The first table below looks at the demand for Firewall skills in IT jobs advertised for the Worcestershire 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 Worcestershire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firewall
Rank 42 44 32
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -12
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 2 4 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Worcestershire 0.909% 1.455% 1.493%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.061% 13.33% 7.692%
Number of salaries quoted 2 4 3
Average salary £35,000 £23,250 £29,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+50.53% -19.82%
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-3.75% +6.66%
All Communications & Networking
Worcestershire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
33 30 39
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Worcestershire 15.00% 10.91% 19.40%
Number of salaries quoted 32 27 34
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £29,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +20.68%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £23,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £62,500 £65,000
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 Worcestershire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Worcestershire 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 Worcestershire region.

Worcestershire Firewall Salary Trend

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 Worcestershire 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
Bromsgrove - 1 £35,000 -
Kidderminster - 1 £35,000 -
Firewall
West Midlands

Firewall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Worcestershire 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 10 (100.00%) Cisco
2 9 (90.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (90.00%) HP
2 9 (90.00%) Citrix
2 9 (90.00%) VMware
3 8 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (80.00%) Windows
4 6 (60.00%) CCNP
4 6 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (50.00%) Change Management
5 5 (50.00%) Network Design
5 5 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
5 5 (50.00%) Juniper
5 5 (50.00%) CheckPoint
5 5 (50.00%) CCNA
5 5 (50.00%) LAN
5 5 (50.00%) VoIP
5 5 (50.00%) WAN
5 5 (50.00%) Linux
6 4 (40.00%) Tomcat
6 4 (40.00%) MS Excel
6 4 (40.00%) MS Exchange
6 4 (40.00%) SQL
6 4 (40.00%) MySQL
6 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
6 4 (40.00%) IIS
6 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
6 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (40.00%) SAN
6 4 (40.00%) Citrix Certification

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Worcestershire 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 4 (40.00%) Tomcat
1 4 (40.00%) MS Exchange
1 4 (40.00%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (40.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 5 (50.00%) LAN
1 5 (50.00%) VoIP
1 5 (50.00%) WAN
2 4 (40.00%) SAN
2 4 (40.00%) iSCSI
2 4 (40.00%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (10.00%) MPLS
3 1 (10.00%) OSPF
3 1 (10.00%) BGP
3 1 (10.00%) DSL
3 1 (10.00%) X.21
3 1 (10.00%) PPP
3 1 (10.00%) VPN
3 1 (10.00%) ATM
3 1 (10.00%) ISDN
3 1 (10.00%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) MySQL
1 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Consultant
1 6 (60.00%) Technical Consultant
2 3 (30.00%) Technical Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Pre Sales Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Technical Pre Sales Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Pre Sales Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Sales Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Network Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Virtualisation Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Citrix Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) NOC Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Windows
2 5 (50.00%) Linux
3 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (40.00%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Change Management
1 5 (50.00%) Network Design
2 2 (20.00%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) CCNP
1 6 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (50.00%) CCNA
3 4 (40.00%) Citrix Certification
3 4 (40.00%) CCEE
3 4 (40.00%) CCAA
3 4 (40.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (10.00%) MCITP
System Software
1 8 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (40.00%) XenApp
2 4 (40.00%) XenServer
2 4 (40.00%) XenDesktop
2 4 (40.00%) vSphere
2 4 (40.00%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Netcool
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Cisco
2 9 (90.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (90.00%) HP
2 9 (90.00%) Citrix
2 9 (90.00%) VMware
3 5 (50.00%) Juniper
3 5 (50.00%) CheckPoint
4 4 (40.00%) Dell
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