The first table below looks at the demand for Firewall skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Firewall over the 3 months to 22 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 Cheshire region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firewall
Rank 75 86 71
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -15
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 45 45 45
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 2.499% 2.241% 2.781%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.42% 18.07% 15.63%
Number of salaries quoted 40 43 35
Average salary £35,750 £42,500 £32,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-15.88% +31.78%
90% offered a salary of more than £17,000 £19,650 £27,125
10% offered a salary of more than £49,000 £62,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-3.75% +6.66%
All Communications & Networking
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
394 249 288
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 21.88% 12.40% 17.80%
Number of salaries quoted 303 224 239
Average salary £30,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.85% -
90% offered a salary of more than £22,000 £24,000 £23,800
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Firewall
North West

Firewall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire Firewall Salary Trend

Firewall
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Firewall across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Cheshire Firewall Salary Histogram

Firewall
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Warrington +12 10 £25,500 -26.08%
Chester -12 7 £36,750 +53.12%
Macclesfield -6 5 £22,500 -40.00%
Northwich +2 3 £15,500 -20.51%
Nantwich - 2 £37,500 -
Knutsford -7 1 £28,500 -54.40%
Runcorn - 1 £28,000 -
Crewe - 1 £25,000 -
Firewall
North West

Firewall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 45 (55.56%) Cisco
2 37 (45.68%) Microsoft
3 36 (44.44%) Windows
4 25 (30.86%) WAN
5 24 (29.63%) Juniper
6 23 (28.40%) DNS
6 23 (28.40%) VMware
7 21 (25.93%) VPN
7 21 (25.93%) MS Excel
8 20 (24.69%) TCP/IP
8 20 (24.69%) Active Directory
8 20 (24.69%) Windows Server 2008
9 19 (23.46%) LAN
9 19 (23.46%) Windows Server 2003
10 18 (22.22%) Finance
11 17 (20.99%) DHCP
12 15 (18.52%) SAN
12 15 (18.52%) Linux
12 15 (18.52%) VMware Infrastructure
13 14 (17.28%) Cisco Certification
14 12 (14.81%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (14.81%) MS Exchange
14 12 (14.81%) SQL
15 11 (13.58%) Service Management
15 11 (13.58%) Wireless
16 10 (12.35%) Network Management
16 10 (12.35%) Internet
16 10 (12.35%) High Availability
17 9 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
17 9 (11.11%) E-Commerce

