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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firewall
Rank 22 34 31
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -3
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 76 59 40
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 9.113% 6.413% 6.410%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 39.58% 33.71% 48.19%
Number of salaries quoted 70 56 32
Average salary £40,000 £32,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+23.07% +8.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £28,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,000 £45,000 £37,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-3.75% +6.66%
All Communications & Networking
Southampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
192 175 83
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 23.02% 19.02% 13.30%
Number of salaries quoted 175 161 73
Average salary £40,000 £32,500 £30,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+23.07% +6.55%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £22,000 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Firewall
Hampshire

Firewall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton Firewall Salary Trend

Firewall
Salary Histogram

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

Southampton Firewall Salary Histogram

Firewall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton 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.

1 105 (76.64%) Windows
2 64 (46.72%) MS Exchange
2 64 (46.72%) TCP/IP
3 60 (43.80%) VMware
4 57 (41.61%) Windows Server 2003
4 57 (41.61%) Windows Server 2008
5 52 (37.96%) Linux
6 51 (37.23%) VMware Infrastructure
7 44 (32.12%) SAN
8 43 (31.39%) Internet
9 40 (29.20%) Citrix
9 40 (29.20%) Cisco
10 39 (28.47%) Microsoft Certification
11 38 (27.74%) MCSE
11 38 (27.74%) Windows Vista
12 37 (27.01%) SIEM
13 35 (25.55%) Incident Management
14 34 (24.82%) CESG
14 34 (24.82%) LAN
14 34 (24.82%) Client/Server
14 34 (24.82%) WAN
15 33 (24.09%) Information Assurance
16 32 (23.36%) Change Control
17 31 (22.63%) DNS
18 30 (21.90%) Microsoft
18 30 (21.90%) Information Security
19 29 (21.17%) Management Information System
19 29 (21.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
20 28 (20.44%) Security Cleared
20 28 (20.44%) SC Cleared

