Firewall Jobs in the South West

Firewall
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Firewall skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Firewall over the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 63 63
Rank change year-on-year +24 0 +15
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 214 339 287
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 5.43% 3.48% 4.53%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.31% 29.00% 25.24%
Number of salaries quoted 184 256 235
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,250 £30,850
25th Percentile £30,688 £31,938 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £43,500 £44,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.05% -1.14% -2.22%
75th Percentile £55,514 £59,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £64,625 £71,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -6.86% -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 756 1,169 1,137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 19.19% 12.01% 17.93%
Number of salaries quoted 452 851 572
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £27,000 £32,500 £33,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £49,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.29% +10.00% -5.26%
75th Percentile £53,750 £60,000 £62,875
90th Percentile £67,450 £75,000 £78,250
England median annual salary £36,500 £47,500 £50,250
% change year-on-year -23.16% -5.47% -4.29%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the South West

Firewall
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Firewall in the South West.

Salary trend for Firewall in the South West

Firewall
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in the South West over the 6 months to 17 July 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 July 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 +22 48 £52,500 +5.00% 24
Dorset +43 38 £47,500 +26.67% 9
Wiltshire +2 37 £36,000 -28.71% 10
Devon +19 34 £31,500 -37.00% 3
Somerset +23 24 £40,000 -5.88% 12
Cornwall +13 19 £31,000 -31.11% 6
Gloucestershire -6 13 £55,000 +46.67% 30
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 34 (15.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (10.28%) IIS
3 7 (3.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 16 (7.48%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 15 (7.01%) Dynamics NAV
2 5 (2.34%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 116 (54.21%) Azure
2 105 (49.07%) Microsoft 365
3 51 (23.83%) Entra ID
4 32 (14.95%) AWS
5 12 (5.61%) IaaS
6 8 (3.74%) PaaS
7 7 (3.27%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (2.80%) Serverless
9 5 (2.34%) Rubrik
9 5 (2.34%) SaaS
10 4 (1.87%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 4 (1.87%) OneDrive
11 3 (1.40%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (1.40%) Azure Sentinel
12 2 (0.93%) Azure AKS
12 2 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (0.93%) GCP
13 1 (0.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 1 (0.47%) Datadog
13 1 (0.47%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 76 (35.51%) DNS
2 63 (29.44%) VPN
3 56 (26.17%) DHCP
4 52 (24.30%) WAN
5 51 (23.83%) VLAN
6 40 (18.69%) Wi-Fi
7 38 (17.76%) LAN
8 29 (13.55%) Network Security
8 29 (13.55%) VoIP
9 26 (12.15%) MPLS
10 24 (11.21%) SD-WAN
11 20 (9.35%) TCP/IP
12 16 (7.48%) Cisco Firepower
12 16 (7.48%) SAN
13 15 (7.01%) ADSL
14 13 (6.07%) VSAT
15 12 (5.61%) Internet
16 9 (4.21%) Kerberos
16 9 (4.21%) Wireless
17 8 (3.74%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (9.81%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (8.88%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.47%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.47%) MySQL
4 1 (0.47%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (2.34%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (0.93%) Burp Suite
2 2 (0.93%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.47%) Git
3 1 (0.47%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 69 (32.24%) Social Skills
2 31 (14.49%) Manufacturing
3 17 (7.94%) Telecoms
4 14 (6.54%) Finance
5 11 (5.14%) Legal
6 9 (4.21%) Law
7 7 (3.27%) Advertising
7 7 (3.27%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.80%) Electronics
9 5 (2.34%) Aerospace
9 5 (2.34%) Games
9 5 (2.34%) Local Government
10 4 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.87%) Police
11 3 (1.40%) Automotive
11 3 (1.40%) Marketing
11 3 (1.40%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (32.71%) IT Support
2 46 (21.50%) 2nd Line Support
3 40 (18.69%) Analyst
4 38 (17.76%) Support Analyst
5 37 (17.29%) Support Engineer
6 35 (16.36%) Network Engineer
7 27 (12.62%) 3rd Line Support
8 23 (10.75%) IT Engineer
9 21 (9.81%) Technical Support
