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

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 51 35
Rank change year-on-year -7 -16 +41
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 148 194 300
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 3.00% 4.32% 7.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 23.64% 37.82% 38.76%
Number of salaries quoted 118 125 273
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £30,850
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £43,500 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.84% -11.22% +11.36%
75th Percentile £49,688 £69,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £62,875 £76,250 £70,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £53,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -15.09% +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 626 513 774
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 12.69% 11.43% 18.61%
Number of salaries quoted 371 305 592
10th Percentile £25,375 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £52,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -34.62% +6.12% +7.59%
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 18 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 18 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
Bristol -4 40 £42,500 - 25
Cornwall - 39 £33,000 - 2
Wiltshire -18 20 £34,000 -45.60% 13
Gloucestershire +9 14 £50,000 +13.64% 18
Dorset +6 12 £31,000 -28.74% 6
Devon +4 11 £31,125 -25.89% 6
Somerset -22 11 £33,000 -5.71% 18
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 47 (31.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 36 (24.32%) SharePoint
3 21 (14.19%) IIS
4 1 (0.68%) JBoss
Applications
1 14 (9.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.73%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.68%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 78 (52.70%) Microsoft 365
2 57 (38.51%) Azure
3 27 (18.24%) Entra ID
4 14 (9.46%) AWS
5 6 (4.05%) Azure Sentinel
6 5 (3.38%) Serverless
7 4 (2.70%) OpenShift
8 3 (2.03%) Azure AKS
8 3 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.03%) IaaS
8 3 (2.03%) OneDrive
8 3 (2.03%) PaaS
8 3 (2.03%) Rubrik
9 2 (1.35%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (1.35%) GCP
9 2 (1.35%) GitHub
9 2 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.35%) Mimecast
9 2 (1.35%) OCI
9 2 (1.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 48 (32.43%) DNS
2 41 (27.70%) DHCP
3 34 (22.97%) VPN
4 28 (18.92%) WAN
5 26 (17.57%) LAN
6 25 (16.89%) VLAN
7 19 (12.84%) TCP/IP
8 18 (12.16%) Network Security
9 16 (10.81%) Internet
10 15 (10.14%) Kerberos
10 15 (10.14%) Wi-Fi
11 13 (8.78%) VSAT
12 10 (6.76%) Remote Desktop
12 10 (6.76%) Wireless
13 9 (6.08%) DKIM
13 9 (6.08%) DMARC
13 9 (6.08%) IPsec
13 9 (6.08%) SD-WAN
14 8 (5.41%) BGP
15 7 (4.73%) OSPF
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
1 2 (1.35%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 80 (54.05%) Social Skills
2 17 (11.49%) Telecoms
3 16 (10.81%) Law
4 11 (7.43%) Legal
5 9 (6.08%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.08%) Finance
6 8 (5.41%) Manufacturing
7 7 (4.73%) Public Sector
8 6 (4.05%) Electronics
9 5 (3.38%) Marketing
10 3 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.35%) Police
11 2 (1.35%) Retail
12 1 (0.68%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 53 (35.81%) Support Engineer
2 43 (29.05%) IT Support
3 38 (25.68%) 2nd Line Support
4 26 (17.57%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 24 (16.22%) IT Engineer
5 24 (16.22%) Technical Engineer
6 23 (15.54%) Analyst
7 21 (14.19%) Technical Support
8 20 (13.51%) Support Analyst
9 18 (12.16%) IT Support Engineer
9 18 (12.16%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
10 17 (11.49%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 16 (10.81%) Technical Support Engineer
12 15 (10.14%) 1st Line Support
12 15 (10.14%) Network Engineer
13 14 (9.46%) 1st Line Engineer
13 14 (9.46%) 1st Line Support Engineer
13 14 (9.46%) 3rd Line Support
