Firewall Jobs in Scotland

Firewall
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Firewall skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Firewall over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 148 55 90
Rank change year-on-year -93 +35 -15
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 106 202 197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.86% 5.32% 3.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.54% 33.17% 25.89%
Number of salaries quoted 81 92 139
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,775 £27,625
25th Percentile £36,000 £35,938 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £44,500 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.12% -4.30% +9.41%
75th Percentile £53,750 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £60,000 £77,542 £83,000
UK median annual salary £48,800 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.05% - +5.00%

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 516 609 761
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 9.06% 16.05% 12.50%
Number of salaries quoted 314 253 376
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,813 £35,000 £35,433
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,175 £80,000 £79,000
UK median annual salary £49,000 £51,573 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.99% -1.77% +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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -89 49 £50,000 - 8
Edinburgh +3 34 £45,000 +12.50% 10
Aberdeenshire +3 13 £45,000 -18.18% 1
Scottish Borders +4 2 £23,000 -44.58%
Stirling -5 2 £38,750 +2.65%
West Lothian -6 2 - - 2
Perth and Kinross -2 1 £59,608 +40.25%
Lanarkshire -10 1 £52,500 - 3
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 11 (10.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (9.43%) Apache
3 6 (5.66%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.94%) IIS
4 1 (0.94%) JOnAS
Cloud Services
1 39 (36.79%) Azure
2 33 (31.13%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (19.81%) AWS
4 19 (17.92%) IaaS
4 19 (17.92%) PaaS
5 13 (12.26%) GCP
6 11 (10.38%) SaaS
7 10 (9.43%) Amazon S3
8 6 (5.66%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (4.72%) Entra ID
10 3 (2.83%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.94%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.94%) Google Workspace
11 1 (0.94%) OneDrive
11 1 (0.94%) OpenShift
11 1 (0.94%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 39 (36.79%) VPN
2 38 (35.85%) WAN
3 26 (24.53%) LAN
4 24 (22.64%) IPsec
5 18 (16.98%) DNS
5 18 (16.98%) TCP/IP
6 15 (14.15%) SD-WAN
7 12 (11.32%) DHCP
7 12 (11.32%) Internet
8 11 (10.38%) Wireless
9 10 (9.43%) SNMP
10 8 (7.55%) VoIP
11 7 (6.60%) Spanning Tree
12 6 (5.66%) Network Security
12 6 (5.66%) OSPF
13 5 (4.72%) Wi-Fi
14 4 (3.77%) BGP
14 4 (3.77%) Intrusion Detection
15 3 (2.83%) Cisco IOS
15 3 (2.83%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (14.15%) SQL Server
2 10 (9.43%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (9.43%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.83%) Big Data
4 1 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (0.94%) Git
1 1 (0.94%) Gradle
1 1 (0.94%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.94%) JIRA
1 1 (0.94%) Maven
General
1 27 (25.47%) Social Skills
2 25 (23.58%) Finance
3 9 (8.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (4.72%) Retail
4 5 (4.72%) Telecoms
5 4 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (16.04%) Analyst
2 16 (15.09%) Network Engineer
3 13 (12.26%) Lead
3 13 (12.26%) Technical Leader
4 11 (10.38%) Consultant
4 11 (10.38%) Senior
5 10 (9.43%) IT Support
5 10 (9.43%) NetApp Consultant
6 9 (8.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (7.55%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 8 (7.55%) Security Analyst
8 7 (6.60%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (6.60%) Network Technician
8 7 (6.60%) Senior Analyst
8 7 (6.60%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
8 7 (6.60%) Senior Security Analyst
9 6 (5.66%) Architect
9 6 (5.66%) IT Analyst
10 5 (4.72%) IT Engineer
10 5 (4.72%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.43%) RabbitMQ
1 10 (9.43%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (37.74%) Data Centre
2 18 (16.98%) Operational Technology
3 16 (15.09%) Public Cloud
4 14 (13.21%) Replication
5 4 (3.77%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (2.83%) Cyberattack
6 3 (2.83%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.89%) PKI
7 2 (1.89%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.89%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.89%) SCADA
7 2 (1.89%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.94%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.94%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.94%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.94%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.94%) IoT
8 1 (0.94%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 45 (42.45%) Windows
2 32 (30.19%) Linux
3 23 (21.70%) Windows Server
4 10 (9.43%) Data ONTAP
5 6 (5.66%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (4.72%) Windows 10
6 5 (4.72%) Windows 7
7 4 (3.77%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.89%) Android
9 1 (0.94%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.94%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.94%) Unix
9 1 (0.94%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (36.79%) Cybersecurity
2 28 (26.42%) Disaster Recovery
3 27 (25.47%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (16.04%) Mentoring
5 16 (15.09%) DevOps
6 13 (12.26%) Incident Response
6 13 (12.26%) Project Delivery
7 12 (11.32%) Network Virtualisation
7 12 (11.32%) Project Management
8 10 (9.43%) Actionable Insight
8 10 (9.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 10 (9.43%) Infrastructure Management
8 10 (9.43%) Project Planning
8 10 (9.43%) Release Management
8 10 (9.43%) Storage Management
9 9 (8.49%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (8.49%) Network Design
9 9 (8.49%) Network Monitoring
10 8 (7.55%) ITSM
10 8 (7.55%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 11 (10.38%) Python
2 4 (3.77%) PowerShell
2 4 (3.77%) SQL
3 2 (1.89%) Bash
4 1 (0.94%) Groovy
4 1 (0.94%) Ruby
4 1 (0.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (21.70%) Cisco Certification
2 19 (17.92%) CCNA
3 9 (8.49%) CISSP
4 8 (7.55%) CISM
5 7 (6.60%) Degree
6 6 (5.66%) SSCP
7 5 (4.72%) CompTIA Security+
7 5 (4.72%) SC Cleared
7 5 (4.72%) Security Cleared
8 3 (2.83%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.83%) CCNP
8 3 (2.83%) Network+ Certification
9 2 (1.89%) CCIE
9 2 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.89%) JNCIP
10 1 (0.94%) JNCIA
10 1 (0.94%) MCSA
10 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.94%) PMP
10 1 (0.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (6.60%) ISO 22301
3 5 (4.72%) GDPR
4 4 (3.77%) NIST
5 1 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.94%) SOC 2
System Software
1 33 (31.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (16.98%) Active Directory
3 12 (11.32%) VMware NSX
4 10 (9.43%) Docker
5 7 (6.60%) Hyper-V
6 5 (4.72%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (2.83%) vSphere
8 1 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (24.53%) Ansible
2 17 (16.04%) Terraform
3 14 (13.21%) Kubernetes
4 12 (11.32%) FortiGate
5 10 (9.43%) Prometheus
5 10 (9.43%) vCenter Server
6 9 (8.49%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.89%) Puppet
8 1 (0.94%) VxRail
Vendors
1 37 (34.91%) VMware
2 35 (33.02%) Cisco
3 22 (20.75%) NetApp
3 22 (20.75%) Palo Alto
4 19 (17.92%) Microsoft
5 13 (12.26%) Juniper
5 13 (12.26%) Meraki
6 10 (9.43%) Red Hat
6 10 (9.43%) SolidFire
7 4 (3.77%) Citrix
8 3 (2.83%) Veeam
9 2 (1.89%) ConnectWise
10 1 (0.94%) arcserve
10 1 (0.94%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.94%) Dell
10 1 (0.94%) Draytek
10 1 (0.94%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.94%) Google
10 1 (0.94%) Mitel
10 1 (0.94%) Sage