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 8 (9.877%) WebSphere
2 4 (4.938%) Middleware
3 3 (3.704%) XML
3 3 (3.704%) JSON
4 2 (2.469%) Flash
4 2 (2.469%) XHTML
4 2 (2.469%) CSS
5 1 (1.235%) SOAP
5 1 (1.235%) HTML
5 1 (1.235%) RSS
5 1 (1.235%) Mason
5 1 (1.235%) Ajax
5 1 (1.235%) XML-RPC
Application Platforms
1 12 (14.81%) MS Exchange
2 8 (9.877%) Exchange Server 2010
2 8 (9.877%) Exchange Server 2007
3 7 (8.642%) Exchange Server 2003
4 6 (7.407%) SharePoint
5 5 (6.173%) IIS
6 3 (3.704%) Apache
Applications
1 21 (25.93%) MS Excel
2 7 (8.642%) MS Office
3 6 (7.407%) Office 365
4 1 (1.235%) MS Project
4 1 (1.235%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 1 (1.235%) Dynamics GP
Communications & Networking
1 25 (30.86%) WAN
2 23 (28.40%) DNS
3 21 (25.93%) VPN
4 20 (24.69%) TCP/IP
5 19 (23.46%) LAN
6 17 (20.99%) DHCP
7 15 (18.52%) SAN
8 11 (13.58%) Wireless
9 10 (12.35%) Internet
10 9 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
11 7 (8.642%) BGP
11 7 (8.642%) VoIP
12 5 (6.173%) ATM
13 4 (4.938%) VLAN
13 4 (4.938%) Cisco PIX
13 4 (4.938%) Network Security
13 4 (4.938%) DMZ
13 4 (4.938%) Ethernet
13 4 (4.938%) SNMP
13 4 (4.938%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.877%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.704%) MySQL
3 2 (2.469%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (1.235%) PostgreSQL
General
1 18 (22.22%) Finance
2 4 (4.938%) Telecoms
3 3 (3.704%) Retail
4 2 (2.469%) Banking
4 2 (2.469%) Investment Banking
4 2 (2.469%) Retail Banking
4 2 (2.469%) Private Banking
4 2 (2.469%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.235%) Back Office
5 1 (1.235%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.235%) Music
5 1 (1.235%) Advertising
5 1 (1.235%) Games
Job Titles
1 18 (22.22%) Support Engineer
2 13 (16.05%) Analyst
3 11 (13.58%) Architect
3 11 (13.58%) IT Support
3 11 (13.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (9.877%) Pre Sales Consultant
4 8 (9.877%) Technical Pre Sales Consultant
4 8 (9.877%) Technical Consultant
4 8 (9.877%) Consultant
4 8 (9.877%) Network Engineer
4 8 (9.877%) Sales Consultant
4 8 (9.877%) Support Analyst
5 7 (8.642%) Technical Support
5 7 (8.642%) Technical Support Engineer
5 7 (8.642%) Technical Engineer
6 6 (7.407%) IT Support Engineer
7 5 (6.173%) Senior Analyst
8 4 (4.938%) IT Support Analyst
8 4 (4.938%) Senior Support Analyst
8 4 (4.938%) Senior IT Support
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.173%) Enterprise Storage
2 3 (3.704%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (2.469%) IVR
3 2 (2.469%) Online Banking
3 2 (2.469%) Fat Client
3 2 (2.469%) Blackberry
3 2 (2.469%) Mainframe
3 2 (2.469%) Firmware
3 2 (2.469%) Thin Client
3 2 (2.469%) Client/Server
3 2 (2.469%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.235%) Mobile Computing
4 1 (1.235%) AS400
4 1 (1.235%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.235%) iPhone
4 1 (1.235%) iSeries
4 1 (1.235%) Social Network
4 1 (1.235%) Statistics
4 1 (1.235%) Streaming Music
4 1 (1.235%) SecurID
Operating Systems
1 36 (44.44%) Windows
2 20 (24.69%) Windows Server 2008
3 19 (23.46%) Windows Server 2003
4 15 (18.52%) Linux
5 9 (11.11%) Windows XP
6 8 (9.877%) AIX
7 7 (8.642%) UNIX
8 6 (7.407%) Windows 7
9 3 (3.704%) Solaris
10 2 (2.469%) Windows 2000 Server
11 1 (1.235%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (1.235%) Android
11 1 (1.235%) Windows Vista
11 1 (1.235%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (13.58%) Service Management
2 10 (12.35%) Network Management
2 10 (12.35%) High Availability
3 9 (11.11%) E-Commerce
3 9 (11.11%) Business Continuity
4 8 (9.877%) Validation
4 8 (9.877%) Load Balancing
4 8 (9.877%) ITSM
4 8 (9.877%) WAN Optimisation
5 7 (8.642%) Disaster Recovery
5 7 (8.642%) ITIL
6 4 (4.938%) Incident Management
6 4 (4.938%) Project Management
7 3 (3.704%) Change Management
7 3 (3.704%) Security Architecture
7 3 (3.704%) Asset Management
7 3 (3.704%) Migration
