The first table below looks at the demand for FWSM skills in IT jobs advertised for the Wales region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited FWSM 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 of the Communications & Networking category for the Wales region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco Firewall Services Module (FWSM)
Rank 87 87 -
Rank change year-on-year
0 -
Permanent jobs citing FWSM 5 8 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wales 0.405% 0.686% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.016% 3.265% -
Number of salaries quoted 5 8 0
Average salary £55,000 £35,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+57.14% -
UK excluding London average salary £55,000 £40,000 £51,250
% change year-on-year
+37.50% -21.95%
All Communications & Networking
Wales
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
248 245 115
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wales 20.08% 21.01% 11.02%
Number of salaries quoted 232 207 102
Average salary £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
90% offered a salary of more than £24,500 £24,000 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £45,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
FWSM
UK

FWSM
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing FWSM across the Wales region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Wales FWSM Jobs Demand Trend

FWSM
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing FWSM across the Wales region.

Wales FWSM Salary Trend

FWSM
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FWSM within the Wales region 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
South Wales 0 5 £55,000 +57.14%
FWSM
UK

FWSM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wales region citing FWSM 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 FWSM.

1 5 (100.00%) VPN
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
1 5 (100.00%) CCIE
1 5 (100.00%) CCNP
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (100.00%) BGP
1 5 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco PIX
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 4 (80.00%) Network Security
3 3 (60.00%) Capacity Management
3 3 (60.00%) ITIL
3 3 (60.00%) LAN
3 3 (60.00%) WAN
4 2 (40.00%) UNIX
4 2 (40.00%) MS Excel
4 2 (40.00%) CCSP
4 2 (40.00%) Juniper
4 2 (40.00%) CheckPoint
4 2 (40.00%) MPLS
4 2 (40.00%) OSPF
4 2 (40.00%) CCIP
4 2 (40.00%) CCDP
4 2 (40.00%) CiscoWorks
4 2 (40.00%) CCSA
4 2 (40.00%) CCVP
4 2 (40.00%) Wireless
4 2 (40.00%) IPsec

FWSM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wales region citing FWSM 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 FWSM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (40.00%) CSS
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) VPN
1 5 (100.00%) BGP
1 5 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco PIX
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 4 (80.00%) Network Security
3 3 (60.00%) LAN
3 3 (60.00%) WAN
4 2 (40.00%) MPLS
4 2 (40.00%) OSPF
4 2 (40.00%) Wireless
4 2 (40.00%) IPsec
4 2 (40.00%) VRRP
4 2 (40.00%) HSRP
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Network Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Senior Network Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Network Support
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Support Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Network Support Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Network Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco Network Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Network Support
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Network Support Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Cisco Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (40.00%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Capacity Management
1 3 (60.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Network Design
2 2 (40.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) CCIE
1 5 (100.00%) CCNP
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (40.00%) CCSP
2 2 (40.00%) CCIP
2 2 (40.00%) CCDP
2 2 (40.00%) CCSA
2 2 (40.00%) CCVP
2 2 (40.00%) JNCIA
2 2 (40.00%) JNCIS
2 2 (40.00%) CCSE
3 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) CiscoWorks
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) Juniper
2 2 (40.00%) CheckPoint
2 2 (40.00%) F5
3 1 (20.00%) Twitter