The first table below looks at the demand for VPN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Basingstoke region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VPN over the 3 months to 22 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 Basingstoke region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Rank 60 47 55
Rank change year-on-year
-13 +8
Permanent jobs citing VPN 21 22 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Basingstoke 3.022% 3.543% 0.384%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.140% 15.17% 1.575%
Number of salaries quoted 14 20 2
Average salary £35,000 £30,000 £36,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+16.66% -17.24%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £23,500 £25,250
10% offered a salary of more than £51,250 £51,000 £47,250
UK excluding London average salary £36,500 £35,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+2.81% +9.23%
All Communications & Networking
Basingstoke
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
258 145 127
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Basingstoke 37.12% 23.35% 24.38%
Number of salaries quoted 177 108 75
Average salary £36,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.00% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,300 £23,500 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £57,500 £59,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
VPN
Hampshire

VPN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Basingstoke 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 Basingstoke region.

Basingstoke VPN Salary Trend

VPN
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VPN across the Basingstoke region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Basingstoke VPN Salary Histogram

VPN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Basingstoke 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 36 (65.45%) SSL
2 33 (60.00%) TCP/IP
2 33 (60.00%) Firewall
3 31 (56.36%) Cisco
4 26 (47.27%) Linux
5 25 (45.45%) Windows
6 22 (40.00%) SSH
7 21 (38.18%) MPLS
8 19 (34.55%) Apache
9 16 (29.09%) UNIX
10 15 (27.27%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 15 (27.27%) Microsoft
11 14 (25.45%) BGP
11 14 (25.45%) OSPF
11 14 (25.45%) CheckPoint
11 14 (25.45%) EIGRP
11 14 (25.45%) Debian
11 14 (25.45%) Ubuntu
11 14 (25.45%) Postfix
11 14 (25.45%) Windows 7
12 13 (23.64%) CCNP
12 13 (23.64%) DNS
12 13 (23.64%) Cisco Certification
13 12 (21.82%) Shell Script
13 12 (21.82%) MS Excel
13 12 (21.82%) LAN
13 12 (21.82%) WAN
13 12 (21.82%) Blue Coat
14 11 (20.00%) Gigabit Ethernet
14 11 (20.00%) Telecoms

