Firewall Job Trends in Caerphilly

Firewall
South Wales > Caerphilly

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Caerphilly requiring Firewall skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 - 7
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 6 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Caerphilly 10.91% - 9.09%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 60.00% - 37.50%
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 - £23,800
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £48,750 - -
South Wales median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £40,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +29.63% -32.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Caerphilly

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 Caerphilly.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 10 10 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Caerphilly 18.18% 100.00% 24.24%
Number of salaries quoted 10 8 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21,620 - £23,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £23,504 £28,290
Median % change year-on-year +91.46% -16.92% -25.55%
75th Percentile - £25,087 £45,000
90th Percentile £45,750 - -
South Wales median annual salary £40,000 £38,094 £41,067
% change year-on-year +5.00% -7.24% +8.79%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Caerphilly

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Firewall relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Caerphilly.

Firewall job vacancy trend in Caerphilly

Firewall
Salary Trend in Caerphilly

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Caerphilly citing Firewall.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Caerphilly citing Firewall

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Caerphilly by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
General
1 5 (83.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) 3rd Line Support
1 5 (83.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) IT Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) IT Support
1 5 (83.33%) IT Support Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) IT Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) IT Security Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Security Analyst
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (83.33%) Mac OS
3 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) ITIL
1 5 (83.33%) Kalman Filter
1 5 (83.33%) Mentoring
1 5 (83.33%) Problem Management
1 5 (83.33%) Root Cause Analysis
1 5 (83.33%) Security Management
1 5 (83.33%) Technical Leadership
1 5 (83.33%) Web Filtering
2 1 (16.67%) Due Diligence
2 1 (16.67%) Information Security
2 1 (16.67%) SIEM
2 1 (16.67%) Validation
2 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
1 5 (83.33%) Hyper-V
1 5 (83.33%) Virtual Desktop
1 5 (83.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Proxmox
1 5 (83.33%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (83.33%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco