The first table below looks at the demand for IPsec skills in IT jobs advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited IPsec over the 3 months to 23 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 Berkshire region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
Rank 167 164 184
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +20
Permanent jobs citing IPsec 49 55 21
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.948% 0.896% 0.398%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.004% 3.260% 2.092%
Number of salaries quoted 31 50 17
Average salary £60,000 £42,500 £34,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+41.17% +23.18%
90% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £35,000 £29,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £50,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £44,000 £42,500 £42,000
% change year-on-year
+3.52% +1.19%
All Communications & Networking
Berkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
1631 1687 1004
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 31.57% 27.49% 19.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1245 1362 788
Average salary £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.88% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,500 £30,000 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
IPsec
South East

IPsec
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire IPsec Jobs Demand Trend

IPsec
Salary Trend

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

Berkshire IPsec Salary Trend

IPsec
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing IPsec across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Berkshire IPsec Salary Histogram

IPsec
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IPsec within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Reading - 18 £62,500 -
Slough -15 11 £47,500 +11.76%
Maidenhead - 4 £44,500 -
Bracknell -27 2 £61,250 +22.50%
Newbury +11 1 £45,000 +20.00%
IPsec
South East

IPsec
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing IPsec 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 IPsec.

1 69 (86.25%) BGP
2 66 (82.50%) Cisco
3 63 (78.75%) Cisco Certification
4 62 (77.50%) OSPF
5 56 (70.00%) MPLS
6 48 (60.00%) CCIE
7 44 (55.00%) Network Security
8 43 (53.75%) Firewall
9 42 (52.50%) Juniper
9 42 (52.50%) CCNP
10 39 (48.75%) VPN
11 34 (42.50%) TCP/IP
12 32 (40.00%) CCIP
12 32 (40.00%) JNCIA
13 25 (31.25%) JNCIP
14 22 (27.50%) JNCIE
14 22 (27.50%) JNCIS
14 22 (27.50%) Cisco ASA
15 21 (26.25%) Telecoms
16 20 (25.00%) VoIP
17 18 (22.50%) Linux
18 17 (21.25%) LAN
19 16 (20.00%) EIGRP
20 15 (18.75%) CCNA
20 15 (18.75%) Cisco PIX
21 14 (17.50%) DNS
21 14 (17.50%) Ethernet
21 14 (17.50%) WAN
22 13 (16.25%) SNMP
22 13 (16.25%) Perl

