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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 115 68
Rank change year-on-year +14 -47 +37
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 44 93 112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.74% 2.13% 4.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.39% 25.48% 19.79%
Number of salaries quoted 16 64 86
10th Percentile - £28,875 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £38,500 £35,084
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +5.88% -11.46%
75th Percentile £49,813 £55,000 £59,688
90th Percentile £59,750 £62,238 £77,542
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -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 253 365 566
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 10.00% 8.35% 21.06%
Number of salaries quoted 144 195 427
10th Percentile - £30,000 -
25th Percentile £25,087 £40,000 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £26,559 £52,500 £31,000
Median % change year-on-year -49.41% +69.35% -35.01%
75th Percentile £49,625 £65,000 £54,375
90th Percentile £71,250 £76,500 £77,542
UK median annual salary £40,000 £50,000 £50,250
% change year-on-year -20.00% -0.50% -4.29%

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

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +6 21 £54,000 -1.82% 16
Glasgow +48 11 £37,500 -25.00% 15
Perth and Kinross +3 5 £33,000 -44.64%
Dunbartonshire - 3 - -
Shetland Islands - 1 - -
Banffshire - 1 - -
Dundee - 1 £37,500 - 1
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 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (22.73%) SharePoint
3 3 (6.82%) JOnAS
4 2 (4.55%) IIS
5 1 (2.27%) WinCC
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 31 (70.45%) Azure
2 14 (31.82%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (25.00%) AWS
4 5 (11.36%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (11.36%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (9.09%) Azure App Service
5 4 (9.09%) GCP
5 4 (9.09%) GitHub
6 2 (4.55%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.27%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.27%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (2.27%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.27%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.27%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.27%) IaaS
7 1 (2.27%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.27%) SaaS
7 1 (2.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 20 (45.45%) VPN
2 17 (38.64%) WAN
3 16 (36.36%) DNS
3 16 (36.36%) LAN
4 12 (27.27%) DHCP
4 12 (27.27%) SD-WAN
5 11 (25.00%) Wireless
6 10 (22.73%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (15.91%) Wireshark
8 5 (11.36%) BGP
8 5 (11.36%) DKIM
8 5 (11.36%) DMARC
8 5 (11.36%) TCP/IP
9 4 (9.09%) OSPF
10 3 (6.82%) Internet
10 3 (6.82%) MPLS
10 3 (6.82%) NAS
10 3 (6.82%) Network Security
10 3 (6.82%) VLAN
11 2 (4.55%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (2.27%) Data Lake
1 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (4.55%) JIRA
2 1 (2.27%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 14 (31.82%) Finance
3 7 (15.91%) Telecoms
4 3 (6.82%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Advertising
5 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Law
5 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (29.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (22.73%) Network Engineer
3 8 (18.18%) Cloud Engineer
4 7 (15.91%) Lead
5 6 (13.64%) Senior
5 6 (13.64%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (11.36%) Analyst
6 5 (11.36%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (11.36%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (11.36%) Help Desk Team Lead
6 5 (11.36%) Network Analyst
6 5 (11.36%) Network Support
6 5 (11.36%) Network Support Analyst
6 5 (11.36%) Support Analyst
6 5 (11.36%) Support Engineer
6 5 (11.36%) Team Leader
7 4 (9.09%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (9.09%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 3 (6.82%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (6.82%) Network Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.27%) 802.1X
1 1 (2.27%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 12 (27.27%) Data Centre
2 7 (15.91%) Management Information System
3 5 (11.36%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (9.09%) Driving Licence
5 3 (6.82%) Onboarding
5 3 (6.82%) Public Cloud
5 3 (6.82%) Replication
6 2 (4.55%) Cyber Security Posture
6 2 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (4.55%) Security Posture
7 1 (2.27%) CCTV
7 1 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (2.27%) IoT
7 1 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (2.27%) Mainframe
7 1 (2.27%) Operational Technology
7 1 (2.27%) Product Ownership
7 1 (2.27%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (2.27%) SCADA
7 1 (2.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (38.64%) Windows
2 12 (27.27%) VMS
3 7 (15.91%) Unix
3 7 (15.91%) Windows Server
4 4 (9.09%) Linux
5 3 (6.82%) Windows 10
5 3 (6.82%) Windows 7
6 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (29.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (27.27%) Coaching
3 11 (25.00%) Asset Management
4 9 (20.45%) Change Management
4 9 (20.45%) Cybersecurity
4 9 (20.45%) DevOps
4 9 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (18.18%) Capacity Planning
5 8 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 8 (18.18%) Customer Service
5 8 (18.18%) Migration
6 7 (15.91%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (15.91%) Load Balancing
6 7 (15.91%) Network Monitoring
6 7 (15.91%) Network Planning
6 7 (15.91%) Network Virtualisation
6 7 (15.91%) Problem Management
6 7 (15.91%) Roadmaps
7 6 (13.64%) ITIL
8 5 (11.36%) Cloud Operations
Programming Languages
1 11 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 7 (15.91%) SQL
3 6 (13.64%) Python
4 5 (11.36%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 6 (13.64%) CCNP
1 6 (13.64%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (4.55%) CCIE
2 2 (4.55%) CCNA
2 2 (4.55%) Degree
2 2 (4.55%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (2.27%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.27%) CISM
3 1 (2.27%) CISSP
3 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.27%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.09%) NIST
2 3 (6.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (2.27%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.27%) GDPR
4 1 (2.27%) IEC 61131
4 1 (2.27%) IEC 61508
4 1 (2.27%) NCSC
4 1 (2.27%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.27%) QA
System Software
1 12 (27.27%) Hyper-V
2 11 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (15.91%) Active Directory
4 5 (11.36%) Docker
5 2 (4.55%) VMware NSX
6 1 (2.27%) Firmware
6 1 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (2.27%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 13 (29.55%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (18.18%) Terraform
3 5 (11.36%) Ansible
3 5 (11.36%) Kubernetes
4 3 (6.82%) FortiGate
5 2 (4.55%) Proxmox
6 1 (2.27%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (2.27%) Grafana
6 1 (2.27%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.27%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 18 (40.91%) Cisco
2 15 (34.09%) Microsoft
3 13 (29.55%) VMware
4 10 (22.73%) Fortinet
4 10 (22.73%) Palo Alto
5 9 (20.45%) SolarWinds
6 8 (18.18%) CheckPoint
7 7 (15.91%) Meraki
8 5 (11.36%) Apple
9 4 (9.09%) Sage
9 4 (9.09%) ServiceNow
10 3 (6.82%) arcserve
10 3 (6.82%) Aruba
10 3 (6.82%) Nimsoft
11 2 (4.55%) F5
12 1 (2.27%) Juniper
12 1 (2.27%) Rockwell
12 1 (2.27%) Splunk
12 1 (2.27%) Symantec
12 1 (2.27%) Xero