The first table below looks at the demand for Firewall skills in IT jobs advertised for the North East region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Firewall over the 3 months to 23 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 North East region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firewall
Rank 31 55 42
Rank change year-on-year
+24 -13
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 39 22 25
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North East 5.660% 2.546% 3.401%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 22.94% 20.56% 17.01%
Number of salaries quoted 36 15 20
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £36,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% -3.44%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £26,500 £24,800
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £45,000 £40,050
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-3.75% +6.66%
All Communications & Networking
North East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
170 107 147
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North East 24.67% 12.38% 20.00%
Number of salaries quoted 152 91 126
Average salary £40,000 £30,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+33.33% -14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,500 £24,250 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Firewall
England

Firewall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North East 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 North East region.

North East Firewall Salary Trend

Firewall
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Firewall across the North East region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

North East 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 North East region over the 3 months to 23 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
Tyne and Wear +14 38 £40,000 +1.26%
Firewall
England

Firewall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the North East 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 55 (68.75%) Cisco
2 41 (51.25%) HP
3 40 (50.00%) VLAN
4 38 (47.50%) Linux
5 37 (46.25%) Cisco Certification
6 36 (45.00%) DNS
7 35 (43.75%) DHCP
8 32 (40.00%) VPN
8 32 (40.00%) CCNA
8 32 (40.00%) Red Hat
9 30 (37.50%) Apache
9 30 (37.50%) MySQL
9 30 (37.50%) CentOS
10 29 (36.25%) Wireless
11 27 (33.75%) LDAP
12 25 (31.25%) Windows
12 25 (31.25%) Microsoft
12 25 (31.25%) Citrix
13 23 (28.75%) SAN
13 23 (28.75%) WAN
14 22 (27.50%) OSPF
14 22 (27.50%) Internet
15 21 (26.25%) BGP
15 21 (26.25%) XenServer
16 20 (25.00%) Telecoms
17 18 (22.50%) Network Management
17 18 (22.50%) MS Excel
18 17 (21.25%) Degree
18 17 (21.25%) Disaster Recovery
19 16 (20.00%) MS Visio

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the North East 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 4 (5.000%) Windows SharePoint Services
Application Platforms
1 30 (37.50%) Apache
2 8 (10.00%) MS Exchange
3 4 (5.000%) SharePoint
3 4 (5.000%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 18 (22.50%) MS Excel
2 16 (20.00%) MS Visio
3 5 (6.250%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 40 (50.00%) VLAN
2 36 (45.00%) DNS
3 35 (43.75%) DHCP
4 32 (40.00%) VPN
5 29 (36.25%) Wireless
6 27 (33.75%) LDAP
7 23 (28.75%) SAN
7 23 (28.75%) WAN
8 22 (27.50%) OSPF
8 22 (27.50%) Internet
9 21 (26.25%) BGP
10 15 (18.75%) LAN
11 14 (17.50%) Cisco IOS
12 13 (16.25%) Cisco ASA
13 10 (12.50%) TCP/IP
13 10 (12.50%) Cisco PIX
13 10 (12.50%) Fibre Channel
14 7 (8.750%) Intrusion Detection
15 4 (5.000%) SMTP
16 3 (3.750%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (37.50%) MySQL
2 9 (11.25%) SQL Server
General
1 20 (25.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (2.500%) Finance
Job Titles
1 38 (47.50%) Administrator
2 29 (36.25%) Systems Administrator
3 27 (33.75%) Linux Administrator
4 17 (21.25%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 14 (17.50%) Network Support
6 12 (15.00%) Senior Linux Administrator
7 11 (13.75%) Analyst
8 10 (12.50%) Support Analyst
8 10 (12.50%) Network Support Analyst
8 10 (12.50%) Network Analyst
9 8 (10.00%) Network Engineer
10 4 (5.000%) Technical Support
10 4 (5.000%) Support Engineer
10 4 (5.000%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (5.000%) Network Technician
10 4 (5.000%) Technical Support Engineer
10 4 (5.000%) 2nd Line Support
10 4 (5.000%) Senior Systems Administrator
10 4 (5.000%) Senior Network Engineer
10 4 (5.000%) Network Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.250%) Replication
2 4 (5.000%) Thin Client
2 4 (5.000%) Blackberry
2 4 (5.000%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 38 (47.50%) Linux
2 30 (37.50%) CentOS
3 25 (31.25%) Windows
4 12 (15.00%) Solaris
5 7 (8.750%) UNIX
6 5 (6.250%) Windows Server 2008
6 5 (6.250%) Windows Server 2003
7 4 (5.000%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (22.50%) Network Management
2 17 (21.25%) Disaster Recovery
3 14 (17.50%) Capacity Planning
3 14 (17.50%) Network Design
4 6 (7.500%) Identity Management
4 6 (7.500%) Validation
4 6 (7.500%) Problem Management
5 5 (6.250%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (5.000%) Data Management
6 4 (5.000%) Change Control
7 3 (3.750%) Time Management
8 2 (2.500%) Service Delivery
9 1 (1.250%) Load Balancing
9 1 (1.250%) Business Development
9 1 (1.250%) Matrix Management
9 1 (1.250%) Project Management
9 1 (1.250%) ITIL
9 1 (1.250%) Cyber Security
Programming Languages
1 5 (6.250%) SQL
2 4 (5.000%) C
Qualifications
1 37 (46.25%) Cisco Certification
2 32 (40.00%) CCNA
3 17 (21.25%) Degree
4 14 (17.50%) RHCE
5 9 (11.25%) CCNP
6 4 (5.000%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (5.000%) MCSE
6 4 (5.000%) MCSA
6 4 (5.000%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.250%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.250%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 21 (26.25%) XenServer
2 15 (18.75%) Hyper-V
3 9 (11.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (11.25%) Active Directory
4 5 (6.250%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (5.000%) ISA Server
5 4 (5.000%) VMware ESX
5 4 (5.000%) Forefront TMG
6 1 (1.250%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (11.25%) Nagios
2 4 (5.000%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 55 (68.75%) Cisco
2 41 (51.25%) HP
3 32 (40.00%) Red Hat
4 25 (31.25%) Microsoft
4 25 (31.25%) Citrix
5 14 (17.50%) Oracle
6 10 (12.50%) VMware
7 5 (6.250%) CheckPoint
8 4 (5.000%) Sophos
9 2 (2.500%) Juniper
10 1 (1.250%) F5
10 1 (1.250%) Blue Coat
10 1 (1.250%) Sun
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