Firewall Job Trends in Taunton

Firewall
Somerset > Taunton

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Taunton requiring Firewall skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 6 -
Rank change year-on-year -6 - -
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 6 5 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Taunton 7.50% 20.83% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 66.67% 83.33% -
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 - -
75th Percentile £34,125 - -
90th Percentile £34,250 - -
Somerset median annual salary £33,000 £32,500 £54,193
% change year-on-year +1.54% -40.03% +11.17%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Taunton

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 Taunton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 9 6 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Taunton 11.25% 25.00% -
Number of salaries quoted 9 1 0
10th Percentile £30,550 - -
25th Percentile £31,250 £48,750 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £52,500 -
Median % change year-on-year -38.10% - -
75th Percentile £34,250 £56,250 -
90th Percentile £46,000 - -
Somerset median annual salary £32,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -27.78% - -

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Firewall relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Taunton.

Firewall job vacancy trend in Taunton

Firewall
Salary Trend in Taunton

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing Firewall.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing Firewall

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Taunton 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 6 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (100.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
1 6 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (50.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) DKIM
1 6 (100.00%) DMARC
2 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
General
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) 2nd Line Support
1 4 (66.67%) IT Support
2 3 (50.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Analyst
2 3 (50.00%) IT Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Support Analyst
2 3 (50.00%) Support Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Technical Analyst
3 2 (33.33%) Technical Support
3 2 (33.33%) Technical Support Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) IT Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) IT Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (83.33%) ITIL
3 3 (50.00%) Process Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft