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 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 28 56
Rank change year-on-year -83 +28 +4
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 144 230 285
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.60% 6.62% 3.55%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 21.52% 40.71% 32.35%
Number of salaries quoted 94 193 225
10th Percentile - £29,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,625 £40,000 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.06% -8.05% -3.33%
75th Percentile £61,250 £53,750 £59,500
90th Percentile £73,375 £63,500 £71,250
England median annual salary £54,499 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.73% -5.00% -0.50%

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 669 565 881
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 7.44% 16.26% 10.99%
Number of salaries quoted 383 384 652
10th Percentile £29,500 £28,750 £27,775
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -20.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £67,500 £54,673 £60,918
90th Percentile £75,000 £66,925 £80,000
England median annual salary £47,870 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.63% -15.00% -2.63%

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 15 August 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 15 August 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 -10 42 £57,500 +65.47% 6
Gloucestershire -23 41 £42,500 -22.73% 8
Bristol -56 24 £69,500 +43.30% 10
Devon -31 16 £32,500 +3.17% 9
Somerset -45 12 £50,000 +25.00% 6
Dorset -41 1 £60,000 +84.62% 3
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 33 (22.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (14.58%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.78%) Confluence
4 1 (0.69%) IIS
Applications
1 12 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.69%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 66 (45.83%) Microsoft 365
2 65 (45.14%) Azure
3 42 (29.17%) AWS
4 37 (25.69%) Entra ID
5 6 (4.17%) IaaS
5 6 (4.17%) PaaS
5 6 (4.17%) Serverless
6 5 (3.47%) GCP
6 5 (3.47%) OCI
7 4 (2.78%) Amazon S3
7 4 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.08%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.39%) Google Workspace
9 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (1.39%) Mimecast
9 2 (1.39%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.39%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.39%) Rubrik
9 2 (1.39%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 52 (36.11%) WAN
2 44 (30.56%) LAN
2 44 (30.56%) VPN
3 43 (29.86%) VLAN
4 41 (28.47%) Network Security
5 37 (25.69%) DNS
6 29 (20.14%) DHCP
7 19 (13.19%) Wi-Fi
8 16 (11.11%) TCP/IP
9 15 (10.42%) SD-WAN
10 14 (9.72%) BGP
11 13 (9.03%) Cisco ASA
12 12 (8.33%) Unified Communications
13 11 (7.64%) Cisco Firepower
13 11 (7.64%) WebEx
14 10 (6.94%) WLAN
15 7 (4.86%) DMZ
16 6 (4.17%) NGFW
16 6 (4.17%) OSPF
16 6 (4.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.78%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.69%) DocumentDB
3 1 (0.69%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.69%) MySQL
3 1 (0.69%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.69%) Redis
3 1 (0.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (2.08%) GitLab
2 2 (1.39%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.39%) JIRA
3 1 (0.69%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.69%) Git
3 1 (0.69%) git-flow
3 1 (0.69%) Postman
3 1 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 46 (31.94%) Social Skills
2 27 (18.75%) Public Sector
3 19 (13.19%) Finance
4 15 (10.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (10.42%) Retail
5 10 (6.94%) Banking
5 10 (6.94%) Marketing
5 10 (6.94%) Telecoms
6 9 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (4.17%) Aerospace
8 4 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.39%) Law
10 1 (0.69%) Advertising
10 1 (0.69%) Fire and Rescue
10 1 (0.69%) Police
Job Titles
1 31 (21.53%) Support Engineer
2 30 (20.83%) IT Support
3 28 (19.44%) IT Engineer
4 23 (15.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 23 (15.97%) IT Support Engineer
5 18 (12.50%) Network Engineer
6 16 (11.11%) Infrastructure Support
6 16 (11.11%) Senior
7 13 (9.03%) Security Engineer
8 12 (8.33%) Analyst
8 12 (8.33%) Support Analyst
9 10 (6.94%) Technical Support
10 9 (6.25%) Architect
11 8 (5.56%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 8 (5.56%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
11 8 (5.56%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
11 8 (5.56%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (5.56%) Technical Engineer
11 8 (5.56%) Technical Support Engineer
12 7 (4.86%) Collaboration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.64%) XMPP
2 5 (3.47%) Node.js
3 3 (2.08%) 802.1X
