The first table below looks at the demand for Firewall skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bracknell region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Firewall over the 3 months to 21 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 Bracknell region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firewall
Rank 15 12 43
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +31
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 80 49 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bracknell 14.95% 12.69% 0.559%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 35.71% 31.61% 6.667%
Number of salaries quoted 78 31 2
Average salary £31,500 £38,000 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-17.10% +5.55%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,500 £30,000 £32,800
10% offered a salary of more than £40,750 £50,000 £39,200
UK excluding London average salary £38,472 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-3.82% +6.66%
All Communications & Networking
Bracknell
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
224 155 30
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bracknell 41.87% 40.16% 8.380%
Number of salaries quoted 162 98 23
Average salary £33,500 £45,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-25.55% +12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,250 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Firewall
Berkshire

Firewall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bracknell 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 Bracknell region.

Bracknell Firewall Salary Trend

Firewall
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Firewall across the Bracknell region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Bracknell Firewall Salary Histogram

Firewall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bracknell 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 96 (75.00%) Windows
2 79 (61.72%) Cisco
3 75 (58.59%) Microsoft
4 69 (53.91%) Linux
5 66 (51.56%) TCP/IP
6 65 (50.78%) Cisco Certification
7 58 (45.31%) UNIX
8 57 (44.53%) CCNA
9 56 (43.75%) DHCP
10 50 (39.06%) Solaris
11 49 (38.28%) DNS
12 45 (35.16%) RDBMS
12 45 (35.16%) Sun
13 36 (28.13%) Microsoft Certification
13 36 (28.13%) MCSE
13 36 (28.13%) MCSA
13 36 (28.13%) MCDBA
13 36 (28.13%) MCP
13 36 (28.13%) Security Management
13 36 (28.13%) French Language
14 33 (25.78%) Network Security
15 30 (23.44%) SQL
15 30 (23.44%) WAN
15 30 (23.44%) LAN
16 29 (22.66%) Windows Server 2008
17 28 (21.88%) VPN
18 27 (21.09%) Juniper
19 26 (20.31%) Cisco ASA
20 22 (17.19%) Windows Server 2003
21 21 (16.41%) Websense

