The first table below looks at the demand for VPN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Guildford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VPN over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Guildford region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Rank 65 56 49
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -7
Permanent jobs citing VPN 21 23 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Guildford 2.370% 3.329% 1.566%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.251% 23.23% 10.53%
Number of salaries quoted 19 22 8
Average salary £42,500 £27,500 £26,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+54.54% +4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,400 £19,500 £23,350
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £39,000 £34,450
UK excluding London average salary £36,500 £35,000 £32,000
% change year-on-year
+4.28% +9.37%
All Communications & Networking
Guildford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
227 99 76
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Guildford 25.62% 14.33% 14.87%
Number of salaries quoted 178 94 74
Average salary £45,000 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.00% -
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £19,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
VPN
Surrey

VPN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford VPN Salary Trend

VPN
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VPN across the Guildford region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Guildford VPN Salary Histogram

VPN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Guildford 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 21 (72.41%) TCP/IP
2 20 (68.97%) Active Directory
2 20 (68.97%) Firewall
3 19 (65.52%) Windows
4 18 (62.07%) Citrix
5 17 (58.62%) Cisco
6 16 (55.17%) Microsoft
7 15 (51.72%) DNS
7 15 (51.72%) Linux
8 14 (48.28%) MPLS
9 12 (41.38%) UNIX
10 11 (37.93%) WAN
10 11 (37.93%) CheckPoint
11 10 (34.48%) IPsec
11 10 (34.48%) Change Management
11 10 (34.48%) VMware
12 9 (31.03%) Windows Server 2003
12 9 (31.03%) SAN
12 9 (31.03%) SharePoint
12 9 (31.03%) Windows XP
12 9 (31.03%) Windows Server 2008
12 9 (31.03%) VMware Infrastructure
13 8 (27.59%) Security Cleared
13 8 (27.59%) XenApp
13 8 (27.59%) Citrix Presentation Server
13 8 (27.59%) AIX
13 8 (27.59%) Solaris
13 8 (27.59%) SQL
13 8 (27.59%) .NET
13 8 (27.59%) SQL Server

