The first table below looks at the demand for IPsec skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited IPsec over the 3 months to 24 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 Bristol region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
Rank 108 107 114
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +7
Permanent jobs citing IPsec 10 6 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bristol 0.580% 0.347% 0.108%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.181% 2.317% 0.560%
Number of salaries quoted 8 6 2
Average salary £42,500 £32,500 £21,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+30.76% +54.76%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £42,500 £42,000
% change year-on-year
+5.88% +1.19%
All Communications & Networking
Bristol
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
193 259 357
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bristol 11.19% 14.97% 19.32%
Number of salaries quoted 152 225 266
Average salary £42,500 £37,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.86% +5.71%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £26,500 £20,500
10% offered a salary of more than £53,000 £50,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
IPsec
South West

IPsec
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol IPsec Salary Trend

IPsec
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing IPsec across the Bristol region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Bristol IPsec Salary Histogram

IPsec
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bristol 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 20 (95.24%) VPN
1 20 (95.24%) Firewall
2 19 (90.48%) Cisco
2 19 (90.48%) Cisco Certification
3 18 (85.71%) OSPF
4 15 (71.43%) Network Security
5 14 (66.67%) Juniper
6 13 (61.90%) CCNA
7 11 (52.38%) VoIP
8 10 (47.62%) WAN
8 10 (47.62%) Windows
8 10 (47.62%) CCNP
8 10 (47.62%) Active Directory
8 10 (47.62%) CheckPoint
9 9 (42.86%) Windows Server 2003
9 9 (42.86%) CCDP
9 9 (42.86%) BGP
9 9 (42.86%) SQL
9 9 (42.86%) LAN
9 9 (42.86%) DNS
9 9 (42.86%) Windows Server 2008
9 9 (42.86%) Network Design
9 9 (42.86%) Management Information System
9 9 (42.86%) Network Architecture
9 9 (42.86%) DMVPN
10 8 (38.10%) Capacity Management
10 8 (38.10%) Windows 7
10 8 (38.10%) Network Management
10 8 (38.10%) VMware
10 8 (38.10%) Clustering

IPsec
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bristol 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 6 (28.57%) WSH
Application Platforms
1 6 (28.57%) IIS
2 2 (9.524%) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 20 (95.24%) VPN
1 20 (95.24%) Firewall
2 18 (85.71%) OSPF
3 15 (71.43%) Network Security
4 11 (52.38%) VoIP
5 10 (47.62%) WAN
6 9 (42.86%) BGP
6 9 (42.86%) LAN
6 9 (42.86%) DNS
6 9 (42.86%) DMVPN
7 8 (38.10%) SSL
7 8 (38.10%) IPv4
7 8 (38.10%) MPLS
8 7 (33.33%) Ethernet
9 6 (28.57%) SDH
9 6 (28.57%) ATM
9 6 (28.57%) DWDM
9 6 (28.57%) 3G
9 6 (28.57%) BGP-4
9 6 (28.57%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (9.524%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 7 (33.33%) Legal
2 6 (28.57%) Telecoms
3 2 (9.524%) Law
4 1 (4.762%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Administrator
2 7 (33.33%) Network Design Engineer
2 7 (33.33%) Design Engineer
2 7 (33.33%) Network Engineer
3 6 (28.57%) Systems Engineer
3 6 (28.57%) Test Engineer
3 6 (28.57%) Systems Test Engineer
3 6 (28.57%) Cisco Engineer
3 6 (28.57%) Systems Administrator
4 3 (14.29%) Analyst
5 2 (9.524%) Senior Network Administrator
5 2 (9.524%) Support Engineer
5 2 (9.524%) Network Administrator
5 2 (9.524%) Network Analyst
6 1 (4.762%) Junior Support Engineer
6 1 (4.762%) Senior Design Engineer
6 1 (4.762%) Senior Architect
6 1 (4.762%) Architect
6 1 (4.762%) Junior
6 1 (4.762%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (42.86%) Management Information System
2 8 (38.10%) Clustering
2 8 (38.10%) CESG
3 6 (28.57%) Computer Science
4 3 (14.29%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (4.762%) Firmware
5 1 (4.762%) VHDL
5 1 (4.762%) RMADS
5 1 (4.762%) Mathematics
5 1 (4.762%) Physics
Operating Systems
1 10 (47.62%) Windows
2 9 (42.86%) Windows Server 2003
2 9 (42.86%) Windows Server 2008
3 8 (38.10%) Windows 7
4 7 (33.33%) Windows XP
5 2 (9.524%) UNIX
6 1 (4.762%) Windows 8
6 1 (4.762%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Network Design
1 9 (42.86%) Network Architecture
2 8 (38.10%) Capacity Management
2 8 (38.10%) Network Management
2 8 (38.10%) Network Planning
2 8 (38.10%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
2 8 (38.10%) Project Planning
2 8 (38.10%) E-Commerce
3 6 (28.57%) Load Balancing
4 2 (9.524%) Migration
5 1 (4.762%) SIEM
5 1 (4.762%) Vulnerability Management
5 1 (4.762%) WAN Optimisation
5 1 (4.762%) Risk Assessment
5 1 (4.762%) Information Security
5 1 (4.762%) Risk Management
5 1 (4.762%) Service Management
5 1 (4.762%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 1 (4.762%) Information Assurance
Programming Languages
1 9 (42.86%) SQL
2 6 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 6 (28.57%) Python
2 6 (28.57%) Perl
Qualifications
1 19 (90.48%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (61.90%) CCNA
3 10 (47.62%) CCNP
4 9 (42.86%) CCDP
5 6 (28.57%) Degree
6 1 (4.762%) JNCIA
6 1 (4.762%) SC Cleared
6 1 (4.762%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.762%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (47.62%) Active Directory
2 8 (38.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (28.57%) Xen
3 6 (28.57%) Hyper-V
4 2 (9.524%) Sendmail
4 2 (9.524%) Squid
5 1 (4.762%) Forefront TMG
5 1 (4.762%) vSphere
5 1 (4.762%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 2 (9.524%) SCCM
1 2 (9.524%) MOM
Vendors
1 19 (90.48%) Cisco
2 14 (66.67%) Juniper
3 10 (47.62%) CheckPoint
4 8 (38.10%) VMware
5 5 (23.81%) Alcatel-Lucent
5 5 (23.81%) Siemens
5 5 (23.81%) Nortel
5 5 (23.81%) Huawei
5 5 (23.81%) ZTE
5 5 (23.81%) Nokia Siemens Networks
6 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
7 2 (9.524%) Infoblox
7 2 (9.524%) Citrix
7 2 (9.524%) Oracle
7 2 (9.524%) F5
8 1 (4.762%) McAfee
8 1 (4.762%) HP
8 1 (4.762%) Dell
8 1 (4.762%) Tripwire
Aust, Bristol, South West
Networking responsibilities include project planning, design and implementation... Technical Competencies (Required) * Cisco Certified Network Associate (or similar industry recognised network certification) * Experience of implementing and administering Extreme Networks...
Brightside Group
Salary: £28,000 per annum
Posted: 25 May 2013
Avon Somerset Wilts Bristol, South West
You will also provide specialist network security support to other teams within Technical Operations (including the second line Technical Operations Shift Engineering team) as well as a number...
Questor Resourcing
Salary: £45 -50k plus 5% bonus and 10% on-call allowance.
Posted: 21 May 2013