The first table below looks at the demand for FWSM skills in IT jobs advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited FWSM over the 3 months to 18 June 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 South East region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco Firewall Services Module (FWSM)
Rank 364 432 414
Rank change year-on-year
+68 -18
Permanent jobs citing FWSM 78 10 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 0.349% 0.042% 0.059%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.483% 0.190% 0.293%
Number of salaries quoted 56 8 14
Average salary £57,000 £62,500 £57,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-8.80% +8.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £48,500 £45,100
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £70,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £52,500 £40,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year
+31.25% -27.27%
All Communications & Networking
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
5258 5265 4778
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 23.52% 22.14% 20.07%
Number of salaries quoted 4207 4385 3985
Average salary £40,000 £42,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.76% +5.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £55,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
FWSM
England

FWSM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East FWSM Salary Trend

FWSM
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing FWSM across the South East region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

South East FWSM Salary Histogram

FWSM
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FWSM within the South East region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Berkshire +40 41 £60,000 +20.00%
Surrey +30 26 £57,000 -15.55% 2
Buckinghamshire - 8 £48,750 -
Kent - 2 £42,500 - 1
Middlesex - 1 - -
FWSM
England

FWSM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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.

1 112 (100.00%) Cisco
2 111 (99.11%) Cisco ASA
3 86 (76.79%) Firewall
4 60 (53.57%) Cisco Certification
5 56 (50.00%) F5
6 54 (48.21%) CCNP
7 52 (46.43%) ITIL
8 50 (44.64%) Cisco PIX
9 49 (43.75%) CheckPoint
10 40 (35.71%) Juniper
10 40 (35.71%) TCP/IP
10 40 (35.71%) BGP
11 39 (34.82%) VMware
12 38 (33.93%) VPN
12 38 (33.93%) Degree
13 35 (31.25%) Network Security
13 35 (31.25%) Cisco Nexus
13 35 (31.25%) Red Hat
14 32 (28.57%) EIGRP
15 30 (26.79%) CCIE
16 29 (25.89%) Network Design
17 27 (24.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 27 (24.11%) MPLS
17 27 (24.11%) Wireless
18 26 (23.21%) DNS
18 26 (23.21%) WAN
19 25 (22.32%) Blue Coat
19 25 (22.32%) BIG-IP
20 24 (21.43%) ProxySG
21 22 (19.64%) Telecoms