VPN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Guildford 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 8 (27.59%) .NET
2 5 (17.24%) Web Services
2 5 (17.24%) XML
3 3 (10.34%) FIX Protocol
3 3 (10.34%) Application Packaging
4 2 (6.897%) LINQ
4 2 (6.897%) NHibernate
4 2 (6.897%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (6.897%) ASP.NET MVC 3
4 2 (6.897%) Razor View Engine
5 1 (3.448%) ASP.NET
5 1 (3.448%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 9 (31.03%) SharePoint
2 8 (27.59%) IIS
3 6 (20.69%) Lync
4 3 (10.34%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (3.448%) CMS
5 1 (3.448%) MS Exchange
5 1 (3.448%) Apache
5 1 (3.448%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 3 (10.34%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (17.24%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 21 (72.41%) TCP/IP
2 20 (68.97%) Firewall
3 15 (51.72%) DNS
4 14 (48.28%) MPLS
5 11 (37.93%) WAN
6 10 (34.48%) IPsec
7 9 (31.03%) SAN
8 8 (27.59%) SSL
9 7 (24.14%) IP Telephony
10 6 (20.69%) NAS
11 5 (17.24%) DHCP
12 4 (13.79%) Cisco IPT
12 4 (13.79%) VLAN
12 4 (13.79%) Cisco Nexus
12 4 (13.79%) LAN
12 4 (13.79%) VoIP
12 4 (13.79%) BGP
13 3 (10.34%) WPA
13 3 (10.34%) OSPF
13 3 (10.34%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (27.59%) SQL Server
2 5 (17.24%) GIS
2 5 (17.24%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (17.24%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (3.448%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.448%) WebDriver
1 1 (3.448%) Selenium
General
1 5 (17.24%) Telecoms
1 5 (17.24%) Finance
2 3 (10.34%) Games
3 1 (3.448%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 8 (27.59%) Citrix Engineer
2 7 (24.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) Network Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Technical Manager
5 3 (10.34%) Cisco Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Server Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Senior Network Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Technical Specialist
5 3 (10.34%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Developer
5 3 (10.34%) Senior Cisco Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Senior Technical Specialist
5 3 (10.34%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
6 2 (6.897%) Technical Services Manager
6 2 (6.897%) Technical Delivery Manager
6 2 (6.897%) Technical Project Manager
6 2 (6.897%) Applications Developer
6 2 (6.897%) Project Manager
6 2 (6.897%) Web Developer
6 2 (6.897%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Clustering
2 5 (17.24%) Blackberry
2 5 (17.24%) PKI
3 4 (13.79%) IVR
4 3 (10.34%) Smartcard
4 3 (10.34%) Thin Client
4 3 (10.34%) SecurID
4 3 (10.34%) Fat Client
4 3 (10.34%) Computer Science
5 2 (6.897%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 19 (65.52%) Windows
2 15 (51.72%) Linux
3 12 (41.38%) UNIX
4 9 (31.03%) Windows Server 2003
4 9 (31.03%) Windows XP
4 9 (31.03%) Windows Server 2008
5 8 (27.59%) AIX
5 8 (27.59%) Solaris
6 7 (24.14%) CentOS
7 6 (20.69%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (34.48%) Change Management
2 6 (20.69%) Capacity Management
2 6 (20.69%) ITIL
2 6 (20.69%) Business Continuity
2 6 (20.69%) Migration
3 5 (17.24%) SOA
4 4 (13.79%) Problem Management
4 4 (13.79%) Network Management
4 4 (13.79%) Service Delivery
5 3 (10.34%) TDD
6 2 (6.897%) MVC
6 2 (6.897%) System Testing
6 2 (6.897%) PRINCE2
6 2 (6.897%) Project Management
7 1 (3.448%) Information Security
7 1 (3.448%) Scrum
7 1 (3.448%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (3.448%) CRM
7 1 (3.448%) Network Architecture
7 1 (3.448%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (27.59%) SQL
2 3 (10.34%) PL/SQL
2 3 (10.34%) C#
2 3 (10.34%) Bash shell
3 2 (6.897%) C++
3 2 (6.897%) Delphi
3 2 (6.897%) Perl
3 2 (6.897%) C
3 2 (6.897%) Python
3 2 (6.897%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (27.59%) Security Cleared
2 5 (17.24%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (17.24%) CCNA
2 5 (17.24%) CITP
2 5 (17.24%) Degree
3 4 (13.79%) BC Cleared
4 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (10.34%) CCDA
4 3 (10.34%) MCSE
4 3 (10.34%) MCSA
4 3 (10.34%) DV Cleared
5 2 (6.897%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (6.897%) CCAA
5 2 (6.897%) CCA
5 2 (6.897%) Citrix Certification
6 1 (3.448%) CCNP
6 1 (3.448%) ISEB
6 1 (3.448%) Avaya Certification
6 1 (3.448%) SC Cleared
6 1 (3.448%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.448%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (68.97%) Active Directory
2 9 (31.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (27.59%) XenApp
3 8 (27.59%) Citrix Presentation Server
4 3 (10.34%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 6 (20.69%) SCCM
1 6 (20.69%) SCOM
2 3 (10.34%) Data Guard
2 3 (10.34%) Cacti
Vendors
1 18 (62.07%) Citrix
2 17 (58.62%) Cisco
3 16 (55.17%) Microsoft
4 11 (37.93%) CheckPoint
5 10 (34.48%) VMware
6 7 (24.14%) AppSense
6 7 (24.14%) Sun
7 6 (20.69%) Oracle
8 5 (17.24%) Business Objects
9 4 (13.79%) Juniper
10 2 (6.897%) HP
11 1 (3.448%) Nortel
11 1 (3.448%) Avaya
11 1 (3.448%) SolarWinds