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 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 50 34
Rank change year-on-year -8 -16 +42
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 148 189 301
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.91% 4.32% 6.84%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 23.60% 37.43% 38.30%
Number of salaries quoted 119 120 274
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £30,900
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £45,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.44% -8.16% +11.36%
75th Percentile £50,125 £69,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £60,700 £76,250 £70,000
England median annual salary £45,285 £53,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.56% +0.95% -

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 627 505 786
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 12.33% 11.54% 17.86%
Number of salaries quoted 374 299 605
10th Percentile £25,383 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £52,500 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -35.24% +7.14% +3.16%
75th Percentile £52,500 £71,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £86,000 £71,250
England median annual salary £40,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -25.93% +8.00% -4.76%

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 26 December 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 26 December 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
Cornwall - 41 £32,500 - 1
Bristol -4 40 £42,500 - 21
Wiltshire -19 19 £34,000 -43.33% 10
Gloucestershire +10 14 £50,000 -5.21% 22
Somerset -26 12 £33,500 -16.25% 20
Dorset +4 11 £31,000 -28.74% 8
Devon +4 10 £31,250 -22.84% 16
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 48 (32.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 39 (26.35%) SharePoint
3 20 (13.51%) IIS
4 1 (0.68%) JBoss
Applications
1 17 (11.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.73%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.68%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 80 (54.05%) Microsoft 365
2 57 (38.51%) Azure
3 27 (18.24%) Entra ID
4 13 (8.78%) AWS
5 6 (4.05%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (2.70%) IaaS
6 4 (2.70%) OpenShift
6 4 (2.70%) PaaS
6 4 (2.70%) Serverless
7 3 (2.03%) OneDrive
7 3 (2.03%) Rubrik
8 2 (1.35%) Azure AKS
8 2 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.35%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (1.35%) Mimecast
8 2 (1.35%) OCI
8 2 (1.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (0.68%) Azure Storage
9 1 (0.68%) GCP
9 1 (0.68%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 46 (31.08%) DNS
2 39 (26.35%) DHCP
3 34 (22.97%) VPN
4 26 (17.57%) WAN
5 24 (16.22%) VLAN
6 22 (14.86%) LAN
7 20 (13.51%) Network Security
8 18 (12.16%) TCP/IP
9 15 (10.14%) Internet
10 14 (9.46%) Kerberos
10 14 (9.46%) Wi-Fi
11 12 (8.11%) VSAT
12 10 (6.76%) Remote Desktop
13 9 (6.08%) BGP
13 9 (6.08%) DKIM
13 9 (6.08%) DMARC
13 9 (6.08%) IPsec
13 9 (6.08%) Wireless
14 8 (5.41%) OSPF
14 8 (5.41%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.43%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (6.76%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.68%) DB2
3 1 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.68%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (1.35%) GitLab
2 1 (0.68%) Jenkins
General
1 80 (54.05%) Social Skills
2 15 (10.14%) Law
2 15 (10.14%) Telecoms
3 11 (7.43%) Legal
4 8 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (5.41%) Finance
4 8 (5.41%) Manufacturing
5 7 (4.73%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.05%) Electronics
7 5 (3.38%) Marketing
8 3 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.03%) Police
9 2 (1.35%) Retail
10 1 (0.68%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 55 (37.16%) Support Engineer
2 44 (29.73%) IT Support
3 38 (25.68%) 2nd Line Support
4 26 (17.57%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 26 (17.57%) IT Engineer
5 23 (15.54%) Technical Engineer
6 22 (14.86%) Analyst
7 20 (13.51%) IT Support Engineer
7 20 (13.51%) Technical Support
8 19 (12.84%) Support Analyst
9 18 (12.16%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
10 17 (11.49%) 1st Line Engineer
10 17 (11.49%) 1st Line Support
10 17 (11.49%) 1st Line Support Engineer
10 17 (11.49%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 15 (10.14%) Network Engineer
11 15 (10.14%) Technical Support Engineer
12 13 (8.78%) 3rd Line Support
13 12 (8.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 10 (6.76%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.46%) LDAP
2 3 (2.03%) 802.1X
2 3 (2.03%) REST
