The first table below looks at the demand for Firewall skills in IT jobs advertised for the Croydon region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Firewall over the 3 months to 23 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 Croydon region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firewall
Rank 17 29 30
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +1
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 23 19 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Croydon 7.850% 5.672% 4.211%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 41.82% 39.58% 17.14%
Number of salaries quoted 19 17 12
Average salary £42,500 £31,500 £48,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+34.92% -35.38%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,500 £30,000 £31,600
10% offered a salary of more than £61,500 £56,000 £69,250
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-3.75% +6.66%
All Communications & Networking
Croydon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
55 48 70
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Croydon 18.77% 14.33% 24.56%
Number of salaries quoted 50 44 67
Average salary £37,500 £32,500 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.38% -12.16%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £30,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £71,500 £45,000
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 Croydon region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Croydon 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 Croydon region.

Croydon Firewall Salary Trend

Firewall
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Firewall across the Croydon region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Croydon Firewall Salary Histogram

Firewall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Croydon 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 24 (46.15%) Windows
1 24 (46.15%) Finance
2 22 (42.31%) PCI DSS
3 19 (36.54%) Penetration Testing
4 16 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
5 14 (26.92%) Windows Server 2008
6 13 (25.00%) UNIX
7 10 (19.23%) Cisco
7 10 (19.23%) Windows Server 2003
8 9 (17.31%) Microsoft
8 9 (17.31%) TCP/IP
8 9 (17.31%) DNS
8 9 (17.31%) Retail
8 9 (17.31%) Hyper-V
9 8 (15.38%) Degree
9 8 (15.38%) PCI QSA
9 8 (15.38%) MS Exchange
9 8 (15.38%) Active Directory
10 7 (13.46%) Linux
10 7 (13.46%) SQL Server
10 7 (13.46%) Exchange Server 2003
10 7 (13.46%) VMware
10 7 (13.46%) Open Source
11 6 (11.54%) Information Security
11 6 (11.54%) Incident Management
11 6 (11.54%) SMTP
11 6 (11.54%) OSPF
11 6 (11.54%) BGP
11 6 (11.54%) Change Management
12 5 (9.615%) Cisco Certification

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Croydon 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 (1.923%) .NET
1 1 (1.923%) COM
1 1 (1.923%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 8 (15.38%) MS Exchange
2 7 (13.46%) Exchange Server 2003
3 3 (5.769%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (5.769%) Apache
4 2 (3.846%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (1.923%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (1.923%) IIS
5 1 (1.923%) Lotus Notes
5 1 (1.923%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (7.692%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 9 (17.31%) TCP/IP
1 9 (17.31%) DNS
2 6 (11.54%) SMTP
2 6 (11.54%) OSPF
2 6 (11.54%) BGP
3 5 (9.615%) VPN
4 3 (5.769%) MPLS
4 3 (5.769%) EIGRP
4 3 (5.769%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (3.846%) IPsec
5 2 (3.846%) SSH
5 2 (3.846%) WAN
5 2 (3.846%) LAN
5 2 (3.846%) DHCP
5 2 (3.846%) FTP
5 2 (3.846%) SAN
5 2 (3.846%) TELNET
5 2 (3.846%) Unified Communications
5 2 (3.846%) FWSM
6 1 (1.923%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.46%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.923%) SQL Server 2000
General
1 24 (46.15%) Finance
2 9 (17.31%) Retail
3 3 (5.769%) Law
4 1 (1.923%) Banking
4 1 (1.923%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (28.85%) Operations Manager
1 15 (28.85%) Security Manager
1 15 (28.85%) Security Operations Manager
2 13 (25.00%) IT Operations Manager
3 6 (11.54%) Service Manager
3 6 (11.54%) IT Services Manager
4 5 (9.615%) Infrastructure Team Leader
4 5 (9.615%) Team Leader
5 4 (7.692%) UNIX Team Leader
5 4 (7.692%) IT Manager
6 3 (5.769%) IT Security Officer
6 3 (5.769%) Security Officer
6 3 (5.769%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (3.846%) Administrator
7 2 (3.846%) Security Specialist
7 2 (3.846%) Linux Administrator
7 2 (3.846%) Cisco Engineer
7 2 (3.846%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (3.846%) IT Security Specialist
7 2 (3.846%) Cisco Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.46%) Open Source
2 3 (5.769%) Computer Science
3 1 (1.923%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 24 (46.15%) Windows
2 14 (26.92%) Windows Server 2008
3 13 (25.00%) UNIX
4 10 (19.23%) Windows Server 2003
5 7 (13.46%) Linux
6 3 (5.769%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (5.769%) Solaris
6 3 (5.769%) Fedora
7 1 (1.923%) CentOS
7 1 (1.923%) AIX
7 1 (1.923%) Windows XP
7 1 (1.923%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (36.54%) Penetration Testing
2 16 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (11.54%) Information Security
3 6 (11.54%) Incident Management
3 6 (11.54%) Change Management
4 5 (9.615%) Performance Management
5 4 (7.692%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (7.692%) Change Control
6 3 (5.769%) ITIL
6 3 (5.769%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 3 (5.769%) Problem Management
6 3 (5.769%) Risk Management
7 2 (3.846%) Migration
8 1 (1.923%) Database Security
8 1 (1.923%) Security Architecture
8 1 (1.923%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.692%) Bash shell
2 3 (5.769%) SQL
3 2 (3.846%) Korn
4 1 (1.923%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (15.38%) Degree
1 8 (15.38%) PCI QSA
2 5 (9.615%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (7.692%) HND
3 4 (7.692%) CCNP
3 4 (7.692%) CCNA
4 3 (5.769%) CCDP
4 3 (5.769%) CCIE
5 2 (3.846%) CCSA
5 2 (3.846%) CCVP
5 2 (3.846%) CCSE
5 2 (3.846%) JNCIA
5 2 (3.846%) JNCIS
5 2 (3.846%) CCSP
5 2 (3.846%) CCIP
6 1 (1.923%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.923%) MCSE
6 1 (1.923%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (42.31%) PCI DSS
2 4 (7.692%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (17.31%) Hyper-V
2 8 (15.38%) Active Directory
3 3 (5.769%) vSphere
3 3 (5.769%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.923%) XenApp
4 1 (1.923%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 4 (7.692%) Backup Exec
2 1 (1.923%) Cisco UCCX
2 1 (1.923%) SCCM
2 1 (1.923%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 10 (19.23%) Cisco
2 9 (17.31%) Microsoft
3 7 (13.46%) VMware
4 4 (7.692%) Citrix
4 4 (7.692%) CheckPoint
5 3 (5.769%) Red Hat
5 3 (5.769%) Juniper
5 3 (5.769%) Veritas
6 2 (3.846%) F5
7 1 (1.923%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.923%) Lotus
7 1 (1.923%) HP
7 1 (1.923%) Oracle
7 1 (1.923%) Sun
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