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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 30 68
Rank change year-on-year -60 +38 -3
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 151 205 325
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.84% 6.30% 3.29%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 23.89% 41.08% 28.26%
Number of salaries quoted 99 179 266
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £41,500 £42,750
Median % change year-on-year +2.41% -2.92% +0.59%
75th Percentile £58,292 £56,029 £56,250
90th Percentile £72,750 £64,000 £70,625
England median annual salary £51,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +3.00% +5.26% -5.47%

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 632 499 1,150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 7.71% 15.33% 11.63%
Number of salaries quoted 375 346 901
10th Percentile £28,100 £28,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,750 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year -0.58% -12.31% +8.33%
75th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -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 9 July 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 9 July 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
Wiltshire -2 50 £42,500 +18.06% 4
Gloucestershire -7 38 £42,500 -22.73% 13
Bristol -46 23 £55,000 +8.91% 7
Devon -37 20 £32,500 +3.17% 6
Somerset -50 13 £50,000 +25.00% 38
Dorset -40 1 £60,000 +26.32% 5
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 33 (21.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (13.91%) SharePoint
3 6 (3.97%) Confluence
4 2 (1.32%) IIS
Applications
1 18 (11.92%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 71 (47.02%) Microsoft 365
2 67 (44.37%) Azure
3 46 (30.46%) AWS
4 37 (24.50%) Entra ID
5 7 (4.64%) GCP
5 7 (4.64%) IaaS
5 7 (4.64%) PaaS
6 6 (3.97%) Serverless
7 5 (3.31%) OCI
8 4 (2.65%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (2.65%) Google Workspace
9 3 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.99%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (1.32%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (1.32%) OneDrive
10 2 (1.32%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.32%) Rubrik
10 2 (1.32%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 53 (35.10%) WAN
2 52 (34.44%) VPN
3 45 (29.80%) LAN
4 43 (28.48%) DNS
5 42 (27.81%) VLAN
6 40 (26.49%) Network Security
7 32 (21.19%) DHCP
8 23 (15.23%) Wi-Fi
9 19 (12.58%) TCP/IP
10 13 (8.61%) SD-WAN
11 12 (7.95%) BGP
11 12 (7.95%) Cisco ASA
12 11 (7.28%) Unified Communications
13 10 (6.62%) Cisco Firepower
13 10 (6.62%) WebEx
14 9 (5.96%) DMZ
15 8 (5.30%) WLAN
16 5 (3.31%) NAS
16 5 (3.31%) SAN
16 5 (3.31%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.65%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.66%) DocumentDB
3 1 (0.66%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.66%) MySQL
3 1 (0.66%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.66%) Redis
3 1 (0.66%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (2.65%) GitLab
1 4 (2.65%) JIRA
2 3 (1.99%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.66%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.66%) Git
3 1 (0.66%) git-flow
3 1 (0.66%) Postman
General
1 50 (33.11%) Social Skills
2 27 (17.88%) Public Sector
3 21 (13.91%) Finance
4 15 (9.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (9.27%) Retail
6 12 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (5.96%) Banking
7 9 (5.96%) Marketing
7 9 (5.96%) Telecoms
8 6 (3.97%) Aerospace
9 5 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.32%) Law
11 1 (0.66%) Advertising
11 1 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.66%) Fire and Rescue
11 1 (0.66%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.66%) Police
Job Titles
1 36 (23.84%) IT Engineer
2 34 (22.52%) IT Support
3 30 (19.87%) Support Engineer
4 26 (17.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 26 (17.22%) IT Support Engineer
5 20 (13.25%) Network Engineer
6 15 (9.93%) Infrastructure Support
7 13 (8.61%) Analyst
7 13 (8.61%) Senior
7 13 (8.61%) Support Analyst
8 12 (7.95%) Security Engineer
9 9 (5.96%) 2nd Line Support
9 9 (5.96%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (5.30%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 8 (5.30%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
11 7 (4.64%) Architect
11 7 (4.64%) Collaboration Engineer
11 7 (4.64%) Cybersecurity Specialist
11 7 (4.64%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
11 7 (4.64%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.62%) XMPP
2 5 (3.31%) Node.js
3 4 (2.65%) Apache NiFi
4 3 (1.99%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.32%) 802.1X
5 2 (1.32%) OAuth
