The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Foundry products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Foundry over the 3 months to 22 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 Vendors for the South East region.

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within Foundry Networks.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Foundry
Rank 418 - 415
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Foundry 17 0 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 0.077% - 0.044%
As % of the Vendors category 0.149% - 0.088%
Number of salaries quoted 13 0 10
Average salary £55,000 - £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,750 £27,500 £41,165
% change year-on-year
+40.90% -33.19%
All Vendors
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
11393 11642 11362
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 51.29% 48.25% 50.48%
Number of salaries quoted 9345 9912 9579
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +2.40%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £28,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £62,900 £60,000 £61,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Foundry
England

Foundry
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Foundry across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

South East Foundry Jobs Demand Trend

Foundry
Salary Trend

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

South East Foundry Salary Trend

Foundry
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Foundry across the South East region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

South East Foundry Salary Histogram

Foundry
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Foundry within the South East region over the 3 months to 22 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
Berkshire - 13 £60,000 -
Buckinghamshire - 1 £55,000 -
Hampshire - 1 - -
Kent - 1 £55,000 -
Foundry
England

Foundry
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East region citing Foundry 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 Foundry.

1 25 (89.29%) Cisco
2 22 (78.57%) Juniper
3 21 (75.00%) Windows
4 20 (71.43%) Microsoft
5 17 (60.71%) HP
5 17 (60.71%) VMware
6 15 (53.57%) Degree
7 14 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
7 14 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 14 (50.00%) F5
7 14 (50.00%) MS Excel
7 14 (50.00%) Red Hat
8 13 (46.43%) Windows Server 2003
8 13 (46.43%) Windows Server 2008
9 12 (42.86%) Project Management
9 12 (42.86%) Apache
9 12 (42.86%) Perl
10 11 (39.29%) HTML
10 11 (39.29%) Java
10 11 (39.29%) IIS
10 11 (39.29%) XML
10 11 (39.29%) ITIL
10 11 (39.29%) Solaris
10 11 (39.29%) Linux
10 11 (39.29%) SAS
10 11 (39.29%) Sun
10 11 (39.29%) Firmware
10 11 (39.29%) Nortel
10 11 (39.29%) Service Delivery
10 11 (39.29%) Change Management

Foundry
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East region citing Foundry 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 Foundry. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (39.29%) HTML
1 11 (39.29%) XML
Application Platforms
1 12 (42.86%) Apache
2 11 (39.29%) IIS
2 11 (39.29%) SAS
3 2 (7.143%) MS Exchange
3 2 (7.143%) Exchange Server 2003
3 2 (7.143%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 14 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 3 (10.71%) MS Visio
2 3 (10.71%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.571%) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking
1 11 (39.29%) Cisco ASA
1 11 (39.29%) Wireshark
1 11 (39.29%) Intrusion Detection
1 11 (39.29%) FWSM
1 11 (39.29%) tcpdump
1 11 (39.29%) snoop
2 10 (35.71%) TCP/IP
3 8 (28.57%) OSPF
3 8 (28.57%) BGP
4 6 (21.43%) WAN
4 6 (21.43%) LAN
5 4 (14.29%) Internet
5 4 (14.29%) Firewall
5 4 (14.29%) DNS
6 3 (10.71%) VLAN
6 3 (10.71%) NetScaler
6 3 (10.71%) DHCP
6 3 (10.71%) Ethernet
6 3 (10.71%) Wireless
6 3 (10.71%) NetScreen
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.571%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.571%) Subversion
General
1 3 (10.71%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (21.43%) Network Engineer
2 3 (10.71%) Data Centre Engineer
2 3 (10.71%) Pre Sales Engineer
2 3 (10.71%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (7.143%) Support Specialist
3 2 (7.143%) 3rd Line Support
3 2 (7.143%) Systems Support
3 2 (7.143%) Network Operations Engineer
3 2 (7.143%) Microsoft Specialist
3 2 (7.143%) 3rd Line Support Specialist
3 2 (7.143%) Windows Engineer
3 2 (7.143%) Operations Engineer
3 2 (7.143%) Lead Network Engineer
4 1 (3.571%) NOC Engineer
4 1 (3.571%) Team Leader
4 1 (3.571%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (3.571%) Support Engineer
4 1 (3.571%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (3.571%) Administrator
4 1 (3.571%) Customer Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (39.29%) Firmware
2 4 (14.29%) Computer Science
3 3 (10.71%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 21 (75.00%) Windows
2 14 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 13 (46.43%) Windows Server 2003
3 13 (46.43%) Windows Server 2008
4 11 (39.29%) Solaris
4 11 (39.29%) Linux
5 6 (21.43%) UNIX
6 2 (7.143%) Windows 7
7 1 (3.571%) CentOS
7 1 (3.571%) Ubuntu
7 1 (3.571%) Debian
7 1 (3.571%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (42.86%) Project Management
2 11 (39.29%) ITIL
2 11 (39.29%) Service Delivery
2 11 (39.29%) Change Management
2 11 (39.29%) Problem Management
2 11 (39.29%) Web Development
3 4 (14.29%) Load Balancing
4 2 (7.143%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 12 (42.86%) Perl
2 11 (39.29%) Java
2 11 (39.29%) PowerShell
3 6 (21.43%) SQL
4 4 (14.29%) Python
5 1 (3.571%) Bash shell
5 1 (3.571%) PHP
Qualifications
1 15 (53.57%) Degree
2 10 (35.71%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (35.71%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (35.71%) MCSE
3 7 (25.00%) CCNP
3 7 (25.00%) CCNA
4 4 (14.29%) JNCIA
5 3 (10.71%) JNCIS
5 3 (10.71%) CCIE
5 3 (10.71%) RHCE
System Software
1 14 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (14.29%) vSphere
3 3 (10.71%) VMware ESX
3 3 (10.71%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (10.71%) Active Directory
3 3 (10.71%) ISA Server
Vendors
1 25 (89.29%) Cisco
2 22 (78.57%) Juniper
3 20 (71.43%) Microsoft
4 17 (60.71%) HP
4 17 (60.71%) VMware
5 14 (50.00%) F5
5 14 (50.00%) Red Hat
6 11 (39.29%) Sun
6 11 (39.29%) Nortel
6 11 (39.29%) Egenera
7 5 (17.86%) Citrix
8 4 (14.29%) Dell
9 3 (10.71%) Riverbed
9 3 (10.71%) Brocade
10 2 (7.143%) Avaya
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