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

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 51 37
Rank change year-on-year -3 -14 +38
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 163 212 303
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 3.45% 4.02% 7.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 25.39% 37.19% 37.73%
Number of salaries quoted 134 130 276
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £30,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £44,375 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.38% -9.44% +9.70%
75th Percentile £48,750 £69,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £61,750 £76,250 £70,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - -

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 642 570 803
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 13.57% 10.80% 18.82%
Number of salaries quoted 383 333 620
10th Percentile £25,145 £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% +5.38%
75th Percentile £52,500 £71,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £85,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £40,000 £54,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year -25.93% +4.85% -1.90%

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 4 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 4 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 +2 44 £42,500 -10.53% 12
Cornwall - 37 £33,000 - 2
Wiltshire -12 24 £34,000 -45.60% 11
Dorset +13 15 £31,000 -27.91% 2
Gloucestershire +3 15 £53,750 +25.00% 9
Devon +1 15 £31,125 -28.86% 2
Somerset -23 11 £33,000 +1.54% 10
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 49 (30.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 34 (20.86%) SharePoint
3 23 (14.11%) IIS
4 1 (0.61%) JBoss
Applications
1 12 (7.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.68%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.61%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 88 (53.99%) Microsoft 365
2 68 (41.72%) Azure
3 33 (20.25%) Entra ID
4 17 (10.43%) AWS
5 7 (4.29%) Serverless
6 6 (3.68%) Azure Sentinel
6 6 (3.68%) IaaS
7 5 (3.07%) PaaS
7 5 (3.07%) Rubrik
8 4 (2.45%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.84%) OneDrive
9 3 (1.84%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.23%) Azure AKS
10 2 (1.23%) GCP
10 2 (1.23%) GitHub
10 2 (1.23%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.23%) Mimecast
10 2 (1.23%) OCI
10 2 (1.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 57 (34.97%) DNS
2 50 (30.67%) DHCP
3 34 (20.86%) VPN
4 32 (19.63%) WAN
5 31 (19.02%) LAN
6 29 (17.79%) VLAN
7 25 (15.34%) TCP/IP
8 19 (11.66%) Network Security
8 19 (11.66%) Wi-Fi
9 18 (11.04%) Internet
10 17 (10.43%) Kerberos
11 13 (7.98%) VSAT
12 12 (7.36%) SD-WAN
12 12 (7.36%) Wireless
13 10 (6.13%) Remote Desktop
14 9 (5.52%) DKIM
14 9 (5.52%) DMARC
14 9 (5.52%) IPsec
15 7 (4.29%) BGP
15 7 (4.29%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.98%) SQL Server
2 11 (6.75%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.61%) DB2
3 1 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.61%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (1.23%) GitLab
1 2 (1.23%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.61%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 80 (49.08%) Social Skills
2 19 (11.66%) Telecoms
3 18 (11.04%) Law
4 11 (6.75%) Manufacturing
5 10 (6.13%) Legal
6 7 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.29%) Finance
6 7 (4.29%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.68%) Electronics
8 5 (3.07%) Marketing
9 4 (2.45%) Local Government
10 3 (1.84%) Advertising
10 3 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.23%) Police
11 2 (1.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 54 (33.13%) IT Support
1 54 (33.13%) Support Engineer
2 42 (25.77%) 2nd Line Support
3 26 (15.95%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 26 (15.95%) Analyst
3 26 (15.95%) IT Engineer
4 24 (14.72%) Support Analyst
4 24 (14.72%) Technical Engineer
5 21 (12.88%) Technical Support
6 20 (12.27%) IT Support Engineer
7 18 (11.04%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 17 (10.43%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 16 (9.82%) 3rd Line Support
9 16 (9.82%) Technical Support Engineer
10 15 (9.20%) 1st Line Support
10 15 (9.20%) Network Engineer
11 14 (8.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 12 (7.36%) 1st Line Engineer
12 12 (7.36%) 1st Line Support Engineer
13 11 (6.75%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (10.43%) LDAP
2 5 (3.07%) 802.1X
3 3 (1.84%) REST
