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 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 65 77
Rank change year-on-year +5 +12 +28
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 26 29 25
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 3.09% 2.33% 2.51%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 31.71% 25.22% 19.84%
Number of salaries quoted 3 12 22
10th Percentile £48,700 £35,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £52,000 £44,938 £30,150
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +21.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,125 £95,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £74,700 - £106,289
Scotland median annual salary £37,500 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% -10.00% -

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 82 115 126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 9.74% 9.26% 12.64%
Number of salaries quoted 42 59 111
10th Percentile £25,684 £30,000 -
25th Percentile £28,250 £44,375 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £63,773 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.38% +59.43% -28.25%
75th Percentile £54,000 £80,000 £71,216
90th Percentile £78,790 - £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £30,000 £47,500 £28,000
% change year-on-year -36.84% +69.64% -43.72%

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 5 November 2025.

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:

Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.85%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 25 (96.15%) Azure
2 5 (19.23%) AWS
3 4 (15.38%) Azure App Service
3 4 (15.38%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (15.38%) GCP
3 4 (15.38%) GitHub
4 3 (11.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 21 (80.77%) WAN
2 20 (76.92%) LAN
3 18 (69.23%) Wireless
4 17 (65.38%) SD-WAN
5 16 (61.54%) Wireshark
6 6 (23.08%) VPN
7 5 (19.23%) DNS
8 3 (11.54%) BGP
9 2 (7.69%) MPLS
9 2 (7.69%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (3.85%) 802.11
10 1 (3.85%) DHCP
10 1 (3.85%) HSRP
10 1 (3.85%) IPsec
10 1 (3.85%) OSPF
10 1 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) JIRA
General
1 21 (80.77%) Finance
2 19 (73.08%) Social Skills
3 16 (61.54%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Law
4 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (53.85%) Network Engineer
2 8 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) Senior
3 5 (19.23%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Analyst
4 4 (15.38%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Network Analyst
4 4 (15.38%) Network Support
4 4 (15.38%) Network Support Analyst
4 4 (15.38%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 18 (69.23%) Data Centre
2 16 (61.54%) Management Information System
3 3 (11.54%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (11.54%) Public Cloud
4 2 (7.69%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.85%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 4 (15.38%) VMS
2 1 (3.85%) Linux
2 1 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (76.92%) Asset Management
1 20 (76.92%) Coaching
2 18 (69.23%) Load Balancing
3 17 (65.38%) Capacity Planning
4 16 (61.54%) Change Management
4 16 (61.54%) Customer Service
4 16 (61.54%) Network Monitoring
4 16 (61.54%) Network Planning
4 16 (61.54%) Network Virtualisation
4 16 (61.54%) Problem Management
5 9 (34.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 8 (30.77%) CI/CD
6 8 (30.77%) DevOps
7 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (19.23%) Migration
8 4 (15.38%) Cloud Operations
8 4 (15.38%) Identity Access Management
8 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
8 4 (15.38%) SDLC
9 3 (11.54%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 6 (23.08%) PowerShell
1 6 (23.08%) Python
2 4 (15.38%) Bicep
2 4 (15.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) CCNA
1 2 (7.69%) CCNP
1 2 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.85%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (19.23%) Docker
2 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.85%) Firmware
2 1 (3.85%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 7 (26.92%) Terraform
2 5 (19.23%) Kubernetes
3 4 (15.38%) Ansible
4 3 (11.54%) Grafana
4 3 (11.54%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (73.08%) SolarWinds
2 18 (69.23%) Cisco
3 16 (61.54%) CheckPoint
3 16 (61.54%) Meraki
3 16 (61.54%) Palo Alto
4 3 (11.54%) Fortinet
4 3 (11.54%) Splunk
5 2 (7.69%) F5
5 2 (7.69%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.85%) Google
6 1 (3.85%) Microsoft