Firewall Jobs in Berkshire

Firewall
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 40 76 93
Rank change year-on-year +36 +17 -9
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 173 117 104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 5.32% 3.91% 2.90%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 34.12% 26.59% 19.26%
Number of salaries quoted 146 68 88
10th Percentile £33,625 £34,950 £30,425
25th Percentile £38,345 £45,000 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -20.83%
75th Percentile £59,000 £74,250 £62,188
90th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
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
Berkshire

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 Berkshire with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 507 440 540
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 15.58% 14.72% 15.03%
Number of salaries quoted 365 197 344
10th Percentile £28,910 £24,300 £30,725
25th Percentile £36,250 £34,500 £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 £76,500 £78,750 £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 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 2 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 2 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 +21 110 £59,000 -9.23% 14
Newbury +6 26 £50,000 +11.11% 2
Slough - 13 £36,000 - 3
Bracknell +12 9 £41,250 -2.94% 8
Ascot - 6 £42,500 -
Wokingham -1 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 41 (23.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (9.83%) SharePoint
3 14 (8.09%) IIS
4 5 (2.89%) Apache
5 4 (2.31%) WordPress
6 2 (1.16%) CMS
7 1 (0.58%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (2.31%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.73%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 79 (45.66%) Azure
2 62 (35.84%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (9.83%) Azure Monitor
3 17 (9.83%) Azure Storage
3 17 (9.83%) Entra ID
4 12 (6.94%) iTunes
4 12 (6.94%) OCI
5 8 (4.62%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (3.47%) AWS
7 5 (2.89%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.31%) OneDrive
9 3 (1.73%) GCP
10 1 (0.58%) IaaS
10 1 (0.58%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 51 (29.48%) DNS
2 42 (24.28%) DHCP
3 36 (20.81%) Network Security
4 33 (19.08%) VPN
5 32 (18.50%) WAN
6 24 (13.87%) SNMP
7 22 (12.72%) SAN
7 22 (12.72%) SD-WAN
7 22 (12.72%) Wireless
8 21 (12.14%) SSL
9 20 (11.56%) Internet
10 17 (9.83%) IPsec
11 16 (9.25%) LAN
11 16 (9.25%) OSPF
12 13 (7.51%) Intrusion Detection
13 12 (6.94%) BGP
14 9 (5.20%) Intranet
14 9 (5.20%) NAS
15 8 (4.62%) TCP/IP
15 8 (4.62%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.89%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (2.89%) MongoDB
1 5 (2.89%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.58%) Hadoop
2 1 (0.58%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.58%) Oracle Database 11g
2 1 (0.58%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (1.16%) JIRA
General
1 47 (27.17%) Social Skills
2 11 (6.36%) Finance
3 9 (5.20%) Legal
4 6 (3.47%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (3.47%) Retail
5 4 (2.31%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.16%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.58%) Billing
7 1 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (16.76%) IT Engineer
2 22 (12.72%) Architect
3 20 (11.56%) Network Engineer
4 18 (10.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 17 (9.83%) Active Directory Specialist
5 17 (9.83%) Active Directory Support
5 17 (9.83%) Azure Specialist
5 17 (9.83%) Support Specialist
6 16 (9.25%) IP Architect
6 16 (9.25%) Solutions Architect
7 15 (8.67%) Support Engineer
8 14 (8.09%) Project Engineer
9 13 (7.51%) Systems Engineer
10 12 (6.94%) IT Support
10 12 (6.94%) IT Support Engineer
11 10 (5.78%) Windows Engineer
11 10 (5.78%) Windows Systems Engineer
12 9 (5.20%) Firewall Specialist
12 9 (5.20%) Lead
12 9 (5.20%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (9.83%) ARM Templates
2 10 (5.78%) 802.1X
3 6 (3.47%) Web Services
4 5 (2.89%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (2.89%) YAML
5 4 (2.31%) LAMP
6 1 (0.58%) .NET
6 1 (0.58%) LDAP
6 1 (0.58%) REST
