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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 42 59
Rank change year-on-year -72 +17 +18
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 96 151 348
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.31% 5.69% 4.00%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.24% 43.64% 29.59%
Number of salaries quoted 72 127 305
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £31,438 £34,750 £35,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -3.06% +15.29%
75th Percentile £54,181 £58,049 £54,000
90th Percentile £72,250 £69,500 £63,900
England median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.14% -2.00%

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 557 346 1,176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 7.60% 13.03% 13.53%
Number of salaries quoted 322 258 951
10th Percentile £25,485 £29,750 £26,500
25th Percentile £29,500 £32,125 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £47,500 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year -28.42% -2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £49,688 £63,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £68,750
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.00%

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 April 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 April 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
Gloucestershire -4 28 £42,500 -38.41% 7
Wiltshire -12 20 £52,500 +23.53% 7
Devon -26 13 £32,500 +3.17% 5
Bristol -42 13 £54,417 +1.71% 8
Cornwall -3 11 £27,500 -14.06% 2
Somerset -49 9 £33,500 -16.25% 4
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 20 (20.83%) SharePoint
2 17 (17.71%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (6.25%) Confluence
4 2 (2.08%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (9.38%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (7.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.04%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 54 (56.25%) Microsoft 365
2 42 (43.75%) Azure
3 28 (29.17%) AWS
4 18 (18.75%) Entra ID
5 6 (6.25%) GCP
5 6 (6.25%) IaaS
5 6 (6.25%) PaaS
6 4 (4.17%) Google Workspace
7 2 (2.08%) Azure AKS
7 2 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.08%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (2.08%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (2.08%) Mimecast
7 2 (2.08%) OCI
7 2 (2.08%) OneDrive
7 2 (2.08%) OpenShift
7 2 (2.08%) Rubrik
7 2 (2.08%) SaaS
7 2 (2.08%) Serverless
8 1 (1.04%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 33 (34.38%) VPN
2 31 (32.29%) WAN
3 27 (28.13%) DNS
3 27 (28.13%) LAN
4 25 (26.04%) VLAN
5 23 (23.96%) Network Security
6 19 (19.79%) DHCP
6 19 (19.79%) TCP/IP
7 15 (15.63%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (11.46%) Cisco ASA
9 10 (10.42%) Unified Communications
10 9 (9.38%) BGP
10 9 (9.38%) Cisco Firepower
10 9 (9.38%) WebEx
11 8 (8.33%) SD-WAN
12 6 (6.25%) OSPF
13 3 (3.13%) DMZ
13 3 (3.13%) MPLS
13 3 (3.13%) NGFW
13 3 (3.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.13%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.04%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.04%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (4.17%) JIRA
2 2 (2.08%) GitLab
2 2 (2.08%) Jenkins
General
1 36 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 11 (11.46%) Retail
4 9 (9.38%) Telecoms
5 8 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (8.33%) Banking
5 8 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (8.33%) Marketing
6 7 (7.29%) Finance
7 3 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.08%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.08%) Police
9 1 (1.04%) Advertising
9 1 (1.04%) Electronics
9 1 (1.04%) Fire and Rescue
9 1 (1.04%) Legal
9 1 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (26.04%) Support Engineer
2 22 (22.92%) IT Engineer
2 22 (22.92%) IT Support
3 21 (21.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 16 (16.67%) IT Support Engineer
4 16 (16.67%) Network Engineer
5 12 (12.50%) Infrastructure Support
6 11 (11.46%) Analyst
7 10 (10.42%) 2nd Line Support
7 10 (10.42%) Support Analyst
8 9 (9.38%) 1st Line Support
9 7 (7.29%) 1st Line Engineer
9 7 (7.29%) 1st Line Support Engineer
9 7 (7.29%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 7 (7.29%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
9 7 (7.29%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (6.25%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 6 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 6 (6.25%) Collaboration Engineer
10 6 (6.25%) Field Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.38%) XMPP
