The first table below looks at the demand for the Firewall Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Firewall Engineer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the City of London region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firewall Engineer
Rank 297 328 -
Rank change year-on-year
+31 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Firewall Engineer 16 5 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.136% 0.038% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.147% 0.040% -
Number of salaries quoted 4 5 0
Average salary £45,000 £65,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-30.76% -
UK excluding London average salary £41,500 £37,500 £31,250
% change year-on-year
+10.66% +20.00%
All Job Titles
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
10905 12358 14219
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 92.89% 93.12% 93.71%
Number of salaries quoted 9400 11235 12819
Average salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.54%
90% offered a salary of more than £33,500 £32,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Firewall Engineer
London

Firewall Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Firewall Engineer across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

City of London Firewall Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Firewall Engineer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Firewall Engineer across the City of London region.

City of London Firewall Engineer Salary Trend

Firewall Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region that cited Firewall Engineer in their job title 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 with Firewall Engineer in their job title.

1 24 (100.00%) Cisco
1 24 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 24 (100.00%) Juniper
1 24 (100.00%) MPLS
1 24 (100.00%) OSPF
1 24 (100.00%) BGP
1 24 (100.00%) Firewall
1 24 (100.00%) Fortinet
2 20 (83.33%) Polycom
2 20 (83.33%) Video Conferencing
2 20 (83.33%) PCI DSS
2 20 (83.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (83.33%) Cisco ASA
2 20 (83.33%) Aruba
2 20 (83.33%) Network Management
2 20 (83.33%) Junos
2 20 (83.33%) F5
2 20 (83.33%) Cisco Nexus
2 20 (83.33%) FortiGate
2 20 (83.33%) Wireless
2 20 (83.33%) Migration
2 20 (83.33%) VMware
2 20 (83.33%) IP Telephony
2 20 (83.33%) Sourcefire
2 20 (83.33%) JNCIE
2 20 (83.33%) HP
2 20 (83.33%) CCIE
2 20 (83.33%) DHCP
2 20 (83.33%) Ethernet
2 20 (83.33%) SNMP

Firewall Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region that cited Firewall Engineer in their job title 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 with Firewall Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 24 (100.00%) MPLS
1 24 (100.00%) OSPF
1 24 (100.00%) BGP
1 24 (100.00%) Firewall
2 20 (83.33%) Cisco ASA
2 20 (83.33%) Junos
2 20 (83.33%) Cisco Nexus
2 20 (83.33%) Wireless
2 20 (83.33%) IP Telephony
2 20 (83.33%) DHCP
2 20 (83.33%) Ethernet
2 20 (83.33%) SNMP
2 20 (83.33%) DNS
3 16 (66.67%) VLAN
4 7 (29.17%) WAN
5 4 (16.67%) EIGRP
5 4 (16.67%) NetScreen
6 3 (12.50%) LAN
6 3 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
General
1 12 (50.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 20 (83.33%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (4.167%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (83.33%) Network Management
1 20 (83.33%) Migration
2 5 (20.83%) Project Planning
3 3 (12.50%) Change Management
3 3 (12.50%) ITIL
Qualifications
1 24 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 20 (83.33%) JNCIE
2 20 (83.33%) CCIE
3 4 (16.67%) CCNP
3 4 (16.67%) CCIP
4 3 (12.50%) CCNA
5 1 (4.167%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (83.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (83.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (83.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 24 (100.00%) Cisco
1 24 (100.00%) Juniper
1 24 (100.00%) Fortinet
2 20 (83.33%) Polycom
2 20 (83.33%) Aruba
2 20 (83.33%) F5
2 20 (83.33%) VMware
2 20 (83.33%) Sourcefire
2 20 (83.33%) HP
City of London
Desirable) Knowledge of other related products: Cisco Nexus, Cisco UCS, HP BladeCentre, VMware, Fortinet Fortigate, SourceFire IDS, F5 load-balancers... Professional accreditation in relevant technical disciplines - (eg, Cisco...
WorldPay
Salary: Competitive + Bens
Posted: 22 May 2013
City, London
Experience of end-to-end PCI-DSS certification process... *Good working knowledge of Cisco ASA Firewalls... *Site to site VPN tunnels... *Network monitoring protocols such as Syslog and...
JP Specialist Contracts
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013