The first table below looks at the demand for Firewall skills in IT jobs advertised for the Suffolk region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Firewall over the 3 months to 19 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 Suffolk region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firewall
Rank 27 47 56
Rank change year-on-year
+20 +9
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 54 23 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Suffolk 8.036% 4.064% 2.102%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 40.91% 20.00% 13.59%
Number of salaries quoted 51 23 12
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% +16.66%
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £40,000 £36,500
% change year-on-year
-3.75% +9.58%
All Communications & Networking
Suffolk
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
132 115 103
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Suffolk 19.64% 20.32% 15.47%
Number of salaries quoted 126 103 94
Average salary £37,500 £32,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.38% +8.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,500 £31,000 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,000 £50,000 £44,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Firewall
East of England

Firewall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region.

Suffolk Firewall Salary Trend

Firewall
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Firewall across the Suffolk region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Suffolk Firewall Salary Histogram

Firewall
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Suffolk region over the 3 months to 19 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
Ipswich +12 34 £40,000 +23.07% 1
Stowmarket - 3 £35,000 -
Bury St Edmunds - 1 £32,500 -
Firewall
East of England

Firewall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Suffolk 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 73 (91.25%) Active Directory
2 64 (80.00%) Windows
3 57 (71.25%) Microsoft
4 48 (60.00%) DNS
5 31 (38.75%) Linux
6 26 (32.50%) IIS
7 25 (31.25%) SharePoint
8 23 (28.75%) MS Exchange
8 23 (28.75%) TCP/IP
9 22 (27.50%) DHCP
9 22 (27.50%) VMware
10 21 (26.25%) Web Services
11 20 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
12 19 (23.75%) SharePoint Server
12 19 (23.75%) Load Balancing
13 18 (22.50%) UNIX
13 18 (22.50%) Wireshark
14 17 (21.25%) LAN
14 17 (21.25%) WAN
14 17 (21.25%) SAN
14 17 (21.25%) Computer Science
14 17 (21.25%) Degree
15 16 (20.00%) Internet
15 16 (20.00%) VPN
15 16 (20.00%) Cisco
15 16 (20.00%) Amazon AWS
16 15 (18.75%) MS Excel
16 15 (18.75%) Cisco Certification
16 15 (18.75%) Finance
17 14 (17.50%) ITIL

