The first table below looks at the demand for Firewall skills in IT jobs advertised for the Canary Wharf region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Firewall over the 3 months to 24 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 Canary Wharf region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firewall
Rank 38 37 30
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -7
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 8 11 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 2.787% 3.198% 1.563%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.51% 21.57% 33.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2 11 3
Average salary £70,000 £100,000 £65,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-30.00% +53.84%
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-3.75% +6.66%
All Communications & Networking
Canary Wharf
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
39 51 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 13.59% 14.83% 4.688%
Number of salaries quoted 28 48 6
Average salary £52,500 £75,000 £65,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-30.00% +15.38%
90% offered a salary of more than £34,500 £37,000 £60,000
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £75,000 £100,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Firewall
London

Firewall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf Firewall Salary Trend

Firewall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 16 (84.21%) Cisco
2 15 (78.95%) Juniper
2 15 (78.95%) CheckPoint
3 14 (73.68%) Windows
4 10 (52.63%) VMware
5 5 (26.32%) Network Security
5 5 (26.32%) F5
5 5 (26.32%) Internet
5 5 (26.32%) LAN
5 5 (26.32%) VPN
6 4 (21.05%) SAN
6 4 (21.05%) WAN
6 4 (21.05%) Linux
6 4 (21.05%) NetScreen
6 4 (21.05%) Capacity Planning
6 4 (21.05%) Information Security
6 4 (21.05%) VLAN
6 4 (21.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (21.05%) Brocade
6 4 (21.05%) Load Balancing
7 3 (15.79%) COBIT
7 3 (15.79%) Business Analysis
7 3 (15.79%) Wireless
7 3 (15.79%) Junos
7 3 (15.79%) PCI DSS
7 3 (15.79%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (15.79%) SSL
7 3 (15.79%) Citrix
7 3 (15.79%) UNIX
8 2 (10.53%) VoIP

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 (5.263%) Java SE
1 1 (5.263%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.263%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) MS Excel
2 1 (5.263%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.263%) RMDS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (26.32%) Network Security
1 5 (26.32%) Internet
1 5 (26.32%) LAN
1 5 (26.32%) VPN
2 4 (21.05%) SAN
2 4 (21.05%) WAN
2 4 (21.05%) NetScreen
2 4 (21.05%) VLAN
3 3 (15.79%) Wireless
3 3 (15.79%) Junos
3 3 (15.79%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (15.79%) SSL
4 2 (10.53%) VoIP
4 2 (10.53%) DNS
4 2 (10.53%) BGP
5 1 (5.263%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (5.263%) IP Telephony
5 1 (5.263%) BIG-IP
5 1 (5.263%) EIGRP
5 1 (5.263%) RTP
General
1 2 (10.53%) Finance
2 1 (5.263%) Back Office
2 1 (5.263%) Law
2 1 (5.263%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Team Leader
2 5 (26.32%) Network Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Security Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Network Security Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Service Manager
5 1 (5.263%) Systems Manager
5 1 (5.263%) Applications Support Analyst
5 1 (5.263%) Senior Security Consultant
5 1 (5.263%) Network Architect
5 1 (5.263%) Senior Network Consultant
5 1 (5.263%) Network Security Consultant
5 1 (5.263%) Senior Network Security Consultant
5 1 (5.263%) Systems Integration Manager
5 1 (5.263%) Network Manager
5 1 (5.263%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.263%) Security Architect
5 1 (5.263%) Network Security Architect
5 1 (5.263%) Architect
5 1 (5.263%) Analyst
5 1 (5.263%) Network Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.263%) PKI
1 1 (5.263%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 14 (73.68%) Windows
2 4 (21.05%) Linux
3 3 (15.79%) UNIX
4 1 (5.263%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (5.263%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (5.263%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (21.05%) Capacity Planning
1 4 (21.05%) Information Security
1 4 (21.05%) Load Balancing
2 3 (15.79%) Business Analysis
3 2 (10.53%) ITIL
4 1 (5.263%) Incident Management
4 1 (5.263%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (5.263%) Problem Management
4 1 (5.263%) Release Management
4 1 (5.263%) Network Design
4 1 (5.263%) Data Analysis
4 1 (5.263%) Investment Management
4 1 (5.263%) Network Management
4 1 (5.263%) ITIL V3
4 1 (5.263%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (5.263%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (5.263%) Project Management
4 1 (5.263%) Benchmarking
4 1 (5.263%) Migration
4 1 (5.263%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.263%) PowerShell
1 1 (5.263%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (5.263%) Degree
1 1 (5.263%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 1 (5.263%) MCSE
1 1 (5.263%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (5.263%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (5.263%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (5.263%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (15.79%) COBIT
2 3 (15.79%) PCI DSS
3 2 (10.53%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (5.263%) Hyper-V
1 1 (5.263%) vSphere
1 1 (5.263%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (5.263%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (5.263%) WSUS
1 1 (5.263%) Zenoss
Vendors
1 16 (84.21%) Cisco
2 15 (78.95%) Juniper
2 15 (78.95%) CheckPoint
3 10 (52.63%) VMware
4 5 (26.32%) F5
5 4 (21.05%) Brocade
6 3 (15.79%) Citrix
7 1 (5.263%) Caplin
7 1 (5.263%) Fortinet
7 1 (5.263%) Kalahari
7 1 (5.263%) Riverbed
7 1 (5.263%) Verint
7 1 (5.263%) Reuters
7 1 (5.263%) Bloomberg
7 1 (5.263%) Remedy
7 1 (5.263%) Nokia
7 1 (5.263%) Avaya
7 1 (5.263%) Microsoft
7 1 (5.263%) HP