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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 46 47
Rank change year-on-year -34 +1 +30
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 115 175 317
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.10% 4.56% 4.91%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.10% 38.13% 31.92%
Number of salaries quoted 91 107 289
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £29,200
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £50,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% +2.04% +15.29%
75th Percentile £48,750 £67,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £76,250 £70,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% +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 572 459 993
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 10.47% 11.97% 15.37%
Number of salaries quoted 323 255 796
10th Percentile £25,087 £30,000 £27,419
25th Percentile £28,250 £34,250 £35,469
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,000 £51,058 £48,875
Median % change year-on-year -35.37% +4.47% +8.31%
75th Percentile £47,500 £71,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £68,250 £81,250 £70,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -3.92%

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 2 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 2 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 -16 30 £42,500 -10.53% 11
Cornwall - 28 £32,750 -
Wiltshire -23 18 £42,500 -32.00% 13
Gloucestershire +6 16 £47,500 -15.56% 6
Somerset -24 13 £33,500 -38.33% 3
Devon -2 8 £40,000 +14.24% 9
Dorset -14 1 £30,000 -36.84% 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 43 (37.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 36 (31.30%) SharePoint
3 7 (6.09%) IIS
4 1 (0.87%) JBoss
Applications
1 14 (12.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.87%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 61 (53.04%) Microsoft 365
2 38 (33.04%) Azure
3 20 (17.39%) Entra ID
4 16 (13.91%) AWS
5 4 (3.48%) OpenShift
6 3 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.61%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.74%) Azure AKS
7 2 (1.74%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (1.74%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (1.74%) GCP
7 2 (1.74%) Mimecast
7 2 (1.74%) OCI
7 2 (1.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.87%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.87%) GitHub
8 1 (0.87%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.87%) IaaS
8 1 (0.87%) PaaS
8 1 (0.87%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (30.43%) DNS
2 27 (23.48%) VPN
3 25 (21.74%) DHCP
4 21 (18.26%) Network Security
5 20 (17.39%) WAN
6 16 (13.91%) LAN
6 16 (13.91%) TCP/IP
7 13 (11.30%) VLAN
8 11 (9.57%) BGP
9 10 (8.70%) Remote Desktop
10 9 (7.83%) DKIM
10 9 (7.83%) DMARC
10 9 (7.83%) OSPF
11 7 (6.09%) Internet
12 6 (5.22%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (5.22%) Kerberos
12 6 (5.22%) Wi-Fi
13 5 (4.35%) IPsec
13 5 (4.35%) Wireless
14 4 (3.48%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.74%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.87%) DB2
2 1 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.87%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (2.61%) GitLab
2 2 (1.74%) Jenkins
General
1 59 (51.30%) Social Skills
2 8 (6.96%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (6.96%) Legal
3 7 (6.09%) Finance
3 7 (6.09%) Law
4 6 (5.22%) Manufacturing
5 5 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.48%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.48%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.74%) Electronics
7 2 (1.74%) Police
7 2 (1.74%) Retail
7 2 (1.74%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.87%) Local Government
8 1 (0.87%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 34 (29.57%) Support Engineer
2 26 (22.61%) 2nd Line Support
3 25 (21.74%) IT Support
4 24 (20.87%) IT Engineer
5 21 (18.26%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 17 (14.78%) Network Engineer
7 15 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (12.17%) 1st Line Engineer
8 14 (12.17%) 1st Line Support
8 14 (12.17%) 1st Line Support Engineer
8 14 (12.17%) Analyst
8 14 (12.17%) IT Support Engineer
8 14 (12.17%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
9 13 (11.30%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 12 (10.43%) Technical Engineer
11 11 (9.57%) Support Analyst
12 9 (7.83%) Technical Support
13 8 (6.96%) Field Engineer
14 6 (5.22%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
14 6 (5.22%) Field Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.22%) LDAP
2 3 (2.61%) REST
3 2 (1.74%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (0.87%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.87%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.87%) EJB
