Firewall Contracts in Scotland

Firewall
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 73 67
Rank change year-on-year -8 -6 +23
Contract jobs citing Firewall 38 55 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.35% 2.48% 3.77%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 27.14% 22.09% 30.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 37 79
10th Percentile £313 £406 £400
25th Percentile £363 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +10.53% +2.70%
75th Percentile £488 £634 £527
90th Percentile £557 £680 £628
UK median daily rate £508 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -1.90% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £60.00 -
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £60.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year -38.93% -3.23% +39.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 140 249 355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 8.67% 11.22% 12.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 149 227
10th Percentile £200 £187 £160
25th Percentile £313 £363 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +13.51% +2.78%
75th Percentile £522 £626 £538
90th Percentile £550 £700 £600
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 18 21
10th Percentile - £15.43 -
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.69 -
Median hourly rate £22.00 £22.14 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year -0.61% +108.23% -77.62%
75th Percentile £23.53 £60.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £32.36 £60.75 £58.75
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £38.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -15.58% +102.63% -31.84%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Scotland

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Scotland

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Scotland over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Scotland

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Scotland

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +8 21 £486 -7.38% 11
Glasgow -3 7 £399 -27.45% 24
Aberdeen +2 4 £456 -27.00% 4
West Lothian +11 1 £188 - 2
Aberdeenshire - 1 £325 - 1
Firewall
UK

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (2.63%) IIS
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (7.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (13.16%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 12 (31.58%) Azure
2 9 (23.68%) AWS
3 6 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (13.16%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (13.16%) OpenShift
4 5 (13.16%) Power Platform
5 4 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (10.53%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (10.53%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 4 (10.53%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 4 (10.53%) Amazon S3
5 4 (10.53%) AWS CodeBuild
5 4 (10.53%) AWS CodeDeploy
5 4 (10.53%) AWS CodePipeline
5 4 (10.53%) AWS Fargate
5 4 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (10.53%) Route 53
5 4 (10.53%) Serverless
6 3 (7.89%) PaaS
7 2 (5.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (34.21%) LAN
1 13 (34.21%) Network Security
1 13 (34.21%) VPN
1 13 (34.21%) WAN
2 10 (26.32%) Wireless
3 9 (23.68%) Cisco Nexus
4 8 (21.05%) BGP
4 8 (21.05%) OSPF
4 8 (21.05%) SD-WAN
5 6 (15.79%) IPsec
6 5 (13.16%) Cisco ASA
7 4 (10.53%) Cisco Firepower
7 4 (10.53%) EIGRP
7 4 (10.53%) TCP/IP
7 4 (10.53%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (7.89%) Unified Communications
8 3 (7.89%) WLAN
9 2 (5.26%) Cisco Wireless
9 2 (5.26%) Internet
9 2 (5.26%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.89%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (5.26%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.26%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.63%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Git
2 3 (7.89%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.26%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.63%) GitLab
4 1 (2.63%) Gradle
4 1 (2.63%) Maven
General
1 12 (31.58%) Public Sector
2 8 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.53%) Finance
4 2 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.26%) Banking
4 2 (5.26%) Legal
5 1 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Law
5 1 (2.63%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 19 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 4 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (10.53%) Security Specialist
2 4 (10.53%) Senior
3 3 (7.89%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 3 (7.89%) Cisco Engineer
3 3 (7.89%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 3 (7.89%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 3 (7.89%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 3 (7.89%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (7.89%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) IT Engineer
5 1 (2.63%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (2.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.63%) ICT Analyst
5 1 (2.63%) IT Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (2.63%) IT Infrastructure Project Manager
5 1 (2.63%) Network Field Engineer
5 1 (2.63%) Telephony Architect
5 1 (2.63%) Workstream Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.53%) AWS CDK
2 2 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (5.26%) React
Miscellaneous
1 12 (31.58%) Data Centre
2 6 (15.79%) PKI
3 4 (10.53%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (7.89%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (7.89%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (7.89%) Security Posture
5 2 (5.26%) Cloud Native
5 2 (5.26%) Driving Licence
5 2 (5.26%) Management Information System
5 2 (5.26%) Operational Technology
6 1 (2.63%) Client/Server
6 1 (2.63%) Cyberattack
6 1 (2.63%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 1 (2.63%) IoT
6 1 (2.63%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.63%) SCADA
6 1 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (23.68%) Windows
1 9 (23.68%) Windows Server
2 4 (10.53%) Linux
3 3 (7.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (5.26%) Ubuntu
4 2 (5.26%) Unix
4 2 (5.26%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (2.63%) Solaris
5 1 (2.63%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.63%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (2.63%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (26.32%) Agile
2 9 (23.68%) Network Monitoring
3 6 (15.79%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (15.79%) Kalman Filter
3 6 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (13.16%) CI/CD
4 5 (13.16%) Email Filtering
4 5 (13.16%) ITIL
4 5 (13.16%) Risk Assessment
4 5 (13.16%) Threat Modelling
5 4 (10.53%) Containerisation
5 4 (10.53%) Network Design
5 4 (10.53%) Service Management
5 4 (10.53%) Test Automation
6 3 (7.89%) Data Protection
6 3 (7.89%) Kanban
6 3 (7.89%) Load Balancing
6 3 (7.89%) Roadmaps
6 3 (7.89%) Scrum
6 3 (7.89%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.53%) Bash
1 4 (10.53%) Python
2 2 (5.26%) Groovy
2 2 (5.26%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.63%) Go
3 1 (2.63%) Java
3 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.63%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (31.58%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (23.68%) CCNP
3 8 (21.05%) Degree
4 4 (10.53%) CCNA
5 3 (7.89%) Security Cleared
6 2 (5.26%) SC Cleared
7 1 (2.63%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.63%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (2.63%) MCSE
7 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.63%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.63%) NCSC
3 1 (2.63%) PMO
3 1 (2.63%) QA
System Software
1 7 (18.42%) Active Directory
2 6 (15.79%) Hyper-V
3 3 (7.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (5.26%) VMware NSX
5 1 (2.63%) Docker
5 1 (2.63%) Firmware
5 1 (2.63%) Terminal Services
5 1 (2.63%) Xen
Systems Management
1 6 (15.79%) SCCM
2 5 (13.16%) Kubernetes
3 4 (10.53%) FortiGate
4 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (5.26%) Ansible
5 2 (5.26%) Grafana
5 2 (5.26%) Kibana
6 1 (2.63%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (2.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (52.63%) Cisco
2 15 (39.47%) Palo Alto
3 7 (18.42%) Fortinet
4 6 (15.79%) F5
5 4 (10.53%) ServiceNow
6 3 (7.89%) Juniper
6 3 (7.89%) VMware
7 2 (5.26%) Aruba
7 2 (5.26%) Avaya
7 2 (5.26%) CheckPoint
7 2 (5.26%) Extreme Networks
7 2 (5.26%) Imperva
7 2 (5.26%) Microsoft
7 2 (5.26%) Oracle
8 1 (2.63%) AppDynamics
8 1 (2.63%) Citrix
8 1 (2.63%) Meraki
8 1 (2.63%) MuleSoft
8 1 (2.63%) SolarWinds
8 1 (2.63%) SonicWALL