IPsec
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing IPsec 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 IPsec. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (3.750%) CGI
2 2 (2.500%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (2.500%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 4 (5.000%) Apache
2 3 (3.750%) Lync
3 1 (1.250%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.250%) MS Exchange
3 1 (1.250%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (1.250%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 6 (7.500%) MS Office
2 2 (2.500%) MS Excel
3 1 (1.250%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 69 (86.25%) BGP
2 62 (77.50%) OSPF
3 56 (70.00%) MPLS
4 44 (55.00%) Network Security
5 43 (53.75%) Firewall
6 39 (48.75%) VPN
7 34 (42.50%) TCP/IP
8 22 (27.50%) Cisco ASA
9 20 (25.00%) VoIP
10 17 (21.25%) LAN
11 16 (20.00%) EIGRP
12 15 (18.75%) Cisco PIX
13 14 (17.50%) DNS
13 14 (17.50%) Ethernet
13 14 (17.50%) WAN
14 13 (16.25%) SNMP
14 13 (16.25%) Unified Communications
14 13 (16.25%) HSRP
15 12 (15.00%) SSL
16 11 (13.75%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.250%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.250%) Subversion
General
1 21 (26.25%) Telecoms
2 6 (7.500%) Finance
3 5 (6.250%) Advertising
4 1 (1.250%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (1.250%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 22 (27.50%) Technical Design Authority
2 14 (17.50%) Consultant
3 13 (16.25%) Network Engineer
4 10 (12.50%) Network Consultant
5 8 (10.00%) Network Specialist
5 8 (10.00%) Systems Administrator
5 8 (10.00%) Administrator
6 7 (8.750%) Senior Network Specialist
7 6 (7.500%) Security Engineer
8 5 (6.250%) Network Administrator
8 5 (6.250%) Design Engineer
8 5 (6.250%) IP Engineer
9 4 (5.000%) Architect
10 3 (3.750%) Principal Consultant
10 3 (3.750%) Network Security Engineer
11 2 (2.500%) Network Security Architect
11 2 (2.500%) Senior Network Consultant
11 2 (2.500%) Network Security Consultant
11 2 (2.500%) Security Consultant
11 2 (2.500%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.00%) Digital Media
2 3 (3.750%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (3.750%) Open Source
3 2 (2.500%) Fat Client
3 2 (2.500%) Thin Client
4 1 (1.250%) Blackberry
4 1 (1.250%) SecurID
4 1 (1.250%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 18 (22.50%) Linux
2 8 (10.00%) OpenBSD
3 6 (7.500%) Debian
4 4 (5.000%) Windows
5 3 (3.750%) Ubuntu
5 3 (3.750%) CentOS
6 2 (2.500%) UNIX
6 2 (2.500%) Solaris
7 1 (1.250%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (1.250%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (12.50%) Validation
1 10 (12.50%) Network Management
1 10 (12.50%) Network Design
2 8 (10.00%) Load Balancing
3 7 (8.750%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (8.750%) Network Architecture
4 5 (6.250%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (5.000%) Change Management
5 4 (5.000%) Data Security
6 3 (3.750%) Service Delivery
6 3 (3.750%) ITIL
6 3 (3.750%) PRINCE2
6 3 (3.750%) Supplier Management
6 3 (3.750%) Release Management
7 2 (2.500%) Project Management
7 2 (2.500%) Migration
7 2 (2.500%) Business Continuity
8 1 (1.250%) BCP
8 1 (1.250%) Disaster Recovery
8 1 (1.250%) E-business
Programming Languages
1 13 (16.25%) Perl
2 8 (10.00%) Bash shell
2 8 (10.00%) PHP
2 8 (10.00%) Python
3 4 (5.000%) SQL
4 2 (2.500%) Bourne shell
4 2 (2.500%) Korn
4 2 (2.500%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 63 (78.75%) Cisco Certification
2 48 (60.00%) CCIE
3 42 (52.50%) CCNP
4 32 (40.00%) CCIP
4 32 (40.00%) JNCIA
5 25 (31.25%) JNCIP
6 22 (27.50%) JNCIE
6 22 (27.50%) JNCIS
7 15 (18.75%) CCNA
8 7 (8.750%) CCSP
9 6 (7.500%) CCDP
10 4 (5.000%) Degree
11 3 (3.750%) CCA
11 3 (3.750%) CCDE
12 2 (2.500%) CCSE
12 2 (2.500%) CCDA
12 2 (2.500%) CCSA
13 1 (1.250%) Check Point Certification
13 1 (1.250%) SC Cleared
13 1 (1.250%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.00%) PCI DSS
2 5 (6.250%) SLA
3 4 (5.000%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (3.750%) ISO 9001
4 3 (3.750%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (5.000%) FreeRADIUS
1 4 (5.000%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.250%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (3.750%) FortiGate
2 1 (1.250%) Backup Exec
2 1 (1.250%) Cisco UCCX
Vendors
1 66 (82.50%) Cisco
2 42 (52.50%) Juniper
3 12 (15.00%) CheckPoint
4 8 (10.00%) Huawei
5 6 (7.500%) Blue Coat
6 4 (5.000%) F5
6 4 (5.000%) Fortinet
6 4 (5.000%) Brocade
6 4 (5.000%) Microsoft
6 4 (5.000%) HP
6 4 (5.000%) Dell
6 4 (5.000%) Avaya
6 4 (5.000%) VMware
7 3 (3.750%) BT
7 3 (3.750%) Redback
7 3 (3.750%) Citrix
7 3 (3.750%) Symantec
7 3 (3.750%) ZyXEL
7 3 (3.750%) Draytek
7 3 (3.750%) Twitter
Slough, Berkshire
Role: Maintaining and monitoring the Network, including firewalls, VPNs and Avaya based VoIP... Use of Incident and Change management tools (ServiceNOW) Cisco equipment configuration skills including ASA, and...
Coal IT Services
Salary: £45,000 per annum + 10% Bonus + 7% On-Call + Full Bens
Posted: 20 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Our client is one of the market leading service providers in the UK managing some of the most complex customer networks within the UK by integrating a number...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £60000 - £65000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Bracknell, Berkshire
Our client is one of the market leading service providers in the UK managing some of the most complex customer networks within the UK by integrating a number...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £60000 - £65000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Berkshire, Thames Valley
You'll need Systems Administration experience of infrastructure services, based on Linux (Debian/Ubuntu/CentOS) and OpenBSD. ISP networking knowledge of BGP, OSPF, DWDM, VRRP,HSRP, IPsec, all...
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Maidenhead, Berkshire
The candidate will be helping to maintain and enhance a multi-vendor ISP networking environment covering BGP, OSPF, routing, switching, DWDM fibre, load balancing, firewalls etc, across multiple...
Recruitment Genius Ltd
Salary: £38000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
Newbury, Berkshire
Installation, configuration and troubleshooting Layer 2, 3 and 4 protocols (STP, LLDP-MED, ARP, VRRP, OSPF, SNMP, Multicast, IPsec, TCP, UDP, etc..) *IP topology design and documentation *Migration...
GCS IT Recruitment Specialists
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013