The first table below looks at the demand for Firewall skills in IT jobs advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Firewall over the 3 months to 20 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 Merseyside region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firewall
Rank 42 68 55
Rank change year-on-year
+26 -13
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 12 14 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 2.679% 2.090% 2.832%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 18.18% 12.73% 16.05%
Number of salaries quoted 8 12 13
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% +16.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,500 £31,500 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,750 £42,000 £57,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +6.66%
All Communications & Networking
Merseyside
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
66 110 81
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 14.73% 16.42% 17.65%
Number of salaries quoted 54 98 61
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £31,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +20.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £31,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,000 £45,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
Firewall
North West

Firewall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside Firewall Salary Trend

Firewall
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Firewall across the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Merseyside Firewall Salary Histogram

Firewall
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Liverpool +24 7 £37,500 -11.76%
Firewall
North West

Firewall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 13 (59.09%) Windows
2 12 (54.55%) DNS
2 12 (54.55%) Active Directory
3 11 (50.00%) DHCP
4 10 (45.45%) Microsoft
5 9 (40.91%) MS Exchange
5 9 (40.91%) VMware
5 9 (40.91%) Windows Server 2008
6 8 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
7 7 (31.82%) Windows Server 2003
8 6 (27.27%) Symantec
8 6 (27.27%) Dell
8 6 (27.27%) Cisco
8 6 (27.27%) SQL Server
8 6 (27.27%) Backup Exec
8 6 (27.27%) WSUS
9 5 (22.73%) Information Security
9 5 (22.73%) Linux
9 5 (22.73%) WAN
9 5 (22.73%) SSL
10 4 (18.18%) Blackberry
10 4 (18.18%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 4 (18.18%) MS Excel
10 4 (18.18%) Exchange Server 2003
10 4 (18.18%) WatchGuard
10 4 (18.18%) SonicWALL
10 4 (18.18%) Exchange Server 2010
10 4 (18.18%) WAN Optimisation
10 4 (18.18%) Exinda
11 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2012

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 (9.091%) .NET
1 2 (9.091%) ASP.NET
1 2 (9.091%) WCF
2 1 (4.545%) COM
2 1 (4.545%) XML
2 1 (4.545%) Flash
2 1 (4.545%) XHTML
2 1 (4.545%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 9 (40.91%) MS Exchange
2 4 (18.18%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 4 (18.18%) Exchange Server 2003
2 4 (18.18%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (9.091%) IIS
4 1 (4.545%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (18.18%) MS Excel
2 1 (4.545%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 12 (54.55%) DNS
2 11 (50.00%) DHCP
3 5 (22.73%) SSL
3 5 (22.73%) WAN
4 3 (13.64%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (13.64%) TCP/IP
4 3 (13.64%) SAN
5 2 (9.091%) VLAN
5 2 (9.091%) VPN
6 1 (4.545%) Cisco PIX
6 1 (4.545%) Network Security
6 1 (4.545%) iSCSI
6 1 (4.545%) SNMP
6 1 (4.545%) LAN
6 1 (4.545%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (27.27%) SQL Server
2 2 (9.091%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.545%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (9.091%) Git (software)
General
1 2 (9.091%) Law
1 2 (9.091%) Manufacturing
2 1 (4.545%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (45.45%) Analyst
2 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 4 (18.18%) Administrator
3 4 (18.18%) Support Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Security Analyst
4 3 (13.64%) Technical Support
4 3 (13.64%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (9.091%) Network Engineer
5 2 (9.091%) Technical Support Engineer
5 2 (9.091%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (9.091%) Network Support Engineer
5 2 (9.091%) Team Leader
5 2 (9.091%) Information Analyst
5 2 (9.091%) Technical Engineer
5 2 (9.091%) Network Support
5 2 (9.091%) Senior Support Engineer
5 2 (9.091%) Information Security Analyst
5 2 (9.091%) Senior Technical Support
5 2 (9.091%) Senior Technical Support Engineer
5 2 (9.091%) Senior Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Blackberry
2 3 (13.64%) Client/Server
3 1 (4.545%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 13 (59.09%) Windows
2 9 (40.91%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (31.82%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (22.73%) Linux
5 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (9.091%) UNIX
7 1 (4.545%) Windows XP
7 1 (4.545%) Solaris
7 1 (4.545%) Android
7 1 (4.545%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (22.73%) Information Security
2 4 (18.18%) WAN Optimisation
3 3 (13.64%) SIEM
3 3 (13.64%) Project Planning
3 3 (13.64%) Project Management
3 3 (13.64%) Service Management
4 2 (9.091%) ITIL
4 2 (9.091%) ISMS
5 1 (4.545%) Penetration Testing
5 1 (4.545%) E-Commerce
5 1 (4.545%) Data Security
5 1 (4.545%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.091%) C#
2 1 (4.545%) Java
2 1 (4.545%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.545%) Perl
2 1 (4.545%) PHP
2 1 (4.545%) SQL
2 1 (4.545%) Python
2 1 (4.545%) Ruby
2 1 (4.545%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) CISSP
2 2 (9.091%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (9.091%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (9.091%) CISM
2 2 (9.091%) CCNP
3 1 (4.545%) CCNA
3 1 (4.545%) CCIE
3 1 (4.545%) ISSAP
3 1 (4.545%) ISSMP
3 1 (4.545%) Degree
3 1 (4.545%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.091%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 12 (54.55%) Active Directory
2 8 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (13.64%) Hyper-V
4 2 (9.091%) vSphere
4 2 (9.091%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 2 (9.091%) Citrix Presentation Server
5 1 (4.545%) Terminal Services
5 1 (4.545%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 6 (27.27%) Backup Exec
1 6 (27.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 9 (40.91%) VMware
3 6 (27.27%) Dell
3 6 (27.27%) Cisco
3 6 (27.27%) Symantec
4 4 (18.18%) WatchGuard
4 4 (18.18%) SonicWALL
4 4 (18.18%) Exinda
5 2 (9.091%) Citrix
5 2 (9.091%) CheckPoint
6 1 (4.545%) Remedy
6 1 (4.545%) Oracle
6 1 (4.545%) F5
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
Merseyside
Key Words: Infrastructure Analyst, Infrastructure Engineer, Infrastructure, Network Administrator, Network Support, 3rd Line Support, 2nd Line Support, Infrastructure Support, IT Support, Service Desk Analyst, IT Technician, Windows Server...
Harvey Nash plc
Posted: 14 May 2013