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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 47 53
Rank change year-on-year -33 +6 +24
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 111 172 308
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.00% 4.57% 4.77%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 19.20% 37.64% 31.56%
Number of salaries quoted 87 106 281
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,125 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,423 £50,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.15% +2.04% +15.98%
75th Percentile £49,375 £67,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £76,250 £70,000
England median annual salary £48,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.73% +10.00% -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 578 457 976
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 10.43% 12.15% 15.12%
Number of salaries quoted 321 257 786
10th Percentile £25,087 £30,000 £27,168
25th Percentile £28,250 £34,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,000 £51,058 £48,875
Median % change year-on-year -35.37% +4.47% +8.61%
75th Percentile £47,500 £71,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £68,750 £81,750 £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 5 February 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 5 February 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 -15 28 £42,500 -10.53% 12
Cornwall - 27 £33,000 -
Gloucestershire +7 17 £45,000 -20.00% 8
Wiltshire -20 17 £45,000 -25.00% 10
Somerset -29 13 £33,500 -38.71% 7
Devon -7 8 £40,000 +14.24% 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 43 (38.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 36 (32.43%) SharePoint
3 5 (4.50%) IIS
4 1 (0.90%) Confluence
4 1 (0.90%) JBoss
Applications
1 14 (12.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (9.01%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.90%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 61 (54.95%) Microsoft 365
2 37 (33.33%) Azure
3 19 (17.12%) Entra ID
4 17 (15.32%) AWS
5 4 (3.60%) OpenShift
6 3 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.70%) GCP
6 3 (2.70%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.80%) Azure AKS
7 2 (1.80%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (1.80%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (1.80%) Google Workspace
7 2 (1.80%) Mimecast
7 2 (1.80%) OCI
7 2 (1.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.90%) GitHub
8 1 (0.90%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (0.90%) IaaS
8 1 (0.90%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (29.73%) DNS
2 28 (25.23%) VPN
3 23 (20.72%) DHCP
4 21 (18.92%) Network Security
5 18 (16.22%) WAN
6 16 (14.41%) TCP/IP
7 14 (12.61%) LAN
8 13 (11.71%) VLAN
9 11 (9.91%) BGP
10 10 (9.01%) Remote Desktop
11 9 (8.11%) DKIM
11 9 (8.11%) DMARC
11 9 (8.11%) OSPF
12 6 (5.41%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (5.41%) Wi-Fi
13 5 (4.50%) Internet
13 5 (4.50%) IPsec
13 5 (4.50%) Wireless
14 4 (3.60%) EIGRP
14 4 (3.60%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.80%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.90%) DB2
2 1 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.90%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (2.70%) GitLab
2 2 (1.80%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.90%) JIRA
General
1 58 (52.25%) Social Skills
2 8 (7.21%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (6.31%) Finance
3 7 (6.31%) Legal
4 6 (5.41%) Manufacturing
5 5 (4.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (4.50%) Law
6 4 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.60%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.80%) Electronics
7 2 (1.80%) Police
7 2 (1.80%) Retail
7 2 (1.80%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.90%) Local Government
8 1 (0.90%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 33 (29.73%) Support Engineer
2 25 (22.52%) 2nd Line Support
3 24 (21.62%) IT Engineer
4 23 (20.72%) IT Support
5 21 (18.92%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 17 (15.32%) Network Engineer
7 15 (13.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (12.61%) 1st Line Engineer
8 14 (12.61%) 1st Line Support
8 14 (12.61%) 1st Line Support Engineer
8 14 (12.61%) IT Support Engineer
8 14 (12.61%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
9 13 (11.71%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 12 (10.81%) Analyst
11 11 (9.91%) Technical Engineer
12 10 (9.01%) Support Analyst
13 8 (7.21%) Field Engineer
13 8 (7.21%) Technical Support
14 6 (5.41%) Field Support Engineer
14 6 (5.41%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.60%) LDAP
2 3 (2.70%) REST
3 2 (1.80%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (0.90%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.90%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.90%) EJB
