The first table below looks at the demand for Firewall skills in IT jobs advertised for the Basildon region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Firewall over the 3 months to 24 May 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 Basildon region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firewall
Rank 30 17 41
Rank change year-on-year
-13 +24
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 6 11 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Basildon 4.167% 10.78% 0.649%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.67% 39.29% 5.882%
Number of salaries quoted 3 9 0
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 -
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-3.75% +6.66%
All Communications & Networking
Basildon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
36 28 17
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Basildon 25.00% 27.45% 11.04%
Number of salaries quoted 28 24 14
Average salary £37,500 £47,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-21.05% +46.15%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,650 £25,000 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,250 £50,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Firewall
Essex

Firewall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Basildon 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 Basildon region.

Basildon Firewall Salary Trend

Firewall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Basildon 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 14 (93.33%) VPN
1 14 (93.33%) Cisco
2 8 (53.33%) DNS
2 8 (53.33%) Juniper
2 8 (53.33%) VMware
2 8 (53.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (46.67%) Document Management
3 7 (46.67%) SaaS
3 7 (46.67%) PaaS
3 7 (46.67%) Capacity Planning
3 7 (46.67%) Enterprise Storage
3 7 (46.67%) IaaS
3 7 (46.67%) Citrix
3 7 (46.67%) TCP/IP
3 7 (46.67%) NetScreen
3 7 (46.67%) Microsoft
3 7 (46.67%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (46.67%) LAN
4 6 (40.00%) WebSphere Application Server
4 6 (40.00%) IBM
4 6 (40.00%) JBoss
4 6 (40.00%) LDAP
4 6 (40.00%) WebSphere MQ
4 6 (40.00%) Citrix Certification
4 6 (40.00%) WebSphere
4 6 (40.00%) XenApp
4 6 (40.00%) Identity Management
4 6 (40.00%) Management Information System
5 5 (33.33%) Fortinet
5 5 (33.33%) Technical Architecture

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Basildon 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 6 (40.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (6.667%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 6 (40.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 6 (40.00%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (6.667%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (93.33%) VPN
2 8 (53.33%) DNS
3 7 (46.67%) TCP/IP
3 7 (46.67%) NetScreen
3 7 (46.67%) LAN
4 6 (40.00%) LDAP
5 3 (20.00%) Wireless
6 2 (13.33%) WAN
7 1 (6.667%) DHCP
7 1 (6.667%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) Data Warehouse
General
1 1 (6.667%) Finance
1 1 (6.667%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Architect
1 7 (46.67%) Solutions Architect
2 5 (33.33%) NOC Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Network Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (6.667%) Network Specialist
4 1 (6.667%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) Network Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) SaaS
1 7 (46.67%) PaaS
1 7 (46.67%) Enterprise Storage
1 7 (46.67%) IaaS
2 6 (40.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Document Management
1 7 (46.67%) Capacity Planning
2 6 (40.00%) Identity Management
3 5 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
3 5 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (20.00%) ITIL
5 2 (13.33%) Service Management
6 1 (6.667%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) Citrix Certification
2 4 (26.67%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (20.00%) CCNA
4 2 (13.33%) CCNP
5 1 (6.667%) Degree
System Software
1 8 (53.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (40.00%) XenApp
3 1 (6.667%) Active Directory
3 1 (6.667%) vSphere
Vendors
1 14 (93.33%) Cisco
2 8 (53.33%) Juniper
2 8 (53.33%) VMware
3 7 (46.67%) Citrix
3 7 (46.67%) Microsoft
4 6 (40.00%) IBM
4 6 (40.00%) JBoss
5 5 (33.33%) Fortinet
6 3 (20.00%) CheckPoint
6 3 (20.00%) Aruba
7 1 (6.667%) Avaya
7 1 (6.667%) Blue Coat