The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Firewall skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Firewall over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category.

Firewall
Location
3 months to
21 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank759178
Rank change year-on-year
Up+16Down-13
Matching permanent IT job ads391232202591
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK3.228 %2.639 %2.721 %
As % of the Communications & Networking category18.43 %16.82 %17.62 %
Number of salaries quoted341027282152
Average salary£42,500£40,000£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£26,500£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£62,500£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£37,500£39,000
% change year-on-year
+6.66 %-3.84 %
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryAll Communications & Networking
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
212291914414709
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK17.52 %15.69 %15.45 %
Number of salaries quoted176921585812156
Average salary£42,500£40,000£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£26,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£61,900£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£37,500£37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66 %-

Firewall
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Firewall within 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 citing Firewall within the UK.

Firewall Salary Trend

Firewall
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Firewall over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 within the UK.

Firewall Salary Histogram

Firewall
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+143691£42,500+6.25 %
LondonUp+181668£48,000+1.05 %
South EastUp+261119£40,000+2.56 %
City of LondonUp+22381£52,500-4.54 %
BerkshireUp+14350£45,000-
HampshireUp+12224£37,500+7.14 %
SurreyUp+11224£40,000+0.62 %
East of EnglandDown-31175£40,000+14.28 %
YorkshireDown-4174£40,000+6.66 %
North WestUp+14164£37,500+17.18 %
South WestDown-32154£35,000+2.18 %
West MidlandsDown-26131£32,500-8.45 %
ReadingDown-11124£45,500+1.11 %
West YorkshireDown-28108£40,000+14.28 %
ManchesterUp+2697£37,500-
BuckinghamshireUp+2885£40,000+6.66 %
ScotlandUp+3177£35,000+1.44 %
East MidlandsUp+873£35,000+20.68 %
LeedsDown-2368£40,000+14.28 %
KentUp+1765£37,500-1.31 %
BirminghamDown-764£32,500-7.14 %
OxfordshireUp+4463£35,000-12.50 %
SouthamptonDown-258£32,500+8.33 %
WiltshireUp+1355£31,500-3.07 %
HertfordshireDown-3552£37,250-6.87 %
BracknellUp+3149£38,000+5.55 %
SloughUp+1849£40,000-
EdinburghUp+4147£32,500-1.51 %
CheshireDown-947£42,500+32.81 %
Milton KeynesUp+3346£40,000+15.94 %

Firewall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

14325 (53.54 %)Cisco
23755 (46.48 %)Windows
32538 (31.42 %)Cisco Certification
42271 (28.11 %)VPN
52221 (27.49 %)Microsoft
62170 (26.86 %)Linux
72142 (26.52 %)VMware
82078 (25.72 %)TCP/IP
91984 (24.56 %)Active Directory
101899 (23.51 %)LAN
111842 (22.80 %)WAN
121751 (21.68 %)DNS
131579 (19.55 %)CheckPoint
141530 (18.94 %)MS Exchange
141530 (18.94 %)Windows Server 2008
151504 (18.62 %)Windows Server 2003
161436 (17.78 %)CCNA
171429 (17.69 %)CCNP
181375 (17.02 %)Juniper
191345 (16.65 %)Network Security
201344 (16.64 %)VMware Infrastructure
211292 (15.99 %)SAN
221289 (15.96 %)SQL
231251 (15.49 %)UNIX
241179 (14.60 %)Finance
251177 (14.57 %)Cisco ASA
261132 (14.01 %)Internet
271121 (13.88 %)MS Excel
281114 (13.79 %)SQL Server
291087 (13.46 %)ITIL

