Firewall Jobs in Scotland

Firewall
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Firewall skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Firewall over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 183 79 65
Rank change year-on-year -104 -14 +43
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 102 168 246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.52% 3.55% 4.31%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.48% 22.55% 31.10%
Number of salaries quoted 80 77 154
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,700 £27,125
25th Percentile £38,625 £37,250 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £51,750
90th Percentile £74,800 £62,833 £75,000
UK median annual salary £49,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

Firewall is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 659 745 791
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 9.82% 15.73% 13.86%
Number of salaries quoted 398 265 409
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,000 £26,936
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,270 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +7.95%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £85,000 £74,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Scotland

Firewall
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Firewall in Scotland.

Salary trend for Firewall in Scotland

Firewall
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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
Glasgow -109 49 £50,000 +9.29% 23
Edinburgh +22 43 £42,500 -26.09% 6
Aberdeenshire +9 5 £45,000 -25.00% 6
Scottish Borders +6 2 £23,000 -44.58%
Stirling -6 1 £46,000 +22.67%
Argyll and Bute - 1 £33,000 -
Firewall
UK

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (9.80%) Apache
2 5 (4.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.96%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.98%) IIS
4 1 (0.98%) JOnAS
Cloud Services
1 39 (38.24%) Azure
2 25 (24.51%) AWS
2 25 (24.51%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (19.61%) PaaS
4 19 (18.63%) IaaS
5 13 (12.75%) GCP
6 10 (9.80%) Amazon S3
6 10 (9.80%) SaaS
7 8 (7.84%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (5.88%) Entra ID
9 4 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (3.92%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (2.94%) Google Workspace
11 1 (0.98%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.98%) Azure App Service
11 1 (0.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (0.98%) OpenShift
11 1 (0.98%) Slack
11 1 (0.98%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 39 (38.24%) VPN
2 36 (35.29%) WAN
3 23 (22.55%) LAN
4 20 (19.61%) IPsec
4 20 (19.61%) TCP/IP
5 17 (16.67%) DNS
5 17 (16.67%) SD-WAN
6 16 (15.69%) Internet
7 14 (13.73%) DHCP
8 12 (11.76%) Wireless
9 10 (9.80%) SNMP
10 8 (7.84%) Cisco Firepower
10 8 (7.84%) Spanning Tree
11 7 (6.86%) Cisco ASA
11 7 (6.86%) OSPF
12 5 (4.90%) BGP
12 5 (4.90%) Intrusion Detection
12 5 (4.90%) VLAN
12 5 (4.90%) WLAN
13 4 (3.92%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (19.61%) SQL Server
2 10 (9.80%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (9.80%) MongoDB
3 4 (3.92%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (1.96%) Git
1 2 (1.96%) JIRA
2 1 (0.98%) GitLab
2 1 (0.98%) Gradle
2 1 (0.98%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.98%) Maven
General
1 25 (24.51%) Social Skills
2 20 (19.61%) Finance
3 7 (6.86%) Telecoms
4 6 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.98%) Law
6 1 (0.98%) Legal
6 1 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (18.63%) Network Engineer
2 13 (12.75%) Senior
3 11 (10.78%) Analyst
4 10 (9.80%) Consultant
4 10 (9.80%) NetApp Consultant
5 9 (8.82%) Cloud Engineer
6 8 (7.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (7.84%) IT Engineer
6 8 (7.84%) Network Technician
7 7 (6.86%) Architect
8 6 (5.88%) IT Support
8 6 (5.88%) Security Engineer
9 5 (4.90%) IT Manager
9 5 (4.90%) Lead
9 5 (4.90%) Security Analyst
9 5 (4.90%) Senior IT Engineer
9 5 (4.90%) Senior Network Engineer
9 5 (4.90%) Technical Leader
10 4 (3.92%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 4 (3.92%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.78%) YAML
2 10 (9.80%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 45 (44.12%) Data Centre
2 18 (17.65%) Public Cloud
3 14 (13.73%) Replication
4 10 (9.80%) Driving Licence
5 8 (7.84%) Operational Technology
6 5 (4.90%) Management Information System
7 4 (3.92%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (2.94%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.96%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (1.96%) Cyberattack
9 2 (1.96%) IoT
9 2 (1.96%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.96%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.98%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.98%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 48 (47.06%) Windows
2 44 (43.14%) Linux
3 27 (26.47%) Windows Server
4 10 (9.80%) Data ONTAP
5 4 (3.92%) CentOS
6 3 (2.94%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.96%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.98%) Android
8 1 (0.98%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.98%) Unix
8 1 (0.98%) VMS
8 1 (0.98%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.98%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 25 (24.51%) Disaster Recovery
3 23 (22.55%) DevOps
4 21 (20.59%) Mentoring
5 19 (18.63%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (13.73%) Incident Response
7 13 (12.75%) Network Virtualisation
7 13 (12.75%) Project Delivery
8 12 (11.76%) Project Management
9 10 (9.80%) Actionable Insight
9 10 (9.80%) Infrastructure Management
9 10 (9.80%) ITSM
9 10 (9.80%) Network Design
9 10 (9.80%) Project Planning
9 10 (9.80%) Release Management
9 10 (9.80%) Storage Management
10 9 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 8 (7.84%) ITIL
11 8 (7.84%) Network Monitoring
12 7 (6.86%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 12 (11.76%) Python
2 7 (6.86%) PowerShell
3 6 (5.88%) Bash
3 6 (5.88%) SQL
4 1 (0.98%) Bicep
4 1 (0.98%) Groovy
4 1 (0.98%) Ruby
4 1 (0.98%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 30 (29.41%) Cisco Certification
2 20 (19.61%) CCNA
3 14 (13.73%) Degree
4 11 (10.78%) CCNP
5 6 (5.88%) SC Cleared
5 6 (5.88%) Security Cleared
6 5 (4.90%) CISSP
7 4 (3.92%) Azure Certification
7 4 (3.92%) Network+ Certification
8 3 (2.94%) CCIE
8 3 (2.94%) CISM
9 2 (1.96%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (1.96%) JNCIP
9 2 (1.96%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.96%) PMP
9 2 (1.96%) SSCP
10 1 (0.98%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.92%) NIST
3 3 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (2.94%) ISO 22301
3 3 (2.94%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.96%) GDPR
5 1 (0.98%) SOC 3
System Software
1 30 (29.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (17.65%) Active Directory
3 13 (12.75%) VMware NSX
4 10 (9.80%) Docker
5 7 (6.86%) Hyper-V
6 5 (4.90%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.96%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (30.39%) Ansible
2 24 (23.53%) Terraform
3 15 (14.71%) Kubernetes
4 13 (12.75%) FortiGate
4 13 (12.75%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (9.80%) Prometheus
5 10 (9.80%) vCenter Server
6 3 (2.94%) CASB
7 2 (1.96%) Puppet
8 1 (0.98%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 40 (39.22%) Cisco
2 38 (37.25%) VMware
3 23 (22.55%) NetApp
4 22 (21.57%) Microsoft
5 21 (20.59%) Palo Alto
6 13 (12.75%) Meraki
7 11 (10.78%) Juniper
8 10 (9.80%) Red Hat
8 10 (9.80%) SolidFire
9 3 (2.94%) Citrix
9 3 (2.94%) Google
10 2 (1.96%) Atlassian
10 2 (1.96%) ConnectWise
11 1 (0.98%) arcserve
11 1 (0.98%) CA
11 1 (0.98%) CrowdStrike
11 1 (0.98%) LogRhythm
11 1 (0.98%) Sage
11 1 (0.98%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.98%) Sun