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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 66 64
Rank change year-on-year +9 -2 +7
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 9 15 28
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.86% 1.77% 2.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.86% 23.44% 17.28%
Number of salaries quoted 5 9 24
10th Percentile - £46,250 -
25th Percentile £21,250 £51,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £22,500 £95,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -76.32% +111.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £43,750 - £55,000
90th Percentile £52,750 - £59,700
Scotland median annual salary £38,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.59% -5.56% +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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 70 64 162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 6.69% 7.54% 12.44%
Number of salaries quoted 41 42 133
10th Percentile - £25,531 £31,500
25th Percentile £26,750 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £52,957 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.19% -11.74% +0.80%
75th Percentile £55,000 £95,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £58,750 £146,300 £74,487
Scotland median annual salary £39,500 £33,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.70% -34.00% -

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 25 July 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 3 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2007
1 3 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
1 3 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2013
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
1 4 (44.44%) Entra ID
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) DHCP
1 4 (44.44%) DNS
1 4 (44.44%) Network Security
1 4 (44.44%) VLAN
2 3 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (11.11%) LAN
3 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
3 1 (11.11%) VPN
3 1 (11.11%) WAN
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Security Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) Senior
1 4 (44.44%) Senior Security Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) IT Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) IT Support
2 3 (33.33%) IT Support Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Junior
2 3 (33.33%) Junior IT Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Junior IT Support
2 3 (33.33%) Junior Support Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Remote Support Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Support Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Network Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
2 3 (33.33%) Windows Server
2 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
2 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) BCP
1 4 (44.44%) Business Continuity
1 4 (44.44%) Business Continuity Planning
1 4 (44.44%) Capacity Planning
1 4 (44.44%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (44.44%) Decision-Making
1 4 (44.44%) Economics
1 4 (44.44%) Network Architecture
1 4 (44.44%) Project Delivery
1 4 (44.44%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) Server Virtualisation
3 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
3 1 (11.11%) ITIL
3 1 (11.11%) Load Balancing
3 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
3 1 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (11.11%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) CCNA
1 1 (11.11%) CCNP
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) Dell
2 3 (33.33%) HP
3 2 (22.22%) Cisco
4 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint
4 1 (11.11%) F5
4 1 (11.11%) Fortinet
4 1 (11.11%) Meraki