Firewall Jobs in Berkshire

Firewall
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 72 89
Rank change year-on-year +32 +17 +3
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 176 118 108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 5.24% 4.04% 2.88%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 34.65% 27.44% 19.25%
Number of salaries quoted 146 70 90
10th Percentile £33,625 £34,175 £28,350
25th Percentile £39,380 £45,000 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% -11.36%
75th Percentile £59,000 £74,250 £64,063
90th Percentile £69,375 £80,000 £77,625
South East median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% +5.56%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 508 430 561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 15.13% 14.72% 14.98%
Number of salaries quoted 364 197 350
10th Percentile £28,895 £23,500 £30,450
25th Percentile £36,500 £34,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £70,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £81,250
South East median annual salary £47,500 £45,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +4.40% -4.21% +4.97%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Berkshire

Firewall
Salary Trend in Berkshire

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

Salary trend for Firewall in Berkshire

Firewall
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Berkshire over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Firewall in Berkshire

Firewall
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 12 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
Reading +20 111 £59,000 -9.23% 10
Newbury +9 23 £50,000 +11.11% 1
Slough - 15 £36,000 - 2
Bracknell +8 11 £46,250 +8.82% 8
Ascot - 6 £42,500 -
Wokingham -2 5 £40,000 +12.68%
Firewall
South East

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 42 (23.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (9.66%) SharePoint
3 13 (7.39%) IIS
4 5 (2.84%) Apache
5 4 (2.27%) WordPress
6 2 (1.14%) CMS
7 1 (0.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.70%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 77 (43.75%) Azure
2 61 (34.66%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (10.80%) Azure Monitor
3 19 (10.80%) Azure Storage
3 19 (10.80%) Entra ID
4 12 (6.82%) iTunes
4 12 (6.82%) OCI
5 8 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (3.41%) AWS
7 5 (2.84%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.27%) OneDrive
9 3 (1.70%) GCP
10 1 (0.57%) IaaS
10 1 (0.57%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 52 (29.55%) DNS
2 43 (24.43%) DHCP
3 37 (21.02%) Network Security
4 34 (19.32%) WAN
5 33 (18.75%) VPN
6 23 (13.07%) SNMP
6 23 (13.07%) Wireless
7 21 (11.93%) SAN
7 21 (11.93%) SD-WAN
7 21 (11.93%) SSL
8 20 (11.36%) Internet
9 18 (10.23%) OSPF
10 17 (9.66%) IPsec
10 17 (9.66%) LAN
11 13 (7.39%) BGP
11 13 (7.39%) Intrusion Detection
12 10 (5.68%) VLAN
13 9 (5.11%) Cisco ISE
13 9 (5.11%) Intranet
14 8 (4.55%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.84%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (2.84%) MongoDB
1 5 (2.84%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.57%) Hadoop
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle Database 11g
2 1 (0.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (1.14%) JIRA
General
1 49 (27.84%) Social Skills
2 11 (6.25%) Finance
3 9 (5.11%) Legal
4 8 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.41%) Retail
6 4 (2.27%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.14%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.57%) Billing
8 1 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.57%) Local Government
8 1 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (17.05%) IT Engineer
2 24 (13.64%) Network Engineer
3 21 (11.93%) Architect
4 19 (10.80%) Active Directory Specialist
4 19 (10.80%) Active Directory Support
4 19 (10.80%) Azure Specialist
4 19 (10.80%) Support Specialist
5 18 (10.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 15 (8.52%) IP Architect
6 15 (8.52%) Solutions Architect
7 14 (7.95%) Project Engineer
8 13 (7.39%) Senior
8 13 (7.39%) Support Engineer
9 12 (6.82%) Systems Engineer
10 11 (6.25%) IT Support
10 11 (6.25%) IT Support Engineer
11 9 (5.11%) Firewall Specialist
11 9 (5.11%) Network Specialist
11 9 (5.11%) Windows Engineer
11 9 (5.11%) Windows Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (10.80%) ARM Templates
2 12 (6.82%) 802.1X
3 6 (3.41%) Web Services
4 5 (2.84%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (2.84%) YAML
5 4 (2.27%) LAMP
6 1 (0.57%) .NET
6 1 (0.57%) LDAP
6 1 (0.57%) REST
6 1 (0.57%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 31 (17.61%) Data Centre
2 23 (13.07%) PKI
3 19 (10.80%) Self-Motivation
4 17 (9.66%) Management Information System
5 13 (7.39%) CMDB
6 10 (5.68%) Driving Licence
7 9 (5.11%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (3.98%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 6 (3.41%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (3.41%) Replication
10 5 (2.84%) Security Posture
11 4 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (1.14%) CCTV
12 2 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
12 2 (1.14%) Digital Signage
12 2 (1.14%) IPTV
12 2 (1.14%) Operational Technology
13 1 (0.57%) SCADA
13 1 (0.57%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 84 (47.73%) Windows
2 68 (38.64%) Windows Server
3 57 (32.39%) Linux
4 38 (21.59%) Windows Server 2016
5 35 (19.89%) Windows Server 2019
6 26 (14.77%) Windows 10
7 15 (8.52%) Windows Server 2012
8 12 (6.82%) Windows XP
9 5 (2.84%) Data ONTAP
9 5 (2.84%) Kali Linux
10 4 (2.27%) Ubuntu
10 4 (2.27%) VMS
11 2 (1.14%) Android
12 1 (0.57%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (25.00%) ITIL
2 32 (18.18%) Agile
3 31 (17.61%) Cybersecurity
4 29 (16.48%) Project Management
5 27 (15.34%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (13.64%) Release Management
7 23 (13.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 22 (12.50%) Service Management
9 20 (11.36%) DevOps
10 19 (10.80%) Analytics
10 19 (10.80%) CI/CD
10 19 (10.80%) Identity Management
10 19 (10.80%) Infrastructure as Code
10 19 (10.80%) Log Analytics
10 19 (10.80%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 19 (10.80%) Privileged Identity Management
10 19 (10.80%) RBAC
11 17 (9.66%) Mentoring
11 17 (9.66%) Project Planning
11 17 (9.66%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (25.57%) PowerShell
2 26 (14.77%) SQL
3 20 (11.36%) C#
4 19 (10.80%) Bicep
4 19 (10.80%) VB
4 19 (10.80%) VBScript
5 13 (7.39%) Python
6 3 (1.70%) Bash
7 1 (0.57%) Java
Qualifications
1 73 (41.48%) Security Cleared
2 59 (33.52%) SC Cleared
3 56 (31.82%) Degree
4 42 (23.86%) DV Cleared
5 30 (17.05%) Cisco Certification
6 23 (13.07%) CCNP
7 22 (12.50%) CCNA
8 19 (10.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 9 (5.11%) CISSP
10 6 (3.41%) Azure Certification
11 5 (2.84%) AWS Certification
12 4 (2.27%) Master's Degree
12 4 (2.27%) Network+ Certification
13 3 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (1.70%) MCSE
13 3 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (1.14%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (1.14%) GCIA
14 2 (1.14%) SANS
15 1 (0.57%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (5.11%) PCI DSS
3 8 (4.55%) NIST
4 7 (3.98%) SLA
5 6 (3.41%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 4 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.57%) COBIT
8 1 (0.57%) GRC
System Software
1 84 (47.73%) Active Directory
2 35 (19.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (13.07%) Hyper-V
4 20 (11.36%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (10.80%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (6.82%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (3.98%) vSphere
8 6 (3.41%) Firmware
9 5 (2.84%) Docker
10 1 (0.57%) NFS
10 1 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.57%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 44 (25.00%) SCOM
2 38 (21.59%) Microsoft Intune
3 35 (19.89%) SCCM
4 31 (17.61%) WSUS
5 25 (14.20%) Kubernetes
6 20 (11.36%) vCenter Server
7 19 (10.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 12 (6.82%) EMC NetWorker
8 12 (6.82%) NetBackup
9 5 (2.84%) Ansible
9 5 (2.84%) Prometheus
9 5 (2.84%) Suricata
10 4 (2.27%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.57%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 1 (0.57%) Nessus
11 1 (0.57%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 89 (50.57%) Microsoft
2 54 (30.68%) Cisco
3 51 (28.98%) VMware
4 44 (25.00%) Juniper
5 29 (16.48%) Palo Alto
6 22 (12.50%) Fortinet
7 18 (10.23%) Extreme Networks
8 16 (9.09%) HP
8 16 (9.09%) Veeam
9 15 (8.52%) Dell
10 14 (7.95%) Oracle
11 12 (6.82%) 3PAR
11 12 (6.82%) EMC
11 12 (6.82%) Symantec
12 9 (5.11%) Aruba
12 9 (5.11%) Dynatrace
13 8 (4.55%) Sage
14 7 (3.98%) F5
14 7 (3.98%) Splunk
15 5 (2.84%) NetApp