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This section looks at the demand for Firewall skills across the UK with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Firewall over the last 3 months to 13 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkFirewall
Location
3 months to 13 May 2008Same period last year
Rank7282
Rank change on same period last yearUp+10
Matching permanent IT job ads55665346
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled2.723 %2.296 %
As % of the category below15.78 %14.07 %
Salaries quoted46784284
Average minimum salary£37,258£37,703
Average salary£39,763£40,191
% change on same period last year-1.06 %
Average maximum salary£42,268£42,679
UK excluding London average salary£36,995£37,056
% change on same period last year-0.16 %
Communications & Networking UKCommunications & Networking
UK
Matching permanent IT job ads3528137995
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled17.26 %16.32 %
Salaries quoted2945530490
Average minimum salary£37,740£38,747
Average salary£40,522£41,712
% change on same period last year-2.85 %
Average maximum salary£43,304£44,676
UK excluding London average salary£37,690£39,009
% change on same period last year-3.38 %

Firewall
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing Firewall across the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Firewall Demand Trend

Firewall
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs ads citing Firewall across the UK.

Firewall Salary Trend

Firewall
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Firewall across the UK over the past 3 months.

Firewall Salary Histogram

Firewall
Top 30 Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the UK over the past 3 months.

RankLocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
1EnglandUp+105365£39,747-1.29 %
2LondonUp+62195£44,225-1.33 %
3South EastDown-31436£39,242-1.10 %
4City of LondonUp+29552£48,960-4.11 %
5BerkshireUp+2387£41,052-1.57 %
6North WestUp+34353£35,580+6.53 %
7YorkshireUp+30342£32,168-9.50 %
8East of EnglandDown-12313£36,213+0.37 %
9West MidlandsUp+14299£33,122+1.77 %
10SurreyUp+4279£38,723-2.93 %
11HampshireDown-6254£39,550+10.85 %
12South WestDown-13235£36,537+13.78 %
13West YorkshireUp+40181£31,551-1.01 %
14HertfordshireUp+11169£38,083-1.73 %
15ReadingUp+11160£39,214-8.15 %
16LeedsUp+52142£32,676-6.81 %
17ManchesterUp+35141£33,679+8.85 %
18BuckinghamshireUp+6128£38,671-0.26 %
19KentUp+31114£35,694+20.17 %
20East MidlandsDown-17109£31,400+3.26 %
21OxfordshireDown-15107£32,781-14.89 %
22South YorkshireUp+18103£32,517-16.05 %
23ScotlandUp+6100£39,188+25.55 %
24CheshireUp+2290£42,957+29.02 %
25BirminghamUp+774£36,452-1.93 %
26OxfordDown-773£33,375-10.26 %
27West SussexUp+2771£39,295+10.29 %
28WiltshireUp+1568£40,625+33.45 %
29BasingstokeDown-166£42,462+35.51 %
30BristolDown-1464£36,846+7.08 %

Firewall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the UK citing Firewall also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Firewall.

15322 (48.37 %)Cisco
25008 (45.52 %)Windows
33463 (31.48 %)WAN
43391 (30.82 %)VPN
53189 (28.99 %)LAN
62954 (26.85 %)TCP/IP
72904 (26.40 %)Cisco Certification
82576 (23.41 %)Active Directory
92484 (22.58 %)CheckPoint
102303 (20.93 %)Microsoft
112131 (19.37 %)Linux
122001 (18.19 %)MS Exchange
131952 (17.74 %)Unix
141706 (15.51 %)DNS
151693 (15.39 %)CCNA
161681 (15.28 %)Microsoft Certification
171649 (14.99 %)Exchange Server 2003
181627 (14.79 %)CCNP
191505 (13.68 %)Finance
201455 (13.22 %)MCSE
211415 (12.86 %)Internet
221377 (12.52 %)Windows 2000
231336 (12.14 %)Network Security
241296 (11.78 %)SQL
251215 (11.04 %)VoIP
261204 (10.94 %)SQL Server
271162 (10.56 %)Citrix
281097 (9.971 %)Exchange Server 2000
291083 (9.844 %)Cisco PIX
301077 (9.789 %)Windows Server 2003

