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 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 49 51
Rank change year-on-year -37 +2 +26
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 105 172 314
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.87% 4.64% 4.73%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 18.32% 38.22% 31.43%
Number of salaries quoted 82 106 286
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £29,125
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £50,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +2.04% +16.67%
75th Percentile £51,875 £67,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £68,125 £76,250 £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 573 450 999
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 10.22% 12.13% 15.05%
Number of salaries quoted 319 251 803
10th Percentile £25,087 £30,000 £27,336
25th Percentile £28,250 £34,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,000 £51,058 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year -35.37% +4.73% +8.33%
75th Percentile £47,500 £71,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £66,750 £81,250 £70,000
England median annual salary £40,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -26.36% +10.00% -3.85%

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 8 February 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 8 February 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
Bristol -25 27 £42,500 -10.53% 8
Cornwall - 24 £33,000 -
Gloucestershire +4 16 £47,500 -15.56% 7
Wiltshire -21 16 £47,500 -24.00% 10
Somerset -27 13 £33,500 -38.33% 6
Devon -8 8 £40,000 +14.24% 5
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 40 (38.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 33 (31.43%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.81%) IIS
4 1 (0.95%) Confluence
4 1 (0.95%) JBoss
Applications
1 13 (12.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.95%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 57 (54.29%) Microsoft 365
2 36 (34.29%) Azure
3 18 (17.14%) Entra ID
4 17 (16.19%) AWS
5 4 (3.81%) OpenShift
6 3 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.86%) GCP
6 3 (2.86%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.90%) Azure AKS
7 2 (1.90%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (1.90%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (1.90%) Google Workspace
7 2 (1.90%) Mimecast
7 2 (1.90%) OCI
7 2 (1.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.95%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.95%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.95%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (0.95%) Pulumi
8 1 (0.95%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 32 (30.48%) DNS
2 28 (26.67%) VPN
3 22 (20.95%) DHCP
4 21 (20.00%) Network Security
5 17 (16.19%) WAN
6 16 (15.24%) TCP/IP
7 13 (12.38%) LAN
7 13 (12.38%) VLAN
8 11 (10.48%) BGP
9 10 (9.52%) Remote Desktop
10 9 (8.57%) DKIM
10 9 (8.57%) DMARC
10 9 (8.57%) OSPF
11 6 (5.71%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (5.71%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (4.76%) IPsec
12 5 (4.76%) Wireless
13 4 (3.81%) DMZ
13 4 (3.81%) EIGRP
13 4 (3.81%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.90%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.95%) DB2
2 1 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.95%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (2.86%) GitLab
2 2 (1.90%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.95%) JIRA
General
1 56 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 8 (7.62%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (6.67%) Finance
3 7 (6.67%) Legal
4 6 (5.71%) Manufacturing
5 5 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.81%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.81%) Law
6 4 (3.81%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.90%) Electronics
7 2 (1.90%) Police
7 2 (1.90%) Retail
7 2 (1.90%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.95%) Local Government
8 1 (0.95%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 31 (29.52%) Support Engineer
2 24 (22.86%) 2nd Line Support
2 24 (22.86%) IT Engineer
3 22 (20.95%) IT Support
4 19 (18.10%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 17 (16.19%) Network Engineer
6 15 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 14 (13.33%) IT Support Engineer
8 13 (12.38%) 1st Line Engineer
8 13 (12.38%) 1st Line Support
8 13 (12.38%) 1st Line Support Engineer
8 13 (12.38%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 12 (11.43%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
10 11 (10.48%) Analyst
11 9 (8.57%) Support Analyst
12 8 (7.62%) Field Engineer
12 8 (7.62%) Technical Engineer
13 7 (6.67%) Technical Support
14 6 (5.71%) Field Support Engineer
14 6 (5.71%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.86%) LDAP
1 3 (2.86%) REST
