Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Firewall skills within the Berkshire region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Firewall over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkFirewall
Location
3 months to
21 Nov 2008
Same period last year
Rank4044
Rank change on same period last yearUp+4
Matching permanent IT job ads372490
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.240 %0.219 %
As % of the category below17.43 %16.54 %
Salaries quoted313400
Average minimum salary£37,196£37,976
Average salary£40,400£40,790
% change on same period last year-0.95 %
Average maximum salary£43,604£43,604
UK excluding London average salary£37,232£36,183
% change on same period last year+2.90 %
Berkshire IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
Berkshire
Matching permanent IT job ads21342962
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled1.377 %1.326 %
Salaries quoted17502330
Average minimum salary£38,859£39,456
Average salary£42,329£42,800
% change on same period last year-1.10 %
Average maximum salary£45,799£46,144
UK excluding London average salary£37,824£38,320
% change on same period last year-1.29 %
Firewall South EastFirewall
South East

Firewall
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Firewall across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Berkshire Firewall Demand Trend

Firewall
Salary Trend

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

Berkshire Firewall Salary Trend

Firewall
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Firewall across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

Berkshire Firewall Salary Histogram

Firewall
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
ReadingDown-1991£41,592-5.93 %
SloughDown-850£38,173-10.69 %
MaidenheadUp+3137£32,742-9.90 %
WindsorUp+1930£44,111+10.27 %
NewburyDown-217£34,188-12.11 %
BracknellUp+2812£36,625+22.08 %
WokinghamNew entry-4£28,250-
AscotNew entry-1£28,000-
Firewall South EastFirewall
South East

Firewall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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.

1308 (41.18 %)Windows
2297 (39.71 %)Cisco
3274 (36.63 %)VPN
4272 (36.36 %)TCP/IP
5212 (28.34 %)CheckPoint
6202 (27.01 %)Cisco Certification
7198 (26.47 %)WAN
8190 (25.40 %)UNIX
9183 (24.47 %)LAN
10164 (21.93 %)Microsoft
11140 (18.72 %)CCNA
12129 (17.25 %)DNS
13125 (16.71 %)Network Security
14124 (16.58 %)Internet
15123 (16.44 %)Linux
16116 (15.51 %)Active Directory
17114 (15.24 %)Windows Server 2003
18106 (14.17 %)CCNP
19102 (13.64 %)MS Excel
20101 (13.50 %)Microsoft Certification
21100 (13.37 %)German Language
2297 (12.97 %)MCSE
2396 (12.83 %)Juniper
2490 (12.03 %)MPLS
2588 (11.76 %)Cisco PIX
2677 (10.29 %)Intrusion Detection
2776 (10.16 %)SQL
2872 (9.626 %)MS Exchange
2968 (9.091 %)DHCP
3066 (8.824 %)CISSP

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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.