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1324 (4.011 %).NET
2258 (3.194 %)CSS
3204 (2.525 %)HTML
4196 (2.426 %)Web Services
5172 (2.129 %)XML
6142 (1.758 %)LAMP
7123 (1.523 %)Middleware
8102 (1.263 %)WebSphere
980 (0.990 %)ASP.NET
1077 (0.953 %)J2EE
1172 (0.891 %)SOAP
1263 (0.780 %)ASP
1358 (0.718 %)Ajax
1446 (0.569 %)CodeIgniter
1545 (0.557 %)jQuery
1641 (0.508 %)XSLT
1641 (0.508 %)Regular Expression
1740 (0.495 %)Forefront TMG
1839 (0.483 %).NET Framework
1937 (0.458 %)REST
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
11530 (18.94 %)MS Exchange
2666 (8.245 %)Exchange Server 2010
3625 (7.737 %)IIS
4599 (7.415 %)Exchange Server 2007
5566 (7.007 %)Apache
6523 (6.474 %)Exchange Server 2003
7466 (5.769 %)SharePoint
8216 (2.674 %)Tomcat
9146 (1.807 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
1095 (1.176 %)Lync
1164 (0.792 %)WebLogic
1257 (0.706 %)Lotus Notes
1345 (0.557 %)CMS
1443 (0.532 %)SharePoint 2010
1540 (0.495 %)Amazon AWS
1639 (0.483 %)nginx
1738 (0.470 %)Exchange Server 2000
1834 (0.421 %)Amazon EC2
1932 (0.396 %)Drupal
1932 (0.396 %)Office Communications Server
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
11121 (13.88 %)MS Excel
2404 (5.001 %)MS Office
3193 (2.389 %)MS Visio
449 (0.607 %)MS PowerPoint
525 (0.309 %)Google Apps
619 (0.235 %)Photoshop
718 (0.223 %)Office 365
88 (0.099 %)MS Project
94 (0.050 %)InfoPath
103 (0.037 %)Acrobat
111 (0.012 %)PrintSoft PReS
111 (0.012 %)LightWave 3D
111 (0.012 %)Quicktime
111 (0.012 %)AutoCAD
111 (0.012 %)Final Cut Pro
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
128 (0.347 %)Dynamics CRM
217 (0.210 %)Dynamics NAV
315 (0.186 %)Line 100
315 (0.186 %)Sage MMS
414 (0.173 %)CA Clarity
512 (0.149 %)Summit
512 (0.149 %)BASE24
611 (0.136 %)assyst
79 (0.111 %)Prophet
86 (0.074 %)Oracle BPM
95 (0.062 %)Dynamics AX
95 (0.062 %)Exchequer
95 (0.062 %)GoldMine
95 (0.062 %)SunGard APT
95 (0.062 %)Oracle BRM
95 (0.062 %)FastVal
104 (0.050 %)ION MarketView
104 (0.050 %)BusinessWorks
104 (0.050 %)Oracle Applications
104 (0.050 %)SalesLogix
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
12271 (28.11 %)VPN
22078 (25.72 %)TCP/IP
31899 (23.51 %)LAN
41842 (22.80 %)WAN
51751 (21.68 %)DNS
61345 (16.65 %)Network Security
71292 (15.99 %)SAN
81177 (14.57 %)Cisco ASA
91132 (14.01 %)Internet
10914 (11.31 %)OSPF
11884 (10.94 %)BGP
12854 (10.57 %)DHCP
13810 (10.03 %)MPLS
14769 (9.520 %)VoIP
15733 (9.074 %)Wireless
16672 (8.319 %)VLAN
17654 (8.096 %)Cisco PIX
18590 (7.304 %)SSL
19458 (5.670 %)EIGRP
20445 (5.509 %)IPsec
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
11114 (13.79 %)SQL Server
2551 (6.821 %)MySQL
3259 (3.206 %)SQL Server 2008
4238 (2.946 %)SQL Server 2005
5101 (1.250 %)SQL Server 2000
688 (1.089 %)RDBMS
769 (0.854 %)DB2
868 (0.842 %)PostgreSQL
960 (0.743 %)Oracle 11g
1056 (0.693 %)Oracle 8/8i
1056 (0.693 %)Oracle 10g
1138 (0.470 %)NoSQL
1218 (0.223 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1317 (0.210 %)Informix
1416 (0.198 %)MongoDB
1416 (0.198 %)Data Warehouse
1515 (0.186 %)Redis
1614 (0.173 %)Apache Cassandra
1712 (0.149 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1810 (0.124 %)Crystal Reports
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1141 (1.745 %)Subversion
260 (0.743 %)Git (software)
