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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 97 40
Rank change year-on-year +41 -57 +20
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 148 85 319
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.61% 2.55% 4.88%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 31.76% 16.28% 34.56%
Number of salaries quoted 93 69 293
10th Percentile £31,000 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,623 £45,000 £46,750
Median % change year-on-year +25.83% -3.74% +3.89%
75th Percentile £68,750 £62,500 £59,000
90th Percentile £72,000 £75,000 £63,500
South East median annual salary £52,500 £49,239 £42,500
% change year-on-year +6.62% +15.86% -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 466 522 923
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 8.22% 15.65% 14.11%
Number of salaries quoted 265 215 686
10th Percentile £26,550 £25,750 £28,375
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,000 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £59,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,750 £70,000
South East median annual salary £47,000 £47,500 £47,000
% change year-on-year -1.05% +1.06% +4.44%

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 May 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 7 May 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 +38 81 £52,500 - 24
Buckinghamshire +6 44 £62,500 +66.67% 6
Oxfordshire +15 23 £34,000 -20.00% 11
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 21 (14.19%) SharePoint
2 19 (12.84%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.03%) Apache
4 1 (0.68%) CMS
4 1 (0.68%) Confluence
4 1 (0.68%) IIS
4 1 (0.68%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (4.05%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 60 (40.54%) Azure
2 46 (31.08%) Microsoft 365
3 39 (26.35%) AWS
4 14 (9.46%) GCP
5 11 (7.43%) Entra ID
6 10 (6.76%) OpenShift
7 7 (4.73%) Google Workspace
8 5 (3.38%) Apigee
8 5 (3.38%) Azure Sentinel
8 5 (3.38%) Kong
9 4 (2.70%) OneDrive
10 3 (2.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (2.03%) Power Automate
10 3 (2.03%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.35%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (1.35%) Cloudflare
11 2 (1.35%) SaaS
12 1 (0.68%) IaaS
12 1 (0.68%) Mimecast
12 1 (0.68%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 61 (41.22%) DNS
2 46 (31.08%) VPN
3 27 (18.24%) WAN
4 24 (16.22%) TCP/IP
5 23 (15.54%) DHCP
6 22 (14.86%) VoIP
7 17 (11.49%) Wi-Fi
8 16 (10.81%) LAN
9 15 (10.14%) VLAN
10 14 (9.46%) PBX
11 13 (8.78%) SAN
11 13 (8.78%) Wireshark
12 12 (8.11%) DECT
12 12 (8.11%) Unified Communications
13 11 (7.43%) Wireless
14 9 (6.08%) DSL
15 8 (5.41%) iSCSI
15 8 (5.41%) NAS
15 8 (5.41%) Remote Desktop
16 7 (4.73%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.76%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.41%) MySQL
2 8 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.03%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (9.46%) GitLab
2 6 (4.05%) Git
3 1 (0.68%) JIRA
General
1 57 (38.51%) Social Skills
2 28 (18.92%) Telecoms
3 15 (10.14%) Finance
4 14 (9.46%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (9.46%) Organisational Skills
5 9 (6.08%) Marketing
6 8 (5.41%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.38%) Retail
8 4 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.70%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.68%) Aviation
9 1 (0.68%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.68%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.68%) Law
9 1 (0.68%) Legal
Job Titles
1 29 (19.59%) Senior
2 28 (18.92%) Architect
3 17 (11.49%) Analyst
3 17 (11.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 17 (11.49%) IT Support
4 15 (10.14%) 2nd Line Support
4 15 (10.14%) Network Engineer
5 14 (9.46%) Applications Architect
5 14 (9.46%) Support Engineer
6 13 (8.78%) IT Engineer
7 11 (7.43%) IT Support Engineer
7 11 (7.43%) Security Architect
8 10 (6.76%) Automation Engineer
8 10 (6.76%) Linux Engineer
8 10 (6.76%) Telecoms Engineer
9 9 (6.08%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (5.41%) Senior Linux Engineer
11 7 (4.73%) DevOps Engineer
12 6 (4.05%) Network Specialist
12 6 (4.05%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (10.81%) Regular Expression
2 14 (9.46%) JSON
3 12 (8.11%) LDAP
3 12 (8.11%) XMPP
4 10 (6.76%) Jinja
4 10 (6.76%) YAML
5 9 (6.08%) XML
6 5 (3.38%) REST
6 5 (3.38%) YANG
