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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 47 45
Rank change year-on-year -27 -2 +27
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 116 180 316
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.15% 4.62% 5.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.42% 38.46% 33.65%
Number of salaries quoted 92 111 288
10th Percentile £27,350 £30,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £47,500 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.42% -3.06% +15.29%
75th Percentile £48,750 £66,386 £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 568 468 939
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 10.52% 12.01% 15.39%
Number of salaries quoted 324 263 744
10th Percentile £25,087 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £33,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,000 £51,058 £48,875
Median % change year-on-year -35.37% +4.47% +8.61%
75th Percentile £47,500 £71,250 £58,413
90th Percentile £68,000 £82,250 £70,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -4.39%

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 30 January 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 30 January 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 -18 31 £42,500 -10.53% 13
Cornwall - 28 £32,750 -
Wiltshire -22 17 £43,750 -7.89% 14
Gloucestershire +9 16 £47,500 -15.56% 6
Somerset -27 13 £33,500 -38.33% 3
Devon +1 9 £40,000 -0.64% 10
Dorset -14 1 £30,000 -36.84% 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 43 (37.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 36 (31.03%) SharePoint
3 8 (6.90%) IIS
4 1 (0.86%) JBoss
Applications
1 14 (12.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (7.76%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.86%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 62 (53.45%) Microsoft 365
2 39 (33.62%) Azure
3 19 (16.38%) Entra ID
4 15 (12.93%) AWS
5 4 (3.45%) OpenShift
6 3 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.59%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.72%) Azure AKS
7 2 (1.72%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (1.72%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (1.72%) GCP
7 2 (1.72%) Mimecast
7 2 (1.72%) OCI
7 2 (1.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.86%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.86%) GitHub
8 1 (0.86%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.86%) IaaS
8 1 (0.86%) PaaS
8 1 (0.86%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (31.03%) DNS
2 28 (24.14%) VPN
3 26 (22.41%) DHCP
4 22 (18.97%) Network Security
5 20 (17.24%) WAN
6 16 (13.79%) LAN
6 16 (13.79%) TCP/IP
7 14 (12.07%) VLAN
8 11 (9.48%) BGP
9 10 (8.62%) Remote Desktop
10 9 (7.76%) DKIM
10 9 (7.76%) DMARC
10 9 (7.76%) OSPF
11 7 (6.03%) Internet
11 7 (6.03%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (5.17%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (5.17%) IPsec
12 6 (5.17%) Kerberos
12 6 (5.17%) Wireless
13 4 (3.45%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.59%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.86%) DB2
3 1 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (2.59%) GitLab
2 2 (1.72%) Jenkins
General
1 59 (50.86%) Social Skills
2 8 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (6.90%) Finance
2 8 (6.90%) Legal
3 7 (6.03%) Law
3 7 (6.03%) Manufacturing
4 5 (4.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (4.31%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.59%) Electronics
6 3 (2.59%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.72%) Marketing
7 2 (1.72%) Police
7 2 (1.72%) Retail
8 1 (0.86%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 34 (29.31%) Support Engineer
2 27 (23.28%) 2nd Line Support
3 25 (21.55%) IT Engineer
3 25 (21.55%) IT Support
4 23 (19.83%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 17 (14.66%) Network Engineer
6 15 (12.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 15 (12.93%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 14 (12.07%) 1st Line Engineer
7 14 (12.07%) 1st Line Support
7 14 (12.07%) 1st Line Support Engineer
7 14 (12.07%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 14 (12.07%) Analyst
7 14 (12.07%) IT Support Engineer
8 12 (10.34%) Technical Engineer
9 11 (9.48%) Support Analyst
10 9 (7.76%) Technical Support
11 8 (6.90%) Field Engineer
12 6 (5.17%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
12 6 (5.17%) Field Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.17%) LDAP
2 3 (2.59%) REST
3 2 (1.72%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (0.86%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.86%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.86%) EJB
4 1 (0.86%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.86%) OAuth
