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 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 31 53
Rank change year-on-year -77 +22 -11
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 146 210 260
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.39% 5.85% 3.75%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 21.95% 36.40% 34.48%
Number of salaries quoted 91 174 165
10th Percentile £27,750 £29,225 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £34,500 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -20.69% -8.42%
75th Percentile £61,250 £50,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £58,750 £76,250
England median annual salary £52,000 £46,500 £50,878
% change year-on-year +11.83% -8.60% -4.00%

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 665 577 754
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 6.33% 16.09% 10.88%
Number of salaries quoted 367 362 443
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,625 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £34,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.43% -31.00% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £52,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £63,675 £82,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £40,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -21.57% -2.86%

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 -13 43 £50,000 +44.93% 26
Gloucestershire -41 39 £40,000 -27.27% 30
Bristol -69 24 £69,500 +54.44% 9
Devon -28 22 £32,500 +3.17% 7
Somerset -36 8 £50,000 +49.25% 26
Dorset -31 1 £60,000 +93.55% 4
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 37 (25.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (15.07%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.37%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (6.85%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.68%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 61 (41.78%) Azure
2 59 (40.41%) Microsoft 365
3 38 (26.03%) Entra ID
4 33 (22.60%) AWS
5 11 (7.53%) Serverless
6 6 (4.11%) OCI
7 4 (2.74%) Amazon S3
7 4 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (2.74%) GCP
7 4 (2.74%) IaaS
7 4 (2.74%) PaaS
8 3 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.05%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (1.37%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.37%) GitHub
9 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (1.37%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.37%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.37%) Stripe
10 1 (0.68%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 46 (31.51%) DNS
2 44 (30.14%) WAN
3 40 (27.40%) VPN
4 39 (26.71%) Network Security
4 39 (26.71%) VLAN
5 34 (23.29%) LAN
6 33 (22.60%) DHCP
7 20 (13.70%) TCP/IP
8 17 (11.64%) VoIP
9 16 (10.96%) BGP
9 16 (10.96%) Wi-Fi
10 15 (10.27%) SD-WAN
11 12 (8.22%) Wireless
12 10 (6.85%) WLAN
13 8 (5.48%) DMZ
14 7 (4.79%) Cisco ASA
15 6 (4.11%) Ethernet VPN
15 6 (4.11%) NGFW
15 6 (4.11%) Software-Defined Networking
16 5 (3.42%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.48%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.68%) DocumentDB
3 1 (0.68%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.68%) MySQL
3 1 (0.68%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (2.74%) GitLab
2 3 (2.05%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.68%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.68%) Git
3 1 (0.68%) git-flow
3 1 (0.68%) Postman
3 1 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 51 (34.93%) Social Skills
2 27 (18.49%) Finance
3 21 (14.38%) Public Sector
4 11 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (7.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (6.85%) Aerospace
6 8 (5.48%) Retail
6 8 (5.48%) Telecoms
7 5 (3.42%) Law
7 5 (3.42%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.74%) Banking
8 4 (2.74%) Marketing
9 1 (0.68%) Aviation
9 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (26.71%) Support Engineer
2 35 (23.97%) IT Engineer
3 32 (21.92%) IT Support
4 29 (19.86%) IT Support Engineer
5 21 (14.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 18 (12.33%) Network Engineer
7 17 (11.64%) Infrastructure Support
8 16 (10.96%) Senior
9 13 (8.90%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 12 (8.22%) Architect
10 12 (8.22%) Security Engineer
11 10 (6.85%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (6.16%) Technical Support
13 7 (4.79%) Consultant
13 7 (4.79%) Technical Engineer
13 7 (4.79%) Technical Support Engineer
14 6 (4.11%) Data Centre Technician
14 6 (4.11%) DevOps Engineer
14 6 (4.11%) Network Architect
14 6 (4.11%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (13.70%) Terraform
2 5 (3.42%) Apache NiFi
