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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 52 38
Rank change year-on-year -17 -14 +37
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 122 181 294
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.41% 4.36% 6.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.57% 37.95% 36.61%
Number of salaries quoted 98 112 266
10th Percentile £27,950 £30,000 £30,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £39,798
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £44,375 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.38% -9.44% +13.29%
75th Percentile £49,688 £67,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £62,875 £76,250 £70,000
England median annual salary £46,000 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.81% +2.86% -

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 593 477 803
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 11.71% 11.48% 16.84%
Number of salaries quoted 345 274 617
10th Percentile £25,202 £30,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £51,058 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -33.41% +4.20% +3.16%
75th Percentile £50,000 £71,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £67,250 £84,625 £70,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -4.76%

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 13 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 13 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
Cornwall - 36 £32,500 -
Bristol -19 34 £42,500 +8.96% 10
Wiltshire -25 15 £34,000 -35.24% 9
Gloucestershire +13 13 £45,000 -18.18% 4
Somerset -24 12 £33,500 -28.97% 10
Dorset -3 6 £30,500 -30.09% 4
Devon -4 5 £32,500 -19.76% 10
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 46 (37.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 39 (31.97%) SharePoint
3 13 (10.66%) IIS
4 1 (0.82%) JBoss
Applications
1 17 (13.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (5.74%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.82%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 67 (54.92%) Microsoft 365
2 44 (36.07%) Azure
3 20 (16.39%) Entra ID
4 13 (10.66%) AWS
5 4 (3.28%) OpenShift
6 3 (2.46%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (2.46%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.64%) Azure AKS
7 2 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.64%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (1.64%) Mimecast
7 2 (1.64%) OCI
7 2 (1.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.82%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.82%) Azure Storage
8 1 (0.82%) GCP
8 1 (0.82%) GitHub
8 1 (0.82%) IaaS
8 1 (0.82%) Pulumi
8 1 (0.82%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 33 (27.05%) DNS
2 27 (22.13%) VPN
3 26 (21.31%) DHCP
4 19 (15.57%) Network Security
5 18 (14.75%) WAN
6 15 (12.30%) VLAN
7 14 (11.48%) LAN
8 13 (10.66%) TCP/IP
9 10 (8.20%) Internet
9 10 (8.20%) Remote Desktop
10 9 (7.38%) BGP
10 9 (7.38%) DKIM
10 9 (7.38%) DMARC
10 9 (7.38%) Kerberos
11 8 (6.56%) OSPF
12 7 (5.74%) IPsec
12 7 (5.74%) VSAT
12 7 (5.74%) Wireless
13 6 (4.92%) Cisco ASA
13 6 (4.92%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.92%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (4.10%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.82%) DB2
3 1 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.82%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (1.64%) GitLab
2 1 (0.82%) Jenkins
General
1 67 (54.92%) Social Skills
2 10 (8.20%) Law
2 10 (8.20%) Legal
3 8 (6.56%) Manufacturing
3 8 (6.56%) Telecoms
4 7 (5.74%) Finance
5 6 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.92%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.10%) Electronics
7 4 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.28%) Marketing
8 3 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.46%) Police
9 2 (1.64%) Retail
10 1 (0.82%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 44 (36.07%) Support Engineer
2 33 (27.05%) 2nd Line Support
3 32 (26.23%) IT Support
4 25 (20.49%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 21 (17.21%) IT Engineer
6 18 (14.75%) Technical Engineer
7 17 (13.93%) 1st Line Engineer
7 17 (13.93%) 1st Line Support
7 17 (13.93%) 1st Line Support Engineer
7 17 (13.93%) Analyst
7 17 (13.93%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 16 (13.11%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 15 (12.30%) IT Support Engineer
9 15 (12.30%) Technical Support
10 14 (11.48%) Support Analyst
11 11 (9.02%) Network Engineer
12 10 (8.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (8.20%) Technical Support Engineer