Berkshire IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
116 (2.139 %).NET
214 (1.872 %)WebSphere
313 (1.738 %)HTML
412 (1.604 %)WebServices
510 (1.337 %)ASP
68 (1.070 %)CSS
77 (0.936 %)XML
86 (0.802 %)ASP.NET
86 (0.802 %)J2EE
86 (0.802 %)MIDP
86 (0.802 %)UIQ
86 (0.802 %)WAP
93 (0.401 %)AJAX
93 (0.401 %).NET Framework
102 (0.267 %)Middleware
111 (0.134 %)VXML
111 (0.134 %)WSDL
111 (0.134 %)XSLT
111 (0.134 %)JSP
111 (0.134 %)SOAP
Berkshire IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
172 (9.626 %)MS Exchange
253 (7.086 %)IIS
332 (4.278 %)Exchange Server 2003
420 (2.674 %)Apache
519 (2.540 %)WebLogic
618 (2.406 %)Lotus Notes
716 (2.139 %)Tomcat
716 (2.139 %)Exchange Server 2000
814 (1.872 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
96 (0.802 %)Exchange Server 2007
104 (0.535 %)SharePoint
113 (0.401 %)Office Communications Server
113 (0.401 %)Oracle Collaboration Suite
122 (0.267 %)Lotus Domino
122 (0.267 %)JBoss
131 (0.134 %)WebSphere Application Server
131 (0.134 %)CMS
131 (0.134 %)WebSphere MQ
Berkshire IT Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
1102 (13.64 %)MS Excel
223 (3.075 %)MS Office
38 (1.070 %)MS Visio
45 (0.668 %)MS Project
51 (0.134 %)Photoshop
51 (0.134 %)MS PowerPoint
Berkshire IT Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
16 (0.802 %)SalesLogix
Berkshire IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
1274 (36.63 %)VPN
2272 (36.36 %)TCP/IP
3198 (26.47 %)WAN
4183 (24.47 %)LAN
5129 (17.25 %)DNS
6125 (16.71 %)Network Security
7124 (16.58 %)Internet
890 (12.03 %)MPLS
988 (11.76 %)Cisco PIX
1077 (10.29 %)Intrusion Detection
1168 (9.091 %)DHCP
1264 (8.556 %)BGP
1357 (7.620 %)VLAN
1455 (7.353 %)OSPF
1551 (6.818 %)Wireless
1643 (5.749 %)Cisco ASA
1739 (5.214 %)LDAP
1837 (4.947 %)VoIP
1837 (4.947 %)IPsec
1935 (4.679 %)NetScreen
Berkshire IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
138 (5.080 %)SQL Server
210 (1.337 %)MySQL
37 (0.936 %)RDBMS
43 (0.401 %)PostgreSQL
52 (0.267 %)Oracle 10g
52 (0.267 %)Informix
52 (0.267 %)Oracle 9i
52 (0.267 %)Datawarehouse
52 (0.267 %)Oracle 11g
61 (0.134 %)DB2
61 (0.134 %)DB2 UDB
Berkshire IT Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
14 (0.535 %)Flash
21 (0.134 %)Dreamweaver
Berkshire IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
150 (6.684 %)Telecoms
239 (5.214 %)Finance
335 (4.679 %)Government
432 (4.278 %)Retail
521 (2.807 %)Education
616 (2.139 %)Health
714 (1.872 %)Manufacturing
813 (1.738 %)Marketing
911 (1.471 %)Pensions
107 (0.936 %)Billing
116 (0.802 %)Advertising
125 (0.668 %)Military
125 (0.668 %)Auditing
133 (0.401 %)Banking
133 (0.401 %)Back Office
142 (0.267 %)Financial Institution
142 (0.267 %)Automotive
151 (0.134 %)Construction
151 (0.134 %)Pharmaceutical
151 (0.134 %)Electronics
Berkshire IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
1155 (20.72 %)Support Engineer
2114 (15.24 %)Consultant
397 (12.97 %)Network Engineer
495 (12.70 %)Analyst
564 (8.556 %)Technical Engineer
662 (8.289 %)Technical Support
759 (7.888 %)Security Engineer
854 (7.219 %)Technical Consultant
949 (6.551 %)2nd Line Support
1044 (5.882 %)Technical Support Engineer
1142 (5.615 %)2nd Line Support Engineer
1239 (5.214 %)Security Analyst
1337 (4.947 %)Network Support
1436 (4.813 %)Security Consultant
1533 (4.412 %)Account Manager
1533 (4.412 %)Sales Consultant
1533 (4.412 %)Technical Manager
1533 (4.412 %)Technical Account Manager
1630 (4.011 %)Presales Consultant
1630 (4.011 %)Support Analyst
Berkshire IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
1100 (13.37 %)German Language
233 (4.412 %)French Language
325 (3.342 %)Computer Science
424 (3.209 %)Client/Server
523 (3.075 %)SecurID
617 (2.273 %)Clustering
714 (1.872 %)Blackberry
813 (1.738 %)PMI
97 (0.936 %)Video Conferencing
105 (0.668 %)Spanish Language
