Firewall Jobs in Scotland

Firewall
UK > 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 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 171 62 72
Rank change year-on-year -109 +10 +29
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 104 193 260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.52% 4.44% 4.27%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.05% 26.44% 32.26%
Number of salaries quoted 81 78 157
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,949 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £35,250 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £62,833 £80,450
UK median annual salary £48,500 £50,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year -3.00% -1.96% +2.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 648 730 806
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 9.48% 16.78% 13.25%
Number of salaries quoted 394 245 381
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,850 £27,125
25th Percentile £35,188 £36,000 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile £62,500 £66,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -123 49 £50,000 +7.82% 21
Edinburgh -3 40 £42,500 - 12
Aberdeenshire +9 8 £45,000 -18.18% 8
Scottish Borders +7 2 £23,000 -44.58%
Stirling -5 1 £46,000 +22.67% 1
Lanarkshire -9 1 £52,500 - 11
West Lothian - 1 - - 1
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 10 (9.62%) Apache
2 7 (6.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.85%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.96%) IIS
4 1 (0.96%) JOnAS
Cloud Services
1 43 (41.35%) Azure
2 29 (27.88%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (25.00%) AWS
4 21 (20.19%) PaaS
5 20 (19.23%) IaaS
6 14 (13.46%) GCP
7 10 (9.62%) Amazon S3
7 10 (9.62%) SaaS
8 7 (6.73%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (3.85%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.96%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.96%) Azure App Service
11 1 (0.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (0.96%) Google Workspace
11 1 (0.96%) OpenShift
11 1 (0.96%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 40 (38.46%) VPN
2 37 (35.58%) WAN
3 24 (23.08%) LAN
4 23 (22.12%) IPsec
5 22 (21.15%) TCP/IP
6 20 (19.23%) DNS
7 17 (16.35%) SD-WAN
8 16 (15.38%) DHCP
9 14 (13.46%) Internet
10 12 (11.54%) Wireless
11 10 (9.62%) SNMP
12 8 (7.69%) Spanning Tree
13 7 (6.73%) OSPF
14 5 (4.81%) BGP
14 5 (4.81%) Network Security
15 4 (3.85%) VLAN
15 4 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
16 3 (2.88%) Cisco ASA
16 3 (2.88%) VoIP
16 3 (2.88%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (17.31%) SQL Server
2 10 (9.62%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (9.62%) MongoDB
3 4 (3.85%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (1.92%) Git
2 1 (0.96%) Gradle
2 1 (0.96%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.96%) JIRA
2 1 (0.96%) Maven
General
1 24 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 22 (21.15%) Finance
3 8 (7.69%) Telecoms
4 7 (6.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.88%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.92%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (14.42%) Network Engineer
1 15 (14.42%) Senior
2 14 (13.46%) Analyst
3 10 (9.62%) Consultant
3 10 (9.62%) NetApp Consultant
4 9 (8.65%) Cloud Engineer
5 8 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (7.69%) IT Engineer
5 8 (7.69%) IT Support
5 8 (7.69%) Lead
5 8 (7.69%) Network Technician
5 8 (7.69%) Technical Leader
6 7 (6.73%) Architect
6 7 (6.73%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 7 (6.73%) Security Analyst
7 6 (5.77%) Senior Analyst
7 6 (5.77%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
7 6 (5.77%) Senior Security Analyst
8 5 (4.81%) Senior IT Engineer
9 4 (3.85%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.58%) YAML
2 10 (9.62%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 44 (42.31%) Data Centre
2 18 (17.31%) Public Cloud
3 14 (13.46%) Replication
4 11 (10.58%) Operational Technology
5 6 (5.77%) Driving Licence
6 4 (3.85%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (3.85%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.88%) Cyberattack
7 3 (2.88%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.92%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.92%) IoT
8 2 (1.92%) PKI
8 2 (1.92%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.96%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.96%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 48 (46.15%) Windows
2 40 (38.46%) Linux
3 27 (25.96%) Windows Server
4 10 (9.62%) Data ONTAP
5 4 (3.85%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (2.88%) Windows 10
6 3 (2.88%) Windows 7
7 2 (1.92%) CentOS
7 2 (1.92%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.96%) Android
8 1 (0.96%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.96%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.96%) Unix
8 1 (0.96%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (29.81%) Cybersecurity
2 28 (26.92%) Disaster Recovery
3 21 (20.19%) DevOps
3 21 (20.19%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (18.27%) Mentoring
5 13 (12.50%) Network Virtualisation
5 13 (12.50%) Project Delivery
6 12 (11.54%) Incident Response
6 12 (11.54%) Project Management
7 10 (9.62%) Actionable Insight
7 10 (9.62%) Infrastructure Management
7 10 (9.62%) Project Planning
7 10 (9.62%) Release Management
7 10 (9.62%) Storage Management
8 9 (8.65%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (8.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 9 (8.65%) ITSM
8 9 (8.65%) Network Design
8 9 (8.65%) Network Monitoring
9 7 (6.73%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 12 (11.54%) Python
2 7 (6.73%) PowerShell
3 6 (5.77%) SQL
4 4 (3.85%) Bash
5 1 (0.96%) Bicep
5 1 (0.96%) Groovy
5 1 (0.96%) Ruby
5 1 (0.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 20 (19.23%) CCNA
3 12 (11.54%) Degree
4 8 (7.69%) CISSP
5 6 (5.77%) CCNP
5 6 (5.77%) CISM
5 6 (5.77%) SC Cleared
5 6 (5.77%) Security Cleared
6 4 (3.85%) Azure Certification
6 4 (3.85%) CompTIA Security+
6 4 (3.85%) Network+ Certification
6 4 (3.85%) SSCP
7 3 (2.88%) CCIE
8 2 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.92%) JNCIP
8 2 (1.92%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.92%) PMP
9 1 (0.96%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (4.81%) ISO 22301
3 4 (3.85%) GDPR
4 3 (2.88%) NIST
5 1 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.96%) SOC 2
System Software
1 32 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (14.42%) Active Directory
3 13 (12.50%) VMware NSX
4 10 (9.62%) Docker
5 9 (8.65%) Hyper-V
6 4 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (2.88%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.92%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (27.88%) Ansible
2 22 (21.15%) Terraform
3 15 (14.42%) Kubernetes
4 13 (12.50%) FortiGate
4 13 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (9.62%) Prometheus
5 10 (9.62%) vCenter Server
6 2 (1.92%) Puppet
Vendors
1 40 (38.46%) VMware
2 37 (35.58%) Cisco
3 23 (22.12%) NetApp
4 21 (20.19%) Palo Alto
5 19 (18.27%) Microsoft
6 13 (12.50%) Juniper
7 12 (11.54%) Meraki
8 10 (9.62%) Red Hat
8 10 (9.62%) SolidFire
9 3 (2.88%) Citrix
10 2 (1.92%) ConnectWise
10 2 (1.92%) Veeam
11 1 (0.96%) arcserve
11 1 (0.96%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.96%) Google
11 1 (0.96%) Nimsoft
11 1 (0.96%) Sage
11 1 (0.96%) ServiceNow