Firewall Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Firewall
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Firewall skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 57 50
Rank change year-on-year +13 -7 +42
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 13 20 59
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 2.01% 3.16% 6.03%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 26.00% 27.40% 27.44%
Number of salaries quoted 7 11 53
10th Percentile £35,100 £32,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £39,042 £39,375 £30,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +12.24% +5.38%
75th Percentile £60,625 £69,500 £54,000
90th Percentile £72,750 - £63,750
South West median annual salary £34,000 £44,375 £49,000
% change year-on-year -23.38% -9.44% +13.29%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 50 73 215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 7.72% 11.53% 21.98%
Number of salaries quoted 31 32 120
10th Percentile £16,000 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £18,500 £37,188 £32,007
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £53,195 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -37.02% +8.56% -2.00%
75th Percentile £55,000 £69,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £74,500 £67,750
South West median annual salary £34,000 £51,058 £49,000
% change year-on-year -33.41% +4.20% +3.16%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Firewall job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Firewall
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Firewall.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Firewall

Firewall
Salary Histogram in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Firewall in Gloucestershire

Firewall
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. 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
Cheltenham +14 7 £50,250 -4.29% 3
Stroud - 2 £42,500 -
Gloucester -4 1 £45,000 -34.78%
Tewkesbury - 1 £70,000 -
Firewall
South West

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (15.38%) AWS
3 2 (15.38%) Entra ID
3 2 (15.38%) Mimecast
3 2 (15.38%) OpenShift
4 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) Network Security
2 3 (23.08%) VPN
3 2 (15.38%) VLAN
3 2 (15.38%) WAN
4 1 (7.69%) DHCP
4 1 (7.69%) DNS
4 1 (7.69%) Internet
4 1 (7.69%) LAN
4 1 (7.69%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (7.69%) SD-WAN
4 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
4 1 (7.69%) Telnet
4 1 (7.69%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) GitLab
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Manufacturing
3 2 (15.38%) Retail
4 1 (7.69%) Police
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Network Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Lead
2 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Support Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Technical Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Lead Network Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Security Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) IT Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) IT Support
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Technical Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Technical Support
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Technical Support Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Systems Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) CMDB
1 4 (30.77%) Data Centre
2 2 (15.38%) CCTV
2 2 (15.38%) Driving Licence
3 1 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 12 (92.31%) Windows
2 6 (46.15%) Linux
3 5 (38.46%) Windows Server
4 2 (15.38%) Ubuntu
5 1 (7.69%) CentOS
5 1 (7.69%) Debian
5 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (30.77%) Asset Management
2 4 (30.77%) Change Control
2 4 (30.77%) ITIL
2 4 (30.77%) ITSM
2 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (30.77%) Use Case
3 3 (23.08%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (23.08%) Network Design
3 3 (23.08%) Service Management
4 2 (15.38%) Analytics
4 2 (15.38%) BCP
4 2 (15.38%) Business Continuity Planning
4 2 (15.38%) DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) High Availability
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (15.38%) RBAC
4 2 (15.38%) Threat Detection
4 2 (15.38%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
1 2 (15.38%) Python
2 1 (7.69%) Bash
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 5 (38.46%) SC Cleared
3 4 (30.77%) CCIE
3 4 (30.77%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (15.38%) DV Cleared
5 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (7.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) GDPR
1 2 (15.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
2 3 (23.08%) vSphere
3 1 (7.69%) Docker
3 1 (7.69%) Hyper-V
3 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (7.69%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Nagios
2 3 (23.08%) Ansible
2 3 (23.08%) vCenter Server
3 2 (15.38%) Terraform
4 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Cisco
2 7 (53.85%) Fortinet
3 5 (38.46%) F5
4 4 (30.77%) CheckPoint
4 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
4 4 (30.77%) VMware
5 3 (23.08%) SolarWinds
6 2 (15.38%) Meraki
7 1 (7.69%) ConnectWise
7 1 (7.69%) Infoblox
7 1 (7.69%) Juniper
7 1 (7.69%) NetScout
7 1 (7.69%) Palo Alto
7 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
7 1 (7.69%) Sophos
7 1 (7.69%) Splunk