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 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 78 74
Rank change year-on-year +4 -4 +29
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 23 16 35
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 1.94% 1.62% 2.77%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 24.47% 17.98% 23.03%
Number of salaries quoted 10 12 32
10th Percentile - £37,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £21,250 £46,985 £32,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £61,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -46.72% +43.53% -27.37%
75th Percentile £74,625 £95,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,500 - -
Scotland median annual salary £40,000 £38,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.23% -22.50% -

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 94 89 152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 7.91% 9.02% 12.02%
Number of salaries quoted 54 64 131
10th Percentile £24,750 £26,625 £27,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £41,438 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £49,254 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -38.08% -1.49% -13.04%
75th Percentile £54,000 £76,233 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,790 £130,910 £70,000
Scotland median annual salary £31,500 £47,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -33.68% +11.76% -19.05%

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
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 10 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Firewall in Edinburgh

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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (21.74%) Exchange Server 2007
1 5 (21.74%) Exchange Server 2010
1 5 (21.74%) Exchange Server 2013
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 21 (91.30%) Azure
2 5 (21.74%) Entra ID
2 5 (21.74%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (21.74%) SaaS
3 4 (17.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (17.39%) AWS
3 4 (17.39%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 17 (73.91%) LAN
1 17 (73.91%) Wireless
2 16 (69.57%) WAN
3 12 (52.17%) SD-WAN
3 12 (52.17%) Wireshark
4 5 (21.74%) DHCP
4 5 (21.74%) DNS
4 5 (21.74%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (17.39%) BGP
5 4 (17.39%) MPLS
6 3 (13.04%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (4.35%) Network Security
7 1 (4.35%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) JIRA
General
1 17 (73.91%) Social Skills
2 12 (52.17%) Finance
2 12 (52.17%) Telecoms
3 5 (21.74%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (69.57%) Network Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) IT Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) IT Support
2 5 (21.74%) IT Support Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Junior
2 5 (21.74%) Junior IT Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Junior IT Support
2 5 (21.74%) Junior Support Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Remote Support Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Support Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Architect
3 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Lead
3 1 (4.35%) Lead Network Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Network Architect
Miscellaneous
1 15 (65.22%) Data Centre
2 12 (52.17%) Management Information System
3 5 (21.74%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (21.74%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (17.39%) Product Ownership
4 4 (17.39%) Public Cloud
5 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 5 (21.74%) Windows
1 5 (21.74%) Windows Server
1 5 (21.74%) Windows Server 2008
1 5 (21.74%) Windows Server 2012
1 5 (21.74%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (73.91%) Load Balancing
2 12 (52.17%) Asset Management
2 12 (52.17%) Capacity Planning
2 12 (52.17%) Change Management
2 12 (52.17%) Coaching
2 12 (52.17%) Customer Service
2 12 (52.17%) Network Monitoring
2 12 (52.17%) Network Planning
2 12 (52.17%) Network Virtualisation
2 12 (52.17%) Problem Management
3 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (21.74%) Data Protection
4 5 (21.74%) Server Virtualisation
5 4 (17.39%) CI/CD
5 4 (17.39%) DevOps
5 4 (17.39%) Observability
5 4 (17.39%) People Management
5 4 (17.39%) Product Roadmap
5 4 (17.39%) Roadmaps
6 3 (13.04%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 4 (17.39%) PowerShell
1 4 (17.39%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) CCNP
1 2 (8.70%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.35%) CCIE
2 1 (4.35%) CCNA
2 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.35%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) JNCIP
System Software
1 5 (21.74%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) Ansible
1 4 (17.39%) Grafana
1 4 (17.39%) Prometheus
1 4 (17.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (69.57%) SolarWinds
2 14 (60.87%) CheckPoint
3 13 (56.52%) Cisco
3 13 (56.52%) Palo Alto
4 12 (52.17%) Meraki
5 6 (26.09%) F5
6 5 (21.74%) Dell
6 5 (21.74%) Fortinet
6 5 (21.74%) HP
6 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
7 4 (17.39%) ServiceNow
7 4 (17.39%) Splunk
8 1 (4.35%) Extreme Networks