Firewall Jobs in Reading

Firewall
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for Firewall skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Firewall over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 53 81
Rank change year-on-year +21 +28 -15
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 110 82 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 5.90% 5.43% 2.95%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 37.67% 36.61% 18.24%
Number of salaries quoted 84 43 46
10th Percentile £34,000 £32,700 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,380 £45,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.23% +18.18% +15.79%
75th Percentile £62,500 £78,750 £73,125
90th Percentile £78,750 £84,000 £79,375
Berkshire median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -20.83%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Reading

Firewall is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 292 224 307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 15.67% 14.84% 16.19%
Number of salaries quoted 191 92 185
10th Percentile £31,000 £23,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,525 £50,900 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.05% -7.45% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £74,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £81,250
Berkshire median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Reading

Firewall
Salary Trend in Reading

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Firewall in Reading.

Salary trend for Firewall in Reading

Firewall
Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Reading over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Firewall in Reading

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 (19.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (9.09%) IIS
3 5 (4.55%) Apache
4 2 (1.82%) CMS
5 1 (0.91%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 56 (50.91%) Azure
2 25 (22.73%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (15.45%) Azure Monitor
3 17 (15.45%) Azure Storage
3 17 (15.45%) Entra ID
4 12 (10.91%) OCI
5 6 (5.45%) AWS
5 6 (5.45%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (4.55%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.73%) GCP
8 1 (0.91%) IaaS
8 1 (0.91%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (40.00%) DNS
2 39 (35.45%) DHCP
3 24 (21.82%) WAN
4 20 (18.18%) SD-WAN
5 19 (17.27%) Network Security
6 18 (16.36%) VPN
7 17 (15.45%) Wireless
8 16 (14.55%) SAN
9 15 (13.64%) SNMP
10 11 (10.00%) Internet
11 10 (9.09%) Intrusion Detection
12 9 (8.18%) IPsec
13 8 (7.27%) OSPF
14 7 (6.36%) LAN
15 5 (4.55%) MPLS
15 5 (4.55%) Wireshark
16 4 (3.64%) BGP
16 4 (3.64%) NAS
16 4 (3.64%) TCP/IP
16 4 (3.64%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (4.55%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.91%) Hadoop
2 1 (0.91%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.91%) Oracle Database 11g
2 1 (0.91%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.91%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (1.82%) JIRA
General
1 40 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 6 (5.45%) Finance
2 6 (5.45%) Retail
3 4 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (3.64%) Telecoms
4 2 (1.82%) Manufacturing
4 2 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (0.91%) Billing
5 1 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (19.09%) Architect
2 17 (15.45%) Active Directory Specialist
2 17 (15.45%) Active Directory Support
2 17 (15.45%) Azure Specialist
2 17 (15.45%) Support Specialist
3 16 (14.55%) IP Architect
3 16 (14.55%) Solutions Architect
4 12 (10.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (10.91%) IT Engineer
5 11 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
6 10 (9.09%) Windows Engineer
6 10 (9.09%) Windows Systems Engineer
7 9 (8.18%) Firewall Specialist
7 9 (8.18%) Network Specialist
8 8 (7.27%) Network Engineer
8 8 (7.27%) PowerShell Engineer
8 8 (7.27%) VMware Engineer
8 8 (7.27%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (6.36%) Consultant
10 6 (5.45%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (15.45%) ARM Templates
2 5 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (4.55%) Web Services
2 5 (4.55%) YAML
3 4 (3.64%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.91%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 29 (26.36%) Data Centre
2 20 (18.18%) PKI
3 17 (15.45%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (12.73%) CMDB
5 7 (6.36%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 7 (6.36%) Management Information System
6 6 (5.45%) Driving Licence
6 6 (5.45%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (4.55%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.82%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.82%) Digital Signage
8 2 (1.82%) IPTV
8 2 (1.82%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.82%) Replication
9 1 (0.91%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.91%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 60 (54.55%) Windows
2 51 (46.36%) Linux
3 44 (40.00%) Windows Server
4 29 (26.36%) Windows Server 2016
4 29 (26.36%) Windows Server 2019
5 13 (11.82%) Windows 10
6 12 (10.91%) Windows Server 2012
6 12 (10.91%) Windows XP
7 5 (4.55%) Data ONTAP
7 5 (4.55%) Kali Linux
8 2 (1.82%) Android
9 1 (0.91%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (33.64%) ITIL
2 30 (27.27%) Agile
3 22 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (20.00%) Release Management
4 18 (16.36%) DevOps
4 18 (16.36%) Service Management
5 17 (15.45%) Analytics
5 17 (15.45%) CI/CD
5 17 (15.45%) Identity Management
5 17 (15.45%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (15.45%) Log Analytics
5 17 (15.45%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 17 (15.45%) Privileged Identity Management
5 17 (15.45%) Project Management
5 17 (15.45%) RBAC
5 17 (15.45%) Storage Management
6 16 (14.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 15 (13.64%) Business Development
7 15 (13.64%) Cybersecurity
8 14 (12.73%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (34.55%) PowerShell
2 18 (16.36%) C#
3 17 (15.45%) Bicep
3 17 (15.45%) VB
3 17 (15.45%) VBScript
4 14 (12.73%) Python
5 13 (11.82%) SQL
6 4 (3.64%) Bash
7 1 (0.91%) Java
Qualifications
1 57 (51.82%) Security Cleared
2 46 (41.82%) SC Cleared
3 44 (40.00%) Degree
4 39 (35.45%) DV Cleared
5 20 (18.18%) CCNA
5 20 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
6 17 (15.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 15 (13.64%) CCNP
8 8 (7.27%) CISSP
9 6 (5.45%) Azure Certification
10 5 (4.55%) AWS Certification
11 4 (3.64%) MCSE
11 4 (3.64%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (2.73%) Network+ Certification
13 2 (1.82%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (1.82%) GCIA
13 2 (1.82%) SANS
14 1 (0.91%) CCSA
14 1 (0.91%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (8.18%) PCI DSS
3 7 (6.36%) NIST
4 6 (5.45%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 5 (4.55%) SLA
6 4 (3.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.91%) COBIT
7 1 (0.91%) GRC
System Software
1 48 (43.64%) Active Directory
2 22 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (16.36%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (15.45%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (11.82%) Hyper-V
6 12 (10.91%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (4.55%) Docker
8 4 (3.64%) Firmware
9 1 (0.91%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.91%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 43 (39.09%) SCOM
2 29 (26.36%) SCCM
2 29 (26.36%) WSUS
3 23 (20.91%) Kubernetes
4 18 (16.36%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (15.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 17 (15.45%) vCenter Server
6 12 (10.91%) EMC NetWorker
6 12 (10.91%) NetBackup
7 5 (4.55%) Ansible
7 5 (4.55%) Prometheus
7 5 (4.55%) Suricata
8 1 (0.91%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 1 (0.91%) Nessus
8 1 (0.91%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 50 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 34 (30.91%) Cisco
3 32 (29.09%) Juniper
4 23 (20.91%) Palo Alto
5 22 (20.00%) VMware
6 18 (16.36%) Fortinet
7 16 (14.55%) Extreme Networks
8 13 (11.82%) Oracle
9 12 (10.91%) 3PAR
9 12 (10.91%) Dell
9 12 (10.91%) EMC
9 12 (10.91%) HP
9 12 (10.91%) Symantec
9 12 (10.91%) Veeam
10 10 (9.09%) Dynatrace
11 7 (6.36%) Splunk
12 5 (4.55%) NetApp
12 5 (4.55%) Red Hat
12 5 (4.55%) SolidFire
13 4 (3.64%) McAfee