Firewall Jobs in the Thames Valley

Firewall
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Firewall skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Firewall over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 42 58
Rank change year-on-year -55 +16 +7
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 87 320 293
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.56% 4.78% 4.93%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.02% 33.37% 31.14%
Number of salaries quoted 67 290 238
10th Percentile £34,000 £32,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £36,938 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,125 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.51% +4.72% -8.16%
75th Percentile £63,125 £59,000 £58,438
90th Percentile £78,000 £63,750 £77,500
South East median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -8.16%

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 543 959 941
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.98% 14.33% 15.84%
Number of salaries quoted 217 676 529
10th Percentile £25,750 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,750 £34,500 £30,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £59,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,500 £69,750 £74,250
South East median annual salary £47,500 £47,250 £45,000
% change year-on-year +0.53% +5.00% -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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Firewall in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Firewall in the Thames Valley

Firewall
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 15 May 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 15 May 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 -37 44 £50,000 - 53
Buckinghamshire -1 26 £37,500 -9.64% 27
Oxfordshire -28 17 £45,000 +5.88% 29
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 21 (24.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (20.69%) SharePoint
3 8 (9.20%) IIS
4 6 (6.90%) Apache
5 4 (4.60%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (1.15%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (9.20%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.60%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 37 (42.53%) Azure
2 30 (34.48%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (22.99%) AWS
4 12 (13.79%) Entra ID
5 5 (5.75%) Amazon S3
5 5 (5.75%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (5.75%) SaaS
5 5 (5.75%) Serverless
5 5 (5.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (4.60%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (4.60%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 4 (4.60%) AWS KMS
7 3 (3.45%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (3.45%) OneDrive
8 2 (2.30%) Azure AI
8 2 (2.30%) Azure AKS
8 2 (2.30%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (2.30%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (2.30%) IaaS
8 2 (2.30%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (31.03%) DNS
2 23 (26.44%) VPN
3 20 (22.99%) WAN
4 17 (19.54%) DHCP
5 14 (16.09%) LAN
6 13 (14.94%) VLAN
7 12 (13.79%) VoIP
8 11 (12.64%) Network Security
8 11 (12.64%) TCP/IP
9 9 (10.34%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (9.20%) SD-WAN
11 6 (6.90%) BGP
11 6 (6.90%) Cisco Firepower
11 6 (6.90%) OSPF
11 6 (6.90%) Remote Desktop
12 5 (5.75%) Cisco ASA
12 5 (5.75%) Cisco Nexus
12 5 (5.75%) Intrusion Detection
12 5 (5.75%) IP Telephony
12 5 (5.75%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.79%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (5.75%) Relational Database
4 4 (4.60%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (3.45%) MySQL
6 2 (2.30%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.30%) Power BI
7 1 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (4.60%) Bitbucket Server
1 4 (4.60%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.30%) Git
3 1 (1.15%) JIRA
General
1 35 (40.23%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.34%) Finance
2 9 (10.34%) Telecoms
3 8 (9.20%) Spanish Language
4 6 (6.90%) Manufacturing
5 5 (5.75%) Back Office
5 5 (5.75%) Local Government
5 5 (5.75%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.45%) Retail
7 2 (2.30%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (24.14%) Analyst
2 14 (16.09%) 1st Line Support
2 14 (16.09%) 1st Line Support Analyst
2 14 (16.09%) Support Analyst
3 11 (12.64%) Help Desk Support
3 11 (12.64%) Network Engineer
4 10 (11.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (11.49%) IT Support
4 10 (11.49%) Senior
