SmoothWall Job Trends

SmoothWall
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring SmoothWall skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 663 793 772
Rank change year-on-year +130 -21 +429
Permanent jobs citing SmoothWall 13 3 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.026% 0.004% 0.008%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.24% 0.041% 0.056%
Number of salaries quoted 12 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £28,000 £38,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,533 £39,000 £41,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.58% -6.02% +10.67%
75th Percentile £45,000 £39,500 -
90th Percentile £48,750 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £32,533 £39,000 £41,500
% change year-on-year -16.58% -6.02% +3.75%

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 5,370 7,268 8,975
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.86% 9.31% 14.89%
Number of salaries quoted 3,167 4,455 7,234
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,000 £36,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,525
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.83% -7.08% +4.35%

SmoothWall
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SmoothWall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SmoothWall 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 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for SmoothWall in the UK

SmoothWall
Top 9 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 18 September 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
UK excluding London +125 13 £32,533 -16.58% 2
England +121 13 £32,533 -16.58% 2
Work from Home - 6 £37,750 -
East of England - 5 £32,533 -
North West - 4 £28,000 -
North of England - 4 £28,000 -
South West - 3 £47,500 - 1
Midlands +51 1 £42,500 +8.97%
West Midlands - 1 £42,500 -

SmoothWall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (38.46%) SharePoint
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) Azure
1 13 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (61.54%) Entra ID
3 3 (23.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (69.23%) LAN
1 9 (69.23%) WAN
2 8 (61.54%) VoIP
3 3 (23.08%) SAN
General
1 9 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 6 (46.15%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Local Government
3 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) IT Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) IT Support
2 5 (38.46%) IT Support Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Support Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) Service Desk Engineer
4 3 (23.08%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 3 (23.08%) Senior
4 3 (23.08%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 3 (23.08%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) 1st Line Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) IT Manager
Miscellaneous
1 9 (69.23%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 12 (92.31%) Windows
2 3 (23.08%) Windows Server
2 3 (23.08%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) ITIL
2 9 (69.23%) Customer Service
2 9 (69.23%) Kalman Filter
2 9 (69.23%) Web Filtering
3 8 (61.54%) Network Management
4 5 (38.46%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (23.08%) Analytics
5 3 (23.08%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (23.08%) Decision Intelligence
5 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (23.08%) Project Management
5 3 (23.08%) Service Management
5 3 (23.08%) Systems Engineering
6 1 (7.69%) Data Protection
6 1 (7.69%) IT Strategy
6 1 (7.69%) Line Management
6 1 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (92.31%) DBS Check
2 9 (69.23%) Degree
3 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 12 (92.31%) Active Directory
2 3 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (69.23%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (92.31%) Cisco
3 9 (69.23%) Meraki
4 3 (23.08%) EMC
4 3 (23.08%) Palo Alto
4 3 (23.08%) VMware