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the UK citing Firewall also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Firewall. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1233 (2.118 %).NET
2201 (1.827 %)XML
3180 (1.636 %)HTML
4123 (1.118 %)ASP
5113 (1.027 %)J2EE
6102 (0.927 %)CSS
795 (0.863 %)WebServices
795 (0.863 %)WebSphere
883 (0.754 %)ASP.NET
958 (0.527 %)Middleware
1039 (0.354 %)JSP
1138 (0.345 %)FIX Protocol
1229 (0.264 %)EJB
1326 (0.236 %)WAP
1326 (0.236 %)AJAX
1425 (0.227 %)SOAP
1523 (0.209 %)CGI
1619 (0.173 %).NET Framework
1619 (0.173 %)Windows SharePoint Services
1619 (0.173 %)XSLT
Application Platforms
12001 (18.19 %)MS Exchange
21649 (14.99 %)Exchange Server 2003
31097 (9.971 %)Exchange Server 2000
4982 (8.926 %)IIS
5655 (5.953 %)Apache
6386 (3.508 %)SharePoint
7313 (2.845 %)Exchange Server 2007
8250 (2.272 %)Tomcat
9186 (1.691 %)Lotus Domino
10142 (1.291 %)Lotus Notes
11133 (1.209 %)WebLogic
12117 (1.063 %)JBoss
1398 (0.891 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
1491 (0.827 %)Exchange Server 5.5
1568 (0.618 %)CMS
1637 (0.336 %)SharePoint Server 2007
1733 (0.300 %)Resin
1819 (0.173 %)ColdFusion
1915 (0.136 %)WebLogic Portal
1915 (0.136 %)SharePoint Portal Server
Applications
11077 (9.789 %)MS Excel
2572 (5.199 %)MS Office
361 (0.554 %)MS Visio
438 (0.345 %)MS PowerPoint
528 (0.254 %)MS Project
65 (0.045 %)AutoCAD
74 (0.036 %)QuarkXPress
82 (0.018 %)Acrobat
82 (0.018 %)Photoshop
91 (0.009 %)Quicktime
91 (0.009 %)S-PLUS
91 (0.009 %)Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
138 (0.345 %)Fidessa
228 (0.254 %)Navision
313 (0.118 %)Dynamics CRM
412 (0.109 %)Dynamics NAV
511 (0.100 %)WebTrends
69 (0.082 %)Summit
78 (0.073 %)Bankmaster
87 (0.064 %)FLEXCUBE
96 (0.055 %)Oracle EBS
96 (0.055 %)SoftGrid
96 (0.055 %)Microsoft CRM
105 (0.045 %)Great Plains
105 (0.045 %)Oracle Applications
114 (0.036 %)Axapta
114 (0.036 %)SAP R/3
114 (0.036 %)Dynamics GP
114 (0.036 %)Dynamics SL
122 (0.018 %)GoldMine
122 (0.018 %)Line 500
122 (0.018 %)Sage 1000
Communications & Networking
13463 (31.48 %)WAN
23391 (30.82 %)VPN
33189 (28.99 %)LAN
42954 (26.85 %)TCP/IP
51706 (15.51 %)DNS
61415 (12.86 %)Internet
71336 (12.14 %)Network Security
81215 (11.04 %)VoIP
91083 (9.844 %)Cisco PIX
101009 (9.171 %)MPLS
111001 (9.098 %)SAN
12940 (8.544 %)BGP
13782 (7.108 %)OSPF
14772 (7.017 %)DHCP
15578 (5.254 %)Wireless
16503 (4.572 %)VLAN
17479 (4.354 %)NetScreen
18446 (4.054 %)Cisco IOS
19440 (3.999 %)SSL
20403 (3.663 %)EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
11204 (10.94 %)SQL Server
2457 (4.154 %)MySQL
3279 (2.536 %)SQL Server 2000
4160 (1.454 %)SQL Server 2005
5111 (1.009 %)SQL Server 7
693 (0.845 %)RDBMS
761 (0.554 %)DB2
851 (0.464 %)Informix
949 (0.445 %)Oracle 10g
1031 (0.282 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1127 (0.245 %)Oracle 9i
1223 (0.209 %)MS Access
1317 (0.155 %)Crystal Reports
1317 (0.155 %)PostgreSQL
1416 (0.145 %)GIS
1416 (0.145 %)TOAD
1514 (0.127 %)DTS
1611 (0.100 %)SQLPlus
1611 (0.100 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
1710 (0.091 %)BusinessObjects
