The first table below looks at the demand for Firewall skills in IT jobs advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Firewall over the 3 months to 24 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 Hertfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firewall
Rank 52 97 62
Rank change year-on-year
+45 -35
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 101 53 119
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 4.097% 2.104% 3.528%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.88% 9.601% 14.42%
Number of salaries quoted 85 45 94
Average salary £40,000 £37,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.10% -7.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,850 £21,000 £29,650
10% offered a salary of more than £57,450 £61,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-3.75% +6.66%
All Communications & Networking
Hertfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
636 552 825
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 25.80% 21.91% 24.46%
Number of salaries quoted 466 409 583
Average salary £42,000 £42,500 £42,450
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.17% +0.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £27,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Firewall
East of England

Firewall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Firewall Salary Trend

Firewall
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Firewall across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Hertfordshire Firewall Salary Histogram

Firewall
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Hemel Hempstead +19 21 £47,500 +126.19%
Watford +13 15 £50,000 +66.66%
St Albans +5 11 £28,500 +7.54%
Rickmansworth - 9 £54,500 -
Borehamwood - 6 £31,000 -
Welwyn Garden City -20 4 £26,000 -60.00%
Hertford - 2 £27,000 -
Stevenage +7 1 £50,000 +33.33%
Hitchin - 1 £50,000 -
Broxbourne - 1 £30,500 -
Harpenden - 1 £22,500 -
Firewall
East of England

Firewall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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.

1 100 (51.28%) Windows
2 95 (48.72%) Cisco
3 64 (32.82%) VPN
4 63 (32.31%) VMware
5 62 (31.79%) Microsoft
6 57 (29.23%) VMware Infrastructure
7 56 (28.72%) Linux
8 53 (27.18%) Active Directory
9 50 (25.64%) Cisco Certification
10 47 (24.10%) SQL
11 46 (23.59%) IIS
11 46 (23.59%) Apache
12 41 (21.03%) MS Excel
13 39 (20.00%) Internet
14 38 (19.49%) CCNA
15 36 (18.46%) UNIX
16 35 (17.95%) TCP/IP
17 34 (17.44%) MySQL
18 33 (16.92%) Finance
19 32 (16.41%) MS Exchange
20 31 (15.90%) CCNP
21 29 (14.87%) SAN
22 28 (14.36%) DNS
23 26 (13.33%) E-Commerce
23 26 (13.33%) Retail
23 26 (13.33%) Windows Server 2008
23 26 (13.33%) vSphere
24 25 (12.82%) PHP
25 24 (12.31%) HTTP
26 23 (11.79%) IPsec