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Suffolk 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 21 (26.25%) Web Services
2 4 (5.000%) WSH
3 2 (2.500%) JSON
4 1 (1.250%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 26 (32.50%) IIS
2 25 (31.25%) SharePoint
3 23 (28.75%) MS Exchange
4 19 (23.75%) SharePoint Server
5 16 (20.00%) Amazon AWS
6 13 (16.25%) Exchange Server 2010
7 9 (11.25%) SharePoint 2010
8 3 (3.750%) Exchange Server 2003
9 2 (2.500%) Exchange Server 2007
10 1 (1.250%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 1 (1.250%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 15 (18.75%) MS Excel
2 8 (10.00%) MS Office
2 8 (10.00%) PowerPivot
Communications & Networking
1 48 (60.00%) DNS
2 23 (28.75%) TCP/IP
3 22 (27.50%) DHCP
4 18 (22.50%) Wireshark
5 17 (21.25%) LAN
5 17 (21.25%) WAN
5 17 (21.25%) SAN
6 16 (20.00%) Internet
6 16 (20.00%) VPN
7 13 (16.25%) VoIP
8 12 (15.00%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (10.00%) Kerberos
10 5 (6.250%) MPLS
10 5 (6.250%) SMTP
11 4 (5.000%) SSL
11 4 (5.000%) NAS
12 3 (3.750%) iSCSI
12 3 (3.750%) Network Security
13 1 (1.250%) VLAN
13 1 (1.250%) IMAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 8 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 8 (10.00%) PerformancePoint
3 3 (3.750%) MySQL
4 2 (2.500%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (2.500%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 15 (18.75%) Finance
2 4 (5.000%) Banking
3 1 (1.250%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 19 (23.75%) Administrator
2 18 (22.50%) Analyst
2 18 (22.50%) SharePoint Administrator
3 17 (21.25%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 13 (16.25%) Architect
5 12 (15.00%) Infrastructure Architect
6 11 (13.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (11.25%) Systems Engineer
8 4 (5.000%) Infrastructure Team Leader
8 4 (5.000%) Team Leader
8 4 (5.000%) Technical Architect
8 4 (5.000%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
9 3 (3.750%) Support Engineer
10 2 (2.500%) Systems Manager
11 1 (1.250%) IT Support
11 1 (1.250%) VMware Engineer
11 1 (1.250%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
11 1 (1.250%) Help Desk Support Engineer
11 1 (1.250%) Graduate Systems Engineer
11 1 (1.250%) SharePoint Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 17 (21.25%) Computer Science
2 1 (1.250%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (1.250%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 64 (80.00%) Windows
2 31 (38.75%) Linux
3 18 (22.50%) UNIX
4 13 (16.25%) Windows Server 2008
5 10 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (3.750%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (3.750%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (3.750%) Windows Vista
6 3 (3.750%) Windows 2000
6 3 (3.750%) Windows XP
7 1 (1.250%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (23.75%) Load Balancing
2 14 (17.50%) ITIL
3 8 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (8.750%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (7.500%) Service Management
6 5 (6.250%) Problem Management
6 5 (6.250%) Incident Management
7 4 (5.000%) Risk Management
7 4 (5.000%) Change Management
8 2 (2.500%) Document Management
8 2 (2.500%) Business Continuity
8 2 (2.500%) Data Protection
9 1 (1.250%) Network Architecture
9 1 (1.250%) Network Management
9 1 (1.250%) Product Marketing
9 1 (1.250%) Root Cause Analysis
9 1 (1.250%) Configuration Management
9 1 (1.250%) Project Management
9 1 (1.250%) Ethical Hacking
9 1 (1.250%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (5.000%) SQL
2 2 (2.500%) Python
2 2 (2.500%) Perl
2 2 (2.500%) Ruby
2 2 (2.500%) PowerShell
2 2 (2.500%) Bash shell
3 1 (1.250%) C#
3 1 (1.250%) Java
Qualifications
1 20 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 17 (21.25%) Degree
3 15 (18.75%) Cisco Certification
4 11 (13.75%) CCNA
5 9 (11.25%) CCNP
6 4 (5.000%) MCP
6 4 (5.000%) CCA
6 4 (5.000%) Citrix Certification
6 4 (5.000%) VCAP
7 1 (1.250%) CCSA
7 1 (1.250%) CISA
7 1 (1.250%) CISM
7 1 (1.250%) CEH
7 1 (1.250%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.250%) MCTS
7 1 (1.250%) CISSP
7 1 (1.250%) RHCE
7 1 (1.250%) CCDP
7 1 (1.250%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.250%) SLA
System Software
1 73 (91.25%) Active Directory
2 10 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (7.500%) Hyper-V
4 5 (6.250%) vSphere
5 4 (5.000%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (5.000%) XenApp
6 2 (2.500%) ISA Server
7 1 (1.250%) XenServer
7 1 (1.250%) VMware ESX
7 1 (1.250%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 1 (1.250%) Puppet
Vendors
1 57 (71.25%) Microsoft
2 22 (27.50%) VMware
3 16 (20.00%) Cisco
4 7 (8.750%) Citrix
5 5 (6.250%) Dell
6 4 (5.000%) CheckPoint
6 4 (5.000%) Red Hat
7 3 (3.750%) Fortinet
7 3 (3.750%) EMC
8 2 (2.500%) Oracle
8 2 (2.500%) IBM
9 1 (1.250%) F5
9 1 (1.250%) NETGEAR
9 1 (1.250%) Symantec
9 1 (1.250%) HP
9 1 (1.250%) Progress
Ipswich, Suffolk
The ideal candidate will hold the following accreditations: Microsoft Certification, Citrix Certification CCA for XenApp 5 on 2003 and/or on 2008, VCAP. You must have solid understanding...
LEXSTRA
Salary: £40000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 13 June 2013