Herefordshire VPN Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Virtual Private Network (VPN) skills within the Herefordshire 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 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Amersham Andover Ashton-under-Lyne Avonmouth Aylesbury Banbury Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blandford Forum Bolton Borehamwood Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Chesham Cheshire Chessington Chester Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clevedon Colchester Coulsdon County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Deeside Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dundee Dunfermline Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Farnborough Farnham Fife Flintshire Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Great Yarmouth Greenford Guildford Hackney Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Hessle High Wycombe Home Counties Horley Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Huntly Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster 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 Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salford Scotland Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swindon Tadworth 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 Drayton West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Wirral Woking Wolverhampton Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	72	54
Rank change on same period last year	-18
Matching permanent IT job ads	8	18
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	4.211 %	8.219 %
Salaries quoted	8	15
Average minimum salary	£32,375	£35,682
Average salary	£33,625	£36,948
% change on same period last year	-8.99 %
Average maximum salary	£34,875	£38,215
UK excluding London average salary	£34,924	£37,130
% change on same period last year	-5.94 %
Communications & Networking Herefordshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	190	219
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.102 %	0.091 %
Salaries quoted	172	197
Average minimum salary	£31,875	£38,158
Average salary	£34,160	£39,447
% change on same period last year	-13.40 %
Average maximum salary	£36,445	£40,736
UK excluding London average salary	£37,584	£39,545
% change on same period last year	-4.96 %
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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 Herefordshire 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 Herefordshire region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VPN across the Herefordshire region over the 3 months to 21 August 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 Herefordshire region over the 3 months to 21 August 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
Hemel Hempstead	-9	2	£40,000	-6.97 %
Harpenden	-	1	£32,500	-
Borehamwood	-6	1	£40,000	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT jobs across the Herefordshire 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 12 (75.00 %) Firewall 2 9 (56.25 %) Windows 3 7 (43.75 %) Cisco 4 6 (37.50 %) WAN 5 5 (31.25 %) Cisco Certification 5 5 (31.25 %) Windows Server 2003 6 4 (25.00 %) Blackberry 6 4 (25.00 %) CheckPoint 6 4 (25.00 %) Microsoft 6 4 (25.00 %) MS Office 7 3 (18.75 %) French Language 7 3 (18.75 %) German Language 7 3 (18.75 %) Network Security 7 3 (18.75 %) SharePoint 7 3 (18.75 %) LAN

7 3 (18.75 %) CCNA 7 3 (18.75 %) Active Directory 7 3 (18.75 %) Nokia 7 3 (18.75 %) Telecoms 8 2 (12.50 %) Business Continuity 8 2 (12.50 %) Information Security 8 2 (12.50 %) Legal 8 2 (12.50 %) VMware 8 2 (12.50 %) Wireless 8 2 (12.50 %) CCSE 8 2 (12.50 %) Nortel 8 2 (12.50 %) Microsoft Certification 8 2 (12.50 %) Juniper 8 2 (12.50 %) CCNP 8 2 (12.50 %) CISSP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT jobs across the Herefordshire 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 3 (18.75 %) SharePoint 2 1 (6.250 %) MS Exchange	Applications 1 4 (25.00 %) MS Office 2 1 (6.250 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 12 (75.00 %) Firewall 2 6 (37.50 %) WAN 3 3 (18.75 %) LAN 3 3 (18.75 %) Network Security 4 2 (12.50 %) Cisco PIX 4 2 (12.50 %) Wireless 5 1 (6.250 %) IP Telephony 5 1 (6.250 %) TCP/IP 5 1 (6.250 %) SSL 5 1 (6.250 %) Internet 5 1 (6.250 %) DWDM 5 1 (6.250 %) NetScreen 5 1 (6.250 %) Cisco ASA	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (6.250 %) SQL Server
General 1 3 (18.75 %) Telecoms 2 2 (12.50 %) Legal 3 1 (6.250 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 5 (31.25 %) Analyst 1 5 (31.25 %) Support Analyst 2 4 (25.00 %) 2nd Line Support 2 4 (25.00 %) 2nd Line Support Analyst 3 3 (18.75 %) Network Support 4 2 (12.50 %) Network Specialist 4 2 (12.50 %) Senior Network Specialist 4 2 (12.50 %) Network Engineer 4 2 (12.50 %) Security Officer 4 2 (12.50 %) Information Security Officer 5 1 (6.250 %) Senior Security Specialist 5 1 (6.250 %) Facilities Manager 5 1 (6.250 %) Solutions Consultant 5 1 (6.250 %) Senior Network Support 5 1 (6.250 %) Network Support Specialist 5 1 (6.250 %) Senior Network Support Specialist 5 1 (6.250 %) Cisco Support 5 1 (6.250 %) Cisco Network Analyst 5 1 (6.250 %) Cisco Analyst 5 1 (6.250 %) Network Security Specialist
Miscellaneous 1 4 (25.00 %) Blackberry 2 3 (18.75 %) French Language 2 3 (18.75 %) German Language	Operating Systems 1 9 (56.25 %) Windows 2 5 (31.25 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (12.50 %) Windows XP 4 1 (6.250 %) UNIX 4 1 (6.250 %) Linux 4 1 (6.250 %) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (12.50 %) Business Continuity 1 2 (12.50 %) Information Security 2 1 (6.250 %) Network Design	Qualifications 1 5 (31.25 %) Cisco Certification 2 3 (18.75 %) CCNA 3 2 (12.50 %) CISSP 3 2 (12.50 %) MCSE 3 2 (12.50 %) Microsoft Certification 3 2 (12.50 %) CCSE 3 2 (12.50 %) CCNP 4 1 (6.250 %) Degree 4 1 (6.250 %) CCSP
System Software 1 3 (18.75 %) Active Directory 2 1 (6.250 %) VMware Infrastructure	Systems Management 1 1 (6.250 %) OpenView
Vendors 1 7 (43.75 %) Cisco 2 4 (25.00 %) Microsoft 2 4 (25.00 %) CheckPoint 3 3 (18.75 %) Nokia 4 2 (12.50 %) Juniper 4 2 (12.50 %) Nortel 4 2 (12.50 %) VMware 5 1 (6.250 %) WatchGuard 5 1 (6.250 %) Citrix 5 1 (6.250 %) HP 5 1 (6.250 %) BT