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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 28 69
Rank change year-on-year -65 +41 -5
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 147 216 319
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.77% 6.49% 3.26%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 23.41% 41.06% 28.58%
Number of salaries quoted 99 186 260
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,750 £27,450
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £31,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -8.05% +1.16%
75th Percentile £57,500 £56,543 £58,000
90th Percentile £72,750 £64,375 £71,250
England median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% +5.26% -6.84%

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 628 526 1,116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 7.54% 15.81% 11.42%
Number of salaries quoted 378 364 871
10th Percentile £28,425 £28,750 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £32,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year - -13.27% +8.89%
75th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
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 16 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 16 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 -5 47 £42,500 +18.06% 3
Gloucestershire -10 36 £42,500 -22.73% 8
Bristol -48 23 £55,000 +4.76% 6
Devon -33 20 £32,500 +3.17% 7
Somerset -50 13 £50,000 +25.00% 11
Dorset -40 1 £60,000 +26.32% 4
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 34 (23.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (14.97%) SharePoint
3 6 (4.08%) Confluence
4 2 (1.36%) IIS
Applications
1 18 (12.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 71 (48.30%) Microsoft 365
2 67 (45.58%) Azure
3 46 (31.29%) AWS
4 38 (25.85%) Entra ID
5 7 (4.76%) IaaS
5 7 (4.76%) PaaS
6 6 (4.08%) GCP
6 6 (4.08%) Serverless
7 5 (3.40%) OCI
8 4 (2.72%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.72%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (2.72%) Google Workspace
9 3 (2.04%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (1.36%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.36%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (1.36%) OneDrive
10 2 (1.36%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.36%) Rubrik
10 2 (1.36%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 50 (34.01%) WAN
2 48 (32.65%) VPN
3 42 (28.57%) LAN
3 42 (28.57%) VLAN
4 41 (27.89%) Network Security
5 39 (26.53%) DNS
6 30 (20.41%) DHCP
7 22 (14.97%) Wi-Fi
8 19 (12.93%) TCP/IP
9 13 (8.84%) SD-WAN
10 12 (8.16%) Cisco ASA
11 11 (7.48%) BGP
11 11 (7.48%) Unified Communications
12 10 (6.80%) Cisco Firepower
12 10 (6.80%) WebEx
13 9 (6.12%) DMZ
14 8 (5.44%) WLAN
15 6 (4.08%) VoIP
16 5 (3.40%) NGFW
17 4 (2.72%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.72%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.68%) DocumentDB
3 1 (0.68%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.68%) MySQL
3 1 (0.68%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.68%) Redis
3 1 (0.68%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (2.72%) JIRA
2 3 (2.04%) GitLab
3 2 (1.36%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.68%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.68%) Git
4 1 (0.68%) git-flow
4 1 (0.68%) Postman
General
1 48 (32.65%) Social Skills
2 28 (19.05%) Public Sector
3 19 (12.93%) Finance
4 14 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (9.52%) Retail
5 11 (7.48%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (6.12%) Banking
6 9 (6.12%) Marketing
6 9 (6.12%) Telecoms
7 6 (4.08%) Aerospace
8 5 (3.40%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.36%) Law
10 1 (0.68%) Advertising
10 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Fire and Rescue
10 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.68%) Police
Job Titles
1 36 (24.49%) IT Engineer
2 35 (23.81%) IT Support
3 32 (21.77%) Support Engineer
4 27 (18.37%) IT Support Engineer
5 25 (17.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 18 (12.24%) Network Engineer
7 16 (10.88%) Infrastructure Support
8 13 (8.84%) Analyst
8 13 (8.84%) Support Analyst
9 12 (8.16%) Security Engineer
9 12 (8.16%) Senior
10 10 (6.80%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (6.12%) 2nd Line Support
12 8 (5.44%) Infrastructure Analyst
12 8 (5.44%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
12 8 (5.44%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
13 7 (4.76%) Collaboration Engineer
13 7 (4.76%) Consultant
13 7 (4.76%) Lead
13 7 (4.76%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.80%) XMPP
2 5 (3.40%) Node.js
3 3 (2.04%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (1.36%) 802.1X
4 2 (1.36%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.68%) Next.js
