The first table below looks at the demand for Firewall skills in IT jobs advertised for the Woking region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Firewall over the 3 months to 17 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 Woking region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firewall
Rank 49 40 49
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +9
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 6 15 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Woking 1.600% 3.513% 3.077%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.524% 17.05% 17.28%
Number of salaries quoted 6 14 13
Average salary £20,000 £32,750 £28,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-38.93% +14.91%
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +6.66%
All Communications & Networking
Woking
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
63 88 81
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Woking 16.80% 20.61% 17.80%
Number of salaries quoted 59 81 77
Average salary £35,000 £36,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.10% -2.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £19,650 £25,300 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £48,500 £46,700 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
Firewall
Surrey

Firewall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Woking 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 Woking region.

Woking Firewall Salary Trend

Firewall
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Firewall across the Woking region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Woking Firewall Salary Histogram

Firewall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Woking 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 18 (94.74%) Windows
2 17 (89.47%) Microsoft
3 11 (57.89%) Active Directory
3 11 (57.89%) Citrix
3 11 (57.89%) Windows Server 2003
3 11 (57.89%) Windows Server 2008
4 10 (52.63%) MS Excel
5 9 (47.37%) SQL
5 9 (47.37%) SAN
5 9 (47.37%) HP
5 9 (47.37%) Dell
5 9 (47.37%) SCCM
5 9 (47.37%) WSUS
5 9 (47.37%) Hyper-V
5 9 (47.37%) XenApp
5 9 (47.37%) XenServer
5 9 (47.37%) XenDesktop
6 7 (36.84%) TCP/IP
7 5 (26.32%) VPN
7 5 (26.32%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (21.05%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (21.05%) CCNP
8 4 (21.05%) CCNA
8 4 (21.05%) Nimsoft
9 3 (15.79%) LAN
9 3 (15.79%) WAN
10 2 (10.53%) VoIP
10 2 (10.53%) DNS
10 2 (10.53%) Cisco
10 2 (10.53%) MS Exchange

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Woking 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 Platforms
1 2 (10.53%) MS Exchange
2 1 (5.263%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (5.263%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (5.263%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (5.263%) Apache
Applications
1 10 (52.63%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 9 (47.37%) SAN
2 7 (36.84%) TCP/IP
3 5 (26.32%) VPN
4 3 (15.79%) LAN
4 3 (15.79%) WAN
5 2 (10.53%) VoIP
5 2 (10.53%) DNS
6 1 (5.263%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.263%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Account Manager
1 9 (47.37%) Technical Account Manager
1 9 (47.37%) Technical Manager
2 4 (21.05%) Help Desk Support
2 4 (21.05%) 1st Line Support
3 2 (10.53%) Consultant
4 1 (5.263%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.263%) Architect
4 1 (5.263%) Technical Architect
4 1 (5.263%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.263%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (5.263%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (5.263%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (5.263%) Citrix Consultant
4 1 (5.263%) Principle Engineer
4 1 (5.263%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.263%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 18 (94.74%) Windows
2 11 (57.89%) Windows Server 2003
2 11 (57.89%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (5.263%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (5.263%) ITIL
1 1 (5.263%) Project Management
1 1 (5.263%) Change Management
1 1 (5.263%) Information Security
1 1 (5.263%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (5.263%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) SQL
2 1 (5.263%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (21.05%) CCNP
2 4 (21.05%) CCNA
2 4 (21.05%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (10.53%) Degree
4 1 (5.263%) MCSE
4 1 (5.263%) MCSA
4 1 (5.263%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (5.263%) MCTS
4 1 (5.263%) MCITP
System Software
1 11 (57.89%) Active Directory
2 9 (47.37%) Hyper-V
2 9 (47.37%) XenApp
2 9 (47.37%) XenServer
2 9 (47.37%) XenDesktop
3 2 (10.53%) vSphere
3 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (5.263%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 9 (47.37%) WSUS
1 9 (47.37%) SCCM
Vendors
1 17 (89.47%) Microsoft
2 11 (57.89%) Citrix
3 9 (47.37%) HP
3 9 (47.37%) Dell
4 4 (21.05%) Nimsoft
5 2 (10.53%) Cisco
5 2 (10.53%) VMware
6 1 (5.263%) Blue Coat
6 1 (5.263%) Juniper
6 1 (5.263%) Nokia
6 1 (5.263%) CheckPoint
Woking, Surrey
You will utilise your Checkpoint and Cisco Network expertise to provide support, maintenance, development and upgrades to a variety of network systems; particularly Checkpoint Firewalls, Email gateways, Web...
Informatiq Consulting
Salary: £Excellent Salary + Benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
Woking, Surrey
Good knowledge of UNIX. Knowledge of firewall rules... PRTG, Nagios. Strong MS Office skills, particularly Outlook, Excel, and Word... Essential Skills and Knowledge - Data Centre Operations - Networks specific...
Fidessa
Posted: 22 April 2013
Woking, Surrey
A valid CCNA or equivalent knowledge/experience. Experience with Juniper Secure Access/MAGSeries Remote Access appliances... A sound understanding TCP/IP and networking concepts. A good understanding of...
Fidessa
Salary: Highly Competitive
Posted: 16 May 2013
Woking, Surrey
A good understanding of WAN environments including MPLS, VPNs and point-to-point links... CheckPoint Application Control/DLP... VoIP in an Avaya environment... Vulnerability assessments/Penetration testing... Raise/...
Fidessa
Salary: Competitive Salary
Posted: 23 April 2013
Woking, Surrey
Server Infrastructure Citrix Engineer. Server Infrastructure Citrix Engineers required to join exciting blue chip organisation near Woking, we are looking for excellent infrastructure engineers with specialisms in Servers,...
set2recruit
Salary: From £30,000 to £50,000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013