England VPN Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Virtual Private Network (VPN) skills within the England region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VPN over the 3 months to 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Amersham Andover Aylesbury Banbury Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blandford Forum Borehamwood Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Chertsey Chesham Cheshire Chessington Chester Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clevedon Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Dagenham Darlington Dartford Deeside Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Droitwich Dundee Dunfermline Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Farnborough Fife Flintshire Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Grays Great Yarmouth Greenford Guildford Hackney Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Hessle High Wycombe Home Counties Horley Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Huntly Ilford Ipswich Kent Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Monmouthshire Morecambe Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Rochdale Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salford Scotland Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Albans St Asaph St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swindon Teddington Telford Thame Thames Valley Thatcham Torquay Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Wembley West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Witney Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	128	134
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching permanent IT job ads	2877	3459
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.515 %	1.419 %
As % of the category below	9.170 %	9.162 %
Salaries quoted	2469	2897
Average minimum salary	£35,804	£36,647
Average salary	£38,421	£39,764
% change on same period last year	-3.37 %
Average maximum salary	£41,038	£42,881
UK excluding London average salary	£35,060	£37,147
% change on same period last year	-5.61 %
Communications & Networking England
Matching permanent IT job ads	31375	37752
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	16.52 %	15.48 %
Salaries quoted	26810	30601
Average minimum salary	£37,512	£39,254
Average salary	£40,394	£42,242
% change on same period last year	-4.37 %
Average maximum salary	£43,277	£45,230
UK excluding London average salary	£37,394	£39,723
% change on same period last year	-5.86 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing VPN across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VPN across the England region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the England region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
London	+5	1167	£43,211	-0.19 %
South East	+1	805	£37,343	-8.37 %
Yorkshire	+26	228	£34,828	-1.74 %
North West	+65	213	£31,795	+14.17 %
East of England	-8	193	£32,653	-1.69 %
West Midlands	-42	110	£32,398	-5.68 %
South West	-28	82	£32,943	-2.40 %
East Midlands	+18	60	£34,521	+2.66 %
North East	-17	13	£30,864	-3.50 %
