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

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Rank 42 36 46
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +10
Permanent jobs citing VPN 3 9 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Devon 1.053% 2.961% 1.918%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.143% 28.13% 10.39%
Number of salaries quoted 3 9 8
Average salary £21,000 £32,500 £31,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-35.38% +4.83%
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £36,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
- +10.76%
All Communications & Networking
Devon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
42 32 77
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Devon 14.74% 10.53% 18.47%
Number of salaries quoted 32 32 61
Average salary £27,500 £35,000 £31,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-21.42% +12.90%
90% offered a salary of more than £19,000 £16,650 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £45,500 £51,750
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
VPN
South West

VPN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Devon 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 Devon region.

Devon 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 Devon 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
Exeter +9 2 £24,250 +7.77%
VPN
South West

VPN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Devon 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 5 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (60.00%) Windows
3 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (60.00%) Dell
3 3 (60.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (60.00%) Windows 7
4 2 (40.00%) Forefront TMG
4 2 (40.00%) Terminal Services
4 2 (40.00%) XenServer
4 2 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2003
4 2 (40.00%) Windows Vista
4 2 (40.00%) Time Management
4 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
4 2 (40.00%) Internet
4 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2000
4 2 (40.00%) ISA Server
4 2 (40.00%) McAfee
4 2 (40.00%) Service Management
4 2 (40.00%) SLA
4 2 (40.00%) PBX
4 2 (40.00%) Citrix
4 2 (40.00%) HP
4 2 (40.00%) MS Exchange
4 2 (40.00%) IIS
4 2 (40.00%) VBScript
4 2 (40.00%) VB

VPN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Devon 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 2 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (40.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (40.00%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (100.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (40.00%) Internet
2 2 (40.00%) PBX
3 1 (20.00%) LAN
3 1 (20.00%) SAN
3 1 (20.00%) WAN
3 1 (20.00%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2000
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) IT Support
1 2 (40.00%) IT Support Technician
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Support Technician
1 2 (40.00%) Support Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Applications Support
1 2 (40.00%) Applications Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Help Desk Support
2 1 (20.00%) Help Desk Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Help Desk Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) 1st Line Support
2 1 (20.00%) 1st Line Support Analyst
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
1 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 3 (60.00%) Windows 7
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Vista
3 1 (20.00%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Time Management
1 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (40.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) VBScript
1 2 (40.00%) VB
1 2 (40.00%) VBA
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (40.00%) Forefront TMG
2 2 (40.00%) Terminal Services
2 2 (40.00%) XenServer
2 2 (40.00%) ISA Server
3 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) Dell
3 2 (40.00%) McAfee
3 2 (40.00%) Citrix
3 2 (40.00%) HP
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco
4 1 (20.00%) VMware