4 1 (0.90%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.90%) OAuth
4 1 (0.90%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.90%) OpenAPI
4 1 (0.90%) OpenID
4 1 (0.90%) React
4 1 (0.90%) SAML
4 1 (0.90%) Spring
4 1 (0.90%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.90%) Svelte
4 1 (0.90%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 44 (39.64%) Driving Licence
2 8 (7.21%) Data Centre
3 5 (4.50%) CMDB
3 5 (4.50%) PKI
3 5 (4.50%) Security Posture
4 3 (2.70%) CCTV
5 2 (1.80%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.80%) Digital Signage
5 2 (1.80%) e-Learning
5 2 (1.80%) Replication
5 2 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.80%) YubiKey
6 1 (0.90%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.90%) Clustering
6 1 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.90%) IoT
6 1 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.90%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.90%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.90%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 63 (56.76%) Windows
2 38 (34.23%) Windows Server
3 13 (11.71%) Linux
4 7 (6.31%) Windows 10
5 5 (4.50%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (3.60%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.80%) Debian
7 2 (1.80%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.90%) Android
8 1 (0.90%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.90%) CentOS
8 1 (0.90%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.90%) OpenWrt
8 1 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.90%) Unix
8 1 (0.90%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (32.43%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (18.02%) Customer Service
3 19 (17.12%) Cybersecurity
3 19 (17.12%) ITIL
4 15 (13.51%) Cloud Security
4 15 (13.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 15 (13.51%) Remote Monitoring and Management
5 10 (9.01%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (9.01%) Mentoring
6 8 (7.21%) Disaster Recovery
6 8 (7.21%) High Availability
6 8 (7.21%) RBAC
6 8 (7.21%) SIEM
7 7 (6.31%) Data Loss Prevention
7 7 (6.31%) Incident Response
7 7 (6.31%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (6.31%) Migration
7 7 (6.31%) Mobile Device Management
7 7 (6.31%) Use Case
8 6 (5.41%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 24 (21.62%) PowerShell
2 11 (9.91%) Python
3 8 (7.21%) Bash
4 4 (3.60%) VB
5 1 (0.90%) Bicep
5 1 (0.90%) Go
5 1 (0.90%) Java
5 1 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.90%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.90%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (22.52%) Security Cleared
2 17 (15.32%) SC Cleared
3 14 (12.61%) Cisco Certification
4 13 (11.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (10.81%) DV Cleared
6 11 (9.91%) Degree
7 9 (8.11%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (6.31%) CCNP
9 6 (5.41%) CCNA
10 5 (4.50%) Azure Certification
10 5 (4.50%) CCIE
11 3 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (2.70%) Master's Degree
12 2 (1.80%) CEH
12 2 (1.80%) CompTIA CySA+
12 2 (1.80%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (1.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 1 (0.90%) CISSP
13 1 (0.90%) JNCIA
13 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.91%) GDPR
2 9 (8.11%) Cyber Essentials
2 9 (8.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (5.41%) NIST
3 6 (5.41%) PCI DSS
4 4 (3.60%) SLA
5 3 (2.70%) NCSC
6 2 (1.80%) COBIT
6 2 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.80%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.90%) GRC
7 1 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.90%) JSP 440
System Software
1 56 (50.45%) Active Directory
2 13 (11.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (7.21%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (5.41%) Hyper-V
5 4 (3.60%) Docker
6 3 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (2.70%) VMware NSX
6 3 (2.70%) vSphere
7 1 (0.90%) iptables
Systems Management
1 19 (17.12%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (8.11%) Terraform
3 8 (7.21%) Ansible
4 7 (6.31%) Kubernetes
5 6 (5.41%) WSUS
6 5 (4.50%) Nagios
7 4 (3.60%) vCenter Server
8 3 (2.70%) FortiGate
9 2 (1.80%) CASB
9 2 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.90%) Autotask
10 1 (0.90%) Grafana
10 1 (0.90%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.90%) Puppet
10 1 (0.90%) SCCM
Vendors
1 72 (64.86%) Microsoft
2 23 (20.72%) Cisco
3 18 (16.22%) VMware
4 15 (13.51%) Apple
5 14 (12.61%) Sophos
6 13 (11.71%) ConnectWise
6 13 (11.71%) Fortinet
7 11 (9.91%) CheckPoint
8 10 (9.01%) Palo Alto
8 10 (9.01%) Progress
9 8 (7.21%) F5
10 5 (4.50%) Dell
10 5 (4.50%) SolarWinds
11 4 (3.60%) Tenable
12 3 (2.70%) CrowdStrike
12 3 (2.70%) Google
12 3 (2.70%) Infoblox
12 3 (2.70%) Meraki
12 3 (2.70%) Riverbed
12 3 (2.70%) Veeam