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 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 53 41
Rank change year-on-year +18 -12 +45
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 198 242 281
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 5.52% 3.71% 6.04%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 33.90% 35.23% 35.17%
Number of salaries quoted 166 156 257
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £29,800
25th Percentile £30,656 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £43,250 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.39% -8.95% +5.56%
75th Percentile £50,250 £63,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £58,750 £76,250 £70,000
England median annual salary £46,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.38% -4.55% +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 584 687 799
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.29% 10.54% 17.19%
Number of salaries quoted 366 406 625
10th Percentile £26,813 £30,000 £29,100
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £52,500 £70,000 £67,070
90th Percentile £63,375 £83,125 £77,715
England median annual salary £40,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -23.81% - -

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 17 October 2025.

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 17 October 2025. 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 +21 53 £42,500 +14.86% 9
Cornwall - 38 £32,500 - 1
Wiltshire -15 30 £34,500 -35.81% 15
Devon +16 24 £31,500 -37.00% 2
Dorset +30 23 £31,000 -16.22% 4
Gloucestershire +19 18 £55,000 +35.80% 11
Somerset -5 10 £32,500 -7.14% 5
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 52 (26.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (15.66%) SharePoint
3 23 (11.62%) IIS
4 1 (0.51%) JBoss
Applications
1 12 (6.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (4.04%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (3.54%) Dynamics NAV
2 5 (2.53%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 107 (54.04%) Microsoft 365
2 88 (44.44%) Azure
3 41 (20.71%) Entra ID
4 21 (10.61%) AWS
5 8 (4.04%) IaaS
6 7 (3.54%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (3.54%) Serverless
7 6 (3.03%) PaaS
8 5 (2.53%) Azure Sentinel
8 5 (2.53%) Rubrik
9 4 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (2.02%) OneDrive
10 3 (1.52%) GCP
11 2 (1.01%) Azure AKS
11 2 (1.01%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (1.01%) GitHub
11 2 (1.01%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (1.01%) OpenShift
11 2 (1.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 1 (0.51%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 62 (31.31%) DNS
2 50 (25.25%) DHCP
3 40 (20.20%) WAN
4 36 (18.18%) VPN
5 33 (16.67%) LAN
6 32 (16.16%) VLAN
6 32 (16.16%) Wi-Fi
7 24 (12.12%) TCP/IP
8 19 (9.60%) Network Security
9 18 (9.09%) Internet
10 17 (8.59%) Kerberos
10 17 (8.59%) VSAT
11 14 (7.07%) Wireless
12 13 (6.57%) SD-WAN
13 12 (6.06%) Cisco Firepower
14 10 (5.05%) SAN
15 9 (4.55%) DKIM
15 9 (4.55%) DMARC
15 9 (4.55%) IPsec
15 9 (4.55%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.08%) SQL Server
2 11 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.51%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.51%) DB2
3 1 (0.51%) MySQL
3 1 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.51%) Power BI
3 1 (0.51%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (2.53%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (1.01%) GitLab
2 2 (1.01%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.51%) Git
3 1 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 86 (43.43%) Social Skills
2 23 (11.62%) Manufacturing
3 20 (10.10%) Telecoms
4 18 (9.09%) Law
5 12 (6.06%) Legal
6 8 (4.04%) Finance
6 8 (4.04%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.54%) Advertising
8 6 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (3.03%) Electronics
8 6 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (3.03%) Local Government
8 6 (3.03%) Marketing
9 2 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.01%) Games
9 2 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.01%) Police
10 1 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.51%) Retail
Job Titles
1 64 (32.32%) IT Support
2 56 (28.28%) Support Engineer
3 48 (24.24%) 2nd Line Support
4 32 (16.16%) Analyst
5 29 (14.65%) Support Analyst
5 29 (14.65%) Technical Engineer
6 28 (14.14%) IT Engineer
7 26 (13.13%) Technical Support
8 23 (11.62%) Network Engineer
9 21 (10.61%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 21 (10.61%) IT Support Engineer
9 21 (10.61%) Technical Support Engineer
10 18 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 16 (8.08%) 1st Line Support
11 16 (8.08%) 3rd Line Support
11 16 (8.08%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