7 4 (2.70%) JSON Schema
8 1 (0.68%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.14%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (9.46%) Driving Licence
3 12 (8.11%) Web Conferencing
4 10 (6.76%) Cloud Native
5 8 (5.41%) Cyber Defence
5 8 (5.41%) Management Information System
5 8 (5.41%) PKI
6 5 (3.38%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (3.38%) Video Conferencing
7 4 (2.70%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.70%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.70%) Security Posture
8 3 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (2.03%) Data Centre
8 3 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.03%) Life Science
8 3 (2.03%) Private Cloud
8 3 (2.03%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (2.03%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.35%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 85 (57.43%) Windows
2 63 (42.57%) Windows Server
3 61 (41.22%) Linux
4 24 (16.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (4.73%) Mac OS
6 6 (4.05%) Android
6 6 (4.05%) Apple iOS
6 6 (4.05%) Windows 10
7 5 (3.38%) Unix
8 2 (1.35%) CentOS
9 1 (0.68%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.68%) OpenBSD
9 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (27.03%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (17.57%) ITIL
3 23 (15.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 23 (15.54%) SIEM
4 19 (12.84%) Continuous Improvement
4 19 (12.84%) Cybersecurity
5 17 (11.49%) CI/CD
5 17 (11.49%) Containerisation
5 17 (11.49%) Task Automation
5 17 (11.49%) Time Management
6 16 (10.81%) Customer Service
6 16 (10.81%) Platform Engineering
7 15 (10.14%) Validation
8 14 (9.46%) Application Security
9 13 (8.78%) High Availability
9 13 (8.78%) Presales
10 12 (8.11%) Antivirus Management
10 12 (8.11%) DevOps
10 12 (8.11%) Disaster Recovery
10 12 (8.11%) Pattern Matching
Programming Languages
1 27 (18.24%) PowerShell
2 22 (14.86%) Python
3 14 (9.46%) Bash
4 6 (4.05%) Korn
5 5 (3.38%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.70%) Shell Script
7 3 (2.03%) Search Processing Language
8 2 (1.35%) C
8 2 (1.35%) SQL
9 1 (0.68%) Bicep
9 1 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.68%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 29 (19.59%) Degree
3 27 (18.24%) DV Cleared
4 8 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (4.73%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (4.05%) GCIA
6 6 (4.05%) SC Cleared
7 5 (3.38%) CCNA
7 5 (3.38%) CISSP
7 5 (3.38%) CompTIA Security+
7 5 (3.38%) SANS
8 4 (2.70%) CCNP
8 4 (2.70%) CREST Certified
8 4 (2.70%) GCIH
8 4 (2.70%) GIAC
8 4 (2.70%) MCSE
8 4 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (2.03%) GCED
9 3 (2.03%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (2.03%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.76%) SLA
2 8 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (4.73%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (2.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (2.03%) GRC
4 3 (2.03%) QA
4 3 (2.03%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.35%) NIST
5 2 (1.35%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.68%) GDPR
System Software
1 63 (42.57%) Active Directory
2 24 (16.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (11.49%) vSphere
4 16 (10.81%) Hyper-V
5 12 (8.11%) Docker
6 11 (7.43%) VMware NSX
7 8 (5.41%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 4 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (2.03%) BitLocker
9 3 (2.03%) KVM
9 3 (2.03%) Terminal Services
10 2 (1.35%) Samba
Systems Management
1 15 (10.14%) Kubernetes
2 10 (6.76%) vRealize
3 7 (4.73%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (4.73%) Terraform
4 6 (4.05%) Ansible
5 4 (2.70%) Kibana
6 3 (2.03%) Grafana
6 3 (2.03%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.03%) Proxmox
7 2 (1.35%) FortiGate
7 2 (1.35%) Graylog
7 2 (1.35%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.68%) Autotask
8 1 (0.68%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.68%) QRadar
Vendors
1 77 (52.03%) Microsoft
2 56 (37.84%) VMware
3 30 (20.27%) Red Hat
4 15 (10.14%) Palo Alto
5 14 (9.46%) Cisco
6 9 (6.08%) Google
7 8 (5.41%) Dell
7 8 (5.41%) McAfee
8 6 (4.05%) F5
9 5 (3.38%) CheckPoint
9 5 (3.38%) CrowdStrike
9 5 (3.38%) Juniper
9 5 (3.38%) Sophos
9 5 (3.38%) Splunk
10 4 (2.70%) Carbon Black
10 4 (2.70%) Citrix
10 4 (2.70%) NetApp
11 3 (2.03%) Barracuda Networks
11 3 (2.03%) Meraki
11 3 (2.03%) Veeam