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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firewall
Rank 48 58 48
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -10
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 36 24 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Guildford 4.054% 3.315% 1.493%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.06% 25.00% 11.48%
Number of salaries quoted 31 23 7
Average salary £45,000 £39,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.38% -13.33%
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-3.75% +6.66%
All Communications & Networking
Guildford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
239 96 61
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Guildford 26.91% 13.26% 13.01%
Number of salaries quoted 178 94 59
Average salary £42,500 £38,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.84% +16.92%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,893 £26,600 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £45,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Firewall
Surrey

Firewall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford Firewall Salary Trend

Firewall
Salary Histogram

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

Guildford Firewall Salary Histogram

Firewall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Guildford 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 46 (58.97%) TCP/IP
2 41 (52.56%) VMware
3 35 (44.87%) Cisco
3 35 (44.87%) Microsoft
4 32 (41.03%) VMware Infrastructure
5 30 (38.46%) Windows
6 27 (34.62%) DNS
7 21 (26.92%) Cisco Certification
8 20 (25.64%) CCNA
8 20 (25.64%) Linux
9 18 (23.08%) MS Exchange
9 18 (23.08%) CheckPoint
10 17 (21.79%) Active Directory
10 17 (21.79%) Degree
11 16 (20.51%) VPN
11 16 (20.51%) MS Excel
12 15 (19.23%) Microsoft Certification
13 14 (17.95%) MPLS
13 14 (17.95%) UNIX
13 14 (17.95%) Citrix
14 13 (16.67%) MCSE
14 13 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 12 (15.38%) SQL Server
15 12 (15.38%) ITIL
15 12 (15.38%) VoIP
15 12 (15.38%) Juniper
15 12 (15.38%) SAN
16 11 (14.10%) Change Management
16 11 (14.10%) Windows Server 2003
16 11 (14.10%) SQL

