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

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 86 161
Rank change year-on-year -8 +75 -55
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 50 54 69
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.65% 2.45% 1.51%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.02% 18.24% 12.34%
Number of salaries quoted 27 38 56
10th Percentile £21,250 £30,800 £31,875
25th Percentile £29,750 £31,250 £37,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £41,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% -17.50% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £79,150 £95,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £47,750 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.18% +10.00% -4.76%

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 333 296 559
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 10.98% 13.43% 12.21%
Number of salaries quoted 186 138 438
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,175 £25,000
25th Percentile £25,684 £31,250 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £47,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -35.79% +18.75% -23.81%
75th Percentile £54,000 £68,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £94,144 £67,500
UK median annual salary £40,792 £55,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -25.83% +12.24% -6.67%

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 4 March 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 4 March 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 +7 26 £42,500 -46.03% 4
Glasgow -5 16 £40,000 - 8
Aberdeen -3 3 £40,000 - 1
Lanarkshire +5 2 £70,000 +115.38% 6
Renfrewshire - 1 £77,500 - 2
Highlands - 1 £36,000 - 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 8 (16.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 5 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 5 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2013
2 5 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (14.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Alphatax
Cloud Services
1 30 (60.00%) Azure
2 13 (26.00%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (14.00%) SaaS
4 5 (10.00%) AWS
4 5 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 5 (10.00%) GCP
4 5 (10.00%) OneDrive
5 4 (8.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (6.00%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (4.00%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.00%) Azure AKS
8 1 (2.00%) Azure App Service
8 1 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.00%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.00%) GitHub
8 1 (2.00%) IaaS
8 1 (2.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (48.00%) LAN
1 24 (48.00%) WAN
2 21 (42.00%) Wireless
3 16 (32.00%) DNS
4 15 (30.00%) SD-WAN
5 14 (28.00%) DHCP
6 13 (26.00%) Wireshark
7 11 (22.00%) VPN
8 8 (16.00%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (10.00%) MPLS
9 5 (10.00%) Network Security
9 5 (10.00%) VLAN
10 4 (8.00%) BGP
10 4 (8.00%) Softphone
11 3 (6.00%) Remote Desktop
11 3 (6.00%) Software-Defined Networking
12 2 (4.00%) Broadband
12 2 (4.00%) Mobile Broadband
12 2 (4.00%) TCP/IP
12 2 (4.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (6.00%) JIRA
General
1 24 (48.00%) Social Skills
2 19 (38.00%) Finance
3 13 (26.00%) Telecoms
4 10 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (8.00%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Law
7 1 (2.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 22 (44.00%) Network Engineer
2 9 (18.00%) IT Support
3 8 (16.00%) IT Engineer
4 7 (14.00%) IT Support Engineer
4 7 (14.00%) Lead
4 7 (14.00%) Support Engineer
5 6 (12.00%) Analyst
6 5 (10.00%) Junior
6 5 (10.00%) Junior IT Engineer
6 5 (10.00%) Junior IT Support
6 5 (10.00%) Junior Support Engineer
6 5 (10.00%) Remote Support Engineer
6 5 (10.00%) Technical Leader
7 4 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Service Analyst
8 3 (6.00%) Service Desk Analyst
8 3 (6.00%) Support Analyst
9 2 (4.00%) 2nd Line Support
9 2 (4.00%) Architect
9 2 (4.00%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (38.00%) Data Centre
2 16 (32.00%) Management Information System
3 6 (12.00%) Driving Licence
4 5 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (8.00%) Product Ownership
5 4 (8.00%) Public Cloud
6 2 (4.00%) CCTV
6 2 (4.00%) iPhone
7 1 (2.00%) Cloud Native
7 1 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (2.00%) PKI
7 1 (2.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (26.00%) Windows
2 10 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 7 (14.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (8.00%) Linux
6 2 (4.00%) Apple iOS
7 1 (2.00%) CentOS
7 1 (2.00%) Rocky
7 1 (2.00%) Ubuntu
7 1 (2.00%) VMS
7 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (38.00%) Asset Management
1 19 (38.00%) Load Balancing
2 16 (32.00%) Coaching
2 16 (32.00%) Customer Service
2 16 (32.00%) Problem Management
3 14 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (26.00%) Capacity Planning
4 13 (26.00%) Change Management
4 13 (26.00%) Network Monitoring
4 13 (26.00%) Network Planning
4 13 (26.00%) Network Virtualisation
5 8 (16.00%) CI/CD
5 8 (16.00%) DevOps
6 7 (14.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (12.00%) Roadmaps
8 5 (10.00%) Business Strategy
8 5 (10.00%) ERP
8 5 (10.00%) People Management
8 5 (10.00%) Server Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (14.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (12.00%) Python
3 1 (2.00%) Bicep
3 1 (2.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (16.00%) Degree
2 5 (10.00%) HNC
3 4 (8.00%) CCNP
3 4 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (6.00%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (6.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (6.00%) Security Cleared
5 2 (4.00%) HND
5 2 (4.00%) JNCIP
6 1 (2.00%) CCIE
6 1 (2.00%) CCNA
6 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.00%) SLA
2 2 (4.00%) GDPR
2 2 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.00%) GRC
3 1 (2.00%) NIST
3 1 (2.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (28.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (14.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.00%) BitLocker
3 2 (4.00%) Docker
3 2 (4.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (2.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.00%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (2.00%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (14.00%) Terraform
2 5 (10.00%) Ansible
2 5 (10.00%) Cisco CUCM
2 5 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (8.00%) Grafana
3 4 (8.00%) Prometheus
4 3 (6.00%) Kubernetes
4 3 (6.00%) SCCM
5 1 (2.00%) CASB
5 1 (2.00%) Proxmox
5 1 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (52.00%) Cisco
2 17 (34.00%) Microsoft
2 17 (34.00%) Palo Alto
2 17 (34.00%) SolarWinds
3 16 (32.00%) CheckPoint
4 14 (28.00%) Meraki
5 7 (14.00%) Dell
5 7 (14.00%) HP
5 7 (14.00%) ServiceNow
5 7 (14.00%) VMware
6 6 (12.00%) F5
6 6 (12.00%) Fortinet
7 4 (8.00%) Splunk
8 3 (6.00%) BeyondTrust
9 2 (4.00%) Bomgar
9 2 (4.00%) iManage
10 1 (2.00%) Arista
10 1 (2.00%) Aruba
10 1 (2.00%) Extreme Networks
10 1 (2.00%) Juniper