The first table below looks at the demand for VPN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Croydon region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VPN over the 3 months to 17 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 Croydon region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Rank 28 40 40
Rank change year-on-year
+12 0
Permanent jobs citing VPN 6 9 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Croydon 2.098% 2.632% 0.353%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.50% 17.31% 1.449%
Number of salaries quoted 6 9 1
Average salary £34,000 £32,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.61% -35.00%
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £36,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
- +10.76%
All Communications & Networking
Croydon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
48 52 69
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Croydon 16.78% 15.20% 24.38%
Number of salaries quoted 44 48 66
Average salary £37,500 £32,500 £37,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.38% -12.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £30,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £71,750 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
VPN
London

VPN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Croydon 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 Croydon region.

Croydon VPN Salary Trend

VPN
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VPN across the Croydon region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Croydon VPN Salary Histogram

VPN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Croydon 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 9 (81.82%) Windows
2 7 (63.64%) Cisco
2 7 (63.64%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (54.55%) Active Directory
3 6 (54.55%) Windows XP
3 6 (54.55%) MS Exchange
4 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
4 5 (45.45%) Symantec
4 5 (45.45%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (45.45%) Firewall
4 5 (45.45%) Windows 7
4 5 (45.45%) Exchange Server 2003
4 5 (45.45%) Exchange Server 2010
5 4 (36.36%) Exchange Server 2007
5 4 (36.36%) CheckPoint
5 4 (36.36%) Linux
5 4 (36.36%) ITIL
6 3 (27.27%) MS Office
6 3 (27.27%) Windows 2000
6 3 (27.27%) CCIE
6 3 (27.27%) UNIX
6 3 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (27.27%) CCNP
6 3 (27.27%) DNS
6 3 (27.27%) CCDP
6 3 (27.27%) SAN
6 3 (27.27%) MPLS
6 3 (27.27%) OSPF
6 3 (27.27%) Norton AntiVirus
6 3 (27.27%) Sophos

VPN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Croydon 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 Platforms
1 6 (54.55%) MS Exchange
2 5 (45.45%) Exchange Server 2003
2 5 (45.45%) Exchange Server 2010
3 4 (36.36%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (9.091%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (9.091%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (27.27%) MS Office
2 1 (9.091%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) Firewall
2 3 (27.27%) DNS
2 3 (27.27%) SAN
2 3 (27.27%) VLAN
2 3 (27.27%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (27.27%) MPLS
2 3 (27.27%) OSPF
2 3 (27.27%) BGP
2 3 (27.27%) EIGRP
3 2 (18.18%) LAN
3 2 (18.18%) WAN
3 2 (18.18%) DHCP
3 2 (18.18%) Unified Communications
3 2 (18.18%) FWSM
3 2 (18.18%) IPsec
3 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
4 1 (9.091%) DMZ
4 1 (9.091%) Network Security
4 1 (9.091%) SNMP
4 1 (9.091%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) MSI
General
1 1 (9.091%) Telecoms
1 1 (9.091%) Finance
1 1 (9.091%) Law
1 1 (9.091%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Graduate
2 2 (18.18%) Desktop Support
2 2 (18.18%) 3rd Line Support
2 2 (18.18%) Service Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Network Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Service Desk Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Cisco Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Graduate Network Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Infrastructure Support Manager
3 1 (9.091%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (9.091%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (9.091%) Infrastructure Team Leader
3 1 (9.091%) Infrastructure Support Team Leader
3 1 (9.091%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (9.091%) Support Manager
3 1 (9.091%) Support Team Leader
3 1 (9.091%) Team Leader
3 1 (9.091%) 1st Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.091%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 9 (81.82%) Windows
2 7 (63.64%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (54.55%) Windows XP
4 5 (45.45%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (45.45%) Windows 7
5 4 (36.36%) Linux
6 3 (27.27%) Windows 2000
6 3 (27.27%) UNIX
7 1 (9.091%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (9.091%) AIX
7 1 (9.091%) CentOS
7 1 (9.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) ITIL
2 2 (18.18%) Network Architecture
3 1 (9.091%) E-Commerce
3 1 (9.091%) ERP
3 1 (9.091%) Migration
3 1 (9.091%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) SQL
2 1 (9.091%) Bash shell
2 1 (9.091%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) CCIE
1 3 (27.27%) CCNP
1 3 (27.27%) CCDP
1 3 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (27.27%) MCDST
1 3 (27.27%) MCITP
2 2 (18.18%) Degree
2 2 (18.18%) CCSA
2 2 (18.18%) CCVP
2 2 (18.18%) CCSE
2 2 (18.18%) JNCIA
2 2 (18.18%) JNCIS
2 2 (18.18%) CCIP
2 2 (18.18%) CCNA
2 2 (18.18%) CCSP
3 1 (9.091%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.091%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Active Directory
2 2 (18.18%) Hyper-V
2 2 (18.18%) vSphere
3 1 (9.091%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (9.091%) XenApp
3 1 (9.091%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (9.091%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Norton AntiVirus
1 3 (27.27%) Backup Exec
1 3 (27.27%) SCCM
2 1 (9.091%) Cisco UCCX
2 1 (9.091%) NetBackup
2 1 (9.091%) Nagios
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Cisco
2 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 5 (45.45%) Symantec
3 4 (36.36%) CheckPoint
4 3 (27.27%) Sophos
5 2 (18.18%) VMware
5 2 (18.18%) Mitel
5 2 (18.18%) Citrix
5 2 (18.18%) Juniper
5 2 (18.18%) F5
6 1 (9.091%) Oracle
6 1 (9.091%) NetApp
6 1 (9.091%) Red Hat
6 1 (9.091%) SolarWinds