Firewall Jobs in the South West

Firewall
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 63 74 63
Rank change year-on-year +11 -11 -8
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 351 291 395
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 3.84% 4.16% 4.98%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.26% 21.65% 32.17%
Number of salaries quoted 293 216 261
10th Percentile £27,700 £28,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £34,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,250 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.43% -6.11% +4.65%
75th Percentile £53,750 £53,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £49,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

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 South West with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,242 1,344 1,228
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 13.58% 19.19% 15.48%
Number of salaries quoted 930 574 705
10th Percentile £26,500 £28,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £33,244 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the South West

Firewall
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Firewall in the South West.

Salary trend for Firewall in the South West

Firewall
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in the South West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Firewall in the South West

Firewall
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the South West region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Bristol +27 90 £50,000 -13.79% 27
Gloucestershire +23 82 £42,500 - 18
Wiltshire +1 79 £49,000 +40.00% 17
Devon -6 47 £49,000 +9.87% 8
Dorset -22 27 £37,500 -11.24% 5
Somerset +8 18 £47,500 +2.70% 11
Cornwall -23 7 £42,000 +12.00% 2
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 61 (17.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 52 (14.81%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.71%) IIS
4 5 (1.42%) Confluence
4 5 (1.42%) SharePoint 2010
4 5 (1.42%) SharePoint 2013
5 4 (1.14%) Apache
6 1 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 19 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.14%) Trello
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.57%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 131 (37.32%) Azure
2 115 (32.76%) Microsoft 365
3 40 (11.40%) AWS
4 23 (6.55%) Entra ID
5 22 (6.27%) GCP
6 20 (5.70%) OneDrive
7 18 (5.13%) SaaS
8 16 (4.56%) IaaS
9 15 (4.27%) PaaS
10 10 (2.85%) Power Platform
11 6 (1.71%) WhatsApp
12 5 (1.42%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (1.14%) Amazon S3
13 4 (1.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 4 (1.14%) GitHub
13 4 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (1.14%) Mimecast
13 4 (1.14%) Slack
14 2 (0.57%) Dynamics 365
15 1 (0.28%) Dropbox
Communications & Networking
1 117 (33.33%) WAN
2 96 (27.35%) LAN
3 61 (17.38%) VPN
4 52 (14.81%) DNS
5 50 (14.25%) Wireless
6 47 (13.39%) TCP/IP
7 37 (10.54%) SD-WAN
8 34 (9.69%) Network Security
9 32 (9.12%) Wi-Fi
10 27 (7.69%) DHCP
11 25 (7.12%) Cisco ASA
12 20 (5.70%) VLAN
13 19 (5.41%) Internet
14 16 (4.56%) BGP
14 16 (4.56%) SAN
15 13 (3.70%) OSPF
15 13 (3.70%) VoIP
16 12 (3.42%) NetScaler
17 11 (3.13%) Software-Defined Networking
17 11 (3.13%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.85%) Big Data
2 6 (1.71%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (1.14%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.57%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (0.57%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.57%) SQLPlus
6 1 (0.28%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (1.14%) Burp Suite
1 4 (1.14%) JIRA
1 4 (1.14%) Metasploit
2 2 (0.57%) Git
2 2 (0.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 67 (19.09%) Social Skills
2 30 (8.55%) Aerospace
3 21 (5.98%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (4.84%) Manufacturing
4 17 (4.84%) Retail
5 15 (4.27%) Public Sector
6 14 (3.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (3.99%) Telecoms
7 8 (2.28%) Military
8 6 (1.71%) Finance
8 6 (1.71%) Legal
9 5 (1.42%) Police
10 4 (1.14%) Law
10 4 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.28%) Aviation
12 1 (0.28%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.28%) Games
Job Titles
1 98 (27.92%) Network Engineer
2 92 (26.21%) Senior
3 67 (19.09%) Senior Network Engineer
4 61 (17.38%) Support Engineer
5 52 (14.81%) IT Engineer
6 48 (13.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 48 (13.68%) IT Support
7 36 (10.26%) IT Support Engineer
8 35 (9.97%) Analyst
9 21 (5.98%) 3rd Line Support
10 20 (5.70%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 19 (5.41%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
12 18 (5.13%) Administrator
12 18 (5.13%) Security Analyst
12 18 (5.13%) Systems Administrator
13 17 (4.84%) Consultant
14 15 (4.27%) 2nd Line Support
14 15 (4.27%) Network Manager
15 13 (3.70%) Senior Analyst
16 12 (3.42%) Cybersecurity Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.42%) REST
