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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firewall
Rank 54 54 44
Rank change year-on-year
0 -10
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 6 3 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Norfolk 1.354% 0.622% 0.958%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.67% 8.108% 9.677%
Number of salaries quoted 6 3 3
Average salary £25,750 £32,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-20.76% -18.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £32,500 £29,600
10% offered a salary of more than £34,000 £40,500 £47,200
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-3.75% +6.66%
All Communications & Networking
Norfolk
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
36 37 31
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Norfolk 8.126% 7.676% 9.904%
Number of salaries quoted 30 34 26
Average salary £24,000 £32,500 £26,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-26.15% +22.64%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,500 £22,500 £18,000
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Firewall
East of England

Firewall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Norfolk 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 Norfolk region.

Norfolk Firewall Salary Trend

Firewall
Salary Histogram

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

Norfolk 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 Norfolk region over the 3 months to 24 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
Norwich +5 4 £23,500 -44.70%
Great Yarmouth -1 2 £28,000 -13.84%
Firewall
East of England

Firewall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Norfolk 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 11 (100.00%) Windows
2 7 (63.64%) Microsoft
3 6 (54.55%) Active Directory
3 6 (54.55%) DNS
3 6 (54.55%) Cisco
3 6 (54.55%) MS Exchange
3 6 (54.55%) DHCP
3 6 (54.55%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (45.45%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (36.36%) CISSP
5 4 (36.36%) VPN
5 4 (36.36%) GIAC
5 4 (36.36%) VMware
5 4 (36.36%) VoIP
5 4 (36.36%) UNIX
5 4 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (36.36%) CEH
5 4 (36.36%) VLAN
5 4 (36.36%) Windows Vista
5 4 (36.36%) Information Security
6 3 (27.27%) vSphere
6 3 (27.27%) TCP/IP
6 3 (27.27%) MS Excel
6 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
7 2 (18.18%) SAN
7 2 (18.18%) Veritas
7 2 (18.18%) Blackberry
7 2 (18.18%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 2 (18.18%) MS Office
7 2 (18.18%) Backup Exec

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Norfolk 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 (54.55%) MS Exchange
2 2 (18.18%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (9.091%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (9.091%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 3 (27.27%) MS Excel
2 2 (18.18%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) DNS
1 6 (54.55%) DHCP
2 4 (36.36%) VPN
2 4 (36.36%) VoIP
2 4 (36.36%) VLAN
3 3 (27.27%) TCP/IP
4 2 (18.18%) SAN
4 2 (18.18%) iSCSI
5 1 (9.091%) FTP
5 1 (9.091%) HTTP
5 1 (9.091%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Analyst
1 4 (36.36%) Security Analyst
1 4 (36.36%) Operations Analyst
1 4 (36.36%) IT Operations Analyst
1 4 (36.36%) Security Operations Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Desktop Technician
2 3 (27.27%) Senior Security Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Desktop Support Technician
2 3 (27.27%) Support Technician
2 3 (27.27%) Senior Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Desktop Support
3 2 (18.18%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (9.091%) Administrator
4 1 (9.091%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (9.091%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (54.55%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (45.45%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (36.36%) UNIX
4 4 (36.36%) Windows Vista
5 1 (9.091%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Information Security
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) CISSP
1 4 (36.36%) GIAC
1 4 (36.36%) CEH
2 1 (9.091%) CCNA
2 1 (9.091%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (9.091%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Active Directory
2 4 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (27.27%) vSphere
4 1 (9.091%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Backup Exec
2 1 (9.091%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Microsoft
2 6 (54.55%) Cisco
3 4 (36.36%) VMware
4 2 (18.18%) Veritas
5 1 (9.091%) Dell
5 1 (9.091%) EMC