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 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 70 59
Rank change year-on-year -4 -11 +24
Contract jobs citing Firewall 46 51 122
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.63% 2.51% 4.46%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 23.83% 23.39% 34.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 34 79
10th Percentile £352 £371 £340
25th Percentile £399 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +2.63% -5.00%
75th Percentile £500 £588 £550
90th Percentile £580 £634 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -

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 193 218 356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 11.05% 10.73% 13.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 133 230
10th Percentile £200 £178 £160
25th Percentile £350 £230 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £465
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -8.50% +1.81%
75th Percentile £519 £575 £550
90th Percentile £550 £633 £614
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 14
10th Percentile - £12.38 £17.72
25th Percentile - £14.06 £18.02
Median hourly rate £17.30 £18.14 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.60% -44.20% -36.21%
75th Percentile £18.73 £24.19 £58.96
90th Percentile £33.35 £51.75 £60.09
UK median hourly rate £46.25 £40.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +15.63% -11.11% +55.17%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 +4 23 £450 -7.69% 19
Glasgow -12 12 £418 -7.22% 18
Aberdeen 0 5 £456 -27.00% 3
West Lothian 0 1 £188 - 2
Banffshire - 1 £190 - 2
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 (2.17%) IIS
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (6.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (8.70%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (2.17%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 21 (45.65%) Azure
2 14 (30.43%) AWS
3 9 (19.57%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (10.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (8.70%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (8.70%) Power Platform
6 3 (6.52%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.35%) OpenShift
7 2 (4.35%) PaaS
7 2 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (2.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (2.17%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 22 (47.83%) VPN
2 18 (39.13%) Network Security
3 15 (32.61%) LAN
3 15 (32.61%) WAN
4 12 (26.09%) Cisco Nexus
5 10 (21.74%) BGP
5 10 (21.74%) OSPF
5 10 (21.74%) SD-WAN
6 9 (19.57%) Wireless
7 8 (17.39%) IPsec
8 5 (10.87%) EIGRP
8 5 (10.87%) TCP/IP
8 5 (10.87%) Unified Communications
8 5 (10.87%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (8.70%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (8.70%) Cisco Firepower
9 4 (8.70%) WLAN
10 3 (6.52%) MPLS
10 3 (6.52%) VLAN
11 2 (4.35%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.35%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Gradle
1 2 (4.35%) Jenkins
1 2 (4.35%) Maven
General
1 14 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 10 (21.74%) Public Sector
3 6 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (13.04%) Finance
4 5 (10.87%) Legal
5 4 (8.70%) Banking
6 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Law
6 1 (2.17%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 21 (45.65%) Network Engineer
2 6 (13.04%) Senior
3 5 (10.87%) Architect
3 5 (10.87%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (10.87%) Senior Network Engineer
4 4 (8.70%) Enterprise Architect
5 3 (6.52%) Analyst
5 3 (6.52%) Field Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) IT Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Network Field Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (4.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 2 (4.35%) Cybersecurity Manager
6 2 (4.35%) Cybersecurity Specialist
6 2 (4.35%) Project Manager
6 2 (4.35%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.17%) 802.1X
1 1 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 13 (28.26%) Data Centre
2 6 (13.04%) PKI
3 4 (8.70%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (6.52%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (6.52%) Driving Licence
4 3 (6.52%) Operational Technology
5 2 (4.35%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.17%) Client/Server
6 1 (2.17%) Cyberattack
6 1 (2.17%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 1 (2.17%) IoT
6 1 (2.17%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (2.17%) PropTech
6 1 (2.17%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.17%) SCADA
6 1 (2.17%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.17%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 13 (28.26%) Windows
2 12 (26.09%) Windows Server
3 6 (13.04%) Linux
3 6 (13.04%) Unix
4 1 (2.17%) Solaris
4 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (23.91%) Cybersecurity
1 11 (23.91%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (19.57%) Network Monitoring
3 8 (17.39%) Agile
3 8 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (17.39%) High Availability
4 7 (15.22%) Cloud Security
4 7 (15.22%) ITIL
4 7 (15.22%) Service Delivery
5 6 (13.04%) Email Filtering
5 6 (13.04%) Kalman Filter
5 6 (13.04%) Roadmaps
5 6 (13.04%) Security Operations
6 5 (10.87%) CI/CD
6 5 (10.87%) DevOps
6 5 (10.87%) Load Balancing
6 5 (10.87%) Network Design
6 5 (10.87%) Observability
6 5 (10.87%) TDD
6 5 (10.87%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.35%) Go
1 2 (4.35%) Java
2 1 (2.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (28.26%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (23.91%) Degree
3 10 (21.74%) CCNP
4 5 (10.87%) CISSP
5 4 (8.70%) AWS Certification
5 4 (8.70%) Azure Certification
6 3 (6.52%) CCNA
6 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.35%) CISM
7 2 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (4.35%) CRISC
7 2 (4.35%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (4.35%) SC Cleared
7 2 (4.35%) Security Cleared
8 1 (2.17%) CEH
8 1 (2.17%) GIAC
8 1 (2.17%) OSCP
8 1 (2.17%) PCI QSA
8 1 (2.17%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.87%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (4.35%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.35%) QA
3 1 (2.17%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.17%) COBIT
3 1 (2.17%) NCSC
3 1 (2.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (15.22%) Active Directory
2 6 (13.04%) Hyper-V
3 2 (4.35%) Docker
4 1 (2.17%) Terminal Services
4 1 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (10.87%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (10.87%) SCCM
2 3 (6.52%) FortiGate
2 3 (6.52%) Terraform
3 2 (4.35%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.17%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (2.17%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 21 (45.65%) Cisco
2 17 (36.96%) Palo Alto
3 10 (21.74%) Microsoft
4 7 (15.22%) F5
5 5 (10.87%) AppDynamics
5 5 (10.87%) Fortinet
6 3 (6.52%) Juniper
6 3 (6.52%) Oracle
6 3 (6.52%) ServiceNow
7 2 (4.35%) Avaya
7 2 (4.35%) CheckPoint
7 2 (4.35%) Extreme Networks
7 2 (4.35%) Genesys
7 2 (4.35%) Meraki
7 2 (4.35%) SolarWinds
7 2 (4.35%) VMware
8 1 (2.17%) Citrix
8 1 (2.17%) Dell
8 1 (2.17%) Qualys
8 1 (2.17%) SonicWALL