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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 91 67
Rank change year-on-year +28 -24 -30
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 172 128 158
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.29% 3.36% 3.33%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 34.89% 22.46% 23.41%
Number of salaries quoted 139 104 93
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £35,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £39,750 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.95% -6.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,313 £62,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £67,500
South East median annual salary £47,166 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +4.81% -5.26% -5.00%

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 493 570 675
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 6.57% 14.94% 14.23%
Number of salaries quoted 364 262 306
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,325 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £46,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -8.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £61,438 £63,750 £66,875
90th Percentile £71,750 £70,000 £80,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% -

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 October 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 October 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 +36 82 £47,500 -5.00% 28
Buckinghamshire +2 53 £60,000 +33.33% 26
Oxfordshire -25 37 £45,500 +9.64% 17
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 56 (32.56%) SharePoint
2 47 (27.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.91%) Apache
3 5 (2.91%) nginx
4 4 (2.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 6 (3.49%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 101 (58.72%) Azure
2 72 (41.86%) Microsoft 365
3 43 (25.00%) AWS
4 39 (22.67%) Entra ID
5 15 (8.72%) Azure Sentinel
6 11 (6.40%) Google Workspace
7 10 (5.81%) IaaS
8 9 (5.23%) Power Automate
9 8 (4.65%) Cloudflare
9 8 (4.65%) GCP
10 7 (4.07%) OneDrive
11 5 (2.91%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (1.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (1.16%) Power Platform
13 1 (0.58%) AWS CloudFormation
13 1 (0.58%) PaaS
13 1 (0.58%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 99 (57.56%) DNS
2 80 (46.51%) VPN
3 59 (34.30%) DHCP
4 52 (30.23%) Wi-Fi
5 44 (25.58%) VLAN
6 38 (22.09%) TCP/IP
7 37 (21.51%) WAN
8 36 (20.93%) LAN
8 36 (20.93%) Network Security
9 30 (17.44%) Wireless
10 17 (9.88%) SSL
11 15 (8.72%) SD-WAN
12 14 (8.14%) VoIP
13 10 (5.81%) Remote Desktop
14 8 (4.65%) Cisco Firepower
14 8 (4.65%) HTTP
14 8 (4.65%) SAN
15 5 (2.91%) Cisco Nexus
15 5 (2.91%) iSCSI
15 5 (2.91%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.07%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.91%) MySQL
2 5 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.16%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (2.33%) JIRA
2 2 (1.16%) GitLab
General
1 72 (41.86%) Social Skills
2 15 (8.72%) Retail
3 13 (7.56%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (6.98%) Finance
5 11 (6.40%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (4.07%) Manufacturing
6 7 (4.07%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (3.49%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (3.49%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.16%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.16%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.58%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 42 (24.42%) Senior
2 36 (20.93%) IT Support
3 31 (18.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 30 (17.44%) IT Engineer
5 29 (16.86%) Network Engineer
6 26 (15.12%) Support Engineer
7 23 (13.37%) IT Support Engineer
8 19 (11.05%) Architect
9 16 (9.30%) Security Engineer
10 12 (6.98%) Analyst
11 11 (6.40%) Senior IT Engineer
11 11 (6.40%) Senior IT Support
11 11 (6.40%) Senior Support Engineer
12 10 (5.81%) Applications Architect
12 10 (5.81%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (5.23%) 3rd Line Support
14 8 (4.65%) IT Support Technician
14 8 (4.65%) IT Technician
14 8 (4.65%) Lead
14 8 (4.65%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.14%) Regular Expression
2 13 (7.56%) XMPP
3 11 (6.40%) LDAP
4 5 (2.91%) Web Services
5 4 (2.33%) JSON
5 4 (2.33%) JSON Schema
5 4 (2.33%) XML