2 4 (1.14%) 802.1X
2 4 (1.14%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (1.14%) YAML
3 3 (0.85%) .NET
3 3 (0.85%) AngularJS
3 3 (0.85%) ASP.NET
3 3 (0.85%) ASP.NET MVC
3 3 (0.85%) CSS
3 3 (0.85%) HTML
3 3 (0.85%) jQuery
3 3 (0.85%) React
3 3 (0.85%) Tailwind CSS
3 3 (0.85%) Twitter Bootstrap
3 3 (0.85%) Vue
3 3 (0.85%) WPF
4 1 (0.28%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 56 (15.95%) Data Centre
2 23 (6.55%) Driving Licence
3 19 (5.41%) Public Cloud
4 10 (2.85%) Cyber Defence
4 10 (2.85%) Onboarding
5 9 (2.56%) PKI
6 8 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (1.99%) Replication
8 6 (1.71%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 5 (1.42%) Clustering
9 5 (1.42%) CMDB
9 5 (1.42%) Cyber Security Posture
9 5 (1.42%) Cyberattack
9 5 (1.42%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.14%) Cloud Native
10 4 (1.14%) Embedded Systems
10 4 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.14%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.14%) Mobile App
11 3 (0.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 136 (38.75%) Windows
2 71 (20.23%) Windows Server
3 65 (18.52%) Linux
4 19 (5.41%) Windows 10
5 15 (4.27%) Windows Server 2016
6 7 (1.99%) Unix
6 7 (1.99%) Windows Server 2012
7 6 (1.71%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (1.42%) Apple iOS
8 5 (1.42%) Mac OS
8 5 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (1.14%) Android
9 4 (1.14%) Data ONTAP
9 4 (1.14%) Kali Linux
9 4 (1.14%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.57%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.57%) Windows 2000
10 2 (0.57%) Windows 8
10 2 (0.57%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.57%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (18.80%) Cybersecurity
2 55 (15.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 52 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
4 43 (12.25%) Customer Service
5 40 (11.40%) ITIL
6 35 (9.97%) Agile
7 28 (7.98%) Actionable Insight
7 28 (7.98%) Service Delivery
8 27 (7.69%) Collaborative Working
9 25 (7.12%) Project Delivery
10 24 (6.84%) Incident Response
11 22 (6.27%) Network Monitoring
12 19 (5.41%) Office Automation
13 18 (5.13%) Cloud Security
14 17 (4.84%) Computer Science
15 15 (4.27%) Security Operations
15 15 (4.27%) Security Patching
15 15 (4.27%) Virtual Infrastructure
16 14 (3.99%) DevOps
16 14 (3.99%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 35 (9.97%) PowerShell
2 34 (9.69%) Python
3 17 (4.84%) Bash
4 15 (4.27%) C#
5 12 (3.42%) SQL
6 8 (2.28%) Java
7 4 (1.14%) Bicep
8 3 (0.85%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.85%) XAML
9 1 (0.28%) C
9 1 (0.28%) Perl
Qualifications
1 97 (27.64%) Security Cleared
2 58 (16.52%) DV Cleared
3 36 (10.26%) Cisco Certification
4 32 (9.12%) Degree
5 27 (7.69%) CCNA
6 26 (7.41%) SC Cleared
7 21 (5.98%) Microsoft Certification
8 20 (5.70%) CCNP
9 17 (4.84%) MCSE
10 11 (3.13%) CISSP
11 9 (2.56%) Network+ Certification
12 8 (2.28%) GIAC
13 7 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (1.99%) MCITP
13 7 (1.99%) MCSA
14 6 (1.71%) CCSK
14 6 (1.71%) CompTIA Security+
15 4 (1.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 4 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 4 (1.14%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (3.70%) SLA
3 10 (2.85%) Cyber Essentials
3 10 (2.85%) NIST
3 10 (2.85%) PCI DSS
4 9 (2.56%) SOC 2
5 6 (1.71%) GDPR
6 5 (1.42%) SOC 1
7 3 (0.85%) QA
8 2 (0.57%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.28%) GRC
9 1 (0.28%) NCSC
System Software
1 74 (21.08%) Active Directory
2 69 (19.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (10.54%) Hyper-V
4 21 (5.98%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (3.99%) VMware NSX
5 14 (3.99%) vSphere
6 11 (3.13%) XenDesktop
7 8 (2.28%) Firmware
8 6 (1.71%) XenApp
9 5 (1.42%) Docker
9 5 (1.42%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (1.14%) KVM
10 4 (1.14%) VMware Workstation
11 2 (0.57%) Terminal Server
11 2 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.28%) Samba
Systems Management
1 55 (15.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (7.98%) SCCM
3 27 (7.69%) WSUS
4 24 (6.84%) Ansible
5 15 (4.27%) vCenter Server
6 12 (3.42%) FortiGate
7 9 (2.56%) Kubernetes
7 9 (2.56%) Terraform
8 8 (2.28%) Prometheus
9 6 (1.71%) Cisco Prime
9 6 (1.71%) Nagios
10 5 (1.42%) OfficeScan
10 5 (1.42%) Opsview
11 4 (1.14%) Istio
11 4 (1.14%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (1.14%) Nmap
11 4 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.85%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.85%) Puppet
13 2 (0.57%) CASB
Vendors
1 137 (39.03%) Cisco
2 96 (27.35%) Microsoft
3 82 (23.36%) VMware
4 19 (5.41%) Citrix
4 19 (5.41%) HP
5 18 (5.13%) Google
6 15 (4.27%) Fortinet
7 14 (3.99%) Dell
8 13 (3.70%) Aruba
8 13 (3.70%) Sophos
8 13 (3.70%) Veeam
9 12 (3.42%) Meraki
10 9 (2.56%) CheckPoint
10 9 (2.56%) Palo Alto
10 9 (2.56%) Red Hat
10 9 (2.56%) Symantec
11 7 (1.99%) Apple
12 6 (1.71%) Juniper
12 6 (1.71%) NetApp
12 6 (1.71%) PagerDuty