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

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firewall
Rank 17 33 24
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -9
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 21 6 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hemel Hempstead 9.589% 2.679% 3.614%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 23.33% 15.79% 17.65%
Number of salaries quoted 20 6 6
Average salary £47,500 £21,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+126.19% -44.00%
UK excluding London average salary £38,472 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-3.82% +6.66%
All Communications & Networking
Hemel Hempstead
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
90 38 34
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hemel Hempstead 41.10% 16.96% 20.48%
Number of salaries quoted 86 38 31
Average salary £36,500 £37,000 £28,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.35% +28.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £21,000 £27,150
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £45,000 £55,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Firewall
Hertfordshire

Firewall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hemel Hempstead 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 Hemel Hempstead region.

Hemel Hempstead Firewall Salary Trend

Firewall
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Firewall across the Hemel Hempstead region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Hemel Hempstead Firewall Salary Histogram

Firewall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hemel Hempstead 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 23 (54.76%) Cisco
2 22 (52.38%) VPN
3 20 (47.62%) Cisco Certification
4 17 (40.48%) CCNA
5 15 (35.71%) Linux
6 13 (30.95%) PHP
6 13 (30.95%) CCNP
6 13 (30.95%) IPsec
6 13 (30.95%) Network Design
7 12 (28.57%) Internet
7 12 (28.57%) MySQL
7 12 (28.57%) Apache
8 11 (26.19%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (21.43%) CCIE
9 9 (21.43%) SSL
10 8 (19.05%) LAMP
10 8 (19.05%) Replication
10 8 (19.05%) SAN
11 7 (16.67%) SLA
11 7 (16.67%) HTTP
11 7 (16.67%) Security Cleared
12 6 (14.29%) Cacti
12 6 (14.29%) Sendmail
12 6 (14.29%) nginx
12 6 (14.29%) Xen
12 6 (14.29%) WordPress
12 6 (14.29%) SSH
12 6 (14.29%) IMAP
12 6 (14.29%) Load Balancing
12 6 (14.29%) Joomla!

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hemel Hempstead 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 8 (19.05%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 12 (28.57%) Apache
2 6 (14.29%) nginx
2 6 (14.29%) WordPress
2 6 (14.29%) Joomla!
2 6 (14.29%) Moodle
2 6 (14.29%) Magento
3 2 (4.762%) Exchange Server 2003
3 2 (4.762%) Exchange Server 2007
3 2 (4.762%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (4.762%) MS Exchange
3 2 (4.762%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.762%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 22 (52.38%) VPN
2 13 (30.95%) IPsec
3 12 (28.57%) Internet
4 11 (26.19%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (21.43%) SSL
6 8 (19.05%) SAN
7 7 (16.67%) HTTP
8 6 (14.29%) SSH
8 6 (14.29%) IMAP
8 6 (14.29%) TCP/IP
8 6 (14.29%) POP3
8 6 (14.29%) SMTP
8 6 (14.29%) FTP
8 6 (14.29%) DNS
9 3 (7.143%) VLAN
10 2 (4.762%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (4.762%) iSCSI
10 2 (4.762%) DMZ
10 2 (4.762%) VoIP
11 1 (2.381%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (28.57%) MySQL
2 2 (4.762%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (4.762%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (4.762%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (9.524%) Back Office
2 1 (2.381%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 21 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 8 (19.05%) Systems Administrator
2 8 (19.05%) Administrator
3 7 (16.67%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 7 (16.67%) Linux Administrator
4 6 (14.29%) Web Administrator
5 4 (9.524%) Systems Engineer
6 3 (7.143%) Senior Network Engineer
7 2 (4.762%) Infrastructure Team Leader
7 2 (4.762%) Linux Engineer
7 2 (4.762%) IT Support
7 2 (4.762%) Team Leader
7 2 (4.762%) Senior Technical Consultant
7 2 (4.762%) Technical Consultant
7 2 (4.762%) Senior Consultant
7 2 (4.762%) Consultant
8 1 (2.381%) Cisco Engineer
8 1 (2.381%) Senior Systems Administrator
8 1 (2.381%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 1 (2.381%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.05%) Replication
2 6 (14.29%) Clustering
3 1 (2.381%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 15 (35.71%) Linux
2 6 (14.29%) CentOS
2 6 (14.29%) Windows
3 4 (9.524%) Windows Vista
3 4 (9.524%) Windows XP
4 2 (4.762%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (4.762%) Windows 7
4 2 (4.762%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (30.95%) Network Design
2 6 (14.29%) Load Balancing
3 5 (11.90%) Time Management
4 4 (9.524%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (9.524%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (9.524%) Project Management
5 3 (7.143%) Problem Management
6 2 (4.762%) Change Management
6 2 (4.762%) ITIL
6 2 (4.762%) PRINCE2
7 1 (2.381%) Capacity Planning
7 1 (2.381%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (30.95%) PHP
2 6 (14.29%) Bash shell
2 6 (14.29%) Perl
3 3 (7.143%) SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (47.62%) Cisco Certification
2 17 (40.48%) CCNA
3 13 (30.95%) CCNP
4 9 (21.43%) CCIE
5 7 (16.67%) Security Cleared
6 2 (4.762%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (4.762%) MCITP
6 2 (4.762%) BC Cleared
6 2 (4.762%) CCEE
6 2 (4.762%) CCAA
6 2 (4.762%) CCIA
6 2 (4.762%) Citrix Certification
6 2 (4.762%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (4.762%) MCSE
7 1 (2.381%) SC Cleared
7 1 (2.381%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (14.29%) Sendmail
1 6 (14.29%) Xen
1 6 (14.29%) Varnish
2 5 (11.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (9.524%) Active Directory
4 2 (4.762%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (14.29%) Cacti
1 6 (14.29%) Nagios
Vendors
1 23 (54.76%) Cisco
2 6 (14.29%) Red Hat
2 6 (14.29%) Citrix
3 5 (11.90%) VMware
4 4 (9.524%) Microsoft
5 3 (7.143%) SolarWinds
6 2 (4.762%) SonicWALL
6 2 (4.762%) HP
6 2 (4.762%) Dell
7 1 (2.381%) Oracle
7 1 (2.381%) Juniper
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Posted: 17 May 2013