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton 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 24 (17.52%) JSP
2 2 (1.460%) Web Services
2 2 (1.460%) SAML
Application Platforms
1 64 (46.72%) MS Exchange
2 27 (19.71%) Exchange Server 2010
3 13 (9.489%) IIS
4 9 (6.569%) SharePoint
5 5 (3.650%) Apache
6 2 (1.460%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.730%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 22 (16.06%) MS Excel
2 13 (9.489%) MS Office
3 2 (1.460%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 64 (46.72%) TCP/IP
2 44 (32.12%) SAN
3 43 (31.39%) Internet
4 34 (24.82%) LAN
4 34 (24.82%) WAN
5 31 (22.63%) DNS
6 26 (18.98%) VPN
7 24 (17.52%) SMTP
8 19 (13.87%) HTTP
9 18 (13.14%) FTP
10 17 (12.41%) LDAP
11 16 (11.68%) Intrusion Detection
12 13 (9.489%) tcpdump
12 13 (9.489%) Cisco IOS
13 12 (8.759%) Wireshark
14 8 (5.839%) SSL
14 8 (5.839%) IPsec
15 5 (3.650%) IMAP
15 5 (3.650%) Network Security
15 5 (3.650%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (16.06%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.920%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (2.190%) MySQL
3 3 (2.190%) SQL Server 2000
General
1 18 (13.14%) Finance
2 5 (3.650%) Telecoms
3 3 (2.190%) Military
4 2 (1.460%) Back Office
4 2 (1.460%) Marketing
5 1 (0.730%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 29 (21.17%) Consultant
2 27 (19.71%) Analyst
3 25 (18.25%) IT Consultant
3 25 (18.25%) Support Consultant
3 25 (18.25%) Security Analyst
3 25 (18.25%) IT Support
4 16 (11.68%) Network Engineer
5 15 (10.95%) Security Manager
5 15 (10.95%) Security Operations Manager
5 15 (10.95%) Systems Analyst
5 15 (10.95%) Operations Manager
5 15 (10.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 14 (10.22%) Support Engineer
7 10 (7.299%) Lead Designer
7 10 (7.299%) Network Support Engineer
7 10 (7.299%) Network Support
7 10 (7.299%) Infrastructure Designer
7 10 (7.299%) Designer
8 9 (6.569%) Data Centre Engineer
9 7 (5.109%) Security Operations Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 34 (24.82%) CESG
1 34 (24.82%) Client/Server
2 29 (21.17%) Management Information System
3 21 (15.33%) Clustering
4 14 (10.22%) Blackberry
4 14 (10.22%) Firmware
5 5 (3.650%) PKI
5 5 (3.650%) Cryptography
6 2 (1.460%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.460%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (1.460%) Open Source
6 2 (1.460%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 105 (76.64%) Windows
2 57 (41.61%) Windows Server 2003
2 57 (41.61%) Windows Server 2008
3 52 (37.96%) Linux
4 38 (27.74%) Windows Vista
5 27 (19.71%) Windows XP
6 22 (16.06%) Solaris
7 14 (10.22%) Windows 7
8 7 (5.109%) Windows 2000
9 6 (4.380%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (3.650%) UNIX
11 3 (2.190%) CentOS
12 2 (1.460%) Mac OS X
12 2 (1.460%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (27.01%) SIEM
2 35 (25.55%) Incident Management
3 33 (24.09%) Information Assurance
4 32 (23.36%) Change Control
5 30 (21.90%) Information Security
6 28 (20.44%) Security Testing
7 15 (10.95%) Ethical Hacking
8 14 (10.22%) Service Management
9 13 (9.489%) Time Management
9 13 (9.489%) ITIL
9 13 (9.489%) Change Management
10 12 (8.759%) Performance Management
10 12 (8.759%) Penetration Testing
11 11 (8.029%) Service Delivery
12 7 (5.109%) Root Cause Analysis
13 5 (3.650%) Load Balancing
13 5 (3.650%) Stakeholder Management
13 5 (3.650%) Project Management
14 4 (2.920%) Regression Testing
14 4 (2.920%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 24 (17.52%) SQL
2 2 (1.460%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 39 (28.47%) Microsoft Certification
2 38 (27.74%) MCSE
3 29 (21.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 28 (20.44%) Security Cleared
4 28 (20.44%) SC Cleared
4 28 (20.44%) Citrix Certification
5 27 (19.71%) CCA
6 25 (18.25%) MCITP
7 22 (16.06%) GIAC
7 22 (16.06%) GCIA
8 21 (15.33%) DV Cleared
9 8 (5.839%) CEH
9 8 (5.839%) GCIH
10 7 (5.109%) Degree
11 6 (4.380%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (3.650%) CCNP
12 5 (3.650%) CCNA
13 2 (1.460%) CISA
13 2 (1.460%) CISM
13 2 (1.460%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (17.52%) JSP 440
2 19 (13.87%) ISO 9001
3 16 (11.68%) SLA
4 12 (8.759%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (8.759%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.920%) QA
System Software
1 51 (37.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 22 (16.06%) Active Directory
3 19 (13.87%) Snort
4 9 (6.569%) XenApp
5 6 (4.380%) vSphere
6 5 (3.650%) Hyper-V
7 4 (2.920%) VirtualBox
8 3 (2.190%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (2.190%) Sendmail
8 3 (2.190%) qmail
9 2 (1.460%) VMware ESX
9 2 (1.460%) Samba
9 2 (1.460%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (1.460%) NFS
9 2 (1.460%) XenServer
9 2 (1.460%) Shibboleth
9 2 (1.460%) VMware Server
10 1 (0.730%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 3 (2.190%) SCCM
2 2 (1.460%) Tivoli
2 2 (1.460%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 2 (1.460%) SCOM
2 2 (1.460%) WSUS
3 1 (0.730%) Plesk
Vendors
1 60 (43.80%) VMware
2 40 (29.20%) Citrix
2 40 (29.20%) Cisco
3 30 (21.90%) Microsoft
4 11 (8.029%) HP
4 11 (8.029%) Dell
5 9 (6.569%) IronPort
5 9 (6.569%) Intel
6 6 (4.380%) CheckPoint
6 6 (4.380%) Juniper
7 5 (3.650%) Red Hat
8 4 (2.920%) Oracle
8 4 (2.920%) F5
9 3 (2.190%) Sourcefire
10 2 (1.460%) McAfee
10 2 (1.460%) Websense
10 2 (1.460%) Sun
10 2 (1.460%) Veritas
10 2 (1.460%) Veeam
10 2 (1.460%) Isilon
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