114 (0.535 %)Replication
123 (0.401 %)Management Information System
132 (0.267 %)IVR
132 (0.267 %)Arabic Language
141 (0.134 %)Italian Language
141 (0.134 %)Speech Recognition
141 (0.134 %)PKI
141 (0.134 %)Statistics
Berkshire IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
1308 (41.18 %)Windows
2190 (25.40 %)UNIX
3123 (16.44 %)Linux
4114 (15.24 %)Windows Server 2003
551 (6.818 %)Windows 2000
650 (6.684 %)Windows Vista
749 (6.551 %)Windows XP
840 (5.348 %)Solaris
928 (3.743 %)Windows NT
1021 (2.807 %)Windows 2000 Server
119 (1.203 %)Red Hat Linux
127 (0.936 %)Windows Server 2008
136 (0.802 %)HPUX
145 (0.668 %)SUSE
154 (0.535 %)VMS
162 (0.267 %)AIX
171 (0.134 %)Mac OS X
171 (0.134 %)Debian
171 (0.134 %)Fedora
Berkshire IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
151 (6.818 %)Network Design
236 (4.813 %)ITIL
330 (4.011 %)Information Security
424 (3.209 %)Change Management
424 (3.209 %)Security Cleared
522 (2.941 %)SC Cleared
522 (2.941 %)Load Balancing
522 (2.941 %)Risk Management
522 (2.941 %)Vulnerability Assessment
522 (2.941 %)Penetration Testing
621 (2.807 %)PRINCE2
718 (2.406 %)Security Management
815 (2.005 %)Disaster Recovery
914 (1.872 %)RAD
914 (1.872 %)SSADM
914 (1.872 %)Software Testing
1013 (1.738 %)CRM
1112 (1.604 %)Six Sigma
1112 (1.604 %)DRM
1211 (1.471 %)Data Protection
Berkshire IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
176 (10.16 %)SQL
217 (2.273 %)C
316 (2.139 %)Shell Script
413 (1.738 %)Perl
58 (1.070 %)VBScript
67 (0.936 %)Python
67 (0.936 %)Java
75 (0.668 %)JavaScript
84 (0.535 %)Transact-SQL
84 (0.535 %)VB
84 (0.535 %)VBA
93 (0.401 %)Ruby
102 (0.267 %)C#
111 (0.134 %)C++
111 (0.134 %)PHP
Berkshire IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
1202 (27.01 %)Cisco Certification
2140 (18.72 %)CCNA
3106 (14.17 %)CCNP
4101 (13.50 %)Microsoft Certification
597 (12.97 %)MCSE
666 (8.824 %)CISSP
761 (8.155 %)Degree
851 (6.818 %)CCSA
941 (5.481 %)CCIE
1040 (5.348 %)CCSE
1122 (2.941 %)CISA
1122 (2.941 %)CISM
1215 (2.005 %)CCSP
1314 (1.872 %)MCP
1314 (1.872 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1413 (1.738 %)PMP
1413 (1.738 %)PMI Certification
1511 (1.471 %)JNCIA
1610 (1.337 %)MCSA
1610 (1.337 %)CCDP
Berkshire IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
124 (3.209 %)SLA
223 (3.075 %)ISO27001
317 (2.273 %)QA
415 (2.005 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
512 (1.604 %)ISO17799
512 (1.604 %)COBIT
64 (0.535 %)BS7799
71 (0.134 %)HMG Infosec
71 (0.134 %)HIPAA
Berkshire IT Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
1116 (15.51 %)Active Directory
243 (5.749 %)VMware Infrastructure
327 (3.610 %)Nmap
327 (3.610 %)NFS
425 (3.342 %)ISA Server
523 (3.075 %)Backup Exec
614 (1.872 %)Xen
712 (1.604 %)ProxySG
87 (0.936 %)Terminal Services
96 (0.802 %)Squid
105 (0.668 %)NDS
112 (0.267 %)VMware ESX
121 (0.134 %)NetBackup
Berkshire IT Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
122 (2.941 %)Nessus
214 (1.872 %)CiscoWorks
310 (1.337 %)Norton AntiVirus
47 (0.936 %)MAILsweeper
56 (0.802 %)MOM
64 (0.535 %)MIMEsweeper
73 (0.401 %)Tivoli
82 (0.267 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
82 (0.267 %)OpenView
82 (0.267 %)Legato
82 (0.267 %)EMC NetWorker
91 (0.134 %)Unicenter
91 (0.134 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
Berkshire IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
1297 (39.71 %)Cisco
2212 (28.34 %)CheckPoint
3164 (21.93 %)Microsoft
496 (12.83 %)Juniper
559 (7.888 %)Blue Coat
655 (7.353 %)Nokia
752 (6.952 %)VMware
834 (4.545 %)Citrix
928 (3.743 %)Nortel
1025 (3.342 %)HP
1122 (2.941 %)Oracle
1122 (2.941 %)Novell
1122 (2.941 %)Websense
1220 (2.674 %)Clearswift
1220 (2.674 %)Lotus
1317 (2.273 %)VERITAS
1416 (2.139 %)Finjan
1515 (2.005 %)McAfee Security
1614 (1.872 %)Red Hat
1614 (1.872 %)Avaya