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Guildford 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 6 (7.692%) EDI
2 5 (6.410%) .NET
3 3 (3.846%) Web Services
3 3 (3.846%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (2.564%) WCF
4 2 (2.564%) Application Packaging
4 2 (2.564%) XML
4 2 (2.564%) ASP
4 2 (2.564%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.282%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 18 (23.08%) MS Exchange
2 7 (8.974%) SharePoint
3 4 (5.128%) Exchange Server 2003
4 3 (3.846%) IIS
4 3 (3.846%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (3.846%) Exchange Server 2007
5 2 (2.564%) Lync
5 2 (2.564%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 2 (2.564%) Apache
6 1 (1.282%) Tomcat
6 1 (1.282%) CMS
6 1 (1.282%) Exchange Server 2000
Applications
1 16 (20.51%) MS Excel
2 8 (10.26%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.564%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 46 (58.97%) TCP/IP
2 27 (34.62%) DNS
3 16 (20.51%) VPN
4 14 (17.95%) MPLS
5 12 (15.38%) VoIP
5 12 (15.38%) SAN
6 10 (12.82%) IP Telephony
6 10 (12.82%) Internet
7 9 (11.54%) FTP
8 8 (10.26%) WAN
9 7 (8.974%) Ethernet
9 7 (8.974%) DSL
9 7 (8.974%) xDSL
9 7 (8.974%) VLAN
9 7 (8.974%) WiMAX
10 6 (7.692%) IPsec
10 6 (7.692%) DHCP
10 6 (7.692%) SSL
11 5 (6.410%) NAS
11 5 (6.410%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.564%) Oracle 11g
2 2 (2.564%) GIS
2 2 (2.564%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.564%) MySQL
3 1 (1.282%) QualityStage
General
1 9 (11.54%) Finance
2 4 (5.128%) Telecoms
3 3 (3.846%) Games
4 2 (2.564%) Back Office
5 1 (1.282%) Legal
Job Titles
1 16 (20.51%) Network Engineer
2 12 (15.38%) Support Engineer
3 11 (14.10%) Consultant
4 10 (12.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (12.82%) Administrator
5 9 (11.54%) Network Specialist
6 8 (10.26%) IT Administrator
6 8 (10.26%) IT Support
7 7 (8.974%) Network Support
7 7 (8.974%) Citrix Engineer
8 6 (7.692%) Analyst
8 6 (7.692%) Systems Engineer
8 6 (7.692%) Support Consultant
9 5 (6.410%) Business Analyst
9 5 (6.410%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
9 5 (6.410%) Cisco Engineer
9 5 (6.410%) Network Support Engineer
10 4 (5.128%) Network Administrator
10 4 (5.128%) Team Leader
10 4 (5.128%) Technical Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.974%) SaaS
2 3 (3.846%) Firmware
2 3 (3.846%) Computer Science
2 3 (3.846%) SecurID
3 2 (2.564%) IVR
3 2 (2.564%) Clustering
3 2 (2.564%) PKI
3 2 (2.564%) Fat Client
3 2 (2.564%) Smartcard
3 2 (2.564%) Thin Client
3 2 (2.564%) Blackberry
4 1 (1.282%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.282%) Celerra
4 1 (1.282%) CLARiiON
Operating Systems
1 30 (38.46%) Windows
2 20 (25.64%) Linux
3 14 (17.95%) UNIX
4 11 (14.10%) Windows Server 2003
4 11 (14.10%) Windows Server 2008
5 9 (11.54%) Windows XP
6 6 (7.692%) AIX
6 6 (7.692%) Solaris
7 4 (5.128%) CentOS
8 2 (2.564%) SUSE
9 1 (1.282%) Windows 2000
9 1 (1.282%) Windows 2000 Server
9 1 (1.282%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (15.38%) ITIL
2 11 (14.10%) Change Management
3 10 (12.82%) B2B
4 7 (8.974%) CRM
5 6 (7.692%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (7.692%) ERP
6 5 (6.410%) Business Analysis
6 5 (6.410%) Business Continuity
7 4 (5.128%) Resource Management
7 4 (5.128%) Project Management
8 3 (3.846%) SOA
8 3 (3.846%) Network Management
8 3 (3.846%) Information Security
8 3 (3.846%) Infrastructure Management
9 2 (2.564%) Data Security
9 2 (2.564%) Problem Management
9 2 (2.564%) Capacity Management
9 2 (2.564%) SIEM
9 2 (2.564%) MVC
9 2 (2.564%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 11 (14.10%) SQL
2 6 (7.692%) ActionScript
2 6 (7.692%) ActionScript 2.0
3 2 (2.564%) PL/SQL
3 2 (2.564%) C
3 2 (2.564%) C#
4 1 (1.282%) Java
4 1 (1.282%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 21 (26.92%) Cisco Certification
2 20 (25.64%) CCNA
3 17 (21.79%) Degree
4 15 (19.23%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (16.67%) MCSE
5 13 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 11 (14.10%) Security Cleared
7 8 (10.26%) MCITP
8 7 (8.974%) SC Cleared
9 5 (6.410%) ISEB
9 5 (6.410%) MCTS
9 5 (6.410%) JNCIS
9 5 (6.410%) JNCIP
9 5 (6.410%) JNCIE
10 4 (5.128%) CCDA
11 3 (3.846%) CCNP
11 3 (3.846%) MCSA
12 2 (2.564%) CCSE
12 2 (2.564%) CITP
12 2 (2.564%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.82%) SLA
2 6 (7.692%) QA
System Software
1 32 (41.03%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (21.79%) Active Directory
3 8 (10.26%) VMware ESX
4 7 (8.974%) Hyper-V
4 7 (8.974%) XenApp
4 7 (8.974%) Citrix Presentation Server
5 6 (7.692%) VMware Server
6 5 (6.410%) vSphere
7 2 (2.564%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (1.282%) Terminal Services
8 1 (1.282%) ISA Server
8 1 (1.282%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 3 (3.846%) Cacti
2 2 (2.564%) SCCM
2 2 (2.564%) SCOM
2 2 (2.564%) Data Guard
3 1 (1.282%) SolarWinds Orion
3 1 (1.282%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 41 (52.56%) VMware
2 35 (44.87%) Cisco
2 35 (44.87%) Microsoft
3 18 (23.08%) CheckPoint
4 14 (17.95%) Citrix
5 12 (15.38%) Juniper
6 9 (11.54%) Avaya
7 7 (8.974%) Adobe
7 7 (8.974%) Sage
8 5 (6.410%) HP
9 4 (5.128%) Blue Coat
9 4 (5.128%) AppSense
10 3 (3.846%) Oracle
10 3 (3.846%) Reuters
11 2 (2.564%) Sourcefire
11 2 (2.564%) IronPort
11 2 (2.564%) F5
11 2 (2.564%) ArcSight
11 2 (2.564%) Websense
11 2 (2.564%) Business Objects
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