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 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 52 38
Rank change year-on-year +10 -14 +39
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 178 223 307
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 4.02% 3.76% 6.92%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 27.30% 36.86% 37.17%
Number of salaries quoted 150 139 280
10th Percentile £29,750 £30,000 £31,200
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,250 £45,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.89% -8.16% +10.89%
75th Percentile £50,188 £69,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £60,000 £76,250 £70,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - -

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 652 605 826
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.72% 10.19% 18.62%
Number of salaries quoted 389 360 641
10th Percentile £25,905 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £52,250 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -34.93% +6.63% +5.38%
75th Percentile £52,500 £71,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £85,100 £77,500
England median annual salary £40,000 £53,025 £51,500
% change year-on-year -24.56% +2.96% -1.90%

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 23 November 2025.

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 23 November 2025. 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 +4 49 £42,500 -5.56% 11
Cornwall - 37 £33,000 - 1
Wiltshire -7 30 £34,500 -44.80% 12
Devon +8 17 £31,375 -37.25% 5
Dorset +11 16 £30,500 -29.07% 3
Gloucestershire +7 16 £53,750 +25.00% 11
Somerset -14 11 £33,000 +1.54% 7
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 52 (29.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 34 (19.10%) SharePoint
3 23 (12.92%) IIS
4 1 (0.56%) JBoss
Applications
1 12 (6.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.37%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.56%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 2 (1.12%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 95 (53.37%) Microsoft 365
2 74 (41.57%) Azure
3 36 (20.22%) Entra ID
4 19 (10.67%) AWS
5 7 (3.93%) IaaS
5 7 (3.93%) Serverless
6 6 (3.37%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (2.81%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (2.81%) PaaS
7 5 (2.81%) Rubrik
8 3 (1.69%) Azure AKS
8 3 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.69%) OneDrive
8 3 (1.69%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.12%) GCP
9 2 (1.12%) GitHub
9 2 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.12%) OCI
9 2 (1.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.56%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 60 (33.71%) DNS
2 51 (28.65%) DHCP
3 38 (21.35%) WAN
4 36 (20.22%) VPN
5 35 (19.66%) LAN
6 30 (16.85%) VLAN
7 26 (14.61%) TCP/IP
8 22 (12.36%) Wi-Fi
9 19 (10.67%) Network Security
10 18 (10.11%) Internet
11 17 (9.55%) Kerberos
12 15 (8.43%) SD-WAN
13 13 (7.30%) VSAT
13 13 (7.30%) Wireless
14 10 (5.62%) Remote Desktop
15 9 (5.06%) DKIM
15 9 (5.06%) DMARC
15 9 (5.06%) IPsec
16 8 (4.49%) Cisco Firepower
17 7 (3.93%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.87%) SQL Server
2 11 (6.18%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.56%) DB2
3 1 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (1.12%) GitLab
1 2 (1.12%) Jenkins
1 2 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 85 (47.75%) Social Skills
2 20 (11.24%) Telecoms
3 18 (10.11%) Law
4 14 (7.87%) Manufacturing
5 10 (5.62%) Legal
6 7 (3.93%) Finance
6 7 (3.93%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.37%) Advertising
7 6 (3.37%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.37%) Electronics
8 5 (2.81%) Local Government
8 5 (2.81%) Marketing
9 4 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.12%) Police
11 1 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 60 (33.71%) IT Support
2 55 (30.90%) Support Engineer
3 46 (25.84%) 2nd Line Support
4 29 (16.29%) Analyst
5 28 (15.73%) IT Engineer
6 26 (14.61%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 26 (14.61%) Support Analyst
7 24 (13.48%) Technical Engineer
8 21 (11.80%) IT Support Engineer
8 21 (11.80%) Technical Support
9 19 (10.67%) Network Engineer
10 18 (10.11%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
11 17 (9.55%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
12 16 (8.99%) 1st Line Support
12 16 (8.99%) 3rd Line Support
12 16 (8.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 16 (8.99%) Technical Support Engineer
