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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firewall
Rank 30 26 31
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +5
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 7 31 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Maidenhead 3.043% 7.888% 3.971%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.211% 30.10% 18.33%
Number of salaries quoted 7 18 11
Average salary £75,000 £45,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+66.66% -10.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £51,200 £32,500 £32,000
10% offered a salary of more than £80,000 £56,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-3.75% +6.66%
All Communications & Networking
Maidenhead
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
76 103 60
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Maidenhead 33.04% 26.21% 21.66%
Number of salaries quoted 52 82 46
Average salary £47,500 £47,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +18.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £32,500 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £67,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Firewall
Berkshire

Firewall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Maidenhead 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 Maidenhead region.

Maidenhead Firewall Salary Trend

Firewall
Salary Histogram

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

Maidenhead Firewall Salary Histogram

Firewall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Maidenhead 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 18 (100.00%) Windows
2 12 (66.67%) UNIX
3 11 (61.11%) Active Directory
4 10 (55.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (50.00%) SQL Server
5 9 (50.00%) Linux
5 9 (50.00%) SIEM
6 8 (44.44%) TCP/IP
6 8 (44.44%) Cisco
6 8 (44.44%) CISSP
6 8 (44.44%) Information Security
7 7 (38.89%) Juniper
7 7 (38.89%) Network Security
8 6 (33.33%) ITIL
8 6 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
8 6 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
8 6 (33.33%) Middleware
9 5 (27.78%) SQL Server 2000
9 5 (27.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (27.78%) Network Management
9 5 (27.78%) Regular Expression
9 5 (27.78%) PCI DSS
10 4 (22.22%) Ubuntu
10 4 (22.22%) Load Balancing
10 4 (22.22%) Debian
10 4 (22.22%) AIX
10 4 (22.22%) Solaris
10 4 (22.22%) MS Excel
10 4 (22.22%) Red Hat
11 3 (16.67%) Remedy

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Maidenhead 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 6 (33.33%) Middleware
2 5 (27.78%) Regular Expression
3 3 (16.67%) ODBC
Applications
1 4 (22.22%) MS Excel
2 2 (11.11%) MS Office
2 2 (11.11%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 8 (44.44%) TCP/IP
2 7 (38.89%) Network Security
3 6 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
4 3 (16.67%) NetScreen
4 3 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (11.11%) MPLS
5 2 (11.11%) IP Telephony
5 2 (11.11%) VoIP
6 1 (5.556%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
3 5 (27.78%) SQL Server 2000
General
1 1 (5.556%) Retail
1 1 (5.556%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Sales Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) Solutions Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) Network Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Support Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Security Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) Desktop Support
3 2 (11.11%) Security Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) Network Specialist
4 1 (5.556%) Network Security Consultant
4 1 (5.556%) IT Security Consultant
4 1 (5.556%) Security Specialist
4 1 (5.556%) Pre Sales Consultant
4 1 (5.556%) Network Architect
4 1 (5.556%) Network Consultant
4 1 (5.556%) IT Consultant
4 1 (5.556%) Architect
4 1 (5.556%) Sales Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Computer Science
1 2 (11.11%) Blackberry
2 1 (5.556%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 18 (100.00%) Windows
2 12 (66.67%) UNIX
3 9 (50.00%) Linux
4 4 (22.22%) Ubuntu
4 4 (22.22%) Debian
4 4 (22.22%) AIX
4 4 (22.22%) Solaris
5 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) SIEM
2 8 (44.44%) Information Security
3 6 (33.33%) ITIL
4 5 (27.78%) Network Management
5 4 (22.22%) Load Balancing
6 3 (16.67%) E-Commerce
7 2 (11.11%) Time Management
7 2 (11.11%) Performance Management
7 2 (11.11%) Security Management
8 1 (5.556%) Project Management
8 1 (5.556%) Incident Management
8 1 (5.556%) Change Management
8 1 (5.556%) Disaster Recovery
8 1 (5.556%) Data Security
8 1 (5.556%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) CISSP
2 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) MCSE
3 2 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (11.11%) CCIE
4 1 (5.556%) MCDBA
4 1 (5.556%) MCITP
4 1 (5.556%) Degree
4 1 (5.556%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (55.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (27.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 5 (27.78%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (61.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Norton AntiVirus
2 1 (5.556%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Cisco
2 7 (38.89%) Juniper
3 4 (22.22%) Red Hat
4 3 (16.67%) Remedy
5 2 (11.11%) F5
5 2 (11.11%) Symantec
5 2 (11.11%) Avaya
5 2 (11.11%) HP
5 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
5 2 (11.11%) Adobe
6 1 (5.556%) Websense
6 1 (5.556%) IBM
6 1 (5.556%) VMware
6 1 (5.556%) SolarWinds
Maidenhead, Berkshire
Keywords; Datacentre, Network, MPLS, Nexus Switches, Cisco Firewalls, ASA, Juniper Firewalls, ITIL, Websense, Cisco Call Manager, CUCM, CCIE, Configuration, Implementation, Design, Support, F5 My client, world leading energy...
TEKsystems
Salary: £70000 - £80000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
Maidenhead, Berkshire
A minimum of 8 years experience as a security engineer/architect - Demonstrable experience of designing, implementing and supporting security environments - CISSP accreditation will be desirable - Broad experience of...
EarthStream Global
Salary: Up to £80,000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Maidenhead, Berkshire
The candidate will be helping to maintain and enhance a multi-vendor ISP networking environment covering BGP, OSPF, routing, switching, DWDM fibre, load balancing, firewalls etc, across multiple...
Recruitment Genius Ltd
Salary: £38000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013