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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 54 51
Rank change year-on-year -30 -3 +25
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 113 169 307
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.92% 4.72% 4.63%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 18.99% 38.76% 30.98%
Number of salaries quoted 88 106 280
10th Percentile £26,950 £30,000 £29,950
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £50,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.00% +2.04% +16.32%
75th Percentile £52,813 £67,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £71,625 £76,250 £70,000
England median annual salary £48,445 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -11.92% +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 595 436 991
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 10.13% 12.18% 14.94%
Number of salaries quoted 338 246 811
10th Percentile £25,087 £30,000 £27,338
25th Percentile £28,250 £34,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,000 £51,058 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year -35.37% +4.73% +8.33%
75th Percentile £48,750 £71,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £68,750 £81,250 £70,000
England median annual salary £42,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -23.64% +10.00% -2.91%

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 18 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 18 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 -23 26 £47,500 -2.56% 10
Cornwall - 23 £33,000 -
Gloucestershire +14 19 £47,500 -17.39% 10
Wiltshire -22 19 £42,500 -22.73% 10
Somerset -35 14 £33,500 -30.80% 7
Devon -7 10 £38,212 -23.96% 9
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 41 (36.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 35 (30.97%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.54%) IIS
4 2 (1.77%) Confluence
5 1 (0.88%) JBoss
Applications
1 13 (11.50%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (10.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.88%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 63 (55.75%) Microsoft 365
2 40 (35.40%) Azure
3 24 (21.24%) AWS
4 21 (18.58%) Entra ID
5 5 (4.42%) OneDrive
6 4 (3.54%) GCP
6 4 (3.54%) OpenShift
7 3 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.65%) Google Workspace
8 2 (1.77%) Azure AKS
8 2 (1.77%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (1.77%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (1.77%) IaaS
8 2 (1.77%) Mimecast
8 2 (1.77%) OCI
8 2 (1.77%) PaaS
8 2 (1.77%) SaaS
8 2 (1.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (0.88%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.88%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 32 (28.32%) DNS
2 31 (27.43%) VPN
3 22 (19.47%) DHCP
3 22 (19.47%) Network Security
4 18 (15.93%) WAN
5 17 (15.04%) TCP/IP
6 15 (13.27%) VLAN
7 14 (12.39%) LAN
8 11 (9.73%) BGP
9 10 (8.85%) Remote Desktop
10 9 (7.96%) DKIM
10 9 (7.96%) DMARC
10 9 (7.96%) OSPF
11 7 (6.19%) Cisco ASA
11 7 (6.19%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (4.42%) Cisco Firepower
13 4 (3.54%) EIGRP
13 4 (3.54%) HSRP
13 4 (3.54%) IPsec
13 4 (3.54%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.88%) DB2
1 1 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (0.88%) Relational Database
1 1 (0.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (2.65%) GitLab
2 2 (1.77%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.77%) JIRA
General
1 57 (50.44%) Social Skills
2 8 (7.08%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (6.19%) Finance
3 7 (6.19%) Legal
4 5 (4.42%) Manufacturing
4 5 (4.42%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.54%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.65%) Law
6 3 (2.65%) Retail
7 2 (1.77%) Police
7 2 (1.77%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.88%) Banking
8 1 (0.88%) Electronics
8 1 (0.88%) Local Government
8 1 (0.88%) Marketing
8 1 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (27.43%) Support Engineer
2 25 (22.12%) IT Engineer
3 23 (20.35%) 2nd Line Support
3 23 (20.35%) IT Support
4 18 (15.93%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 17 (15.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 17 (15.04%) Network Engineer
6 15 (13.27%) IT Support Engineer
7 14 (12.39%) 1st Line Support
8 12 (10.62%) 1st Line Engineer
8 12 (10.62%) 1st Line Support Engineer
8 12 (10.62%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 12 (10.62%) Analyst
9 11 (9.73%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
10 10 (8.85%) Support Analyst
11 8 (7.08%) Field Engineer
11 8 (7.08%) Technical Engineer
12 7 (6.19%) Technical Support
13 6 (5.31%) Architect
13 6 (5.31%) Field Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.65%) REST
2 2 (1.77%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (1.77%) LDAP
2 2 (1.77%) XMPP
3 1 (0.88%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.88%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.88%) EJB
3 1 (0.88%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.88%) OAuth
3 1 (0.88%) OAuth2
3 1 (0.88%) OpenAPI
3 1 (0.88%) OpenID
3 1 (0.88%) React
3 1 (0.88%) SAML
3 1 (0.88%) Spring
3 1 (0.88%) Spring Boot
3 1 (0.88%) Svelte
3 1 (0.88%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 38 (33.63%) Driving Licence
2 9 (7.96%) Data Centre
3 5 (4.42%) CMDB
3 5 (4.42%) Security Posture
4 4 (3.54%) Replication
5 3 (2.65%) CCTV
5 3 (2.65%) Digital Signage
5 3 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.65%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.65%) PKI
6 2 (1.77%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.77%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 2 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.77%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.77%) FlexPod
6 2 (1.77%) IoT
6 2 (1.77%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.77%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (1.77%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 64 (56.64%) Windows
2 41 (36.28%) Windows Server
3 15 (13.27%) Linux
4 7 (6.19%) Windows 10
5 4 (3.54%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (2.65%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.77%) Debian
7 2 (1.77%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.88%) CentOS
8 1 (0.88%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.88%) OpenWrt
8 1 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.88%) Unix
8 1 (0.88%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (29.20%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (20.35%) Cybersecurity
3 20 (17.70%) Customer Service
4 19 (16.81%) ITIL
5 18 (15.93%) Cloud Security
6 17 (15.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 12 (10.62%) Remote Monitoring and Management
8 10 (8.85%) SIEM
9 9 (7.96%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (7.96%) Incident Response
9 9 (7.96%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (7.96%) Mentoring
10 8 (7.08%) High Availability
10 8 (7.08%) RBAC
11 7 (6.19%) Disaster Recovery
11 7 (6.19%) ITSM
11 7 (6.19%) Mobile Device Management
11 7 (6.19%) Security Operations
11 7 (6.19%) Use Case
12 6 (5.31%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (18.58%) PowerShell
2 12 (10.62%) Python
3 8 (7.08%) Bash
4 2 (1.77%) VB
5 1 (0.88%) Bicep
5 1 (0.88%) Go
5 1 (0.88%) Java
5 1 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (23.89%) Security Cleared
2 17 (15.04%) SC Cleared
3 15 (13.27%) DV Cleared
4 14 (12.39%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (9.73%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (7.96%) Degree
6 9 (7.96%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (6.19%) CCNP
8 5 (4.42%) Azure Certification
8 5 (4.42%) CCIE
8 5 (4.42%) CCNA
9 4 (3.54%) CISSP
10 3 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (2.65%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 3 (2.65%) Master's Degree
11 2 (1.77%) CEH
11 2 (1.77%) CompTIA CySA+
11 2 (1.77%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (1.77%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 1 (0.88%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.39%) GDPR
2 12 (10.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (9.73%) Cyber Essentials
4 9 (7.96%) NIST
5 8 (7.08%) PCI DSS
6 3 (2.65%) NCSC
7 2 (1.77%) COBIT
7 2 (1.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (1.77%) GRC
7 2 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (1.77%) JSP 440
7 2 (1.77%) SLA
7 2 (1.77%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 57 (50.44%) Active Directory
2 15 (13.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (6.19%) Hyper-V
3 7 (6.19%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (4.42%) vSphere
5 4 (3.54%) VMware NSX
6 3 (2.65%) Docker
6 3 (2.65%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.88%) iptables
7 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.88%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 21 (18.58%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (9.73%) Terraform
3 10 (8.85%) Ansible
4 6 (5.31%) Kubernetes
5 5 (4.42%) Nagios
6 4 (3.54%) WSUS
7 3 (2.65%) FortiGate
7 3 (2.65%) Grafana
7 3 (2.65%) vCenter Server
8 2 (1.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (1.77%) CASB
8 2 (1.77%) Cisco CUCM
8 2 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.88%) Host Intrusion Detection System
9 1 (0.88%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.88%) Puppet
9 1 (0.88%) SCCM
Vendors
1 69 (61.06%) Microsoft
2 24 (21.24%) Cisco
3 22 (19.47%) VMware
4 15 (13.27%) Fortinet
5 13 (11.50%) Apple
6 12 (10.62%) Palo Alto
7 11 (9.73%) CheckPoint
7 11 (9.73%) ConnectWise
7 11 (9.73%) Sophos
8 8 (7.08%) F5
8 8 (7.08%) Progress
9 5 (4.42%) Dell
9 5 (4.42%) SolarWinds
10 4 (3.54%) Google
10 4 (3.54%) Splunk
10 4 (3.54%) Tenable
11 3 (2.65%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (2.65%) Infoblox
11 3 (2.65%) Meraki
11 3 (2.65%) Veeam