The first table below looks at the demand for VPN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Lancashire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VPN over the 3 months to 22 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 Lancashire region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Rank 52 62 43
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -19
Permanent jobs citing VPN 6 3 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancashire 1.224% 0.534% 1.877%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.593% 4.615% 12.28%
Number of salaries quoted 6 2 6
Average salary £26,000 £35,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-25.71% +16.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,000 £35,000 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £38,000 £41,000 £43,500
UK excluding London average salary £36,500 £35,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+2.81% +9.23%
All Communications & Networking
Lancashire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
91 65 57
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancashire 18.57% 11.57% 15.28%
Number of salaries quoted 76 57 54
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +16.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,350 £21,500 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £42,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
VPN
North West

VPN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

Lancashire VPN Salary Trend

VPN
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VPN across the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Lancashire VPN Salary Histogram

VPN
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Burnley -4 3 £21,000 -50.58%
Blackburn -1 1 £45,000 +28.57%
VPN
North West

VPN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lancashire 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 24 (96.00%) Windows
2 22 (88.00%) Active Directory
3 20 (80.00%) Microsoft
4 19 (76.00%) SQL Server
5 18 (72.00%) MS Office
6 15 (60.00%) Oracle
6 15 (60.00%) Windows XP
6 15 (60.00%) Firewall
6 15 (60.00%) Windows 7
7 13 (52.00%) Citrix
8 11 (44.00%) SQL
8 11 (44.00%) IIS
9 9 (36.00%) SharePoint
9 9 (36.00%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (36.00%) Windows Server 2008
10 8 (32.00%) iPhone
10 8 (32.00%) Windows 8
10 8 (32.00%) Windows Server 2003
10 8 (32.00%) Blackberry
10 8 (32.00%) WAN
10 8 (32.00%) LAN
10 8 (32.00%) Oracle Forms
11 7 (28.00%) Oracle Reports
11 7 (28.00%) MS Excel
11 7 (28.00%) Crystal Reports
11 7 (28.00%) Office 365
12 6 (24.00%) Cisco
12 6 (24.00%) VMware
13 5 (20.00%) E-Commerce
14 4 (16.00%) MS Exchange

VPN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lancashire 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 2 (8.000%) COM
Application Platforms
1 11 (44.00%) IIS
2 9 (36.00%) SharePoint
3 4 (16.00%) MS Exchange
4 3 (12.00%) Exchange Server 2007
5 2 (8.000%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (8.000%) Lync
5 2 (8.000%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (8.000%) Exchange Server 2003
6 1 (4.000%) SAS
6 1 (4.000%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 18 (72.00%) MS Office
2 7 (28.00%) MS Excel
2 7 (28.00%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (60.00%) Firewall
2 8 (32.00%) WAN
2 8 (32.00%) LAN
3 4 (16.00%) DHCP
3 4 (16.00%) TCP/IP
3 4 (16.00%) DNS
3 4 (16.00%) VLAN
4 3 (12.00%) VoIP
4 3 (12.00%) SSL
4 3 (12.00%) Wireless
5 2 (8.000%) SAN
5 2 (8.000%) WLAN
5 2 (8.000%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (4.000%) Cisco PIX
6 1 (4.000%) WPA2
6 1 (4.000%) IP Telephony
6 1 (4.000%) Frame Relay
6 1 (4.000%) TACACS
6 1 (4.000%) Internet
6 1 (4.000%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (76.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (28.00%) Oracle Reports
2 7 (28.00%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (4.000%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 8 (32.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 2 (8.000%) Retail
2 1 (4.000%) Finance
Job Titles
1 15 (60.00%) Support Technician
2 14 (56.00%) IT Support
3 11 (44.00%) IT Support Technician
4 3 (12.00%) IT Support Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Support Engineer
5 2 (8.000%) 3rd Line Support
5 2 (8.000%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.000%) Storage Systems Administrator
6 1 (4.000%) Network Administrator
6 1 (4.000%) Technical Manager
6 1 (4.000%) Support Consultant
6 1 (4.000%) Administrator
6 1 (4.000%) Consultant
6 1 (4.000%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (32.00%) iPhone
1 8 (32.00%) Blackberry
2 2 (8.000%) Clustering
2 2 (8.000%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 24 (96.00%) Windows
2 15 (60.00%) Windows XP
2 15 (60.00%) Windows 7
3 9 (36.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 8 (32.00%) Windows 8
4 8 (32.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (12.00%) Windows Vista
5 3 (12.00%) Linux
6 2 (8.000%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (20.00%) E-Commerce
2 3 (12.00%) ITIL
3 2 (8.000%) Change Management
3 2 (8.000%) Content Management
4 1 (4.000%) Communications Security
4 1 (4.000%) Network Management
4 1 (4.000%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 11 (44.00%) SQL
2 2 (8.000%) C
3 1 (4.000%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (36.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (12.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (8.000%) CCNA
4 1 (4.000%) CCNP
4 1 (4.000%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.000%) SLA
2 1 (4.000%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (88.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (12.00%) XenApp
3 2 (8.000%) vSphere
3 2 (8.000%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 2 (8.000%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (4.000%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 2 (8.000%) WhatsUp Gold
1 2 (8.000%) HP SIM
1 2 (8.000%) SCCM
1 2 (8.000%) SCOM
Vendors
1 20 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 15 (60.00%) Oracle
3 13 (52.00%) Citrix
4 6 (24.00%) Cisco
4 6 (24.00%) VMware
5 4 (16.00%) HP
6 3 (12.00%) SolarWinds
6 3 (12.00%) Avaya
7 2 (8.000%) Juniper
7 2 (8.000%) NetApp
7 2 (8.000%) CheckPoint
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