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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Rank 90 74 79
Rank change year-on-year
-16 +5
Permanent jobs citing VPN 5 2 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Glasgow 0.435% 0.238% 0.823%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.704% 1.818% 8.602%
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 7
Average salary £23,250 £36,750 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-36.73% +22.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,650 £32,150 £24,200
10% offered a salary of more than £26,300 £41,350 £33,000
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £36,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
- +10.76%
All Communications & Networking
Glasgow
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
135 110 93
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Glasgow 11.74% 13.10% 9.568%
Number of salaries quoted 84 74 73
Average salary £34,000 £40,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-15.00% +33.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £23,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £49,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
VPN
Scotland

VPN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow VPN Salary Trend

VPN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Glasgow 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 (75.00%) Windows
2 8 (66.67%) Cisco
3 6 (50.00%) LAN
3 6 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 6 (50.00%) Firewall
4 5 (41.67%) Linux
4 5 (41.67%) Apache
5 4 (33.33%) LDAP
5 4 (33.33%) Windows XP
5 4 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (25.00%) Wireless
6 3 (25.00%) MS Exchange
6 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
6 3 (25.00%) TCP/IP
6 3 (25.00%) MS Office
6 3 (25.00%) Data Management
6 3 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
7 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (16.67%) VMware
7 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
7 2 (16.67%) MySQL
7 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
7 2 (16.67%) ITIL
7 2 (16.67%) DNS
7 2 (16.67%) DHCP
7 2 (16.67%) CCNA
7 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (16.67%) Intel
7 2 (16.67%) Blackberry

VPN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Glasgow 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 1 (8.333%) HTML
1 1 (8.333%) .NET
1 1 (8.333%) ASP
1 1 (8.333%) ASP.NET
1 1 (8.333%) Web Services
1 1 (8.333%) XML
1 1 (8.333%) CGI
1 1 (8.333%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 5 (41.67%) Apache
2 3 (25.00%) MS Exchange
2 3 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (8.333%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (8.333%) LiveLink
3 1 (8.333%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 3 (25.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) LAN
1 6 (50.00%) Firewall
2 4 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (33.33%) LDAP
3 3 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (25.00%) Wireless
4 2 (16.67%) DHCP
4 2 (16.67%) DNS
5 1 (8.333%) SAN
5 1 (8.333%) Ethernet
5 1 (8.333%) WAN
5 1 (8.333%) IPsec
5 1 (8.333%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) MySQL
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (8.333%) Telecoms
1 1 (8.333%) French Language
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Administrator
1 4 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
2 3 (25.00%) IT Administrator
2 3 (25.00%) Support Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) IT Support
3 2 (16.67%) Support Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) Desktop Support
4 1 (8.333%) Field Support Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Security Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Field Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Systems Manager
4 1 (8.333%) Applications Support Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Service Desk Technician
4 1 (8.333%) Applications Support
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Blackberry
1 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.333%) Clustering
2 1 (8.333%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 9 (75.00%) Windows
2 5 (41.67%) Linux
3 4 (33.33%) Windows XP
4 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (8.333%) Windows 7
5 1 (8.333%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) Data Management
2 2 (16.67%) ITIL
3 1 (8.333%) Configuration Management
3 1 (8.333%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (8.333%) Workflow
3 1 (8.333%) Migration
3 1 (8.333%) Asset Management
3 1 (8.333%) Software Engineering
3 1 (8.333%) Incident Management
3 1 (8.333%) Load Balancing
3 1 (8.333%) Performance Management
3 1 (8.333%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.333%) C#
1 1 (8.333%) Delphi
1 1 (8.333%) Java
1 1 (8.333%) Perl
1 1 (8.333%) PHP
1 1 (8.333%) SQL
1 1 (8.333%) T-SQL
1 1 (8.333%) VB
1 1 (8.333%) VB.NET
1 1 (8.333%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) CCNA
1 2 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (8.333%) Degree
2 1 (8.333%) CISSP
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (8.333%) vSphere
3 1 (8.333%) NFS
3 1 (8.333%) Terminal Services
3 1 (8.333%) ISA Server
3 1 (8.333%) Samba
3 1 (8.333%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1 (8.333%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Cisco
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (16.67%) VMware
3 2 (16.67%) Intel
4 1 (8.333%) Citrix
4 1 (8.333%) Avaya
4 1 (8.333%) Juniper
4 1 (8.333%) Veritas
4 1 (8.333%) Lotus
4 1 (8.333%) CheckPoint
4 1 (8.333%) Symantec
4 1 (8.333%) Websense
4 1 (8.333%) SurfControl
4 1 (8.333%) F5
4 1 (8.333%) Oracle
4 1 (8.333%) Dell
4 1 (8.333%) EMC
4 1 (8.333%) IBM