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 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 49 58
Rank change year-on-year -55 +9 +19
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 97 146 332
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.46% 5.44% 4.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.08% 44.11% 29.59%
Number of salaries quoted 76 125 299
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £31,500 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,250 £47,500 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.16% -3.06% +15.63%
75th Percentile £56,292 £63,750 £54,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £76,250 £68,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £49,125
% change year-on-year -5.66% +7.89% -1.75%

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 568 331 1,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 8.58% 12.34% 14.00%
Number of salaries quoted 336 255 927
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £26,500
25th Percentile £28,500 £34,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -33.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £48,750 £68,638 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £79,600 £70,000
England median annual salary £42,500 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -19.05% +10.53% -5.47%

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 27 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 27 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
Gloucestershire +7 23 £42,500 -32.81% 8
Wiltshire -3 23 £47,500 +26.67% 5
Bristol -41 15 £50,000 -16.67% 11
Cornwall -4 13 £27,500 -45.00% 1
Somerset -35 12 £32,500 -18.75% 7
Devon -21 9 £32,500 -28.57% 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 23 (23.71%) Microsoft Exchange
1 23 (23.71%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.12%) Confluence
3 2 (2.06%) IIS
Applications
1 11 (11.34%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (7.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.03%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 53 (54.64%) Microsoft 365
2 41 (42.27%) Azure
3 29 (29.90%) AWS
4 20 (20.62%) Entra ID
5 6 (6.19%) GCP
6 5 (5.15%) Google Workspace
7 3 (3.09%) IaaS
7 3 (3.09%) Mimecast
7 3 (3.09%) OneDrive
7 3 (3.09%) OpenShift
7 3 (3.09%) PaaS
8 2 (2.06%) Azure AKS
8 2 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.06%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (2.06%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (2.06%) OCI
8 2 (2.06%) SaaS
9 1 (1.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (1.03%) Serverless
9 1 (1.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 33 (34.02%) VPN
2 26 (26.80%) DNS
3 25 (25.77%) WAN
4 22 (22.68%) Network Security
4 22 (22.68%) VLAN
5 21 (21.65%) LAN
6 20 (20.62%) TCP/IP
7 18 (18.56%) DHCP
8 13 (13.40%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (9.28%) BGP
10 8 (8.25%) Cisco ASA
11 7 (7.22%) SD-WAN
11 7 (7.22%) Unified Communications
12 6 (6.19%) Cisco Firepower
12 6 (6.19%) OSPF
12 6 (6.19%) WebEx
13 4 (4.12%) DKIM
13 4 (4.12%) DMARC
13 4 (4.12%) Remote Desktop
14 3 (3.09%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.09%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.03%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.03%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (4.12%) JIRA
2 2 (2.06%) GitLab
2 2 (2.06%) Jenkins
General
1 41 (42.27%) Social Skills
2 10 (10.31%) Public Sector
3 9 (9.28%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (7.22%) Finance
5 7 (7.22%) Retail
6 6 (6.19%) Telecoms
7 5 (5.15%) Banking
7 5 (5.15%) Marketing
8 3 (3.09%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.06%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.06%) Police
10 1 (1.03%) Advertising
10 1 (1.03%) Electronics
10 1 (1.03%) Fire and Rescue
10 1 (1.03%) Legal
10 1 (1.03%) Local Government
10 1 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (30.93%) Support Engineer
2 25 (25.77%) IT Engineer
3 22 (22.68%) IT Support
4 21 (21.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 18 (18.56%) IT Support Engineer
6 16 (16.49%) 2nd Line Support
7 13 (13.40%) Network Engineer
8 12 (12.37%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 12 (12.37%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 9 (9.28%) 1st Line Support
10 8 (8.25%) Analyst
10 8 (8.25%) Field Engineer
11 7 (7.22%) 1st Line Engineer
11 7 (7.22%) 1st Line Support Engineer
12 6 (6.19%) Collaboration Engineer
12 6 (6.19%) Field Support Engineer
12 6 (6.19%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (6.19%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
12 6 (6.19%) Support Analyst
13 5 (5.15%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.19%) XMPP
