The first table below looks at the demand for Firewall skills in IT jobs advertised for the Aberdeen region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Firewall over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the Aberdeen region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firewall
Rank 36 44 29
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -15
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 13 3 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Aberdeen 3.736% 0.779% 3.934%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.97% 3.704% 21.82%
Number of salaries quoted 11 2 11
Average salary £42,500 £44,250 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.95% -1.66%
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £40,000 £36,500
% change year-on-year
-3.75% +9.58%
All Communications & Networking
Aberdeen
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
62 81 55
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Aberdeen 17.82% 21.04% 18.03%
Number of salaries quoted 46 62 48
Average salary £42,500 £35,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+21.42% -22.22%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,400 £21,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £64,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Firewall
Scotland

Firewall
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Firewall across the Aberdeen region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Aberdeen Firewall Jobs Demand Trend

Firewall
Salary Trend

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

Aberdeen Firewall Salary Trend

Firewall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Aberdeen region citing Firewall also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Firewall.

1 18 (78.26%) Cisco
2 16 (69.57%) CCNP
2 16 (69.57%) Cisco Certification
2 16 (69.57%) VPN
2 16 (69.57%) Wireless
3 15 (65.22%) WAN
4 10 (43.48%) LAN
4 10 (43.48%) CCNA
4 10 (43.48%) Riverbed
5 9 (39.13%) Network Security
5 9 (39.13%) CCDA
5 9 (39.13%) ITIL
5 9 (39.13%) Cisco ASA
6 7 (30.43%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (30.43%) Windows
6 7 (30.43%) Active Directory
7 6 (26.09%) MPLS
7 6 (26.09%) OSPF
7 6 (26.09%) BGP
7 6 (26.09%) EIGRP
7 6 (26.09%) CCDP
7 6 (26.09%) CCIP
7 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
7 6 (26.09%) CCIE
7 6 (26.09%) CCSP
7 6 (26.09%) DHCP
7 6 (26.09%) DNS
7 6 (26.09%) Network Design
7 6 (26.09%) CCVP
7 6 (26.09%) FWSM

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Aberdeen region citing Firewall also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Firewall. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (4.348%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 5 (21.74%) IIS
2 4 (17.39%) Office Communications Server
2 4 (17.39%) Lync
3 3 (13.04%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (13.04%) MS Exchange
4 2 (8.696%) Exchange Server 2003
4 2 (8.696%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (4.348%) SharePoint
5 1 (4.348%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 3 (13.04%) MS Excel
2 1 (4.348%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 16 (69.57%) VPN
1 16 (69.57%) Wireless
2 15 (65.22%) WAN
3 10 (43.48%) LAN
4 9 (39.13%) Network Security
4 9 (39.13%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (26.09%) MPLS
5 6 (26.09%) OSPF
5 6 (26.09%) BGP
5 6 (26.09%) EIGRP
5 6 (26.09%) DHCP
5 6 (26.09%) DNS
5 6 (26.09%) FWSM
6 4 (17.39%) VoIP
7 2 (8.696%) SAN
8 1 (4.348%) Internet
8 1 (4.348%) WLAN
8 1 (4.348%) Unified Communications
8 1 (4.348%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.696%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (8.696%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (4.348%) MS Access
Job Titles
1 12 (52.17%) Network Engineer
2 10 (43.48%) Support Engineer
3 8 (34.78%) Network Support
3 8 (34.78%) Network Support Engineer
4 6 (26.09%) Cisco Engineer
4 6 (26.09%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Cisco Support
5 3 (13.04%) Cisco Consultant
5 3 (13.04%) Cisco Support Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Cisco Network Consultant
5 3 (13.04%) Network Consultant
5 3 (13.04%) Consultant
6 2 (8.696%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (4.348%) Analyst
7 1 (4.348%) Systems Administrator
7 1 (4.348%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 1 (4.348%) Administrator
7 1 (4.348%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 1 (4.348%) Deployment Engineer
7 1 (4.348%) IT Administrator
Operating Systems
1 7 (30.43%) Windows
1 7 (30.43%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (13.04%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) ITIL
2 6 (26.09%) Network Design
3 4 (17.39%) Problem Management
4 1 (4.348%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (4.348%) Business Transformation
4 1 (4.348%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (17.39%) SQL
2 1 (4.348%) VB.NET
2 1 (4.348%) C#
Qualifications
1 16 (69.57%) CCNP
1 16 (69.57%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (43.48%) CCNA
3 9 (39.13%) CCDA
4 6 (26.09%) CCDP
4 6 (26.09%) CCVP
4 6 (26.09%) CCIP
4 6 (26.09%) CCIE
4 6 (26.09%) CCSP
5 4 (17.39%) MCTS
5 4 (17.39%) MCITP
System Software
1 7 (30.43%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.696%) XenApp
3 1 (4.348%) vSphere
3 1 (4.348%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 1 (4.348%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 18 (78.26%) Cisco
2 10 (43.48%) Riverbed
3 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
4 3 (13.04%) VMware
5 2 (8.696%) Twitter
5 2 (8.696%) Citrix
6 1 (4.348%) NetApp
6 1 (4.348%) F5