The first table below looks at the demand for VPN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Brighton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VPN over the 3 months to 18 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 Brighton region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Rank 76 55 64
Rank change year-on-year
-21 +9
Permanent jobs citing VPN 12 28 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brighton 1.448% 3.836% 1.344%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.91% 26.42% 7.071%
Number of salaries quoted 12 28 7
Average salary £20,000 £52,500 £23,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-61.90% +128.26%
UK excluding London average salary £36,500 £35,000 £32,000
% change year-on-year
+4.28% +9.37%
All Communications & Networking
Brighton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
67 106 99
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brighton 8.082% 14.52% 19.00%
Number of salaries quoted 62 96 91
Average salary £30,000 £47,500 £31,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-36.84% +49.60%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,000 £22,500 £18,500
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £38,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
VPN
East Sussex

VPN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Brighton VPN Salary Trend

VPN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Brighton 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 12 (100.00%) Windows
1 12 (100.00%) DNS
1 12 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 11 (91.67%) Linux
3 7 (58.33%) CSS
3 7 (58.33%) ITIL
3 7 (58.33%) HTML
3 7 (58.33%) JavaScript
3 7 (58.33%) PHP
3 7 (58.33%) MySQL
3 7 (58.33%) Active Directory
3 7 (58.33%) FTP
3 7 (58.33%) HTTP
3 7 (58.33%) SSH
3 7 (58.33%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (41.67%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (41.67%) TCP/IP
4 5 (41.67%) LAN
4 5 (41.67%) WAN
4 5 (41.67%) DHCP
4 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
4 5 (41.67%) SQL Server
4 5 (41.67%) IIS
5 4 (33.33%) VMware
5 4 (33.33%) vSphere
5 4 (33.33%) Network Security
6 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (25.00%) VMware ESX
6 3 (25.00%) MS Excel
7 1 (8.333%) Firewall

VPN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Brighton 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 (58.33%) HTML
1 7 (58.33%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 5 (41.67%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (25.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 12 (100.00%) DNS
2 7 (58.33%) SSH
2 7 (58.33%) FTP
2 7 (58.33%) HTTP
3 5 (41.67%) TCP/IP
3 5 (41.67%) LAN
3 5 (41.67%) WAN
3 5 (41.67%) DHCP
4 4 (33.33%) Network Security
5 1 (8.333%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (8.333%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (58.33%) MySQL
2 5 (41.67%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Support Technician
1 7 (58.33%) IT Support Technician
1 7 (58.33%) IT Support
2 5 (41.67%) Applications Support Technician
2 5 (41.67%) Applications Support
3 4 (33.33%) Administrator
3 4 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (16.67%) Trainer
4 2 (16.67%) IT Trainer
4 2 (16.67%) Windows Administrator
4 2 (16.67%) Windows Systems Administrator
5 1 (8.333%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (8.333%) 3rd Line Support
5 1 (8.333%) Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Windows
1 12 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 11 (91.67%) Linux
3 7 (58.33%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (41.67%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (8.333%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) JavaScript
1 7 (58.33%) PHP
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (33.33%) vSphere
3 3 (25.00%) VMware ESX
3 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (8.333%) VMware ESXi
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (8.333%) Red Hat