5 2 (1.32%) OAuth2
5 2 (1.32%) OpenID
5 2 (1.32%) SAML
6 1 (0.66%) Next.js
6 1 (0.66%) React
6 1 (0.66%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.26%) Driving Licence
2 15 (9.93%) Data Centre
3 14 (9.27%) Replication
4 11 (7.28%) Onboarding
5 10 (6.62%) FlexPod
5 10 (6.62%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (6.62%) Video Conferencing
6 7 (4.64%) Security Posture
6 7 (4.64%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (3.97%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 6 (3.97%) Fibre Optics
8 5 (3.31%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (2.65%) Cloud Native
9 4 (2.65%) Digital Signage
9 4 (2.65%) Educational Technology
9 4 (2.65%) IoT
9 4 (2.65%) Mobile App
9 4 (2.65%) Video\Live Streaming
10 2 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 61 (40.40%) Windows
2 51 (33.77%) Windows Server
3 24 (15.89%) Linux
4 9 (5.96%) Windows 10
5 8 (5.30%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (3.31%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (2.65%) Mac OS
7 4 (2.65%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (1.99%) Unix
8 3 (1.99%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (34.44%) Cybersecurity
2 36 (23.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 23 (15.23%) Continuous Improvement
4 22 (14.57%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (14.57%) Risk Management
5 21 (13.91%) ITIL
6 20 (13.25%) Infrastructure as Code
6 20 (13.25%) Mentoring
7 19 (12.58%) Customer Service
8 18 (11.92%) Cloud Security
9 17 (11.26%) Project Delivery
10 16 (10.60%) Collaborative Culture
10 16 (10.60%) Data Management
10 16 (10.60%) Disaster Recovery
11 14 (9.27%) Vulnerability Management
12 13 (8.61%) SIEM
13 12 (7.95%) Performance Management
14 11 (7.28%) Agile
14 11 (7.28%) Collaborative Working
14 11 (7.28%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 21 (13.91%) Python
2 12 (7.95%) Bash
3 10 (6.62%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.99%) Shell Script
4 3 (1.99%) SQL
5 1 (0.66%) C
5 1 (0.66%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.66%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.66%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (28.48%) Security Cleared
2 22 (14.57%) Degree
2 22 (14.57%) DV Cleared
3 18 (11.92%) Cisco Certification
4 16 (10.60%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (8.61%) SC Cleared
6 10 (6.62%) CCNA
6 10 (6.62%) CISSP
7 9 (5.96%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 8 (5.30%) Azure Certification
9 6 (3.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 6 (3.97%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (3.97%) CISM
10 5 (3.31%) CCNP
11 4 (2.65%) AWS Certification
11 4 (2.65%) MCSA
11 4 (2.65%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (1.99%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (1.99%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 2 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (28.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 37 (24.50%) Cyber Essentials
3 18 (11.92%) GDPR
3 18 (11.92%) NIST
4 13 (8.61%) GRC
5 11 (7.28%) PCI DSS
6 6 (3.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 6 (3.97%) ISO 9001
6 6 (3.97%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 6 (3.97%) JSP 440
7 3 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (1.32%) SLA
9 1 (0.66%) COBIT
9 1 (0.66%) SOC 2
System Software
1 43 (28.48%) Active Directory
2 34 (22.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (18.54%) Hyper-V
4 8 (5.30%) vSphere
5 6 (3.97%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 6 (3.97%) Virtual Servers
5 6 (3.97%) VMware NSX
6 5 (3.31%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (2.65%) Docker
8 1 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (17.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (13.25%) Ansible
3 17 (11.26%) Grafana
4 16 (10.60%) Terraform
5 10 (6.62%) Cisco CUCM
6 8 (5.30%) FortiGate
7 7 (4.64%) Prometheus
8 6 (3.97%) Kubernetes
9 4 (2.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (2.65%) Iperf
10 3 (1.99%) Puppet
11 2 (1.32%) SCCM
11 2 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.66%) CASB
12 1 (0.66%) Host Intrusion Detection System
12 1 (0.66%) Nagios
12 1 (0.66%) Oracle RMAN
12 1 (0.66%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 74 (49.01%) Microsoft
2 43 (28.48%) VMware
3 31 (20.53%) Cisco
4 25 (16.56%) Fortinet
5 18 (11.92%) Palo Alto
6 13 (8.61%) Veeam
7 10 (6.62%) Splunk
8 8 (5.30%) Aruba
8 8 (5.30%) NetApp
9 7 (4.64%) Dell
10 5 (3.31%) Apple
10 5 (3.31%) F5
10 5 (3.31%) Google
11 4 (2.65%) ConnectWise
11 4 (2.65%) Draytek
11 4 (2.65%) Infoblox
11 4 (2.65%) Oracle
11 4 (2.65%) Ruckus Wireless
11 4 (2.65%) SonicWALL
11 4 (2.65%) Ubiquiti