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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firewall
Rank 45 67 49
Rank change year-on-year
+22 -18
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 8 4 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Liverpool 2.186% 0.791% 2.532%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.33% 5.195% 13.56%
Number of salaries quoted 7 2 7
Average salary £40,000 £43,750 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-8.57% -2.77%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,500 £40,750 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £46,750 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-3.75% +6.66%
All Communications & Networking
Liverpool
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
49 77 59
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Liverpool 13.39% 15.22% 18.67%
Number of salaries quoted 40 71 42
Average salary £37,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.76% +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,750 £33,500 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £48,500 £60,000 £53,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Firewall
Merseyside

Firewall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Liverpool 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 Liverpool region.

Liverpool Firewall Salary Trend

Firewall
Salary Histogram

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

Liverpool Firewall Salary Histogram

Firewall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Liverpool 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 5 (50.00%) Windows
1 5 (50.00%) DNS
1 5 (50.00%) Information Security
2 4 (40.00%) VMware
2 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (40.00%) DHCP
2 4 (40.00%) MS Exchange
3 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (30.00%) Linux
3 3 (30.00%) UNIX
3 3 (30.00%) Service Management
3 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (20.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
4 2 (20.00%) ISMS
4 2 (20.00%) vSphere
4 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (20.00%) JSON
4 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (20.00%) SIEM
4 2 (20.00%) Mobile App
4 2 (20.00%) Citrix
4 2 (20.00%) CheckPoint
4 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (20.00%) Law
4 2 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Apache
4 2 (20.00%) Flash
4 2 (20.00%) SQL
4 2 (20.00%) MySQL

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Liverpool 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 2 (20.00%) JSON
1 2 (20.00%) Flash
1 2 (20.00%) XML
1 2 (20.00%) XHTML
2 1 (10.00%) COM
Application Platforms
1 4 (40.00%) MS Exchange
2 2 (20.00%) Apache
2 2 (20.00%) IIS
3 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (10.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (10.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) DNS
2 4 (40.00%) DHCP
3 2 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (20.00%) VPN
3 2 (20.00%) SSL
4 1 (10.00%) SNMP
4 1 (10.00%) VoIP
4 1 (10.00%) WAN
4 1 (10.00%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (20.00%) MySQL
General
1 2 (20.00%) Law
2 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Team Leader
2 2 (20.00%) Tester
2 2 (20.00%) Security Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Penetration Tester
3 1 (10.00%) IT Security Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Network Support
3 1 (10.00%) Information Security Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Network Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Support Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) IT Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Support Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Support
3 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Information Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (10.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (30.00%) Linux
2 3 (30.00%) UNIX
3 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (20.00%) Solaris
4 1 (10.00%) Windows XP
4 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
4 1 (10.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Information Security
2 3 (30.00%) Service Management
3 2 (20.00%) ISMS
3 2 (20.00%) SIEM
3 2 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (20.00%) ITIL
4 1 (10.00%) E-Commerce
4 1 (10.00%) Data Security
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (10.00%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
1 2 (20.00%) Java
1 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (10.00%) Perl
2 1 (10.00%) PHP
2 1 (10.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Ruby
2 1 (10.00%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) CCNP
1 1 (10.00%) CCNA
1 1 (10.00%) ISSAP
1 1 (10.00%) ISSMP
1 1 (10.00%) CISSP
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (10.00%) CISM
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (20.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 2 (20.00%) vSphere
4 1 (10.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Backup Exec
1 1 (10.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) VMware
2 2 (20.00%) Citrix
2 2 (20.00%) CheckPoint
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Symantec
3 1 (10.00%) Remedy
3 1 (10.00%) Dell
3 1 (10.00%) Exinda
3 1 (10.00%) WatchGuard
3 1 (10.00%) SonicWALL
Liverpool, Merseyside
Network Technician - CCNA / Cisco / Checkpoint / Firewalls / LAN/WAN... The successful candidate must have demonstrable experience supporting network infrastructures particularly with skills in Cisco, Checkpoint, Firewalls LAN/WAN and...
Searchability.co.uk
Salary: £20000 - £30000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013