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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 85 57
Rank change year-on-year +34 -28 -23
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 188 133 190
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.72% 3.41% 3.76%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 40.87% 22.50% 30.02%
Number of salaries quoted 155 108 141
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £33,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £37,250 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% 0.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,250 £56,525
90th Percentile £68,750 £71,500 £67,500
South East median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £45,449
% change year-on-year +5.56% -0.99% -4.32%

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 460 591 633
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 6.65% 15.15% 12.52%
Number of salaries quoted 361 284 392
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,075 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £34,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% 0.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £62,813
90th Percentile £72,500 £73,075 £80,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £41,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.46% -17.00% +1.01%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 +49 93 £52,500 +5.00% 16
Buckinghamshire +6 58 £62,500 +38.89% 6
Oxfordshire -18 37 £45,500 +9.64% 13
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 52 (27.66%) SharePoint
2 45 (23.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.66%) Apache
3 5 (2.66%) nginx
4 4 (2.13%) Confluence
5 1 (0.53%) IIS
Business Applications
1 6 (3.19%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 105 (55.85%) Azure
2 69 (36.70%) Microsoft 365
3 50 (26.60%) AWS
4 38 (20.21%) Entra ID
5 15 (7.98%) Azure Sentinel
6 11 (5.85%) Google Workspace
7 10 (5.32%) GCP
7 10 (5.32%) IaaS
7 10 (5.32%) Power Automate
8 8 (4.26%) Cloudflare
9 6 (3.19%) OneDrive
9 6 (3.19%) OpenShift
10 5 (2.66%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (1.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (1.60%) Apigee
11 3 (1.60%) Kong
11 3 (1.60%) Power Platform
12 1 (0.53%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.53%) PaaS
12 1 (0.53%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 107 (56.91%) DNS
2 82 (43.62%) VPN
3 57 (30.32%) DHCP
4 51 (27.13%) Wi-Fi
5 39 (20.74%) VLAN
6 36 (19.15%) TCP/IP
7 32 (17.02%) WAN
8 31 (16.49%) LAN
8 31 (16.49%) Network Security
9 25 (13.30%) Wireless
10 21 (11.17%) VoIP
11 15 (7.98%) SD-WAN
11 15 (7.98%) SSL
12 9 (4.79%) SAN
13 8 (4.26%) Cisco Firepower
13 8 (4.26%) HTTP
13 8 (4.26%) Remote Desktop
14 7 (3.72%) NAS
15 5 (2.66%) Cisco Nexus
15 5 (2.66%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.26%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.66%) MySQL
2 5 (2.66%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.60%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (4.26%) GitLab
2 4 (2.13%) JIRA
3 3 (1.60%) Git
General
1 77 (40.96%) Social Skills
2 16 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (7.98%) Documentation Skills
4 14 (7.45%) Retail
5 12 (6.38%) Telecoms
6 10 (5.32%) Finance
7 8 (4.26%) Manufacturing
8 7 (3.72%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (3.19%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.06%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.53%) Aviation
11 1 (0.53%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 44 (23.40%) Senior
2 35 (18.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 34 (18.09%) IT Support
4 33 (17.55%) Network Engineer
5 31 (16.49%) IT Engineer
6 28 (14.89%) Architect
7 26 (13.83%) Support Engineer
8 23 (12.23%) IT Support Engineer
9 17 (9.04%) Applications Architect
10 16 (8.51%) Security Engineer
11 14 (7.45%) Security Architect
12 13 (6.91%) Analyst
13 12 (6.38%) Senior IT Engineer
14 11 (5.85%) Senior IT Support
14 11 (5.85%) Senior Support Engineer
15 10 (5.32%) Support Technician
16 9 (4.79%) 3rd Line Support
16 9 (4.79%) IT Support Technician
16 9 (4.79%) IT Technician
16 9 (4.79%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (11.17%) Regular Expression
2 19 (10.11%) XMPP
3 17 (9.04%) LDAP
4 11 (5.85%) JSON
5 8 (4.26%) XML
6 6 (3.19%) Jinja
6 6 (3.19%) YAML
