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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 31 57
Rank change year-on-year -76 +26 -12
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 147 209 267
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.44% 5.97% 3.56%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 21.88% 36.86% 33.80%
Number of salaries quoted 95 175 178
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £34,000 £42,250
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -19.53% -6.11%
75th Percentile £60,000 £50,250 £60,962
90th Percentile £72,500 £58,750 £71,250
England median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -4.76%

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 672 567 790
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 6.57% 16.21% 10.54%
Number of salaries quoted 372 355 484
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,625 £28,825
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £33,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £34,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.19% -31.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61,875 £52,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £63,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £48,445 £40,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +18.88% -18.50% -3.85%

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 42 £50,000 +44.93% 18
Gloucestershire -32 38 £40,000 -27.27% 16
Devon -27 26 £32,500 +3.17% 1
Bristol -69 22 £69,500 +50.27% 8
Somerset -34 10 £50,000 +53.85% 28
Dorset -32 1 £60,000 +93.55% 2
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 36 (24.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (15.65%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.36%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (6.80%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.68%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 65 (44.22%) Microsoft 365
2 62 (42.18%) Azure
3 40 (27.21%) Entra ID
4 33 (22.45%) AWS
5 12 (8.16%) Serverless
6 6 (4.08%) IaaS
6 6 (4.08%) OCI
6 6 (4.08%) PaaS
7 4 (2.72%) Amazon S3
7 4 (2.72%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.04%) GCP
8 3 (2.04%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (1.36%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (1.36%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.36%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.36%) Rubrik
9 2 (1.36%) Stripe
10 1 (0.68%) Datadog
10 1 (0.68%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 49 (33.33%) WAN
2 45 (30.61%) DNS
3 43 (29.25%) VLAN
4 41 (27.89%) Network Security
4 41 (27.89%) VPN
5 39 (26.53%) LAN
6 35 (23.81%) DHCP
7 22 (14.97%) TCP/IP
8 18 (12.24%) Wi-Fi
9 16 (10.88%) SD-WAN
9 16 (10.88%) VoIP
10 15 (10.20%) BGP
11 11 (7.48%) Wireless
12 10 (6.80%) WLAN
13 9 (6.12%) Cisco ASA
14 7 (4.76%) Cisco Firepower
14 7 (4.76%) DMZ
14 7 (4.76%) Unified Communications
15 6 (4.08%) Ethernet VPN
15 6 (4.08%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.80%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.68%) DocumentDB
3 1 (0.68%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.68%) MySQL
3 1 (0.68%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.68%) Redis
3 1 (0.68%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (2.04%) GitLab
2 2 (1.36%) 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 49 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 25 (17.01%) Finance
3 23 (15.65%) Public Sector
4 12 (8.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (7.48%) Retail
6 10 (6.80%) Aerospace
7 9 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (6.12%) Telecoms
8 6 (4.08%) Banking
8 6 (4.08%) Marketing
9 5 (3.40%) Law
10 4 (2.72%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.68%) Advertising
11 1 (0.68%) Aviation
11 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.68%) Fire and Rescue
11 1 (0.68%) Police
Job Titles
1 39 (26.53%) Support Engineer
2 35 (23.81%) IT Engineer
3 33 (22.45%) IT Support
4 29 (19.73%) IT Support Engineer
5 24 (16.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 22 (14.97%) Infrastructure Support
7 18 (12.24%) Network Engineer
8 16 (10.88%) Senior
9 14 (9.52%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 12 (8.16%) Architect
10 12 (8.16%) Security Engineer
11 11 (7.48%) Analyst
11 11 (7.48%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (7.48%) Support Analyst
12 10 (6.80%) Technical Support
13 8 (5.44%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 8 (5.44%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
13 8 (5.44%) Technical Engineer
13 8 (5.44%) Technical Support Engineer
14 6 (4.08%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (11.56%) Terraform
2 6 (4.08%) XMPP
3 5 (3.40%) Node.js
4 4 (2.72%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (2.04%) 802.1X
6 2 (1.36%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.36%) OAuth
6 2 (1.36%) OAuth2
6 2 (1.36%) OpenID
6 2 (1.36%) SAML
7 1 (0.68%) Next.js
7 1 (0.68%) React
7 1 (0.68%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.24%) Driving Licence
2 15 (10.20%) Data Centre
3 8 (5.44%) Onboarding
3 8 (5.44%) Replication
4 6 (4.08%) Fibre Optics
4 6 (4.08%) FlexPod
4 6 (4.08%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (4.08%) Video Conferencing
5 5 (3.40%) Cloud Native
5 5 (3.40%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 5 (3.40%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (3.40%) Security Posture
6 4 (2.72%) Private Cloud
7 3 (2.04%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.36%) BYOD
8 2 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.36%) PKI
9 1 (0.68%) Blog
9 1 (0.68%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 58 (39.46%) Windows
2 47 (31.97%) Windows Server
3 18 (12.24%) Linux
4 6 (4.08%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (3.40%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (2.72%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (2.04%) VMS
8 2 (1.36%) Unix
9 1 (0.68%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (38.78%) Cybersecurity
2 34 (23.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 30 (20.41%) Continuous Improvement
4 25 (17.01%) Project Delivery
5 22 (14.97%) Infrastructure as Code
5 22 (14.97%) Mentoring
6 20 (13.61%) ITIL
7 19 (12.93%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (12.24%) Disaster Recovery
9 17 (11.56%) Risk Management
10 16 (10.88%) Customer Service
11 15 (10.20%) Agile
11 15 (10.20%) Collaborative Culture
11 15 (10.20%) Preventative Maintenance
12 13 (8.84%) Collaborative Working
12 13 (8.84%) Migration
13 12 (8.16%) Change Management
13 12 (8.16%) Data Management
14 11 (7.48%) Network Monitoring
14 11 (7.48%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 21 (14.29%) Python
2 15 (10.20%) Bash
3 11 (7.48%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.04%) SQL
5 2 (1.36%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.68%) C
6 1 (0.68%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.68%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 24 (16.33%) DV Cleared
3 21 (14.29%) Degree
4 16 (10.88%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (8.84%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (8.16%) SC Cleared
7 7 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (4.76%) CCNA
8 6 (4.08%) Azure Certification
9 5 (3.40%) CISSP
10 4 (2.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (2.72%) AWS Certification
10 4 (2.72%) CISM
10 4 (2.72%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 4 (2.72%) MCSA
10 4 (2.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (2.04%) CCNP
12 2 (1.36%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (1.36%) Network+ Certification
12 2 (1.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (23.13%) Cyber Essentials
2 33 (22.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (8.16%) NIST
4 10 (6.80%) GRC
5 9 (6.12%) GDPR
6 8 (5.44%) PCI DSS
7 6 (4.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 6 (4.08%) ISO 9001
7 6 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 5 (3.40%) JSP 440
9 3 (2.04%) SLA
10 2 (1.36%) Accessibility
10 2 (1.36%) NCSC
11 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 40 (27.21%) Active Directory
2 35 (23.81%) Hyper-V
2 35 (23.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.40%) VMware NSX
3 5 (3.40%) vSphere
4 4 (2.72%) Docker
4 4 (2.72%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (2.04%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (2.04%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (1.36%) Firmware
6 2 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.68%) KVM
7 1 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 22 (14.97%) Ansible
1 22 (14.97%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (8.16%) Grafana
3 11 (7.48%) Kubernetes
4 6 (4.08%) Cisco CUCM
4 6 (4.08%) FortiGate
4 6 (4.08%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.72%) Iperf
6 3 (2.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.36%) Proxmox
7 2 (1.36%) Puppet
8 1 (0.68%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.68%) SCCM
8 1 (0.68%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 75 (51.02%) Microsoft
2 36 (24.49%) VMware
3 27 (18.37%) Cisco
4 20 (13.61%) Fortinet
5 16 (10.88%) Veeam
6 15 (10.20%) Palo Alto
7 11 (7.48%) Aruba
8 6 (4.08%) Splunk
9 5 (3.40%) Dell
9 5 (3.40%) Oracle
9 5 (3.40%) SonicWALL
10 4 (2.72%) ConnectWise
10 4 (2.72%) Datto
10 4 (2.72%) Draytek
10 4 (2.72%) F5
10 4 (2.72%) Infoblox
10 4 (2.72%) Meraki
10 4 (2.72%) NetApp
10 4 (2.72%) Ruckus Wireless
10 4 (2.72%) Ubiquiti