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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 56 72
Rank change year-on-year -1 +16 +38
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 21 33 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.77% 2.62% 2.88%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 34.43% 24.63% 23.40%
Number of salaries quoted 5 14 28
10th Percentile £46,350 £32,375 £29,025
25th Percentile £46,500 £43,313 £30,383
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +37.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £62,500 £86,250 £73,710
90th Percentile £82,000 £95,000 £106,289
Scotland median annual salary £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +5.88% -11.46%

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 61 134 141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 8.05% 10.63% 12.29%
Number of salaries quoted 28 82 111
10th Percentile £25,684 £32,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £46,563 £29,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £60,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +26.32% -4.76%
75th Percentile £54,750 £74,786 £77,715
90th Percentile £78,014 £80,000 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £26,150 £50,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year -47.70% +42.86% -26.62%

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

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 16 September 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:

Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.76%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 15 (71.43%) Azure
2 5 (23.81%) AWS
3 4 (19.05%) Azure App Service
3 4 (19.05%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (19.05%) GCP
3 4 (19.05%) GitHub
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (4.76%) IaaS
4 1 (4.76%) PaaS
4 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (52.38%) LAN
1 11 (52.38%) WAN
2 8 (38.10%) SD-WAN
2 8 (38.10%) VPN
2 8 (38.10%) Wireless
3 7 (33.33%) Wireshark
4 5 (23.81%) DNS
5 3 (14.29%) Network Security
6 2 (9.52%) BGP
7 1 (4.76%) 802.11
7 1 (4.76%) DHCP
7 1 (4.76%) HSRP
7 1 (4.76%) IPsec
7 1 (4.76%) OSPF
7 1 (4.76%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
7 1 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) JIRA
General
1 13 (61.90%) Finance
2 10 (47.62%) Social Skills
3 7 (33.33%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Law
4 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) Cloud Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) Network Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) Analyst
3 5 (23.81%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) Network Analyst
3 5 (23.81%) Network Support
3 5 (23.81%) Network Support Analyst
3 5 (23.81%) Senior
3 5 (23.81%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) Support Analyst
4 4 (19.05%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Firewall Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Lead
6 1 (4.76%) LAN Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Web Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Web Support Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Wireless Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) 802.1X
1 1 (4.76%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 9 (42.86%) Data Centre
2 7 (33.33%) Management Information System
3 2 (9.52%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (9.52%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.76%) Mainframe
4 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) VMS
2 1 (4.76%) Linux
2 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) Asset Management
1 11 (52.38%) Coaching
2 9 (42.86%) Change Management
3 8 (38.10%) Capacity Planning
3 8 (38.10%) Customer Service
3 8 (38.10%) DevOps
3 8 (38.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 7 (33.33%) Load Balancing
4 7 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
4 7 (33.33%) Network Planning
4 7 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
4 7 (33.33%) Problem Management
5 6 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (28.57%) Migration
6 5 (23.81%) Roadmaps
7 4 (19.05%) Cloud Operations
7 4 (19.05%) Identity Access Management
7 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Automation
7 4 (19.05%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 4 (19.05%) Bicep
1 4 (19.05%) PowerShell
1 4 (19.05%) Python
1 4 (19.05%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) CCNP
1 4 (19.05%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (9.52%) CCNA
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.76%) CISM
3 1 (4.76%) CISSP
3 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.76%) NCSC
1 1 (4.76%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (23.81%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.76%) Firmware
2 1 (4.76%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (4.76%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (23.81%) Kubernetes
1 5 (23.81%) Terraform
2 2 (9.52%) Ansible
3 1 (4.76%) FortiGate
3 1 (4.76%) Grafana
3 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (52.38%) Cisco
2 8 (38.10%) SolarWinds
3 7 (33.33%) CheckPoint
3 7 (33.33%) Meraki
3 7 (33.33%) Palo Alto
4 4 (19.05%) Fortinet
5 1 (4.76%) F5
5 1 (4.76%) Google
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.76%) Splunk
5 1 (4.76%) Symantec
5 1 (4.76%) VMware