SmoothWall Job Trends

SmoothWall
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring SmoothWall skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 655 740 729
Rank change year-on-year +85 -11 +383
Permanent jobs citing SmoothWall 11 2 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.022% 0.003% 0.015%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.23% 0.031% 0.097%
Number of salaries quoted 11 0 8
10th Percentile - - £32,500
25th Percentile £28,000 - £38,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,000 - £41,250
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.13%
75th Percentile £39,375 - £52,813
90th Percentile £48,750 - £61,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £31,500 - £41,000
% change year-on-year - - +2.50%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

SmoothWall falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,870 6,515 8,207
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.60% 9.57% 15.44%
Number of salaries quoted 3,226 3,884 6,723
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,520 £35,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £48,750 £46,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,250 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.74% +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £102,500 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.43% - +4.55%

SmoothWall
Job Vacancy Trend

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

SmoothWall job vacancy trend in the UK

SmoothWall
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SmoothWall.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SmoothWall

SmoothWall
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SmoothWall over the 6 months to 7 November 2025.

Salary histogram for SmoothWall in the UK

SmoothWall
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SmoothWall within the UK over the 6 months to 7 November 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
England - 10 £31,000 - 5
UK excluding London +67 8 £31,500 - 3
Work from Home - 5 £28,000 -
North of England - 4 £28,000 -
North West - 4 £28,000 -
London - 2 £31,000 - 2
South West - 2 £47,500 -
West Midlands - 1 £42,500 -
Midlands - 1 £42,500 -
South East - 1 £35,000 - 3

SmoothWall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (81.82%) Azure
3 4 (36.36%) Google Workspace
4 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
4 2 (18.18%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) LAN
1 6 (54.55%) WAN
2 5 (45.45%) VoIP
3 2 (18.18%) Firewall
3 2 (18.18%) SAN
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Advertising
3 2 (18.18%) Local Government
3 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) IT Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Service Desk Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Field Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) IT Support
4 2 (18.18%) IT Support Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Support Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) 1st Line Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) IT Manager
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Social Media
2 2 (18.18%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 10 (90.91%) Windows
2 4 (36.36%) Windows Server
3 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) ITIL
2 6 (54.55%) Customer Service
3 5 (45.45%) Network Management
4 4 (36.36%) Kalman Filter
4 4 (36.36%) Web Filtering
5 3 (27.27%) Data Protection
6 2 (18.18%) AI
6 2 (18.18%) Analytics
6 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (18.18%) Decision Intelligence
6 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (18.18%) Project Management
6 2 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (18.18%) Service Management
6 2 (18.18%) Systems Engineering
6 2 (18.18%) Tech Ops
6 2 (18.18%) User Experience
7 1 (9.09%) IT Strategy
7 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (90.91%) DBS Check
2 4 (36.36%) Degree
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 8 (72.73%) Active Directory
2 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (81.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (54.55%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) Microsoft
2 8 (72.73%) Cisco
3 6 (54.55%) Meraki
4 4 (36.36%) Google
5 2 (18.18%) EMC
5 2 (18.18%) Palo Alto
5 2 (18.18%) VMware