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 16 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 50 40
Rank change year-on-year -15 -10 +35
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 124 183 292
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.42% 4.43% 6.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.88% 38.28% 36.36%
Number of salaries quoted 96 114 264
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,125 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £45,250 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.86% -7.65% +15.29%
75th Percentile £48,750 £67,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £76,250 £70,000
England median annual salary £46,000 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.81% +2.86% -

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 594 478 803
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 11.57% 11.57% 16.84%
Number of salaries quoted 338 275 618
10th Percentile £25,087 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,000 £51,058 £48,250
Median % change year-on-year -35.37% +5.82% +1.58%
75th Percentile £48,750 £71,250 £58,638
90th Percentile £66,125 £84,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -4.76%

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 16 January 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 16 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
Cornwall - 35 £32,500 -
Bristol -11 33 £42,500 +7.59% 12
Wiltshire -23 17 £34,000 -35.24% 10
Gloucestershire +14 15 £47,500 -13.64% 7
Somerset -26 12 £33,500 -28.97% 6
Devon -6 6 £36,250 -10.50% 10
Dorset -4 5 £30,000 -31.43% 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 45 (36.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 38 (30.65%) SharePoint
3 12 (9.68%) IIS
4 1 (0.81%) JBoss
Applications
1 16 (12.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (5.65%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.81%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 67 (54.03%) Microsoft 365
2 45 (36.29%) Azure
3 20 (16.13%) Entra ID
4 14 (11.29%) AWS
5 4 (3.23%) OpenShift
6 3 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.42%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (2.42%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.61%) Azure AKS
7 2 (1.61%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (1.61%) GCP
7 2 (1.61%) Mimecast
7 2 (1.61%) OCI
7 2 (1.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.81%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.81%) Azure Storage
8 1 (0.81%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.81%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (0.81%) Pulumi
8 1 (0.81%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 36 (29.03%) DNS
2 29 (23.39%) VPN
3 27 (21.77%) DHCP
4 19 (15.32%) Network Security
4 19 (15.32%) WAN
5 16 (12.90%) LAN
6 15 (12.10%) VLAN
7 14 (11.29%) TCP/IP
8 10 (8.06%) BGP
8 10 (8.06%) Remote Desktop
9 9 (7.26%) DKIM
9 9 (7.26%) DMARC
9 9 (7.26%) Internet
10 8 (6.45%) Kerberos
10 8 (6.45%) OSPF
11 7 (5.65%) IPsec
11 7 (5.65%) VSAT
11 7 (5.65%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (5.65%) Wireless
12 5 (4.03%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.84%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (4.03%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.81%) DB2
3 1 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.81%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (2.42%) GitLab
2 2 (1.61%) Jenkins
General
1 67 (54.03%) Social Skills
2 10 (8.06%) Finance
2 10 (8.06%) Legal
3 9 (7.26%) Law
4 8 (6.45%) Manufacturing
4 8 (6.45%) Telecoms
5 7 (5.65%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.84%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.03%) Electronics
8 4 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.23%) Marketing
9 3 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.61%) Police
10 2 (1.61%) Retail
11 1 (0.81%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 42 (33.87%) Support Engineer
2 33 (26.61%) 2nd Line Support
3 32 (25.81%) IT Support
4 25 (20.16%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 22 (17.74%) IT Engineer
6 17 (13.71%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 17 (13.71%) Technical Engineer
7 16 (12.90%) 1st Line Engineer
7 16 (12.90%) 1st Line Support
7 16 (12.90%) 1st Line Support Engineer
7 16 (12.90%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 16 (12.90%) Analyst
8 15 (12.10%) IT Support Engineer
9 14 (11.29%) Technical Support
10 13 (10.48%) Support Analyst
11 12 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 12 (9.68%) Network Engineer
12 9 (7.26%) Technical Support Engineer
13 8 (6.45%) Senior
14 7 (5.65%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.45%) LDAP
2 3 (2.42%) REST
3 2 (1.61%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (0.81%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.81%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.81%) EJB
