Firewall Jobs in the Thames Valley

Firewall
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 46 57 75
Rank change year-on-year +11 +18 -8
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 331 293 305
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 4.66% 5.14% 4.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 33.74% 30.94% 20.52%
Number of salaries quoted 293 239 240
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,881 £45,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.85% -7.22% -11.82%
75th Percentile £59,000 £58,750 £61,563
90th Percentile £65,000 £77,500 £75,000
South East median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 981 947 1,486
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.80% 16.62% 20.35%
Number of salaries quoted 684 544 742
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £30,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% -
75th Percentile £59,000 £58,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,875 £80,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -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 1 June 2024.

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 1 June 2024. 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 +39 173 £50,000 - 30
Oxfordshire +20 96 £42,500 +2.41% 10
Buckinghamshire -43 63 £41,500 +18.57% 12
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 73 (22.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 40 (12.08%) SharePoint
3 17 (5.14%) Apache
3 17 (5.14%) IIS
4 16 (4.83%) WordPress
5 14 (4.23%) CMS
6 12 (3.63%) nginx
7 3 (0.91%) Exchange Server 2013
8 1 (0.30%) Confluence
Applications
1 25 (7.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 25 (7.55%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.91%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 149 (45.02%) Azure
2 142 (42.90%) Microsoft 365
3 47 (14.20%) AWS
4 35 (10.57%) Entra ID
5 25 (7.55%) Azure Storage
6 21 (6.34%) OneDrive
7 20 (6.04%) Azure Monitor
8 15 (4.53%) Azure Sentinel
9 12 (3.63%) GCP
9 12 (3.63%) iTunes
9 12 (3.63%) OCI
10 8 (2.42%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (1.51%) Amazon S3
13 4 (1.21%) Dynamics 365
13 4 (1.21%) Google Workspace
13 4 (1.21%) SaaS
14 3 (0.91%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 3 (0.91%) Azure Pipelines
14 3 (0.91%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 91 (27.49%) DNS
2 60 (18.13%) DHCP
3 56 (16.92%) VPN
4 46 (13.90%) Network Security
4 46 (13.90%) WAN
5 39 (11.78%) Wireless
6 38 (11.48%) SSL
7 34 (10.27%) TCP/IP
8 31 (9.37%) SD-WAN
8 31 (9.37%) Wi-Fi
9 30 (9.06%) Intrusion Detection
10 29 (8.76%) SAN
11 24 (7.25%) SNMP
12 23 (6.95%) LAN
13 21 (6.34%) VoIP
14 20 (6.04%) Internet
15 19 (5.74%) VLAN
16 18 (5.44%) OSPF
17 17 (5.14%) BGP
17 17 (5.14%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (12.99%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.63%) MySQL
3 5 (1.51%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (1.51%) MongoDB
4 3 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.30%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (0.30%) Power BI
5 1 (0.30%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (0.91%) Git
1 3 (0.91%) JIRA
General
1 103 (31.12%) Social Skills
2 37 (11.18%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (5.74%) Documentation Skills
4 15 (4.53%) Law
5 14 (4.23%) Finance
6 13 (3.93%) Marketing
7 12 (3.63%) Retail
8 10 (3.02%) Telecoms
9 9 (2.72%) Legal
10 8 (2.42%) Manufacturing
10 8 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.81%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (1.51%) Games
13 2 (0.60%) Automotive
13 2 (0.60%) Electronics
13 2 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.30%) Billing
14 1 (0.30%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.30%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 80 (24.17%) IT Engineer
2 76 (22.96%) Support Engineer
3 64 (19.34%) IT Support
4 63 (19.03%) IT Support Engineer
5 50 (15.11%) 3rd Line Support
6 48 (14.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 43 (12.99%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 39 (11.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 31 (9.37%) Network Engineer
10 28 (8.46%) Analyst
11 26 (7.85%) Senior
12 22 (6.65%) Architect
13 19 (5.74%) SOC Analyst
14 17 (5.14%) Active Directory Specialist
14 17 (5.14%) Active Directory Support
14 17 (5.14%) Azure Specialist
14 17 (5.14%) Lead
14 17 (5.14%) Support Specialist
15 16 (4.83%) IP Architect
15 16 (4.83%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.14%) ARM Templates
2 12 (3.63%) 802.1X
3 6 (1.81%) Web Services
4 5 (1.51%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (1.51%) YAML
5 4 (1.21%) .NET
5 4 (1.21%) LAMP
5 4 (1.21%) REST
6 3 (0.91%) AngularJS
6 3 (0.91%) ASP.NET
6 3 (0.91%) ASP.NET MVC
6 3 (0.91%) Azure Blueprints
