Firewall Job Trends in the South West

Firewall
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Firewall skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 51 50
Rank change year-on-year -37 -1 +30
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 110 166 325
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.81% 5.12% 4.66%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 19.03% 41.29% 31.10%
Number of salaries quoted 86 113 297
10th Percentile £26,750 £30,150 £30,720
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +2.04% +15.98%
75th Percentile £52,500 £67,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £71,875 £82,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £48,445 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -11.92% +10.00% -4.76%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 578 402 1,045
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 9.51% 12.39% 14.99%
Number of salaries quoted 347 248 861
10th Percentile £25,260 £30,000 £27,338
25th Percentile £28,250 £34,500 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,000 £51,529 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -35.96% +8.48% +5.56%
75th Percentile £48,750 £71,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £69,250 £81,250 £70,000
England median annual salary £42,000 £55,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -23.64% +12.24% -5.77%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Firewall job vacancy trend in the South West

Firewall
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Firewall.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Firewall

Firewall
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in the South West over the 6 months to 2 March 2026.

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 2 March 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
Wiltshire -17 22 £45,000 -23.40% 4
Gloucestershire +13 21 £42,500 -24.44% 11
Cornwall +4 20 £30,250 -39.50%
Bristol -29 20 £48,750 -7.14% 7
Somerset -30 16 £32,500 -34.56% 7
Devon -12 9 £36,423 -20.82% 9
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 38 (34.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 34 (30.91%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.64%) Confluence
4 2 (1.82%) IIS
5 1 (0.91%) JBoss
Applications
1 14 (12.73%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.91%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 63 (57.27%) Microsoft 365
2 43 (39.09%) Azure
3 27 (24.55%) AWS
4 23 (20.91%) Entra ID
5 6 (5.45%) GCP
6 5 (4.55%) Google Workspace
6 5 (4.55%) OneDrive
7 3 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.73%) OpenShift
8 2 (1.82%) Azure AKS
8 2 (1.82%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (1.82%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (1.82%) IaaS
8 2 (1.82%) Mimecast
8 2 (1.82%) OCI
8 2 (1.82%) PaaS
8 2 (1.82%) SaaS
8 2 (1.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (0.91%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.91%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 33 (30.00%) VPN
2 30 (27.27%) DNS
3 23 (20.91%) Network Security
4 20 (18.18%) DHCP
4 20 (18.18%) TCP/IP
5 18 (16.36%) VLAN
5 18 (16.36%) WAN
6 14 (12.73%) LAN
7 11 (10.00%) BGP
8 9 (8.18%) DKIM
8 9 (8.18%) DMARC
8 9 (8.18%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (7.27%) OSPF
9 8 (7.27%) Remote Desktop
10 6 (5.45%) Cisco ASA
11 5 (4.55%) SD-WAN
12 4 (3.64%) Cisco Firepower
12 4 (3.64%) DMZ
13 3 (2.73%) MPLS
13 3 (2.73%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.91%) DB2
1 1 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (0.91%) Relational Database
1 1 (0.91%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (3.64%) JIRA
2 3 (2.73%) GitLab
3 2 (1.82%) Jenkins
General
1 54 (49.09%) Social Skills
2 8 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (6.36%) Finance
4 6 (5.45%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (4.55%) Legal
5 5 (4.55%) Manufacturing
6 4 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.64%) Retail
7 3 (2.73%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.82%) Banking
8 2 (1.82%) Marketing
8 2 (1.82%) Police
9 1 (0.91%) Electronics
9 1 (0.91%) Law
9 1 (0.91%) Local Government
9 1 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (27.27%) Support Engineer
2 25 (22.73%) IT Engineer
3 24 (21.82%) IT Support
4 21 (19.09%) 2nd Line Support
5 17 (15.45%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 17 (15.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 16 (14.55%) IT Support Engineer
6 16 (14.55%) Network Engineer
7 12 (10.91%) 1st Line Support
7 12 (10.91%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 10 (9.09%) 1st Line Engineer
8 10 (9.09%) 1st Line Support Engineer
8 10 (9.09%) Analyst
8 10 (9.09%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
9 8 (7.27%) Field Engineer
9 8 (7.27%) Support Analyst
10 7 (6.36%) Technical Engineer
10 7 (6.36%) Technical Support
11 6 (5.45%) Field Support Engineer
12 5 (4.55%) Technical Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.73%) XMPP