2 5 (3.42%) Node.js
3 4 (2.74%) XMPP
4 3 (2.05%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.37%) 802.1X
5 2 (1.37%) OAuth
5 2 (1.37%) OAuth2
5 2 (1.37%) OpenID
5 2 (1.37%) SAML
6 1 (0.68%) Next.js
6 1 (0.68%) React
6 1 (0.68%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.64%) Driving Licence
2 15 (10.27%) Data Centre
3 7 (4.79%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (4.11%) Cloud Native
4 6 (4.11%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 6 (4.11%) Fibre Optics
4 6 (4.11%) Onboarding
4 6 (4.11%) Replication
4 6 (4.11%) Security Posture
5 5 (3.42%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (2.74%) FlexPod
6 4 (2.74%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.74%) Private Cloud
6 4 (2.74%) Video Conferencing
7 3 (2.05%) PKI
7 3 (2.05%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.37%) Blog
8 2 (1.37%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.37%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 56 (38.36%) Windows
2 42 (28.77%) Windows Server
3 18 (12.33%) Linux
4 5 (3.42%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (3.42%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (2.74%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (2.05%) Unix
7 2 (1.37%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.37%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (39.04%) Cybersecurity
2 30 (20.55%) Continuous Improvement
3 29 (19.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 24 (16.44%) Project Delivery
5 23 (15.75%) Infrastructure as Code
6 22 (15.07%) ITIL
6 22 (15.07%) Mentoring
7 19 (13.01%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (12.33%) Risk Management
9 17 (11.64%) Disaster Recovery
10 15 (10.27%) Agile
10 15 (10.27%) Collaborative Culture
10 15 (10.27%) Customer Service
11 14 (9.59%) Migration
12 13 (8.90%) Change Management
12 13 (8.90%) Collaborative Working
12 13 (8.90%) DevOps
12 13 (8.90%) Preventative Maintenance
13 12 (8.22%) Cloud Security
14 11 (7.53%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 20 (13.70%) Python
2 16 (10.96%) Bash
3 11 (7.53%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.05%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.37%) SQL
6 1 (0.68%) Bicep
6 1 (0.68%) C
6 1 (0.68%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 44 (30.14%) Security Cleared
2 26 (17.81%) DV Cleared
3 20 (13.70%) Degree
4 15 (10.27%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (8.90%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (7.53%) SC Cleared
7 7 (4.79%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (4.79%) CCNA
8 6 (4.11%) Azure Certification
9 5 (3.42%) CISSP
10 4 (2.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (2.74%) AWS Certification
10 4 (2.74%) CISM
10 4 (2.74%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 4 (2.74%) MCSA
10 4 (2.74%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (2.05%) CCNP
12 2 (1.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 1 (0.68%) JNCIS
13 1 (0.68%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (22.60%) Cyber Essentials
2 32 (21.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (8.90%) NIST
4 11 (7.53%) GRC
5 9 (6.16%) GDPR
5 9 (6.16%) PCI DSS
6 6 (4.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 6 (4.11%) ISO 9001
6 6 (4.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 6 (4.11%) JSP 440
7 4 (2.74%) NCSC
8 3 (2.05%) SLA
9 2 (1.37%) Accessibility
9 2 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 36 (24.66%) Active Directory
2 33 (22.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (21.92%) Hyper-V
4 6 (4.11%) VMware NSX
5 5 (3.42%) Docker
6 4 (2.74%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (2.74%) vSphere
7 3 (2.05%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (1.37%) Firmware
8 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.37%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.68%) KVM
Systems Management
1 22 (15.07%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (14.38%) Ansible
3 12 (8.22%) Kubernetes
4 11 (7.53%) Grafana
5 7 (4.79%) Prometheus
6 6 (4.11%) FortiGate
7 4 (2.74%) Cisco CUCM
7 4 (2.74%) Iperf
8 3 (2.05%) Puppet
8 3 (2.05%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.68%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.68%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 70 (47.95%) Microsoft
2 34 (23.29%) VMware
3 27 (18.49%) Cisco
4 19 (13.01%) Fortinet
5 15 (10.27%) Veeam
6 13 (8.90%) Palo Alto
7 10 (6.85%) Aruba
8 6 (4.11%) Dell
8 6 (4.11%) F5
8 6 (4.11%) Meraki
9 5 (3.42%) Draytek
9 5 (3.42%) Infoblox
9 5 (3.42%) SonicWALL
10 4 (2.74%) ConnectWise
10 4 (2.74%) Datto
10 4 (2.74%) Oracle
10 4 (2.74%) Ruckus Wireless
10 4 (2.74%) Splunk
10 4 (2.74%) Ubiquiti
11 3 (2.05%) NetApp