13 12 (6.74%) 1st Line Engineer
13 12 (6.74%) 1st Line Support Engineer
13 12 (6.74%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (9.55%) LDAP
2 5 (2.81%) 802.1X
3 3 (1.69%) REST
4 2 (1.12%) ARM Templates
4 2 (1.12%) ModSecurity
5 1 (0.56%) .NET
5 1 (0.56%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.56%) EJB
5 1 (0.56%) OpenAPI
5 1 (0.56%) React
5 1 (0.56%) Spring
5 1 (0.56%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.56%) Svelte
5 1 (0.56%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 54 (30.34%) Driving Licence
2 18 (10.11%) PKI
3 6 (3.37%) Clustering
4 5 (2.81%) BYOD
4 5 (2.81%) CMDB
5 3 (1.69%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (1.69%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.69%) Digital Signage
5 3 (1.69%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.12%) CCTV
6 2 (1.12%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.12%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.56%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.56%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.56%) Derivative
7 1 (0.56%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.56%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 104 (58.43%) Windows
2 82 (46.07%) Windows Server
3 26 (14.61%) Windows Server 2019
4 18 (10.11%) Windows 10
5 17 (9.55%) Windows Server 2016
6 14 (7.87%) Linux
7 6 (3.37%) Mac OS
8 2 (1.12%) Debian
8 2 (1.12%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.12%) VMS
9 1 (0.56%) Android
9 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.56%) CentOS
9 1 (0.56%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (28.65%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (25.28%) Customer Service
3 40 (22.47%) Mentoring
4 25 (14.04%) ITIL
5 24 (13.48%) Continuous Improvement
6 20 (11.24%) Cybersecurity
7 18 (10.11%) Remote Monitoring and Management
8 17 (9.55%) Data Loss Prevention
8 17 (9.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 16 (8.99%) Disaster Recovery
10 15 (8.43%) Cloud Security
10 15 (8.43%) Migration
11 14 (7.87%) Service Management
12 13 (7.30%) Containerisation
12 13 (7.30%) Kalman Filter
12 13 (7.30%) Web Filtering
13 12 (6.74%) Collaborative Working
14 10 (5.62%) Logistics
15 8 (4.49%) Proactive Monitoring
15 8 (4.49%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 44 (24.72%) PowerShell
2 17 (9.55%) VB
3 10 (5.62%) Python
4 7 (3.93%) Bash
5 2 (1.12%) SQL
6 1 (0.56%) Bicep
6 1 (0.56%) Go
6 1 (0.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 26 (14.61%) Cisco Certification
2 24 (13.48%) Degree
2 24 (13.48%) Security Cleared
3 19 (10.67%) CCNA
4 17 (9.55%) SC Cleared
5 13 (7.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (7.30%) JNCIA
6 11 (6.18%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (5.62%) MCP
8 8 (4.49%) CCNP
9 7 (3.93%) DV Cleared
9 7 (3.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 6 (3.37%) ACMT
11 5 (2.81%) Azure Certification
11 5 (2.81%) CCIE
12 4 (2.25%) MCITP
12 4 (2.25%) Network+ Certification
13 3 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (1.69%) Master's Degree
14 2 (1.12%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.55%) SLA
2 13 (7.30%) Cyber Essentials
2 13 (7.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.81%) GDPR
4 4 (2.25%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.12%) NCSC
6 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (0.56%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.56%) NIST
6 1 (0.56%) NIST 800
System Software
1 81 (45.51%) Active Directory
2 29 (16.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (7.87%) Hyper-V
4 12 (6.74%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (5.62%) Docker
6 9 (5.06%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.69%) vSphere
8 1 (0.56%) iptables
8 1 (0.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 45 (25.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (9.55%) WSUS
3 12 (6.74%) Kubernetes
4 10 (5.62%) Terraform
5 9 (5.06%) Ansible
6 8 (4.49%) vCenter Server
7 6 (3.37%) Autotask
8 5 (2.81%) PaperCut
9 3 (1.69%) Nagios
10 2 (1.12%) CASB
10 2 (1.12%) FortiGate
10 2 (1.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 110 (61.80%) Microsoft
2 39 (21.91%) Cisco
3 31 (17.42%) VMware
4 19 (10.67%) Sophos
5 18 (10.11%) Apple
6 15 (8.43%) Datto
7 14 (7.87%) Fortinet
7 14 (7.87%) Veeam
8 13 (7.30%) ConnectWise
9 12 (6.74%) Progress
10 11 (6.18%) Palo Alto
11 9 (5.06%) Meraki
12 8 (4.49%) Aruba
12 8 (4.49%) Oracle
13 7 (3.93%) CheckPoint
13 7 (3.93%) HP
14 6 (3.37%) SolarWinds
14 6 (3.37%) Starlink
15 5 (2.81%) Juniper
15 5 (2.81%) SAP