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 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 98 190
Rank change year-on-year -13 +92 -107
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 33 37 88
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.00% 1.88% 1.39%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.50% 16.23% 15.47%
Number of salaries quoted 29 26 76
10th Percentile £21,250 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £27,500 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £46,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.51% -7.50% +5.82%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,688 £57,500
90th Percentile £72,700 £95,000 £76,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -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 264 228 569
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 7.99% 11.57% 8.99%
Number of salaries quoted 118 143 399
10th Percentile £25,087 £23,504 £28,000
25th Percentile £27,500 £30,650 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £69,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £94,756 £70,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.00%

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 10 May 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 10 May 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 -17 11 £60,000 +60.00% 7
Edinburgh -3 9 £22,500 -69.90% 7
South Lanarkshire - 5 £28,000 - 2
Aberdeen -15 4 £39,000 -2.50% 1
Lanarkshire - 2 £70,000 - 1
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 (27.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (18.18%) SharePoint
3 5 (15.15%) Exchange Server 2007
3 5 (15.15%) Exchange Server 2010
3 5 (15.15%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 7 (21.21%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Alphatax
Cloud Services
1 20 (60.61%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (39.39%) Azure
3 7 (21.21%) SaaS
4 6 (18.18%) Entra ID
4 6 (18.18%) OneDrive
5 4 (12.12%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (6.06%) AWS
7 2 (6.06%) Azure AKS
7 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (6.06%) Power Platform
8 1 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (3.03%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (3.03%) GCP
8 1 (3.03%) IaaS
8 1 (3.03%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (60.61%) DNS
2 18 (54.55%) DHCP
3 11 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
4 10 (30.30%) VPN
5 8 (24.24%) LAN
5 8 (24.24%) WAN
6 7 (21.21%) Network Security
7 6 (18.18%) Wireless
8 5 (15.15%) VLAN
8 5 (15.15%) VoIP
9 4 (12.12%) Remote Desktop
10 3 (9.09%) MPLS
11 2 (6.06%) BGP
11 2 (6.06%) Broadband
11 2 (6.06%) Mobile Broadband
11 2 (6.06%) SD-WAN
11 2 (6.06%) Softphone
11 2 (6.06%) WLAN
12 1 (3.03%) Cisco Firepower
12 1 (3.03%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.06%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (15.15%) JIRA
General
1 9 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.15%) Finance
2 5 (15.15%) Manufacturing
2 5 (15.15%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (12.12%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (36.36%) IT Support
2 11 (33.33%) IT Engineer
3 10 (30.30%) IT Support Engineer
3 10 (30.30%) Network Engineer
3 10 (30.30%) Support Engineer
4 6 (18.18%) Analyst
5 5 (15.15%) Junior
5 5 (15.15%) Junior IT Engineer
5 5 (15.15%) Junior IT Support
5 5 (15.15%) Junior Support Engineer
5 5 (15.15%) Remote Support Engineer
6 4 (12.12%) Service Analyst
6 4 (12.12%) Service Desk Analyst
7 3 (9.09%) Lead
8 2 (6.06%) 2nd Line Support
8 2 (6.06%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
8 2 (6.06%) IT Analyst
8 2 (6.06%) IT Support Analyst
8 2 (6.06%) Operations Engineer
8 2 (6.06%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.06%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) FMCG
1 5 (15.15%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 3 (9.09%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.06%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.06%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (6.06%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (6.06%) iPhone
4 1 (3.03%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (3.03%) Driving Licence
4 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.03%) PKI
4 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.03%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (48.48%) Windows
2 8 (24.24%) Windows Server
3 7 (21.21%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (15.15%) Windows 10
4 5 (15.15%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (15.15%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (9.09%) Linux
6 2 (6.06%) Apple iOS
7 1 (3.03%) CentOS
7 1 (3.03%) Rocky
7 1 (3.03%) Ubuntu
7 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (21.21%) ITIL
3 6 (18.18%) Mentoring
4 5 (15.15%) Incident Response
4 5 (15.15%) Server Virtualisation
4 5 (15.15%) Supply Chain Management
5 4 (12.12%) CI/CD
5 4 (12.12%) Customer Service
5 4 (12.12%) DevOps
5 4 (12.12%) ITSM
5 4 (12.12%) Problem Management
5 4 (12.12%) Roadmaps
6 3 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (9.09%) Data Loss Prevention
6 3 (9.09%) Network Segmentation
6 3 (9.09%) People Management
6 3 (9.09%) Security Monitoring
6 3 (9.09%) Security Operations
6 3 (9.09%) SOAR
6 3 (9.09%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.12%) PowerShell
2 2 (6.06%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (18.18%) CCNA
3 5 (15.15%) ITIL Certification
3 5 (15.15%) Network+ Certification
4 4 (12.12%) CCNP
5 2 (6.06%) CCIE
5 2 (6.06%) JNCIP
5 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared
5 2 (6.06%) Security Cleared
6 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (3.03%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (21.21%) SLA
2 2 (6.06%) GDPR
2 2 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.03%) GRC
3 1 (3.03%) NIST
3 1 (3.03%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.03%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (39.39%) Active Directory
2 3 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (6.06%) BitLocker
3 2 (6.06%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (3.03%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.03%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (3.03%) VMware NSX
4 1 (3.03%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (15.15%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (12.12%) SCCM
3 2 (6.06%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.06%) Terraform
4 1 (3.03%) Ansible
4 1 (3.03%) CASB
4 1 (3.03%) Cisco Prime
4 1 (3.03%) Grafana
4 1 (3.03%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.03%) Proxmox
4 1 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (45.45%) Cisco
2 13 (39.39%) Microsoft
3 5 (15.15%) Dell
3 5 (15.15%) HP
3 5 (15.15%) ServiceNow
4 4 (12.12%) BeyondTrust
4 4 (12.12%) F5
4 4 (12.12%) Fortinet
4 4 (12.12%) Palo Alto
5 3 (9.09%) CheckPoint
5 3 (9.09%) Meraki
5 3 (9.09%) VMware
6 2 (6.06%) Bomgar
6 2 (6.06%) iManage
6 2 (6.06%) SolarWinds
7 1 (3.03%) Aruba
7 1 (3.03%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (3.03%) Juniper
7 1 (3.03%) Red Hat
7 1 (3.03%) Splunk