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 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 60 59
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 +8
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 9 17 36
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.83% 2.14% 2.79%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.68% 28.81% 23.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 17
10th Percentile - £46,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £47,438 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% +3.64% +37.50%
75th Percentile £58,750 £86,875 -
90th Percentile - £95,000 £95,000
Scotland median annual salary £46,750 £37,500 £45,500
% change year-on-year +24.67% -17.58% +7.06%

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 71 59 156
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 6.53% 7.41% 12.09%
Number of salaries quoted 43 30 104
10th Percentile £26,750 £27,281 £32,500
25th Percentile £30,375 £42,813 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £51,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.73% -15.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £67,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £92,750 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £39,500 £30,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +31.67% -40.00% +25.00%

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
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 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (88.89%) Network Security
2 7 (77.78%) VLAN
3 2 (22.22%) DHCP
3 2 (22.22%) DNS
3 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
3 2 (22.22%) VPN
3 2 (22.22%) WAN
4 1 (11.11%) BGP
4 1 (11.11%) IPsec
4 1 (11.11%) LAN
4 1 (11.11%) OSPF
4 1 (11.11%) SD-WAN
4 1 (11.11%) SSL
General
1 8 (88.89%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Security Engineer
1 7 (77.78%) Senior
1 7 (77.78%) Senior Security Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (11.11%) Private Cloud
1 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 7 (77.78%) BCP
2 7 (77.78%) Business Continuity
2 7 (77.78%) Business Continuity Planning
2 7 (77.78%) Capacity Planning
2 7 (77.78%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (77.78%) Decision-Making
2 7 (77.78%) Economics
2 7 (77.78%) Network Architecture
2 7 (77.78%) Project Delivery
3 1 (11.11%) Agile
3 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
3 1 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) ITIL
3 1 (11.11%) Load Balancing
3 1 (11.11%) Observability
3 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 1 (11.11%) Python
1 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
1 1 (11.11%) FortiGate
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco
1 1 (11.11%) Fortinet
1 1 (11.11%) Meraki
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft