The first table below looks at the demand for Firewall skills in IT jobs advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Firewall over the 3 months to 17 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 Chester region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firewall
Rank 42 35 -
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 8 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 2.235% 0.617% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.53% 4.348% -
Number of salaries quoted 5 1 0
Average salary £46,500 £24,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+93.75% -
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +6.66%
All Communications & Networking
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
76 23 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 21.23% 14.20% 6.780%
Number of salaries quoted 31 22 15
Average salary £37,500 £29,500 £28,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+27.11% +3.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,500 £25,000 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £42,500 £32,500
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
Firewall
Cheshire

Firewall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester Firewall Salary Trend

Firewall
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Firewall across the Chester region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Chester Firewall Salary Histogram

Firewall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 11 (61.11%) Cisco
2 9 (50.00%) LAN
2 9 (50.00%) VPN
3 7 (38.89%) WAN
3 7 (38.89%) Juniper
4 6 (33.33%) BGP
4 6 (33.33%) DNS
5 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
5 5 (27.78%) E-Commerce
5 5 (27.78%) Internet
6 4 (22.22%) Cisco PIX
6 4 (22.22%) Nokia
6 4 (22.22%) CheckPoint
6 4 (22.22%) EIGRP
6 4 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (22.22%) OSPF
6 4 (22.22%) Windows
6 4 (22.22%) DHCP
6 4 (22.22%) ATM
6 4 (22.22%) CCNP
6 4 (22.22%) SSL
6 4 (22.22%) RIP
6 4 (22.22%) TCP/IP
7 3 (16.67%) IPX
7 3 (16.67%) IPX/SPX
7 3 (16.67%) Citrix
7 3 (16.67%) Ethernet
7 3 (16.67%) MS Office
7 3 (16.67%) DWDM
7 3 (16.67%) Change Management

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 (5.556%) CSS
1 1 (5.556%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) MS Exchange
2 1 (5.556%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 3 (16.67%) MS Office
2 1 (5.556%) MS Excel
2 1 (5.556%) AutoCAD
2 1 (5.556%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 9 (50.00%) LAN
1 9 (50.00%) VPN
2 7 (38.89%) WAN
3 6 (33.33%) DNS
3 6 (33.33%) BGP
4 5 (27.78%) Internet
5 4 (22.22%) EIGRP
5 4 (22.22%) OSPF
5 4 (22.22%) Cisco PIX
5 4 (22.22%) SSL
5 4 (22.22%) RIP
5 4 (22.22%) TCP/IP
5 4 (22.22%) DHCP
5 4 (22.22%) ATM
6 3 (16.67%) Ethernet
6 3 (16.67%) IPX
6 3 (16.67%) IPX/SPX
6 3 (16.67%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (16.67%) HSRP
6 3 (16.67%) Wireless
General
1 3 (16.67%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Banking
2 2 (11.11%) Retail
2 2 (11.11%) Investment Banking
2 2 (11.11%) Retail Banking
2 2 (11.11%) Private Banking
2 2 (11.11%) Financial Institution
3 1 (5.556%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.556%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Network Engineer
1 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Network Support Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Cisco Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Cisco Support Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Analyst
2 3 (16.67%) Support Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Network Support
2 3 (16.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Network Specialist
2 3 (16.67%) Cisco Support
3 2 (11.11%) Incident Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Support Technician
3 2 (11.11%) Domain Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Architect
4 1 (5.556%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (5.556%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
4 1 (5.556%) Systems Support Analyst
4 1 (5.556%) Support Analyst
4 1 (5.556%) Infrastructure Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Thin Client
1 2 (11.11%) Mainframe
1 2 (11.11%) Online Banking
1 2 (11.11%) Fat Client
2 1 (5.556%) iSeries
2 1 (5.556%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (5.556%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.556%) AS400
2 1 (5.556%) SecurID
2 1 (5.556%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Windows
2 3 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (11.11%) Windows 7
3 2 (11.11%) UNIX
3 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (5.556%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) E-Commerce
2 3 (16.67%) Change Management
2 3 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (16.67%) Load Balancing
2 3 (16.67%) Network Management
3 2 (11.11%) Investment Management
3 2 (11.11%) Wealth Management
3 2 (11.11%) ITIL
3 2 (11.11%) Incident Management
3 2 (11.11%) Risk Management
3 2 (11.11%) Asset Management
3 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (11.11%) Service Management
4 1 (5.556%) Data Modelling
4 1 (5.556%) Data Management
4 1 (5.556%) Document Management
4 1 (5.556%) Problem Management
4 1 (5.556%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.556%) PowerHouse
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) CCNP
1 4 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.556%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (11.11%) vSphere
3 1 (5.556%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.556%) XenApp
Vendors
1 11 (61.11%) Cisco
2 7 (38.89%) Juniper
3 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
4 4 (22.22%) Nokia
4 4 (22.22%) CheckPoint
5 3 (16.67%) VMware
5 3 (16.67%) Citrix
6 1 (5.556%) Foundry
6 1 (5.556%) HP
6 1 (5.556%) Dell
Chester, Cheshire
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Posted: 17 May 2013