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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firewall
Rank 46 66 73
Rank change year-on-year
+20 +7
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 45 19 27
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Nottingham 4.752% 1.830% 2.250%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 25.14% 11.80% 11.84%
Number of salaries quoted 43 14 19
Average salary £37,500 £45,000 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-16.66% +32.35%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,200 £36,450 £24,600
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £62,750 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-3.75% +6.66%
All Communications & Networking
Nottingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
179 161 228
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Nottingham 18.90% 15.51% 19.00%
Number of salaries quoted 163 146 193
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% -6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £23,025 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £60,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Firewall
Nottinghamshire

Firewall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottingham 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 Nottingham region.

Nottingham Firewall Salary Trend

Firewall
Salary Histogram

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

Nottingham Firewall Salary Histogram

Firewall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Nottingham 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 40 (49.38%) Windows
2 31 (38.27%) VMware
3 30 (37.04%) Cisco
4 29 (35.80%) Linux
5 28 (34.57%) UNIX
6 25 (30.86%) Citrix
7 24 (29.63%) SAN
8 21 (25.93%) Cisco Certification
9 20 (24.69%) Citrix Certification
9 20 (24.69%) XenApp
9 20 (24.69%) XenServer
9 20 (24.69%) XenDesktop
10 19 (23.46%) VMware Infrastructure
10 19 (23.46%) CCIA
10 19 (23.46%) Project Planning
10 19 (23.46%) CCA
11 18 (22.22%) Juniper
11 18 (22.22%) TCP/IP
11 18 (22.22%) vSphere
12 17 (20.99%) Network Security
12 17 (20.99%) WAN
12 17 (20.99%) CheckPoint
13 16 (19.75%) LAN
13 16 (19.75%) Windows Server 2008
14 14 (17.28%) CCNA
14 14 (17.28%) Cisco ASA
14 14 (17.28%) CCEE
15 13 (16.05%) Active Directory
15 13 (16.05%) Management Information System
15 13 (16.05%) Windows Server 2003