FWSM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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 19 (16.96%) HTML
1 19 (16.96%) XML
2 14 (12.50%) CSS
3 2 (1.786%) Memcached
4 1 (0.893%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 19 (16.96%) SAS
2 11 (9.821%) IIS
2 11 (9.821%) Apache
3 3 (2.679%) Escenic
Applications
1 22 (19.64%) MS Excel
2 4 (3.571%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 111 (99.11%) Cisco ASA
2 86 (76.79%) Firewall
3 50 (44.64%) Cisco PIX
4 40 (35.71%) BGP
4 40 (35.71%) TCP/IP
5 38 (33.93%) VPN
6 35 (31.25%) Network Security
6 35 (31.25%) Cisco Nexus
7 32 (28.57%) EIGRP
8 27 (24.11%) MPLS
8 27 (24.11%) Wireless
9 26 (23.21%) DNS
9 26 (23.21%) WAN
10 25 (22.32%) BIG-IP
11 21 (18.75%) OSPF
11 21 (18.75%) SNMP
12 20 (17.86%) LAN
13 19 (16.96%) SMTP
13 19 (16.96%) DHCP
13 19 (16.96%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (14.29%) MySQL
General
1 22 (19.64%) Telecoms
2 16 (14.29%) Back Office
3 15 (13.39%) Finance
4 12 (10.71%) Retail
4 12 (10.71%) Billing
5 10 (8.929%) Banking
Job Titles
1 38 (33.93%) Network Engineer
2 27 (24.11%) Security Engineer
3 23 (20.54%) Consultant
4 21 (18.75%) IP Engineer
5 17 (15.18%) Network Consultant
6 14 (12.50%) Network Support
7 13 (11.61%) Systems Administrator
7 13 (11.61%) Administrator
8 12 (10.71%) Cisco Consultant
9 10 (8.929%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 10 (8.929%) Linux Administrator
10 9 (8.036%) Senior Network Engineer
11 8 (7.143%) Network Support Engineer
11 8 (7.143%) Support Engineer
11 8 (7.143%) Cisco Network Consultant
12 7 (6.250%) Senior Network Support
13 6 (5.357%) Lead Network Engineer
13 6 (5.357%) Cisco Support
14 5 (4.464%) Senior Cisco Support
14 5 (4.464%) Network Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.29%) Clustering
2 11 (9.821%) Firmware
3 1 (0.893%) SecurID
Operating Systems
1 27 (24.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 20 (17.86%) Linux
3 15 (13.39%) UNIX
3 15 (13.39%) Windows
4 11 (9.821%) Solaris
4 11 (9.821%) Windows Server 2003
4 11 (9.821%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (46.43%) ITIL
2 29 (25.89%) Network Design
3 21 (18.75%) Change Management
4 20 (17.86%) Project Management
5 19 (16.96%) Web Development
6 16 (14.29%) Service Delivery
7 13 (11.61%) Load Balancing
8 12 (10.71%) Problem Management
8 12 (10.71%) CRM
9 11 (9.821%) Network Management
10 4 (3.571%) Release Management
10 4 (3.571%) GAP Analysis
10 4 (3.571%) Validation
11 3 (2.679%) Capacity Management
12 2 (1.786%) Network Architecture
13 1 (0.893%) Capacity Planning
13 1 (0.893%) Waterfall
13 1 (0.893%) SIEM
13 1 (0.893%) Continuous Improvement
13 1 (0.893%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 19 (16.96%) Java
1 19 (16.96%) Perl
1 19 (16.96%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 60 (53.57%) Cisco Certification
2 54 (48.21%) CCNP
3 38 (33.93%) Degree
4 30 (26.79%) CCIE
5 21 (18.75%) CCSP
6 16 (14.29%) CCDP
6 16 (14.29%) RHCE
7 12 (10.71%) CCSA
7 12 (10.71%) CCSE
8 11 (9.821%) CCNA
9 10 (8.929%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (8.929%) MCSE
10 8 (7.143%) CCIP
11 6 (5.357%) CCDE
12 5 (4.464%) Security Cleared
13 4 (3.571%) SC Cleared
13 4 (3.571%) JNCIA
14 3 (2.679%) VCAP
14 3 (2.679%) CCDA
14 3 (2.679%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.357%) SLA
2 5 (4.464%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.571%) QA
4 3 (2.679%) ISO 9000
5 2 (1.786%) ISO 9001
5 2 (1.786%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 24 (21.43%) ProxySG
2 21 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (14.29%) vSphere
3 16 (14.29%) Varnish
3 16 (14.29%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 18 (16.07%) CiscoWorks
2 16 (14.29%) NetBackup
2 16 (14.29%) Puppet
3 2 (1.786%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 112 (100.00%) Cisco
2 56 (50.00%) F5
3 49 (43.75%) CheckPoint
4 40 (35.71%) Juniper
5 39 (34.82%) VMware
6 35 (31.25%) Red Hat
7 25 (22.32%) Blue Coat
8 21 (18.75%) Microsoft
9 19 (16.96%) Nortel
10 13 (11.61%) HP
11 11 (9.821%) Sun
11 11 (9.821%) Foundry
11 11 (9.821%) Egenera
12 9 (8.036%) Reuters
12 9 (8.036%) Bloomberg
13 6 (5.357%) Infoblox
14 5 (4.464%) Imperva
14 5 (4.464%) SolarWinds
14 5 (4.464%) McAfee
15 3 (2.679%) BT
Kent, South East
So seeking applicants with the following: *Experienced working in a Data Centre environment*Strong Cisco routing and switching experience as well as with firewalls (including Cisco ASA/PIX/...
Capita Resourcing
Salary: £40000.00 - £45000.00 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 10 June 2013
Oxford, Oxfordshire
Cisco Firewalls including FWSM and ASAs in multiple context modes. Cisco Loadbalancers including ACE and CSS. Checkpoint Firewalls. Fortigate Firewalls. Understanding of routing protocols including OSPF and BGP...
Aximis (West) Limited
Salary: Up to £50K basic + Benefits
Posted: 11 June 2013
Staines, Middlesex
Inspire People are looking for an experienced Technical Services Manager-Linux, with experience of RedHat, MySQL, VMWare, Puppet on behalf of Europe leading specialist in the provision of...
Inspire People
Salary: £52000 - £57000 per annum
Posted: 12 June 2013
Staines, Middlesex
Linux Engineer - Red Hat RHEL, VMware... Skills required: Excellent Red Hat Linux knowledge required - RHCE preferred or equivalent demonstrable knowledge. Excellent understanding of web site and enterprise infrastructure...
Zorba Consulting Limited
Salary: £57000 per annum + Competitive Benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
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