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bracknell 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 5 (3.906%) WebSphere
1 5 (3.906%) ASP
1 5 (3.906%) Servlets
1 5 (3.906%) SOAP
1 5 (3.906%) Web Services
1 5 (3.906%) XML
1 5 (3.906%) .NET
2 1 (0.781%) Windows SharePoint Services
2 1 (0.781%) Regular Expression
Application Platforms
1 18 (14.06%) MS Exchange
2 16 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2010
3 8 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2007
4 7 (5.469%) Exchange Server 2003
5 6 (4.688%) IIS
5 6 (4.688%) Apache
6 5 (3.906%) Tomcat
6 5 (3.906%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.781%) Office Communications Server
7 1 (0.781%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.781%) Live Communications Server
7 1 (0.781%) Lync
7 1 (0.781%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.344%) MS Excel
2 2 (1.563%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 66 (51.56%) TCP/IP
2 56 (43.75%) DHCP
3 49 (38.28%) DNS
4 33 (25.78%) Network Security
5 30 (23.44%) WAN
5 30 (23.44%) LAN
6 28 (21.88%) VPN
7 26 (20.31%) Cisco ASA
8 15 (11.72%) Internet
9 14 (10.94%) Wireless
10 12 (9.375%) Intrusion Detection
10 12 (9.375%) MPLS
11 11 (8.594%) SSL
12 10 (7.813%) NetScreen
13 7 (5.469%) Cisco PIX
13 7 (5.469%) VoIP
14 6 (4.688%) BGP
14 6 (4.688%) EIGRP
14 6 (4.688%) OSPF
15 4 (3.125%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (35.16%) RDBMS
2 12 (9.375%) SQL Server
3 6 (4.688%) SQL Server 2000
3 6 (4.688%) SQL Server 2005
4 5 (3.906%) DB2 UDB
4 5 (3.906%) DB2
5 3 (2.344%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.781%) MS Access
6 1 (0.781%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.781%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 36 (28.13%) French Language
2 19 (14.84%) German Language
3 18 (14.06%) Italian Language
4 5 (3.906%) Financial Institution
4 5 (3.906%) Finance
4 5 (3.906%) Banking
Job Titles
1 67 (52.34%) Support Engineer
2 52 (40.63%) Technical Engineer
3 51 (39.84%) Technical Support Engineer
3 51 (39.84%) Technical Support
4 25 (19.53%) Network Engineer
5 24 (18.75%) Security Engineer
6 14 (10.94%) Network Security Engineer
7 8 (6.250%) Voice Engineer
8 7 (5.469%) IT Security Engineer
8 7 (5.469%) 3rd Line Support
9 6 (4.688%) Senior Network Security Engineer
9 6 (4.688%) Senior Security Engineer
9 6 (4.688%) Senior Network Engineer
9 6 (4.688%) Lead Network Engineer
9 6 (4.688%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 5 (3.906%) Sales Engineer
10 5 (3.906%) 2nd Line Support
11 4 (3.125%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
11 4 (3.125%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
12 3 (2.344%) Project Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.250%) Video Conferencing
2 6 (4.688%) Computer Science
3 5 (3.906%) Mathematics
3 5 (3.906%) Online Banking
4 3 (2.344%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.563%) PKI
6 1 (0.781%) Fat Client
6 1 (0.781%) Statistics
6 1 (0.781%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 96 (75.00%) Windows
2 69 (53.91%) Linux
3 58 (45.31%) UNIX
4 50 (39.06%) Solaris
5 29 (22.66%) Windows Server 2008
6 22 (17.19%) Windows Server 2003
7 14 (10.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (5.469%) Windows 2000 Server
9 5 (3.906%) Windows 2000
10 4 (3.125%) AIX
10 4 (3.125%) Ubuntu
10 4 (3.125%) Debian
11 3 (2.344%) Windows XP
12 1 (0.781%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (28.13%) Security Management
2 13 (10.16%) Incident Management
3 11 (8.594%) Disaster Recovery
3 11 (8.594%) Network Management
3 11 (8.594%) Load Balancing
4 9 (7.031%) Validation
5 6 (4.688%) Information Security
5 6 (4.688%) Project Management
6 5 (3.906%) SIEM
7 4 (3.125%) Network Design
7 4 (3.125%) Data Security
8 3 (2.344%) Vulnerability Assessment
8 3 (2.344%) ITIL
9 2 (1.563%) Penetration Testing
10 1 (0.781%) Business Development
10 1 (0.781%) WFM
10 1 (0.781%) Change Control
10 1 (0.781%) Root Cause Analysis
10 1 (0.781%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 30 (23.44%) SQL
2 5 (3.906%) Java
2 5 (3.906%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 65 (50.78%) Cisco Certification
2 57 (44.53%) CCNA
3 36 (28.13%) Microsoft Certification
3 36 (28.13%) MCSE
3 36 (28.13%) MCSA
3 36 (28.13%) MCDBA
3 36 (28.13%) MCP
4 19 (14.84%) CISSP
5 16 (12.50%) CCNP
6 14 (10.94%) CISM
7 11 (8.594%) CCDP
8 7 (5.469%) JNCIS
9 6 (4.688%) CCIE
10 5 (3.906%) Degree
11 4 (3.125%) CCSP
11 4 (3.125%) JNCIP
11 4 (3.125%) JNCIE
12 3 (2.344%) CCSA
12 3 (2.344%) JNCIA
12 3 (2.344%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (12.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 15 (11.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (7.813%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.344%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (10.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (7.813%) VMware ESXi
2 10 (7.813%) vSphere
3 7 (5.469%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.781%) XenApp
4 1 (0.781%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.781%) Snort
Systems Management
1 9 (7.031%) Norton AntiVirus
2 1 (0.781%) SCCM
2 1 (0.781%) Veritas Storage Foundation
2 1 (0.781%) Netcool
2 1 (0.781%) OpenView Configuration Management
2 1 (0.781%) NetBackup
2 1 (0.781%) Unicenter
Vendors
1 79 (61.72%) Cisco
2 75 (58.59%) Microsoft
3 45 (35.16%) Sun
4 27 (21.09%) Juniper
5 21 (16.41%) Websense
5 21 (16.41%) VMware
5 21 (16.41%) Oracle
6 20 (15.63%) CheckPoint
7 18 (14.06%) Red Hat
8 12 (9.375%) Fortinet
8 12 (9.375%) F5
9 10 (7.813%) Blue Coat
10 9 (7.031%) Symantec
11 5 (3.906%) BEA
12 4 (3.125%) Citrix
12 4 (3.125%) Aruba
13 2 (1.563%) IBM
13 2 (1.563%) McAfee
14 1 (0.781%) SonicWALL
14 1 (0.781%) Meridio
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