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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 77 42
Rank change year-on-year +5 -35 +19
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 109 127 178
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.78% 3.41% 5.51%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.46% 25.60% 34.56%
Number of salaries quoted 82 83 169
10th Percentile £30,500 £34,600 £32,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £50,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +2.04% +20.99%
75th Percentile £64,688 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £69,158 £67,000 £74,400
South East median annual salary £46,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.38% +5.00% +11.11%

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 370 496 515
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.45% 13.30% 15.95%
Number of salaries quoted 208 236 391
10th Percentile £27,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £38,750 £35,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +4.03%
75th Percentile £60,000 £64,063 £62,500
90th Percentile £68,886 £88,750 £77,500
South East median annual salary £45,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +8.00% +4.68%

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 14 December 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 14 December 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 -11 57 £49,000 -10.91% 31
Oxfordshire +12 27 £41,500 -7.97% 15
Buckinghamshire +11 25 £57,000 +14.00% 14
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 17 (15.60%) Microsoft Exchange
1 17 (15.60%) SharePoint
2 7 (6.42%) Exchange Server 2013
3 5 (4.59%) IIS
4 3 (2.75%) WinCC
5 2 (1.83%) CMS
5 2 (1.83%) Confluence
5 2 (1.83%) FactoryTalk
5 2 (1.83%) WordPress
6 1 (0.92%) ArchestrA
Applications
1 8 (7.34%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 49 (44.95%) Azure
2 46 (42.20%) Microsoft 365
3 33 (30.28%) AWS
4 9 (8.26%) GCP
5 7 (6.42%) Google Workspace
6 6 (5.50%) Entra ID
7 4 (3.67%) SaaS
8 3 (2.75%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (1.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.83%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.83%) Amazon ELB
9 2 (1.83%) Amazon Glacier
9 2 (1.83%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.83%) AWS KMS
9 2 (1.83%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.83%) OCI
9 2 (1.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.92%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.92%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (31.19%) DNS
2 26 (23.85%) DHCP
3 25 (22.94%) TCP/IP
4 24 (22.02%) VLAN
4 24 (22.02%) VPN
5 21 (19.27%) WAN
6 20 (18.35%) Wireless
7 18 (16.51%) SAN
8 16 (14.68%) Wi-Fi
9 13 (11.93%) LAN
10 12 (11.01%) Network Security
11 10 (9.17%) VoIP
12 6 (5.50%) DECT
12 6 (5.50%) DSL
12 6 (5.50%) NAS
12 6 (5.50%) PBX
12 6 (5.50%) Unified Communications
12 6 (5.50%) Wireshark
13 5 (4.59%) iSCSI
13 5 (4.59%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.17%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.59%) MySQL
2 5 (4.59%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.67%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.92%) DTS
Development Applications
1 2 (1.83%) Git
1 2 (1.83%) Jenkins
1 2 (1.83%) JIRA
1 2 (1.83%) Sonatype Nexus
1 2 (1.83%) Vagrant
2 1 (0.92%) GitLab
General
1 43 (39.45%) Social Skills
2 10 (9.17%) Telecoms
3 6 (5.50%) Finance
3 6 (5.50%) Marketing
3 6 (5.50%) Retail
4 5 (4.59%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (3.67%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.67%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.92%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.92%) Humanities
7 1 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.92%) Law
7 1 (0.92%) Legal
Job Titles
1 24 (22.02%) Senior
2 13 (11.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 13 (11.93%) Infrastructure Manager
3 12 (11.01%) IT Support
4 11 (10.09%) Support Engineer
5 10 (9.17%) Security Engineer
6 9 (8.26%) 2nd Line Support
6 9 (8.26%) Cisco Engineer
6 9 (8.26%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 9 (8.26%) Lead
6 9 (8.26%) Linux Engineer
6 9 (8.26%) Senior Security Engineer
6 9 (8.26%) Support Technician
7 8 (7.34%) Cisco Field Engineer
7 8 (7.34%) Field Engineer
7 8 (7.34%) IT Engineer
7 8 (7.34%) Security Manager
8 7 (6.42%) 3rd Line Support
8 7 (6.42%) Analyst