3 2 (1.35%) ModSecurity
4 1 (0.68%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.68%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (0.68%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.68%) EJB
4 1 (0.68%) OpenAPI
4 1 (0.68%) React
4 1 (0.68%) Spring
4 1 (0.68%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.68%) Svelte
4 1 (0.68%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 55 (37.16%) Driving Licence
2 15 (10.14%) PKI
3 6 (4.05%) Clustering
4 4 (2.70%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.03%) BYOD
5 3 (2.03%) CCTV
5 3 (2.03%) CMDB
5 3 (2.03%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (2.03%) Digital Signage
5 3 (2.03%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.35%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.35%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.68%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.68%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.68%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.68%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 88 (59.46%) Windows
2 67 (45.27%) Windows Server
3 23 (15.54%) Windows Server 2019
4 15 (10.14%) Windows 10
4 15 (10.14%) Windows Server 2016
5 12 (8.11%) Linux
6 6 (4.05%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.35%) Debian
7 2 (1.35%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.68%) Android
8 1 (0.68%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.68%) CentOS
8 1 (0.68%) OpenWrt
8 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.68%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (31.76%) Problem-Solving
2 35 (23.65%) Customer Service
3 30 (20.27%) Mentoring
4 23 (15.54%) Remote Monitoring and Management
5 20 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
5 20 (13.51%) ITIL
6 19 (12.84%) Cybersecurity
7 16 (10.81%) Data Loss Prevention
7 16 (10.81%) Disaster Recovery
8 15 (10.14%) Cloud Security
9 13 (8.78%) Kalman Filter
9 13 (8.78%) Migration
9 13 (8.78%) Web Filtering
10 12 (8.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 11 (7.43%) Containerisation
12 10 (6.76%) Service Management
13 9 (6.08%) Collaborative Working
14 7 (4.73%) Mobile Device Management
14 7 (4.73%) Proactive Monitoring
14 7 (4.73%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 43 (29.05%) PowerShell
2 14 (9.46%) VB
3 10 (6.76%) Python
4 7 (4.73%) Bash
5 1 (0.68%) Bicep
5 1 (0.68%) Go
5 1 (0.68%) Java
5 1 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.68%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (16.89%) Security Cleared
2 21 (14.19%) Cisco Certification
3 20 (13.51%) SC Cleared
4 16 (10.81%) Degree
5 14 (9.46%) CCNA
6 13 (8.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (8.11%) JNCIA
8 8 (5.41%) DV Cleared
9 7 (4.73%) MCP
9 7 (4.73%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (4.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 6 (4.05%) ACMT
11 5 (3.38%) Azure Certification
12 4 (2.70%) CCNP
13 3 (2.03%) CCIE
13 3 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (2.03%) Master's Degree
14 2 (1.35%) CEH
14 2 (1.35%) CompTIA Security+
15 1 (0.68%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.46%) Cyber Essentials
1 14 (9.46%) SLA
2 13 (8.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (4.73%) GDPR
4 5 (3.38%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.03%) NCSC
5 3 (2.03%) NIST
6 2 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.68%) COBIT
7 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.68%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.68%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.68%) SOC 2
System Software
1 71 (47.97%) Active Directory
2 28 (18.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (8.11%) Hyper-V
3 12 (8.11%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (6.76%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (5.41%) Docker
6 3 (2.03%) vSphere
7 2 (1.35%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.68%) iptables
Systems Management
1 39 (26.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (10.14%) WSUS
3 11 (7.43%) Kubernetes
4 9 (6.08%) vCenter Server
5 8 (5.41%) Terraform
6 7 (4.73%) Ansible
7 6 (4.05%) Autotask
8 5 (3.38%) PaperCut
9 3 (2.03%) Nagios
10 1 (0.68%) CASB
10 1 (0.68%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 103 (69.59%) Microsoft
2 34 (22.97%) Cisco
3 28 (18.92%) VMware
4 23 (15.54%) Apple
5 19 (12.84%) Sophos
6 15 (10.14%) Datto
7 14 (9.46%) Progress
8 13 (8.78%) ConnectWise
9 11 (7.43%) Fortinet
9 11 (7.43%) Veeam
10 8 (5.41%) CheckPoint
10 8 (5.41%) Palo Alto
11 7 (4.73%) Oracle
12 6 (4.05%) SolarWinds
12 6 (4.05%) Starlink
13 5 (3.38%) F5
13 5 (3.38%) Meraki
13 5 (3.38%) SAP
14 4 (2.70%) HP
15 3 (2.03%) Aruba