4 2 (1.23%) ARM Templates
4 2 (1.23%) ModSecurity
5 1 (0.61%) .NET
5 1 (0.61%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.61%) EJB
5 1 (0.61%) OpenAPI
5 1 (0.61%) React
5 1 (0.61%) Spring
5 1 (0.61%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.61%) Svelte
5 1 (0.61%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 52 (31.90%) Driving Licence
2 18 (11.04%) PKI
3 6 (3.68%) Clustering
4 5 (3.07%) BYOD
5 3 (1.84%) CCTV
5 3 (1.84%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.84%) CMDB
5 3 (1.84%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (1.84%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.84%) Digital Signage
6 2 (1.23%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.23%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.61%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.61%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.61%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (0.61%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.61%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.61%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 99 (60.74%) Windows
2 78 (47.85%) Windows Server
3 26 (15.95%) Windows Server 2019
4 18 (11.04%) Windows 10
5 17 (10.43%) Windows Server 2016
6 13 (7.98%) Linux
7 6 (3.68%) Mac OS
8 2 (1.23%) Debian
8 2 (1.23%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.23%) VMS
9 1 (0.61%) Android
9 1 (0.61%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.61%) CentOS
9 1 (0.61%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (30.67%) Problem-Solving
2 40 (24.54%) Customer Service
3 36 (22.09%) Mentoring
4 23 (14.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 22 (13.50%) ITIL
6 20 (12.27%) Cybersecurity
7 18 (11.04%) Remote Monitoring and Management
8 17 (10.43%) Data Loss Prevention
8 17 (10.43%) Disaster Recovery
9 16 (9.82%) Cloud Security
10 15 (9.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 15 (9.20%) Migration
11 13 (7.98%) Kalman Filter
11 13 (7.98%) Web Filtering
12 12 (7.36%) Containerisation
13 11 (6.75%) Collaborative Working
13 11 (6.75%) Service Management
14 9 (5.52%) Logistics
15 8 (4.91%) Proactive Monitoring
16 7 (4.29%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 45 (27.61%) PowerShell
2 17 (10.43%) VB
3 10 (6.13%) Python
4 7 (4.29%) Bash
5 2 (1.23%) SQL
6 1 (0.61%) Bicep
6 1 (0.61%) Go
6 1 (0.61%) Java
Qualifications
1 22 (13.50%) Cisco Certification
1 22 (13.50%) Degree
2 21 (12.88%) Security Cleared
3 17 (10.43%) SC Cleared
4 15 (9.20%) CCNA
5 13 (7.98%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (7.98%) JNCIA
6 9 (5.52%) MCP
7 8 (4.91%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (4.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 6 (3.68%) ACMT
10 5 (3.07%) Azure Certification
11 4 (2.45%) CCNP
11 4 (2.45%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.84%) CCIE
12 3 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.84%) Master's Degree
13 2 (1.23%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (1.23%) MCITP
13 2 (1.23%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.43%) SLA
2 14 (8.59%) Cyber Essentials
3 13 (7.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (4.29%) GDPR
5 5 (3.07%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.23%) NCSC
6 2 (1.23%) NIST
7 1 (0.61%) COBIT
7 1 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.61%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.61%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.61%) SOC 2
System Software
1 77 (47.24%) Active Directory
2 29 (17.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (8.59%) Hyper-V
4 11 (6.75%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (6.13%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (5.52%) Docker
7 4 (2.45%) vSphere
8 1 (0.61%) iptables
8 1 (0.61%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 43 (26.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (10.43%) WSUS
3 11 (6.75%) Kubernetes
4 9 (5.52%) Terraform
4 9 (5.52%) vCenter Server
5 7 (4.29%) Ansible
6 6 (3.68%) Autotask
7 5 (3.07%) PaperCut
8 3 (1.84%) Nagios
9 2 (1.23%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.61%) CASB
10 1 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 107 (65.64%) Microsoft
2 34 (20.86%) Cisco
3 30 (18.40%) VMware
4 19 (11.66%) Sophos
5 18 (11.04%) Apple
6 15 (9.20%) Datto
7 14 (8.59%) Veeam
8 13 (7.98%) ConnectWise
8 13 (7.98%) Fortinet
9 12 (7.36%) Progress
10 7 (4.29%) Aruba
10 7 (4.29%) CheckPoint
10 7 (4.29%) HP
10 7 (4.29%) Oracle
10 7 (4.29%) Palo Alto
11 6 (3.68%) Meraki
11 6 (3.68%) Starlink
12 5 (3.07%) SAP
12 5 (3.07%) SolarWinds
13 4 (2.45%) F5