The first table below looks at the demand for Firewall skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bradford 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 Bradford region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firewall
Rank 17 45 43
Rank change year-on-year
+28 -2
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 25 7 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bradford 7.764% 1.862% 1.039%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 42.37% 13.46% 5.970%
Number of salaries quoted 15 7 2
Average salary £27,500 £34,000 £29,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-19.11% +17.24%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,900 £30,900 £26,200
10% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £65,000 £31,800
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £40,000 £36,500
% change year-on-year
-3.75% +9.58%
All Communications & Networking
Bradford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
59 52 67
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bradford 18.32% 13.83% 17.40%
Number of salaries quoted 46 45 50
Average salary £30,000 £32,500 £33,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.69% -1.51%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £25,000 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £56,750 £55,000 £44,100
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Firewall
West Yorkshire

Firewall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bradford 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 Bradford region.

Bradford Firewall Salary Trend

Firewall
Salary Histogram

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

Bradford Firewall Salary Histogram

Firewall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Bradford 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 46 (65.71%) UNIX
2 45 (64.29%) DNS
3 40 (57.14%) TCP/IP
4 39 (55.71%) Linux
4 39 (55.71%) Shell Script
5 35 (50.00%) Red Hat
5 35 (50.00%) HPUX
5 35 (50.00%) Oracle
6 31 (44.29%) Java
6 31 (44.29%) WebLogic
6 31 (44.29%) Middleware
7 27 (38.57%) SOA
7 27 (38.57%) Oracle BPM
8 19 (27.14%) Java EE
8 19 (27.14%) Windows
8 19 (27.14%) SAN
9 18 (25.71%) WebSphere Application Server
9 18 (25.71%) WebSphere
10 16 (22.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 15 (21.43%) JBoss
11 15 (21.43%) CheckPoint
12 14 (20.00%) VMware
13 13 (18.57%) Cisco Certification
13 13 (18.57%) CCNA
14 12 (17.14%) Active Directory
14 12 (17.14%) Juniper
15 10 (14.29%) VPN
16 9 (12.86%) DHCP
16 9 (12.86%) Microsoft
16 9 (12.86%) MS Exchange

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Bradford 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 31 (44.29%) Middleware
2 19 (27.14%) Java EE
3 18 (25.71%) WebSphere
4 4 (5.714%) Oracle Fusion
Application Platforms
1 31 (44.29%) WebLogic
2 18 (25.71%) WebSphere Application Server
3 9 (12.86%) MS Exchange
4 5 (7.143%) Exchange Server 2003
5 4 (5.714%) Exchange Server 2007
6 3 (4.286%) Apache
7 1 (1.429%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 5 (7.143%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 27 (38.57%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 45 (64.29%) DNS
2 40 (57.14%) TCP/IP
3 19 (27.14%) SAN
4 10 (14.29%) VPN
5 9 (12.86%) DHCP
6 8 (11.43%) Network Security
6 8 (11.43%) LAN
6 8 (11.43%) WAN
7 5 (7.143%) SSL
7 5 (7.143%) NAS
8 4 (5.714%) HTTP
9 1 (1.429%) VLAN
9 1 (1.429%) IP Telephony
9 1 (1.429%) iSCSI
9 1 (1.429%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.286%) MySQL
2 1 (1.429%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.429%) Eclipse
General
1 1 (1.429%) Retail
1 1 (1.429%) Finance
1 1 (1.429%) Legal
Job Titles
1 33 (47.14%) Administrator
2 31 (44.29%) Server Administrator
3 12 (17.14%) WebLogic Administrator
4 8 (11.43%) Analyst
5 7 (10.00%) Consultant
6 5 (7.143%) Security Engineer
6 5 (7.143%) Technical Analyst
6 5 (7.143%) VMware Engineer
7 4 (5.714%) Technical Consultant
7 4 (5.714%) Senior Technical Consultant
7 4 (5.714%) Senior Consultant
8 3 (4.286%) Support Analyst
8 3 (4.286%) Systems Administrator
8 3 (4.286%) Network Engineer
8 3 (4.286%) Network Consultant
8 3 (4.286%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 3 (4.286%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (4.286%) Linux Administrator
9 1 (1.429%) Information Security Officer
9 1 (1.429%) Head of IT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.714%) HP StorageWorks
2 1 (1.429%) Replication
2 1 (1.429%) Mathematics
2 1 (1.429%) Physics
2 1 (1.429%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 46 (65.71%) UNIX
2 39 (55.71%) Linux
3 35 (50.00%) HPUX
4 19 (27.14%) Windows
5 16 (22.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (5.714%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (5.714%) Windows 2000 Server
6 4 (5.714%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (2.857%) Debian
7 2 (2.857%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.429%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (38.57%) SOA
2 5 (7.143%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (7.143%) Business Continuity
2 5 (7.143%) Service Management
3 4 (5.714%) Load Balancing
3 4 (5.714%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (4.286%) SIEM
5 2 (2.857%) Information Security
6 1 (1.429%) Capacity Management
6 1 (1.429%) High Availability
6 1 (1.429%) BCP
Programming Languages
1 39 (55.71%) Shell Script
2 31 (44.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 13 (18.57%) Cisco Certification
1 13 (18.57%) CCNA
2 9 (12.86%) JNCIA
2 9 (12.86%) JNCIS
3 8 (11.43%) CCSE
4 7 (10.00%) CCSA
5 4 (5.714%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 4 (5.714%) MCSE
5 4 (5.714%) MCP
5 4 (5.714%) CCNP
5 4 (5.714%) CCA
5 4 (5.714%) Citrix Certification
5 4 (5.714%) CCEA
5 4 (5.714%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.429%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.286%) SLA
2 1 (1.429%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 12 (17.14%) Active Directory
2 7 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (7.143%) ProxySG
3 5 (7.143%) XenServer
4 4 (5.714%) XenApp
5 1 (1.429%) VMware ESX
5 1 (1.429%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 35 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 35 (50.00%) Oracle
2 15 (21.43%) JBoss
2 15 (21.43%) CheckPoint
3 14 (20.00%) VMware
4 12 (17.14%) Juniper
5 9 (12.86%) Microsoft
6 7 (10.00%) HP
7 6 (8.571%) Blue Coat
7 6 (8.571%) Citrix
8 5 (7.143%) ArcSight
9 4 (5.714%) 3PAR
9 4 (5.714%) Kaspersky
9 4 (5.714%) WatchGuard
9 4 (5.714%) SonicWALL
10 3 (4.286%) Apple
10 3 (4.286%) Cisco
11 1 (1.429%) Veeam
11 1 (1.429%) IBM
11 1 (1.429%) Avaya
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Salary: Up to £40,000 + benefits
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Salary: £35000.00 - £45000.00 per annum + Bonus + Healthcare + Pension
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My client is a fast paced blue chip company, based in West Yorkshire, working on cutting edge solutions and products, in a fast paced engaging environment. They are...
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Salary: From £16,000 to £25,000 per annum
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