4 1 (0.87%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.87%) OAuth
4 1 (0.87%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.87%) OpenAPI
4 1 (0.87%) OpenID
4 1 (0.87%) React
4 1 (0.87%) SAML
4 1 (0.87%) Spring
4 1 (0.87%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.87%) Svelte
4 1 (0.87%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 45 (39.13%) Driving Licence
2 8 (6.96%) Data Centre
3 7 (6.09%) PKI
4 5 (4.35%) CMDB
4 5 (4.35%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.61%) CCTV
6 2 (1.74%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.74%) Digital Signage
6 2 (1.74%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.74%) Replication
6 2 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.74%) YubiKey
7 1 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.87%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (0.87%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.87%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 67 (58.26%) Windows
2 42 (36.52%) Windows Server
3 13 (11.30%) Linux
4 9 (7.83%) Windows 10
5 7 (6.09%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (6.09%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.74%) Debian
6 2 (1.74%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.87%) Android
7 1 (0.87%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.87%) CentOS
7 1 (0.87%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.87%) OpenWrt
7 1 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.87%) Unix
7 1 (0.87%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (19.13%) Customer Service
3 19 (16.52%) Cybersecurity
4 18 (15.65%) ITIL
5 15 (13.04%) Cloud Security
5 15 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 15 (13.04%) Remote Monitoring and Management
6 12 (10.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (10.43%) Mentoring
7 9 (7.83%) Data Loss Prevention
7 9 (7.83%) Disaster Recovery
8 8 (6.96%) High Availability
8 8 (6.96%) RBAC
8 8 (6.96%) SIEM
9 7 (6.09%) Incident Response
9 7 (6.09%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (6.09%) Migration
9 7 (6.09%) Service Management
9 7 (6.09%) Use Case
10 6 (5.22%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 26 (22.61%) PowerShell
2 11 (9.57%) Python
3 8 (6.96%) Bash
4 6 (5.22%) VB
5 1 (0.87%) Bicep
5 1 (0.87%) Go
5 1 (0.87%) Java
5 1 (0.87%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.87%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.87%) SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (22.61%) Security Cleared
2 18 (15.65%) SC Cleared
3 15 (13.04%) Cisco Certification
4 13 (11.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (10.43%) Degree
5 12 (10.43%) DV Cleared
6 9 (7.83%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (6.09%) CCNA
7 7 (6.09%) CCNP
8 5 (4.35%) Azure Certification
8 5 (4.35%) CCIE
9 3 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (2.61%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.74%) CEH
10 2 (1.74%) CompTIA CySA+
10 2 (1.74%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (1.74%) JNCIA
10 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (1.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.87%) ACMT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.57%) GDPR
2 9 (7.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (6.96%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (5.22%) NIST
4 6 (5.22%) PCI DSS
4 6 (5.22%) SLA
5 3 (2.61%) NCSC
6 2 (1.74%) COBIT
6 2 (1.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.74%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.87%) GRC
7 1 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.87%) JSP 440
System Software
1 59 (51.30%) Active Directory
2 14 (12.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (6.96%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (5.22%) Hyper-V
5 4 (3.48%) Docker
5 4 (3.48%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (2.61%) VMware NSX
6 3 (2.61%) vSphere
7 1 (0.87%) iptables
Systems Management
1 20 (17.39%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (7.83%) Terraform
3 8 (6.96%) Ansible
3 8 (6.96%) WSUS
4 7 (6.09%) Kubernetes
5 5 (4.35%) Nagios
6 4 (3.48%) vCenter Server
7 3 (2.61%) FortiGate
8 2 (1.74%) CASB
8 2 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.87%) Autotask
9 1 (0.87%) Grafana
9 1 (0.87%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.87%) Puppet
9 1 (0.87%) SCCM
Vendors
1 75 (65.22%) Microsoft
2 24 (20.87%) Cisco
3 19 (16.52%) VMware
4 15 (13.04%) Apple
5 14 (12.17%) Sophos
6 13 (11.30%) ConnectWise
6 13 (11.30%) Fortinet
7 11 (9.57%) CheckPoint
8 10 (8.70%) Palo Alto
8 10 (8.70%) Progress
9 8 (6.96%) F5
10 5 (4.35%) Dell
10 5 (4.35%) SolarWinds
11 4 (3.48%) Tenable
12 3 (2.61%) CrowdStrike
12 3 (2.61%) Infoblox
12 3 (2.61%) Meraki
12 3 (2.61%) Riverbed
12 3 (2.61%) Veeam
13 2 (1.74%) Splunk