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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firewall
Rank 36 41 24
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -17
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 14 8 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Luton 3.694% 2.041% 5.195%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.87% 8.333% 34.29%
Number of salaries quoted 9 6 12
Average salary £54,500 £42,500 £35,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+28.23% +19.71%
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +6.66%
All Communications & Networking
Luton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
83 96 35
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Luton 21.90% 24.49% 15.15%
Number of salaries quoted 71 73 31
Average salary £50,000 £41,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+21.95% +9.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £27,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £45,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
Firewall
Bedfordshire

Firewall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Luton 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 Luton region.

Luton Firewall Salary Trend

Firewall
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Firewall across the Luton region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Luton Firewall Salary Histogram

Firewall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Luton 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 15 (100.00%) Cisco
2 13 (86.67%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (73.33%) Microsoft
4 10 (66.67%) CCNA
5 9 (60.00%) CCNP
6 8 (53.33%) TCP/IP
6 8 (53.33%) Linux
7 7 (46.67%) Windows
7 7 (46.67%) Citrix
8 6 (40.00%) WAN
8 6 (40.00%) Cisco Nexus
9 5 (33.33%) VPN
9 5 (33.33%) LAN
9 5 (33.33%) CCDA
9 5 (33.33%) Active Directory
9 5 (33.33%) MCSE
9 5 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (33.33%) Juniper
9 5 (33.33%) VMware
10 4 (26.67%) Finance
10 4 (26.67%) VMware ESX
10 4 (26.67%) SAN
10 4 (26.67%) MS Excel
10 4 (26.67%) MS Exchange
10 4 (26.67%) Solaris
10 4 (26.67%) PRINCE2
10 4 (26.67%) UNIX
10 4 (26.67%) ITIL
10 4 (26.67%) SSL
10 4 (26.67%) Lync

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Luton 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 1 (6.667%) COM
1 1 (6.667%) Web Services
1 1 (6.667%) XML
Application Platforms
1 4 (26.67%) MS Exchange
1 4 (26.67%) Lync
1 4 (26.67%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 4 (26.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 8 (53.33%) TCP/IP
2 6 (40.00%) WAN
2 6 (40.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 5 (33.33%) LAN
3 5 (33.33%) VPN
4 4 (26.67%) SSL
4 4 (26.67%) SAN
4 4 (26.67%) Network Security
5 3 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (13.33%) Cisco PIX
6 2 (13.33%) HTTP
7 1 (6.667%) HTTPS
7 1 (6.667%) MPLS
7 1 (6.667%) OSPF
7 1 (6.667%) BGP
7 1 (6.667%) EIGRP
7 1 (6.667%) Wireless
7 1 (6.667%) Unified Communications
7 1 (6.667%) FWSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.667%) MySQL
General
1 4 (26.67%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Architect
1 5 (33.33%) Network Architect
2 4 (26.67%) Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Senior Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Systems Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Network Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Support Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Network Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Systems Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Support Analyst
5 1 (6.667%) Consultant
5 1 (6.667%) Security Specialist
5 1 (6.667%) Network Specialist
5 1 (6.667%) Cisco Architect
5 1 (6.667%) Network Security Specialist
5 1 (6.667%) Cisco Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 8 (53.33%) Linux
2 7 (46.67%) Windows
3 4 (26.67%) Solaris
3 4 (26.67%) UNIX
4 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) ITIL
1 4 (26.67%) PRINCE2
1 4 (26.67%) Change Control
2 2 (13.33%) Project Management
3 1 (6.667%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.667%) PHP
Qualifications
1 13 (86.67%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (66.67%) CCNA
3 9 (60.00%) CCNP
4 5 (33.33%) MCSE
4 5 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (33.33%) CCDA
5 3 (20.00%) CCIE
6 2 (13.33%) CCSP
6 2 (13.33%) CCSA
6 2 (13.33%) CCVP
6 2 (13.33%) MCP
7 1 (6.667%) CCDP
7 1 (6.667%) CCSE
7 1 (6.667%) CCIP
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (26.67%) VMware ESX
2 4 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (6.667%) Cisco UCCX
1 1 (6.667%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) Cisco
2 11 (73.33%) Microsoft
3 7 (46.67%) Citrix
4 5 (33.33%) Juniper
4 5 (33.33%) VMware
5 4 (26.67%) F5
6 3 (20.00%) Symantec
7 2 (13.33%) CheckPoint
7 2 (13.33%) HP
8 1 (6.667%) Twitter