The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Firmware in IT jobs advertised for the Southampton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Firmware 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Southampton region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firmware
Rank 74 77 68
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -9
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 9 11 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 1.078% 1.176% 0.326%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.990% 2.821% 0.990%
Number of salaries quoted 9 11 2
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £31,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% +12.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £34,000 £35,000 £26,250
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £35,000 £36,250
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Southampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
301 390 202
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 36.05% 41.71% 32.95%
Number of salaries quoted 276 371 197
Average salary £39,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.33% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £23,000 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,815 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.96% +6.66%
Firmware
Hampshire

Firmware
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton Firmware Jobs Demand Trend

Firmware
Salary Trend

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

Southampton Firmware Salary Trend

Firmware
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Firmware across the Southampton region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Southampton Firmware Salary Histogram

Firmware
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton region citing Firmware 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 Firmware.

1 18 (72.00%) Internet
2 16 (64.00%) LDAP
2 16 (64.00%) LAN
2 16 (64.00%) WAN
2 16 (64.00%) SMTP
2 16 (64.00%) FTP
2 16 (64.00%) HTTP
2 16 (64.00%) TCP/IP
2 16 (64.00%) Management Information System
2 16 (64.00%) SC Cleared
2 16 (64.00%) Security Cleared
3 15 (60.00%) Incident Management
3 15 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 15 (60.00%) Windows
4 14 (56.00%) Solaris
4 14 (56.00%) Linux
4 14 (56.00%) MS Excel
4 14 (56.00%) MS Exchange
4 14 (56.00%) Firewall
4 14 (56.00%) tcpdump
4 14 (56.00%) Information Assurance
5 13 (52.00%) JSP 440
5 13 (52.00%) SIEM
5 13 (52.00%) Change Control
5 13 (52.00%) DNS
5 13 (52.00%) Client/Server
5 13 (52.00%) JSP
5 13 (52.00%) DV Cleared
5 13 (52.00%) Information Security
5 13 (52.00%) CESG

Firmware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton region citing Firmware 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 Firmware. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (52.00%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 14 (56.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (4.000%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (4.000%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 14 (56.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (4.000%) Spreadsheet
Communications & Networking
1 18 (72.00%) Internet
2 16 (64.00%) LDAP
2 16 (64.00%) LAN
2 16 (64.00%) WAN
2 16 (64.00%) SMTP
2 16 (64.00%) FTP
2 16 (64.00%) HTTP
2 16 (64.00%) TCP/IP
3 14 (56.00%) Firewall
3 14 (56.00%) tcpdump
4 13 (52.00%) DNS
5 12 (48.00%) Wireshark
6 10 (40.00%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (4.000%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (4.000%) MSI
General
1 5 (20.00%) Electronics
2 2 (8.000%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 20 (80.00%) Analyst
2 19 (76.00%) Security Analyst
3 13 (52.00%) Systems Analyst
4 5 (20.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 5 (20.00%) Software Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Security Operations Analyst
5 3 (12.00%) Operations Analyst
6 2 (8.000%) Security Engineer
6 2 (8.000%) IT Security Analyst
6 2 (8.000%) Systems Support Analyst
6 2 (8.000%) Network Support
6 2 (8.000%) Network Engineer
6 2 (8.000%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (8.000%) Systems Support
6 2 (8.000%) Support Analyst
6 2 (8.000%) Network Support Analyst
6 2 (8.000%) Network Analyst
7 1 (4.000%) Technical Analyst
7 1 (4.000%) Desktop Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 16 (64.00%) Management Information System
2 13 (52.00%) CESG
2 13 (52.00%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 15 (60.00%) Windows
2 14 (56.00%) Solaris
2 14 (56.00%) Linux
3 1 (4.000%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (4.000%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (60.00%) Incident Management
2 14 (56.00%) Information Assurance
3 13 (52.00%) SIEM
3 13 (52.00%) Change Control
3 13 (52.00%) Information Security
4 12 (48.00%) Security Testing
5 11 (44.00%) Ethical Hacking
6 9 (36.00%) Penetration Testing
7 5 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 5 (20.00%) Embedded Software Development
7 5 (20.00%) Digital Signal Processing
7 5 (20.00%) Signal Processing
8 3 (12.00%) Change Management
9 1 (4.000%) Capacity Planning
9 1 (4.000%) Software Distribution
9 1 (4.000%) ITIL
9 1 (4.000%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.00%) C
1 5 (20.00%) Embedded C
1 5 (20.00%) MATLAB
2 1 (4.000%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.000%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (64.00%) SC Cleared
1 16 (64.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (52.00%) DV Cleared
3 10 (40.00%) GIAC
3 10 (40.00%) GCIA
4 7 (28.00%) GCIH
4 7 (28.00%) CEH
5 5 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (52.00%) JSP 440
2 1 (4.000%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (40.00%) Snort
2 1 (4.000%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.000%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 2 (8.000%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.000%) Citrix