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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 84 73
Rank change year-on-year +17 -11 -35
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 171 128 153
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.28% 3.33% 3.28%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 34.00% 22.54% 23.15%
Number of salaries quoted 139 105 88
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £34,850
25th Percentile £38,500 £39,750 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £68,250
South East median annual salary £47,166 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.81% -10.00% -

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 503 568 661
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 6.70% 14.78% 14.16%
Number of salaries quoted 371 258 297
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,000 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year - -11.76% -2.86%
75th Percentile £61,625 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £71,325 £80,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +11.76% -19.05% +5.00%

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 8 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 8 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 +38 82 £47,500 -5.00% 30
Buckinghamshire +1 49 £60,000 +33.33% 23
Oxfordshire -20 40 £45,500 +9.64% 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 56 (32.75%) SharePoint
2 45 (26.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.92%) Apache
3 5 (2.92%) nginx
4 4 (2.34%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 6 (3.51%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 101 (59.06%) Azure
2 68 (39.77%) Microsoft 365
3 40 (23.39%) AWS
4 38 (22.22%) Entra ID
5 15 (8.77%) Azure Sentinel
6 11 (6.43%) Google Workspace
7 9 (5.26%) IaaS
8 8 (4.68%) Cloudflare
8 8 (4.68%) Power Automate
9 7 (4.09%) GCP
9 7 (4.09%) OneDrive
10 5 (2.92%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (1.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (0.58%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.58%) Power Platform
12 1 (0.58%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 98 (57.31%) DNS
2 80 (46.78%) VPN
3 59 (34.50%) DHCP
4 52 (30.41%) Wi-Fi
5 45 (26.32%) VLAN
6 40 (23.39%) TCP/IP
7 38 (22.22%) Network Security
8 37 (21.64%) WAN
9 36 (21.05%) LAN
10 32 (18.71%) Wireless
11 17 (9.94%) SSL
12 16 (9.36%) SD-WAN
13 13 (7.60%) VoIP
14 8 (4.68%) Cisco Firepower
14 8 (4.68%) HTTP
14 8 (4.68%) Remote Desktop
15 6 (3.51%) OSPF
15 6 (3.51%) SAN
16 5 (2.92%) Cisco Nexus
16 5 (2.92%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.34%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.75%) MySQL
2 3 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.58%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (2.34%) JIRA
2 2 (1.17%) GitLab
General
1 72 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 15 (8.77%) Retail
3 13 (7.60%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (7.60%) Finance
4 11 (6.43%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (5.26%) Manufacturing
6 6 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.51%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.92%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.17%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.17%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.58%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 38 (22.22%) Senior
2 36 (21.05%) IT Support
3 30 (17.54%) IT Engineer
3 30 (17.54%) Network Engineer
4 29 (16.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 26 (15.20%) Support Engineer
6 23 (13.45%) IT Support Engineer
7 18 (10.53%) Architect
8 16 (9.36%) Security Engineer
9 11 (6.43%) Analyst
9 11 (6.43%) Lead
9 11 (6.43%) Senior IT Engineer
9 11 (6.43%) Senior IT Support
9 11 (6.43%) Senior Support Engineer
10 10 (5.85%) Applications Architect
10 10 (5.85%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (5.26%) 3rd Line Support
12 8 (4.68%) IT Support Technician
12 8 (4.68%) IT Technician
12 8 (4.68%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.19%) Regular Expression
2 13 (7.60%) XMPP
3 11 (6.43%) LDAP
4 5 (2.92%) Web Services
5 4 (2.34%) JSON
5 4 (2.34%) JSON Schema
5 4 (2.34%) XML
6 3 (1.75%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 29 (16.96%) Driving Licence