4 10 (11.49%) Technical Support
5 9 (10.34%) Support Engineer
5 9 (10.34%) Support Technician
6 8 (9.20%) IT Engineer
7 7 (8.05%) Infrastructure Manager
8 6 (6.90%) Help Desk Analyst
8 6 (6.90%) Help Desk Support Analyst
8 6 (6.90%) IT Support Analyst
8 6 (6.90%) Security Engineer
8 6 (6.90%) Software Support Analyst
8 6 (6.90%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.60%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.15%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (19.54%) Data Centre
2 13 (14.94%) Onboarding
3 7 (8.05%) Management Information System
3 7 (8.05%) Replication
4 6 (6.90%) Security Posture
5 5 (5.75%) Client/Server
5 5 (5.75%) Operational Technology
6 3 (3.45%) Clustering
6 3 (3.45%) Driving Licence
6 3 (3.45%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (2.30%) IoT
7 2 (2.30%) NHS
7 2 (2.30%) Self-Driving Car
8 1 (1.15%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.15%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (1.15%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 42 (48.28%) Windows
2 39 (44.83%) Windows Server
3 13 (14.94%) Linux
3 13 (14.94%) Mac OS
4 6 (6.90%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (5.75%) Windows 10
6 4 (4.60%) Ubuntu
7 3 (3.45%) Android
8 2 (2.30%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (1.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (25.29%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (21.84%) Customer Service
3 16 (18.39%) ITIL
4 15 (17.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 14 (16.09%) Cybersecurity
6 13 (14.94%) Information Security
7 12 (13.79%) Project Delivery
7 12 (13.79%) Server Management
7 12 (13.79%) Service Delivery
8 11 (12.64%) Analytics
9 10 (11.49%) Agile
10 9 (10.34%) Business Continuity
10 9 (10.34%) Remote Monitoring and Management
11 8 (9.20%) Case Management
11 8 (9.20%) Project Management
12 7 (8.05%) High Availability
12 7 (8.05%) Service Management
13 6 (6.90%) DevOps
13 6 (6.90%) Incident Management
13 6 (6.90%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (18.39%) PowerShell
2 9 (10.34%) Python
3 7 (8.05%) SQL
4 4 (4.60%) Bash
4 4 (4.60%) Shell Script
5 2 (2.30%) Bicep
6 1 (1.15%) Korn
6 1 (1.15%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (1.15%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 11 (12.64%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (10.34%) CCNP
2 9 (10.34%) Security Cleared
3 8 (9.20%) Degree
3 8 (9.20%) SC Cleared
4 6 (6.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (5.75%) Azure Certification
5 5 (5.75%) DBS Check
5 5 (5.75%) MCP
5 5 (5.75%) MCSA
6 4 (4.60%) CCNA
6 4 (4.60%) CISSP
7 2 (2.30%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.30%) MCSE
8 1 (1.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.15%) CCIE
8 1 (1.15%) CCSM
8 1 (1.15%) CCSP
8 1 (1.15%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.49%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (9.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (3.45%) GDPR
4 3 (3.45%) NIST
5 2 (2.30%) SLA
6 1 (1.15%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 33 (37.93%) Active Directory
1 33 (37.93%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (24.14%) Hyper-V
3 12 (13.79%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (11.49%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (9.20%) Docker
6 5 (5.75%) Terminal Services
7 4 (4.60%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (1.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (1.15%) Firmware
8 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (1.15%) Squid
8 1 (1.15%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (1.15%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (14.94%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (10.34%) vCenter Server
3 7 (8.05%) Terraform
4 6 (6.90%) ZABBIX
5 5 (5.75%) Ansible
5 5 (5.75%) FortiGate
5 5 (5.75%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (4.60%) Nessus
6 4 (4.60%) Proxmox
6 4 (4.60%) SCCM
6 4 (4.60%) WSUS
7 3 (3.45%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (2.30%) ZENworks
9 1 (1.15%) Grafana
9 1 (1.15%) HAProxy
9 1 (1.15%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 57 (65.52%) Microsoft
2 33 (37.93%) VMware
3 16 (18.39%) Cisco
4 10 (11.49%) Apple
5 9 (10.34%) Juniper
6 7 (8.05%) Sophos
7 6 (6.90%) Meraki
8 5 (5.75%) Fortinet
8 5 (5.75%) Oracle
8 5 (5.75%) Ubiquiti
9 4 (4.60%) arcserve
9 4 (4.60%) F5
10 3 (3.45%) HP
10 3 (3.45%) SonicWALL
10 3 (3.45%) Veeam
11 2 (2.30%) Databricks
11 2 (2.30%) Dell
12 1 (1.15%) ConnectWise
12 1 (1.15%) CrowdStrike
12 1 (1.15%) Nokia