Firewall Jobs in Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Firewall skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Firewall over the 3 months to 23 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Firewall UK / Scotland
Location	3 months to 23 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	82	56	60
Rank change year-on-year	-26	+4
Permanent jobs citing Firewall	68	121	111
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in Scotland	2.53%	4.23%	3.54%
As % of the Communications & Networking category	23.05%	38.91%	27.54%
Number of salaries quoted	41	67	53
Median salary	£41,500	£47,500	£45,000
Median salary % change year-on-year	-12.63%	+5.55%
90% offered a salary of more than	£32,500	£26,400	£30,100
10% offered a salary of more than	£65,000	£67,500	£60,000
UK excluding London median salary	£42,500	£41,500	£42,500
% change year-on-year	+2.40%	-2.35%

Firewall is in the communications and computer networking skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for communications and computer networking skills.

Communications & Computer Network Skills Scotland
Permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications and computer networking skills	295	311	403
As % of all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland	10.96%	10.88%	12.86%
Number of salaries quoted	201	176	270
Median salary	£40,000	£42,500	£42,500
Median salary % change year-on-year	-5.88%	-
90% offered a salary of more than	£28,500	£27,000	£25,000
10% offered a salary of more than	£65,000	£60,000	£57,500
UK excluding London median salary	£42,500	£42,500	£42,500

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in Scotland citing Firewall as a proportion of all permanent or contract IT jobs with a match in the Communications & Networking category.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Scotland

Firewall
Salary Trend in Scotland

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Firewall in Scotland.

Firewall
Salary Histogram in Scotland

The salary distribution of IT jobs citing Firewall in Scotland over the 3 months to 23 June 2017.

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 3 months to 23 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Median Salary Last 3 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
Glasgow	-13	30	£52,500	+5.00%	8
Edinburgh	-18	29	£42,500	-2.85%	5
North Lanarkshire	+2	3	£36,000	+26.31%	1
Dundee	-6	2	£28,750	-45.75%
South Lanarkshire	-2	1	£33,000	+1.53%
Scottish Borders	-	1	£34,000	-
Clackmannanshire	-	1	-	-
Fife	-	1	-	-
Firewall UK

Firewall
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in Scotland

For the 6 months to 23 June 2017, IT jobs citing Firewall also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all job ads across the Scotland region with a requirement for Firewall.

1	67 (48.20%)	Windows
1	67 (48.20%)	Cisco
2	46 (33.09%)	WAN
3	45 (32.37%)	Windows Server
4	39 (28.06%)	Cisco Certification
5	34 (24.46%)	LAN
5	34 (24.46%)	Finance
6	31 (22.30%)	VMware
7	30 (21.58%)	Microsoft
8	29 (20.86%)	DNS
8	29 (20.86%)	Active Directory
8	29 (20.86%)	Linux
9	28 (20.14%)	SIEM
10	26 (18.71%)	Windows Server 2008
11	21 (15.11%)	Intrusion Detection

12	19 (13.67%)	CheckPoint
12	19 (13.67%)	VMware Infrastructure
12	19 (13.67%)	Hyper-V
13	18 (12.95%)	Cisco ASA
13	18 (12.95%)	TCP/IP
14	17 (12.23%)	CCNP
14	17 (12.23%)	SQL
14	17 (12.23%)	ITIL
14	17 (12.23%)	SAN
14	17 (12.23%)	Load Balancing
15	16 (11.51%)	Network Security
15	16 (11.51%)	DHCP
15	16 (11.51%)	Windows Server 2012
16	15 (10.79%)	Data Centre
16	15 (10.79%)	CCIE

Firewall
Co-occurring IT Skills in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	15 (10.79%)	IIS
1	15 (10.79%)	MS Exchange
2	8 (5.76%)	Apache
2	8 (5.76%)	Tomcat
3	7 (5.04%)	Exchange Server 2010
4	4 (2.88%)	Exchange Server 2013
5	3 (2.16%)	Skype for Business
5	3 (2.16%)	WebSphere
6	1 (0.72%)	Apache Solr
6	1 (0.72%)	CMS
6	1 (0.72%)	JBoss
6	1 (0.72%)	nginx

Applications
1	3 (2.16%)	Microsoft Office
2	2 (1.44%)	MS Visio

Cloud Services
1	10 (7.19%)	Office 365
2	8 (5.76%)	Microsoft Azure
3	6 (4.32%)	Amazon AWS
4	2 (1.44%)	Cloud Computing
4	2 (1.44%)	IaaS
5	1 (0.72%)	PaaS
5	1 (0.72%)	SaaS

Communications & Networking
1	46 (33.09%)	WAN
2	34 (24.46%)	LAN
3	29 (20.86%)	DNS
4	21 (15.11%)	Intrusion Detection
5	18 (12.95%)	Cisco ASA
5	18 (12.95%)	TCP/IP
6	17 (12.23%)	SAN
7	16 (11.51%)	DHCP
7	16 (11.51%)	Network Security
8	13 (9.35%)	BGP
8	13 (9.35%)	Cisco Nexus
8	13 (9.35%)	VPN
9	9 (6.47%)	NAS
9	9 (6.47%)	VoIP
10	8 (5.76%)	iSCSI
10	8 (5.76%)	MPLS
11	7 (5.04%)	Internet
11	7 (5.04%)	Wireless
12	6 (4.32%)	OSPF
12	6 (4.32%)	Reverse Proxy

Database & Business Intelligence
1	13 (9.35%)	SQL Server
2	10 (7.19%)	MySQL
3	7 (5.04%)	NoSQL
4	2 (1.44%)	Data Mining
5	1 (0.72%)	SQL Server 2008

Development Applications
1	11 (7.91%)	Git (software)
2	4 (2.88%)	Subversion

General
1	34 (24.46%)	Finance
2	7 (5.04%)	Games
3	5 (3.60%)	Telecoms
4	4 (2.88%)	Manufacturing
5	3 (2.16%)	Banking
5	3 (2.16%)	Law
5	3 (2.16%)	Publishing
6	2 (1.44%)	Pharmaceutical
6	2 (1.44%)	Retail
7	1 (0.72%)	Financial Institution
7	1 (0.72%)	Legal

Job Titles
1	21 (15.11%)	Analyst
2	20 (14.39%)	Network Engineer
3	15 (10.79%)	Graduate
4	12 (8.63%)	IT Graduate
5	11 (7.91%)	Infrastructure Engineer
6	10 (7.19%)	Infrastructure Manager
6	10 (7.19%)	Security Analyst
7	9 (6.47%)	Information Analyst
7	9 (6.47%)	Information Security Analyst
7	9 (6.47%)	Systems Engineer
8	8 (5.76%)	Linux Engineer
8	8 (5.76%)	Network Specialist
9	7 (5.04%)	Consultant
9	7 (5.04%)	DevOps Engineer
9	7 (5.04%)	Linux Systems Engineer
9	7 (5.04%)	Senior Network Engineer
10	6 (4.32%)	Security Engineer
11	5 (3.60%)	Architect
11	5 (3.60%)	IT Manager
11	5 (3.60%)	Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	8 (5.76%)	Web Services
2	7 (5.04%)	LAMP
3	3 (2.16%)	HTML
3	3 (2.16%)	Middleware
3	3 (2.16%)	SAML
3	3 (2.16%)	WebSphere MQ
4	1 (0.72%)	.NET

Miscellaneous
1	15 (10.79%)	Data Centre
2	11 (7.91%)	Management Information System
3	6 (4.32%)	PKI
4	4 (2.88%)	Security Operations Centre
5	2 (1.44%)	Driving Licence
5	2 (1.44%)	EMC VNX
5	2 (1.44%)	Video Conferencing
6	1 (0.72%)	Client/Server
6	1 (0.72%)	Clustering
6	1 (0.72%)	Computer Science
6	1 (0.72%)	Fat Client
6	1 (0.72%)	FMCG
6	1 (0.72%)	Greenfield Project
6	1 (0.72%)	Hybrid Cloud
6	1 (0.72%)	Private Cloud
6	1 (0.72%)	Public Cloud
6	1 (0.72%)	Smartphone
6	1 (0.72%)	Thin Client
6	1 (0.72%)	User Experience

Operating Systems
1	67 (48.20%)	Windows
2	45 (32.37%)	Windows Server
3	29 (20.86%)	Linux
4	26 (18.71%)	Windows Server 2008
5	16 (11.51%)	Windows Server 2012
6	9 (6.47%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6	9 (6.47%)	Windows Server 2003
7	7 (5.04%)	Ubuntu
8	5 (3.60%)	Unix
9	4 (2.88%)	Windows 7
10	3 (2.16%)	Windows 8
11	2 (1.44%)	CentOS
12	1 (0.72%)	AIX
12	1 (0.72%)	HPUX
12	1 (0.72%)	Mac OS X
12	1 (0.72%)	Solaris
12	1 (0.72%)	Windows 10

