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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 66 36
Rank change year-on-year -22 -30 +36
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 128 172 227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.32% 3.54% 6.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 22.46% 26.71% 34.14%
Number of salaries quoted 103 111 214
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £29,150
25th Percentile £39,750 £41,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +4.71%
75th Percentile £65,000 £57,763 £61,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £77,050
South East median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +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 570 644 665
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.77% 13.24% 17.96%
Number of salaries quoted 264 342 472
10th Percentile £27,250 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £37,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £74,975
South East median annual salary £41,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -17.00% - +5.26%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall 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 18 September 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 18 September 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
Buckinghamshire +7 50 £45,000 +5.88% 6
Berkshire -45 48 £50,000 - 40
Oxfordshire +16 30 £41,500 -5.87% 9
Firewall
South East

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 41 (32.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (17.97%) SharePoint
3 14 (10.94%) Exchange Server 2013
4 5 (3.91%) IIS
5 3 (2.34%) WinCC
6 2 (1.56%) Confluence
6 2 (1.56%) FactoryTalk
7 1 (0.78%) Apache
7 1 (0.78%) ArchestrA
Applications
1 7 (5.47%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.78%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 63 (49.22%) Azure
2 62 (48.44%) Microsoft 365
3 39 (30.47%) AWS
4 19 (14.84%) Entra ID
5 6 (4.69%) Amazon S3
5 6 (4.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 5 (3.91%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (3.13%) Serverless
8 3 (2.34%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (2.34%) AWS KMS
8 3 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.34%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (2.34%) GCP
8 3 (2.34%) OneDrive
9 2 (1.56%) Amazon ELB
9 2 (1.56%) IaaS
9 2 (1.56%) OCI
9 2 (1.56%) PaaS
9 2 (1.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (24.22%) SAN
2 30 (23.44%) DNS
3 26 (20.31%) VLAN
3 26 (20.31%) VPN
3 26 (20.31%) WAN
4 21 (16.41%) LAN
5 20 (15.63%) Wi-Fi
6 18 (14.06%) DHCP
6 18 (14.06%) TCP/IP
7 11 (8.59%) IP Telephony
7 11 (8.59%) Network Security
7 11 (8.59%) Remote Desktop
8 10 (7.81%) VoIP
9 9 (7.03%) iSCSI
10 8 (6.25%) SD-WAN
10 8 (6.25%) Wireless
11 4 (3.13%) Cisco Firepower
11 4 (3.13%) Cisco ISE
11 4 (3.13%) HSRP
11 4 (3.13%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
1 16 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 11 (8.59%) MySQL
3 9 (7.03%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.56%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.56%) Power BI
5 1 (0.78%) DTS
5 1 (0.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (3.91%) Git
2 4 (3.13%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.56%) JIRA
3 2 (1.56%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (1.56%) Vagrant
4 1 (0.78%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (0.78%) Maven
4 1 (0.78%) MSBuild
General
1 55 (42.97%) Social Skills
2 9 (7.03%) Organisational Skills
3 7 (5.47%) Finance
3 7 (5.47%) Spanish Language
3 7 (5.47%) Telecoms
4 3 (2.34%) Retail
5 2 (1.56%) Manufacturing
5 2 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (0.78%) Back Office
6 1 (0.78%) Humanities
6 1 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.78%) Local Government
6 1 (0.78%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 29 (22.66%) Senior
2 25 (19.53%) Support Technician
3 19 (14.84%) Analyst
4 15 (11.72%) 3rd Line Support
4 15 (11.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 14 (10.94%) 3rd Line Support Technician
5 14 (10.94%) IT Support
6 13 (10.16%) 1st Line Support
6 13 (10.16%) 1st Line Support Analyst
6 13 (10.16%) Support Analyst
6 13 (10.16%) Technical Support
7 11 (8.59%) Support Engineer
8 10 (7.81%) IT Engineer
9 9 (7.03%) Infrastructure Manager
9 9 (7.03%) Linux Engineer
9 9 (7.03%) Senior Linux Engineer
10 8 (6.25%) Help Desk Support
10 8 (6.25%) IT Support Engineer
11 7 (5.47%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 7 (5.47%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.13%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.78%) .NET
