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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 50 43
Rank change year-on-year -18 -7 +31
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 122 182 307
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.30% 4.50% 5.49%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 21.03% 38.32% 34.30%
Number of salaries quoted 96 113 276
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £45,500 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.27% -7.14% +15.29%
75th Percentile £48,750 £65,272 £57,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £76,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.04% +8.00% -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 580 475 895
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 10.94% 11.73% 16.00%
Number of salaries quoted 328 270 695
10th Percentile £25,087 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £32,688 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,000 £51,029 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year -35.33% +4.67% +2.63%
75th Percentile £47,500 £71,250 £58,525
90th Percentile £64,500 £82,625 £70,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -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 23 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 23 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
Bristol -12 34 £42,500 +7.59% 8
Cornwall - 31 £32,500 -
Wiltshire -23 18 £40,000 -15.79% 15
Gloucestershire +8 16 £47,500 -15.56% 7
Somerset -26 12 £33,500 -38.33% 9
Devon -7 7 £40,000 +2.55% 12
Dorset -10 3 £30,000 -34.25% 6
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 44 (36.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 37 (30.33%) SharePoint
3 10 (8.20%) IIS
4 1 (0.82%) JBoss
Applications
1 15 (12.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (7.38%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.82%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 65 (53.28%) Microsoft 365
2 43 (35.25%) Azure
3 20 (16.39%) Entra ID
4 15 (12.30%) AWS
5 4 (3.28%) OpenShift
6 3 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.46%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.64%) Azure AKS
7 2 (1.64%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (1.64%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (1.64%) GCP
7 2 (1.64%) Mimecast
7 2 (1.64%) OCI
7 2 (1.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.82%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.82%) Azure Storage
8 1 (0.82%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (0.82%) Pulumi
8 1 (0.82%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 36 (29.51%) DNS
2 30 (24.59%) VPN
3 27 (22.13%) DHCP
4 20 (16.39%) Network Security
5 19 (15.57%) WAN
6 16 (13.11%) LAN
6 16 (13.11%) TCP/IP
7 15 (12.30%) VLAN
8 11 (9.02%) BGP
9 10 (8.20%) Remote Desktop
10 9 (7.38%) DKIM
10 9 (7.38%) DMARC
10 9 (7.38%) OSPF
11 8 (6.56%) Internet
12 7 (5.74%) IPsec
12 7 (5.74%) Kerberos
12 7 (5.74%) Wi-Fi
12 7 (5.74%) Wireless
13 6 (4.92%) Cisco ASA
14 4 (3.28%) VSAT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (3.28%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.82%) DB2
2 1 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.82%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (2.46%) GitLab
2 2 (1.64%) Jenkins
General
1 64 (52.46%) Social Skills
2 9 (7.38%) Finance
2 9 (7.38%) Legal
3 8 (6.56%) Law
3 8 (6.56%) Manufacturing
4 6 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (4.92%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.10%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.28%) Electronics
6 4 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.46%) Marketing
8 2 (1.64%) Police
8 2 (1.64%) Retail
9 1 (0.82%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 38 (31.15%) Support Engineer
2 30 (24.59%) 2nd Line Support
3 29 (23.77%) IT Support
4 25 (20.49%) IT Engineer
5 24 (19.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 16 (13.11%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 15 (12.30%) 1st Line Engineer
7 15 (12.30%) 1st Line Support
7 15 (12.30%) 1st Line Support Engineer
7 15 (12.30%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 15 (12.30%) Analyst
7 15 (12.30%) IT Support Engineer
7 15 (12.30%) Network Engineer
8 14 (11.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (11.48%) Technical Engineer
9 12 (9.84%) Support Analyst
10 11 (9.02%) Technical Support
11 8 (6.56%) Field Engineer
12 7 (5.74%) Senior
13 6 (4.92%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.74%) LDAP
2 3 (2.46%) REST
3 2 (1.64%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (0.82%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.82%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.82%) EJB
4 1 (0.82%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.82%) OAuth
4 1 (0.82%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.82%) OpenAPI
