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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firewall
Rank 31 54 48
Rank change year-on-year
+23 -6
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 35 9 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset 5.556% 1.965% 2.240%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 36.08% 18.75% 19.64%
Number of salaries quoted 30 9 11
Average salary £41,250 £50,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-17.50% +42.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,450 £24,100 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £58,500 £50,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-3.75% +6.66%
All Communications & Networking
Somerset
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
97 48 56
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset 15.40% 10.48% 11.41%
Number of salaries quoted 88 46 52
Average salary £42,500 £33,950 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+25.18% -3.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £22,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £58,500 £59,250 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Firewall
South West

Firewall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset Firewall Salary Trend

Firewall
Salary Histogram

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

Somerset 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 Somerset 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
Bath +3 10 £21,500 -4.44%
Taunton - 6 £29,500 -
Yeovil +2 5 £48,500 -3.00%
Frome - 3 £21,000 -
Wells - 2 £42,500 -
Firewall
South West

Firewall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Somerset 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 35 (57.38%) Microsoft
2 34 (55.74%) Cisco
3 33 (54.10%) Windows
4 31 (50.82%) ITIL
5 26 (42.62%) VPN
6 24 (39.34%) WAN
7 23 (37.70%) Cisco Certification
8 21 (34.43%) MPLS
8 21 (34.43%) VMware
9 20 (32.79%) Internet
9 20 (32.79%) CCNA
10 19 (31.15%) Linux
11 17 (27.87%) ADSL
11 17 (27.87%) 3G
12 16 (26.23%) IPsec
12 16 (26.23%) Ethernet
12 16 (26.23%) DNS
12 16 (26.23%) SAN
13 15 (24.59%) TCP/IP
13 15 (24.59%) ISDN
13 15 (24.59%) Change Management
14 14 (22.95%) MS Office
15 13 (21.31%) LAN
15 13 (21.31%) MS Excel
15 13 (21.31%) MS Exchange
15 13 (21.31%) OSPF
15 13 (21.31%) BGP
16 12 (19.67%) Citrix
16 12 (19.67%) Windows 7
17 11 (18.03%) SHDSL

