 12 (6.56%) Security Engineer
10 12 (6.56%) Support Technician
11 11 (6.01%) 2nd Line Support
11 11 (6.01%) IT Support Technician
11 11 (6.01%) IT Technician
12 10 (5.46%) Automation Engineer
12 10 (5.46%) Telecoms Engineer
13 9 (4.92%) Linux Engineer
13 9 (4.92%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (12.02%) Regular Expression
2 18 (9.84%) LDAP
2 18 (9.84%) XMPP
3 16 (8.74%) JSON
4 11 (6.01%) XML
5 10 (5.46%) Jinja
5 10 (5.46%) YAML
6 6 (3.28%) JSON Schema
7 5 (2.73%) REST
7 5 (2.73%) YANG
8 1 (0.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.11%) Self-Motivation
2 21 (11.48%) Driving Licence
3 15 (8.20%) PKI
4 11 (6.01%) Cyber Defence
5 9 (4.92%) Cloud Native
5 9 (4.92%) Cyber Threat
5 9 (4.92%) Web Conferencing
6 8 (4.37%) Management Information System
6 8 (4.37%) Security Posture
7 7 (3.83%) Onboarding
8 6 (3.28%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (2.73%) CCTV
9 5 (2.73%) Data Centre
9 5 (2.73%) Private Cloud
10 4 (2.19%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.64%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (1.64%) Security Operations Centre
11 3 (1.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 109 (59.56%) Windows
2 78 (42.62%) Linux
3 77 (42.08%) Windows Server
4 30 (16.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (5.46%) Mac OS
6 8 (4.37%) Windows 10
7 5 (2.73%) Unix
8 4 (2.19%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (1.09%) CentOS
10 1 (0.55%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.55%) OpenBSD
10 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (27.32%) Problem-Solving
2 42 (22.95%) SIEM
3 38 (20.77%) Cybersecurity
4 34 (18.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 30 (16.39%) Continuous Improvement
6 29 (15.85%) ITIL
7 27 (14.75%) Disaster Recovery
8 25 (13.66%) Validation
9 23 (12.57%) Customer Service
10 19 (10.38%) Application Security
10 19 (10.38%) High Availability
10 19 (10.38%) Platform Engineering
10 19 (10.38%) Time Management
11 18 (9.84%) Task Automation
12 17 (9.29%) Antivirus Management
12 17 (9.29%) Incident Response
13 16 (8.74%) CI/CD
13 16 (8.74%) Containerisation
13 16 (8.74%) Pattern Matching
14 15 (8.20%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 45 (24.59%) PowerShell
2 35 (19.13%) Python
3 23 (12.57%) Bash
4 7 (3.83%) Search Processing Language
5 6 (3.28%) Korn
5 6 (3.28%) Shell Script
6 5 (2.73%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.64%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (1.09%) C
9 1 (0.55%) Bicep
9 1 (0.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (24.59%) Security Cleared
2 32 (17.49%) Degree
3 30 (16.39%) DV Cleared
4 16 (8.74%) Cisco Certification
5 14 (7.65%) CCNA
6 12 (6.56%) GCIA
6 12 (6.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (6.01%) CCNP
7 11 (6.01%) CompTIA Security+
7 11 (6.01%) SC Cleared
8 10 (5.46%) SANS
9 9 (4.92%) GIAC
9 9 (4.92%) Network+ Certification
10 8 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (4.37%) CREST Certified
10 8 (4.37%) GCIH
11 7 (3.83%) DBS Check
11 7 (3.83%) GCED
12 6 (3.28%) OSCP
13 5 (2.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.74%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (4.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (4.37%) SLA
3 7 (3.83%) GDPR
4 5 (2.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (1.64%) NCSC
5 3 (1.64%) QA
5 3 (1.64%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.09%) NIST
7 1 (0.55%) GRC
System Software
1 85 (46.45%) Active Directory
2 33 (18.03%) Hyper-V
3 32 (17.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (14.75%) vSphere
5 12 (6.56%) Docker
6 9 (4.92%) KVM
6 9 (4.92%) VMware NSX
7 8 (4.37%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 5 (2.73%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (1.64%) BitLocker
9 3 (1.64%) Terminal Services
10 2 (1.09%) Samba
11 1 (0.55%) Squid
11 1 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 16 (8.74%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (7.65%) Kubernetes
3 9 (4.92%) Graylog
3 9 (4.92%) Proxmox
4 8 (4.37%) Kibana
4 8 (4.37%) ZABBIX
5 6 (3.28%) Terraform
5 6 (3.28%) vRealize
6 4 (2.19%) Ansible
6 4 (2.19%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (1.64%) Grafana
7 3 (1.64%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.55%) Autotask
8 1 (0.55%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.55%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.55%) QRadar
Vendors
1 107 (58.47%) Microsoft
2 72 (39.34%) VMware
3 36 (19.67%) Red Hat
4 30 (16.39%) Cisco
5 17 (9.29%) Palo Alto
6 14 (7.65%) McAfee
6 14 (7.65%) Veeam
7 13 (7.10%) Fortinet
8 12 (6.56%) Aruba
9 11 (6.01%) Juniper
10 10 (5.46%) Splunk
11 9 (4.92%) CrowdStrike
12 8 (4.37%) Dell
13 7 (3.83%) Carbon Black
14 6 (3.28%) Google
15 5 (2.73%) Datto
15 5 (2.73%) F5
16 4 (2.19%) Citrix
16 4 (2.19%) IBM
16 4 (2.19%) SonicWALL