4 1 (0.81%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.81%) ModSecurity
4 1 (0.81%) OAuth
4 1 (0.81%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.81%) OpenAPI
4 1 (0.81%) OpenID
4 1 (0.81%) React
4 1 (0.81%) SAML
4 1 (0.81%) Spring
4 1 (0.81%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.81%) Svelte
4 1 (0.81%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 49 (39.52%) Driving Licence
2 9 (7.26%) PKI
3 6 (4.84%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.23%) Clustering
4 4 (3.23%) CMDB
4 4 (3.23%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.42%) CCTV
5 3 (2.42%) Digital Signage
6 2 (1.61%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.61%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.61%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.61%) Replication
6 2 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.61%) YubiKey
7 1 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.81%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.81%) Derivative
7 1 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.81%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.81%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 73 (58.87%) Windows
2 51 (41.13%) Windows Server
3 13 (10.48%) Linux
3 13 (10.48%) Windows Server 2019
4 9 (7.26%) Windows 10
4 9 (7.26%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (3.23%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.61%) Debian
6 2 (1.61%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.81%) Android
7 1 (0.81%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.81%) CentOS
7 1 (0.81%) OpenWrt
7 1 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.81%) Unix
7 1 (0.81%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (30.65%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (21.77%) Customer Service
3 21 (16.94%) Mentoring
4 20 (16.13%) Remote Monitoring and Management
5 19 (15.32%) ITIL
6 16 (12.90%) Cybersecurity
7 15 (12.10%) Cloud Security
8 14 (11.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (11.29%) Disaster Recovery
9 12 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 11 (8.87%) Data Loss Prevention
11 10 (8.06%) Migration
12 9 (7.26%) Containerisation
13 8 (6.45%) Kalman Filter
13 8 (6.45%) RBAC
13 8 (6.45%) Service Management
13 8 (6.45%) SIEM
13 8 (6.45%) Web Filtering
14 7 (5.65%) High Availability
14 7 (5.65%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (25.81%) PowerShell
2 11 (8.87%) Python
3 8 (6.45%) Bash
3 8 (6.45%) VB
4 1 (0.81%) Bicep
4 1 (0.81%) Go
4 1 (0.81%) Java
4 1 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (0.81%) Shell Script
4 1 (0.81%) SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (22.58%) Security Cleared
2 19 (15.32%) SC Cleared
3 17 (13.71%) Cisco Certification
4 13 (10.48%) BPSS Clearance
4 13 (10.48%) Degree
5 12 (9.68%) DV Cleared
6 9 (7.26%) CCNA
7 8 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (5.65%) JNCIA
9 5 (4.03%) Azure Certification
9 5 (4.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 4 (3.23%) ACMT
10 4 (3.23%) CCIE
10 4 (3.23%) CCNP
10 4 (3.23%) MCP
11 3 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (2.42%) Master's Degree
12 2 (1.61%) CEH
12 2 (1.61%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.81%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.87%) Cyber Essentials
2 10 (8.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (6.45%) GDPR
3 8 (6.45%) SLA
4 5 (4.03%) NIST
4 5 (4.03%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.42%) NCSC
6 2 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.81%) COBIT
7 1 (0.81%) GRC
7 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.81%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.81%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.81%) SOC 2
System Software
1 62 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 21 (16.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (7.26%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (6.45%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (5.65%) Docker
5 7 (5.65%) Hyper-V
6 3 (2.42%) VMware NSX
6 3 (2.42%) vSphere
7 1 (0.81%) iptables
Systems Management
1 28 (22.58%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (8.06%) Kubernetes
2 10 (8.06%) WSUS
3 9 (7.26%) Terraform
4 8 (6.45%) Ansible
5 7 (5.65%) vCenter Server
6 4 (3.23%) Autotask
6 4 (3.23%) Nagios
7 2 (1.61%) PaperCut
7 2 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.81%) CASB
8 1 (0.81%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.81%) Grafana
8 1 (0.81%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.81%) Puppet
Vendors
1 85 (68.55%) Microsoft
2 28 (22.58%) Cisco
3 22 (17.74%) VMware
4 20 (16.13%) Apple
5 17 (13.71%) Sophos
6 13 (10.48%) ConnectWise
7 12 (9.68%) Progress
8 11 (8.87%) Fortinet
9 9 (7.26%) CheckPoint
9 9 (7.26%) Datto
9 9 (7.26%) Palo Alto
10 7 (5.65%) F5
11 6 (4.84%) Veeam
12 5 (4.03%) Oracle
12 5 (4.03%) SolarWinds
13 4 (3.23%) SAP
13 4 (3.23%) Starlink
14 3 (2.42%) Dell
14 3 (2.42%) Infoblox
14 3 (2.42%) Tenable