327 (0.334 %)VSS/SourceSafe
421 (0.260 %)WebLOAD
421 (0.260 %)TeamCity
520 (0.248 %)Metasploit
520 (0.248 %)PEAR
619 (0.235 %)Talend Open Studio
619 (0.235 %)Team Foundation Server
717 (0.210 %)JIRA
815 (0.186 %)Mercurial
914 (0.173 %)Ant
1011 (0.136 %)Visual Studio
1011 (0.136 %)Hudson
1110 (0.124 %)Selenium
1110 (0.124 %)LoadRunner
128 (0.099 %)JMeter
136 (0.074 %)Synon
136 (0.074 %)Maven
145 (0.062 %)VisualSVN
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11179 (14.60 %)Finance
2715 (8.851 %)Telecoms
3301 (3.726 %)Banking
4161 (1.993 %)Retail
5118 (1.461 %)Marketing
6117 (1.448 %)German Language
7110 (1.362 %)Back Office
8102 (1.263 %)Legal
989 (1.102 %)French Language
989 (1.102 %)Law
1074 (0.916 %)Games
1074 (0.916 %)Investment Banking
1150 (0.619 %)Advertising
1248 (0.594 %)Italian Language
1344 (0.545 %)Financial Institution
1443 (0.532 %)Manufacturing
1539 (0.483 %)Electronics
1637 (0.458 %)Spanish Language
1735 (0.433 %)Publishing
1830 (0.371 %)Pharmaceutical
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
11548 (19.16 %)Network Engineer
21035 (12.81 %)Analyst
3859 (10.63 %)Support Engineer
4789 (9.767 %)Consultant
5652 (8.071 %)Administrator
6519 (6.425 %)Security Engineer
7513 (6.351 %)Systems Administrator
8457 (5.657 %)Architect
9376 (4.655 %)Support Analyst
10345 (4.271 %)Senior Network Engineer
11319 (3.949 %)Technical Support
12307 (3.800 %)Infrastructure Engineer
13297 (3.677 %)Systems Engineer
14285 (3.528 %)3rd Line Support
15277 (3.429 %)Network Support
16271 (3.355 %)Network Analyst
17267 (3.305 %)Network Security Engineer
18262 (3.243 %)Security Analyst
19241 (2.983 %)Cisco Engineer
20229 (2.835 %)Security Consultant
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1295 (3.652 %)Clustering
2275 (3.404 %)Management Information System
3256 (3.169 %)Computer Science
4252 (3.120 %)Blackberry
5156 (1.931 %)Open Source
6125 (1.547 %)SaaS
7117 (1.448 %)PKI
8114 (1.411 %)Replication
9112 (1.386 %)Cloud Computing
1095 (1.176 %)Video Conferencing
1185 (1.052 %)Fat Client
1185 (1.052 %)Thin Client
1280 (0.990 %)Hedge funds
1378 (0.966 %)Statistics
1477 (0.953 %)Cryptography
1571 (0.879 %)SecurID
1665 (0.805 %)Client/Server
1756 (0.693 %)iPhone
1847 (0.582 %)Enterprise Storage
1945 (0.557 %)CLARiiON
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
13755 (46.48 %)Windows
22170 (26.86 %)Linux
31530 (18.94 %)Windows Server 2008
41504 (18.62 %)Windows Server 2003
51251 (15.49 %)UNIX
6600 (7.428 %)Windows XP
7444 (5.496 %)Windows 7
8401 (4.964 %)Solaris
9303 (3.751 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10260 (3.219 %)Windows Vista
11202 (2.501 %)CentOS
12198 (2.451 %)Debian
13182 (2.253 %)AIX
14156 (1.931 %)Windows 2000 Server
15130 (1.609 %)Windows 2000
16127 (1.572 %)Ubuntu
1763 (0.780 %)Mac OS X
1860 (0.743 %)Windows NT
1944 (0.545 %)VMS
2043 (0.532 %)Android
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11087 (13.46 %)ITIL
2771 (9.544 %)Load Balancing
3508 (6.289 %)Disaster Recovery
4454 (5.620 %)Project Management
5448 (5.546 %)Information Security
6440 (5.447 %)Network Design
7386 (4.778 %)Network Management
8373 (4.617 %)Service Delivery
9335 (4.147 %)Incident Management
10297 (3.677 %)Change Management
11244 (3.021 %)Configuration Management
12243 (3.008 %)PRINCE2
