The first table below looks at the demand for the Firewall Specialist role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Firewall Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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 Job Titles currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firewall Specialist
Rank 847 894 869
Rank change year-on-year
+47 -25
Permanent jobs requiring a Firewall Specialist 15 4 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.014% 0.003% 0.003%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.003% 0.003%
Number of salaries quoted 12 3 3
Average salary £49,250 £43,500 £45,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.21% -4.39%
90% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £43,500 £44,300
10% offered a salary of more than £57,250 £44,700 £55,100
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £43,500 £44,000
% change year-on-year
+3.44% -1.13%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
101523 114414 118763
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.40% 94.78% 94.22%
Number of salaries quoted 84418 98091 100446
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%

Firewall Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Firewall Specialist within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Firewall Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Firewall Specialist
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Firewall Specialist within the UK.

Firewall Specialist Salary Trend

Firewall Specialist
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall Specialist within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 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
England - 15 £49,250 -
London - 12 £51,000 -
City of London - 5 £49,000 -
South East - 3 £45,000 -
Kent - 3 £45,000 -
Tunbridge Wells - 3 £45,000 -

Firewall Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Firewall Specialist in their job title 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 with Firewall Specialist in their job title.

1 24 (100.00%) Firewall
2 15 (62.50%) Cisco Certification
3 13 (54.17%) CheckPoint
4 12 (50.00%) CCNP
4 12 (50.00%) Network Security
5 11 (45.83%) Finance
5 11 (45.83%) CCNA
5 11 (45.83%) LAN
5 11 (45.83%) WAN
6 10 (41.67%) CCIE
6 10 (41.67%) JNCIA
7 8 (33.33%) JNCIS
7 8 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
7 8 (33.33%) Internet
7 8 (33.33%) VPN
8 7 (29.17%) Juniper
9 6 (25.00%) Active Directory
9 6 (25.00%) SLA
9 6 (25.00%) Cisco
9 6 (25.00%) Windows
9 6 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
10 5 (20.83%) Business Continuity
10 5 (20.83%) CCSE
10 5 (20.83%) Exchange Server 2000
10 5 (20.83%) MS Exchange
10 5 (20.83%) .NET
10 5 (20.83%) SQL Server
10 5 (20.83%) IIS
10 5 (20.83%) ASP.NET
10 5 (20.83%) DNS

Firewall Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Firewall Specialist in their job title 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 with Firewall Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (20.83%) .NET
1 5 (20.83%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 5 (20.83%) Exchange Server 2000
1 5 (20.83%) MS Exchange
1 5 (20.83%) IIS
2 2 (8.333%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (8.333%) Exchange Server 2003
Communications & Networking
1 24 (100.00%) Firewall
2 12 (50.00%) Network Security
3 11 (45.83%) LAN
3 11 (45.83%) WAN
4 8 (33.33%) Internet
4 8 (33.33%) VPN
5 5 (20.83%) DNS
5 5 (20.83%) DHCP
6 4 (16.67%) TCP/IP
7 1 (4.167%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) SQL Server
1 5 (20.83%) SQL Server 2000
2 2 (8.333%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (8.333%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 11 (45.83%) Finance
2 3 (12.50%) Banking
3 2 (8.333%) Marketing
4 1 (4.167%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.167%) Investment Banking
Operating Systems
1 6 (25.00%) Windows
2 3 (12.50%) Windows 2000
3 2 (8.333%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (8.333%) Windows 2000 Server
4 1 (4.167%) Linux
4 1 (4.167%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 6 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (20.83%) Business Continuity
4 3 (12.50%) Problem Management
5 2 (8.333%) Load Balancing
5 2 (8.333%) Information Security
5 2 (8.333%) Mobile Device Management
Qualifications
1 15 (62.50%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (50.00%) CCNP
3 11 (45.83%) CCNA
4 10 (41.67%) CCIE
4 10 (41.67%) JNCIA
5 8 (33.33%) JNCIS
6 5 (20.83%) CCSE
7 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
8 2 (8.333%) SSCP
8 2 (8.333%) CISSP
8 2 (8.333%) CCSP
8 2 (8.333%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (25.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 13 (54.17%) CheckPoint
2 7 (29.17%) Juniper
3 6 (25.00%) Cisco
4 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.167%) F5