The first table below looks at the demand for Firewall skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cwmbran region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Firewall over the 3 months to 21 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 Cwmbran region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firewall
Rank 11 16 -
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 7 2 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cwmbran 14.89% 4.000% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 50.00% 15.38% -
Number of salaries quoted 7 2 0
Average salary £48,000 £31,750 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+51.18% -
UK excluding London average salary £38,472 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-3.82% +6.66%
All Communications & Networking
Cwmbran
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
14 13 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cwmbran 29.79% 26.00% 35.29%
Number of salaries quoted 14 13 6
Average salary £48,000 £36,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+33.33% +10.76%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Firewall
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Firewall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cwmbran 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 Cwmbran region.

Cwmbran Firewall Salary Trend

Firewall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cwmbran 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 20 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 17 (85.00%) DTV
3 12 (60.00%) Linux
4 11 (55.00%) Oracle
4 11 (55.00%) Windows
4 11 (55.00%) HTTP
4 11 (55.00%) Shell Script
5 6 (30.00%) UNIX
6 3 (15.00%) WAN
6 3 (15.00%) VPN
6 3 (15.00%) SLA
6 3 (15.00%) Cisco
6 3 (15.00%) CheckPoint
6 3 (15.00%) Cisco PIX
6 3 (15.00%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (15.00%) Capacity Planning
7 2 (10.00%) CCNA
7 2 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (10.00%) Nokia
7 2 (10.00%) ADSL
7 2 (10.00%) ISDN
7 2 (10.00%) VLAN
7 2 (10.00%) Load Balancing
7 2 (10.00%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (10.00%) IPsec
7 2 (10.00%) OSPF
7 2 (10.00%) BGP
7 2 (10.00%) Firmware
7 2 (10.00%) EIGRP
7 2 (10.00%) IGRP

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cwmbran 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 Platforms
1 1 (5.000%) CMS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 11 (55.00%) HTTP
3 3 (15.00%) WAN
3 3 (15.00%) VPN
3 3 (15.00%) Cisco PIX
3 3 (15.00%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (10.00%) ADSL
4 2 (10.00%) ISDN
4 2 (10.00%) VLAN
4 2 (10.00%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (10.00%) IPsec
4 2 (10.00%) OSPF
4 2 (10.00%) BGP
4 2 (10.00%) EIGRP
4 2 (10.00%) IGRP
4 2 (10.00%) PPTP
5 1 (5.000%) LAN
Job Titles
1 14 (70.00%) Systems Engineer
2 13 (65.00%) Installations Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Support Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Network Support
4 3 (15.00%) Network Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Network Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 17 (85.00%) DTV
2 2 (10.00%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 12 (60.00%) Linux
2 11 (55.00%) Windows
3 6 (30.00%) UNIX
4 1 (5.000%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (15.00%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (10.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (5.000%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (55.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) CCNA
1 2 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (5.000%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 11 (55.00%) Oracle
2 3 (15.00%) Cisco
2 3 (15.00%) CheckPoint
3 2 (10.00%) Nokia
4 1 (5.000%) VMware
4 1 (5.000%) Progress
4 1 (5.000%) Red Hat