3 3 (2.08%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (1.39%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.69%) Next.js
5 1 (0.69%) OAuth
5 1 (0.69%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.69%) OpenID
5 1 (0.69%) React
5 1 (0.69%) React Native
5 1 (0.69%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.50%) Driving Licence
2 14 (9.72%) Data Centre
3 13 (9.03%) Replication
4 12 (8.33%) Onboarding
5 11 (7.64%) FlexPod
5 11 (7.64%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (7.64%) Video Conferencing
6 6 (4.17%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 6 (4.17%) Fibre Optics
6 6 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (3.47%) Cloud Native
7 5 (3.47%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (3.47%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.78%) Private Cloud
9 3 (2.08%) Digital Signage
9 3 (2.08%) Educational Technology
9 3 (2.08%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.39%) BYOD
10 2 (1.39%) IoT
10 2 (1.39%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 55 (38.19%) Windows
2 48 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 22 (15.28%) Linux
4 7 (4.86%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (3.47%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (2.78%) Windows 10
6 4 (2.78%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (2.08%) Mac OS
7 3 (2.08%) VMS
8 2 (1.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (35.42%) Cybersecurity
2 33 (22.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 24 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 23 (15.97%) Infrastructure as Code
5 22 (15.28%) Project Delivery
6 21 (14.58%) ITIL
7 20 (13.89%) Mentoring
7 20 (13.89%) Risk Management
8 19 (13.19%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (11.81%) Customer Service
9 17 (11.81%) Disaster Recovery
10 16 (11.11%) Data Management
11 15 (10.42%) Cloud Security
11 15 (10.42%) Collaborative Culture
12 13 (9.03%) Migration
12 13 (9.03%) Performance Management
13 12 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
13 12 (8.33%) Vulnerability Management
14 11 (7.64%) Agile
15 10 (6.94%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 25 (17.36%) Python
2 14 (9.72%) Bash
3 9 (6.25%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.08%) SQL
5 2 (1.39%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.69%) C
6 1 (0.69%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.69%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (27.08%) Security Cleared
2 21 (14.58%) Degree
2 21 (14.58%) DV Cleared
3 14 (9.72%) Cisco Certification
3 14 (9.72%) Microsoft Certification
4 13 (9.03%) SC Cleared
5 7 (4.86%) Azure Certification
5 7 (4.86%) CCNA
5 7 (4.86%) CISSP
6 6 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (4.17%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 5 (3.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 5 (3.47%) CISM
8 4 (2.78%) AWS Certification
8 4 (2.78%) MCSA
8 4 (2.78%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 3 (2.08%) CCNP
10 2 (1.39%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.39%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (26.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (22.22%) Cyber Essentials
3 15 (10.42%) NIST
4 13 (9.03%) GDPR
5 12 (8.33%) GRC
6 9 (6.25%) PCI DSS
7 6 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 6 (4.17%) ISO 9001
7 6 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 6 (4.17%) JSP 440
8 2 (1.39%) SLA
9 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.69%) NCSC
System Software
1 38 (26.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 35 (24.31%) Active Directory
3 30 (20.83%) Hyper-V
4 9 (6.25%) vSphere
5 7 (4.86%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 7 (4.86%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (2.78%) VMware NSX
7 3 (2.08%) Docker
7 3 (2.08%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.69%) Firmware
8 1 (0.69%) KVM
8 1 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (18.06%) Ansible
2 22 (15.28%) Terraform
3 20 (13.89%) Microsoft Intune
4 17 (11.81%) Grafana
5 11 (7.64%) Cisco CUCM
6 8 (5.56%) Kubernetes
7 6 (4.17%) FortiGate
7 6 (4.17%) Prometheus
8 4 (2.78%) Iperf
9 2 (1.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (1.39%) Proxmox
9 2 (1.39%) Puppet
9 2 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.69%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.69%) SCCM
10 1 (0.69%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 75 (52.08%) Microsoft
2 40 (27.78%) VMware
3 32 (22.22%) Cisco
4 26 (18.06%) Fortinet
5 19 (13.19%) Palo Alto
6 13 (9.03%) Veeam
7 11 (7.64%) Aruba
7 11 (7.64%) Splunk
8 9 (6.25%) NetApp
9 4 (2.78%) Apple
9 4 (2.78%) ConnectWise
9 4 (2.78%) Datto
9 4 (2.78%) Dell
9 4 (2.78%) Draytek
9 4 (2.78%) Oracle
9 4 (2.78%) Ruckus Wireless
9 4 (2.78%) SonicWALL
9 4 (2.78%) Ubiquiti
10 3 (2.08%) Infoblox
10 3 (2.08%) Meraki