2 15 (8.77%) Cyber Defence
2 15 (8.77%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (8.19%) PKI
4 8 (4.68%) Cyber Threat
5 7 (4.09%) Private Cloud
5 7 (4.09%) Security Operations Centre
5 7 (4.09%) Security Posture
6 6 (3.51%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (3.51%) CCTV
6 6 (3.51%) CSOC
6 6 (3.51%) Data Centre
6 6 (3.51%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.92%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.92%) Virtual Team
8 4 (2.34%) IoT
8 4 (2.34%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.75%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.75%) Operational Technology
10 2 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 102 (59.65%) Windows
2 62 (36.26%) Windows Server
3 55 (32.16%) Linux
4 17 (9.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (6.43%) Mac OS
6 10 (5.85%) Windows 10
6 10 (5.85%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.17%) Android
7 2 (1.17%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.17%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (32.16%) Cybersecurity
2 49 (28.65%) Disaster Recovery
3 47 (27.49%) SIEM
4 43 (25.15%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (23.39%) Continuous Improvement
6 39 (22.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 25 (14.62%) Zero Trust
8 24 (14.04%) Customer Service
8 24 (14.04%) High Availability
9 23 (13.45%) ITIL
9 23 (13.45%) Project Delivery
10 22 (12.87%) Incident Response
10 22 (12.87%) Validation
10 22 (12.87%) Vulnerability Management
11 19 (11.11%) Kalman Filter
12 18 (10.53%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
12 18 (10.53%) Migration
12 18 (10.53%) Root Cause Analysis
12 18 (10.53%) Security Operations
12 18 (10.53%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 51 (29.82%) PowerShell
2 29 (16.96%) Python
3 20 (11.70%) Bash
4 7 (4.09%) Kusto Query Language
4 7 (4.09%) Search Processing Language
5 4 (2.34%) Shell Script
6 3 (1.75%) Korn
7 2 (1.17%) Go
Qualifications
1 43 (25.15%) Security Cleared
2 34 (19.88%) Degree
3 31 (18.13%) Cisco Certification
3 31 (18.13%) Microsoft Certification
4 23 (13.45%) CCNA
5 21 (12.28%) CompTIA Security+
5 21 (12.28%) DV Cleared
6 20 (11.70%) CCNP
7 19 (11.11%) SC Cleared
8 16 (9.36%) GCIA
9 14 (8.19%) Azure Certification
10 13 (7.60%) DBS Check
10 13 (7.60%) GIAC
10 13 (7.60%) Network+ Certification
11 11 (6.43%) CISSP
11 11 (6.43%) SANS
12 10 (5.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 8 (4.68%) CREST Certified
13 8 (4.68%) GCIH
14 7 (4.09%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (18.13%) Cyber Essentials
2 11 (6.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 11 (6.43%) GDPR
3 10 (5.85%) NCSC
4 6 (3.51%) NIST
5 5 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.17%) NIST 800
6 2 (1.17%) QA
6 2 (1.17%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.58%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.58%) SLA
System Software
1 79 (46.20%) Active Directory
2 41 (23.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (22.81%) Hyper-V
4 20 (11.70%) vSphere
5 8 (4.68%) KVM
6 7 (4.09%) VMware NSX
7 6 (3.51%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (2.92%) Docker
8 5 (2.92%) Squid
8 5 (2.92%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (2.34%) Firmware
10 3 (1.75%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 2 (1.17%) iptables
12 1 (0.58%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.58%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 42 (24.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (7.02%) Jamf Pro
3 9 (5.26%) Graylog
4 8 (4.68%) Kibana
4 8 (4.68%) Proxmox
4 8 (4.68%) ZABBIX
5 7 (4.09%) FortiGate
5 7 (4.09%) Kubernetes
6 3 (1.75%) Stealthwatch
7 2 (1.17%) Ansible
7 2 (1.17%) Grafana
7 2 (1.17%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.17%) vRealize
8 1 (0.58%) Autotask
8 1 (0.58%) N-central
8 1 (0.58%) QRadar
Vendors
1 116 (67.84%) Microsoft
2 68 (39.77%) VMware
3 46 (26.90%) Cisco
4 31 (18.13%) Fortinet
5 24 (14.04%) Veeam
6 16 (9.36%) Red Hat
7 15 (8.77%) Apple
8 14 (8.19%) Palo Alto
9 12 (7.02%) Aruba
9 12 (7.02%) Datto
9 12 (7.02%) Google
10 11 (6.43%) SonicWALL
11 10 (5.85%) McAfee
11 10 (5.85%) Splunk
12 9 (5.26%) CrowdStrike
13 8 (4.68%) Juniper
14 7 (4.09%) Carbon Black
15 6 (3.51%) Meraki
16 4 (2.34%) IBM
16 4 (2.34%) Ruckus Wireless