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 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 78 162
Rank change year-on-year -17 +84 -47
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 53 65 64
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.77% 2.69% 1.55%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.16% 21.04% 10.72%
Number of salaries quoted 25 41 52
10th Percentile £21,250 - £32,850
25th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -15.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £79,850 £95,000 £74,293
UK median annual salary £48,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.73% +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 328 309 597
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 10.94% 12.78% 14.43%
Number of salaries quoted 190 135 490
10th Percentile £25,087 £27,150 -
25th Percentile £25,684 £31,279 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £50,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -39.00% +53.85% -38.10%
75th Percentile £54,000 £68,432 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,250 £90,267 £65,000
UK median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +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 18 February 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 18 February 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 29 £35,250 -47.78% 9
Glasgow -10 16 £40,000 -5.88% 14
Aberdeen +2 3 £40,000 -
Lanarkshire +5 2 £70,000 +115.38% 10
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 (15.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (9.43%) Exchange Server 2007
2 5 (9.43%) Exchange Server 2010
2 5 (9.43%) Exchange Server 2013
2 5 (9.43%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.89%) WinCC
Applications
1 7 (13.21%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Alphatax
Cloud Services
1 33 (62.26%) Azure
2 13 (24.53%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (11.32%) SaaS
4 5 (9.43%) AWS
4 5 (9.43%) Entra ID
4 5 (9.43%) GCP
4 5 (9.43%) OneDrive
5 4 (7.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (5.66%) Azure App Service
6 3 (5.66%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (5.66%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (5.66%) GitHub
7 2 (3.77%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.89%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.89%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.89%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.89%) IaaS
8 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.89%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (49.06%) LAN
1 26 (49.06%) WAN
2 23 (43.40%) Wireless
3 18 (33.96%) DNS
4 17 (32.08%) SD-WAN
5 15 (28.30%) Wireshark
6 14 (26.42%) DHCP
7 13 (24.53%) VPN
8 8 (15.09%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (9.43%) MPLS
9 5 (9.43%) VLAN
10 4 (7.55%) BGP
10 4 (7.55%) Network Security
10 4 (7.55%) Softphone
11 3 (5.66%) Remote Desktop
11 3 (5.66%) Software-Defined Networking
12 2 (3.77%) Broadband
12 2 (3.77%) Mobile Broadband
12 2 (3.77%) TCP/IP
12 2 (3.77%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.77%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (5.66%) JIRA
General
1 25 (47.17%) Social Skills
2 22 (41.51%) Finance
3 15 (28.30%) Telecoms
4 10 (18.87%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (7.55%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.89%) Law
7 1 (1.89%) Legal
7 1 (1.89%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 21 (39.62%) Network Engineer
2 9 (16.98%) IT Support
3 8 (15.09%) Analyst
3 8 (15.09%) IT Engineer
4 7 (13.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (13.21%) IT Support Engineer
4 7 (13.21%) Lead
4 7 (13.21%) Support Engineer
5 5 (9.43%) Junior
5 5 (9.43%) Junior IT Engineer
5 5 (9.43%) Junior IT Support
5 5 (9.43%) Junior Support Engineer
5 5 (9.43%) Remote Support Engineer
5 5 (9.43%) Senior
5 5 (9.43%) Support Analyst
5 5 (9.43%) Technical Leader
6 4 (7.55%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Network Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.77%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (39.62%) Data Centre
2 18 (33.96%) Management Information System
3 7 (13.21%) Driving Licence
4 5 (9.43%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (7.55%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (7.55%) Product Ownership
5 4 (7.55%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.77%) CCTV
6 2 (3.77%) iPhone
7 1 (1.89%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.89%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.89%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.89%) PKI
7 1 (1.89%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.89%) SCADA
7 1 (1.89%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (26.42%) Windows
2 11 (20.75%) Windows Server
3 7 (13.21%) Windows Server 2012
4 6 (11.32%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (9.43%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (7.55%) Linux
7 3 (5.66%) VMS
8 2 (3.77%) Apple iOS
8 2 (3.77%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (1.89%) CentOS
9 1 (1.89%) Rocky
9 1 (1.89%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (43.40%) Asset Management
2 20 (37.74%) Coaching
2 20 (37.74%) Load Balancing
3 18 (33.96%) Customer Service
3 18 (33.96%) Problem Management
4 15 (28.30%) Capacity Planning
4 15 (28.30%) Change Management
4 15 (28.30%) Network Monitoring
4 15 (28.30%) Network Planning
4 15 (28.30%) Network Virtualisation
5 14 (26.42%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (16.98%) CI/CD
6 9 (16.98%) DevOps
6 9 (16.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 7 (13.21%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (9.43%) Agile
8 5 (9.43%) ERP
8 5 (9.43%) Network Design
8 5 (9.43%) People Management
8 5 (9.43%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 9 (16.98%) PowerShell
2 8 (15.09%) Python
3 3 (5.66%) Bicep
3 3 (5.66%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (15.09%) Degree
2 5 (9.43%) HNC
3 3 (5.66%) CCNP
3 3 (5.66%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (5.66%) ITIL Certification
3 3 (5.66%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.66%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.77%) HND
4 2 (3.77%) JNCIP
5 1 (1.89%) CCIE
5 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.21%) SLA
2 1 (1.89%) GDPR
2 1 (1.89%) IEC 61131
2 1 (1.89%) IEC 61508
2 1 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.89%) NIST
2 1 (1.89%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.89%) QA
System Software
1 14 (26.42%) Active Directory
2 8 (15.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (7.55%) Docker
4 2 (3.77%) BitLocker
4 2 (3.77%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.77%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.89%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (1.89%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.89%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (15.09%) Terraform
2 5 (9.43%) Ansible
2 5 (9.43%) Cisco CUCM
2 5 (9.43%) Kubernetes
2 5 (9.43%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (7.55%) Grafana
3 4 (7.55%) Prometheus
4 3 (5.66%) SCCM
5 1 (1.89%) CASB
5 1 (1.89%) Proxmox
5 1 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (50.94%) Cisco
2 19 (35.85%) Palo Alto
2 19 (35.85%) SolarWinds
3 17 (32.08%) CheckPoint
4 16 (30.19%) Meraki
4 16 (30.19%) Microsoft
5 8 (15.09%) VMware
6 7 (13.21%) Dell
6 7 (13.21%) HP
6 7 (13.21%) ServiceNow
7 5 (9.43%) F5
7 5 (9.43%) Fortinet
8 4 (7.55%) Splunk
9 3 (5.66%) BeyondTrust
10 2 (3.77%) Bomgar
10 2 (3.77%) iManage
11 1 (1.89%) Arista
11 1 (1.89%) Aruba
11 1 (1.89%) Extreme Networks
11 1 (1.89%) Rockwell