4 1 (0.86%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.86%) OpenAPI
4 1 (0.86%) OpenID
4 1 (0.86%) React
4 1 (0.86%) SAML
4 1 (0.86%) Spring
4 1 (0.86%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.86%) Svelte
4 1 (0.86%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 45 (38.79%) Driving Licence
2 8 (6.90%) Data Centre
3 7 (6.03%) PKI
4 5 (4.31%) CMDB
4 5 (4.31%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.59%) CCTV
5 3 (2.59%) Digital Signage
6 2 (1.72%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.72%) Clustering
6 2 (1.72%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.72%) Replication
6 2 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.72%) YubiKey
7 1 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.86%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (0.86%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.86%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.86%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 67 (57.76%) Windows
2 42 (36.21%) Windows Server
3 14 (12.07%) Linux
4 8 (6.90%) Windows 10
5 7 (6.03%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (6.03%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.72%) Debian
6 2 (1.72%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.72%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.86%) Android
7 1 (0.86%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.86%) CentOS
7 1 (0.86%) OpenWrt
7 1 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.86%) Unix
7 1 (0.86%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (30.17%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (18.10%) Customer Service
3 19 (16.38%) ITIL
4 18 (15.52%) Cybersecurity
5 16 (13.79%) Remote Monitoring and Management
6 15 (12.93%) Cloud Security
6 15 (12.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 13 (11.21%) Mentoring
8 12 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (8.62%) Disaster Recovery
10 9 (7.76%) Data Loss Prevention
11 8 (6.90%) High Availability
11 8 (6.90%) Migration
11 8 (6.90%) RBAC
11 8 (6.90%) SIEM
12 7 (6.03%) Containerisation
12 7 (6.03%) Infrastructure as Code
12 7 (6.03%) Mobile Device Management
12 7 (6.03%) Service Management
12 7 (6.03%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 27 (23.28%) PowerShell
2 11 (9.48%) Python
3 8 (6.90%) Bash
4 6 (5.17%) VB
5 1 (0.86%) Bicep
5 1 (0.86%) Go
5 1 (0.86%) Java
5 1 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.86%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (22.41%) Security Cleared
2 18 (15.52%) SC Cleared
3 15 (12.93%) Cisco Certification
4 13 (11.21%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (10.34%) Degree
5 12 (10.34%) DV Cleared
6 9 (7.76%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (6.03%) CCNA
7 7 (6.03%) CCNP
8 5 (4.31%) Azure Certification
8 5 (4.31%) CCIE
9 3 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (2.59%) Master's Degree
9 3 (2.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (1.72%) ACMT
10 2 (1.72%) CEH
10 2 (1.72%) CompTIA CySA+
10 2 (1.72%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (1.72%) JNCIA
10 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.48%) GDPR
2 9 (7.76%) Cyber Essentials
2 9 (7.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (5.17%) NIST
3 6 (5.17%) PCI DSS
3 6 (5.17%) SLA
4 3 (2.59%) NCSC
5 2 (1.72%) COBIT
5 2 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.72%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.86%) GRC
6 1 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (0.86%) JSP 440
System Software
1 58 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 15 (12.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (7.76%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (5.17%) Hyper-V
5 5 (4.31%) Docker
6 4 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (2.59%) VMware NSX
7 3 (2.59%) vSphere
8 1 (0.86%) iptables
Systems Management
1 21 (18.10%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (7.76%) Terraform
3 8 (6.90%) Ansible
3 8 (6.90%) Kubernetes
3 8 (6.90%) WSUS
4 5 (4.31%) Nagios
4 5 (4.31%) vCenter Server
5 3 (2.59%) FortiGate
6 2 (1.72%) Autotask
6 2 (1.72%) CASB
6 2 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.86%) Grafana
7 1 (0.86%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.86%) Puppet
7 1 (0.86%) SCCM
Vendors
1 77 (66.38%) Microsoft
2 25 (21.55%) Cisco
3 19 (16.38%) VMware
4 16 (13.79%) Apple
5 15 (12.93%) Sophos
6 13 (11.21%) ConnectWise
6 13 (11.21%) Fortinet
7 11 (9.48%) CheckPoint
8 10 (8.62%) Palo Alto
8 10 (8.62%) Progress
9 8 (6.90%) F5
10 5 (4.31%) Dell
10 5 (4.31%) SolarWinds
11 4 (3.45%) Tenable
11 4 (3.45%) Veeam
12 3 (2.59%) CrowdStrike
12 3 (2.59%) Datto
12 3 (2.59%) Infoblox
12 3 (2.59%) Meraki
12 3 (2.59%) Riverbed