The first table below looks at the demand for Firewall skills in IT jobs advertised for the Warwickshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Firewall 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 Warwickshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firewall
Rank 60 52 54
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +2
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 16 30 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Warwickshire 2.067% 3.807% 1.997%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.04% 23.81% 18.46%
Number of salaries quoted 16 30 12
Average salary £27,000 £25,250 £51,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.93% -50.73%
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-3.75% +6.66%
All Communications & Networking
Warwickshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
114 126 65
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Warwickshire 14.73% 15.99% 10.82%
Number of salaries quoted 106 103 56
Average salary £30,000 £30,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -25.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,200 £21,600
10% offered a salary of more than £49,000 £55,000 £41,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Firewall
West Midlands

Firewall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Warwickshire Firewall Jobs Demand Trend

Firewall
Salary Trend

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

Warwickshire Firewall Salary Trend

Firewall
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Firewall across the Warwickshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Warwickshire Firewall Salary Histogram

Firewall
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 Warwickshire 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
Rugby +10 9 £27,000 -28.00%
Warwick - 2 £42,500 -
Firewall
West Midlands

Firewall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Warwickshire region 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.

1 15 (62.50%) Citrix
2 13 (54.17%) LAN
2 13 (54.17%) WAN
3 12 (50.00%) VPN
4 10 (41.67%) Internet
4 10 (41.67%) TCP/IP
4 10 (41.67%) Network Security
5 9 (37.50%) VMware
5 9 (37.50%) MPLS
5 9 (37.50%) Windows
6 8 (33.33%) Cisco
6 8 (33.33%) Microsoft
6 8 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
7 7 (29.17%) xDSL
7 7 (29.17%) CCIE
7 7 (29.17%) CCNP
7 7 (29.17%) CCNA
7 7 (29.17%) UMTS
7 7 (29.17%) GPRS
7 7 (29.17%) ISDN
7 7 (29.17%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (20.83%) SQL
9 4 (16.67%) MCP
9 4 (16.67%) MCSE
9 4 (16.67%) MCSA
9 4 (16.67%) MS Exchange
9 4 (16.67%) Active Directory
9 4 (16.67%) HP
9 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (16.67%) Finance

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Warwickshire region 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.

Application Development
1 2 (8.333%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 4 (16.67%) MS Exchange
2 2 (8.333%) IIS
3 1 (4.167%) Lync
Applications
1 3 (12.50%) MS Excel
1 3 (12.50%) MS Office
2 2 (8.333%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 13 (54.17%) LAN
1 13 (54.17%) WAN
2 12 (50.00%) VPN
3 10 (41.67%) Internet
3 10 (41.67%) TCP/IP
3 10 (41.67%) Network Security
4 9 (37.50%) MPLS
5 7 (29.17%) xDSL
5 7 (29.17%) UMTS
5 7 (29.17%) GPRS
5 7 (29.17%) ISDN
6 3 (12.50%) DNS
6 3 (12.50%) VoIP
6 3 (12.50%) DHCP
7 2 (8.333%) ADSL
7 2 (8.333%) PBX
7 2 (8.333%) Wireless
7 2 (8.333%) WAAS
7 2 (8.333%) IP Telephony
7 2 (8.333%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.167%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (8.333%) Git (software)
1 2 (8.333%) Subversion
General
1 4 (16.67%) Finance
2 2 (8.333%) Automotive
3 1 (4.167%) Multimedia
3 1 (4.167%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) Administrator
2 9 (37.50%) Systems Administrator
3 8 (33.33%) Network Administrator
4 7 (29.17%) IT Administrator
5 6 (25.00%) Analyst
5 6 (25.00%) Network Analyst
6 5 (20.83%) Network Support
7 4 (16.67%) Support Analyst
7 4 (16.67%) Network Support Analyst
8 2 (8.333%) Network Engineer
8 2 (8.333%) Operations Manager
8 2 (8.333%) Senior Server Engineer
8 2 (8.333%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 2 (8.333%) Network Security Analyst
8 2 (8.333%) Linux Administrator
8 2 (8.333%) Senior Linux Administrator
8 2 (8.333%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
8 2 (8.333%) Support Manager
8 2 (8.333%) Senior Systems Administrator
8 2 (8.333%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.333%) Blackberry
1 2 (8.333%) Biometrics
1 2 (8.333%) Smartcard
1 2 (8.333%) Open Source
1 2 (8.333%) IaaS
1 2 (8.333%) Computer Science
2 1 (4.167%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (37.50%) Windows
2 3 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (8.333%) Linux
3 2 (8.333%) CentOS
3 2 (8.333%) Windows 7
3 2 (8.333%) Android
4 1 (4.167%) Windows 2000
4 1 (4.167%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (12.50%) ITIL
2 2 (8.333%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (8.333%) Service Management
2 2 (8.333%) Service Delivery
2 2 (8.333%) Identity Management
2 2 (8.333%) Risk Management
2 2 (8.333%) BCP
2 2 (8.333%) Configuration Management
2 2 (8.333%) ITIL V3
2 2 (8.333%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (8.333%) Cyber Security
2 2 (8.333%) Incident Management
2 2 (8.333%) Problem Management
2 2 (8.333%) Security Testing
2 2 (8.333%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 2 (8.333%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (8.333%) Business Continuity
2 2 (8.333%) Information Security
3 1 (4.167%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.83%) SQL
2 2 (8.333%) Perl
2 2 (8.333%) PHP
2 2 (8.333%) Python
2 2 (8.333%) Shell Script
2 2 (8.333%) PowerShell
2 2 (8.333%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 7 (29.17%) CCIE
1 7 (29.17%) CCNP
1 7 (29.17%) CCNA
1 7 (29.17%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (16.67%) MCP
2 4 (16.67%) MCSE
2 4 (16.67%) MCSA
2 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (16.67%) MCITP
3 2 (8.333%) CISSP
3 2 (8.333%) Degree
3 2 (8.333%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.333%) SLA
1 2 (8.333%) PCI DSS
1 2 (8.333%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 2 (8.333%) Hyper-V
3 2 (8.333%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 2 (8.333%) Norton AntiVirus
1 2 (8.333%) MOM
1 2 (8.333%) Nagios
1 2 (8.333%) OpenNMS
1 2 (8.333%) Puppet
1 2 (8.333%) WSUS
1 2 (8.333%) SCCM
1 2 (8.333%) SCOM
1 2 (8.333%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 15 (62.50%) Citrix
2 9 (37.50%) VMware
3 8 (33.33%) Cisco
3 8 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 4 (16.67%) HP
5 2 (8.333%) BT
5 2 (8.333%) Red Hat
5 2 (8.333%) Apple
5 2 (8.333%) Remedy
5 2 (8.333%) Symantec
6 1 (4.167%) CheckPoint
6 1 (4.167%) Juniper
6 1 (4.167%) Nokia