The first table below looks at the demand for VPN skills in IT jobs advertised for the County Antrim region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VPN over the 3 months to 22 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 County Antrim region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Rank 42 34 -
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -
Permanent jobs citing VPN 6 8 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in County Antrim 2.326% 3.738% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.091% 16.33% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Average salary £35,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £36,500 £35,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+2.81% +9.23%
All Communications & Networking
County Antrim
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
66 49 43
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in County Antrim 25.58% 22.90% 21.39%
Number of salaries quoted 24 23 8
Average salary £40,500 £30,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+35.00% -25.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £33,000 £15,500 £37,800
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £45,500 £39,250
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
VPN
Northern Ireland

VPN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

County Antrim 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 County Antrim region.

County Antrim VPN Salary Trend

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 County Antrim region over the 3 months to 22 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
Belfast -4 6 £35,000 -
VPN
Northern Ireland

VPN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the County Antrim 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 26 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 25 (96.15%) Windows
3 23 (88.46%) Internet
3 23 (88.46%) Windows Vista
3 23 (88.46%) PKI
3 23 (88.46%) ADSL
4 18 (69.23%) Cisco
5 12 (46.15%) Danish Language
6 10 (38.46%) Russian Language
6 10 (38.46%) Turkish Language
7 9 (34.62%) Dutch Language
8 6 (23.08%) Hungarian Language
8 6 (23.08%) Polish Language
8 6 (23.08%) Swedish Language
9 2 (7.692%) VLAN
9 2 (7.692%) Firewall
9 2 (7.692%) Wireless
9 2 (7.692%) IPsec
9 2 (7.692%) DNS
9 2 (7.692%) Juniper
9 2 (7.692%) CheckPoint
9 2 (7.692%) Active Directory
9 2 (7.692%) Wireless Security
9 2 (7.692%) F5
10 1 (3.846%) Windows 7
10 1 (3.846%) Citrix
10 1 (3.846%) CISSP
10 1 (3.846%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (3.846%) Microsoft
10 1 (3.846%) CCNA

VPN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the County Antrim 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.

Applications
1 1 (3.846%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 26 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 23 (88.46%) Internet
2 23 (88.46%) ADSL
3 2 (7.692%) VLAN
3 2 (7.692%) Firewall
3 2 (7.692%) Wireless
3 2 (7.692%) IPsec
3 2 (7.692%) DNS
3 2 (7.692%) Wireless Security
General
1 12 (46.15%) Danish Language
2 10 (38.46%) Russian Language
2 10 (38.46%) Turkish Language
3 9 (34.62%) Dutch Language
4 6 (23.08%) Hungarian Language
4 6 (23.08%) Polish Language
4 6 (23.08%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 23 (88.46%) Technical Support
2 2 (7.692%) Security Engineer
3 1 (3.846%) Desktop Support
3 1 (3.846%) 2nd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 23 (88.46%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 25 (96.15%) Windows
2 23 (88.46%) Windows Vista
3 1 (3.846%) Windows 7
3 1 (3.846%) AIX
3 1 (3.846%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (3.846%) ITIL
1 1 (3.846%) Information Security
Qualifications
1 1 (3.846%) CISSP
1 1 (3.846%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (3.846%) CCNA
1 1 (3.846%) CCSA
1 1 (3.846%) JNCIA
System Software
1 2 (7.692%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 18 (69.23%) Cisco
2 2 (7.692%) Juniper
2 2 (7.692%) CheckPoint
2 2 (7.692%) F5
3 1 (3.846%) Citrix
3 1 (3.846%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.846%) Blue Coat