The first table below looks at the demand for VPN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bedford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VPN over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Bedford region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Rank 47 34 -
Rank change year-on-year
-13 -
Permanent jobs citing VPN 1 6 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedford 0.402% 3.158% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.613% 15.38% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 0
Average salary £32,000 £50,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-36.00% -
UK excluding London average salary £36,500 £35,000 £32,000
% change year-on-year
+4.28% +9.37%
All Communications & Networking
Bedford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
62 39 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedford 24.90% 20.53% 10.19%
Number of salaries quoted 61 37 15
Average salary £47,500 £50,000 £36,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.00% +36.05%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,000 £36,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
VPN
Bedfordshire

VPN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedford 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 Bedford region.

Bedford VPN Salary Trend

VPN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Bedford 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 (88.89%) Cisco
1 16 (88.89%) CCNP
1 16 (88.89%) Cisco Certification
1 16 (88.89%) Firewall
2 15 (83.33%) TCP/IP
3 14 (77.78%) DNS
3 14 (77.78%) VoIP
3 14 (77.78%) WAN
3 14 (77.78%) VLAN
3 14 (77.78%) Network Security
4 13 (72.22%) MPLS
4 13 (72.22%) DHCP
4 13 (72.22%) LAN
4 13 (72.22%) RIP
5 12 (66.67%) CISSP
5 12 (66.67%) CEH
5 12 (66.67%) CISA
5 12 (66.67%) CISM
5 12 (66.67%) Change Management
5 12 (66.67%) Network Management
6 10 (55.56%) Network Design
7 9 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
8 8 (44.44%) Vulnerability Assessment
8 8 (44.44%) Intrusion Detection
8 8 (44.44%) VMware
8 8 (44.44%) Disaster Recovery
9 7 (38.89%) Active Directory
10 6 (33.33%) CCDP
11 5 (27.78%) Citrix
11 5 (27.78%) Penetration Testing

VPN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Bedford 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 3 (16.67%) MS Exchange
1 3 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 2 (11.11%) IIS
2 2 (11.11%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 16 (88.89%) Firewall
2 15 (83.33%) TCP/IP
3 14 (77.78%) DNS
3 14 (77.78%) VoIP
3 14 (77.78%) WAN
3 14 (77.78%) VLAN
3 14 (77.78%) Network Security
4 13 (72.22%) MPLS
4 13 (72.22%) DHCP
4 13 (72.22%) LAN
4 13 (72.22%) RIP
5 8 (44.44%) Intrusion Detection
6 3 (16.67%) SSL
7 2 (11.11%) HTTPS
7 2 (11.11%) HTTP
7 2 (11.11%) SAN
7 2 (11.11%) Internet
8 1 (5.556%) BGP
8 1 (5.556%) NGN
8 1 (5.556%) Frame Relay
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.556%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Security Officer
2 8 (44.44%) Network Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Security Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Network Security Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Data Centre Specialist
4 2 (11.11%) Data Centre Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (5.556%) Network Support
5 1 (5.556%) Network Support Engineer
5 1 (5.556%) Network Administrator
5 1 (5.556%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.556%) Administrator
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Windows
2 3 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (11.11%) Windows 7
3 2 (11.11%) Windows Vista
3 2 (11.11%) Windows XP
3 2 (11.11%) Linux
3 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (5.556%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) Change Management
1 12 (66.67%) Network Management
2 10 (55.56%) Network Design
3 9 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
4 8 (44.44%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 8 (44.44%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (27.78%) Penetration Testing
5 5 (27.78%) Ethical Hacking
6 1 (5.556%) Data Security
Qualifications
1 16 (88.89%) CCNP
1 16 (88.89%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (66.67%) CISSP
2 12 (66.67%) CEH
2 12 (66.67%) CISA
2 12 (66.67%) CISM
3 6 (33.33%) CCDP
4 3 (16.67%) MCSE
4 3 (16.67%) MCP
4 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (11.11%) CCSP
5 2 (11.11%) CCIP
5 2 (11.11%) CCNA
6 1 (5.556%) MCITP
6 1 (5.556%) MCSA
System Software
1 7 (38.89%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (11.11%) Forefront TMG
2 2 (11.11%) UAG
2 2 (11.11%) Terminal Services
2 2 (11.11%) ISA Server
3 1 (5.556%) Samba
Vendors
1 16 (88.89%) Cisco
2 8 (44.44%) VMware
3 5 (27.78%) Citrix
3 5 (27.78%) F5
4 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.556%) CheckPoint
5 1 (5.556%) Juniper