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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 72 38
Rank change year-on-year -2 -34 +26
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 124 144 202
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.52% 3.32% 6.06%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 38.51% 26.62% 36.20%
Number of salaries quoted 104 85 191
10th Percentile £32,750 £35,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,263 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65,313 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £74,250
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 322 541 558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.13% 12.48% 16.75%
Number of salaries quoted 244 255 426
10th Percentile £27,250 £31,250 £28,290
25th Percentile £31,719 £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 £82,500 £77,250
South East median annual salary £43,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -20.91% +10.00% +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 7 November 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 7 November 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 -17 55 £49,500 -10.00% 133
Buckinghamshire +18 35 £60,000 +32.60% 27
Oxfordshire +31 34 £41,500 -21.02% 20
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 28 (22.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (12.90%) SharePoint
3 10 (8.06%) Exchange Server 2013
4 7 (5.65%) IIS
5 3 (2.42%) WinCC
6 2 (1.61%) Confluence
6 2 (1.61%) FactoryTalk
7 1 (0.81%) ArchestrA
7 1 (0.81%) CMS
7 1 (0.81%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (4.84%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 60 (48.39%) Azure
2 58 (46.77%) Microsoft 365
3 42 (33.87%) AWS
4 16 (12.90%) Entra ID
5 7 (5.65%) GCP
6 5 (4.03%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (4.03%) Amazon S3
6 5 (4.03%) SaaS
6 5 (4.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (2.42%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (2.42%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.42%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (2.42%) Google Workspace
7 3 (2.42%) PaaS
7 3 (2.42%) Serverless
8 2 (1.61%) Azure AI
8 2 (1.61%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (1.61%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (1.61%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 37 (29.84%) DNS
2 30 (24.19%) VPN
3 28 (22.58%) SAN
4 25 (20.16%) DHCP
5 24 (19.35%) WAN
6 23 (18.55%) VLAN
7 21 (16.94%) TCP/IP
8 18 (14.52%) Wi-Fi
9 17 (13.71%) LAN
10 15 (12.10%) Wireless
11 13 (10.48%) Network Security
12 9 (7.26%) iSCSI
12 9 (7.26%) Remote Desktop
13 8 (6.45%) VoIP
14 7 (5.65%) IP Telephony
15 5 (4.03%) NAS
15 5 (4.03%) SD-WAN
16 4 (3.23%) Modbus
16 4 (3.23%) Unified Communications
16 4 (3.23%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.10%) SQL Server
2 12 (9.68%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (8.87%) MySQL
4 9 (7.26%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.61%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.61%) Power BI
6 1 (0.81%) DTS
Development Applications
1 5 (4.03%) Git
2 3 (2.42%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.61%) JIRA
3 2 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (1.61%) Vagrant
4 1 (0.81%) Maven
4 1 (0.81%) MSBuild
General
1 57 (45.97%) Social Skills
2 9 (7.26%) Organisational Skills
3 8 (6.45%) Telecoms
4 5 (4.03%) Retail
5 4 (3.23%) Marketing
6 3 (2.42%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.81%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.81%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.81%) Finance
8 1 (0.81%) Humanities
8 1 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.81%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 31 (25.00%) Senior
2 17 (13.71%) Support Technician
3 16 (12.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 16 (12.90%) IT Support
4 13 (10.48%) Support Engineer
5 12 (9.68%) Infrastructure Manager
5 12 (9.68%) Linux Engineer
6 11 (8.87%) IT Engineer
7 10 (8.06%) 3rd Line Support
7 10 (8.06%) 3rd Line Support Technician
7 10 (8.06%) IT Support Engineer
7 10 (8.06%) Security Engineer
8 9 (7.26%) Cisco Engineer
8 9 (7.26%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 9 (7.26%) Field Engineer
8 9 (7.26%) Senior Linux Engineer
8 9 (7.26%) Senior Security Engineer
9 8 (6.45%) Analyst
9 8 (6.45%) Cisco Field Engineer
9 8 (6.45%) 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 14 (11.29%) Replication