Processes & Methodologies
1	28 (20.14%)	SIEM
2	17 (12.23%)	ITIL
2	17 (12.23%)	Load Balancing
3	15 (10.79%)	Information Security
3	15 (10.79%)	Systems Analysis
4	11 (7.91%)	Network Design
5	9 (6.47%)	Cybersecurity
5	9 (6.47%)	Infrastructure Monitoring
6	8 (5.76%)	DevOps
6	8 (5.76%)	Security Operations
7	7 (5.04%)	Configuration Management
7	7 (5.04%)	Continuous Delivery
7	7 (5.04%)	Continuous Integration
7	7 (5.04%)	Open Source
8	6 (4.32%)	Project Management
9	5 (3.60%)	Business Continuity
9	5 (3.60%)	Change Control
9	5 (3.60%)	Mentoring
9	5 (3.60%)	Network Architecture
9	5 (3.60%)	Virtual Environments

Programming Languages
1	17 (12.23%)	SQL
2	13 (9.35%)	PowerShell
3	10 (7.19%)	Bash Shell
4	8 (5.76%)	Python
5	6 (4.32%)	C
6	4 (2.88%)	Perl
7	3 (2.16%)	JavaScript
8	1 (0.72%)	Shell Script
8	1 (0.72%)	VBScript

Qualifications
1	39 (28.06%)	Cisco Certification
2	17 (12.23%)	CCNP
3	15 (10.79%)	CCIE
3	15 (10.79%)	Degree
4	13 (9.35%)	CCNA
5	8 (5.76%)	MCSE
5	8 (5.76%)	Microsoft Certification
6	7 (5.04%)	CISSP
7	6 (4.32%)	ITIL Certification
8	5 (3.60%)	CCDE
9	4 (2.88%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10	3 (2.16%)	CCSE
11	2 (1.44%)	CCDA
11	2 (1.44%)	CCDP
11	2 (1.44%)	CCSA
11	2 (1.44%)	CCSP
11	2 (1.44%)	CEH
11	2 (1.44%)	CISM
11	2 (1.44%)	JNCIE
11	2 (1.44%)	MCP

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	4 (2.88%)	Disclosure Scotland
1	4 (2.88%)	SLA
2	2 (1.44%)	ISO/IEC 27001

System Software
1	29 (20.86%)	Active Directory
2	19 (13.67%)	Hyper-V
2	19 (13.67%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	1 (0.72%)	KVM
3	1 (0.72%)	NFS
3	1 (0.72%)	Terminal Services
3	1 (0.72%)	Virtual Machines
3	1 (0.72%)	Virtual Servers
3	1 (0.72%)	VMware ESXi
3	1 (0.72%)	vSphere

Systems Management
1	9 (6.47%)	Nagios
2	7 (5.04%)	Check_MK
2	7 (5.04%)	Opscode Chef
2	7 (5.04%)	Puppet
3	4 (2.88%)	SCCM
4	3 (2.16%)	SCOM
5	2 (1.44%)	FortiGate
5	2 (1.44%)	HAProxy
5	2 (1.44%)	McAfee ePO
5	2 (1.44%)	RSA Archer
6	1 (0.72%)	Backup Exec
6	1 (0.72%)	Cisco CUCM
6	1 (0.72%)	Nessus
6	1 (0.72%)	Norton AntiVirus

Vendors
1	67 (48.20%)	Cisco
2	31 (22.30%)	VMware
3	30 (21.58%)	Microsoft
4	19 (13.67%)	CheckPoint
5	12 (8.63%)	F5
5	12 (8.63%)	Palo Alto
6	11 (7.91%)	Juniper
7	10 (7.19%)	Citrix
8	9 (6.47%)	Brocade
8	9 (6.47%)	Fortinet
8	9 (6.47%)	Splunk
9	8 (5.76%)	McAfee
9	8 (5.76%)	Riverbed
9	8 (5.76%)	SolarWinds
10	7 (5.04%)	Percona
11	6 (4.32%)	IBM
11	6 (4.32%)	Symantec
12	5 (3.60%)	SonicWALL
12	5 (3.60%)	Sophos
13	4 (2.88%)	Perforce