The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Foundry products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Foundry over the 3 months to 17 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 Vendors for the Berkshire region.

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within Foundry Networks.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Foundry
Rank 203 - 190
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Foundry 12 0 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.233% - 0.117%
As % of the Vendors category 0.402% - 0.225%
Number of salaries quoted 9 0 6
Average salary £60,000 - £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £26,875 £41,832
% change year-on-year
+76.74% -35.75%
All Vendors
Berkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
2988 2986 2661
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 58.08% 48.69% 51.67%
Number of salaries quoted 2321 2509 2176
Average salary £42,500 £44,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.40% -2.22%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Foundry
South East

Foundry
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Foundry across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Berkshire Foundry Jobs Demand Trend

Foundry
Salary Trend

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

Berkshire Foundry Salary Trend

Foundry
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Foundry across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Berkshire Foundry Salary Histogram

Foundry
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Foundry within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Reading - 9 £60,000 -
Foundry
South East

Foundry
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing Foundry 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 Foundry.

1 15 (88.24%) Microsoft
2 14 (82.35%) HP
2 14 (82.35%) Cisco
2 14 (82.35%) Juniper
3 12 (70.59%) Red Hat
3 12 (70.59%) Project Management
3 12 (70.59%) VMware
3 12 (70.59%) Perl
3 12 (70.59%) Windows
3 12 (70.59%) Apache
3 12 (70.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (70.59%) F5
4 11 (64.71%) FWSM
4 11 (64.71%) tcpdump
4 11 (64.71%) snoop
4 11 (64.71%) Problem Management
4 11 (64.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (64.71%) PowerShell
4 11 (64.71%) Cisco ASA
4 11 (64.71%) Windows Server 2008
4 11 (64.71%) Egenera
4 11 (64.71%) MS Excel
4 11 (64.71%) Solaris
4 11 (64.71%) XML
4 11 (64.71%) ITIL
4 11 (64.71%) HTML
4 11 (64.71%) Java
4 11 (64.71%) IIS
4 11 (64.71%) SAS
4 11 (64.71%) Nortel

Foundry
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing Foundry 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 Foundry. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (64.71%) HTML
1 11 (64.71%) XML
Application Platforms
1 12 (70.59%) Apache
2 11 (64.71%) SAS
2 11 (64.71%) IIS
Applications
1 11 (64.71%) MS Excel
2 3 (17.65%) MS Visio
2 3 (17.65%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 11 (64.71%) Wireshark
1 11 (64.71%) Cisco ASA
1 11 (64.71%) tcpdump
1 11 (64.71%) snoop
1 11 (64.71%) FWSM
1 11 (64.71%) Intrusion Detection
2 3 (17.65%) LAN
2 3 (17.65%) WAN
3 2 (11.76%) OSPF
3 2 (11.76%) BGP
3 2 (11.76%) Firewall
4 1 (5.882%) IPsec
4 1 (5.882%) WLAN
4 1 (5.882%) NetScaler
4 1 (5.882%) HSRP
4 1 (5.882%) VRRP
4 1 (5.882%) NetScreen
4 1 (5.882%) Ethernet
4 1 (5.882%) TCP/IP
4 1 (5.882%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.882%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.882%) Subversion
General
1 1 (5.882%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (11.76%) Network Engineer
1 2 (11.76%) Lead Network Engineer
1 2 (11.76%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (5.882%) Pre Sales Engineer
2 1 (5.882%) Network Consultant
2 1 (5.882%) Consultant
2 1 (5.882%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (5.882%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (5.882%) Customer Engineer
2 1 (5.882%) Support Engineer
2 1 (5.882%) Administrator
2 1 (5.882%) Team Leader
2 1 (5.882%) Technical Engineer
2 1 (5.882%) NOC Engineer
2 1 (5.882%) Data Centre Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (64.71%) Firmware
2 1 (5.882%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 12 (70.59%) Windows
1 12 (70.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 11 (64.71%) Solaris
2 11 (64.71%) Windows Server 2008
2 11 (64.71%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (17.65%) Linux
4 2 (11.76%) UNIX
5 1 (5.882%) CentOS
5 1 (5.882%) Debian
5 1 (5.882%) OpenBSD
5 1 (5.882%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) Project Management
2 11 (64.71%) Service Delivery
2 11 (64.71%) Change Management
2 11 (64.71%) Web Development
2 11 (64.71%) ITIL
2 11 (64.71%) Problem Management
3 2 (11.76%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) Perl
2 11 (64.71%) Java
2 11 (64.71%) PowerShell
3 2 (11.76%) Python
4 1 (5.882%) PHP
4 1 (5.882%) SQL
4 1 (5.882%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 11 (64.71%) Degree
2 8 (47.06%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (47.06%) MCSE
3 2 (11.76%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.882%) RHCE
4 1 (5.882%) JNCIS
4 1 (5.882%) CCIE
4 1 (5.882%) CCNP
4 1 (5.882%) CCNA
System Software
1 11 (64.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.882%) vSphere
2 1 (5.882%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (5.882%) VMware ESX
Vendors
1 15 (88.24%) Microsoft
2 14 (82.35%) HP
2 14 (82.35%) Juniper
2 14 (82.35%) Cisco
3 12 (70.59%) F5
3 12 (70.59%) Red Hat
3 12 (70.59%) VMware
4 11 (64.71%) Sun
4 11 (64.71%) Egenera
4 11 (64.71%) Nortel
5 3 (17.65%) Brocade
6 1 (5.882%) Dell
6 1 (5.882%) Citrix
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