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 13 (6.667%) .NET
2 12 (6.154%) WebSphere
2 12 (6.154%) J2EE
3 11 (5.641%) Web Services
4 9 (4.615%) XML
5 8 (4.103%) LAMP
5 8 (4.103%) HTML
6 4 (2.051%) Silverlight
7 3 (1.538%) ASP
8 1 (0.513%) JSON
8 1 (0.513%) Application Packaging
8 1 (0.513%) jQuery
8 1 (0.513%) COM
8 1 (0.513%) CSS
8 1 (0.513%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 46 (23.59%) IIS
1 46 (23.59%) Apache
2 32 (16.41%) MS Exchange
3 14 (7.179%) SharePoint
4 12 (6.154%) IBM HTTP Server
4 12 (6.154%) WebSphere Application Server
4 12 (6.154%) MQSeries
5 10 (5.128%) Tomcat
6 8 (4.103%) Exchange Server 2010
7 7 (3.590%) Exchange Server 2007
8 6 (3.077%) WordPress
8 6 (3.077%) Moodle
8 6 (3.077%) Magento
8 6 (3.077%) nginx
8 6 (3.077%) Joomla!
9 5 (2.564%) Lync
9 5 (2.564%) Exchange Server 2013
9 5 (2.564%) Exchange Server 2003
10 2 (1.026%) SharePoint Server
11 1 (0.513%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 41 (21.03%) MS Excel
2 6 (3.077%) MS Office
3 1 (0.513%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.513%) Fireworks
Business Applications
1 10 (5.128%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.026%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 64 (32.82%) VPN
2 39 (20.00%) Internet
3 35 (17.95%) TCP/IP
4 29 (14.87%) SAN
5 28 (14.36%) DNS
6 24 (12.31%) HTTP
7 23 (11.79%) IPsec
7 23 (11.79%) Wi-Fi
8 22 (11.28%) SSL
8 22 (11.28%) iSCSI
8 22 (11.28%) NAS
9 20 (10.26%) LAN
10 18 (9.231%) WAN
11 15 (7.692%) VoIP
11 15 (7.692%) Cisco ASA
12 14 (7.179%) DHCP
13 11 (5.641%) Wireless
13 11 (5.641%) VLAN
14 9 (4.615%) ADSL
14 9 (4.615%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (17.44%) MySQL
2 21 (10.77%) SQL Server
3 12 (6.154%) DB2
4 4 (2.051%) Oracle 8/8i
5 3 (1.538%) SQL Server 2008
5 3 (1.538%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (0.513%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (6.154%) Subversion
1 12 (6.154%) Ant
1 12 (6.154%) Jenkins
2 8 (4.103%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.513%) Git (software)
3 1 (0.513%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.513%) GCC
3 1 (0.513%) ClearCase
3 1 (0.513%) ClearQuest
General
1 33 (16.92%) Finance
2 26 (13.33%) Retail
3 14 (7.179%) Games
4 8 (4.103%) Back Office
5 6 (3.077%) Telecoms
6 5 (2.564%) Marketing
7 2 (1.026%) Legal
7 2 (1.026%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.513%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 38 (19.49%) Network Engineer
2 36 (18.46%) Support Engineer
3 33 (16.92%) Architect
4 24 (12.31%) IT Support
5 21 (10.77%) IT Support Engineer
6 17 (8.718%) Administrator
7 15 (7.692%) Systems Engineer
7 15 (7.692%) Network Architect
8 13 (6.667%) Consultant
8 13 (6.667%) Systems Administrator
8 13 (6.667%) Infrastructure Architect
9 12 (6.154%) Analyst
10 11 (5.641%) IT Manager
10 11 (5.641%) 3rd Line Support
11 10 (5.128%) C# Developer
11 10 (5.128%) Developer
12 9 (4.615%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
12 9 (4.615%) Senior Network Engineer
12 9 (4.615%) 2nd Line Support
13 8 (4.103%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.128%) PDA
1 10 (5.128%) Mobile App
2 8 (4.103%) Clustering
2 8 (4.103%) Replication
3 7 (3.590%) Computer Science
4 5 (2.564%) Open Source
5 3 (1.538%) Fat Client
5 3 (1.538%) Thin Client
5 3 (1.538%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.026%) Blackberry
6 2 (1.026%) SaaS
6 2 (1.026%) Online Games
7 1 (0.513%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.513%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.513%) Firmware
7 1 (0.513%) Cryptography
Operating Systems
1 100 (51.28%) Windows
2 56 (28.72%) Linux
3 36 (18.46%) UNIX
4 26 (13.33%) Windows Server 2008
5 22 (11.28%) Windows Vista
6 18 (9.231%) Windows Server 2003
7 15 (7.692%) AIX
7 15 (7.692%) Windows 7
8 12 (6.154%) Windows XP
9 10 (5.128%) Solaris
10 6 (3.077%) CentOS
11 5 (2.564%) Mac OS X
12 4 (2.051%) Windows Mobile
12 4 (2.051%) Windows 8
12 4 (2.051%) Windows 2000 Server
13 3 (1.538%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 2 (1.026%) Windows 2000
15 1 (0.513%) Android
15 1 (0.513%) Apple iOS
15 1 (0.513%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (13.33%) E-Commerce
2 20 (10.26%) Network Design
3 16 (8.205%) Disaster Recovery
4 14 (7.179%) ITIL
5 13 (6.667%) PRINCE2
6 10 (5.128%) CRM
6 10 (5.128%) Change Control
6 10 (5.128%) Load Balancing
7 8 (4.103%) Information Security
8 7 (3.590%) Capacity Planning
8 7 (3.590%) Network Management
9 6 (3.077%) Change Management
9 6 (3.077%) Project Management
10 5 (2.564%) Time Management
10 5 (2.564%) Network Architecture
10 5 (2.564%) SIEM
10 5 (2.564%) Mobile Device Management
11 4 (2.051%) Penetration Testing
11 4 (2.051%) Stakeholder Management
11 4 (2.051%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 47 (24.10%) SQL
2 25 (12.82%) PHP
3 19 (9.744%) Java
4 10 (5.128%) C#
4 10 (5.128%) T-SQL
5 7 (3.590%) Perl
6 6 (3.077%) Bash shell
7 5 (2.564%) VB
8 4 (2.051%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.026%) XAML
10 1 (0.513%) PHP5
10 1 (0.513%) Python
Qualifications
1 50 (25.64%) Cisco Certification
2 38 (19.49%) CCNA
3 31 (15.90%) CCNP
4 22 (11.28%) CCIE
5 19 (9.744%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (8.205%) MCSE
7 15 (7.692%) CCDA
8 14 (7.179%) MCITP
9 12 (6.154%) MCTS
10 11 (5.641%) MCP
11 9 (4.615%) Degree
12 7 (3.590%) Security Cleared
12 7 (3.590%) CISSP
13 5 (2.564%) JNCIA
14 4 (2.051%) JNCIS
14 4 (2.051%) JNCIP
14 4 (2.051%) JNCIE
15 3 (1.538%) CISM
15 3 (1.538%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 2 (1.026%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.103%) SLA
2 7 (3.590%) PCI DSS
3 5 (2.564%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.538%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 57 (29.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 53 (27.18%) Active Directory
3 26 (13.33%) vSphere
4 17 (8.718%) VMware Server
5 15 (7.692%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (7.179%) VMware ESX
7 8 (4.103%) Hyper-V
8 7 (3.590%) Xen
9 6 (3.077%) Varnish
9 6 (3.077%) Sendmail
10 5 (2.564%) XenServer
11 3 (1.538%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (1.026%) NFS
13 1 (0.513%) XenApp
13 1 (0.513%) Terminal Server
13 1 (0.513%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.513%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 10 (5.128%) Nagios
2 6 (3.077%) Cacti
3 4 (2.051%) WSUS
4 2 (1.026%) Cisco UCCE
5 1 (0.513%) SCCM
5 1 (0.513%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (0.513%) Cisco UCCX
5 1 (0.513%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.513%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 95 (48.72%) Cisco
2 63 (32.31%) VMware
3 62 (31.79%) Microsoft
4 20 (10.26%) Oracle
5 18 (9.231%) Juniper
6 14 (7.179%) Citrix
6 14 (7.179%) IBM
7 13 (6.667%) HP
7 13 (6.667%) CheckPoint
8 11 (5.641%) Remedy
8 11 (5.641%) Avaya
9 9 (4.615%) F5
9 9 (4.615%) Red Hat
10 4 (2.051%) Apple
10 4 (2.051%) Trapeze
10 4 (2.051%) SonicWALL
11 3 (1.538%) LANDesk
11 3 (1.538%) SolarWinds
11 3 (1.538%) McAfee
12 2 (1.026%) Brocade
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