The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Foundry products and/or services in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Foundry over the 3 months to 24 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 Vendors currently tracked.

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within Foundry Networks.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Foundry
Rank 790 841 813
Rank change year-on-year
+51 -28
Permanent jobs citing Foundry 72 58 68
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.067% 0.048% 0.055%
As % of the Vendors category 0.138% 0.101% 0.117%
Number of salaries quoted 56 51 62
Average salary £55,000 £45,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+22.22% +50.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £26,000 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £52,500 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £27,500 £41,165
% change year-on-year
+54.54% -33.19%
All Vendors
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
51990 57424 58365
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 48.10% 47.58% 46.91%
Number of salaries quoted 42441 48386 48502
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £28,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000

Foundry
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Foundry within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Foundry Jobs Demand Trend

Foundry
Salary Trend

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

Foundry Salary Trend

Foundry
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Foundry over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 within the UK.

Foundry Salary Histogram

Foundry
Top 25 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Foundry within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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 +39 71 £55,000 +22.22%
London +41 41 £58,750 +30.55%
South East - 18 £55,000 -
Berkshire - 14 £60,000 -
City of London +11 11 £67,500 +65.64%
Reading - 10 £60,000 -
Yorkshire +5 4 - -
York - 4 - -
North Yorkshire - 4 - -
Docklands, London +9 3 £26,500 -37.64%
South West - 3 £37,500 -
Hertfordshire +10 1 £26,000 -0.95%
East of England +3 1 £26,000 -0.95%
North West +3 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 £47,500 -
Kent - 1 £55,000 -
Hampshire - 1 - -
Derbyshire - 1 £47,500 -
Cheshire - 1 - -
Buckinghamshire - 1 £55,000 -
Tunbridge Wells - 1 £55,000 -
Southampton - 1 - -
Newbury - 1 £45,000 -
Milton Keynes - 1 £55,000 -
Chester - 1 - -

Foundry
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Foundry 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 Foundry.

1 121 (93.80%) Cisco
2 89 (68.99%) Juniper
3 88 (68.22%) Firewall
4 73 (56.59%) Cisco Certification
5 69 (53.49%) OSPF
6 64 (49.61%) VPN
7 61 (47.29%) Windows
8 59 (45.74%) MPLS
9 51 (39.53%) Linux
10 50 (38.76%) VMware
10 50 (38.76%) Cisco ASA
10 50 (38.76%) F5
11 49 (37.98%) BGP
12 46 (35.66%) CCNA
12 46 (35.66%) Brocade
13 43 (33.33%) LAN
13 43 (33.33%) WAN
13 43 (33.33%) CheckPoint
14 42 (32.56%) Load Balancing
15 41 (31.78%) vSphere
16 39 (30.23%) EIGRP
16 39 (30.23%) HP
17 38 (29.46%) CCNP
18 36 (27.91%) Windows Server 2003
18 36 (27.91%) Red Hat
18 36 (27.91%) Windows Server 2008
19 34 (26.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
20 31 (24.03%) Degree
21 30 (23.26%) UNIX
22 29 (22.48%) Network Security

