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 West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Foundry over the 3 months to 17 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 West region.

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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Foundry
Rank 208 - 204
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Foundry 2 0 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 0.038% - 0.017%
As % of the Vendors category 0.090% - 0.041%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
Average salary £37,500 - £32,500
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £26,875 £41,832
% change year-on-year
+76.74% -35.75%
All Vendors
South West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
2213 2541 2447
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 42.18% 46.07% 41.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1891 2196 2083
Average salary £37,500 £38,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.31% +8.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £24,250
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
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 West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

South West 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 West region.

South West Foundry Salary Trend

Foundry
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West 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 5 (100.00%) Cisco
1 5 (100.00%) CCNA
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (100.00%) Juniper
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
1 5 (100.00%) NetScreen
2 3 (60.00%) Process Management
2 3 (60.00%) Change Management
2 3 (60.00%) SHDSL
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (60.00%) Fault Management
2 3 (60.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (60.00%) IPsec
2 3 (60.00%) Network Management
2 3 (60.00%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (60.00%) CCDP
2 3 (60.00%) CheckPoint
2 3 (60.00%) Internet
2 3 (60.00%) 3G
2 3 (60.00%) MPLS
2 3 (60.00%) OSPF
2 3 (60.00%) BGP
2 3 (60.00%) EIGRP
2 3 (60.00%) L2TP
2 3 (60.00%) TACACS
2 3 (60.00%) CCNP
2 3 (60.00%) CCIP
2 3 (60.00%) ITIL
2 3 (60.00%) UNIX
2 3 (60.00%) CRM

Foundry
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West 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.

Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) NetScreen
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
2 3 (60.00%) IPsec
2 3 (60.00%) SHDSL
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (60.00%) ADSL
2 3 (60.00%) ISDN
2 3 (60.00%) LAN
2 3 (60.00%) SDH
2 3 (60.00%) WAN
2 3 (60.00%) Ethernet
2 3 (60.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (60.00%) VPN
2 3 (60.00%) DNS
2 3 (60.00%) Internet
2 3 (60.00%) 3G
2 3 (60.00%) MPLS
2 3 (60.00%) OSPF
2 3 (60.00%) BGP
2 3 (60.00%) EIGRP
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) UNIX
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) ITIL
1 3 (60.00%) CRM
1 3 (60.00%) Process Management
1 3 (60.00%) Change Management
1 3 (60.00%) Fault Management
1 3 (60.00%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) CCNA
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (60.00%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (60.00%) CCDP
2 3 (60.00%) CCNP
2 3 (60.00%) CCIP
3 2 (40.00%) JNCIS
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (40.00%) RHCE
3 2 (40.00%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) SLA
2 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) VMware ESX
1 2 (40.00%) vSphere
1 2 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
1 5 (100.00%) Juniper
2 3 (60.00%) CheckPoint
3 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) Citrix
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