2 2 (1.82%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (0.91%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.91%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.91%) EJB
3 1 (0.91%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.91%) OAuth
3 1 (0.91%) OAuth2
3 1 (0.91%) OpenAPI
3 1 (0.91%) OpenID
3 1 (0.91%) React
3 1 (0.91%) REST
3 1 (0.91%) SAML
3 1 (0.91%) Spring
3 1 (0.91%) Spring Boot
3 1 (0.91%) Svelte
3 1 (0.91%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 33 (30.00%) Driving Licence
2 9 (8.18%) Data Centre
3 5 (4.55%) CMDB
3 5 (4.55%) Digital Signage
3 5 (4.55%) Replication
3 5 (4.55%) Security Posture
4 4 (3.64%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (3.64%) IoT
4 4 (3.64%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.64%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.64%) Video\Live Streaming
5 3 (2.73%) CCTV
5 3 (2.73%) Educational Technology
5 3 (2.73%) FlexPod
5 3 (2.73%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (1.82%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.82%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 2 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.82%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.82%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 61 (55.45%) Windows
2 39 (35.45%) Windows Server
3 15 (13.64%) Linux
4 8 (7.27%) Windows 10
5 3 (2.73%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.82%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.91%) CentOS
7 1 (0.91%) Debian
7 1 (0.91%) OpenWrt
7 1 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.91%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.91%) Unix
7 1 (0.91%) VMS
7 1 (0.91%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (30.91%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (20.91%) Cybersecurity
3 21 (19.09%) ITIL
4 20 (18.18%) Cloud Security
4 20 (18.18%) Customer Service
5 17 (15.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 10 (9.09%) Incident Response
6 10 (9.09%) Remote Monitoring and Management
6 10 (9.09%) SIEM
7 9 (8.18%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (8.18%) ITSM
7 9 (8.18%) Mentoring
7 9 (8.18%) Mobile Device Management
8 8 (7.27%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (7.27%) High Availability
8 8 (7.27%) RBAC
8 8 (7.27%) Security Operations
9 7 (6.36%) Disaster Recovery
9 7 (6.36%) Process Improvement
9 7 (6.36%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 18 (16.36%) PowerShell
2 12 (10.91%) Python
3 8 (7.27%) Bash
4 1 (0.91%) Bicep
4 1 (0.91%) Go
4 1 (0.91%) Java
4 1 (0.91%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (0.91%) Shell Script
4 1 (0.91%) SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (21.82%) Security Cleared
2 14 (12.73%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (12.73%) DV Cleared
2 14 (12.73%) SC Cleared
3 10 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (8.18%) Degree
4 9 (8.18%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (6.36%) CCNP
6 5 (4.55%) Azure Certification
6 5 (4.55%) CCIE
6 5 (4.55%) CCNA
7 4 (3.64%) CISSP
7 4 (3.64%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 3 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.73%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 3 (2.73%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.82%) CEH
9 2 (1.82%) CompTIA CySA+
9 2 (1.82%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.73%) Cyber Essentials
1 14 (12.73%) GDPR
2 13 (11.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (9.09%) NIST
4 8 (7.27%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 3 (2.73%) NCSC
6 2 (1.82%) COBIT
6 2 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.82%) GRC
6 2 (1.82%) JSP 440
6 2 (1.82%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 53 (48.18%) Active Directory
2 13 (11.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (7.27%) Hyper-V
4 6 (5.45%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (5.45%) vSphere
5 4 (3.64%) VMware NSX
6 3 (2.73%) Docker
6 3 (2.73%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 2 (1.82%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.91%) iptables
Systems Management
1 25 (22.73%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (10.00%) Terraform
3 10 (9.09%) Ansible
4 6 (5.45%) Kubernetes
5 5 (4.55%) Nagios
6 4 (3.64%) Grafana
7 3 (2.73%) Cisco CUCM
7 3 (2.73%) FortiGate
7 3 (2.73%) vCenter Server
8 2 (1.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (1.82%) CASB
8 2 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.82%) WSUS
9 1 (0.91%) Host Intrusion Detection System
9 1 (0.91%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.91%) Puppet
9 1 (0.91%) SCCM
Vendors
1 66 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 25 (22.73%) Cisco
3 21 (19.09%) VMware
4 17 (15.45%) Fortinet
5 13 (11.82%) Apple
6 11 (10.00%) Palo Alto
7 10 (9.09%) ConnectWise
7 10 (9.09%) Sophos
8 9 (8.18%) CheckPoint
9 8 (7.27%) F5
10 6 (5.45%) Google
10 6 (5.45%) Progress
11 5 (4.55%) Dell
11 5 (4.55%) SolarWinds
11 5 (4.55%) Splunk
12 4 (3.64%) Tenable
12 4 (3.64%) Veeam
13 3 (2.73%) CrowdStrike
13 3 (2.73%) Infoblox
13 3 (2.73%) Meraki