The first table below looks at the demand for Firewall skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bridgend region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Firewall over the 3 months to 20 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 Bridgend region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firewall
Rank 18 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 8 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bridgend 8.696% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 72.73% - -
Number of salaries quoted 8 0 0
Average salary £21,500 - -
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +6.66%
All Communications & Networking
Bridgend
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
11 0 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bridgend 11.96% - 5.882%
Number of salaries quoted 11 0 1
Average salary £21,500 - £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
Firewall
South Wales

Firewall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bridgend 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 Bridgend region.

Bridgend Firewall Salary Trend

Firewall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bridgend 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 10 (76.92%) Windows
1 10 (76.92%) MS Exchange
1 10 (76.92%) Active Directory
1 10 (76.92%) VMware
1 10 (76.92%) Exchange Server 2003
1 10 (76.92%) Exchange Server 2007
1 10 (76.92%) Windows Server 2008
1 10 (76.92%) Windows 7
2 9 (69.23%) SaaS
2 9 (69.23%) Office 365
2 9 (69.23%) Windows Intune
2 9 (69.23%) Windows 8
2 9 (69.23%) Windows Server 2012
2 9 (69.23%) Microsoft
2 9 (69.23%) VoIP
2 9 (69.23%) TCP/IP
2 9 (69.23%) VPN
2 9 (69.23%) DNS
2 9 (69.23%) Apache
2 9 (69.23%) MS Excel
2 9 (69.23%) SQL
2 9 (69.23%) MySQL
2 9 (69.23%) IIS
2 9 (69.23%) UNIX
3 3 (23.08%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (23.08%) CCNP
3 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
3 3 (23.08%) F5
4 2 (15.38%) Network Security
4 2 (15.38%) Communications Security

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bridgend 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 1 (7.692%) CGI
Application Platforms
1 10 (76.92%) MS Exchange
1 10 (76.92%) Exchange Server 2003
1 10 (76.92%) Exchange Server 2007
2 9 (69.23%) IIS
2 9 (69.23%) Apache
3 1 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 9 (69.23%) MS Excel
1 9 (69.23%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (69.23%) VoIP
1 9 (69.23%) TCP/IP
1 9 (69.23%) VPN
1 9 (69.23%) DNS
2 2 (15.38%) Network Security
3 1 (7.692%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (69.23%) MySQL
2 1 (7.692%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.692%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (7.692%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 7 (53.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (69.23%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 10 (76.92%) Windows Server 2008
1 10 (76.92%) Windows 7
1 10 (76.92%) Windows
2 9 (69.23%) UNIX
2 9 (69.23%) Windows 8
2 9 (69.23%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (7.692%) Windows XP
3 1 (7.692%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (15.38%) Communications Security
2 1 (7.692%) Service Delivery
2 1 (7.692%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) CCNP
1 3 (23.08%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) CCSP
2 2 (15.38%) CISSP
3 1 (7.692%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (7.692%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (15.38%) HIPAA
System Software
1 10 (76.92%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.692%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (69.23%) Windows Intune
Vendors
1 10 (76.92%) VMware
2 9 (69.23%) Microsoft
3 3 (23.08%) F5
4 2 (15.38%) Nokia
4 2 (15.38%) CheckPoint
5 1 (7.692%) Juniper
5 1 (7.692%) Cisco