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 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 69 88
Rank change year-on-year -8 +19 +26
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 27 31 24
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 2.56% 2.73% 2.32%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 27.55% 29.25% 19.83%
Number of salaries quoted 5 13 22
10th Percentile £52,100 £35,250 £30,250
25th Percentile £60,500 £45,750 £37,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 £54,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +36.70% +14.74% -1.04%
75th Percentile £77,750 £95,000 £71,500
90th Percentile £82,250 - £72,433
Scotland median annual salary £67,000 £41,250 £53,750
% change year-on-year +62.42% -23.26% +15.59%

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 98 106 121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 9.31% 9.32% 11.68%
Number of salaries quoted 60 48 107
10th Percentile £26,418 £30,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,750 £49,254 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -37.57% +23.13% -29.20%
75th Percentile £54,000 £74,144 £66,035
90th Percentile £78,790 £88,000 £72,433
Scotland median annual salary £30,500 £47,500 £28,000
% change year-on-year -35.79% +69.64% -44.00%

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
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 9 January 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:

Cloud Services
1 26 (96.30%) Azure
2 6 (22.22%) AWS
2 6 (22.22%) GCP
3 5 (18.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (14.81%) Azure App Service
4 4 (14.81%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (14.81%) GitHub
5 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 23 (85.19%) LAN
2 22 (81.48%) WAN
3 21 (77.78%) Wireless
4 16 (59.26%) SD-WAN
4 16 (59.26%) Wireshark
5 5 (18.52%) DNS
5 5 (18.52%) VPN
6 4 (14.81%) BGP
6 4 (14.81%) MPLS
7 3 (11.11%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (3.70%) DHCP
8 1 (3.70%) Network Security
8 1 (3.70%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) JIRA
General
1 21 (77.78%) Finance
1 21 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 16 (59.26%) Telecoms
3 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.70%) Law
Job Titles
1 15 (55.56%) Network Engineer
2 7 (25.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Analyst
4 4 (14.81%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Network Analyst
4 4 (14.81%) Network Support
4 4 (14.81%) Network Support Analyst
4 4 (14.81%) Senior
4 4 (14.81%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Support Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) Architect
5 1 (3.70%) Lead
5 1 (3.70%) Lead Network Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Network Architect
Miscellaneous
1 19 (70.37%) Data Centre
2 16 (59.26%) Management Information System
3 5 (18.52%) Public Cloud
4 4 (14.81%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (14.81%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.81%) VMS
2 1 (3.70%) Linux
2 1 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (74.07%) Asset Management
1 20 (74.07%) Coaching
1 20 (74.07%) Load Balancing
2 16 (59.26%) Capacity Planning
2 16 (59.26%) Change Management
2 16 (59.26%) Customer Service
2 16 (59.26%) Network Monitoring
2 16 (59.26%) Network Planning
2 16 (59.26%) Network Virtualisation
2 16 (59.26%) Problem Management
3 10 (37.04%) CI/CD
3 10 (37.04%) DevOps
4 9 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (18.52%) Observability
5 5 (18.52%) Product Roadmap
5 5 (18.52%) Roadmaps
6 4 (14.81%) Cloud Operations
6 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (14.81%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 8 (29.63%) PowerShell
1 8 (29.63%) Python
2 4 (14.81%) Bicep
2 4 (14.81%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.70%) CCIE
1 1 (3.70%) CCNP
1 1 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (3.70%) Degree
1 1 (3.70%) JNCIP
System Software
1 5 (18.52%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.70%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 9 (33.33%) Terraform
2 5 (18.52%) Ansible
2 5 (18.52%) Grafana
2 5 (18.52%) Kubernetes
2 5 (18.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (77.78%) SolarWinds
2 17 (62.96%) CheckPoint
2 17 (62.96%) Palo Alto
3 16 (59.26%) Cisco
3 16 (59.26%) Meraki
4 5 (18.52%) F5
4 5 (18.52%) Splunk
5 4 (14.81%) Fortinet
5 4 (14.81%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.70%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (3.70%) Google