The first table below looks at the demand for Firewall skills in IT jobs advertised for the Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firewall
Rank 70 71 77
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +6
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 25 5 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Glasgow 2.174% 0.595% 1.029%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 18.52% 4.545% 10.75%
Number of salaries quoted 11 3 8
Average salary £27,500 £40,000 £31,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-31.25% +28.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,500 £36,000 £24,100
10% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £42,000 £42,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +6.66%
All Communications & Networking
Glasgow
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
135 110 93
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Glasgow 11.74% 13.10% 9.568%
Number of salaries quoted 84 74 73
Average salary £34,000 £40,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-15.00% +33.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £23,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £49,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
Firewall
Scotland

Firewall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow Firewall Salary Trend

Firewall
Salary Histogram

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

Glasgow Firewall Salary Histogram

Firewall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Glasgow 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 34 (52.31%) Cisco
2 29 (44.62%) Finance
3 28 (43.08%) Windows
4 24 (36.92%) Cisco Certification
4 24 (36.92%) Cisco ASA
5 22 (33.85%) Network Security
6 21 (32.31%) CCNP
6 21 (32.31%) Telecoms
7 20 (30.77%) Blue Coat
7 20 (30.77%) CCSE
7 20 (30.77%) JNCIS
7 20 (30.77%) Juniper
7 20 (30.77%) CheckPoint
7 20 (30.77%) Websense
7 20 (30.77%) Cisco PIX
7 20 (30.77%) F5
8 13 (20.00%) Linux
9 12 (18.46%) Active Directory
9 12 (18.46%) VMware
10 11 (16.92%) LAN
11 10 (15.38%) UNIX
11 10 (15.38%) Windows Server 2008
12 9 (13.85%) SQL
13 8 (12.31%) SharePoint
13 8 (12.31%) Windows Server 2003
14 7 (10.77%) Microsoft
14 7 (10.77%) MS Exchange
14 7 (10.77%) WAN
14 7 (10.77%) ITIL
14 7 (10.77%) IIS