2 10 (8.06%) Cloud Native
3 9 (7.26%) Data Centre
3 9 (7.26%) Driving Licence
3 9 (7.26%) Management Information System
3 9 (7.26%) Security Operations Centre
4 7 (5.65%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.23%) Operational Technology
5 4 (3.23%) SCADA
5 4 (3.23%) Web Conferencing
6 3 (2.42%) PKI
6 3 (2.42%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (2.42%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.61%) Clustering
7 2 (1.61%) Fibre Optics
7 2 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.61%) NHS
8 1 (0.81%) CMDB
8 1 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.81%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 74 (59.68%) Windows
2 46 (37.10%) Windows Server
3 28 (22.58%) Linux
4 17 (13.71%) Windows Server 2019
5 12 (9.68%) Mac OS
6 10 (8.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (4.03%) Apple iOS
8 4 (3.23%) Unix
8 4 (3.23%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (2.42%) Windows 10
10 2 (1.61%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (1.61%) VMS
10 2 (1.61%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.81%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (29.84%) ITIL
2 33 (26.61%) Cybersecurity
3 25 (20.16%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (18.55%) Agile
5 18 (14.52%) Business Continuity
6 16 (12.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 16 (12.90%) Mentoring
7 15 (12.10%) Disaster Recovery
7 15 (12.10%) Information Security
7 15 (12.10%) Project Delivery
8 14 (11.29%) Knowledge Transfer
8 14 (11.29%) Migration
9 13 (10.48%) Security Operations
9 13 (10.48%) Time Management
10 11 (8.87%) SIEM
11 10 (8.06%) Customer Service
11 10 (8.06%) High Availability
11 10 (8.06%) Presales
11 10 (8.06%) Service Delivery
12 8 (6.45%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 23 (18.55%) PowerShell
2 17 (13.71%) Bash
3 11 (8.87%) Python
4 9 (7.26%) Korn
5 5 (4.03%) SQL
6 3 (2.42%) Bicep
6 3 (2.42%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (1.61%) Groovy
7 2 (1.61%) Java
7 2 (1.61%) 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 25 (20.16%) Degree
2 15 (12.10%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (8.87%) CCNA
3 11 (8.87%) CISSP
4 10 (8.06%) CCNP
4 10 (8.06%) SC Cleared
4 10 (8.06%) Security Cleared
5 8 (6.45%) CompTIA Security+
6 7 (5.65%) GCIA
6 7 (5.65%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (5.65%) SANS
7 5 (4.03%) Azure Certification
7 5 (4.03%) MCSE
8 4 (3.23%) DBS Check
9 3 (2.42%) CISM
9 3 (2.42%) MCP
9 3 (2.42%) MCSA
9 3 (2.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (1.61%) CEH
10 2 (1.61%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (21.77%) Cyber Essentials
2 26 (20.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (12.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 7 (5.65%) SLA
5 3 (2.42%) GDPR
5 3 (2.42%) IEC 61508
5 3 (2.42%) QA
6 2 (1.61%) GRC
6 2 (1.61%) IEC 61131
6 2 (1.61%) NIST
7 1 (0.81%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.81%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.81%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 45 (36.29%) Active Directory
2 31 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 29 (23.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (11.29%) Docker
5 12 (9.68%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (7.26%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 7 (5.65%) Terminal Services
8 5 (4.03%) vSphere
9 3 (2.42%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (1.61%) DFS Replication
11 1 (0.81%) NFS
11 1 (0.81%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 37 (29.84%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (12.10%) SCCM
3 10 (8.06%) Kubernetes
4 9 (7.26%) Terraform
5 5 (4.03%) Ansible
6 2 (1.61%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (1.61%) Grafana
6 2 (1.61%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.81%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.81%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (0.81%) WSUS
Vendors
1 74 (59.68%) Microsoft
2 42 (33.87%) VMware
3 22 (17.74%) Cisco
4 16 (12.90%) Sophos
5 12 (9.68%) Draytek
6 11 (8.87%) Apple
6 11 (8.87%) Meraki
7 10 (8.06%) arcserve
7 10 (8.06%) Red Hat
7 10 (8.06%) Splunk
8 9 (7.26%) Dell
9 7 (5.65%) Palo Alto
10 5 (4.03%) Aruba
10 5 (4.03%) LogicMonitor
11 4 (3.23%) Fortinet
11 4 (3.23%) Google
12 3 (2.42%) Atlassian
12 3 (2.42%) Forcepoint
12 3 (2.42%) ServiceNow
12 3 (2.42%) Siemens