Foundry
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Foundry 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 Foundry. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (8.527%) HTML
1 11 (8.527%) XML
2 2 (1.550%) CSS
2 2 (1.550%) Drools
3 1 (0.775%) MDX
Application Platforms
1 13 (10.08%) Apache
2 11 (8.527%) SAS
2 11 (8.527%) IIS
3 5 (3.876%) MS Exchange
4 2 (1.550%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 2 (1.550%) Exchange Server 2003
4 2 (1.550%) Oracle Coherence
4 2 (1.550%) Exchange Server 2007
4 2 (1.550%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.775%) Lync
Applications
1 17 (13.18%) MS Visio
2 16 (12.40%) MS Excel
3 5 (3.876%) MS Office
4 1 (0.775%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 1 (0.775%) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking
1 88 (68.22%) Firewall
2 69 (53.49%) OSPF
3 64 (49.61%) VPN
4 59 (45.74%) MPLS
5 50 (38.76%) Cisco ASA
6 49 (37.98%) BGP
7 43 (33.33%) LAN
7 43 (33.33%) WAN
8 39 (30.23%) EIGRP
9 29 (22.48%) Network Security
10 28 (21.71%) DNS
11 26 (20.16%) SSL
11 26 (20.16%) TCP/IP
12 25 (19.38%) NetScreen
13 21 (16.28%) Wireshark
14 20 (15.50%) Cisco PIX
14 20 (15.50%) Ethernet
15 19 (14.73%) Cisco Nexus
16 18 (13.95%) VLAN
16 18 (13.95%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.977%) MySQL
2 8 (6.202%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.775%) Data Mining
3 1 (0.775%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 2 (1.550%) TeamCity
1 2 (1.550%) Git (software)
1 2 (1.550%) JIRA
2 1 (0.775%) Subversion
2 1 (0.775%) Bugzilla
General
1 23 (17.83%) Finance
2 19 (14.73%) Telecoms
3 9 (6.977%) Banking
4 7 (5.426%) Investment Banking
5 2 (1.550%) Front Office
6 1 (0.775%) Retail
Job Titles
1 64 (49.61%) Network Engineer
2 30 (23.26%) Security Engineer
2 30 (23.26%) Network Security Engineer
3 16 (12.40%) NOC Engineer
4 11 (8.527%) Data Centre Engineer
5 10 (7.752%) Operations Engineer
6 8 (6.202%) Consultant
6 8 (6.202%) Network Operations Engineer
7 7 (5.426%) Senior Network Engineer
8 6 (4.651%) Technical Leader
9 5 (3.876%) Security Technical Consultant
9 5 (3.876%) Analyst
9 5 (3.876%) 3rd Line Support
9 5 (3.876%) Security Consultant
9 5 (3.876%) Technical Consultant
10 4 (3.101%) Systems Engineer
10 4 (3.101%) Cisco Engineer
10 4 (3.101%) Pre Sales Engineer
11 3 (2.326%) Windows Engineer
11 3 (2.326%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.40%) Enterprise Storage
2 15 (11.63%) Firmware
3 7 (5.426%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.876%) Computer Science
5 4 (3.101%) Web 2.0
6 2 (1.550%) Blackberry
6 2 (1.550%) SecurID
7 1 (0.775%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 61 (47.29%) Windows
2 51 (39.53%) Linux
3 36 (27.91%) Windows Server 2003
3 36 (27.91%) Windows Server 2008
4 34 (26.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 30 (23.26%) UNIX
6 28 (21.71%) Solaris
7 2 (1.550%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.775%) CentOS
8 1 (0.775%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.775%) Fedora
8 1 (0.775%) Debian
8 1 (0.775%) OpenBSD
8 1 (0.775%) AIX
8 1 (0.775%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (32.56%) Load Balancing
2 22 (17.05%) Service Delivery
2 22 (17.05%) ITIL
3 15 (11.63%) Change Management
4 14 (10.85%) Problem Management
5 12 (9.302%) Project Management
5 12 (9.302%) Network Management
6 11 (8.527%) Web Development
7 8 (6.202%) OO
7 8 (6.202%) Capacity Planning
8 6 (4.651%) Fault Management
9 4 (3.101%) CRM
10 3 (2.326%) Information Security
10 3 (2.326%) Process Management
10 3 (2.326%) Business Analysis
11 2 (1.550%) B2B
11 2 (1.550%) Risk Management
11 2 (1.550%) WAN Optimisation
12 1 (0.775%) Test Management
12 1 (0.775%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 14 (10.85%) Java
1 14 (10.85%) SQL
2 13 (10.08%) Perl
3 11 (8.527%) PowerShell
4 6 (4.651%) Python
4 6 (4.651%) Shell Script
5 3 (2.326%) Bash shell
6 2 (1.550%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.550%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.775%) PHP
Qualifications
1 73 (56.59%) Cisco Certification
2 46 (35.66%) CCNA
3 38 (29.46%) CCNP
4 31 (24.03%) Degree
5 17 (13.18%) CCSA
6 16 (12.40%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (10.85%) MCSE
8 10 (7.752%) JNCIS
9 9 (6.977%) CCIE
10 7 (5.426%) RHCE
11 5 (3.876%) JNCIA
12 3 (2.326%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (2.326%) CCSP
12 3 (2.326%) CCIP
12 3 (2.326%) CCDP
13 1 (0.775%) CCVP
13 1 (0.775%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.302%) SLA
2 3 (2.326%) PCI DSS
2 3 (2.326%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.326%) COBIT
3 2 (1.550%) QA
System Software
1 41 (31.78%) vSphere
2 26 (20.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (11.63%) VMware ESX
4 10 (7.752%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (2.326%) ISA Server
5 3 (2.326%) Active Directory
6 2 (1.550%) NFS
6 2 (1.550%) XenApp
7 1 (0.775%) FreeRADIUS
Systems Management
1 19 (14.73%) FortiGate
2 9 (6.977%) ServiceCenter
3 8 (6.202%) HP Operations Orchestration
4 1 (0.775%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (0.775%) Cisco UCCX
Vendors
1 121 (93.80%) Cisco
2 89 (68.99%) Juniper
3 50 (38.76%) VMware
3 50 (38.76%) F5
4 46 (35.66%) Brocade
5 43 (33.33%) CheckPoint
6 39 (30.23%) HP
7 36 (27.91%) Red Hat
8 28 (21.71%) Microsoft
9 26 (20.16%) Citrix
10 17 (13.18%) TippingPoint
11 11 (8.527%) Egenera
11 11 (8.527%) Nortel
11 11 (8.527%) Sun
12 9 (6.977%) Nimsoft
13 8 (6.202%) Dell
14 5 (3.876%) Blue Coat
15 4 (3.101%) Oracle
16 3 (2.326%) Riverbed
16 3 (2.326%) Remedy
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