14 10 (6.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 9 (6.08%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.14%) LDAP
2 3 (2.03%) 802.1X
2 3 (2.03%) REST
3 2 (1.35%) ARM Templates
3 2 (1.35%) ModSecurity
4 1 (0.68%) .NET
4 1 (0.68%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.68%) Apache NiFi
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 51 (34.46%) Driving Licence
2 16 (10.81%) 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%) Cloud Native
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%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
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%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 89 (60.14%) Windows
2 68 (45.95%) Windows Server
3 24 (16.22%) Windows Server 2019
4 16 (10.81%) Windows 10
4 16 (10.81%) Windows Server 2016
5 12 (8.11%) Linux
6 6 (4.05%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.35%) Debian
7 2 (1.35%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.35%) VMS
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
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (32.43%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (24.32%) Customer Service
3 31 (20.95%) Mentoring
4 22 (14.86%) Continuous Improvement
5 20 (13.51%) ITIL
5 20 (13.51%) Remote Monitoring and Management
6 18 (12.16%) Cybersecurity
7 16 (10.81%) Cloud Security
7 16 (10.81%) Data Loss Prevention
7 16 (10.81%) Disaster Recovery
8 14 (9.46%) Kalman Filter
8 14 (9.46%) Migration
8 14 (9.46%) Web Filtering
9 12 (8.11%) Containerisation
10 11 (7.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 10 (6.76%) Service Management
12 9 (6.08%) Collaborative Working
13 8 (5.41%) Proactive Monitoring
14 7 (4.73%) RBAC
14 7 (4.73%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 45 (30.41%) PowerShell
2 15 (10.14%) VB
3 11 (7.43%) Python
4 8 (5.41%) Bash
5 2 (1.35%) SQL
6 1 (0.68%) Bicep
6 1 (0.68%) Go
6 1 (0.68%) Java
6 1 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 23 (15.54%) Security Cleared
2 22 (14.86%) Cisco Certification
3 18 (12.16%) SC Cleared
4 16 (10.81%) Degree
5 15 (10.14%) CCNA
6 13 (8.78%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (8.78%) JNCIA
7 7 (4.73%) MCP
7 7 (4.73%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (4.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 6 (4.05%) ACMT
8 6 (4.05%) Azure Certification
8 6 (4.05%) DV Cleared
9 4 (2.70%) CCNP
10 3 (2.03%) CCIE
10 3 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (2.03%) Master's Degree
11 2 (1.35%) CEH
11 2 (1.35%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.68%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.14%) SLA
2 12 (8.11%) Cyber Essentials
3 11 (7.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (4.73%) GDPR
5 5 (3.38%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.35%) NCSC
6 2 (1.35%) NIST
7 1 (0.68%) COBIT
7 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
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 68 (45.95%) Active Directory
2 28 (18.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (8.11%) Hyper-V
4 11 (7.43%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (6.76%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (6.08%) Docker
7 3 (2.03%) vSphere
8 2 (1.35%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.68%) iptables
Systems Management
1 38 (25.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (10.14%) WSUS
3 12 (8.11%) Kubernetes
4 9 (6.08%) Terraform
4 9 (6.08%) vCenter Server
5 7 (4.73%) Ansible
6 6 (4.05%) Autotask
7 5 (3.38%) PaperCut
8 3 (2.03%) Nagios
9 1 (0.68%) CASB
9 1 (0.68%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 100 (67.57%) Microsoft
2 34 (22.97%) Cisco
3 28 (18.92%) VMware
4 20 (13.51%) Apple
5 19 (12.84%) Sophos
6 15 (10.14%) Datto
7 13 (8.78%) ConnectWise
7 13 (8.78%) Progress
8 12 (8.11%) Fortinet
9 11 (7.43%) Veeam
10 8 (5.41%) Palo Alto
11 7 (4.73%) CheckPoint
11 7 (4.73%) Oracle
12 6 (4.05%) Starlink
13 5 (3.38%) F5
13 5 (3.38%) Meraki
13 5 (3.38%) SAP
13 5 (3.38%) SolarWinds
14 4 (2.70%) Aruba
14 4 (2.70%) HP