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 27 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 31 53
Rank change year-on-year -86 +22 -7
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 145 213 264
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.39% 5.98% 3.65%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 21.51% 36.85% 34.11%
Number of salaries quoted 91 176 167
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,375 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £34,250 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.79% -19.41% -8.60%
75th Percentile £60,625 £50,250 £61,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £58,750 £73,500
England median annual salary £52,250 £47,500 £50,024
% change year-on-year +10.00% -5.04% -4.72%

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 674 578 774
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 6.48% 16.23% 10.70%
Number of salaries quoted 371 363 453
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,165 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £34,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.19% -31.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £52,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £63,600 £82,250
England median annual salary £49,500 £40,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year +22.98% -19.50% -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 27 September 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 27 September 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 -12 43 £50,000 +44.93% 20
Gloucestershire -43 38 £40,000 -27.27% 25
Devon -29 24 £32,500 +3.17% 4
Bristol -69 22 £69,500 +46.32% 5
Somerset -36 8 £50,000 +49.25% 22
Dorset -31 1 £60,000 +93.55% 2
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 35 (24.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (15.17%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (6.90%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.69%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 61 (42.07%) Microsoft 365
2 59 (40.69%) Azure
3 37 (25.52%) Entra ID
4 34 (23.45%) AWS
5 11 (7.59%) Serverless
6 6 (4.14%) OCI
7 5 (3.45%) IaaS
7 5 (3.45%) PaaS
8 4 (2.76%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.76%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (2.76%) GCP
9 3 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.07%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (1.38%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.38%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.38%) Stripe
11 1 (0.69%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (0.69%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (0.69%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 46 (31.72%) DNS
2 44 (30.34%) WAN
3 41 (28.28%) VLAN
3 41 (28.28%) VPN
4 40 (27.59%) Network Security
5 35 (24.14%) DHCP
5 35 (24.14%) LAN
6 21 (14.48%) TCP/IP
7 17 (11.72%) VoIP
8 16 (11.03%) BGP
8 16 (11.03%) Wi-Fi
9 14 (9.66%) SD-WAN
10 11 (7.59%) Wireless
11 10 (6.90%) WLAN
12 8 (5.52%) Cisco ASA
12 8 (5.52%) DMZ
13 6 (4.14%) Cisco Firepower
13 6 (4.14%) Ethernet VPN
13 6 (4.14%) NGFW
13 6 (4.14%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.52%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.69%) DocumentDB
3 1 (0.69%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.69%) MySQL
3 1 (0.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (2.76%) GitLab
2 3 (2.07%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.69%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.69%) Git
3 1 (0.69%) git-flow
3 1 (0.69%) Postman
3 1 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 49 (33.79%) Social Skills
2 27 (18.62%) Finance
3 22 (15.17%) Public Sector
4 11 (7.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (6.90%) Aerospace
5 10 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (6.90%) Retail
6 9 (6.21%) Telecoms
7 5 (3.45%) Banking
7 5 (3.45%) Law
7 5 (3.45%) Marketing
8 4 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.69%) Aviation
9 1 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (26.21%) Support Engineer
2 34 (23.45%) IT Engineer
3 32 (22.07%) IT Support
4 28 (19.31%) IT Support Engineer
5 22 (15.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 19 (13.10%) Infrastructure Support
6 19 (13.10%) Network Engineer
7 17 (11.72%) Senior
8 13 (8.97%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 12 (8.28%) Architect
9 12 (8.28%) Security Engineer
10 10 (6.90%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (6.21%) Technical Support
12 8 (5.52%) Analyst
12 8 (5.52%) Support Analyst
13 7 (4.83%) Consultant
13 7 (4.83%) Technical Engineer
13 7 (4.83%) Technical Support Engineer
14 6 (4.14%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
14 6 (4.14%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (11.72%) Terraform
2 5 (3.45%) Apache NiFi
2 5 (3.45%) Node.js
2 5 (3.45%) XMPP
3 3 (2.07%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.38%) 802.1X
4 2 (1.38%) OAuth
4 2 (1.38%) OAuth2
4 2 (1.38%) OpenID
4 2 (1.38%) SAML
5 1 (0.69%) Next.js
5 1 (0.69%) React
5 1 (0.69%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.72%) Driving Licence
2 15 (10.34%) Data Centre
3 7 (4.83%) Onboarding
4 6 (4.14%) Cloud Native
4 6 (4.14%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 6 (4.14%) Fibre Optics
4 6 (4.14%) Replication
4 6 (4.14%) Security Posture
4 6 (4.14%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (3.45%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (3.45%) FlexPod
5 5 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (3.45%) Video Conferencing
6 4 (2.76%) Private Cloud
7 3 (2.07%) PKI
7 3 (2.07%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.38%) Blog
8 2 (1.38%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.69%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 56 (38.62%) Windows
2 44 (30.34%) Windows Server
3 18 (12.41%) Linux
4 6 (4.14%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (3.45%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (2.76%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (2.07%) Unix
7 3 (2.07%) VMS
8 1 (0.69%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (39.31%) Cybersecurity
2 30 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
2 30 (20.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 23 (15.86%) Project Delivery
4 22 (15.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (15.17%) Mentoring
5 19 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (12.41%) Disaster Recovery
6 18 (12.41%) ITIL
6 18 (12.41%) Risk Management
7 15 (10.34%) Agile
7 15 (10.34%) Collaborative Culture
7 15 (10.34%) Customer Service
8 14 (9.66%) Preventative Maintenance
9 13 (8.97%) Collaborative Working
9 13 (8.97%) Migration
10 12 (8.28%) Change Management
11 11 (7.59%) Data Management
11 11 (7.59%) Network Monitoring
11 11 (7.59%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 21 (14.48%) Python
2 16 (11.03%) Bash
3 10 (6.90%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.07%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.38%) SQL
6 1 (0.69%) C
6 1 (0.69%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 45 (31.03%) Security Cleared
2 26 (17.93%) DV Cleared
3 20 (13.79%) Degree
4 15 (10.34%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (8.97%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (8.28%) SC Cleared
7 7 (4.83%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (4.83%) CCNA
8 5 (3.45%) Azure Certification
8 5 (3.45%) CISSP
9 4 (2.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (2.76%) AWS Certification
9 4 (2.76%) CISM
9 4 (2.76%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 4 (2.76%) MCSA
9 4 (2.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (2.07%) CCNP
11 2 (1.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.69%) JNCIS
12 1 (0.69%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (22.07%) Cyber Essentials
1 32 (22.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (8.97%) NIST
3 11 (7.59%) GRC
4 9 (6.21%) GDPR
4 9 (6.21%) PCI DSS
5 6 (4.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 6 (4.14%) ISO 9001
5 6 (4.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 6 (4.14%) JSP 440
6 3 (2.07%) NCSC
7 2 (1.38%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 2 (1.38%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (25.52%) Active Directory
2 34 (23.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (22.76%) Hyper-V
4 6 (4.14%) VMware NSX
5 5 (3.45%) Docker
6 4 (2.76%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (2.76%) vSphere
7 2 (1.38%) Firmware
7 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 2 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.38%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.69%) KVM
8 1 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 22 (15.17%) Ansible
2 21 (14.48%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (8.28%) Grafana
3 12 (8.28%) Kubernetes
4 7 (4.83%) Prometheus
5 6 (4.14%) FortiGate
6 5 (3.45%) Cisco CUCM
7 4 (2.76%) Iperf
8 3 (2.07%) Puppet
8 3 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (1.38%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.69%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 71 (48.97%) Microsoft
2 35 (24.14%) VMware
3 27 (18.62%) Cisco
4 19 (13.10%) Fortinet
5 15 (10.34%) Palo Alto
5 15 (10.34%) Veeam
6 10 (6.90%) Aruba
7 6 (4.14%) Dell
8 5 (3.45%) F5
8 5 (3.45%) Infoblox
8 5 (3.45%) SonicWALL
8 5 (3.45%) Splunk
9 4 (2.76%) ConnectWise
9 4 (2.76%) Datto
9 4 (2.76%) Draytek
9 4 (2.76%) Meraki
9 4 (2.76%) Oracle
9 4 (2.76%) Ruckus Wireless
9 4 (2.76%) Ubiquiti
10 3 (2.07%) NetApp