13 8 (6.56%) Senior
14 7 (5.74%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.38%) LDAP
2 3 (2.46%) REST
3 1 (0.82%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.82%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (0.82%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.82%) EJB
3 1 (0.82%) ModSecurity
3 1 (0.82%) OpenAPI
3 1 (0.82%) React
3 1 (0.82%) Spring
3 1 (0.82%) Spring Boot
3 1 (0.82%) Svelte
3 1 (0.82%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 51 (41.80%) Driving Licence
2 10 (8.20%) PKI
3 5 (4.10%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.28%) Clustering
4 4 (3.28%) CMDB
5 3 (2.46%) CCTV
5 3 (2.46%) Digital Signage
5 3 (2.46%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.64%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.64%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.64%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.64%) YubiKey
7 1 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.82%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.82%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (0.82%) Derivative
7 1 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.82%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.82%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 71 (58.20%) Windows
2 50 (40.98%) Windows Server
3 14 (11.48%) Windows Server 2019
4 11 (9.02%) Linux
5 10 (8.20%) Windows 10
5 10 (8.20%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (3.28%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.64%) Debian
7 2 (1.64%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.82%) Android
8 1 (0.82%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.82%) CentOS
8 1 (0.82%) OpenWrt
8 1 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.82%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (31.97%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (22.13%) Customer Service
3 21 (17.21%) Remote Monitoring and Management
4 20 (16.39%) Mentoring
5 19 (15.57%) ITIL
6 15 (12.30%) Cloud Security
6 15 (12.30%) Continuous Improvement
6 15 (12.30%) Cybersecurity
7 13 (10.66%) Disaster Recovery
8 12 (9.84%) Data Loss Prevention
9 10 (8.20%) Migration
10 9 (7.38%) Containerisation
10 9 (7.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 8 (6.56%) Kalman Filter
11 8 (6.56%) Service Management
11 8 (6.56%) SIEM
11 8 (6.56%) Web Filtering
12 7 (5.74%) Mobile Device Management
12 7 (5.74%) RBAC
13 6 (4.92%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 33 (27.05%) PowerShell
2 10 (8.20%) Python
3 9 (7.38%) VB
4 7 (5.74%) Bash
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%) SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (19.67%) Security Cleared
2 20 (16.39%) SC Cleared
3 17 (13.93%) Cisco Certification
4 13 (10.66%) BPSS Clearance
4 13 (10.66%) Degree
5 9 (7.38%) CCNA
5 9 (7.38%) DV Cleared
6 7 (5.74%) JNCIA
6 7 (5.74%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (4.10%) Azure Certification
7 5 (4.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 4 (3.28%) ACMT
8 4 (3.28%) CCIE
8 4 (3.28%) CCNP
8 4 (3.28%) MCP
9 3 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (2.46%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.64%) CEH
10 2 (1.64%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.82%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.02%) Cyber Essentials
2 9 (7.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (7.38%) SLA
3 7 (5.74%) GDPR
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 60 (49.18%) Active Directory
2 22 (18.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (6.56%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (6.56%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (5.74%) Hyper-V
5 6 (4.92%) Docker
6 3 (2.46%) vSphere
7 2 (1.64%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.82%) iptables
Systems Management
1 28 (22.95%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (9.02%) WSUS
3 9 (7.38%) Kubernetes
4 8 (6.56%) Terraform
5 7 (5.74%) Ansible
5 7 (5.74%) vCenter Server
6 4 (3.28%) Autotask
6 4 (3.28%) Nagios
7 2 (1.64%) PaperCut
8 1 (0.82%) CASB
8 1 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 86 (70.49%) Microsoft
2 28 (22.95%) Cisco
3 22 (18.03%) VMware
4 21 (17.21%) Apple
5 17 (13.93%) Sophos
6 13 (10.66%) ConnectWise
6 13 (10.66%) Progress
7 12 (9.84%) Fortinet
8 9 (7.38%) CheckPoint
8 9 (7.38%) Datto
9 8 (6.56%) Palo Alto
10 6 (4.92%) F5
10 6 (4.92%) SolarWinds
10 6 (4.92%) Veeam
11 5 (4.10%) Oracle
12 4 (3.28%) Meraki
12 4 (3.28%) SAP
12 4 (3.28%) Starlink
13 3 (2.46%) Riverbed
13 3 (2.46%) Tenable