VPN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Basingstoke 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 7 (12.73%) .NET
2 6 (10.91%) Middleware
3 5 (9.091%) jQuery
3 5 (9.091%) J2ME
3 5 (9.091%) HTML
3 5 (9.091%) SOAP
3 5 (9.091%) Web Services
3 5 (9.091%) XML
Application Platforms
1 19 (34.55%) Apache
2 15 (27.27%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 6 (10.91%) IIS
4 2 (3.636%) MS Exchange
5 1 (1.818%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (1.818%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 12 (21.82%) MS Excel
2 5 (9.091%) Photoshop
3 2 (3.636%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 36 (65.45%) SSL
2 33 (60.00%) TCP/IP
2 33 (60.00%) Firewall
3 22 (40.00%) SSH
4 21 (38.18%) MPLS
5 14 (25.45%) BGP
5 14 (25.45%) OSPF
5 14 (25.45%) EIGRP
6 13 (23.64%) DNS
7 12 (21.82%) LAN
7 12 (21.82%) WAN
8 11 (20.00%) Gigabit Ethernet
8 11 (20.00%) Ethernet
8 11 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
9 9 (16.36%) IPsec
10 8 (14.55%) TACACS
10 8 (14.55%) HTTP
10 8 (14.55%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (10.91%) PPP
11 6 (10.91%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.73%) SQL Server
2 6 (10.91%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (9.091%) Subversion
General
1 11 (20.00%) Telecoms
2 5 (9.091%) Finance
3 2 (3.636%) Financial Institution
4 1 (1.818%) Legal
Job Titles
1 23 (41.82%) Network Support
2 21 (38.18%) Network Support Engineer
2 21 (38.18%) Network Engineer
2 21 (38.18%) Support Engineer
3 10 (18.18%) IP Engineer
3 10 (18.18%) IP Network Engineer
3 10 (18.18%) Technical Support
3 10 (18.18%) Technical Engineer
3 10 (18.18%) Technical Support Engineer
4 9 (16.36%) Systems Administrator
5 6 (10.91%) Security Specialist
5 6 (10.91%) Linux Administrator
6 5 (9.091%) PHP Developer
6 5 (9.091%) Developer
6 5 (9.091%) Analyst
7 4 (7.273%) IT Security Specialist
8 3 (5.455%) Implementation Specialist
8 3 (5.455%) Administrator
8 3 (5.455%) Network Specialist
9 2 (3.636%) UNIX Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.55%) PKI
2 5 (9.091%) Blackberry
3 3 (5.455%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.636%) CMDB
5 1 (1.818%) EqualLogic
Operating Systems
1 26 (47.27%) Linux
2 25 (45.45%) Windows
3 16 (29.09%) UNIX
4 14 (25.45%) Debian
4 14 (25.45%) Ubuntu
4 14 (25.45%) Windows 7
5 3 (5.455%) AIX
5 3 (5.455%) Solaris
6 2 (3.636%) Windows XP
7 1 (1.818%) Android
7 1 (1.818%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (1.818%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (20.00%) Network Management
2 6 (10.91%) Load Balancing
3 5 (9.091%) Network Design
3 5 (9.091%) Information Security
3 5 (9.091%) Service Delivery
3 5 (9.091%) ITIL
4 4 (7.273%) Identity Management
4 4 (7.273%) Data Security
5 3 (5.455%) Penetration Testing
5 3 (5.455%) Security Management
5 3 (5.455%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (5.455%) Configuration Management
6 2 (3.636%) PRINCE
6 2 (3.636%) ITSM
6 2 (3.636%) Service Management
6 2 (3.636%) Change Management
6 2 (3.636%) SIEM
6 2 (3.636%) Network Architecture
7 1 (1.818%) Reverse Engineering
7 1 (1.818%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 12 (21.82%) Shell Script
2 10 (18.18%) Bash shell
2 10 (18.18%) Korn
3 7 (12.73%) Java
3 7 (12.73%) C++
4 5 (9.091%) PHP5
4 5 (9.091%) Objective-C
4 5 (9.091%) C#
4 5 (9.091%) JavaScript
4 5 (9.091%) PHP
5 2 (3.636%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (23.64%) CCNP
1 13 (23.64%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (18.18%) CCNA
3 5 (9.091%) Degree
4 4 (7.273%) CISSP
4 4 (7.273%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (3.636%) MCSE
6 1 (1.818%) MCITP
6 1 (1.818%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.818%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.818%) MBA
6 1 (1.818%) Citrix Certification
6 1 (1.818%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (18.18%) SLA
2 3 (5.455%) COBIT
2 3 (5.455%) PCI DSS
2 3 (5.455%) COSO
3 2 (3.636%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (25.45%) Postfix
2 10 (18.18%) Sendmail
3 5 (9.091%) ProxySG
4 2 (3.636%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.818%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.818%) XenApp
5 1 (1.818%) XenServer
5 1 (1.818%) vSphere
5 1 (1.818%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.818%) VMware ESX
5 1 (1.818%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (9.091%) CiscoWorks
2 2 (3.636%) DameWare
2 2 (3.636%) Backup Exec
3 1 (1.818%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 31 (56.36%) Cisco
2 15 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 14 (25.45%) CheckPoint
4 12 (21.82%) Blue Coat
5 11 (20.00%) Juniper
5 11 (20.00%) Infoblox
5 11 (20.00%) Imperva
5 11 (20.00%) F5
6 8 (14.55%) BT
7 6 (10.91%) Nokia
7 6 (10.91%) McAfee
8 2 (3.636%) Citrix
8 2 (3.636%) HP
8 2 (3.636%) Dell
8 2 (3.636%) VMware
9 1 (1.818%) ArcSight
9 1 (1.818%) Veeam
9 1 (1.818%) Trend Micro
9 1 (1.818%) SonicWALL
9 1 (1.818%) Draytek
Basingstoke, South East
Technical Background & Desirable Experience: * Strong and demonstrable experience in the design, implementation and operation of a Security Compliance Monitoring framework in a multi platform, enterprise class business.* Demonstrable...
Hudson
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + Car Allowance, Bonus + Bens.
Posted: 11 May 2013