Firewall Jobs in Somerset

Firewall
South West > Somerset

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Somerset 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 24 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 47 33
Rank change year-on-year -3 -14 -3
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 14 15 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset 1.81% 2.67% 5.62%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.14% 12.71% 38.38%
Number of salaries quoted 12 13 27
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,500 £26,925
25th Percentile £41,688 £40,000 £27,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,600 £44,000 £34,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.82% +27.54% -26.60%
75th Percentile £65,313 £52,500 £47,750
90th Percentile £66,250 £71,000 £50,750
South West median annual salary £45,000 £42,250 £45,000
% change year-on-year +6.51% -6.11% +4.65%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 138 118 99
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset 17.88% 21.03% 14.64%
Number of salaries quoted 131 63 54
10th Percentile £25,500 £28,000 £25,580
25th Percentile £29,866 £33,125 £29,406
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £38,426
Median % change year-on-year - +17.11% -9.59%
75th Percentile £57,000 £59,563 £48,750
90th Percentile £60,000 £77,500 £62,500
South West median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £48,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% -6.25% +9.71%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Somerset

Firewall
Salary Trend in Somerset

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

Salary trend for Firewall in Somerset

Firewall
Salary Histogram in Somerset

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Somerset over the 6 months to 24 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Firewall in Somerset

Firewall
Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 24 May 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
Bath +7 10 £55,000 +37.50% 5
Portishead -10 1 £45,000 +2.27%
Yeovil - 1 £57,200 -
Firewall
South West

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Somerset 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 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
3 1 (7.14%) IaaS
3 1 (7.14%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) DHCP
1 4 (28.57%) DNS
1 4 (28.57%) TCP/IP
2 3 (21.43%) BGP
2 3 (21.43%) OSPF
2 3 (21.43%) VLAN
3 2 (14.29%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (14.29%) Ethernet
3 2 (14.29%) ICMP
3 2 (14.29%) MPLS
3 2 (14.29%) Network Security
3 2 (14.29%) VoIP
3 2 (14.29%) VPN
4 1 (7.14%) Internet
4 1 (7.14%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (7.14%) LAN
4 1 (7.14%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (7.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
General
1 2 (14.29%) Retail
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
1 2 (14.29%) Telecoms
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Network Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) IT Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Senior
3 3 (21.43%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Support Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) 3rd Line Support
5 1 (7.14%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) IT Support
5 1 (7.14%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Linux Systems Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior IT Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Virtualisation Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Virtualisation Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Data Centre
2 2 (14.29%) CMDB
2 2 (14.29%) Driving Licence
3 1 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (7.14%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Debian
2 2 (14.29%) Ubuntu
2 2 (14.29%) Windows
2 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.14%) AIX
3 1 (7.14%) CentOS
3 1 (7.14%) Fedora
3 1 (7.14%) openSUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (28.57%) Network Architecture
3 3 (21.43%) Configuration Management
3 3 (21.43%) Service Delivery
4 2 (14.29%) Agile
4 2 (14.29%) Customer Service
4 2 (14.29%) Customer-Centricity
4 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (14.29%) Innovative Thinking
4 2 (14.29%) ITIL
4 2 (14.29%) Kalman Filter
4 2 (14.29%) Network Design
5 1 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (7.14%) People Management
5 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (7.14%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) Bash
1 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 2 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) CCNP
1 3 (21.43%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) CCNA
2 2 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (7.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) SLA
2 1 (7.14%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Firmware
1 3 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
3 1 (7.14%) KVM
3 1 (7.14%) Samba
3 1 (7.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) VMware
2 3 (21.43%) Cisco
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 2 (14.29%) Red Hat
4 1 (7.14%) Citrix
4 1 (7.14%) Fortinet
4 1 (7.14%) Hitachi
4 1 (7.14%) IBM
4 1 (7.14%) Juniper
4 1 (7.14%) Meraki
4 1 (7.14%) NetApp
4 1 (7.14%) Palo Alto