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 17 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 17 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	62	58	70
Rank change year-on-year	-4	+12	+1
Permanent jobs citing Firewall	11	26	27
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh	0.92%	3.41%	2.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category	14.47%	36.11%	23.28%
Number of salaries quoted	1	3	10
10^th Percentile	-	£48,700	£41,750
25^th Percentile	£56,250	£52,000	£48,063
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£57,500	£60,000	£75,000
Median % change year-on-year	-4.17%	-20.00%	+87.50%
75^th Percentile	£58,750	£70,125	£95,000
90^th Percentile	-	£74,700	-
Scotland median annual salary	£43,500	£37,500	£45,000
% change year-on-year	+16.00%	-16.67%	+4.05%

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.

	6 months to 17 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills	76	72	116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh	6.34%	9.45%	9.32%
Number of salaries quoted	40	32	61
10^th Percentile	£26,750	£25,684	£35,000
25^th Percentile	£35,000	£28,250	£50,000
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£47,500	£51,000	£63,500
Median % change year-on-year	-6.86%	-19.69%	+39.40%
75^th Percentile	£55,938	£54,000	£80,000
90^th Percentile	£70,000	£73,082	-
Scotland median annual salary	£40,000	£30,000	£52,500
% change year-on-year	+33.33%	-42.86%	+87.50%

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 Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Firewall.

Firewall Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 17 October 2026, job vacancies citing Firewall also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Edinburgh region with a requirement for Firewall.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Network Security	90.9%	10
2	Vulnerability Remediation	72.7%	8
3	BCP	63.6%	7
3	Business Continuity	63.6%	7
3	Business Continuity Planning	63.6%	7
3	Capacity Planning	63.6%	7
3	Cybersecurity	63.6%	7
3	Decision-Making	63.6%	7
3	Economics	63.6%	7
3	Network Architecture	63.6%	7
3	Project Delivery	63.6%	7
3	VLAN	63.6%	7
13	DNS	36.4%	4
14	Agile	27.3%	3
14	CI/CD	27.3%	3
14	Infrastructure Engineering	27.3%	3
14	Problem-Solving	27.3%	3
14	Python	27.3%	3
19	ActionScript	18.2%	2
19	BIG-IP	18.2%	2
19	DHCP	18.2%	2
19	F5	18.2%	2
19	F5 BIG-IP GTM	18.2%	2
19	F5 BIG-IP LTM	18.2%	2
19	GitHub	18.2%	2
19	IaaS	18.2%	2
19	Jenkins	18.2%	2
19	JIRA	18.2%	2
19	TCP/IP	18.2%	2
19	VPN	18.2%	2

Firewall Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Communications & Networking

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Network Security	90.9%	10
2	VLAN	63.6%	7
3	DNS	36.4%	4
4	BIG-IP	18.2%	2
4	DHCP	18.2%	2
4	F5 BIG-IP GTM	18.2%	2
4	F5 BIG-IP LTM	18.2%	2
4	TCP/IP	18.2%	2
4	VPN	18.2%	2
4	WAN	18.2%	2
11	BGP	9.1%	1
11	IPsec	9.1%	1
11	LAN	9.1%	1
11	OSPF	9.1%	1
11	SD-WAN	9.1%	1
11	SSL	9.1%	1