The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Firmware in IT jobs advertised for the Torfaen region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Firmware over the 3 months to 20 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Torfaen region.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firmware
Rank - - 6
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 0 0 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Torfaen - - 14.29%
As % of the Miscellaneous category - - 20.00%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 2
Average salary - - £32,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +9.58%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Torfaen
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
34 19 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Torfaen 69.39% 31.67% 71.43%
Number of salaries quoted 33 19 10
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £61,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% -34.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £33,000 £29,600 £30,500
10% offered a salary of more than £43,200 £80,000 £89,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Firmware
South Wales

Firmware
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Torfaen 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 Torfaen region.

Torfaen Firmware Salary Trend

Firmware
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Torfaen 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 2 (100.00%) ADSL
1 2 (100.00%) ISDN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) SLA
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) CCNA
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Nokia
1 2 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (100.00%) OSPF
1 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 2 (100.00%) IGRP
1 2 (100.00%) PPTP
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) IPsec
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
1 2 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco PIX
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (100.00%) Capacity Planning

Firmware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Torfaen 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.

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) ADSL
1 2 (100.00%) ISDN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) OSPF
1 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 2 (100.00%) IGRP
1 2 (100.00%) PPTP
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) IPsec
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco PIX
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Support Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Network Support Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Network Support
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 2 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCNA
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Nokia
1 2 (100.00%) CheckPoint