The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sourcefire products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Sourcefire 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 Vendors for the Kent region.

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within Sourcefire, Inc.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sourcefire
Rank 86 70 80
Rank change year-on-year
-16 +10
Permanent jobs citing Sourcefire 1 2 22
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 0.086% 0.279% 2.070%
As % of the Vendors category 0.188% 0.573% 3.636%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 22
Average salary £45,000 £42,500 £38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.88% +11.84%
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £45,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
+11.11% +18.42%
All Vendors
Kent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
532 349 605
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 45.98% 48.68% 56.91%
Number of salaries quoted 457 317 539
Average salary £42,500 £37,500 £38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.33% -1.31%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £47,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Sourcefire
South East

Sourcefire
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Sourcefire across the Kent region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Kent Sourcefire Jobs Demand Trend

Sourcefire
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Sourcefire across the Kent region.

Kent Sourcefire Salary Trend

Sourcefire
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent region citing Sourcefire 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 Sourcefire.

1 2 (66.67%) WLAN
1 2 (66.67%) CCNP
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (66.67%) CheckPoint
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (33.33%) ProCurve
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (33.33%) Riverbed
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (33.33%) Wireless
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) CCSE
2 1 (33.33%) Network Design
2 1 (33.33%) Snort
2 1 (33.33%) VLAN
2 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
2 1 (33.33%) COBIT
2 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Symantec
2 1 (33.33%) OSPF
2 1 (33.33%) BGP
2 1 (33.33%) EIGRP

Sourcefire
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent region citing Sourcefire 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 Sourcefire. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) WLAN
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (33.33%) Wireless
2 1 (33.33%) VLAN
2 1 (33.33%) OSPF
2 1 (33.33%) BGP
2 1 (33.33%) EIGRP
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
2 1 (33.33%) DHCP
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) VoIP
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) Security Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) IT Security Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Network Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) IT Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Change Management
1 1 (33.33%) Customer Engagement
1 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (33.33%) Information Security
1 1 (33.33%) Network Design
1 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
1 1 (33.33%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CCNP
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) CCSE
2 1 (33.33%) Check Point Certification
2 1 (33.33%) CCSP
2 1 (33.33%) CCNA
2 1 (33.33%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) COBIT
1 1 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Snort
1 1 (33.33%) NFS
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) CheckPoint
2 1 (33.33%) ProCurve
2 1 (33.33%) Riverbed
2 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
2 1 (33.33%) Symantec
2 1 (33.33%) Juniper
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) HP
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle