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The table below looks at the demand for Firewall skills within the Newbury region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Firewall over the 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkFirewall
Location
3 months to
7 Oct 2008
Same period last year
Rank4137
Rank change on same period last yearDown-4
Matching permanent IT job ads2211
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.013 %0.005 %
As % of the category below16.18 %11.83 %
Salaries quoted1611
Average minimum salary£33,000£40,000
Average salary£35,219£42,364
% change on same period last year-16.86 %
Average maximum salary£37,438£44,727
UK excluding London average salary£37,087£37,366
% change on same period last year-0.74 %
Newbury IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
Newbury
Matching permanent IT job ads13693
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.079 %0.040 %
Salaries quoted10655
Average minimum salary£36,031£37,046
Average salary£39,783£39,644
% change on same period last year+0.35 %
Average maximum salary£43,535£42,242
UK excluding London average salary£37,898£38,996
% change on same period last year-2.81 %
Firewall BerkshireFirewall
Berkshire

Firewall
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Firewall across the Newbury region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Newbury Firewall Demand Trend

Firewall
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Firewall across the Newbury region.

Newbury Firewall Salary Trend

Firewall
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Firewall across the Newbury region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

Newbury Firewall Salary Histogram

Firewall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT jobs across the Newbury 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.

117 (54.84 %)Microsoft
215 (48.39 %)Cisco
311 (35.48 %)CheckPoint
410 (32.26 %)Microsoft Certification
410 (32.26 %)VPN
410 (32.26 %)MCSE
410 (32.26 %)Blue Coat
59 (29.03 %)Windows
59 (29.03 %)TCP/IP
67 (22.58 %)CCNA
67 (22.58 %)Nortel
67 (22.58 %)SQL
67 (22.58 %)Cisco Certification
67 (22.58 %)VLAN
76 (19.35 %)NetScreen
76 (19.35 %)Juniper
76 (19.35 %)Internet
76 (19.35 %)UNIX
76 (19.35 %)Linux
85 (16.13 %)VBScript
85 (16.13 %)HTML
85 (16.13 %)ASP
85 (16.13 %)DNS
85 (16.13 %)SLA
85 (16.13 %)MS Excel
85 (16.13 %)DHCP
85 (16.13 %)Change Management
85 (16.13 %)Incident Management
94 (12.90 %)Technical Architecture
94 (12.90 %)IronPort

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT jobs across the Newbury 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.

Newbury IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
15 (16.13 %)HTML
15 (16.13 %)ASP
Newbury IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
11 (3.226 %)Lotus Domino
Newbury IT Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
15 (16.13 %)MS Excel
22 (6.452 %)MS Visio
Newbury IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
110 (32.26 %)VPN
29 (29.03 %)TCP/IP
37 (22.58 %)VLAN
46 (19.35 %)NetScreen
46 (19.35 %)Internet
55 (16.13 %)DHCP
55 (16.13 %)DNS
63 (9.677 %)Cisco PIX
63 (9.677 %)MPLS
72 (6.452 %)BGP
72 (6.452 %)IPsec
72 (6.452 %)Intrusion Detection
81 (3.226 %)SAN
81 (3.226 %)Network Security
81 (3.226 %)VRRP
81 (3.226 %)LAN
81 (3.226 %)WAN
81 (3.226 %)SMTP
Newbury IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
12 (6.452 %)MySQL
21 (3.226 %)SQL Server
Newbury IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
14 (12.90 %)Education
14 (12.90 %)Marketing
22 (6.452 %)Telecoms
Newbury IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
16 (19.35 %)Firewall Engineer
24 (12.90 %)Team Leader
24 (12.90 %)Technical Specialist
24 (12.90 %)Technical Support
24 (12.90 %)Support Specialist
33 (9.677 %)3rd Line Support
33 (9.677 %)Technical Support Specialist
33 (9.677 %)Support Engineer
33 (9.677 %)Consultant
42 (6.452 %)Server Support
42 (6.452 %)Server Engineer
42 (6.452 %)Security Consultant
42 (6.452 %)Technical Consultant
42 (6.452 %)Security Engineer
42 (6.452 %)Helpdesk Engineer
42 (6.452 %)Security Technical Consultant
51 (3.226 %)UNIX Support
51 (3.226 %)UNIX Technical Specialist
51 (3.226 %)Linux Specialist
51 (3.226 %)Linux Support
Newbury IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
14 (12.90 %)SecurID
Newbury IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
19 (29.03 %)Windows
26 (19.35 %)UNIX
26 (19.35 %)Linux
32 (6.452 %)Windows 2000
32 (6.452 %)Windows NT
32 (6.452 %)Solaris
41 (3.226 %)AIX
Newbury IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
15 (16.13 %)Change Management
15 (16.13 %)Incident Management
24 (12.90 %)Technical Architecture
24 (12.90 %)CRM
33 (9.677 %)Asset Management
41 (3.226 %)Network Design
Newbury IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
17 (22.58 %)SQL
25 (16.13 %)VBScript
34 (12.90 %)C
42 (6.452 %)Perl
42 (6.452 %)Python
42 (6.452 %)Shell Script
Newbury IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
110 (32.26 %)MCSE
110 (32.26 %)Microsoft Certification
27 (22.58 %)CCNA
27 (22.58 %)Cisco Certification
32 (6.452 %)CCSA
32 (6.452 %)CCSE
41 (3.226 %)MCDST
41 (3.226 %)MCSA
41 (3.226 %)CCNP
41 (3.226 %)CCIP
41 (3.226 %)MCP
Newbury IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
15 (16.13 %)SLA
Newbury IT Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
12 (6.452 %)NDS
12 (6.452 %)ProxySG
Newbury IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
117 (54.84 %)Microsoft
215 (48.39 %)Cisco
311 (35.48 %)CheckPoint
410 (32.26 %)Blue Coat
57 (22.58 %)Nortel
66 (19.35 %)Juniper
74 (12.90 %)Nokia
74 (12.90 %)IronPort
74 (12.90 %)Finjan
82 (6.452 %)Avaya
82 (6.452 %)Novell
91 (3.226 %)VMware
91 (3.226 %)Citrix
91 (3.226 %)Oracle