Midlands	+15	5	£43,375	+20.56 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the England 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 3395 (54.03 %) Firewall 2 3156 (50.22 %) Cisco 3 3044 (48.44 %) Windows 4 2400 (38.19 %) WAN 5 2080 (33.10 %) LAN 6 1943 (30.92 %) TCP/IP 7 1883 (29.96 %) Cisco Certification 8 1726 (27.47 %) Active Directory 9 1597 (25.41 %) Microsoft 10 1384 (22.02 %) MS Exchange 11 1274 (20.27 %) Exchange Server 2003 12 1232 (19.61 %) MPLS 13 1137 (18.09 %) DNS 14 1075 (17.11 %) CheckPoint 15 1044 (16.61 %) CCNP

16 960 (15.28 %) Microsoft Certification 17 953 (15.17 %) CCNA 18 936 (14.89 %) VoIP 19 907 (14.43 %) Windows 2000 20 853 (13.57 %) Linux 21 849 (13.51 %) BGP 22 838 (13.34 %) Finance 23 827 (13.16 %) Exchange Server 2000 24 820 (13.05 %) MCSE 25 789 (12.56 %) UNIX 26 776 (12.35 %) MS Excel 27 754 (12.00 %) SQL 28 742 (11.81 %) Internet 29 741 (11.79 %) Citrix 30 682 (10.85 %) Telecoms

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the England 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 Development 1 83 (1.321 %) .NET 2 78 (1.241 %) XML 3 75 (1.194 %) CSS 4 60 (0.955 %) WebServices 5 58 (0.923 %) HTML 6 56 (0.891 %) WebSphere 7 29 (0.461 %) ASP.NET 8 28 (0.446 %) ASP 9 25 (0.398 %) SAP Basis 10 21 (0.334 %) EDI 10 21 (0.334 %) Middleware 10 21 (0.334 %) SOAP 11 20 (0.318 %) J2EE 12 19 (0.302 %) Windows SharePoint Services 13 17 (0.271 %) ODBC 14 13 (0.207 %) XSLT 14 13 (0.207 %) LAMP 15 9 (0.143 %) CGI 15 9 (0.143 %) JSP 16 8 (0.127 %) WMI	Application Platforms 1 1384 (22.02 %) MS Exchange 2 1274 (20.27 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 827 (13.16 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 513 (8.164 %) IIS 5 258 (4.106 %) Exchange Server 2007 6 253 (4.026 %) SharePoint 7 234 (3.724 %) Apache 8 106 (1.687 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 9 104 (1.655 %) Lotus Notes 10 64 (1.018 %) WebLogic 11 53 (0.843 %) Lotus Domino 12 51 (0.812 %) SharePoint Server 2007 13 50 (0.796 %) Tomcat 14 48 (0.764 %) Exchange Server 5.5 15 24 (0.382 %) CMS 16 20 (0.318 %) Oracle Application Server 17 15 (0.239 %) WebSphere MQ 18 14 (0.223 %) GroupWise 18 14 (0.223 %) JBoss 19 12 (0.191 %) WorkSite
Applications 1 776 (12.35 %) MS Excel 2 632 (10.06 %) MS Office 3 64 (1.018 %) MS Visio 4 14 (0.223 %) MS Project 5 11 (0.175 %) Acrobat 6 10 (0.159 %) AutoCAD 6 10 (0.159 %) Photoshop 7 7 (0.111 %) MS PowerPoint 8 1 (0.016 %) CA Clarity 8 1 (0.016 %) Spreadsheet 8 1 (0.016 %) Adobe Illustrator	Business Applications 1 20 (0.318 %) Microsoft CRM 2 13 (0.207 %) GoldMine 3 12 (0.191 %) Oracle EBS 4 10 (0.159 %) Navision 5 9 (0.143 %) Summit 6 6 (0.095 %) RMDS 7 4 (0.064 %) ResourceLink 7 4 (0.064 %) Pegasus Opera 7 4 (0.064 %) Oracle 11i 7 4 (0.064 %) SAP Business One 7 4 (0.064 %) Line 100 8 3 (0.048 %) Line 50 8 3 (0.048 %) SAP CRM 8 3 (0.048 %) Dynamics CRM 9 2 (0.032 %) BPCS 9 2 (0.032 %) Great Plains 9 2 (0.032 %) Sage 1000 10 1 (0.016 %) Line 500 10 1 (0.016 %) Sage MMS 10 1 (0.016 %) SAP WM
Communications & Networking 1 3395 (54.03 %) Firewall 2 2400 (38.19 %) WAN 3 2080 (33.10 %) LAN 4 1943 (30.92 %) TCP/IP 5 1232 (19.61 %) MPLS 6 1137 (18.09 %) DNS 7 936 (14.89 %) VoIP 8 849 (13.51 %) BGP 9 742 (11.81 %) Internet 10 679 (10.81 %) OSPF 11 633 (10.07 %) DHCP 12 572 (9.102 %) IPsec 13 571 (9.087 %) Network Security 14 472 (7.511 %) Cisco PIX 15 430 (6.843 %) SAN 16 420 (6.684 %) Wireless 17 384 (6.111 %) SSL 18 335 (5.331 %) VLAN 19 325 (5.172 %) Frame Relay 20 318 (5.060 %) Cisco IOS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 608 (9.675 %) SQL Server 2 215 (3.421 %) SQL Server 2000 3 145 (2.307 %) SQL Server 2005 4 114 (1.814 %) MySQL 5 70 (1.114 %) SQL Server 7 6 53 (0.843 %) RDBMS 7 26 (0.414 %) Crystal Reports 8 25 (0.398 %) Informix 9 23 (0.366 %) Oracle 9i 10 18 (0.286 %) MS Access 11 13 (0.207 %) FileMaker 12 10 (0.159 %) PostgreSQL 13 7 (0.111 %) Oracle 8/8i 13 7 (0.111 %) DTS 14 6 (0.095 %) Oracle 10g 15 5 (0.080 %) DB2 16 3 (0.048 %) Datawarehouse 16 3 (0.048 %) Oracle 11g 16 3 (0.048 %) MSDE 17 2 (0.032 %) OLTP
