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 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 83 182
Rank change year-on-year -19 +99 -89
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 38 37 92
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.13% 1.92% 1.47%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.57% 13.96% 15.97%
Number of salaries quoted 30 30 80
10th Percentile £21,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £27,500 £33,438 £38,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £46,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.51% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,688 £57,500
90th Percentile £73,650 £95,000 £74,800
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,596 £49,000
% change year-on-year -4.94% +7.34% -2.00%

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 280 265 576
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 8.33% 13.77% 9.21%
Number of salaries quoted 139 150 400
10th Percentile £25,087 £23,504 £27,950
25th Percentile £27,500 £29,938 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.47% -5.00% -0.99%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,790 £93,900 £70,000
UK median annual salary £44,360 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -11.28% +5.26% -6.86%

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 20 April 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 20 April 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
Glasgow -14 14 £60,000 +71.43% 2
Edinburgh -11 11 £32,500 -40.37% 7
South Lanarkshire - 5 £28,000 - 1
Aberdeen -12 4 £39,000 -2.50%
Lanarkshire - 2 £70,000 - 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 9 (23.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (15.79%) SharePoint
3 5 (13.16%) Exchange Server 2007
3 5 (13.16%) Exchange Server 2010
3 5 (13.16%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 7 (18.42%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Alphatax
Cloud Services
1 20 (52.63%) Microsoft 365
2 15 (39.47%) Azure
3 7 (18.42%) SaaS
4 6 (15.79%) Entra ID
4 6 (15.79%) OneDrive
5 4 (10.53%) AWS
5 4 (10.53%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (7.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (7.89%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (7.89%) GCP
7 2 (5.26%) Azure AKS
7 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (5.26%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.63%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (2.63%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.63%) IaaS
8 1 (2.63%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (52.63%) DNS
2 18 (47.37%) DHCP
3 11 (28.95%) Wi-Fi
4 10 (26.32%) LAN
4 10 (26.32%) VPN
4 10 (26.32%) WAN
5 8 (21.05%) Wireless
6 7 (18.42%) Network Security
7 5 (13.16%) MPLS
7 5 (13.16%) VLAN
7 5 (13.16%) VoIP
8 4 (10.53%) BGP
8 4 (10.53%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (5.26%) Broadband
9 2 (5.26%) Mobile Broadband
9 2 (5.26%) SD-WAN
9 2 (5.26%) Softphone
9 2 (5.26%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (5.26%) WLAN
10 1 (2.63%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.26%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (18.42%) JIRA
General
1 11 (28.95%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.05%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (13.16%) Finance
3 5 (13.16%) Manufacturing
4 4 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (31.58%) IT Support
1 12 (31.58%) Network Engineer
2 11 (28.95%) IT Engineer
3 10 (26.32%) IT Support Engineer
3 10 (26.32%) Support Engineer
4 6 (15.79%) Analyst
4 6 (15.79%) Lead
5 5 (13.16%) Junior
5 5 (13.16%) Junior IT Engineer
5 5 (13.16%) Junior IT Support
5 5 (13.16%) Junior Support Engineer
5 5 (13.16%) Remote Support Engineer
6 4 (10.53%) Service Analyst
6 4 (10.53%) Service Desk Analyst
7 3 (7.89%) Technical Leader
8 2 (5.26%) 2nd Line Support
8 2 (5.26%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
8 2 (5.26%) IT Support Analyst
8 2 (5.26%) Operations Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) Data Centre
1 5 (13.16%) FMCG
1 5 (13.16%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (10.53%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (10.53%) Driving Licence
3 3 (7.89%) Management Information System
3 3 (7.89%) Product Ownership
3 3 (7.89%) Public Cloud
4 2 (5.26%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (5.26%) iPhone
5 1 (2.63%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.63%) PKI
5 1 (2.63%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (42.11%) Windows
2 8 (21.05%) Windows Server
3 7 (18.42%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (13.16%) Windows 10
4 5 (13.16%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (13.16%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (7.89%) Linux
6 2 (5.26%) Apple iOS
7 1 (2.63%) CentOS
7 1 (2.63%) Rocky
7 1 (2.63%) Ubuntu
7 1 (2.63%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (18.42%) ITIL
3 6 (15.79%) CI/CD
3 6 (15.79%) DevOps
3 6 (15.79%) Mentoring
3 6 (15.79%) Roadmaps
3 6 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (13.16%) Incident Response
4 5 (13.16%) Load Balancing
4 5 (13.16%) People Management
4 5 (13.16%) Server Virtualisation
4 5 (13.16%) Supply Chain Management
5 4 (10.53%) Agile
5 4 (10.53%) Customer Service
5 4 (10.53%) Data Protection
5 4 (10.53%) ITSM
5 4 (10.53%) Problem Management
6 3 (7.89%) Business Strategy
6 3 (7.89%) RBAC
6 3 (7.89%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.79%) PowerShell
2 4 (10.53%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (23.68%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (15.79%) CCNA
3 5 (13.16%) ITIL Certification
3 5 (13.16%) Network+ Certification
4 4 (10.53%) CCNP
4 4 (10.53%) Degree
5 3 (7.89%) HNC
6 2 (5.26%) CCIE
6 2 (5.26%) JNCIP
6 2 (5.26%) SC Cleared
6 2 (5.26%) Security Cleared
7 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (26.32%) SLA
2 2 (5.26%) GDPR
2 2 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.63%) GRC
3 1 (2.63%) NIST
3 1 (2.63%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.63%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (34.21%) Active Directory
2 6 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.26%) BitLocker
3 2 (5.26%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (2.63%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.63%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.63%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.63%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (13.16%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (10.53%) SCCM
2 4 (10.53%) Terraform
3 3 (7.89%) Ansible
3 3 (7.89%) Cisco CUCM
3 3 (7.89%) Grafana
3 3 (7.89%) Prometheus
4 2 (5.26%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.63%) CASB
5 1 (2.63%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (2.63%) Proxmox
5 1 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (47.37%) Cisco
2 16 (42.11%) Microsoft
3 7 (18.42%) ServiceNow
4 6 (15.79%) F5
4 6 (15.79%) Fortinet
4 6 (15.79%) VMware
5 5 (13.16%) Dell
5 5 (13.16%) HP
6 4 (10.53%) BeyondTrust
6 4 (10.53%) Palo Alto
6 4 (10.53%) SolarWinds
7 3 (7.89%) CheckPoint
7 3 (7.89%) Meraki
7 3 (7.89%) Splunk
8 2 (5.26%) Bomgar
8 2 (5.26%) iManage
9 1 (2.63%) Arista
9 1 (2.63%) Extreme Networks
9 1 (2.63%) Juniper
9 1 (2.63%) Red Hat