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Glasgow 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 4 (6.154%) CSS
2 1 (1.538%) CGI
2 1 (1.538%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 8 (12.31%) SharePoint
2 7 (10.77%) MS Exchange
2 7 (10.77%) IIS
3 6 (9.231%) Apache
3 6 (9.231%) Exchange Server 2003
3 6 (9.231%) Exchange Server 2010
4 4 (6.154%) SharePoint 2010
5 2 (3.077%) Confluence
5 2 (3.077%) Tomcat
5 2 (3.077%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (1.538%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (9.231%) MS Office
1 6 (9.231%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 24 (36.92%) Cisco ASA
2 22 (33.85%) Network Security
3 20 (30.77%) Cisco PIX
4 11 (16.92%) LAN
5 7 (10.77%) WAN
6 6 (9.231%) VPN
6 6 (9.231%) SAN
7 5 (7.692%) NAS
8 4 (6.154%) Internet
8 4 (6.154%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (6.154%) LDAP
8 4 (6.154%) VoIP
9 3 (4.615%) TCP/IP
9 3 (4.615%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (1.538%) VLAN
10 1 (1.538%) iSCSI
10 1 (1.538%) Wireless
10 1 (1.538%) Intranet
10 1 (1.538%) DNS
10 1 (1.538%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.231%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.615%) MySQL
3 2 (3.077%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (1.538%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (1.538%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (1.538%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (3.077%) JIRA
1 2 (3.077%) Mercurial
General
1 29 (44.62%) Finance
2 21 (32.31%) Telecoms
3 5 (7.692%) Banking
4 1 (1.538%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.538%) Dutch Language
4 1 (1.538%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 21 (32.31%) Network Engineer
2 20 (30.77%) Analyst
2 20 (30.77%) Network Security Engineer
2 20 (30.77%) Security Engineer
2 20 (30.77%) Firewall Engineer
3 12 (18.46%) Support Analyst
4 8 (12.31%) Systems Administrator
4 8 (12.31%) Administrator
5 7 (10.77%) Security Analyst
6 5 (7.692%) Senior Analyst
6 5 (7.692%) Systems Engineer
6 5 (7.692%) Senior Support Analyst
7 4 (6.154%) Network Analyst
8 3 (4.615%) Network Support Analyst
8 3 (4.615%) Information Security Analyst
8 3 (4.615%) Network Administrator
8 3 (4.615%) Information Analyst
8 3 (4.615%) IT Administrator
8 3 (4.615%) Network Support
9 2 (3.077%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.154%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.615%) Clustering
2 3 (4.615%) Cryptography
2 3 (4.615%) Computer Science
2 3 (4.615%) Blackberry
3 2 (3.077%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (1.538%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.538%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 28 (43.08%) Windows
2 13 (20.00%) Linux
3 10 (15.38%) UNIX
3 10 (15.38%) Windows Server 2008
4 8 (12.31%) Windows Server 2003
5 7 (10.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (10.77%) Windows 7
6 5 (7.692%) CentOS
6 5 (7.692%) Solaris
7 2 (3.077%) Windows XP
7 2 (3.077%) Android
7 2 (3.077%) Mac OS
7 2 (3.077%) Apple iOS
7 2 (3.077%) Windows 8
7 2 (3.077%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.538%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (10.77%) ITIL
2 6 (9.231%) Risk Management
2 6 (9.231%) Load Balancing
3 5 (7.692%) Information Security
3 5 (7.692%) Change Control
4 4 (6.154%) Change Management
4 4 (6.154%) Workflow
4 4 (6.154%) Knowledge Management
5 3 (4.615%) Security Management
5 3 (4.615%) Data Management
5 3 (4.615%) Information Management
5 3 (4.615%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 3 (4.615%) ITIL V3
5 3 (4.615%) SIEM
6 2 (3.077%) Capacity Management
6 2 (3.077%) Incident Management
7 1 (1.538%) Migration
7 1 (1.538%) Investment Management
7 1 (1.538%) Information Assurance
7 1 (1.538%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 9 (13.85%) SQL
2 6 (9.231%) Shell Script
3 4 (6.154%) Ruby
3 4 (6.154%) Java
3 4 (6.154%) Python
4 3 (4.615%) C
4 3 (4.615%) C++
5 1 (1.538%) Perl
5 1 (1.538%) PHP
5 1 (1.538%) Bash shell
5 1 (1.538%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (36.92%) Cisco Certification
2 21 (32.31%) CCNP
3 20 (30.77%) CCSE
3 20 (30.77%) JNCIS
4 6 (9.231%) MCSE
4 6 (9.231%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (7.692%) MCITP
5 5 (7.692%) Degree
6 4 (6.154%) MCSA
7 3 (4.615%) CCSP
7 3 (4.615%) CEH
7 3 (4.615%) SSCP
7 3 (4.615%) GIAC
7 3 (4.615%) CISSP
8 1 (1.538%) MCTS
8 1 (1.538%) CCVP
8 1 (1.538%) CCNA
8 1 (1.538%) CCA
8 1 (1.538%) Citrix Certification
8 1 (1.538%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.538%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.538%) QA
System Software
1 12 (18.46%) Active Directory
2 6 (9.231%) Hyper-V
3 5 (7.692%) Terminal Server
3 5 (7.692%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (4.615%) VMware ESX
5 2 (3.077%) Terminal Services
6 1 (1.538%) Samba
6 1 (1.538%) Xen
6 1 (1.538%) NFS
6 1 (1.538%) XenApp
6 1 (1.538%) XenServer
6 1 (1.538%) XenDesktop
6 1 (1.538%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (3.077%) SCCM
2 1 (1.538%) Backup Exec
2 1 (1.538%) WSUS
Vendors
1 34 (52.31%) Cisco
2 20 (30.77%) CheckPoint
2 20 (30.77%) Juniper
2 20 (30.77%) Websense
2 20 (30.77%) Blue Coat
2 20 (30.77%) F5
3 12 (18.46%) VMware
4 7 (10.77%) Microsoft
5 5 (7.692%) Oracle
5 5 (7.692%) HP
5 5 (7.692%) Citrix
6 4 (6.154%) Dell
6 4 (6.154%) EMC
6 4 (6.154%) Reuters
6 4 (6.154%) Bloomberg
7 3 (4.615%) Symantec
7 3 (4.615%) eSpeed
7 3 (4.615%) CQG
7 3 (4.615%) Tradeweb
7 3 (4.615%) MarketAxess
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
The role is to support all internal systems. Successful applicants will be responsible for the support and delivery of all internal IT services throughout the company's office...
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £18000 - £25000 per annum + Excellent training and career progression
Posted: 14 May 2013