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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 73 128
Rank change year-on-year -20 +55 -2
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 48 76 71
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.74% 2.97% 2.26%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.38% 24.05% 12.96%
Number of salaries quoted 16 45 56
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,350 £33,125
25th Percentile £39,375 £31,250 £39,723
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,500 £40,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +71.25% -23.81% +12.90%
75th Percentile £75,688 £62,500 £71,438
90th Percentile £83,250 £85,500 £78,125
UK median annual salary £46,000 £53,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.21% +0.95% -

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 312 316 548
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.29% 12.33% 17.41%
Number of salaries quoted 192 127 471
10th Percentile £25,087 £30,000 -
25th Percentile £25,375 £33,750 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £47,500 £28,000
Median % change year-on-year -35.79% +69.64% -44.00%
75th Percentile £45,563 £66,250 £52,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £65,000
UK median annual salary £38,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -30.00% +10.00% -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 14 January 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 14 January 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 -12 28 £70,750 +29.82% 9
Glasgow -4 12 £35,000 -17.65% 8
Lanarkshire +4 2 £70,000 +115.38% 11
Aberdeen +3 2 £40,000 - 1
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 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.17%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.08%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (2.08%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (2.08%) Exchange Server 2013
3 1 (2.08%) WinCC
Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 31 (64.58%) Azure
2 7 (14.58%) AWS
3 6 (12.50%) GCP
3 6 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (10.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (8.33%) Azure App Service
5 4 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (8.33%) GitHub
6 2 (4.17%) OneDrive
7 1 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.08%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (62.50%) LAN
2 29 (60.42%) WAN
3 22 (45.83%) Wireless
4 19 (39.58%) SD-WAN
5 16 (33.33%) Wireshark
6 13 (27.08%) VPN
7 12 (25.00%) DNS
8 8 (16.67%) DHCP
9 6 (12.50%) MPLS
10 4 (8.33%) BGP
10 4 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (6.25%) Software-Defined Networking
11 3 (6.25%) TCP/IP
12 2 (4.17%) Network Security
12 2 (4.17%) Remote Desktop
12 2 (4.17%) Softphone
12 2 (4.17%) WLAN
13 1 (2.08%) IMAP
13 1 (2.08%) VLAN
13 1 (2.08%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 26 (54.17%) Social Skills
2 22 (45.83%) Finance
3 16 (33.33%) Telecoms
4 6 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (4.17%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.08%) Advertising
6 1 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Law
6 1 (2.08%) Legal
6 1 (2.08%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 20 (41.67%) Network Engineer
2 9 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (12.50%) Analyst
3 6 (12.50%) Lead
3 6 (12.50%) Senior
4 5 (10.42%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (10.42%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (10.42%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (10.42%) Technical Leader
5 4 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) IT Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Network Analyst
5 4 (8.33%) Network Support
5 4 (8.33%) Network Support Analyst
5 4 (8.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Support Analyst
6 3 (6.25%) IT Support
6 3 (6.25%) IT Support Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 21 (43.75%) Data Centre
2 18 (37.50%) Management Information System
3 8 (16.67%) Driving Licence
4 5 (10.42%) Public Cloud
5 4 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (8.33%) Product Ownership
6 2 (4.17%) CCTV
7 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (2.08%) Operational Technology
7 1 (2.08%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (2.08%) SCADA
7 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.58%) Windows
2 6 (12.50%) Windows Server
3 4 (8.33%) VMS
4 2 (4.17%) Linux
4 2 (4.17%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (52.08%) Asset Management
2 21 (43.75%) Coaching
3 20 (41.67%) Load Balancing
4 18 (37.50%) Problem Management
5 16 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
5 16 (33.33%) Change Management
5 16 (33.33%) Customer Service
5 16 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
5 16 (33.33%) Network Planning
5 16 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
6 11 (22.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 10 (20.83%) CI/CD
7 10 (20.83%) DevOps
8 9 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (12.50%) Roadmaps
9 6 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (10.42%) Business Strategy
10 5 (10.42%) ERP
10 5 (10.42%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (10.42%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 8 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 8 (16.67%) Python
2 4 (8.33%) Bicep
2 4 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (16.67%) Degree
2 5 (10.42%) HNC
3 4 (8.33%) CCNP
3 4 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (6.25%) CCIE
5 2 (4.17%) HND
5 2 (4.17%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.08%) JNCIP
6 1 (2.08%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.58%) SLA
2 1 (2.08%) GDPR
2 1 (2.08%) IEC 61131
2 1 (2.08%) IEC 61508
2 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.08%) NIST
2 1 (2.08%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.08%) QA
System Software
1 8 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (14.58%) Active Directory
3 5 (10.42%) Docker
4 3 (6.25%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.08%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 9 (18.75%) Terraform
2 5 (10.42%) Ansible
2 5 (10.42%) Cisco CUCM
2 5 (10.42%) Grafana
2 5 (10.42%) Kubernetes
2 5 (10.42%) Prometheus
3 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (4.17%) SCCM
4 1 (2.08%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 26 (54.17%) Cisco
2 21 (43.75%) SolarWinds
3 19 (39.58%) Palo Alto
4 18 (37.50%) CheckPoint
5 16 (33.33%) Meraki
6 9 (18.75%) Microsoft
7 8 (16.67%) VMware
8 6 (12.50%) ServiceNow
9 5 (10.42%) F5
9 5 (10.42%) Fortinet
9 5 (10.42%) Splunk
10 3 (6.25%) Dell
10 3 (6.25%) HP
11 2 (4.17%) BeyondTrust
12 1 (2.08%) Extreme Networks
12 1 (2.08%) Juniper
12 1 (2.08%) Pegasus
12 1 (2.08%) Rockwell
12 1 (2.08%) Siemens
12 1 (2.08%) Xero