The first table below looks at the demand for VPN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bath region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VPN over the 3 months to 21 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 Bath region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Rank 49 44 38
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -6
Permanent jobs citing VPN 1 1 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bath 0.253% 0.472% 1.010%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.333% 9.091% 10.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 2
Average salary £24,000 £30,000 £62,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-20.00% -52.00%
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £36,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
- +10.76%
All Communications & Networking
Bath
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
30 11 20
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bath 7.595% 5.189% 10.10%
Number of salaries quoted 30 11 20
Average salary £26,500 £30,000 £41,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.66% -27.27%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,250 £22,500 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,000 £62,500 £37,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
VPN
Somerset

VPN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bath 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 Bath region.

Bath VPN Salary Trend

VPN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bath 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 11 (91.67%) Linux
1 11 (91.67%) Perl
1 11 (91.67%) TCP/IP
1 11 (91.67%) Bash shell
2 10 (83.33%) Waterfall
2 10 (83.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 10 (83.33%) Test Automation
2 10 (83.33%) IGMP
2 10 (83.33%) C
2 10 (83.33%) C++
2 10 (83.33%) SQL
2 10 (83.33%) MySQL
2 10 (83.33%) RDBMS
2 10 (83.33%) Tcl
3 9 (75.00%) Automated Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
5 1 (8.333%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (8.333%) RHCE
5 1 (8.333%) Supplier Management
5 1 (8.333%) Ubuntu
5 1 (8.333%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (8.333%) SugarCRM
5 1 (8.333%) Degree
5 1 (8.333%) JIRA
5 1 (8.333%) Windows 7
5 1 (8.333%) CentOS
5 1 (8.333%) Postfix
5 1 (8.333%) Firewall
5 1 (8.333%) IPsec
5 1 (8.333%) Finance

VPN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bath 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 Platforms
1 1 (8.333%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (8.333%) SugarCRM
1 1 (8.333%) Apache
1 1 (8.333%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (8.333%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 11 (91.67%) TCP/IP
2 10 (83.33%) IGMP
3 1 (8.333%) Firewall
3 1 (8.333%) IPsec
3 1 (8.333%) SSL
3 1 (8.333%) DNS
3 1 (8.333%) LDAP
3 1 (8.333%) LAN
3 1 (8.333%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (83.33%) MySQL
1 10 (83.33%) RDBMS
2 1 (8.333%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (8.333%) JIRA
General
1 1 (8.333%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (83.33%) Software Tester
1 10 (83.33%) Test Engineer
1 10 (83.33%) Tester
2 9 (75.00%) Software Engineer
2 9 (75.00%) Software Test Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) Help Desk Support
3 1 (8.333%) Help Desk Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (8.333%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (8.333%) Help Desk Support Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (8.333%) Support Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) Administrator
Operating Systems
1 11 (91.67%) Linux
2 1 (8.333%) Ubuntu
2 1 (8.333%) Windows 7
2 1 (8.333%) CentOS
2 1 (8.333%) Windows
2 1 (8.333%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Waterfall
1 10 (83.33%) User Acceptance Testing
1 10 (83.33%) Test Automation
2 9 (75.00%) Automated Testing
3 1 (8.333%) Supplier Management
3 1 (8.333%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) Perl
1 11 (91.67%) Bash shell
2 10 (83.33%) C
2 10 (83.33%) C++
2 10 (83.33%) SQL
2 10 (83.33%) Tcl
3 1 (8.333%) Embedded C
3 1 (8.333%) Embedded C++
3 1 (8.333%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (8.333%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (8.333%) RHCE
1 1 (8.333%) Degree
1 1 (8.333%) CCNA
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (8.333%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 1 (8.333%) Nagios
Vendors
1 1 (8.333%) Red Hat
1 1 (8.333%) McAfee
1 1 (8.333%) Microsoft