13241 (2.983 %)SIEM
14240 (2.971 %)Business Continuity
15239 (2.959 %)E-Commerce
15239 (2.959 %)Service Management
16231 (2.860 %)Penetration Testing
17222 (2.748 %)Capacity Planning
18189 (2.340 %)Security Management
19182 (2.253 %)Vulnerability Assessment
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11289 (15.96 %)SQL
2352 (4.358 %)Perl
3344 (4.258 %)Java
4249 (3.082 %)C
5227 (2.810 %)PHP
6225 (2.785 %)Shell Script
7190 (2.352 %)JavaScript
8178 (2.204 %)Bash shell
9168 (2.080 %)Python
10127 (1.572 %)C++
11100 (1.238 %)PowerShell
1292 (1.139 %)C#
1372 (0.891 %)VBScript
1459 (0.730 %)Ruby
1551 (0.631 %)T-SQL
1649 (0.607 %)VB.NET
1744 (0.545 %)VB
1842 (0.520 %)AWK
1941 (0.508 %)Korn
2027 (0.334 %)PL/SQL
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
12538 (31.42 %)Cisco Certification
21436 (17.78 %)CCNA
31429 (17.69 %)CCNP
41033 (12.79 %)Microsoft Certification
5807 (9.990 %)Degree
6780 (9.656 %)MCSE
7546 (6.759 %)Security Cleared
8502 (6.214 %)CCIE
9462 (5.719 %)CCSP
10450 (5.571 %)CISSP
11420 (5.199 %)MCITP
12398 (4.927 %)SC Cleared
13323 (3.999 %)MCP
14282 (3.491 %)MCSA
15266 (3.293 %)CCSE
16252 (3.120 %)CCSA
17223 (2.761 %)CCDP
18218 (2.699 %)JNCIA
19208 (2.575 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
20179 (2.216 %)CCIP
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1395 (4.890 %)ISO/IEC 27001
2369 (4.568 %)SLA
3279 (3.454 %)PCI DSS
496 (1.188 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
557 (0.706 %)QA
647 (0.582 %)ISO 9001
729 (0.359 %)BS7799
824 (0.297 %)COBIT
824 (0.297 %)ISO/IEC 17799
923 (0.285 %)HMG Infosec
108 (0.099 %)HIPAA
116 (0.074 %)JSP 440
124 (0.050 %)ISO 14001
133 (0.037 %)ISO 8583
141 (0.012 %)ISO 9000
141 (0.012 %)WAI
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
11984 (24.56 %)Active Directory
21344 (16.64 %)VMware Infrastructure
3487 (6.029 %)vSphere
4431 (5.335 %)Hyper-V
5400 (4.952 %)VMware ESX
6314 (3.887 %)XenApp
7205 (2.538 %)VMware ESXi
8155 (1.919 %)XenServer
9148 (1.832 %)XenDesktop
10143 (1.770 %)Terminal Services
11109 (1.349 %)NFS
1296 (1.188 %)Xen
1383 (1.027 %)Citrix Presentation Server
1475 (0.928 %)ISA Server
1573 (0.904 %)UAG
1670 (0.867 %)Squid
1769 (0.854 %)Samba
1866 (0.817 %)Sendmail
1958 (0.718 %)Postfix
2055 (0.681 %)Nmap
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1273 (3.380 %)Backup Exec
2175 (2.166 %)Nagios
3159 (1.968 %)SCCM
4121 (1.498 %)CiscoWorks
5110 (1.362 %)vCenter
6106 (1.312 %)SCOM
7105 (1.300 %)Puppet
896 (1.188 %)Tivoli
896 (1.188 %)Nessus
993 (1.151 %)NetBackup
1090 (1.114 %)Norton AntiVirus
1188 (1.089 %)OpenView
1278 (0.966 %)Cacti
1370 (0.867 %)ARCserve
1469 (0.854 %)WSUS
1557 (0.706 %)ZABBIX
1650 (0.619 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
1748 (0.594 %)McAfee ePO
1841 (0.508 %)Cisco CUCM
1932 (0.396 %)Legato
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
14325 (53.54 %)Cisco
22221 (27.49 %)Microsoft
32142 (26.52 %)VMware
41579 (19.55 %)CheckPoint
51375 (17.02 %)Juniper
61045 (12.94 %)Citrix
7827 (10.24 %)HP
8601 (7.440 %)F5
9538 (6.660 %)Oracle
10505 (6.252 %)Red Hat
11400 (4.952 %)Nokia
12379 (4.692 %)Blue Coat
13335 (4.147 %)Symantec
14247 (3.058 %)EMC
15244 (3.021 %)NetApp
15244 (3.021 %)IBM
16220 (2.723 %)Dell
16220 (2.723 %)McAfee
17187 (2.315 %)Sun
18176 (2.179 %)Avaya