Firewall Contracts in Edinburgh

Firewall
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Firewall skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Firewall over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 54 62
Rank change year-on-year +8 +8 +11
Contract jobs citing Firewall 21 18 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.36% 2.21% 3.84%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 33.87% 21.18% 43.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 41
10th Percentile £355 £432 £415
25th Percentile £409 £438 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.38% +10.53% +3.54%
75th Percentile £554 £634 £519
90th Percentile £644 - £538
Scotland median daily rate £425 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -19.05% +10.53% +2.70%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Edinburgh

Firewall falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 62 85 114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 9.92% 10.43% 8.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 45 77
10th Percentile £176 £178 £163
25th Percentile £245 £240 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% +4.40%
75th Percentile £544 £646 £525
90th Percentile £595 £750 £575
Scotland median daily rate £425 £525 £463
% change year-on-year -19.05% +13.51% +2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 14 2
10th Percentile - £14.33 £24.08
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £28.32
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.27 £36.63
Median % change year-on-year +20.42% -50.12% -22.88%
75th Percentile £23.53 £52.06 £46.19
90th Percentile £32.36 £60.75 £51.18
Scotland median hourly rate £22.00 £22.14 £10.63
% change year-on-year -0.61% +108.23% -77.62%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Edinburgh

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Firewall in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Edinburgh

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Edinburgh

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Firewall in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Edinburgh

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 1 (4.76%) IIS
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 5 (23.81%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 7 (33.33%) Azure
2 6 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (23.81%) Power Platform
4 3 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (14.29%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 3 (14.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 3 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 3 (14.29%) AWS
4 3 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (14.29%) AWS CodeBuild
4 3 (14.29%) AWS CodeDeploy
4 3 (14.29%) AWS CodePipeline
4 3 (14.29%) AWS Fargate
4 3 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (14.29%) OpenShift
4 3 (14.29%) Route 53
4 3 (14.29%) Serverless
5 1 (4.76%) PaaS
5 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (28.57%) LAN
2 5 (23.81%) Network Security
3 4 (19.05%) IPsec
3 4 (19.05%) VPN
3 4 (19.05%) WAN
4 3 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (14.29%) SD-WAN
4 3 (14.29%) Unified Communications
4 3 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (9.52%) WLAN
6 1 (4.76%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (4.76%) DHCP
6 1 (4.76%) DNS
6 1 (4.76%) Internet
6 1 (4.76%) MPLS
6 1 (4.76%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (4.76%) SSL
6 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.76%) InfluxDB
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Git
2 2 (9.52%) Artifactory
2 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (47.62%) Public Sector
2 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Finance
3 1 (4.76%) Legal
3 1 (4.76%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Security Specialist
3 3 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 3 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Compliance Manager
4 1 (4.76%) ICT Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) IT Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Lead
4 1 (4.76%) Network Field Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) NOC Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Security Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Telephony Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Workstream Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) AWS CDK
2 1 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (4.76%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) PKI
2 4 (19.05%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (19.05%) Data Centre
3 3 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (9.52%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (9.52%) Security Posture
5 1 (4.76%) Client/Server
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
5 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
5 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (38.10%) Windows
1 8 (38.10%) Windows Server
2 4 (19.05%) Linux
3 3 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (9.52%) Ubuntu
4 2 (9.52%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (4.76%) Solaris
5 1 (4.76%) Unix
5 1 (4.76%) Windows 10
5 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) Agile
2 6 (28.57%) Kalman Filter
3 5 (23.81%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (23.81%) Email Filtering
3 5 (23.81%) Risk Assessment
4 4 (19.05%) Network Monitoring
4 4 (19.05%) Threat Modelling
5 3 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 3 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 3 (14.29%) Data Protection
5 3 (14.29%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 3 (14.29%) High Availability
5 3 (14.29%) Load Balancing
5 3 (14.29%) Migration
5 3 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (14.29%) Roadmaps
5 3 (14.29%) Security Operations
5 3 (14.29%) Security Testing
5 3 (14.29%) Service Management
5 3 (14.29%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (14.29%) Bash
1 3 (14.29%) Python
2 2 (9.52%) Groovy
3 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) Degree
2 3 (14.29%) CCNA
2 3 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.76%) CCNP
3 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (4.76%) MCSE
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.76%) PMO
2 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 7 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 6 (28.57%) Hyper-V
3 3 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (9.52%) VMware NSX
5 1 (4.76%) Terminal Services
5 1 (4.76%) Xen
Systems Management
1 6 (28.57%) SCCM
2 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (9.52%) Ansible
3 2 (9.52%) Grafana
3 2 (9.52%) Kibana
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) Cisco
2 4 (19.05%) F5
2 4 (19.05%) Fortinet
2 4 (19.05%) Palo Alto
3 3 (14.29%) VMware
4 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.76%) Aruba
5 1 (4.76%) Avaya
5 1 (4.76%) CheckPoint
5 1 (4.76%) Citrix
5 1 (4.76%) Commvault
5 1 (4.76%) Dell
5 1 (4.76%) Genesys
5 1 (4.76%) HP
5 1 (4.76%) Imperva
5 1 (4.76%) Meraki
5 1 (4.76%) MuleSoft
5 1 (4.76%) Oracle
5 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.76%) SonicWALL