6 1 (0.58%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 29 (16.76%) Data Centre
2 21 (12.14%) PKI
3 17 (9.83%) Management Information System
3 17 (9.83%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (8.09%) CMDB
5 9 (5.20%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (4.62%) Driving Licence
7 7 (4.05%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 6 (3.47%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (3.47%) Replication
9 5 (2.89%) Security Posture
10 4 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (2.31%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (1.16%) Digital Signage
11 2 (1.16%) IPTV
11 2 (1.16%) Operational Technology
12 1 (0.58%) Product Ownership
12 1 (0.58%) Renewable Energy
12 1 (0.58%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 86 (49.71%) Windows
2 69 (39.88%) Windows Server
3 57 (32.95%) Linux
4 36 (20.81%) Windows Server 2016
5 33 (19.08%) Windows Server 2019
6 28 (16.18%) Windows 10
7 15 (8.67%) Windows Server 2012
8 12 (6.94%) Windows XP
9 5 (2.89%) Data ONTAP
9 5 (2.89%) Kali Linux
10 4 (2.31%) Ubuntu
10 4 (2.31%) VMS
11 2 (1.16%) Android
12 1 (0.58%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (24.28%) ITIL
2 31 (17.92%) Agile
2 31 (17.92%) Cybersecurity
3 29 (16.76%) Project Management
4 25 (14.45%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (13.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 22 (12.72%) Release Management
7 20 (11.56%) Service Management
8 18 (10.40%) DevOps
9 17 (9.83%) Analytics
9 17 (9.83%) CI/CD
9 17 (9.83%) Identity Management
9 17 (9.83%) Infrastructure as Code
9 17 (9.83%) Log Analytics
9 17 (9.83%) Mentoring
9 17 (9.83%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 17 (9.83%) Privileged Identity Management
9 17 (9.83%) Project Planning
9 17 (9.83%) RBAC
9 17 (9.83%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 44 (25.43%) PowerShell
2 27 (15.61%) SQL
3 18 (10.40%) C#
4 17 (9.83%) Bicep
4 17 (9.83%) VB
4 17 (9.83%) VBScript
5 14 (8.09%) Python
6 4 (2.31%) Bash
7 1 (0.58%) Java
Qualifications
1 72 (41.62%) Security Cleared
2 60 (34.68%) SC Cleared
3 55 (31.79%) Degree
4 41 (23.70%) DV Cleared
5 29 (16.76%) Cisco Certification
6 23 (13.29%) CCNA
7 21 (12.14%) CCNP
8 17 (9.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 9 (5.20%) CISSP
10 6 (3.47%) Azure Certification
11 5 (2.89%) AWS Certification
12 4 (2.31%) Master's Degree
12 4 (2.31%) MCSE
12 4 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (2.31%) Network+ Certification
13 3 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
14 2 (1.16%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (1.16%) GCIA
14 2 (1.16%) SANS
15 1 (0.58%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (5.20%) PCI DSS
3 8 (4.62%) NIST
4 6 (3.47%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 5 (2.89%) SLA
6 4 (2.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.58%) COBIT
7 1 (0.58%) GRC
System Software
1 86 (49.71%) Active Directory
2 36 (20.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (13.29%) Hyper-V
4 18 (10.40%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (9.83%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (6.94%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (4.05%) vSphere
8 5 (2.89%) Docker
9 4 (2.31%) Firmware
10 1 (0.58%) NFS
10 1 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.58%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 43 (24.86%) SCOM
2 38 (21.97%) Microsoft Intune
3 33 (19.08%) SCCM
4 29 (16.76%) WSUS
5 23 (13.29%) Kubernetes
6 20 (11.56%) vCenter Server
7 17 (9.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 12 (6.94%) EMC NetWorker
8 12 (6.94%) NetBackup
9 5 (2.89%) Ansible
9 5 (2.89%) Prometheus
9 5 (2.89%) Suricata
10 1 (0.58%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 1 (0.58%) Nessus
10 1 (0.58%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 90 (52.02%) Microsoft
2 54 (31.21%) VMware
3 52 (30.06%) Cisco
4 44 (25.43%) Juniper
5 27 (15.61%) Palo Alto
6 21 (12.14%) Fortinet
7 16 (9.25%) Extreme Networks
7 16 (9.25%) HP
7 16 (9.25%) Veeam
8 15 (8.67%) Dell
9 14 (8.09%) Oracle
10 12 (6.94%) 3PAR
10 12 (6.94%) EMC
10 12 (6.94%) Symantec
11 10 (5.78%) Dynatrace
12 9 (5.20%) Aruba
13 8 (4.62%) Sage
14 7 (4.05%) F5
14 7 (4.05%) Splunk
15 5 (2.89%) SolidFire