2 1 (0.78%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.28%) Replication
2 15 (11.72%) Onboarding
3 14 (10.94%) Data Centre
4 10 (7.81%) Management Information System
5 9 (7.03%) Cloud Native
5 9 (7.03%) Driving Licence
6 8 (6.25%) Security Operations Centre
7 4 (3.13%) Operational Technology
8 3 (2.34%) PKI
8 3 (2.34%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (2.34%) SCADA
8 3 (2.34%) Video Conferencing
8 3 (2.34%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.56%) NHS
9 2 (1.56%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.78%) Clustering
10 1 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.78%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 73 (57.03%) Windows
2 56 (43.75%) Windows Server
3 27 (21.09%) Linux
4 20 (15.63%) Mac OS
5 11 (8.59%) Windows Server 2019
6 10 (7.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (3.13%) Apple iOS
8 4 (3.13%) Unix
8 4 (3.13%) Windows 10
9 3 (2.34%) Android
10 2 (1.56%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (1.56%) VMS
11 1 (0.78%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (32.81%) ITIL
2 30 (23.44%) Cybersecurity
3 27 (21.09%) Agile
4 25 (19.53%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (16.41%) Business Continuity
6 20 (15.63%) Information Security
7 18 (14.06%) Knowledge Transfer
8 17 (13.28%) Migration
8 17 (13.28%) Project Delivery
9 16 (12.50%) Mentoring
10 15 (11.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 13 (10.16%) Disaster Recovery
12 12 (9.38%) Security Operations
13 11 (8.59%) Server Management
13 11 (8.59%) SIEM
14 10 (7.81%) Service Delivery
15 9 (7.03%) Customer Service
15 9 (7.03%) Remote Monitoring and Management
15 9 (7.03%) Time Management
16 8 (6.25%) Case Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (18.75%) PowerShell
2 17 (13.28%) Bash
3 12 (9.38%) Python
4 9 (7.03%) Korn
5 4 (3.13%) SQL
6 3 (2.34%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (1.56%) Bicep
7 2 (1.56%) Groovy
7 2 (1.56%) Java
7 2 (1.56%) Perl
7 2 (1.56%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.78%) C#
8 1 (0.78%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.78%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 19 (14.84%) Degree
2 17 (13.28%) Cisco Certification
3 14 (10.94%) CCNP
3 14 (10.94%) Security Cleared
4 13 (10.16%) SC Cleared
5 10 (7.81%) CCNA
6 9 (7.03%) CISSP
7 8 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (5.47%) CompTIA Security+
9 6 (4.69%) GCIA
9 6 (4.69%) SANS
10 5 (3.91%) DBS Check
10 5 (3.91%) MCP
10 5 (3.91%) MCSA
10 5 (3.91%) MCSE
11 4 (3.13%) Azure Certification
12 2 (1.56%) AWS Certification
12 2 (1.56%) CISM
12 2 (1.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 1 (0.78%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (20.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 25 (19.53%) Cyber Essentials
3 18 (14.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 4 (3.13%) SLA
5 3 (2.34%) GDPR
5 3 (2.34%) IEC 61508
5 3 (2.34%) QA
6 2 (1.56%) IEC 61131
7 1 (0.78%) GRC
7 1 (0.78%) HIPAA
System Software
1 45 (35.16%) Active Directory
2 41 (32.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (27.34%) Hyper-V
4 14 (10.94%) Docker
5 11 (8.59%) Terminal Services
5 11 (8.59%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (7.03%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 8 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (3.13%) vSphere
9 2 (1.56%) DFS Replication
10 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.78%) NFS
10 1 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.78%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 36 (28.13%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (14.84%) SCCM
3 10 (7.81%) Kubernetes
4 8 (6.25%) Terraform
5 6 (4.69%) Ansible
6 2 (1.56%) Grafana
6 2 (1.56%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.56%) vCenter Server
6 2 (1.56%) ZENworks
7 1 (0.78%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.78%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.78%) Nessus
7 1 (0.78%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (0.78%) WSUS
7 1 (0.78%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 86 (67.19%) Microsoft
2 49 (38.28%) VMware
3 21 (16.41%) Cisco
4 19 (14.84%) Apple
5 16 (12.50%) Sophos
6 14 (10.94%) arcserve
7 11 (8.59%) Meraki
8 10 (7.81%) Dell
8 10 (7.81%) Red Hat
9 9 (7.03%) Draytek
9 9 (7.03%) Splunk
10 6 (4.69%) Juniper
11 5 (3.91%) Aruba
11 5 (3.91%) Palo Alto
12 4 (3.13%) F5
12 4 (3.13%) Fortinet
12 4 (3.13%) LogicMonitor
13 3 (2.34%) Forcepoint
13 3 (2.34%) Siemens
13 3 (2.34%) SonicWALL