8 7 (6.42%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.83%) Web Services
2 1 (0.92%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.09%) Driving Licence
1 11 (10.09%) Replication
2 8 (7.34%) Security Operations Centre
3 7 (6.42%) Cloud Native
4 6 (5.50%) Web Conferencing
5 5 (4.59%) Management Information System
6 4 (3.67%) Data Centre
6 4 (3.67%) Operational Technology
6 4 (3.67%) SCADA
7 3 (2.75%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (2.75%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (1.83%) Clustering
8 2 (1.83%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.83%) Fibre Optics
8 2 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.83%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.92%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.92%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 62 (56.88%) Windows
2 37 (33.94%) Windows Server
3 23 (21.10%) Linux
4 13 (11.93%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (5.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (4.59%) Android
6 5 (4.59%) Apple iOS
7 4 (3.67%) Mac OS
7 4 (3.67%) Windows 10
7 4 (3.67%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.83%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (1.83%) VMS
8 2 (1.83%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (27.52%) Cybersecurity
2 28 (25.69%) ITIL
3 21 (19.27%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (14.68%) Agile
4 16 (14.68%) Business Continuity
5 15 (13.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 14 (12.84%) Mentoring
7 12 (11.01%) Disaster Recovery
7 12 (11.01%) Presales
7 12 (11.01%) Project Delivery
7 12 (11.01%) Security Operations
8 11 (10.09%) SIEM
8 11 (10.09%) Time Management
9 10 (9.17%) High Availability
9 10 (9.17%) Migration
10 9 (8.26%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (8.26%) Customer Service
11 8 (7.34%) Penetration Testing
11 8 (7.34%) Service Delivery
11 8 (7.34%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 15 (13.76%) PowerShell
2 9 (8.26%) Bash
3 8 (7.34%) Python
4 5 (4.59%) Korn
5 4 (3.67%) SQL
6 2 (1.83%) Groovy
6 2 (1.83%) Java
6 2 (1.83%) Perl
6 2 (1.83%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.92%) Bicep
7 1 (0.92%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.92%) Ladder Logic
7 1 (0.92%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (21.10%) Degree
2 12 (11.01%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (10.09%) CISSP
3 11 (10.09%) Security Cleared
4 9 (8.26%) CCNP
5 8 (7.34%) CCNA
5 8 (7.34%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (6.42%) CompTIA Security+
6 7 (6.42%) GCIA
6 7 (6.42%) SANS
7 6 (5.50%) MCSE
8 5 (4.59%) DV Cleared
8 5 (4.59%) SC Cleared
9 3 (2.75%) Azure Certification
9 3 (2.75%) CISM
9 3 (2.75%) MCP
9 3 (2.75%) MCSA
9 3 (2.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (1.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (19.27%) Cyber Essentials
2 20 (18.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (8.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 5 (4.59%) SLA
5 3 (2.75%) GRC
5 3 (2.75%) IEC 61508
5 3 (2.75%) QA
6 2 (1.83%) GDPR
6 2 (1.83%) IEC 61131
6 2 (1.83%) NIST
6 2 (1.83%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.92%) NIST 800
System Software
1 38 (34.86%) Active Directory
2 26 (23.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (22.02%) Hyper-V
4 11 (10.09%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (8.26%) Docker
6 6 (5.50%) vSphere
7 5 (4.59%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 4 (3.67%) VMware NSX
9 2 (1.83%) DFS Replication
9 2 (1.83%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.92%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 26 (23.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (7.34%) SCCM
2 8 (7.34%) Terraform
3 6 (5.50%) Kubernetes
4 4 (3.67%) Ansible
4 4 (3.67%) vRealize
5 2 (1.83%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (1.83%) FortiGate
5 2 (1.83%) Grafana
5 2 (1.83%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.92%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (0.92%) WSUS
Vendors
1 55 (50.46%) Microsoft
2 43 (39.45%) VMware
3 20 (18.35%) Cisco
4 13 (11.93%) Palo Alto
5 12 (11.01%) Draytek
5 12 (11.01%) Sophos
6 10 (9.17%) Meraki
7 9 (8.26%) Google
8 7 (6.42%) arcserve
9 6 (5.50%) LogicMonitor
9 6 (5.50%) Red Hat
9 6 (5.50%) Splunk
10 5 (4.59%) Aruba
10 5 (4.59%) Dell
11 4 (3.67%) Atlassian
11 4 (3.67%) Fortinet
12 3 (2.75%) CheckPoint
12 3 (2.75%) Forcepoint
12 3 (2.75%) ServiceNow
12 3 (2.75%) Siemens