The first table below looks at the demand for FWSM skills in IT jobs advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited FWSM 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 Reading region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco Firewall Services Module (FWSM)
Rank 106 129 114
Rank change year-on-year
+23 -15
Permanent jobs citing FWSM 27 3 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 1.245% 0.133% 0.371%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.431% 0.515% 1.847%
Number of salaries quoted 17 2 7
Average salary £60,000 £47,500 £57,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+26.31% -17.39%
UK excluding London average salary £55,000 £40,000 £51,250
% change year-on-year
+37.50% -21.95%
All Communications & Networking
Reading
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
787 583 379
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 36.28% 25.75% 20.11%
Number of salaries quoted 623 463 310
Average salary £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.11% +5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,500 £26,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
FWSM
Berkshire

FWSM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading FWSM Jobs Demand Trend

FWSM
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing FWSM across the Reading region.

Reading FWSM Salary Trend

FWSM
Salary Histogram

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

Reading FWSM Salary Histogram

FWSM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading region citing FWSM 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 FWSM.

1 33 (100.00%) Cisco
1 33 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
2 27 (81.82%) F5
3 23 (69.70%) Degree
4 20 (60.61%) Juniper
5 19 (57.58%) Project Management
6 18 (54.55%) Red Hat
6 18 (54.55%) Change Management
6 18 (54.55%) Nortel
6 18 (54.55%) HTML
6 18 (54.55%) Java
6 18 (54.55%) Perl
6 18 (54.55%) XML
6 18 (54.55%) ITIL
6 18 (54.55%) SAS
6 18 (54.55%) Web Development
6 18 (54.55%) Intrusion Detection
6 18 (54.55%) PowerShell
7 15 (45.45%) Firewall
8 14 (42.42%) CheckPoint
8 14 (42.42%) Windows
8 14 (42.42%) Microsoft
9 12 (36.36%) Network Security
10 11 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
10 11 (33.33%) Problem Management
10 11 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
10 11 (33.33%) Egenera
10 11 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 11 (33.33%) Wireshark
10 11 (33.33%) tcpdump

FWSM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading region citing FWSM 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 FWSM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 18 (54.55%) HTML
1 18 (54.55%) XML
2 1 (3.030%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 18 (54.55%) SAS
2 11 (33.33%) IIS
2 11 (33.33%) Apache
Applications
1 11 (33.33%) MS Excel
2 3 (9.091%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 33 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
2 18 (54.55%) Intrusion Detection
3 15 (45.45%) Firewall
4 12 (36.36%) Network Security
5 11 (33.33%) Wireshark
5 11 (33.33%) tcpdump
5 11 (33.33%) snoop
6 10 (30.30%) DNS
6 10 (30.30%) Cisco PIX
7 9 (27.27%) BIG-IP
7 9 (27.27%) Radio Access Network
7 9 (27.27%) 3G
7 9 (27.27%) SMTP
7 9 (27.27%) DHCP
7 9 (27.27%) SNMP
8 8 (24.24%) TCP/IP
9 7 (21.21%) Broadband
10 4 (12.12%) Cisco IOS
10 4 (12.12%) IPsec
11 3 (9.091%) OSPF
General
1 8 (24.24%) Back Office
2 7 (21.21%) Retail
2 7 (21.21%) Billing
3 6 (18.18%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.030%) Finance
4 1 (3.030%) Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (36.36%) Security Engineer
2 11 (33.33%) Network Engineer
3 10 (30.30%) IP Engineer
4 3 (9.091%) Network Security Engineer
5 2 (6.061%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 2 (6.061%) Lead Network Engineer
5 2 (6.061%) Windows Engineer
5 2 (6.061%) Network Consultant
5 2 (6.061%) Consultant
6 1 (3.030%) Customer Engineer
6 1 (3.030%) Network Manager
6 1 (3.030%) Project Engineer
6 1 (3.030%) Technical Engineer
6 1 (3.030%) Design Engineer
6 1 (3.030%) Operations Engineer
6 1 (3.030%) Implementation Engineer
6 1 (3.030%) Network Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 11 (33.33%) Firmware
2 1 (3.030%) SecurID
Operating Systems
1 14 (42.42%) Windows
2 11 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 11 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 11 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 11 (33.33%) Solaris
3 3 (9.091%) Linux
4 2 (6.061%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (57.58%) Project Management
2 18 (54.55%) Change Management
2 18 (54.55%) ITIL
2 18 (54.55%) Web Development
3 11 (33.33%) Problem Management
3 11 (33.33%) Service Delivery
4 7 (21.21%) CRM
5 4 (12.12%) Network Design
6 3 (9.091%) Validation
6 3 (9.091%) Release Management
7 1 (3.030%) PRINCE
7 1 (3.030%) Scrum
7 1 (3.030%) Agile Software Development
7 1 (3.030%) Data Protection
7 1 (3.030%) Load Balancing
7 1 (3.030%) Network Management
7 1 (3.030%) Capacity Planning
7 1 (3.030%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 18 (54.55%) Java
1 18 (54.55%) Perl
1 18 (54.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 23 (69.70%) Degree
2 11 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
3 10 (30.30%) CCNP
4 7 (21.21%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (21.21%) MCSE
5 6 (18.18%) CCSA
6 5 (15.15%) CCNA
6 5 (15.15%) CCSE
7 3 (9.091%) CCDP
7 3 (9.091%) JNCIA
8 2 (6.061%) CCIE
9 1 (3.030%) CCSP
9 1 (3.030%) CCIP
9 1 (3.030%) Check Point Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.030%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (27.27%) ProxySG
Vendors
1 33 (100.00%) Cisco
2 27 (81.82%) F5
3 20 (60.61%) Juniper
4 18 (54.55%) Red Hat
4 18 (54.55%) Nortel
5 14 (42.42%) CheckPoint
5 14 (42.42%) Microsoft
6 11 (33.33%) Egenera
6 11 (33.33%) Foundry
6 11 (33.33%) VMware
6 11 (33.33%) HP
6 11 (33.33%) Sun
7 9 (27.27%) Blue Coat
8 1 (3.030%) SolarWinds
8 1 (3.030%) Infoblox
8 1 (3.030%) Redback
8 1 (3.030%) Huawei
8 1 (3.030%) Aruba