8 2 (2.469%) Information Security
8 2 (2.469%) Penetration Testing
8 2 (2.469%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 12 (14.81%) SQL
2 3 (3.704%) JavaScript
3 2 (2.469%) Perl
3 2 (2.469%) Java
4 1 (1.235%) PHP
4 1 (1.235%) Python
4 1 (1.235%) PowerHouse
4 1 (1.235%) Bash shell
4 1 (1.235%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (17.28%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (14.81%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (11.11%) CCNP
3 9 (11.11%) Security Cleared
4 7 (8.642%) MCP
4 7 (8.642%) CCNA
5 6 (7.407%) MCSE
6 3 (3.704%) Degree
6 3 (3.704%) MCTS
7 2 (2.469%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (2.469%) CISA
7 2 (2.469%) CISM
7 2 (2.469%) CISSP
8 1 (1.235%) MCITP
8 1 (1.235%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.704%) SLA
1 3 (3.704%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 20 (24.69%) Active Directory
2 15 (18.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (9.877%) Xen
4 4 (4.938%) vSphere
5 2 (2.469%) VMware ESX
5 2 (2.469%) VMware Server
6 1 (1.235%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.235%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 8 (9.877%) Tivoli
1 8 (9.877%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 4 (4.938%) SCCM
3 3 (3.704%) FortiGate
4 2 (2.469%) Backup Exec
4 2 (2.469%) Nagios
5 1 (1.235%) Norton AntiVirus
5 1 (1.235%) Puppet
Vendors
1 45 (55.56%) Cisco
2 37 (45.68%) Microsoft
3 24 (29.63%) Juniper
4 23 (28.40%) VMware
5 9 (11.11%) IBM
6 8 (9.877%) Riverbed
6 8 (9.877%) Isilon
6 8 (9.877%) EMC
6 8 (9.877%) Cognos
6 8 (9.877%) Lotus
7 7 (8.642%) Citrix
8 5 (6.173%) CheckPoint
9 4 (4.938%) F5
9 4 (4.938%) WatchGuard
9 4 (4.938%) HP
9 4 (4.938%) NetApp
9 4 (4.938%) Oracle
10 3 (3.704%) Nokia
10 3 (3.704%) Avaya
11 2 (2.469%) Symantec
Warrington, Cheshire
With 11. years. in the market they offer services into the media and entertainment business. The Systems Administrator will be responsible for provisioning, installation and maintenance of systems...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 22,000 - 30,000
Posted: 21 May 2013
Wilmslow, North West
The following are essential for this role: Microsoft Windows Server Active Directory Microsoft Terminal Services Remote Desktop Services Microsoft Exchange 2007/2010 Some highly desirable skills include: VMware...
greywood
Salary: £45000 per annum + Bens
Posted: 16 May 2013
Wilmslow, Cheshire
The following are essential for this role: Microsoft Windows Server. Active Directory. Microsoft Terminal Services... Microsoft Exchange 2007/2010. Some highly desirable skills include: VMware. HyperV... An understanding...
Greywood Associates Limited
Salary: £45000 per annum + Bens
Posted: 21 May 2013
Chester, Cheshire
IT Support - £22k basic + benefits package, Chester, Windows Server 2003/2008, Active Directory, Backup Exec 2010, Office 2010. IIS, Routers... System administration Servers (administration and maintenance, backup/restore)...
PNG Recruitment Solutions
Salary: £22,000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Nantwich, North West
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES Essential :- Windows Server 2K8 (Multi-site Active Directory administration,DFS, DNS, DHCP)Enterprise skills (Monitoring, High Availability and Disaster Recovery)Network (Cisco hardware, TCPIP, DMVPN, Firewall/...
OCC Computing
Salary: £0 - 40k per year
Posted: 1 May 2013
Cheshire
As such in depth Firewall knowledge is required, including but not limited to Checkpoint, Juniper and Fortigate knowledge... A professional qualification, such as CISSP, CISM or CISA is...
Rullion IT Plus
Salary: £40000 - £55000 per annum + Package
Posted: 15 May 2013
Cheshire
As such in depth Firewall knowledge is required, including but not limited to Checkpoint, Juniper and Fortigate knowledge... A professional qualification, such as CISSP, CISM or CISA is...
Rullion IT Plus
Salary: £55000 - £70000 per annum + Package
Posted: 15 May 2013