The first table below looks at the demand for Firewall skills in IT jobs advertised for the Maidstone region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Firewall over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Maidstone region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firewall
Rank 19 17 2
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -15
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 5 2 37
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Maidstone 6.173% 4.444% 31.90%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 33.33% 12.50% 66.07%
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 29
Average salary £23,000 £38,750 £38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-40.64% +1.97%
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £40,000 £36,500
% change year-on-year
-3.75% +9.58%
All Communications & Networking
Maidstone
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
15 16 56
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Maidstone 18.52% 35.56% 48.28%
Number of salaries quoted 14 16 48
Average salary £30,000 £33,250 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-9.77% -5.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £25,000 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £44,000 £38,000 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Firewall
Kent

Firewall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Maidstone 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 Maidstone region.

Maidstone Firewall Salary Trend

Firewall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Maidstone 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 9 (75.00%) Cisco
1 9 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
1 9 (75.00%) Juniper
2 8 (66.67%) CCNA
2 8 (66.67%) Network Security
3 7 (58.33%) CheckPoint
4 6 (50.00%) Internet
4 6 (50.00%) SLA
4 6 (50.00%) Sun
5 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
6 4 (33.33%) VPN
7 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
7 3 (25.00%) MySQL
7 3 (25.00%) Linux
7 3 (25.00%) Apache
7 3 (25.00%) CCNP
8 2 (16.67%) SAN
8 2 (16.67%) HP
8 2 (16.67%) E-Commerce
8 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
8 2 (16.67%) UNIX
8 2 (16.67%) Windows
8 2 (16.67%) WAN
8 2 (16.67%) NAS
8 2 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
8 2 (16.67%) 3PAR
8 2 (16.67%) F5
8 2 (16.67%) WatchGuard
8 2 (16.67%) Fault Management
8 2 (16.67%) Cisco PIX

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Maidstone 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 (8.333%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 3 (25.00%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (8.333%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 8 (66.67%) Network Security
2 6 (50.00%) Internet
3 4 (33.33%) VPN
4 2 (16.67%) SAN
4 2 (16.67%) WAN
4 2 (16.67%) NAS
4 2 (16.67%) Cisco PIX
4 2 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (8.333%) Wireless
5 1 (8.333%) TCP/IP
5 1 (8.333%) DNS
5 1 (8.333%) VoIP
5 1 (8.333%) MPLS
5 1 (8.333%) TACACS
5 1 (8.333%) NetScreen
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) MySQL
2 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Analyst
1 6 (50.00%) Support Analyst
1 6 (50.00%) Network Analyst
1 6 (50.00%) Security Analyst
1 6 (50.00%) Network Security Analyst
2 5 (41.67%) Network Support
2 5 (41.67%) Network Support Analyst
3 3 (25.00%) Network Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Network Specialist
4 1 (8.333%) Security Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) 1st Line Support
4 1 (8.333%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (8.333%) Service Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (8.333%) 1st Line Support Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) Network Security Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
2 2 (16.67%) UNIX
2 2 (16.67%) Windows
3 1 (8.333%) Windows 2000 Server
3 1 (8.333%) Mac OS
3 1 (8.333%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (16.67%) E-Commerce
1 2 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (16.67%) Fault Management
2 1 (8.333%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.333%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 9 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (66.67%) CCNA
3 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
4 3 (25.00%) CCNP
5 1 (8.333%) CCSE
5 1 (8.333%) Degree
5 1 (8.333%) SC Cleared
5 1 (8.333%) CCIE
5 1 (8.333%) CCSP
5 1 (8.333%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (50.00%) SLA
2 1 (8.333%) QA
System Software
1 1 (8.333%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (8.333%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (8.333%) CiscoWorks
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) Cisco
1 9 (75.00%) Juniper
2 7 (58.33%) CheckPoint
3 6 (50.00%) Sun
4 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (16.67%) HP
5 2 (16.67%) 3PAR
5 2 (16.67%) F5
5 2 (16.67%) WatchGuard
6 1 (8.333%) VMware
6 1 (8.333%) Twitter
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