4 1 (0.82%) OpenID
4 1 (0.82%) React
4 1 (0.82%) SAML
4 1 (0.82%) Spring
4 1 (0.82%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.82%) Svelte
4 1 (0.82%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 47 (38.52%) Driving Licence
2 8 (6.56%) PKI
3 7 (5.74%) Data Centre
4 5 (4.10%) CMDB
4 5 (4.10%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.46%) CCTV
5 3 (2.46%) Clustering
5 3 (2.46%) Digital Signage
6 2 (1.64%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.64%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.64%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.64%) Replication
6 2 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.64%) YubiKey
7 1 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.82%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.82%) Derivative
7 1 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.82%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.82%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 71 (58.20%) Windows
2 47 (38.52%) Windows Server
3 14 (11.48%) Linux
4 10 (8.20%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (7.38%) Windows 10
6 8 (6.56%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (2.46%) Mac OS
8 2 (1.64%) Debian
8 2 (1.64%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.82%) Android
9 1 (0.82%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.82%) CentOS
9 1 (0.82%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.82%) Unix
9 1 (0.82%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (29.51%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (19.67%) Customer Service
3 19 (15.57%) ITIL
4 18 (14.75%) Cybersecurity
4 18 (14.75%) Remote Monitoring and Management
5 16 (13.11%) Mentoring
6 15 (12.30%) Cloud Security
7 14 (11.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 13 (10.66%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (9.84%) Disaster Recovery
10 10 (8.20%) Data Loss Prevention
11 9 (7.38%) Migration
12 8 (6.56%) Containerisation
12 8 (6.56%) High Availability
12 8 (6.56%) RBAC
12 8 (6.56%) Service Management
12 8 (6.56%) SIEM
13 7 (5.74%) Collaborative Working
13 7 (5.74%) Infrastructure as Code
13 7 (5.74%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (23.77%) PowerShell
2 11 (9.02%) Python
3 8 (6.56%) Bash
4 7 (5.74%) VB
5 1 (0.82%) Bicep
5 1 (0.82%) Go
5 1 (0.82%) Java
5 1 (0.82%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.82%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.82%) SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (22.13%) Security Cleared
2 19 (15.57%) SC Cleared
3 16 (13.11%) Cisco Certification
4 13 (10.66%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (9.84%) Degree
5 12 (9.84%) DV Cleared
6 9 (7.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (5.74%) CCNA
8 6 (4.92%) Azure Certification
9 5 (4.10%) CCIE
9 5 (4.10%) CCNP
10 4 (3.28%) JNCIA
10 4 (3.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (2.46%) ACMT
11 3 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (2.46%) Master's Degree
11 3 (2.46%) MCP
12 2 (1.64%) CEH
12 2 (1.64%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.82%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.20%) Cyber Essentials
1 10 (8.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (7.38%) GDPR
3 7 (5.74%) SLA
4 5 (4.10%) NIST
4 5 (4.10%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.46%) NCSC
6 2 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.82%) COBIT
7 1 (0.82%) GRC
7 1 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.82%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.82%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.82%) SOC 2
System Software
1 61 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 18 (14.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (7.38%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (5.74%) Hyper-V
5 6 (4.92%) Docker
5 6 (4.92%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (2.46%) VMware NSX
6 3 (2.46%) vSphere
7 1 (0.82%) iptables
Systems Management
1 25 (20.49%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (7.38%) Kubernetes
2 9 (7.38%) Terraform
2 9 (7.38%) WSUS
3 8 (6.56%) Ansible
4 6 (4.92%) vCenter Server
5 5 (4.10%) Nagios
6 3 (2.46%) Autotask
7 2 (1.64%) FortiGate
7 2 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.82%) CASB
8 1 (0.82%) Grafana
8 1 (0.82%) PaperCut
8 1 (0.82%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.82%) Puppet
8 1 (0.82%) SCCM
Vendors
1 81 (66.39%) Microsoft
2 27 (22.13%) Cisco
3 21 (17.21%) VMware
4 18 (14.75%) Apple
5 16 (13.11%) Sophos
6 13 (10.66%) ConnectWise
7 12 (9.84%) Fortinet
8 11 (9.02%) CheckPoint
8 11 (9.02%) Progress
9 10 (8.20%) Palo Alto
10 8 (6.56%) F5
11 6 (4.92%) Datto
12 5 (4.10%) SolarWinds
12 5 (4.10%) Veeam
13 4 (3.28%) Dell
13 4 (3.28%) Oracle
14 3 (2.46%) Infoblox
14 3 (2.46%) Meraki
14 3 (2.46%) Riverbed
14 3 (2.46%) SAP