The first table below looks at the demand for Firewall skills in IT jobs advertised for the Blackburn region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Firewall over the 3 months to 19 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 Blackburn region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firewall
Rank 22 - 22
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 2 0 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Blackburn 3.226% - 3.540%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.38% - 21.05%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 4
Average salary £37,000 - £20,250
90% offered a salary of more than £30,600 - £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £43,400 - £20,850
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £40,000 £36,500
% change year-on-year
-3.75% +9.58%
All Communications & Networking
Blackburn
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
13 13 19
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Blackburn 20.97% 18.84% 16.81%
Number of salaries quoted 13 13 19
Average salary £45,000 £35,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+28.57% -12.50%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Firewall
Lancashire

Firewall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Blackburn 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 Blackburn region.

Blackburn Firewall Salary Trend

Firewall
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Firewall across the Blackburn region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Blackburn Firewall Salary Histogram

Firewall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Blackburn 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 3 (100.00%) LAN
2 2 (66.67%) VoIP
2 2 (66.67%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) MPLS
2 2 (66.67%) MS Exchange
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) TACACS
3 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (33.33%) Wireless
3 1 (33.33%) Frame Relay
3 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (33.33%) Handset
3 1 (33.33%) IP Telephony
3 1 (33.33%) VLAN
3 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco PIX
3 1 (33.33%) Network Security
3 1 (33.33%) Communications Security
3 1 (33.33%) WPA2
3 1 (33.33%) iSCSI
3 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco ASA

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Blackburn 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 Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) MS Exchange
2 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) LAN
2 2 (66.67%) VoIP
2 2 (66.67%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 2 (66.67%) MPLS
3 1 (33.33%) TACACS
3 1 (33.33%) Wireless
3 1 (33.33%) Frame Relay
3 1 (33.33%) IP Telephony
3 1 (33.33%) VLAN
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco PIX
3 1 (33.33%) Network Security
3 1 (33.33%) WPA2
3 1 (33.33%) iSCSI
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (33.33%) SAN
3 1 (33.33%) Internet
3 1 (33.33%) Extranet
3 1 (33.33%) DNS
General
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Support Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support
1 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (33.33%) Windows 7
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (33.33%) Communications Security
1 1 (33.33%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCNP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) NetCrunch
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Veeam
2 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds
2 1 (33.33%) Avaya
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco