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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firewall
Rank 39 32 35
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +3
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 4 3 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Macclesfield 2.116% 1.887% 1.896%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.333% 30.00% 13.79%
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 3
Average salary £22,500 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-40.00% -6.25%
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-3.75% +6.66%
All Communications & Networking
Macclesfield
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
48 10 29
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Macclesfield 25.40% 6.289% 13.74%
Number of salaries quoted 37 8 22
Average salary £34,000 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-9.33% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £19,000 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £40,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Firewall
Cheshire

Firewall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Macclesfield 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 Macclesfield region.

Macclesfield Firewall Salary Trend

Firewall
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Macclesfield 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 6 (100.00%) MCP
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 6 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 6 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 6 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 6 (100.00%) DHCP
1 6 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 6 (100.00%) VPN
1 6 (100.00%) DNS
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 6 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 6 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 6 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 6 (100.00%) Office 365

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Macclesfield 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 Platforms
1 6 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 6 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 6 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 6 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 6 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 6 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 6 (100.00%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) DHCP
1 6 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 6 (100.00%) VPN
1 6 (100.00%) DNS
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Support Engineer
1 6 (100.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 6 (100.00%) IT Support
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) MCP
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft