The first table below looks at the demand for OpenVPN skills in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited OpenVPN 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 England region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
OpenVPN
Rank 845 838 845
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +7
Permanent jobs citing OpenVPN 2 18 17
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.002% 0.016% 0.015%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.010% 0.090% 0.093%
Number of salaries quoted 2 13 17
Average salary £40,000 £35,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.67% -21.11%
UK excluding London average salary - £35,000 -
All Communications & Networking
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
19888 20038 18337
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 19.57% 17.61% 15.87%
Number of salaries quoted 16200 16866 15319
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £64,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
OpenVPN
UK

OpenVPN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England OpenVPN Jobs Demand Trend

OpenVPN
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing OpenVPN across the England region.

England OpenVPN Salary Trend

OpenVPN
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OpenVPN within the England 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
London +18 2 £40,000 +11.11%
OpenVPN
UK

OpenVPN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing OpenVPN 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 OpenVPN.

1 10 (100.00%) MySQL
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (90.00%) Red Hat
2 9 (90.00%) CentOS
3 7 (70.00%) DHCP
3 7 (70.00%) DNS
3 7 (70.00%) Apache
3 7 (70.00%) Windows
4 6 (60.00%) PHP
4 6 (60.00%) Active Directory
4 6 (60.00%) TCP/IP
4 6 (60.00%) Postfix
5 4 (40.00%) Samba
5 4 (40.00%) Git (software)
5 4 (40.00%) NFS
5 4 (40.00%) Nagios
5 4 (40.00%) Configuration Management
5 4 (40.00%) Bash shell
5 4 (40.00%) Puppet
5 4 (40.00%) VirtualBox
6 3 (30.00%) MRTG
6 3 (30.00%) Hudson
6 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
6 3 (30.00%) Varnish
6 3 (30.00%) Capistrano
6 3 (30.00%) nginx
6 3 (30.00%) Apache Solr
6 3 (30.00%) Mercurial
6 3 (30.00%) Windows 7
6 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2003

OpenVPN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing OpenVPN 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 OpenVPN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (10.00%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 7 (70.00%) Apache
2 3 (30.00%) nginx
2 3 (30.00%) Apache Solr
2 3 (30.00%) MS Exchange
2 3 (30.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 3 (30.00%) Drupal
Applications
1 3 (30.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 7 (70.00%) DHCP
1 7 (70.00%) DNS
2 6 (60.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (30.00%) MRTG
3 3 (30.00%) VPN
3 3 (30.00%) LAN
3 3 (30.00%) SMS
3 3 (30.00%) WAN
3 3 (30.00%) SMTP
3 3 (30.00%) IMAP
3 3 (30.00%) Firewall
4 1 (10.00%) SAN
4 1 (10.00%) LDAP
4 1 (10.00%) NAS
4 1 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (100.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Git (software)
2 3 (30.00%) Hudson
2 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (30.00%) Capistrano
2 3 (30.00%) Mercurial
General
1 2 (20.00%) Publishing
2 1 (10.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Administrator
1 5 (50.00%) Linux Administrator
2 4 (40.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 4 (40.00%) Linux Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Systems Administrator
3 3 (30.00%) Support Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Linux Support
4 2 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Junior
4 2 (20.00%) Linux Support Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Windows Support Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Junior Support Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Development Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (90.00%) CentOS
3 7 (70.00%) Windows
4 3 (30.00%) Windows 7
4 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (30.00%) FreeBSD
4 3 (30.00%) Windows XP
4 3 (30.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (30.00%) Windows Vista
4 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (30.00%) Fedora
5 1 (10.00%) Mac OS X
5 1 (10.00%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (30.00%) Load Testing
2 3 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (10.00%) Asset Management
3 1 (10.00%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) PHP
2 4 (40.00%) Bash shell
3 3 (30.00%) Python
3 3 (30.00%) Ruby
4 1 (10.00%) C
4 1 (10.00%) C++
4 1 (10.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (60.00%) Postfix
2 4 (40.00%) Samba
2 4 (40.00%) NFS
2 4 (40.00%) VirtualBox
3 3 (30.00%) Varnish
3 3 (30.00%) Xen
3 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (10.00%) SpamAssassin
4 1 (10.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Nagios
1 4 (40.00%) Puppet
2 3 (30.00%) Cacti
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) VMware
3 2 (20.00%) Apple
4 1 (10.00%) Perforce
London
The successful candidate should be super expert in Linux/Mysql/Apache/nginx and hands on experience with VPN/caching/security/networking... You must have experience of software development...
Oho Group Ltd.
Salary: £45000 to £55000 per annum - Excellent Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Advanced PHP and Perl scripting ability... Good virtualisation and storage background; knowledge of Xen or Citrix XenServer, RAID, iSCSI and SAN/NAS solutions... Excellent knowledge of networking, protocols (...
Greywood Associates Limited
Salary: £32000 per annum + Bens
Posted: 15 May 2013