2 2 (2.08%) 802.1X
2 2 (2.08%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.04%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.04%) OAuth
3 1 (1.04%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.04%) OpenID
3 1 (1.04%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.63%) Driving Licence
2 11 (11.46%) Replication
3 10 (10.42%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (9.38%) FlexPod
4 9 (9.38%) Onboarding
4 9 (9.38%) Video Conferencing
5 7 (7.29%) Data Centre
6 4 (4.17%) Digital Signage
6 4 (4.17%) Educational Technology
6 4 (4.17%) IoT
6 4 (4.17%) Mobile App
6 4 (4.17%) Security Posture
6 4 (4.17%) Video\Live Streaming
7 2 (2.08%) BYOD
7 2 (2.08%) CCTV
7 2 (2.08%) CMDB
7 2 (2.08%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.08%) e-Learning
7 2 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 45 (46.88%) Windows
2 32 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 18 (18.75%) Linux
4 9 (9.38%) Windows 10
5 4 (4.17%) Mac OS
6 3 (3.13%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (2.08%) Unix
7 2 (2.08%) VMS
8 1 (1.04%) Debian
8 1 (1.04%) OpenWrt
8 1 (1.04%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (29.17%) Cybersecurity
1 28 (29.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 22 (22.92%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (15.63%) Cloud Security
4 13 (13.54%) Customer Service
4 13 (13.54%) ITIL
5 11 (11.46%) SIEM
6 10 (10.42%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (10.42%) Data Management
6 10 (10.42%) Incident Response
6 10 (10.42%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (10.42%) Vulnerability Management
7 8 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (8.33%) Performance Management
7 8 (8.33%) Security Operations
8 7 (7.29%) Collaborative Culture
8 7 (7.29%) Disaster Recovery
8 7 (7.29%) High Availability
8 7 (7.29%) Mentoring
8 7 (7.29%) Remote Monitoring and Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (15.63%) Python
2 9 (9.38%) PowerShell
3 7 (7.29%) Bash
4 3 (3.13%) SQL
5 2 (2.08%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (1.04%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.04%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (19.79%) Security Cleared
2 12 (12.50%) DV Cleared
3 11 (11.46%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (9.38%) SC Cleared
5 7 (7.29%) CCNP
5 7 (7.29%) Degree
6 5 (5.21%) Azure Certification
6 5 (5.21%) CISSP
6 5 (5.21%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 5 (5.21%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (4.17%) CCNA
7 4 (4.17%) CompTIA Security+
7 4 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (3.13%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 3 (3.13%) Master's Degree
9 2 (2.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (2.08%) CCIE
9 2 (2.08%) CEH
9 2 (2.08%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (20.83%) Cyber Essentials
1 20 (20.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (16.67%) GDPR
3 12 (12.50%) NIST
4 6 (6.25%) PCI DSS
5 4 (4.17%) GRC
6 3 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (2.08%) COBIT
7 2 (2.08%) JSP 440
7 2 (2.08%) SOC 2
8 1 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (1.04%) NCSC
8 1 (1.04%) SLA
System Software
1 39 (40.63%) Active Directory
2 15 (15.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (13.54%) Hyper-V
4 7 (7.29%) vSphere
5 6 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (5.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 5 (5.21%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (3.13%) VMware NSX
8 2 (2.08%) Docker
9 1 (1.04%) iptables
Systems Management
1 20 (20.83%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (16.67%) Ansible
3 13 (13.54%) Terraform
4 11 (11.46%) Grafana
5 9 (9.38%) Cisco CUCM
6 5 (5.21%) FortiGate
7 3 (3.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (3.13%) Kubernetes
8 2 (2.08%) CASB
8 2 (2.08%) Nagios
8 2 (2.08%) Prometheus
8 2 (2.08%) Puppet
8 2 (2.08%) SCCM
8 2 (2.08%) WSUS
9 1 (1.04%) Host Intrusion Detection System
9 1 (1.04%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (1.04%) Proxmox
9 1 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.04%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 58 (60.42%) Microsoft
2 25 (26.04%) Cisco
3 23 (23.96%) VMware
4 20 (20.83%) Fortinet
5 16 (16.67%) Palo Alto
6 11 (11.46%) Apple
7 10 (10.42%) Splunk
8 8 (8.33%) Veeam
9 6 (6.25%) NetApp
10 5 (5.21%) Dell
10 5 (5.21%) F5
10 5 (5.21%) Sophos
11 4 (4.17%) CheckPoint
11 4 (4.17%) ConnectWise
11 4 (4.17%) Google
11 4 (4.17%) Tenable
12 3 (3.13%) CrowdStrike
12 3 (3.13%) Infoblox
12 3 (3.13%) Progress
12 3 (3.13%) SolarWinds