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

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 67 64
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 +33
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 15 36 70
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.71% 2.30% 4.07%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 22.06% 17.22% 32.86%
Number of salaries quoted 9 27 27
10th Percentile £46,250 - £28,550
25th Percentile £51,000 £31,250 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +111.11% +12.50% -15.79%
75th Percentile - £55,000 £62,833
90th Percentile - £70,000 £77,542
Scotland median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% -6.59%

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 68 209 213
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 7.75% 13.38% 12.38%
Number of salaries quoted 45 150 100
10th Percentile £26,188 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +0.80% +19.65%
75th Percentile £95,000 £65,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £146,300 £75,000 £80,255
Scotland median annual salary £25,087 £50,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year -49.83% -0.99% +5.21%

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 6 July 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 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) GCP
3 1 (6.67%) IaaS
3 1 (6.67%) PaaS
3 1 (6.67%) SaaS
3 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (53.33%) Network Security
1 8 (53.33%) VPN
2 2 (13.33%) BGP
2 2 (13.33%) LAN
2 2 (13.33%) WAN
3 1 (6.67%) 802.11
3 1 (6.67%) HSRP
3 1 (6.67%) IPsec
3 1 (6.67%) OSPF
3 1 (6.67%) SD-WAN
3 1 (6.67%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (6.67%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 6 (40.00%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Lead
2 6 (40.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 6 (40.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
2 6 (40.00%) Cloud Security Lead
2 6 (40.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
2 6 (40.00%) Security Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Analyst
4 3 (20.00%) Network Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Firewall Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Network Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) Network Architect
6 1 (6.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Network Support
6 1 (6.67%) Network Support Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) NOC Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Web Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) Web Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Web Support Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Wireless Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) 802.1X
1 1 (6.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (13.33%) Public Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Roadmaps
2 8 (53.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (46.67%) Network Design
4 6 (40.00%) Cloud Security
4 6 (40.00%) Mentoring
4 6 (40.00%) Strategic Roadmap
4 6 (40.00%) Technology Transformation
4 6 (40.00%) Threat Modelling
5 5 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (26.67%) Agile
6 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
6 4 (26.67%) DevOps
7 3 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
7 3 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (20.00%) ITSM
8 2 (13.33%) Change Management
8 2 (13.33%) Continuous Deployment
8 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (13.33%) ITIL
8 2 (13.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) CISM
1 6 (40.00%) CISSP
2 3 (20.00%) CCNP
2 3 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (6.67%) CCNA
3 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (40.00%) Accessibility
1 6 (40.00%) NCSC
1 6 (40.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Firmware
1 1 (6.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Ansible
1 1 (6.67%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Cisco
1 3 (20.00%) Fortinet
1 3 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (6.67%) F5
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Symantec
2 1 (6.67%) VMware