The first table below looks at the demand for VPN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Lincolnshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VPN over the 3 months to 21 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 Lincolnshire region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Rank 30 14 20
Rank change year-on-year
-16 +6
Permanent jobs citing VPN 6 8 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lincolnshire 3.077% 6.452% 4.032%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.67% 42.11% 19.23%
Number of salaries quoted 6 5 5
Average salary £32,500 £37,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.33% +25.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £30,000 £28,800
10% offered a salary of more than £33,002 £37,500 £36,500
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £36,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
- +10.76%
All Communications & Networking
Lincolnshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
36 19 26
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lincolnshire 18.46% 15.32% 20.97%
Number of salaries quoted 23 16 25
Average salary £30,000 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-20.00% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,000 £32,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £40,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
VPN
East Midlands

VPN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lincolnshire 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 Lincolnshire region.

Lincolnshire VPN Salary Trend

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 Lincolnshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Grantham - 3 £32,500 -
Scunthorpe -6 1 £33,504 +11.68%
VPN
East Midlands

VPN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lincolnshire 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 8 (100.00%) Windows
2 7 (87.50%) Firewall
3 6 (75.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (75.00%) MS Exchange
4 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
4 5 (62.50%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
5 4 (50.00%) Windows XP
5 4 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
6 3 (37.50%) Time Management
6 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
6 3 (37.50%) WSUS
6 3 (37.50%) XenApp
6 3 (37.50%) Windows 7
6 3 (37.50%) Exchange Server 2010
6 3 (37.50%) LAN
6 3 (37.50%) Citrix
7 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
7 2 (25.00%) DNS
7 2 (25.00%) SSL
7 2 (25.00%) Cisco
7 2 (25.00%) Internet
7 2 (25.00%) Symantec
7 2 (25.00%) Sophos
7 2 (25.00%) SMTP
7 2 (25.00%) FTP
7 2 (25.00%) Broadband
7 2 (25.00%) Linux

VPN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lincolnshire 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 (25.00%) XML
1 2 (25.00%) HTML
1 2 (25.00%) HTML5
1 2 (25.00%) LAMP
2 1 (12.50%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 6 (75.00%) MS Exchange
2 4 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
3 3 (37.50%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) Firewall
2 3 (37.50%) LAN
3 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (25.00%) DNS
3 2 (25.00%) SSL
3 2 (25.00%) Internet
3 2 (25.00%) SMTP
3 2 (25.00%) FTP
3 2 (25.00%) Broadband
3 2 (25.00%) SSH
4 1 (12.50%) HTTP
4 1 (12.50%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Support Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Systems Administrator
2 2 (25.00%) Development Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Field Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Development Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Installations Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Field Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Support
3 1 (12.50%) Field Service Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (75.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (62.50%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (50.00%) Windows XP
5 3 (37.50%) Windows 7
6 2 (25.00%) Linux
6 2 (25.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Time Management
2 2 (25.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (25.00%) MCSE
2 2 (25.00%) MCP
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) XenApp
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) WSUS
2 2 (25.00%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (37.50%) Citrix
3 2 (25.00%) Cisco
3 2 (25.00%) Symantec
3 2 (25.00%) Sophos
4 1 (12.50%) HP