6 3 (1.74%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 29 (16.86%) Driving Licence
2 15 (8.72%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (8.14%) Cyber Defence
3 14 (8.14%) PKI
4 8 (4.65%) Cyber Threat
5 7 (4.07%) Cloud Native
5 7 (4.07%) Private Cloud
5 7 (4.07%) Security Operations Centre
5 7 (4.07%) Security Posture
6 6 (3.49%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (3.49%) CCTV
6 6 (3.49%) CSOC
6 6 (3.49%) Data Centre
6 6 (3.49%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (3.49%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.91%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.74%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.16%) Life Science
9 2 (1.16%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.16%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 104 (60.47%) Windows
2 65 (37.79%) Windows Server
3 57 (33.14%) Linux
4 19 (11.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (6.40%) Mac OS
5 11 (6.40%) Windows 10
6 10 (5.81%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.16%) Android
7 2 (1.16%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.16%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (30.23%) Cybersecurity
2 50 (29.07%) Disaster Recovery
3 46 (26.74%) SIEM
4 43 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 41 (23.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 39 (22.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 27 (15.70%) High Availability
7 27 (15.70%) ITIL
8 25 (14.53%) Customer Service
8 25 (14.53%) Zero Trust
9 23 (13.37%) Project Delivery
10 22 (12.79%) Validation
11 21 (12.21%) Incident Response
11 21 (12.21%) Vulnerability Management
12 19 (11.05%) Kalman Filter
12 19 (11.05%) Root Cause Analysis
13 18 (10.47%) Migration
13 18 (10.47%) Stakeholder Management
14 17 (9.88%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
14 17 (9.88%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 54 (31.40%) PowerShell
2 29 (16.86%) Python
3 22 (12.79%) Bash
4 7 (4.07%) Kusto Query Language
4 7 (4.07%) Search Processing Language
5 5 (2.91%) Korn
6 4 (2.33%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.16%) Go
Qualifications
1 43 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 37 (21.51%) Degree
3 32 (18.60%) Microsoft Certification
4 30 (17.44%) Cisco Certification
5 22 (12.79%) CCNA
6 21 (12.21%) CompTIA Security+
6 21 (12.21%) DV Cleared
7 19 (11.05%) CCNP
7 19 (11.05%) SC Cleared
8 16 (9.30%) GCIA
9 15 (8.72%) Azure Certification
10 14 (8.14%) DBS Check
10 14 (8.14%) Network+ Certification
11 13 (7.56%) GIAC
12 11 (6.40%) CISSP
12 11 (6.40%) SANS
13 10 (5.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 8 (4.65%) CREST Certified
14 8 (4.65%) GCIH
15 7 (4.07%) GCED
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (18.60%) Cyber Essentials
2 12 (6.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 11 (6.40%) GDPR
4 10 (5.81%) NCSC
5 6 (3.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (2.33%) NIST
7 2 (1.16%) QA
7 2 (1.16%) SLA
7 2 (1.16%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.58%) Accessibility
System Software
1 82 (47.67%) Active Directory
2 42 (24.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (22.09%) Hyper-V
4 20 (11.63%) vSphere
5 8 (4.65%) KVM
6 7 (4.07%) Docker
6 7 (4.07%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (4.07%) VMware NSX
7 5 (2.91%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 5 (2.91%) Squid
7 5 (2.91%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (1.74%) Firmware
9 2 (1.16%) BitLocker
9 2 (1.16%) iptables
9 2 (1.16%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 43 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (6.98%) Jamf Pro
3 9 (5.23%) Graylog
3 9 (5.23%) Kubernetes
4 8 (4.65%) Kibana
4 8 (4.65%) Proxmox
4 8 (4.65%) ZABBIX
5 6 (3.49%) FortiGate
6 3 (1.74%) Stealthwatch
7 2 (1.16%) Ansible
7 2 (1.16%) Grafana
7 2 (1.16%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.16%) vRealize
8 1 (0.58%) Autotask
8 1 (0.58%) N-central
8 1 (0.58%) QRadar
Vendors
1 118 (68.60%) Microsoft
2 70 (40.70%) VMware
3 44 (25.58%) Cisco
4 29 (16.86%) Fortinet
5 24 (13.95%) Veeam
6 18 (10.47%) Red Hat
7 14 (8.14%) Apple
7 14 (8.14%) Palo Alto
8 12 (6.98%) Aruba
8 12 (6.98%) Datto
8 12 (6.98%) Google
9 11 (6.40%) SonicWALL
10 10 (5.81%) McAfee
10 10 (5.81%) Splunk
11 9 (5.23%) CrowdStrike
12 8 (4.65%) Juniper
13 7 (4.07%) Carbon Black
14 5 (2.91%) Dell
14 5 (2.91%) Meraki
15 4 (2.33%) IBM