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 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 64 74
Rank change year-on-year -39 +10 +51
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 51 89 97
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.87% 2.73% 4.01%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.67% 26.33% 18.62%
Number of salaries quoted 14 56 76
10th Percentile £29,900 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,063 £31,250 £35,251
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £45,000 £46,750
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -3.74% -6.50%
75th Percentile £50,438 £56,563 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,175 £66,250 £78,125
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -13.46% -2.80% +1.90%

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 306 338 521
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.24% 10.36% 21.55%
Number of salaries quoted 185 156 456
10th Percentile - £28,500 -
25th Percentile £25,087 £36,813 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £50,000 £28,000
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +78.57% -41.67%
75th Percentile £38,750 £67,040 £52,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £70,000
UK median annual salary £38,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.62% +5.00% -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 29 October 2025.

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 29 October 2025. 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 £60,000 -20.00% 5
Glasgow -30 14 £37,500 -9.09% 5
Perth and Kinross 0 3 £33,000 -44.64%
Dunbartonshire - 3 - - 1
Dundee +3 1 £37,500 +36.36%
Renfrewshire - 1 £77,500 -
Shetland Islands - 1 - -
Banffshire - 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 9 (17.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (15.69%) SharePoint
3 3 (5.88%) JOnAS
4 2 (3.92%) IIS
5 1 (1.96%) WinCC
Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.96%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 39 (76.47%) Azure
2 13 (25.49%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (19.61%) AWS
4 5 (9.80%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (9.80%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (7.84%) Azure App Service
5 4 (7.84%) GCP
5 4 (7.84%) GitHub
6 3 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (3.92%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.96%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.96%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (1.96%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.96%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.96%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.96%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.96%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 27 (52.94%) WAN
2 26 (50.98%) LAN
3 20 (39.22%) SD-WAN
3 20 (39.22%) Wireless
4 17 (33.33%) VPN
5 16 (31.37%) Wireshark
6 15 (29.41%) DNS
7 11 (21.57%) DHCP
8 9 (17.65%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (9.80%) BGP
9 5 (9.80%) MPLS
9 5 (9.80%) TCP/IP
10 3 (5.88%) DKIM
10 3 (5.88%) DMARC
10 3 (5.88%) Internet
10 3 (5.88%) NAS
10 3 (5.88%) OSPF
10 3 (5.88%) VLAN
11 2 (3.92%) Cisco Nexus
11 2 (3.92%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (1.96%) Data Lake
1 1 (1.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (5.88%) JIRA
2 1 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 27 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 22 (43.14%) Finance
3 16 (31.37%) Telecoms
4 6 (11.76%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.96%) Advertising
5 1 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.96%) Law
5 1 (1.96%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.96%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (35.29%) Network Engineer
2 13 (25.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (13.73%) Cloud Engineer
4 6 (11.76%) Lead
4 6 (11.76%) Senior
4 6 (11.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (9.80%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (9.80%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (9.80%) Support Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) Analyst
6 4 (7.84%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) Network Analyst
6 4 (7.84%) Network Support
6 4 (7.84%) Network Support Analyst
6 4 (7.84%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) Support Analyst
7 3 (5.88%) Help Desk Team Lead
7 3 (5.88%) IT Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Team Leader
7 3 (5.88%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.96%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 21 (41.18%) Data Centre
2 16 (31.37%) Management Information System
3 7 (13.73%) Driving Licence
4 4 (7.84%) Public Cloud
5 3 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (5.88%) Replication
6 2 (3.92%) CCTV
6 2 (3.92%) Cyber Security Posture
6 2 (3.92%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.92%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.92%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.96%) IoT
7 1 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.96%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.96%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.96%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.96%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 16 (31.37%) Windows
2 10 (19.61%) VMS
3 8 (15.69%) Windows Server
4 5 (9.80%) Unix
5 4 (7.84%) Linux
6 3 (5.88%) Windows 10
6 3 (5.88%) Windows 7
7 1 (1.96%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.96%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (45.10%) Asset Management
2 21 (41.18%) Coaching
3 18 (35.29%) Load Balancing
4 17 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
5 16 (31.37%) Change Management
5 16 (31.37%) Customer Service
5 16 (31.37%) Network Monitoring
5 16 (31.37%) Network Planning
5 16 (31.37%) Network Virtualisation
5 16 (31.37%) Problem Management
6 14 (27.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 10 (19.61%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (17.65%) CI/CD
8 9 (17.65%) DevOps
9 7 (13.73%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (13.73%) Migration
10 6 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
11 5 (9.80%) Cloud Operations
11 5 (9.80%) Roadmaps
12 4 (7.84%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (21.57%) PowerShell
2 7 (13.73%) Python
2 7 (13.73%) SQL
3 5 (9.80%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 6 (11.76%) Degree
2 5 (9.80%) CCNP
2 5 (9.80%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (5.88%) HNC
4 2 (3.92%) CCIE
4 2 (3.92%) CCNA
4 2 (3.92%) HND
4 2 (3.92%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (1.96%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.96%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.96%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (5.88%) NIST
1 3 (5.88%) SLA
2 2 (3.92%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (3.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.96%) GDPR
3 1 (1.96%) IEC 61131
3 1 (1.96%) IEC 61508
3 1 (1.96%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.96%) QA
System Software
1 12 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (19.61%) Hyper-V
3 8 (15.69%) Active Directory
4 5 (9.80%) Docker
5 1 (1.96%) Firmware
5 1 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.96%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (1.96%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (23.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (17.65%) Terraform
3 6 (11.76%) Ansible
4 5 (9.80%) Kubernetes
5 3 (5.88%) Cisco CUCM
5 3 (5.88%) Grafana
5 3 (5.88%) Prometheus
6 2 (3.92%) FortiGate
6 2 (3.92%) Proxmox
7 1 (1.96%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (1.96%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 28 (54.90%) Cisco
2 20 (39.22%) SolarWinds
3 19 (37.25%) Palo Alto
4 17 (33.33%) CheckPoint
4 17 (33.33%) Microsoft
5 16 (31.37%) Meraki
6 13 (25.49%) VMware
7 8 (15.69%) Fortinet
8 5 (9.80%) ServiceNow
9 4 (7.84%) Sage
10 3 (5.88%) Apple
10 3 (5.88%) arcserve
10 3 (5.88%) Aruba
10 3 (5.88%) F5
10 3 (5.88%) Nimsoft
10 3 (5.88%) Splunk
11 2 (3.92%) Dell
11 2 (3.92%) HP
12 1 (1.96%) Juniper
12 1 (1.96%) Siemens