7 5 (2.66%) JSON Schema
7 5 (2.66%) Web Services
8 4 (2.13%) Terraform
9 3 (1.60%) REST
9 3 (1.60%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 30 (15.96%) Driving Licence
2 20 (10.64%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (7.98%) PKI
4 10 (5.32%) Cyber Defence
5 8 (4.26%) Cyber Threat
5 8 (4.26%) Private Cloud
6 7 (3.72%) Cloud Native
6 7 (3.72%) Data Centre
6 7 (3.72%) Security Operations Centre
7 6 (3.19%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (3.19%) CCTV
7 6 (3.19%) CSOC
7 6 (3.19%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (3.19%) Security Posture
7 6 (3.19%) Virtual Team
8 5 (2.66%) Management Information System
9 4 (2.13%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.60%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (1.60%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 116 (61.70%) Windows
2 78 (41.49%) Windows Server
3 72 (38.30%) Linux
4 26 (13.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (6.91%) Windows 10
6 11 (5.85%) Mac OS
7 10 (5.32%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (1.60%) Unix
9 2 (1.06%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (26.60%) Disaster Recovery
2 48 (25.53%) Cybersecurity
2 48 (25.53%) SIEM
3 47 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 45 (23.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 40 (21.28%) Continuous Improvement
6 29 (15.43%) ITIL
7 28 (14.89%) Validation
8 27 (14.36%) High Availability
9 26 (13.83%) Project Delivery
10 25 (13.30%) Zero Trust
11 24 (12.77%) Customer Service
12 19 (10.11%) Root Cause Analysis
13 18 (9.57%) Application Security
13 18 (9.57%) Incident Response
13 18 (9.57%) Platform Engineering
14 17 (9.04%) Antivirus Management
14 17 (9.04%) Kalman Filter
14 17 (9.04%) Migration
14 17 (9.04%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 56 (29.79%) PowerShell
2 36 (19.15%) Python
3 23 (12.23%) Bash
4 7 (3.72%) Kusto Query Language
4 7 (3.72%) Search Processing Language
5 5 (2.66%) Korn
5 5 (2.66%) Shell Script
6 3 (1.60%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.06%) Go
Qualifications
1 50 (26.60%) Security Cleared
2 38 (20.21%) Degree
3 33 (17.55%) Microsoft Certification
4 29 (15.43%) Cisco Certification
5 28 (14.89%) DV Cleared
6 21 (11.17%) CCNA
6 21 (11.17%) CompTIA Security+
7 20 (10.64%) CCNP
8 19 (10.11%) SC Cleared
9 16 (8.51%) GCIA
10 15 (7.98%) Azure Certification
10 15 (7.98%) Network+ Certification
11 14 (7.45%) DBS Check
12 13 (6.91%) GIAC
13 11 (5.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 10 (5.32%) SANS
15 9 (4.79%) CISSP
16 8 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
16 8 (4.26%) CREST Certified
16 8 (4.26%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (17.02%) Cyber Essentials
2 12 (6.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 9 (4.79%) NCSC
4 8 (4.26%) GDPR
4 8 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.13%) SLA
6 3 (1.60%) QA
6 3 (1.60%) SOC 2
7 2 (1.06%) NIST
System Software
1 90 (47.87%) Active Directory
2 44 (23.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (20.21%) Hyper-V
4 27 (14.36%) vSphere
5 9 (4.79%) Docker
6 8 (4.26%) KVM
7 7 (3.72%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (3.72%) VMware NSX
8 5 (2.66%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 5 (2.66%) Squid
8 5 (2.66%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (1.60%) BitLocker
9 3 (1.60%) Terminal Services
10 2 (1.06%) iptables
11 1 (0.53%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 43 (22.87%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (5.85%) Jamf Pro
3 10 (5.32%) Kubernetes
4 9 (4.79%) Graylog
5 8 (4.26%) Kibana
5 8 (4.26%) Proxmox
5 8 (4.26%) ZABBIX
6 7 (3.72%) FortiGate
7 3 (1.60%) Ansible
7 3 (1.60%) Grafana
7 3 (1.60%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.60%) Stealthwatch
8 2 (1.06%) vRealize
9 1 (0.53%) Autotask
9 1 (0.53%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.53%) QRadar
Vendors
1 124 (65.96%) Microsoft
2 81 (43.09%) VMware
3 48 (25.53%) Cisco
4 30 (15.96%) Red Hat
5 25 (13.30%) Fortinet
6 24 (12.77%) Veeam
7 17 (9.04%) Palo Alto
8 15 (7.98%) McAfee
9 12 (6.38%) Apple
9 12 (6.38%) Aruba
9 12 (6.38%) Datto
9 12 (6.38%) Google
10 11 (5.85%) SonicWALL
11 10 (5.32%) Juniper
11 10 (5.32%) Splunk
12 9 (4.79%) CrowdStrike
13 7 (3.72%) Carbon Black
14 5 (2.66%) Dell
15 4 (2.13%) IBM
15 4 (2.13%) NetApp