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Nottingham 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 (1.235%) COM+
1 1 (1.235%) CSS
1 1 (1.235%) HTML
1 1 (1.235%) .NET
1 1 (1.235%) LAMP
1 1 (1.235%) jQuery
1 1 (1.235%) CodeIgniter
1 1 (1.235%) CakePHP
Application Platforms
1 8 (9.877%) MS Exchange
2 7 (8.642%) Exchange Server 2010
3 4 (4.938%) Exchange Server 2003
3 4 (4.938%) Exchange Server 2007
4 2 (2.469%) IIS
5 1 (1.235%) Apache
5 1 (1.235%) Magento
Applications
1 5 (6.173%) MS Excel
2 4 (4.938%) MS Office
2 4 (4.938%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 24 (29.63%) SAN
2 18 (22.22%) TCP/IP
3 17 (20.99%) Network Security
3 17 (20.99%) WAN
4 16 (19.75%) LAN
5 14 (17.28%) Cisco ASA
6 11 (13.58%) BGP
7 10 (12.35%) Internet
7 10 (12.35%) VPN
8 9 (11.11%) MPLS
8 9 (11.11%) Cisco PIX
9 8 (9.877%) VLAN
9 8 (9.877%) iSCSI
9 8 (9.877%) Fibre Channel
10 7 (8.642%) SMTP
10 7 (8.642%) DNS
10 7 (8.642%) HTTP
10 7 (8.642%) NAS
10 7 (8.642%) FWSM
11 6 (7.407%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.642%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.938%) SQL Server 2008
2 4 (4.938%) Oracle 8/8i
3 2 (2.469%) MySQL
4 1 (1.235%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (1.235%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 1 (1.235%) Git (software)
General
1 7 (8.642%) Finance
2 5 (6.173%) Legal
3 3 (3.704%) Retail
4 1 (1.235%) Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (30.86%) Consultant
2 15 (18.52%) Analyst
3 14 (17.28%) Security Analyst
4 13 (16.05%) Technical Consultant
5 12 (14.81%) Citrix Consultant
6 9 (11.11%) Network Engineer
6 9 (11.11%) Support Engineer
7 7 (8.642%) Cisco Engineer
8 6 (7.407%) Systems Administrator
8 6 (7.407%) Administrator
9 5 (6.173%) Network Analyst
9 5 (6.173%) Architect
9 5 (6.173%) Network Security Analyst
10 4 (4.938%) Cisco Support
10 4 (4.938%) IT Support Engineer
10 4 (4.938%) Senior Systems Administrator
10 4 (4.938%) Virtualisation Consultant
10 4 (4.938%) IT Support
10 4 (4.938%) Cisco Support Engineer
10 4 (4.938%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.05%) Management Information System
2 4 (4.938%) Statistics
2 4 (4.938%) Computer Science
2 4 (4.938%) PKI
2 4 (4.938%) CLARiiON
3 3 (3.704%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.235%) IVR
4 1 (1.235%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.235%) SaaS
4 1 (1.235%) PaaS
4 1 (1.235%) IaaS
4 1 (1.235%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.235%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 40 (49.38%) Windows
2 29 (35.80%) Linux
3 28 (34.57%) UNIX
4 16 (19.75%) Windows Server 2008
5 13 (16.05%) Windows Server 2003
6 7 (8.642%) Windows Vista
7 5 (6.173%) MVS
7 5 (6.173%) AIX
7 5 (6.173%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (4.938%) Windows 8
8 4 (4.938%) Windows XP
8 4 (4.938%) Solaris
9 1 (1.235%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (23.46%) Project Planning
2 12 (14.81%) Validation
3 10 (12.35%) Information Security
4 8 (9.877%) Capacity Planning
4 8 (9.877%) Data Security
5 7 (8.642%) Security Management
5 7 (8.642%) Vulnerability Management
6 6 (7.407%) Business Analysis
6 6 (7.407%) Project Management
6 6 (7.407%) Business Continuity
7 5 (6.173%) Load Balancing
8 4 (4.938%) Infrastructure Management
8 4 (4.938%) Configuration Management
8 4 (4.938%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (4.938%) PDM
8 4 (4.938%) Business Intelligence
9 3 (3.704%) Network Design
10 2 (2.469%) Fault Management
10 2 (2.469%) Incident Management
10 2 (2.469%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 6 (7.407%) ActionScript 2.0
1 6 (7.407%) ActionScript
2 5 (6.173%) REXX
2 5 (6.173%) JCL
3 4 (4.938%) Shell Script
3 4 (4.938%) SQL
4 3 (3.704%) Perl
5 2 (2.469%) PHP
5 2 (2.469%) Python
6 1 (1.235%) C#
6 1 (1.235%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.235%) VB
Qualifications
1 21 (25.93%) Cisco Certification
2 20 (24.69%) Citrix Certification
3 19 (23.46%) CCIA
3 19 (23.46%) CCA
4 14 (17.28%) CCNA
4 14 (17.28%) CCEE
5 12 (14.81%) CCNP
6 8 (9.877%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 7 (8.642%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (8.642%) Degree
8 6 (7.407%) MCSE
8 6 (7.407%) CCEA
9 4 (4.938%) MCITP
10 2 (2.469%) SC Cleared
10 2 (2.469%) Security Cleared
10 2 (2.469%) JNCIA
11 1 (1.235%) CCDP
11 1 (1.235%) CCIE
11 1 (1.235%) CCSP
11 1 (1.235%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.35%) SLA
2 9 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.235%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 20 (24.69%) XenApp
1 20 (24.69%) XenServer
1 20 (24.69%) XenDesktop
2 19 (23.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (22.22%) vSphere
4 13 (16.05%) Active Directory
5 4 (4.938%) VMware Workstation
6 2 (2.469%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (2.469%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.235%) VMware ESX
7 1 (1.235%) Xen
Systems Management
1 4 (4.938%) Backup Exec
2 1 (1.235%) Cisco IPCC
2 1 (1.235%) Tivoli
2 1 (1.235%) SolarWinds Orion
2 1 (1.235%) Plesk
2 1 (1.235%) Puppet
2 1 (1.235%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 31 (38.27%) VMware
2 30 (37.04%) Cisco
3 25 (30.86%) Citrix
4 18 (22.22%) Juniper
5 17 (20.99%) CheckPoint
6 7 (8.642%) McAfee
6 7 (8.642%) F5
7 6 (7.407%) HP
8 5 (6.173%) Microsoft
8 5 (6.173%) Red Hat
8 5 (6.173%) Oracle
8 5 (6.173%) Trend Micro
9 4 (4.938%) NetApp
9 4 (4.938%) EMC
10 2 (2.469%) ION Trading
10 2 (2.469%) Symantec
10 2 (2.469%) Avaya
11 1 (1.235%) IBM
11 1 (1.235%) AppSense
11 1 (1.235%) Veeam
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Responsibilities will also include the configuration, management and support of Cisco (MDS and Nexus), Checkpoint Firewalls and NetApp, EMC (Clariion) environments... Interested applicants will have hands-on experience...
Experis IT
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Specific relevant network experience - Cisco routers & managed switches, firewalls, HP servers RAID. *Microsoft server, exchange and active directory *SQL server, Citrix, Crystal reports *Excellent knowledge and experience of...
Bluefire Consulting
Salary: £32800 - £36313 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 23 May 2013
Nottingham, East Midlands
Microsoft server, exchange and active directory*SQL server, Citrix, Crystal reports*Excellent knowledge and experience of working with current and previous versions of Microsoft packages and network administration.
Bluefire Consulting
Salary: £32800 - £36313 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 23 May 2013
Nottingham, East Midlands
Skills required:*Good technical knowledge of networking fundamentals across multiple platforms and technologies including Linux, Unix as well as Windows.*Excellent knowledge of network and data security best...
IT Ventures Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £31000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
We are looking for an Network and Security Infrastructure Architect who has a solid and recent experience as an Infrastructure Architect, with CCNA and CCNP qualifications... CCNA and...
Venturi
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + bonus/benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
My client a value added distributor of servers, data storage, network security, enterprise software, virtualisation and access infrastructure are currently in the market for Citrix Consultant - Citrix -CCEE -...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + Car + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
My client a value added distributor of servers, data storage, network security, enterprise software, virtualisation and access infrastructure are currently in the market for Citrix Consultant - Citrix -CCEE -...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Certified to CCA level, with a desire to progress to CCEE / CCIA. Citrix: XenApp, XenServer, XenDesktop, Access Gateway, Branch Repeater. Storage: Understanding of SAN and NAS storage, knowledge...
4it Recruitment Ltd
Salary: Up to £55,000 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013