The first table below looks at the demand for VPN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Rank 99 108 112
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +4
Permanent jobs citing VPN 20 18 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 1.173% 0.888% 0.524%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.780% 5.187% 2.657%
Number of salaries quoted 19 16 10
Average salary £41,000 £38,750 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.80% +10.71%
UK excluding London average salary £36,500 £35,000 £32,000
% change year-on-year
+4.28% +9.37%
All Communications & Networking
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
295 347 414
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 17.30% 17.12% 19.73%
Number of salaries quoted 239 301 361
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
VPN
Cambridgeshire

VPN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge VPN Salary Trend

VPN
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VPN across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Cambridge VPN Salary Histogram

VPN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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 24 (70.59%) Cisco
2 20 (58.82%) LAN
3 18 (52.94%) Firewall
4 17 (50.00%) WAN
5 14 (41.18%) Cisco CUCM
6 12 (35.29%) PCI DSS
6 12 (35.29%) SNMP
7 11 (32.35%) VoIP
7 11 (32.35%) Windows
7 11 (32.35%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (32.35%) VLAN
8 10 (29.41%) IPsec
8 10 (29.41%) HSRP
8 10 (29.41%) Nagios
8 10 (29.41%) OSPF
8 10 (29.41%) Linux
8 10 (29.41%) Microsoft
9 8 (23.53%) Cacti
9 8 (23.53%) WhatsUp Gold
10 7 (20.59%) CCNP
11 6 (17.65%) Video Conferencing
12 5 (14.71%) Windows 7
12 5 (14.71%) Juniper
12 5 (14.71%) CCNA
12 5 (14.71%) Active Directory
12 5 (14.71%) Windows XP
12 5 (14.71%) SQL Server
13 4 (11.76%) IIS
13 4 (11.76%) MS Exchange
13 4 (11.76%) WLAN

VPN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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 2 (5.882%) XMPP
1 2 (5.882%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 4 (11.76%) IIS
1 4 (11.76%) MS Exchange
1 4 (11.76%) Apache
2 3 (8.824%) Exchange Server 2007
3 2 (5.882%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (5.882%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 2 (5.882%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.941%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 20 (58.82%) LAN
2 18 (52.94%) Firewall
3 17 (50.00%) WAN
4 12 (35.29%) SNMP
5 11 (32.35%) VoIP
5 11 (32.35%) VLAN
6 10 (29.41%) IPsec
6 10 (29.41%) HSRP
6 10 (29.41%) OSPF
7 4 (11.76%) WLAN
7 4 (11.76%) Internet
8 3 (8.824%) SAN
8 3 (8.824%) TCP/IP
8 3 (8.824%) DNS
9 2 (5.882%) Wireshark
9 2 (5.882%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (5.882%) tcpdump
9 2 (5.882%) FTP
9 2 (5.882%) HTTP
9 2 (5.882%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.71%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.882%) MySQL
3 1 (2.941%) RDBMS
General
1 4 (11.76%) Pharmaceutical
2 3 (8.824%) Law
3 1 (2.941%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 16 (47.06%) Network Engineer
2 7 (20.59%) Systems Administrator
3 5 (14.71%) Support Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Administrator
5 3 (8.824%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 2 (5.882%) Team Leader
6 2 (5.882%) Linux Consultant
6 2 (5.882%) Cisco Engineer
6 2 (5.882%) 3rd Line Server Support
6 2 (5.882%) Operations Engineer
6 2 (5.882%) Network Operations Engineer
6 2 (5.882%) Server Support
6 2 (5.882%) Consultant
6 2 (5.882%) 3rd Line Support
6 2 (5.882%) 2nd Line Support
6 2 (5.882%) Support Consultant
7 1 (2.941%) Technical Support
7 1 (2.941%) Technical Support Engineer
7 1 (2.941%) Network Support Engineer
7 1 (2.941%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (5.882%) SaaS
2 2 (5.882%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 11 (32.35%) Windows
2 10 (29.41%) Linux
3 5 (14.71%) Windows 7
3 5 (14.71%) Windows XP
4 3 (8.824%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (8.824%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (5.882%) UNIX
6 1 (2.941%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (11.76%) E-Commerce
2 3 (8.824%) Data Security
2 3 (8.824%) ITIL
2 3 (8.824%) Time Management
3 2 (5.882%) Load Balancing
3 2 (5.882%) Risk Analysis
3 2 (5.882%) ITIL V3
3 2 (5.882%) Service Delivery
4 1 (2.941%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.824%) Python
1 3 (8.824%) Bash shell
2 2 (5.882%) Perl
3 1 (2.941%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (32.35%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (20.59%) CCNP
3 5 (14.71%) CCNA
4 4 (11.76%) CISSP
5 3 (8.824%) CCIE
6 2 (5.882%) SC Cleared
6 2 (5.882%) Security Cleared
6 2 (5.882%) CCSP
6 2 (5.882%) CCIP
6 2 (5.882%) CISA
6 2 (5.882%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (35.29%) PCI DSS
2 4 (11.76%) SLA
3 2 (5.882%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (5.882%) COBIT
System Software
1 5 (14.71%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.824%) XenApp
3 2 (5.882%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 14 (41.18%) Cisco CUCM
2 10 (29.41%) Nagios
3 8 (23.53%) Cacti
3 8 (23.53%) WhatsUp Gold
4 2 (5.882%) NetBackup
4 2 (5.882%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
4 2 (5.882%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 24 (70.59%) Cisco
2 10 (29.41%) Microsoft
3 5 (14.71%) Juniper
4 4 (11.76%) CheckPoint
5 3 (8.824%) Citrix
6 2 (5.882%) SonicWALL
6 2 (5.882%) Nokia
6 2 (5.882%) Apple
6 2 (5.882%) Symantec
6 2 (5.882%) Remedy
7 1 (2.941%) Red Hat
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