Development Applications
123 (0.209 %)Subversion
219 (0.173 %)Visual Studio
318 (0.164 %)CruiseControl
413 (0.118 %)Ant
512 (0.109 %)Flash
610 (0.091 %)FrontPage
77 (0.064 %)Dreamweaver
77 (0.064 %)OpenDeploy
84 (0.036 %)Eclipse
84 (0.036 %)Synon
93 (0.027 %)MSI
93 (0.027 %)VSS/SourceSafe
102 (0.018 %)Oracle Forms
102 (0.018 %)RequisitePro
111 (0.009 %)Selenium
111 (0.009 %)TestDirector
111 (0.009 %)QuickTest Pro
111 (0.009 %)LoadRunner
General
11505 (13.68 %)Finance
2995 (9.044 %)Telecoms
3459 (4.172 %)Pensions
4451 (4.099 %)Banking
5383 (3.481 %)Health
6240 (2.181 %)Education
7216 (1.963 %)Government
8156 (1.418 %)Insurance
9132 (1.200 %)Investment Banking
10125 (1.136 %)Law
11116 (1.054 %)Legal
12108 (0.982 %)Retail
1396 (0.873 %)Back Office
1495 (0.863 %)Marketing
1575 (0.682 %)Financial Institution
1672 (0.654 %)Games
1762 (0.564 %)Auditing
1848 (0.436 %)Manufacturing
1944 (0.400 %)Front Office
2041 (0.373 %)Publishing
Job Titles
11984 (18.03 %)Network Engineer
21769 (16.08 %)Analyst
31174 (10.67 %)Support Engineer
41111 (10.10 %)Administrator
5889 (8.080 %)Consultant
6787 (7.153 %)Support Analyst
7692 (6.290 %)Network Support
8634 (5.763 %)Systems Administrator
9629 (5.717 %)Architect
10573 (5.208 %)Network Analyst
11474 (4.308 %)Security Engineer
12426 (3.872 %)Technical Support
13379 (3.445 %)Cisco Engineer
14359 (3.263 %)3rd Line Support
15349 (3.172 %)Senior Network Engineer
16312 (2.836 %)Systems Engineer
17289 (2.627 %)Security Consultant
17289 (2.627 %)Network Administrator
18255 (2.318 %)Security Analyst
19253 (2.300 %)IT Manager
Miscellaneous
1324 (2.945 %)Clustering
2254 (2.309 %)Blackberry
3131 (1.191 %)Thin Client
3131 (1.191 %)Fat Client
4122 (1.109 %)PKI
5105 (0.954 %)Management Information System
6100 (0.909 %)Client/Server
796 (0.873 %)French Language
884 (0.763 %)SecurID
971 (0.645 %)German Language
1070 (0.636 %)Asset Management
1167 (0.609 %)Computer Science
1257 (0.518 %)Replication
1351 (0.464 %)Video Conferencing
1444 (0.400 %)CESG
1540 (0.364 %)Equities
1540 (0.364 %)Mainframe
1637 (0.336 %)AS400
1732 (0.291 %)CESG CLAS
1830 (0.273 %)Mathematics
Operating Systems
15008 (45.52 %)Windows
22131 (19.37 %)Linux
31952 (17.74 %)Unix
41377 (12.52 %)Windows 2000
51077 (9.789 %)Windows Server 2003
6809 (7.353 %)Solaris
7693 (6.299 %)Windows XP
8593 (5.390 %)Windows NT
9270 (2.454 %)AIX
10101 (0.918 %)Debian
1197 (0.882 %)SUSE
1262 (0.564 %)Mac OS X
1361 (0.554 %)HPUX
1457 (0.518 %)Fedora
1543 (0.391 %)Windows Vista
1630 (0.273 %)Ubuntu
1729 (0.264 %)Gentoo
1827 (0.245 %)FreeBSD
1923 (0.209 %)VMS
2021 (0.191 %)OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1562 (5.108 %)Load Balancing
2535 (4.863 %)ITIL
3460 (4.181 %)Project Management
4449 (4.081 %)Network Design
5352 (3.199 %)Information Security
6346 (3.145 %)Disaster Recovery
7173 (1.572 %)E-Commerce
7173 (1.572 %)Content Management
8162 (1.472 %)Service Delivery
9158 (1.436 %)Penetration Testing
10154 (1.400 %)Change Management
11144 (1.309 %)Configuration Management
12136 (1.236 %)PRINCE2
13126 (1.145 %)Service Management
14124 (1.127 %)Security Management
15111 (1.009 %)Business Continuity
16106 (0.963 %)Risk Management
1797 (0.882 %)Migration
1891 (0.827 %)Problem Management
1989 (0.809 %)Incident Management
Programming Languages
11296 (11.78 %)SQL
2519 (4.717 %)Perl
3433 (3.936 %)Java
4259 (2.354 %)C
5225 (2.045 %)Shell Script
6215 (1.954 %)PHP
793 (0.845 %)Python
891 (0.827 %)VB
891 (0.827 %)C++
980 (0.727 %)C#
1069 (0.627 %)JavaScript
1069 (0.627 %)Ruby
1140 (0.364 %)VBScript
1233 (0.300 %)Transact-SQL
1329 (0.264 %)VBA
1428 (0.254 %)Korn
1526 (0.236 %)AWK
1625 (0.227 %)VB.NET
1711 (0.100 %)VB6
1810 (0.091 %)Tcl
Qualifications
12904 (26.40 %)Cisco Certification
21693 (15.39 %)CCNA
31681 (15.28 %)Microsoft Certification
41627 (14.79 %)CCNP
51455 (13.22 %)MCSE
6605 (5.499 %)Degree
7545 (4.954 %)CCIE
8477 (4.336 %)MCP
9352 (3.199 %)CCSE
10285 (2.590 %)CISSP
11283 (2.572 %)CCSA
12279 (2.536 %)MCSA
13252 (2.290 %)CCDP
14248 (2.254 %)CCSP
15201 (1.827 %)CCIP
16145 (1.318 %)CCVP
1797 (0.882 %)Citrix Certification
1874 (0.673 %)CISA
1971 (0.645 %)JNCIA
2059 (0.536 %)CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1229 (2.081 %)SLA
2151 (1.372 %)ISO27001
3113 (1.027 %)BS7799
443 (0.391 %)QA
535 (0.318 %)JSP 440
633 (0.300 %)ISO9001
732 (0.291 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
827 (0.245 %)COBIT
827 (0.245 %)ISO17799
925 (0.227 %)HMG Infosec
1017 (0.155 %)PCI DSS
118 (0.073 %)CESG Infosec
126 (0.055 %)ISO9000
131 (0.009 %)ISO9002
131 (0.009 %)ISO/IEC 20000
131 (0.009 %)PCI QSA
System Software
12576 (23.41 %)Active Directory
2396 (3.599 %)ISA Server
3291 (2.645 %)Terminal Services
4289 (2.627 %)Backup Exec
5140 (1.272 %)Citrix Presentation Server
6116 (1.054 %)MetaFrame
780 (0.727 %)Terminal Server
874 (0.673 %)Samba
968 (0.618 %)VMware ESX
1056 (0.509 %)Squid
1152 (0.473 %)NFS
1250 (0.454 %)NetBackup
1323 (0.209 %)Xen
1422 (0.200 %)Snort
1519 (0.173 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
169 (0.082 %)NDS
178 (0.073 %)ProxySG
178 (0.073 %)Oracle RAC
178 (0.073 %)MailMarshal
187 (0.064 %)Nmap
Systems Management
1216 (1.963 %)OpenView
2183 (1.663 %)CiscoWorks
3122 (1.109 %)Norton AntiVirus
498 (0.891 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
586 (0.782 %)MOM
668 (0.618 %)Tivoli
750 (0.454 %)WSUS
843 (0.391 %)MAILsweeper
942 (0.382 %)Nagios
1033 (0.300 %)ARCserve
1121 (0.191 %)Unicenter
1219 (0.173 %)Legato
1219 (0.173 %)MIMEsweeper
1318 (0.164 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
1417 (0.155 %)Nessus
1516 (0.145 %)Netcool
1615 (0.136 %)Tivoli NetView
1615 (0.136 %)NNM
1714 (0.127 %)HP Data Protector
1812 (0.109 %)EMC NetWorker
Vendors
15322 (48.37 %)Cisco
22484 (22.58 %)CheckPoint
32303 (20.93 %)Microsoft
41162 (10.56 %)Citrix
5866 (7.871 %)Nokia
6737 (6.699 %)Oracle
7695 (6.317 %)VMware
8605 (5.499 %)HP
9560 (5.090 %)Juniper
10475 (4.317 %)Red Hat
11282 (2.563 %)VERITAS
12273 (2.481 %)Nortel
13260 (2.363 %)Avaya
13260 (2.363 %)Sun
14249 (2.263 %)Blue Coat
15232 (2.109 %)Symantec
16197 (1.791 %)WatchGuard
17184 (1.672 %)Lotus
18163 (1.482 %)Websense
19154 (1.400 %)IBM
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