2 2 (1.90%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (0.95%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.95%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.95%) EJB
3 1 (0.95%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.95%) OAuth
3 1 (0.95%) OAuth2
3 1 (0.95%) OpenAPI
3 1 (0.95%) OpenID
3 1 (0.95%) React
3 1 (0.95%) SAML
3 1 (0.95%) Spring
3 1 (0.95%) Spring Boot
3 1 (0.95%) Svelte
3 1 (0.95%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 40 (38.10%) Driving Licence
2 8 (7.62%) Data Centre
3 5 (4.76%) CMDB
3 5 (4.76%) Security Posture
4 4 (3.81%) PKI
5 3 (2.86%) CCTV
6 2 (1.90%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.90%) Digital Signage
6 2 (1.90%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.90%) Replication
6 2 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.90%) YubiKey
7 1 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.95%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.95%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (0.95%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.95%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 59 (56.19%) Windows
2 36 (34.29%) Windows Server
3 13 (12.38%) Linux
4 6 (5.71%) Windows 10
5 4 (3.81%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (2.86%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.90%) Debian
7 2 (1.90%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.95%) Android
8 1 (0.95%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.95%) CentOS
8 1 (0.95%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.95%) OpenWrt
8 1 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.95%) Unix
8 1 (0.95%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (31.43%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (18.10%) Cybersecurity
2 19 (18.10%) ITIL
3 16 (15.24%) Customer Service
4 15 (14.29%) Cloud Security
4 15 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 14 (13.33%) Remote Monitoring and Management
6 9 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (7.62%) Disaster Recovery
7 8 (7.62%) High Availability
7 8 (7.62%) Mentoring
7 8 (7.62%) RBAC
7 8 (7.62%) SIEM
8 7 (6.67%) Incident Response
8 7 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (6.67%) Migration
8 7 (6.67%) Mobile Device Management
8 7 (6.67%) Use Case
9 6 (5.71%) Containerisation
9 6 (5.71%) Data Loss Prevention
Programming Languages
1 23 (21.90%) PowerShell
2 11 (10.48%) Python
3 8 (7.62%) Bash
4 3 (2.86%) VB
5 1 (0.95%) Bicep
5 1 (0.95%) Go
5 1 (0.95%) Java
5 1 (0.95%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.95%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.95%) SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (22.86%) Security Cleared
2 16 (15.24%) SC Cleared
3 13 (12.38%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (11.43%) DV Cleared
5 11 (10.48%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (9.52%) Degree
7 9 (8.57%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (6.67%) CCNP
9 5 (4.76%) Azure Certification
9 5 (4.76%) CCIE
9 5 (4.76%) CCNA
10 3 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (2.86%) Master's Degree
11 2 (1.90%) CEH
11 2 (1.90%) CompTIA CySA+
11 2 (1.90%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (1.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.95%) ACMT
12 1 (0.95%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.48%) GDPR
2 9 (8.57%) Cyber Essentials
2 9 (8.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (5.71%) NIST
3 6 (5.71%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.86%) NCSC
4 3 (2.86%) SLA
5 2 (1.90%) COBIT
5 2 (1.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.90%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.95%) GRC
6 1 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (0.95%) JSP 440
System Software
1 54 (51.43%) Active Directory
2 13 (12.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (7.62%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (5.71%) Hyper-V
5 4 (3.81%) Docker
6 3 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (2.86%) VMware NSX
6 3 (2.86%) vSphere
7 1 (0.95%) iptables
Systems Management
1 18 (17.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (8.57%) Terraform
3 8 (7.62%) Ansible
4 7 (6.67%) Kubernetes
5 5 (4.76%) Nagios
5 5 (4.76%) WSUS
6 4 (3.81%) vCenter Server
7 3 (2.86%) FortiGate
8 2 (1.90%) CASB
8 2 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.95%) Autotask
9 1 (0.95%) Grafana
9 1 (0.95%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.95%) Puppet
9 1 (0.95%) SCCM
Vendors
1 67 (63.81%) Microsoft
2 23 (21.90%) Cisco
3 18 (17.14%) VMware
4 14 (13.33%) Apple
5 13 (12.38%) Fortinet
6 12 (11.43%) Sophos
7 11 (10.48%) CheckPoint
7 11 (10.48%) ConnectWise
8 10 (9.52%) Palo Alto
9 9 (8.57%) Progress
10 8 (7.62%) F5
11 5 (4.76%) Dell
11 5 (4.76%) SolarWinds
12 4 (3.81%) Tenable
13 3 (2.86%) CrowdStrike
13 3 (2.86%) Google
13 3 (2.86%) Infoblox
13 3 (2.86%) Meraki
13 3 (2.86%) Riverbed
13 3 (2.86%) Veeam