Firewall Job Trends in Scotland

Firewall
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Firewall skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 71 116
Rank change year-on-year -21 +45 +7
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 47 78 78
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.73% 2.89% 2.64%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.92% 24.07% 14.72%
Number of salaries quoted 15 47 63
10th Percentile £31,900 £30,650 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £42,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% -22.73% +15.79%
75th Percentile £76,375 £62,063 £72,433
90th Percentile £83,650 £80,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,285 £53,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.56% +0.95% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 315 324 530
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.58% 12.01% 17.91%
Number of salaries quoted 196 132 458
10th Percentile - £30,000 -
25th Percentile £25,087 £35,000 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £47,500 £28,000
Median % change year-on-year -35.79% +69.64% -44.00%
75th Percentile £49,500 £66,563 £52,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £65,000
UK median annual salary £38,500 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -28.70% +8.00% -4.76%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Firewall relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Firewall job vacancy trend in Scotland

Firewall
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Firewall.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Firewall

Firewall
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Firewall in Scotland

Firewall
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh -16 28 £70,750 +29.82% 6
Glasgow -2 13 £37,500 -11.76% 15
Aberdeen +4 1 £40,000 - 3
Banffshire - 1 - -
Renfrewshire - 1 £77,500 -
Shetland Islands - 1 - -
Firewall
UK

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 (6.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.26%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.13%) IIS
3 1 (2.13%) WinCC
Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 33 (70.21%) Azure
2 9 (19.15%) AWS
3 6 (12.77%) GCP
3 6 (12.77%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (10.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (10.64%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (10.64%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (8.51%) Azure App Service
5 4 (8.51%) GitHub
6 1 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.13%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.13%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.13%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.13%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.13%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.13%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.13%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 30 (63.83%) LAN
2 29 (61.70%) WAN
3 22 (46.81%) Wireless
4 19 (40.43%) SD-WAN
5 16 (34.04%) Wireshark
6 12 (25.53%) VPN
7 11 (23.40%) DNS
8 7 (14.89%) DHCP
9 6 (12.77%) MPLS
10 4 (8.51%) BGP
11 3 (6.38%) Software-Defined Networking
11 3 (6.38%) TCP/IP
11 3 (6.38%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (4.26%) Network Security
12 2 (4.26%) Softphone
12 2 (4.26%) WLAN
13 1 (2.13%) IMAP
13 1 (2.13%) Modbus
13 1 (2.13%) VLAN
13 1 (2.13%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (2.13%) Data Lake
1 1 (2.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (8.51%) JIRA
General
1 25 (53.19%) Social Skills
2 22 (46.81%) Finance
3 16 (34.04%) Telecoms
4 5 (10.64%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Advertising
5 1 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Law
5 1 (2.13%) Legal
5 1 (2.13%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (38.30%) Network Engineer
2 11 (23.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (14.89%) Senior
4 6 (12.77%) Cloud Engineer
4 6 (12.77%) Lead
4 6 (12.77%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (10.64%) Analyst
5 5 (10.64%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (10.64%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (10.64%) Technical Leader
6 4 (8.51%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Network Analyst
6 4 (8.51%) Network Support
6 4 (8.51%) Network Support Analyst
6 4 (8.51%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Support Analyst
7 3 (6.38%) IT Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) IT Support Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Network Architect
8 2 (4.26%) Network Manager
Miscellaneous
1 19 (40.43%) Data Centre
2 17 (36.17%) Management Information System
3 8 (17.02%) Driving Licence
4 5 (10.64%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (10.64%) Public Cloud
5 4 (8.51%) Product Ownership
6 2 (4.26%) CCTV
7 1 (2.13%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (2.13%) IoT
7 1 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (2.13%) Mainframe
7 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
7 1 (2.13%) Operational Technology
7 1 (2.13%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (2.13%) SCADA
7 1 (2.13%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.89%) Windows
2 6 (12.77%) Windows Server
3 4 (8.51%) VMS
4 2 (4.26%) Linux
5 1 (2.13%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (53.19%) Asset Management
2 21 (44.68%) Coaching
3 20 (42.55%) Load Balancing
4 17 (36.17%) Problem Management
5 16 (34.04%) Capacity Planning
5 16 (34.04%) Change Management
5 16 (34.04%) Customer Service
5 16 (34.04%) Network Monitoring
5 16 (34.04%) Network Planning
5 16 (34.04%) Network Virtualisation
6 13 (27.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 11 (23.40%) CI/CD
7 11 (23.40%) DevOps
8 7 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (12.77%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (12.77%) Roadmaps
9 6 (12.77%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (10.64%) Data Protection
10 5 (10.64%) ERP
10 5 (10.64%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 9 (19.15%) PowerShell
2 8 (17.02%) Python
3 6 (12.77%) SQL
4 5 (10.64%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 8 (17.02%) Degree
2 5 (10.64%) CCNP
2 5 (10.64%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (10.64%) HNC
3 3 (6.38%) CCIE
4 2 (4.26%) HND
5 1 (2.13%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.13%) CCNA
5 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.13%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (2.13%) JNCIP
5 1 (2.13%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.77%) SLA
2 2 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.26%) NIST
3 1 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (2.13%) GDPR
3 1 (2.13%) IEC 61131
3 1 (2.13%) IEC 61508
3 1 (2.13%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.13%) QA
System Software
1 10 (21.28%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (12.77%) Active Directory
3 5 (10.64%) Docker
4 4 (8.51%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.13%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 9 (19.15%) Terraform
2 5 (10.64%) Ansible
2 5 (10.64%) Cisco CUCM
2 5 (10.64%) Grafana
2 5 (10.64%) Kubernetes
2 5 (10.64%) Prometheus
3 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (4.26%) Proxmox
5 1 (2.13%) SCCM
Vendors
1 27 (57.45%) Cisco
2 21 (44.68%) SolarWinds
3 19 (40.43%) Palo Alto
4 18 (38.30%) CheckPoint
5 16 (34.04%) Meraki
6 10 (21.28%) VMware
7 9 (19.15%) Microsoft
8 6 (12.77%) Fortinet
9 5 (10.64%) F5
9 5 (10.64%) ServiceNow
9 5 (10.64%) Splunk
10 2 (4.26%) Dell
10 2 (4.26%) HP
11 1 (2.13%) Aruba
11 1 (2.13%) Google
11 1 (2.13%) Juniper
11 1 (2.13%) Pegasus
11 1 (2.13%) Rockwell
11 1 (2.13%) Sage
11 1 (2.13%) Siemens