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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 78 65
Rank change year-on-year -1 -13 +40
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 10 19 39
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.85% 2.03% 2.89%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.33% 20.00% 23.64%
Number of salaries quoted 9 15 35
10th Percentile - £40,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £21,250 £46,740 £32,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £22,500 £54,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -58.72% +28.24% -28.60%
75th Percentile £73,500 £95,000 £57,000
90th Percentile £77,050 - £70,000
Scotland median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% -15.00% -2.44%

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 75 95 165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 6.36% 10.14% 12.21%
Number of salaries quoted 48 73 144
10th Percentile £24,925 £27,500 £28,600
25th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,750 £51,914 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -40.77% -1.12% -8.70%
75th Percentile £54,000 £80,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,790 £98,000 £70,000
Scotland median annual salary £33,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -29.47% -5.00% -0.99%

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 April 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 5 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 5 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2013
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 5 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (50.00%) SaaS
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (30.00%) AWS
3 3 (30.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) DHCP
1 5 (50.00%) DNS
1 5 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (40.00%) LAN
2 4 (40.00%) Wireless
3 3 (30.00%) BGP
3 3 (30.00%) MPLS
3 3 (30.00%) WAN
4 2 (20.00%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (10.00%) Network Security
5 1 (10.00%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) IT Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) IT Support
1 5 (50.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Junior
1 5 (50.00%) Junior IT Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Junior IT Support
1 5 (50.00%) Junior Support Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Remote Support Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Lead Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Network Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (40.00%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (30.00%) Product Ownership
3 3 (30.00%) Public Cloud
4 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
5 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Windows
1 5 (50.00%) Windows Server
1 5 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 5 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 5 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (50.00%) Server Virtualisation
3 4 (40.00%) Data Protection
3 4 (40.00%) Load Balancing
4 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (30.00%) DevOps
4 3 (30.00%) Observability
4 3 (30.00%) People Management
4 3 (30.00%) Product Roadmap
4 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
5 2 (20.00%) Agile
5 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Kanban
5 2 (20.00%) Scrum
5 2 (20.00%) Tech Ops
6 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
6 1 (10.00%) Network Architecture
6 1 (10.00%) Network Design
6 1 (10.00%) Translating Business Requirements
6 1 (10.00%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (30.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) CCNP
1 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (10.00%) CCIE
2 1 (10.00%) CCNA
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) JNCIP
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Ansible
1 3 (30.00%) Grafana
1 3 (30.00%) Prometheus
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Dell
1 5 (50.00%) F5
1 5 (50.00%) HP
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (40.00%) Fortinet
3 3 (30.00%) ServiceNow
3 3 (30.00%) SolarWinds
3 3 (30.00%) Splunk
4 2 (20.00%) CheckPoint
5 1 (10.00%) Cisco
5 1 (10.00%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto