Firewall Jobs in Edinburgh

Firewall
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Firewall skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Firewall over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 71 78
Rank change year-on-year +1 +7 +11
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 18 39 73
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.03% 2.61% 3.57%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 22.78% 19.12% 25.61%
Number of salaries quoted 12 30 29
10th Percentile £46,250 £31,250 £29,977
25th Percentile £46,985 £31,563 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,750 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +75.88% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £55,000 £62,833
90th Percentile - £70,000 £65,775
Scotland median annual salary £46,250 £50,000 £46,376
% change year-on-year -7.50% +7.82% +3.06%

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 79 204 285
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 8.91% 13.67% 13.96%
Number of salaries quoted 60 142 115
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £26,850
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,813 £36,885
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,250 £57,500 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.39% +1.77% +17.71%
75th Percentile £94,083 £65,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £146,300 £70,000 £88,000
Scotland median annual salary £33,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -34.00% - +4.17%

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
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for Firewall in Edinburgh

Firewall
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram 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 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (16.67%) Azure
3 2 (11.11%) GCP
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.56%) IaaS
4 1 (5.56%) PaaS
4 1 (5.56%) SaaS
4 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (50.00%) VPN
2 8 (44.44%) Network Security
3 4 (22.22%) LAN
4 3 (16.67%) WAN
5 2 (11.11%) DHCP
5 2 (11.11%) DNS
5 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
6 1 (5.56%) BGP
6 1 (5.56%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (5.56%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 7 (38.89%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Automotive
4 1 (5.56%) Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Lead
2 7 (38.89%) Cloud Engineer
2 7 (38.89%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 6 (33.33%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 6 (33.33%) Cloud Security Lead
3 6 (33.33%) Security Engineer
4 5 (27.78%) Analyst
5 3 (16.67%) Network Engineer
6 2 (11.11%) Firewall Engineer
6 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) Firewall Architect
7 1 (5.56%) Forensic Analyst
7 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) IT Technician
7 1 (5.56%) Lead Network Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) Senior IT Technician
7 1 (5.56%) Senior Technician
7 1 (5.56%) Web Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) Web Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 2 (11.11%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.56%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Windows
2 2 (11.11%) Linux
3 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 8 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (38.89%) Mentoring
3 7 (38.89%) Network Design
4 6 (33.33%) Cloud Security
4 6 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
4 6 (33.33%) Technology Transformation
4 6 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
5 5 (27.78%) Agile
5 5 (27.78%) DevOps
5 5 (27.78%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
7 3 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
7 3 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
7 3 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (16.67%) ITSM
8 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 2 (11.11%) ITIL
8 2 (11.11%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (5.56%) C#
2 1 (5.56%) Go
2 1 (5.56%) Java
2 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.56%) Perl
2 1 (5.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) CISM
1 7 (38.89%) CISSP
2 2 (11.11%) CCNP
2 2 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.56%) CEH
3 1 (5.56%) Degree
3 1 (5.56%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 6 (33.33%) NCSC
1 6 (33.33%) NIST
2 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
1 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (5.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) FortiGate
1 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Fortinet
1 3 (16.67%) ServiceNow
2 2 (11.11%) Cisco
2 2 (11.11%) VMware
3 1 (5.56%) F5
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle
3 1 (5.56%) Planview
3 1 (5.56%) Symantec