12 13 (6.57%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
12 13 (6.57%) Administrator
13 12 (6.06%) 1st Line Support Engineer
13 12 (6.06%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.59%) LDAP
2 5 (2.53%) 802.1X
3 3 (1.52%) ModSecurity
3 3 (1.52%) REST
4 1 (0.51%) .NET
4 1 (0.51%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.51%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.51%) EJB
4 1 (0.51%) JSON
4 1 (0.51%) OpenAPI
4 1 (0.51%) React
4 1 (0.51%) Spring
4 1 (0.51%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.51%) Svelte
4 1 (0.51%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 50 (25.25%) Driving Licence
2 18 (9.09%) PKI
3 7 (3.54%) Video Conferencing
4 6 (3.03%) Clustering
4 6 (3.03%) CMDB
4 6 (3.03%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.53%) BYOD
5 5 (2.53%) Operational Technology
6 3 (1.52%) CCTV
6 3 (1.52%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.52%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (1.52%) Digital Signage
7 2 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.01%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.01%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.51%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (0.51%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 1 (0.51%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.51%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.51%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 108 (54.55%) Windows
2 93 (46.97%) Windows Server
3 26 (13.13%) Windows Server 2019
4 21 (10.61%) Windows 10
5 17 (8.59%) Windows Server 2016
6 15 (7.58%) Linux
7 6 (3.03%) Mac OS
8 2 (1.01%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.51%) Android
9 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.51%) CentOS
9 1 (0.51%) Debian
9 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.51%) VMS
9 1 (0.51%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (29.80%) Problem-Solving
2 50 (25.25%) Customer Service
3 46 (23.23%) Mentoring
4 28 (14.14%) ITIL
5 23 (11.62%) Continuous Improvement
6 22 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
7 20 (10.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 19 (9.60%) Remote Monitoring and Management
9 17 (8.59%) Data Loss Prevention
9 17 (8.59%) Kalman Filter
9 17 (8.59%) Web Filtering
10 16 (8.08%) Service Management
11 15 (7.58%) Disaster Recovery
12 14 (7.07%) Collaborative Working
12 14 (7.07%) Virtual Environments
13 13 (6.57%) Containerisation
13 13 (6.57%) Migration
14 11 (5.56%) Cloud Security
15 10 (5.05%) Commercial Awareness
15 10 (5.05%) Proactive Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (22.73%) PowerShell
2 17 (8.59%) VB
3 8 (4.04%) Python
4 5 (2.53%) SQL
5 3 (1.52%) Bash
6 2 (1.01%) Bicep
7 1 (0.51%) Go
7 1 (0.51%) Java
Qualifications
1 33 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 33 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 29 (14.65%) CCNA
3 25 (12.63%) Degree
3 25 (12.63%) SC Cleared
4 17 (8.59%) JNCIA
5 13 (6.57%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (5.05%) CCNP
6 10 (5.05%) MCP
7 9 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (4.04%) DV Cleared
9 7 (3.54%) MCITP
9 7 (3.54%) Network+ Certification
9 7 (3.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 6 (3.03%) ACMT
11 5 (2.53%) Azure Certification
11 5 (2.53%) CCDA
11 5 (2.53%) CCDP
11 5 (2.53%) CCIE
12 4 (2.02%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.59%) SLA
2 13 (6.57%) Cyber Essentials
2 13 (6.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.53%) GDPR
4 4 (2.02%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.01%) NCSC
6 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (0.51%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.51%) NIST
6 1 (0.51%) NIST 800
System Software
1 92 (46.46%) Active Directory
2 39 (19.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (7.58%) Hyper-V
4 12 (6.06%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (5.05%) Docker
7 4 (2.02%) vSphere
8 1 (0.51%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 49 (24.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (8.59%) WSUS
3 12 (6.06%) Kubernetes
4 10 (5.05%) Ansible
5 9 (4.55%) Terraform
6 8 (4.04%) vCenter Server
7 6 (3.03%) Autotask
8 5 (2.53%) CASB
8 5 (2.53%) PaperCut
8 5 (2.53%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 4 (2.02%) FortiGate
9 4 (2.02%) Nagios
10 2 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 120 (60.61%) Microsoft
2 42 (21.21%) Cisco
2 42 (21.21%) VMware
3 18 (9.09%) Apple
4 16 (8.08%) Veeam
5 15 (7.58%) Datto
5 15 (7.58%) Fortinet
5 15 (7.58%) Sophos
6 13 (6.57%) Meraki
7 12 (6.06%) Palo Alto
7 12 (6.06%) Progress
8 10 (5.05%) Starlink
9 9 (4.55%) ConnectWise
9 9 (4.55%) HP
9 9 (4.55%) Juniper
10 8 (4.04%) Aruba
10 8 (4.04%) CheckPoint
10 8 (4.04%) Oracle
10 8 (4.04%) SolarWinds
11 6 (3.03%) SAP