The first table below looks at the demand for Firewall skills in IT jobs advertised for the Halifax region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Firewall over the 3 months to 17 June 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 Halifax region.

Location
3 months to
17 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firewall
Rank 24 39 22
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -17
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 2 1 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Halifax 1.370% 0.521% 3.279%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.692% 5.882% 14.81%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 3
Average salary £22,500 - £32,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £40,000 £36,500
% change year-on-year
-3.75% +9.58%
All Communications & Networking
Halifax
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
26 17 27
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Halifax 17.81% 8.854% 22.13%
Number of salaries quoted 22 10 19
Average salary £32,500 £32,500 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -20.73%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £21,200 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £40,500 £55,000 £43,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Firewall
West Yorkshire

Firewall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Halifax 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 Halifax region.

Halifax Firewall Salary Trend

Firewall
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT jobs across the Halifax 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 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) SAN
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
1 4 (100.00%) WatchGuard
1 4 (100.00%) SonicWALL
2 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (75.00%) Apple
2 3 (75.00%) MS Exchange
2 3 (75.00%) SLA
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) IBM
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) LAN
3 1 (25.00%) WAN
3 1 (25.00%) HP
3 1 (25.00%) Dell
3 1 (25.00%) NetApp
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (25.00%) Veeam
3 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT jobs across the Halifax 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 3 (75.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) SAN
2 1 (25.00%) LAN
2 1 (25.00%) WAN
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Support Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Help Desk Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Help Desk Support
2 1 (25.00%) Help Desk Support Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) IT Support Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Help Desk Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Head of IT
2 1 (25.00%) IT Director
2 1 (25.00%) IT Support
2 1 (25.00%) Help Desk Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
1 4 (100.00%) WatchGuard
1 4 (100.00%) SonicWALL
2 3 (75.00%) Apple
3 1 (25.00%) Veeam
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) IBM
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) HP
3 1 (25.00%) Dell
3 1 (25.00%) NetApp