Firewall Job Trends in Edinburgh

Firewall
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Firewall skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 53 63
Rank change year-on-year -11 +10 +12
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 10 25 33
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.86% 3.24% 2.60%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.29% 38.46% 25.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 15
10th Percentile - £46,375 £32,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £47,625 £44,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% +3.64% +37.50%
75th Percentile £58,750 £73,938 £95,000
90th Percentile - £86,375 -
Scotland median annual salary £43,500 £37,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +16.00% -16.67% +5.88%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 70 65 132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 5.99% 8.43% 10.39%
Number of salaries quoted 40 30 82
10th Percentile £26,750 £25,684 £32,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £28,250 £46,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £51,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% -15.00% +27.38%
75th Percentile £55,938 £54,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £74,607 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £37,500 £26,968 £52,500
% change year-on-year +39.05% -48.63% +75.00%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Firewall job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Firewall
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Firewall.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Firewall

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (10.00%) GitHub
1 1 (10.00%) IaaS
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (90.00%) Network Security
2 7 (70.00%) VLAN
3 3 (30.00%) DNS
4 2 (20.00%) DHCP
4 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (20.00%) VPN
4 2 (20.00%) WAN
5 1 (10.00%) BGP
5 1 (10.00%) BIG-IP
5 1 (10.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (10.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (10.00%) IPsec
5 1 (10.00%) LAN
5 1 (10.00%) OSPF
5 1 (10.00%) SD-WAN
5 1 (10.00%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 8 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Security Engineer
1 7 (70.00%) Senior
1 7 (70.00%) Senior Security Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (10.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 7 (70.00%) BCP
2 7 (70.00%) Business Continuity
2 7 (70.00%) Business Continuity Planning
2 7 (70.00%) Capacity Planning
2 7 (70.00%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (70.00%) Decision-Making
2 7 (70.00%) Economics
2 7 (70.00%) Network Architecture
2 7 (70.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (20.00%) Agile
3 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (10.00%) ITIL
4 1 (10.00%) Kalman Filter
4 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery
4 1 (10.00%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) ActionScript
2 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Ansible
1 1 (10.00%) FortiGate
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco
1 1 (10.00%) F5
1 1 (10.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (10.00%) Meraki
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft