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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Rank 31 23 41
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +18
Permanent jobs citing VPN 5 5 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Basildon 3.472% 4.902% 0.649%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.89% 17.86% 5.882%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 0
Average salary £36,250 £25,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+45.00% -
UK excluding London average salary £36,500 £35,154 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+3.82% +8.16%
All Communications & Networking
Basildon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
36 28 17
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Basildon 25.00% 27.45% 11.04%
Number of salaries quoted 28 24 14
Average salary £37,500 £47,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-21.05% +46.15%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,650 £25,000 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,250 £50,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
VPN
Essex

VPN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Basildon VPN Jobs Demand Trend

VPN
Salary Trend

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

Basildon VPN Salary Trend

VPN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Basildon region citing VPN 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 VPN.

1 16 (100.00%) Cisco
2 14 (87.50%) Firewall
3 9 (56.25%) LAN
4 8 (50.00%) Juniper
5 7 (43.75%) Citrix
5 7 (43.75%) NetScreen
5 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
5 7 (43.75%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (43.75%) TCP/IP
5 7 (43.75%) DNS
5 7 (43.75%) VMware
5 7 (43.75%) Document Management
5 7 (43.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (43.75%) SaaS
5 7 (43.75%) PaaS
5 7 (43.75%) Capacity Planning
5 7 (43.75%) Enterprise Storage
5 7 (43.75%) IaaS
6 6 (37.50%) XenApp
6 6 (37.50%) Identity Management
6 6 (37.50%) Management Information System
6 6 (37.50%) WebSphere
6 6 (37.50%) IBM
6 6 (37.50%) WebSphere Application Server
6 6 (37.50%) JBoss
6 6 (37.50%) LDAP
6 6 (37.50%) Citrix Certification
6 6 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (37.50%) WebSphere MQ
7 5 (31.25%) Disaster Recovery

VPN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 6 (37.50%) WebSphere
2 1 (6.250%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 6 (37.50%) WebSphere Application Server
1 6 (37.50%) WebSphere MQ
Communications & Networking
1 14 (87.50%) Firewall
2 9 (56.25%) LAN
3 7 (43.75%) NetScreen
3 7 (43.75%) TCP/IP
3 7 (43.75%) DNS
4 6 (37.50%) LDAP
5 5 (31.25%) Wireless
6 2 (12.50%) WLAN
6 2 (12.50%) WAN
6 2 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (12.50%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (12.50%) Unified Communications
6 2 (12.50%) Cisco PIX
6 2 (12.50%) Network Security
7 1 (6.250%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (43.75%) Data Warehouse
General
1 1 (6.250%) Finance
1 1 (6.250%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Architect
1 7 (43.75%) Solutions Architect
2 5 (31.25%) NOC Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Network Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Security Consultant
4 2 (12.50%) Network Consultant
4 2 (12.50%) Consultant
5 1 (6.250%) Network Specialist
5 1 (6.250%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (6.250%) Network Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) SaaS
1 7 (43.75%) PaaS
1 7 (43.75%) Enterprise Storage
1 7 (43.75%) IaaS
2 6 (37.50%) Management Information System
3 2 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Document Management
1 7 (43.75%) Capacity Planning
2 6 (37.50%) Identity Management
3 5 (31.25%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (31.25%) Technical Architecture
4 3 (18.75%) ITIL
5 2 (12.50%) Service Management
5 2 (12.50%) Network Design
6 1 (6.250%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Citrix Certification
1 6 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (18.75%) CCNA
3 2 (12.50%) CCIE
3 2 (12.50%) CCNP
3 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) DV Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
4 1 (6.250%) Degree
System Software
1 7 (43.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (37.50%) XenApp
Vendors
1 16 (100.00%) Cisco
2 8 (50.00%) Juniper
3 7 (43.75%) Citrix
3 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
3 7 (43.75%) VMware
4 6 (37.50%) IBM
4 6 (37.50%) JBoss
5 5 (31.25%) Fortinet
6 3 (18.75%) Aruba
6 3 (18.75%) CheckPoint
7 1 (6.250%) Blue Coat
7 1 (6.250%) Twitter
7 1 (6.250%) Avaya