The first table below looks at the demand for VPN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VPN over the 3 months to 21 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 Cheshire region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Rank 97 119 106
Rank change year-on-year
+22 -13
Permanent jobs citing VPN 21 8 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 1.165% 0.408% 0.672%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.224% 3.175% 3.754%
Number of salaries quoted 19 8 10
Average salary £22,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-40.00% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,500 £30,600 £17,500
10% offered a salary of more than £35,200 £65,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £36,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
- +10.76%
All Communications & Networking
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
402 252 293
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 22.30% 12.86% 17.91%
Number of salaries quoted 307 226 245
Average salary £30,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.85% -
90% offered a salary of more than £22,000 £24,000 £26,900
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £45,000 £62,100
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
VPN
North West

VPN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire VPN Salary Trend

VPN
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VPN across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Cheshire VPN Salary Histogram

VPN
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Warrington +24 7 £20,500 -41.42%
Macclesfield - 6 £22,500 -
Chester - 6 £26,000 -
Lymm - 1 £30,000 -
VPN
North West

VPN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 21 (67.74%) Firewall
2 17 (54.84%) TCP/IP
2 17 (54.84%) DNS
2 17 (54.84%) Active Directory
3 16 (51.61%) Windows
4 15 (48.39%) Microsoft
4 15 (48.39%) Windows Server 2003
4 15 (48.39%) Windows Server 2008
5 14 (45.16%) Cisco
5 14 (45.16%) MS Excel
5 14 (45.16%) MS Exchange
5 14 (45.16%) WAN
6 13 (41.94%) DHCP
6 13 (41.94%) Windows XP
6 13 (41.94%) LAN
7 12 (38.71%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (35.48%) Exchange Server 2007
9 10 (32.26%) Juniper
9 10 (32.26%) MCP
10 8 (25.81%) Windows 7
10 8 (25.81%) Exchange Server 2010
11 7 (22.58%) Exchange Server 2003
11 7 (22.58%) MS Office
11 7 (22.58%) BGP
12 6 (19.35%) Internet
12 6 (19.35%) SharePoint
12 6 (19.35%) MCTS
12 6 (19.35%) Office 365
13 5 (16.13%) VLAN
13 5 (16.13%) Load Balancing

VPN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 1 (3.226%) JSON
1 1 (3.226%) Flash
1 1 (3.226%) XHTML
1 1 (3.226%) CSS
1 1 (3.226%) XML
Application Platforms
1 14 (45.16%) MS Exchange
2 11 (35.48%) Exchange Server 2007
3 8 (25.81%) Exchange Server 2010
4 7 (22.58%) Exchange Server 2003
5 6 (19.35%) SharePoint
6 1 (3.226%) Apache
Applications
1 14 (45.16%) MS Excel
2 7 (22.58%) MS Office
3 6 (19.35%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 21 (67.74%) Firewall
2 17 (54.84%) TCP/IP
2 17 (54.84%) DNS
3 14 (45.16%) WAN
4 13 (41.94%) DHCP
4 13 (41.94%) LAN
5 7 (22.58%) BGP
6 6 (19.35%) Internet
7 5 (16.13%) VLAN
7 5 (16.13%) Wireless
8 4 (12.90%) SSL
8 4 (12.90%) DMZ
8 4 (12.90%) Cisco PIX
9 3 (9.677%) OSPF
9 3 (9.677%) RIP
9 3 (9.677%) EIGRP
10 2 (6.452%) DWDM
10 2 (6.452%) MPLS
10 2 (6.452%) VoIP
10 2 (6.452%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.452%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.226%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (3.226%) SQL Server 2012
2 1 (3.226%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (3.226%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (3.226%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (3.226%) MS Access
2 1 (3.226%) MySQL
2 1 (3.226%) SQL Server 2000
General
1 3 (9.677%) Telecoms
2 1 (3.226%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 16 (51.61%) Support Engineer
2 8 (25.81%) IT Support Engineer
2 8 (25.81%) IT Support
3 7 (22.58%) 2nd Line Support
4 6 (19.35%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 5 (16.13%) Network Engineer
5 5 (16.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.452%) Technical Engineer
6 2 (6.452%) Technical Support Engineer
6 2 (6.452%) Network Support Engineer
6 2 (6.452%) Technical Support
6 2 (6.452%) DBA
6 2 (6.452%) Cisco Support
6 2 (6.452%) Cisco Engineer
6 2 (6.452%) Network Support
6 2 (6.452%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 2 (6.452%) Cisco Support Engineer
7 1 (3.226%) 2nd Line Support Technician
7 1 (3.226%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
7 1 (3.226%) Senior Communications Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.677%) Handset
1 3 (9.677%) Blackberry
2 2 (6.452%) Firmware
3 1 (3.226%) EqualLogic
3 1 (3.226%) Mobile Computing
3 1 (3.226%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.226%) Fat Client
3 1 (3.226%) SecurID
3 1 (3.226%) Clustering
3 1 (3.226%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 16 (51.61%) Windows
2 15 (48.39%) Windows Server 2003
2 15 (48.39%) Windows Server 2008
3 13 (41.94%) Windows XP
4 8 (25.81%) Windows 7
5 3 (9.677%) Linux
6 2 (6.452%) Solaris
6 2 (6.452%) UNIX
7 1 (3.226%) Android
7 1 (3.226%) Windows 2000 Server
7 1 (3.226%) Mac OS
7 1 (3.226%) Apple iOS
7 1 (3.226%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (16.13%) Load Balancing
2 3 (9.677%) Network Management
2 3 (9.677%) Change Management
2 3 (9.677%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (6.452%) ITIL
3 2 (6.452%) E-Commerce
3 2 (6.452%) Incident Management
3 2 (6.452%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (3.226%) Database Tuning
4 1 (3.226%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (3.226%) Capacity Management
4 1 (3.226%) Requirements Analysis
4 1 (3.226%) Business Development
4 1 (3.226%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (3.226%) Business Analysis
4 1 (3.226%) Service Management
4 1 (3.226%) Information Security
4 1 (3.226%) Migration
4 1 (3.226%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.677%) SQL
2 1 (3.226%) Bash shell
2 1 (3.226%) Ruby
2 1 (3.226%) Python
2 1 (3.226%) Java
2 1 (3.226%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.226%) Perl
2 1 (3.226%) PHP
Qualifications
1 12 (38.71%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (32.26%) MCP
3 6 (19.35%) MCTS
4 5 (16.13%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (12.90%) CCNP
5 4 (12.90%) MCSA
6 2 (6.452%) MCSE
6 2 (6.452%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (3.226%) Degree
7 1 (3.226%) JNCIA
7 1 (3.226%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.226%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (54.84%) Active Directory
2 4 (12.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (12.90%) vSphere
3 1 (3.226%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (6.452%) Backup Exec
2 1 (3.226%) SCOM
2 1 (3.226%) Norton AntiVirus
2 1 (3.226%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 15 (48.39%) Microsoft
2 14 (45.16%) Cisco
3 10 (32.26%) Juniper
4 4 (12.90%) Citrix
4 4 (12.90%) VMware
5 3 (9.677%) Nokia
5 3 (9.677%) CheckPoint
6 2 (6.452%) Symantec
6 2 (6.452%) McAfee
7 1 (3.226%) Foundry
7 1 (3.226%) F5
7 1 (3.226%) Oracle
7 1 (3.226%) NetApp
7 1 (3.226%) HP
7 1 (3.226%) Dell
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