The first table below looks at the demand for VPN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Durham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VPN over the 3 months to 24 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 Durham region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Rank - - -
Permanent jobs citing VPN 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Durham - - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category - - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £36,500 £35,154 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+3.82% +8.16%
All Communications & Networking
Durham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
15 18 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Durham 19.48% 12.68% 13.59%
Number of salaries quoted 13 17 8
Average salary £33,000 £28,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+17.85% -34.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £22,000 £31,700
10% offered a salary of more than £50,250 £99,999 £29,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
VPN
North East

VPN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Durham 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 Durham region.

Durham VPN Salary Trend

VPN
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Durham 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 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) MS Office
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 4 (100.00%) LAN
1 4 (100.00%) WAN
1 4 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (100.00%) Thin Client
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
1 4 (100.00%) VLAN
1 4 (100.00%) Fat Client
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (100.00%) Hyper-V

VPN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Durham 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 4 (100.00%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 4 (100.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) LAN
1 4 (100.00%) WAN
1 4 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) VLAN
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Technical Support
1 4 (100.00%) Support Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 4 (100.00%) Technical Support Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Technical Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Thin Client
1 4 (100.00%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) VMware