Development Applications 1 10 (0.159 %) MSI 1 10 (0.159 %) Subversion 2 8 (0.127 %) Eclipse 2 8 (0.127 %) Visual Studio 3 5 (0.080 %) Flash 3 5 (0.080 %) Dreamweaver 4 4 (0.064 %) TestDirector 4 4 (0.064 %) StarTeam 5 2 (0.032 %) ClearCase 5 2 (0.032 %) PVCS 6 1 (0.016 %) VSS/SourceSafe 6 1 (0.016 %) LSMW 6 1 (0.016 %) JIRA 6 1 (0.016 %) eCATT	General 1 838 (13.34 %) Finance 2 682 (10.85 %) Telecoms 3 247 (3.931 %) Banking 3 247 (3.931 %) Pensions 4 220 (3.501 %) Health 5 137 (2.180 %) Education 6 104 (1.655 %) Marketing 7 93 (1.480 %) Legal 8 92 (1.464 %) Insurance 9 87 (1.384 %) Government 10 73 (1.162 %) Retail 11 57 (0.907 %) Investment Banking 12 55 (0.875 %) Back Office 13 54 (0.859 %) Financial Institution 14 47 (0.748 %) Law 15 43 (0.684 %) Auditing 16 30 (0.477 %) Publishing 17 29 (0.461 %) Manufacturing 18 28 (0.446 %) Pharmaceutical 19 23 (0.366 %) Construction
Job Titles 1 1052 (16.74 %) Network Engineer 2 956 (15.21 %) Analyst 3 659 (10.49 %) Support Engineer 4 535 (8.514 %) Consultant 5 526 (8.370 %) Support Analyst 6 514 (8.180 %) Administrator 7 327 (5.204 %) Network Support 8 320 (5.092 %) Cisco Engineer 9 317 (5.045 %) Systems Administrator 10 266 (4.233 %) Technical Support 11 248 (3.947 %) Security Engineer 12 239 (3.803 %) Network Analyst 13 228 (3.628 %) Senior Network Engineer 14 193 (3.071 %) 3rd Line Support 15 179 (2.849 %) Architect 16 169 (2.689 %) 2nd Line Support 17 164 (2.610 %) Systems Engineer 18 153 (2.435 %) Systems Support 19 149 (2.371 %) Cisco Network Engineer 20 147 (2.339 %) IT Manager	Miscellaneous 1 319 (5.076 %) Blackberry 2 162 (2.578 %) Clustering 3 120 (1.910 %) SecurID 4 91 (1.448 %) Thin Client 4 91 (1.448 %) Fat Client 5 86 (1.369 %) Video Conferencing 6 76 (1.209 %) PKI 7 66 (1.050 %) IPTV 8 63 (1.003 %) Management Information System 9 57 (0.907 %) Client/Server 10 56 (0.891 %) Computer Science 11 43 (0.684 %) PDA 12 40 (0.637 %) Derivative 13 39 (0.621 %) Replication 14 37 (0.589 %) Speech Recognition 15 36 (0.573 %) German Language 16 27 (0.430 %) AS400 17 25 (0.398 %) French Language 18 23 (0.366 %) Mainframe 19 22 (0.350 %) Equities
Operating Systems 1 3044 (48.44 %) Windows 2 907 (14.43 %) Windows 2000 3 853 (13.57 %) Linux 4 789 (12.56 %) UNIX 5 654 (10.41 %) Windows XP 6 575 (9.150 %) Windows Server 2003 7 432 (6.875 %) Windows NT 8 417 (6.636 %) Solaris 9 94 (1.496 %) AIX 10 89 (1.416 %) SUSE 11 39 (0.621 %) Mac OS X 12 38 (0.605 %) Debian 13 25 (0.398 %) Windows Vista 14 20 (0.318 %) NetWare 15 17 (0.271 %) HPUX 16 14 (0.223 %) FreeBSD 16 14 (0.223 %) Fedora 16 14 (0.223 %) Windows Mobile 17 13 (0.207 %) Mac OS X Server 18 10 (0.159 %) Ubuntu	Processes & Methodologies 1 341 (5.426 %) Network Design 2 300 (4.774 %) ITIL 3 223 (3.549 %) Project Management 4 191 (3.039 %) Disaster Recovery 4 191 (3.039 %) Load Balancing 5 123 (1.957 %) Information Security 6 116 (1.846 %) Security Cleared 7 112 (1.782 %) Service Delivery 8 93 (1.480 %) Migration 9 74 (1.178 %) Business Continuity 10 73 (1.162 %) PRINCE2 11 72 (1.146 %) E-Commerce 12 67 (1.066 %) Configuration Management 13 62 (0.987 %) Data Security 13 62 (0.987 %) SC Cleared 14 61 (0.971 %) Problem Management 14 61 (0.971 %) CRM 15 58 (0.923 %) Fault Management 16 56 (0.891 %) Incident Management 17 51 (0.812 %) B2B
