The first table below looks at the demand for Firewall skills in IT jobs advertised for the Rickmansworth region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Firewall over the 3 months to 21 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 Rickmansworth region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firewall
Rank 20 - 5
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 9 0 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Rickmansworth 6.818% - 11.54%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.93% - 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 8 0 2
Average salary £54,500 - £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,472 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-3.82% +6.66%
All Communications & Networking
Rickmansworth
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
43 2 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Rickmansworth 32.58% 3.571% 11.54%
Number of salaries quoted 39 0 2
Average salary £47,000 - £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Firewall
Hertfordshire

Firewall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Rickmansworth 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 Rickmansworth region.

Rickmansworth Firewall Salary Trend

Firewall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Rickmansworth 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 9 (75.00%) Cisco
2 8 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 8 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 8 (66.67%) CCNA
2 8 (66.67%) CCDA
2 8 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (58.33%) Finance
4 6 (50.00%) Juniper
5 5 (41.67%) CCNP
5 5 (41.67%) ITIL
5 5 (41.67%) PRINCE2
5 5 (41.67%) UNIX
5 5 (41.67%) Solaris
5 5 (41.67%) Linux
5 5 (41.67%) F5
5 5 (41.67%) Change Control
5 5 (41.67%) Cisco Nexus
5 5 (41.67%) SSL
6 4 (33.33%) MS Excel
7 3 (25.00%) DHCP
7 3 (25.00%) Windows
7 3 (25.00%) DNS
7 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
7 3 (25.00%) Network Security
7 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (25.00%) Hyper-V
7 3 (25.00%) XenServer
7 3 (25.00%) Windows 7
7 3 (25.00%) Network Architecture

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Rickmansworth 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.

Applications
1 4 (33.33%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 8 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 5 (41.67%) Cisco Nexus
2 5 (41.67%) SSL
3 3 (25.00%) DHCP
3 3 (25.00%) DNS
3 3 (25.00%) Network Security
4 1 (8.333%) Cisco IOS
General
1 7 (58.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.333%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Architect
1 8 (66.67%) Network Architect
2 3 (25.00%) Wintel Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Cisco Architect
4 1 (8.333%) Cisco Network Architect
4 1 (8.333%) Network Manager
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) UNIX
1 5 (41.67%) Solaris
1 5 (41.67%) Linux
2 3 (25.00%) Windows
2 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (25.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) ITIL
1 5 (41.67%) PRINCE2
1 5 (41.67%) Change Control
2 3 (25.00%) Network Architecture
3 1 (8.333%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (8.333%) Network Management
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) CCNA
1 8 (66.67%) CCDA
1 8 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (41.67%) CCNP
3 1 (8.333%) Degree
3 1 (8.333%) HND
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (25.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (25.00%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) Cisco
2 8 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 6 (50.00%) Juniper
4 5 (41.67%) F5
5 3 (25.00%) VMware
5 3 (25.00%) LANDesk
6 1 (8.333%) HP