10 19 (8.88%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
10 19 (8.88%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
11 16 (7.48%) IT Support Engineer
11 16 (7.48%) Technical Engineer
11 16 (7.48%) Technical Support Engineer
12 15 (7.01%) Coordinator
12 15 (7.01%) Help Desk Coordinator
12 15 (7.01%) IT Analyst
12 15 (7.01%) IT Support Analyst
13 14 (6.54%) Administrator
13 14 (6.54%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.21%) LDAP
2 5 (2.34%) 802.1X
3 2 (0.93%) ModSecurity
4 1 (0.47%) .NET
4 1 (0.47%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.47%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.28%) Driving Licence
2 20 (9.35%) Video Conferencing
3 11 (5.14%) CCTV
4 10 (4.67%) Cyber Threat
5 9 (4.21%) PKI
6 8 (3.74%) Operational Technology
7 5 (2.34%) BYOD
7 5 (2.34%) CMDB
7 5 (2.34%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.34%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.40%) Clustering
8 3 (1.40%) FMCG
8 3 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.40%) IoT
8 3 (1.40%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.93%) Educational Technology
9 2 (0.93%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.93%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (0.93%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 89 (41.59%) Windows
2 82 (38.32%) Windows Server
3 30 (14.02%) Linux
4 23 (10.75%) Windows 10
5 16 (7.48%) Windows Server 2019
6 13 (6.07%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.40%) Mac OS
7 3 (1.40%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.47%) VMS
8 1 (0.47%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (24.30%) Customer Service
1 52 (24.30%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (21.03%) Cybersecurity
3 42 (19.63%) Mentoring
4 35 (16.36%) ITIL
5 27 (12.62%) Disaster Recovery
6 25 (11.68%) Continuous Improvement
7 19 (8.88%) Virtual Environments
8 18 (8.41%) Collaborative Working
9 17 (7.94%) ERP
9 17 (7.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 17 (7.94%) Network Design
9 17 (7.94%) Time Management
10 16 (7.48%) Kalman Filter
10 16 (7.48%) Roadmaps
11 15 (7.01%) Web Filtering
12 14 (6.54%) Service Management
13 13 (6.07%) Data Loss Prevention
13 13 (6.07%) Migration
14 12 (5.61%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 43 (20.09%) PowerShell
2 24 (11.21%) SQL
3 9 (4.21%) VB
4 5 (2.34%) Python
5 3 (1.40%) Bash
6 2 (0.93%) C#
7 1 (0.47%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 35 (16.36%) Cisco Certification
1 35 (16.36%) Security Cleared
2 33 (15.42%) CCNA
3 28 (13.08%) Network+ Certification
4 27 (12.62%) Microsoft Certification
5 22 (10.28%) Degree
5 22 (10.28%) SC Cleared
6 18 (8.41%) MCITP
7 16 (7.48%) CCNP
8 14 (6.54%) CISSP
9 13 (6.07%) JNCIA
10 10 (4.67%) A+ Certification
10 10 (4.67%) CISM
11 9 (4.21%) MCP
12 7 (3.27%) DV Cleared
13 5 (2.34%) Azure Certification
13 5 (2.34%) CCDA
13 5 (2.34%) CCDP
14 4 (1.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 4 (1.87%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (4.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 10 (4.67%) NIST
3 9 (4.21%) SLA
4 6 (2.80%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.80%) GDPR
4 6 (2.80%) NCSC
5 4 (1.87%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.93%) COBIT
6 2 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (0.93%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.47%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.47%) QA
System Software
1 99 (46.26%) Active Directory
2 44 (20.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (7.94%) Hyper-V
4 15 (7.01%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (3.74%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (2.34%) Docker
7 4 (1.87%) vSphere
8 1 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 48 (22.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (4.21%) Ansible
2 9 (4.21%) WSUS
3 7 (3.27%) Terraform
4 6 (2.80%) FortiGate
5 5 (2.34%) CASB
5 5 (2.34%) Kubernetes
5 5 (2.34%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 3 (1.40%) Autotask
6 3 (1.40%) Iperf
6 3 (1.40%) PaperCut
6 3 (1.40%) SCCM
6 3 (1.40%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.93%) Host Intrusion Detection System
7 2 (0.93%) Nmap
8 1 (0.47%) Nagios
8 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 114 (53.27%) Microsoft
2 52 (24.30%) Cisco
3 49 (22.90%) VMware
4 26 (12.15%) Fortinet
5 24 (11.21%) Veeam
6 17 (7.94%) Meraki
7 16 (7.48%) SolarWinds
8 15 (7.01%) HP
9 13 (6.07%) Aruba
10 12 (5.61%) Palo Alto
11 11 (5.14%) Juniper
12 8 (3.74%) Citrix
12 8 (3.74%) Extreme Networks
13 7 (3.27%) CheckPoint
13 7 (3.27%) Datto
14 6 (2.80%) Apple
15 5 (2.34%) Aerohive Networks
15 5 (2.34%) Ekahau
15 5 (2.34%) Okta
15 5 (2.34%) Sophos