2 2 (2.06%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (1.03%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.03%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.03%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.03%) OAuth
3 1 (1.03%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.03%) OpenID
3 1 (1.03%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (21.65%) Driving Licence
2 9 (9.28%) Replication
3 7 (7.22%) Data Centre
3 7 (7.22%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (7.22%) Onboarding
4 6 (6.19%) FlexPod
4 6 (6.19%) Video Conferencing
5 5 (5.15%) Digital Signage
6 4 (4.12%) Educational Technology
6 4 (4.12%) IoT
6 4 (4.12%) Mobile App
6 4 (4.12%) Security Posture
6 4 (4.12%) Video\Live Streaming
7 3 (3.09%) CCTV
8 2 (2.06%) CMDB
8 2 (2.06%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 2 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (2.06%) e-Learning
8 2 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (2.06%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 50 (51.55%) Windows
2 35 (36.08%) Windows Server
3 15 (15.46%) Linux
4 9 (9.28%) Windows 10
5 4 (4.12%) Mac OS
6 2 (2.06%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.03%) CentOS
7 1 (1.03%) Debian
7 1 (1.03%) OpenWrt
7 1 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.03%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.03%) Unix
7 1 (1.03%) VMS
7 1 (1.03%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (27.84%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (24.74%) Cybersecurity
2 24 (24.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 18 (18.56%) Cloud Security
4 17 (17.53%) Customer Service
5 15 (15.46%) ITIL
6 12 (12.37%) SIEM
7 11 (11.34%) Incident Response
7 11 (11.34%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (9.28%) Security Operations
9 8 (8.25%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (8.25%) High Availability
9 8 (8.25%) Mentoring
9 8 (8.25%) Vulnerability Management
10 7 (7.22%) Data Management
10 7 (7.22%) Disaster Recovery
10 7 (7.22%) Infrastructure Automation
10 7 (7.22%) RBAC
10 7 (7.22%) Remote Monitoring and Management
11 6 (6.19%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 14 (14.43%) PowerShell
1 14 (14.43%) Python
2 8 (8.25%) Bash
3 2 (2.06%) SQL
4 1 (1.03%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (1.03%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.03%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.03%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (19.59%) Security Cleared
2 14 (14.43%) DV Cleared
3 11 (11.34%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (8.25%) Degree
4 8 (8.25%) SC Cleared
5 7 (7.22%) CCNP
6 6 (6.19%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (6.19%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (5.15%) Azure Certification
7 5 (5.15%) CISSP
7 5 (5.15%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 4 (4.12%) CCNA
8 4 (4.12%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (3.09%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 3 (3.09%) Master's Degree
10 2 (2.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (2.06%) CCIE
10 2 (2.06%) CISM
10 2 (2.06%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (18.56%) Cyber Essentials
1 18 (18.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (16.49%) GDPR
3 12 (12.37%) NIST
4 8 (8.25%) PCI DSS
5 4 (4.12%) GRC
6 3 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (2.06%) COBIT
7 2 (2.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (2.06%) JSP 440
7 2 (2.06%) NCSC
7 2 (2.06%) SOC 2
8 1 (1.03%) SLA
System Software
1 43 (44.33%) Active Directory
2 16 (16.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (11.34%) Hyper-V
4 9 (9.28%) vSphere
5 6 (6.19%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (5.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 5 (5.15%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (4.12%) VMware NSX
8 3 (3.09%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (2.06%) Docker
10 1 (1.03%) iptables
Systems Management
1 21 (21.65%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (14.43%) Terraform
3 13 (13.40%) Ansible
4 7 (7.22%) Grafana
5 6 (6.19%) Cisco CUCM
6 4 (4.12%) Kubernetes
7 3 (3.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (3.09%) FortiGate
7 3 (3.09%) vCenter Server
8 2 (2.06%) CASB
8 2 (2.06%) Nagios
8 2 (2.06%) SCCM
8 2 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (2.06%) WSUS
9 1 (1.03%) Host Intrusion Detection System
9 1 (1.03%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (1.03%) Prometheus
9 1 (1.03%) Puppet
Vendors
1 57 (58.76%) Microsoft
2 24 (24.74%) VMware
3 23 (23.71%) Cisco
4 17 (17.53%) Fortinet
5 13 (13.40%) Palo Alto
6 11 (11.34%) Apple
7 8 (8.25%) Splunk
8 7 (7.22%) Sophos
9 6 (6.19%) ConnectWise
9 6 (6.19%) Google
9 6 (6.19%) NetApp
10 5 (5.15%) Dell
10 5 (5.15%) F5
10 5 (5.15%) Veeam
11 4 (4.12%) CheckPoint
11 4 (4.12%) SolarWinds
11 4 (4.12%) Tenable
12 3 (3.09%) Infoblox
12 3 (3.09%) Meraki
12 3 (3.09%) Progress