5 1 (0.68%) OAuth
5 1 (0.68%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.68%) OpenID
5 1 (0.68%) React
5 1 (0.68%) React Native
5 1 (0.68%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.24%) Driving Licence
2 14 (9.52%) Data Centre
3 12 (8.16%) Replication
4 11 (7.48%) Onboarding
5 10 (6.80%) FlexPod
5 10 (6.80%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (6.80%) Video Conferencing
6 7 (4.76%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 7 (4.76%) Security Posture
7 6 (4.08%) Fibre Optics
7 6 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (3.40%) Cloud Native
8 5 (3.40%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (2.72%) Digital Signage
9 4 (2.72%) Educational Technology
9 4 (2.72%) IoT
9 4 (2.72%) Mobile App
9 4 (2.72%) Video\Live Streaming
10 2 (1.36%) BYOD
10 2 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 59 (40.14%) Windows
2 49 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 22 (14.97%) Linux
4 9 (6.12%) Windows 10
5 8 (5.44%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (3.40%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (2.72%) Mac OS
7 4 (2.72%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (2.04%) VMS
9 2 (1.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (36.05%) Cybersecurity
2 34 (23.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 22 (14.97%) Continuous Improvement
3 22 (14.97%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (14.97%) Risk Management
4 21 (14.29%) ITIL
5 20 (13.61%) Customer Service
6 19 (12.93%) Cloud Security
6 19 (12.93%) Infrastructure as Code
6 19 (12.93%) Mentoring
7 17 (11.56%) Project Delivery
8 15 (10.20%) Data Management
9 14 (9.52%) Disaster Recovery
10 13 (8.84%) Collaborative Culture
10 13 (8.84%) Vulnerability Management
11 12 (8.16%) Performance Management
11 12 (8.16%) SIEM
12 11 (7.48%) Agile
12 11 (7.48%) Collaborative Working
13 10 (6.80%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 20 (13.61%) Python
2 11 (7.48%) Bash
3 9 (6.12%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.04%) SQL
5 2 (1.36%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.68%) C
6 1 (0.68%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.68%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (26.53%) Security Cleared
2 22 (14.97%) Degree
3 20 (13.61%) DV Cleared
4 17 (11.56%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (10.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (8.84%) SC Cleared
7 10 (6.80%) CISSP
8 9 (6.12%) CCNA
8 9 (6.12%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 8 (5.44%) Azure Certification
10 6 (4.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 6 (4.08%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (4.08%) CISM
11 4 (2.72%) AWS Certification
11 4 (2.72%) CCNP
11 4 (2.72%) MCSA
11 4 (2.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (2.04%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (2.04%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 2 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 37 (25.17%) Cyber Essentials
3 18 (12.24%) GDPR
3 18 (12.24%) NIST
4 13 (8.84%) GRC
5 12 (8.16%) PCI DSS
6 7 (4.76%) JSP 440
7 6 (4.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 6 (4.08%) ISO 9001
7 6 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 3 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (1.36%) SLA
10 1 (0.68%) COBIT
10 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.68%) NCSC
10 1 (0.68%) SOC 2
System Software
1 40 (27.21%) Active Directory
2 33 (22.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (19.73%) Hyper-V
4 8 (5.44%) vSphere
5 6 (4.08%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 6 (4.08%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (3.40%) VMware NSX
7 4 (2.72%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (2.04%) Docker
9 1 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (17.69%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (12.93%) Ansible
3 16 (10.88%) Grafana
4 15 (10.20%) Terraform
5 10 (6.80%) Cisco CUCM
6 7 (4.76%) FortiGate
7 6 (4.08%) Prometheus
8 5 (3.40%) Kubernetes
9 4 (2.72%) Iperf
10 3 (2.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (1.36%) Puppet
11 2 (1.36%) SCCM
12 1 (0.68%) CASB
12 1 (0.68%) Host Intrusion Detection System
12 1 (0.68%) Nagios
12 1 (0.68%) Oracle RMAN
12 1 (0.68%) Proxmox
12 1 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 74 (50.34%) Microsoft
2 41 (27.89%) VMware
3 30 (20.41%) Cisco
4 25 (17.01%) Fortinet
5 17 (11.56%) Palo Alto
6 14 (9.52%) Veeam
7 10 (6.80%) Splunk
8 8 (5.44%) Aruba
8 8 (5.44%) NetApp
9 5 (3.40%) Apple
9 5 (3.40%) Dell
9 5 (3.40%) Google
10 4 (2.72%) ConnectWise
10 4 (2.72%) Datto
10 4 (2.72%) Draytek
10 4 (2.72%) F5
10 4 (2.72%) Oracle
10 4 (2.72%) Ruckus Wireless
10 4 (2.72%) SonicWALL
10 4 (2.72%) Ubiquiti