Programming Languages 1 754 (12.00 %) SQL 2 197 (3.135 %) C 3 153 (2.435 %) Perl 4 122 (1.941 %) Java 5 113 (1.798 %) Shell Script 6 88 (1.400 %) PHP 7 45 (0.716 %) C# 8 43 (0.684 %) C++ 9 35 (0.557 %) VB 10 27 (0.430 %) JavaScript 11 23 (0.366 %) VBA 12 22 (0.350 %) Korn 13 20 (0.318 %) Transact-SQL 14 15 (0.239 %) Tcl 15 14 (0.223 %) VB.NET 16 13 (0.207 %) PHP5 17 12 (0.191 %) Python 18 11 (0.175 %) AWK 19 10 (0.159 %) Assembly Language 19 10 (0.159 %) DHTML	Qualifications 1 1883 (29.96 %) Cisco Certification 2 1044 (16.61 %) CCNP 3 960 (15.28 %) Microsoft Certification 4 953 (15.17 %) CCNA 5 820 (13.05 %) MCSE 6 526 (8.370 %) CCIE 7 329 (5.236 %) CCIP 8 312 (4.965 %) Degree 9 294 (4.679 %) MCP 10 218 (3.469 %) CCSP 11 208 (3.310 %) CCDP 12 179 (2.849 %) CCSA 13 172 (2.737 %) CCSE 14 162 (2.578 %) MCSA 15 118 (1.878 %) CCVP 16 110 (1.750 %) CISSP 17 97 (1.544 %) CCDA 18 47 (0.748 %) JNCIA 19 42 (0.668 %) Citrix Certification 20 40 (0.637 %) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 195 (3.103 %) SLA 2 60 (0.955 %) ISO27001 3 40 (0.637 %) BS7799 4 27 (0.430 %) PCI DSS 5 14 (0.223 %) QA 6 12 (0.191 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 6 12 (0.191 %) ISO9001 7 6 (0.095 %) COBIT 8 3 (0.048 %) ISO17799 9 2 (0.032 %) ISO9000 10 1 (0.016 %) CESG Infosec	System Software 1 1726 (27.47 %) Active Directory 2 211 (3.358 %) Terminal Services 3 209 (3.326 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 193 (3.071 %) ISA Server 5 166 (2.642 %) Backup Exec 6 88 (1.400 %) VMware ESX 7 72 (1.146 %) Terminal Server 8 62 (0.987 %) Citrix Presentation Server 9 37 (0.589 %) NFS 10 35 (0.557 %) MetaFrame 11 29 (0.461 %) NetBackup 12 22 (0.350 %) Samba 13 17 (0.271 %) Snort 14 16 (0.255 %) Squid 15 15 (0.239 %) VMware Server 16 13 (0.207 %) ProxySG 17 8 (0.127 %) Oracle RAC 18 6 (0.095 %) VMware GSX 19 5 (0.080 %) NDS 20 4 (0.064 %) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management 1 99 (1.575 %) CiscoWorks 2 96 (1.528 %) OpenView 3 83 (1.321 %) Norton AntiVirus 4 59 (0.939 %) WSUS 5 58 (0.923 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 6 41 (0.652 %) Tivoli 7 32 (0.509 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 8 23 (0.366 %) MOM 9 20 (0.318 %) MAILsweeper 10 18 (0.286 %) ARCserve 11 15 (0.239 %) Nagios 12 13 (0.207 %) Netcool 13 12 (0.191 %) MIMEsweeper 13 12 (0.191 %) OVSD 13 12 (0.191 %) NNM 14 11 (0.175 %) EMC NetWorker 15 9 (0.143 %) Unicenter 16 8 (0.127 %) ZENworks 16 8 (0.127 %) DameWare 17 7 (0.111 %) SCOM	Vendors 1 3156 (50.22 %) Cisco 2 1597 (25.41 %) Microsoft 3 1075 (17.11 %) CheckPoint 4 741 (11.79 %) Citrix 5 526 (8.370 %) VMware 6 497 (7.909 %) Juniper 7 397 (6.318 %) Nokia 8 372 (5.920 %) HP 9 301 (4.790 %) Oracle 10 175 (2.785 %) Nortel 11 156 (2.482 %) Symantec 12 152 (2.419 %) Red Hat 13 148 (2.355 %) Blue Coat 14 131 (2.085 %) Sun 15 130 (2.069 %) Lotus 16 126 (2.005 %) IBM 17 119 (1.894 %) VERITAS 18 115 (1.830 %) Avaya 19 105 (1.671 %) Dell 20 71 (1.130 %) Reuters