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Somerset 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 (1.639%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 13 (21.31%) MS Exchange
2 4 (6.557%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (4.918%) Apache
4 2 (3.279%) Tomcat
4 2 (3.279%) SharePoint
4 2 (3.279%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 2 (3.279%) Lync
4 2 (3.279%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (1.639%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (1.639%) SugarCRM
5 1 (1.639%) CMS
Applications
1 14 (22.95%) MS Office
2 13 (21.31%) MS Excel
3 3 (4.918%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 26 (42.62%) VPN
2 24 (39.34%) WAN
3 21 (34.43%) MPLS
4 20 (32.79%) Internet
5 17 (27.87%) ADSL
5 17 (27.87%) 3G
6 16 (26.23%) IPsec
6 16 (26.23%) Ethernet
6 16 (26.23%) DNS
6 16 (26.23%) SAN
7 15 (24.59%) TCP/IP
7 15 (24.59%) ISDN
8 13 (21.31%) LAN
8 13 (21.31%) OSPF
8 13 (21.31%) BGP
9 11 (18.03%) SHDSL
9 11 (18.03%) SDH
10 9 (14.75%) EIGRP
10 9 (14.75%) Wireless
11 8 (13.11%) L2TP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.197%) SQL Server
1 5 (8.197%) MySQL
2 3 (4.918%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.279%) Crystal Reports
3 2 (3.279%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 3 (4.918%) JIRA
2 2 (3.279%) Subversion
2 2 (3.279%) Talend Open Studio
General
1 4 (6.557%) Finance
2 2 (3.279%) Retail
2 2 (3.279%) Manufacturing
3 1 (1.639%) Law
3 1 (1.639%) Legal
3 1 (1.639%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 19 (31.15%) IT Support
2 15 (24.59%) Support Engineer
3 14 (22.95%) IT Support Engineer
4 6 (9.836%) Technical Engineer
4 6 (9.836%) Administrator
4 6 (9.836%) Systems Administrator
4 6 (9.836%) Operations Engineer
5 5 (8.197%) Network Engineer
5 5 (8.197%) 3rd Line Support
5 5 (8.197%) Help Desk Engineer
5 5 (8.197%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (4.918%) Linux Administrator
6 3 (4.918%) Operations Manager
6 3 (4.918%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 3 (4.918%) Technical Operations Manager
6 3 (4.918%) Change Manager
6 3 (4.918%) IT Administrator
6 3 (4.918%) Infrastructure Manager
6 3 (4.918%) Technical Manager
6 3 (4.918%) Infrastructure Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.48%) Management Information System
2 6 (9.836%) Blackberry
3 3 (4.918%) SaaS
3 3 (4.918%) Clustering
4 2 (3.279%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (3.279%) Open Source
4 2 (3.279%) iPad
4 2 (3.279%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (3.279%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 33 (54.10%) Windows
2 19 (31.15%) Linux
3 12 (19.67%) Windows 7
4 10 (16.39%) Windows XP
4 10 (16.39%) Windows Server 2008
5 7 (11.48%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (9.836%) Windows Server 2003
7 5 (8.197%) UNIX
8 4 (6.557%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (4.918%) Windows 8
9 3 (4.918%) AIX
10 1 (1.639%) CentOS
10 1 (1.639%) Windows Vista
10 1 (1.639%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (50.82%) ITIL
2 15 (24.59%) Change Management
3 10 (16.39%) Fault Management
4 8 (13.11%) Problem Management
5 6 (9.836%) CRM
5 6 (9.836%) Process Management
5 6 (9.836%) Network Management
6 5 (8.197%) Systems Analysis
7 4 (6.557%) Performance Management
8 3 (4.918%) Time Management
8 3 (4.918%) Incident Management
8 3 (4.918%) Data Analysis
8 3 (4.918%) Project Management
8 3 (4.918%) PRINCE2
9 2 (3.279%) RDF
9 2 (3.279%) B2B
9 2 (3.279%) Six Sigma
9 2 (3.279%) WAN Optimisation
9 2 (3.279%) Change Control
9 2 (3.279%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 9 (14.75%) C
2 7 (11.48%) SQL
3 5 (8.197%) PowerShell
3 5 (8.197%) VBScript
4 3 (4.918%) Bash shell
4 3 (4.918%) Perl
4 3 (4.918%) Python
5 2 (3.279%) PHP
5 2 (3.279%) Java
5 2 (3.279%) Ruby
6 1 (1.639%) VB
Qualifications
1 23 (37.70%) Cisco Certification
2 20 (32.79%) CCNA
3 10 (16.39%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (14.75%) CCNP
4 9 (14.75%) MCSE
5 7 (11.48%) CCIP
6 6 (9.836%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (9.836%) MCSA
7 5 (8.197%) MCITP
8 3 (4.918%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 3 (4.918%) Degree
8 3 (4.918%) MCDST
8 3 (4.918%) CCDP
8 3 (4.918%) RHCE
8 3 (4.918%) MCP
9 2 (3.279%) HND
9 2 (3.279%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 2 (3.279%) SC Cleared
9 2 (3.279%) Security Cleared
10 1 (1.639%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.48%) SLA
2 4 (6.557%) QA
3 2 (3.279%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (14.75%) VMware Infrastructure
1 9 (14.75%) Active Directory
2 8 (13.11%) Hyper-V
3 7 (11.48%) vSphere
4 3 (4.918%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 3 (4.918%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (3.279%) XenApp
5 2 (3.279%) Gluster
6 1 (1.639%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 9 (14.75%) Backup Exec
2 5 (8.197%) WSUS
2 5 (8.197%) Norton AntiVirus
3 2 (3.279%) Nagios
3 2 (3.279%) Puppet
Vendors
1 35 (57.38%) Microsoft
2 34 (55.74%) Cisco
3 21 (34.43%) VMware
4 12 (19.67%) Citrix
5 11 (18.03%) CheckPoint
6 10 (16.39%) Juniper
7 9 (14.75%) Symantec
8 7 (11.48%) Veeam
8 7 (11.48%) Oracle
9 5 (8.197%) WatchGuard
9 5 (8.197%) Red Hat
9 5 (8.197%) Sage
10 4 (6.557%) Ericsson
10 4 (6.557%) HP
10 4 (6.557%) Redback
10 4 (6.557%) Riverbed
11 3 (4.918%) Foundry
11 3 (4.918%) Veritas
12 2 (3.279%) JBoss
12 2 (3.279%) NetApp
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Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £35000.00 - £40000.00 per annum
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