6 3 (0.91%) CSS
6 3 (0.91%) HTML
6 3 (0.91%) jQuery
6 3 (0.91%) React
6 3 (0.91%) Tailwind CSS
6 3 (0.91%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 3 (0.91%) Vue
6 3 (0.91%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 45 (13.60%) Management Information System
2 36 (10.88%) Data Centre
3 23 (6.95%) PKI
3 23 (6.95%) Replication
3 23 (6.95%) Self-Motivation
4 19 (5.74%) Cyber Threat
5 18 (5.44%) Driving Licence
6 17 (5.14%) Security Operations Centre
7 14 (4.23%) CMDB
8 13 (3.93%) Client/Server
9 9 (2.72%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (2.72%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (2.11%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 5 (1.51%) CCTV
11 5 (1.51%) Security Posture
12 4 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
13 3 (0.91%) Video Conferencing
14 2 (0.60%) IPTV
14 2 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 181 (54.68%) Windows
2 110 (33.23%) Windows Server
3 85 (25.68%) Linux
4 42 (12.69%) Windows Server 2016
5 40 (12.08%) Windows Server 2019
6 32 (9.67%) Windows 10
7 19 (5.74%) Windows Server 2012
8 12 (3.63%) Windows XP
9 6 (1.81%) Android
10 5 (1.51%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (1.51%) Kali Linux
11 4 (1.21%) Ubuntu
11 4 (1.21%) VMS
11 4 (1.21%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.91%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.60%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.60%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 1 (0.30%) Unix
14 1 (0.30%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (22.66%) Cybersecurity
1 75 (22.66%) Problem-Solving
2 56 (16.92%) ITIL
3 53 (16.01%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 37 (11.18%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 35 (10.57%) Agile
6 34 (10.27%) Project Management
7 33 (9.97%) DevOps
7 33 (9.97%) SIEM
8 32 (9.67%) Incident Response
9 29 (8.76%) Security Operations
10 26 (7.85%) Analytics
10 26 (7.85%) Computer Science
10 26 (7.85%) Mentoring
11 23 (6.95%) CI/CD
11 23 (6.95%) Infrastructure as Code
11 23 (6.95%) Service Management
12 22 (6.65%) Release Management
13 21 (6.34%) Change Control
13 21 (6.34%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 73 (22.05%) SQL
2 50 (15.11%) PowerShell
3 21 (6.34%) C#
4 17 (5.14%) Bicep
4 17 (5.14%) VB
4 17 (5.14%) VBScript
5 15 (4.53%) Python
6 12 (3.63%) PHP
7 8 (2.42%) Bash
8 3 (0.91%) XAML
9 1 (0.30%) Java
Qualifications
1 103 (31.12%) Degree
2 78 (23.56%) Security Cleared
3 66 (19.94%) SC Cleared
4 44 (13.29%) Cisco Certification
5 41 (12.39%) DV Cleared
6 34 (10.27%) CCNA
7 26 (7.85%) CCNP
7 26 (7.85%) CISSP
8 20 (6.04%) Computer Science Degree
9 19 (5.74%) CompTIA Security+
10 17 (5.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 11 (3.32%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (3.02%) MCSE
13 6 (1.81%) Azure Certification
13 6 (1.81%) Network+ Certification
14 5 (1.51%) AWS Certification
14 5 (1.51%) MCP
15 4 (1.21%) Master's Degree
16 2 (0.60%) CCIE
16 2 (0.60%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (3.93%) SLA
3 9 (2.72%) PCI DSS
4 8 (2.42%) NIST
5 7 (2.11%) QA
6 6 (1.81%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 4 (1.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.91%) GDPR
10 1 (0.30%) COBIT
10 1 (0.30%) GRC
10 1 (0.30%) IASME
System Software
1 137 (41.39%) Active Directory
2 93 (28.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (12.99%) Hyper-V
4 22 (6.65%) Virtual Desktop
5 21 (6.34%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (4.23%) Docker
7 12 (3.63%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (2.42%) vSphere
9 5 (1.51%) Firmware
10 1 (0.30%) NFS
10 1 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.30%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 53 (16.01%) Microsoft Intune
2 43 (12.99%) SCOM
3 35 (10.57%) SCCM
4 32 (9.67%) Kubernetes
5 29 (8.76%) WSUS
6 21 (6.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 20 (6.04%) vCenter Server
8 14 (4.23%) Ansible
9 12 (3.63%) EMC NetWorker
9 12 (3.63%) NetBackup
10 6 (1.81%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (1.51%) Prometheus
11 5 (1.51%) Suricata
12 3 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.30%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 1 (0.30%) Nessus
13 1 (0.30%) Network Intrusion Detection System
13 1 (0.30%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 173 (52.27%) Microsoft
2 123 (37.16%) VMware
3 64 (19.34%) Cisco
4 53 (16.01%) Veeam
5 47 (14.20%) Juniper
6 36 (10.88%) Citrix
7 30 (9.06%) Palo Alto
8 26 (7.85%) Fortinet
9 21 (6.34%) HP
10 17 (5.14%) Aruba
11 16 (4.83%) Dell
11 16 (4.83%) Extreme Networks
12 14 (4.23%) Oracle
13 13 (3.93%) EMC
14 12 (3.63%) 3PAR
14 12 (3.63%) Symantec
15 10 (3.02%) Dynatrace
16 8 (2.42%) Sage
16 8 (2.42%) Splunk
16 8 (2.42%) WatchGuard