The first table below looks at the demand for VPN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Middlesex region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VPN over the 3 months to 23 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 Middlesex region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Rank 47 40 43
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +3
Permanent jobs citing VPN 11 17 30
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Middlesex 2.115% 3.360% 4.196%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.670% 13.08% 16.48%
Number of salaries quoted 6 14 28
Average salary £35,000 £33,000 £42,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.06% -21.89%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £30,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £43,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £36,500 £35,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+2.81% +9.23%
All Communications & Networking
Middlesex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
194 130 182
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Middlesex 37.31% 25.69% 25.45%
Number of salaries quoted 121 109 136
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,800 £30,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £80,000 £60,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
VPN
South East

VPN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex VPN Salary Trend

VPN
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VPN across the Middlesex region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Middlesex VPN Salary Histogram

VPN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Middlesex 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 19 (63.33%) Firewall
2 17 (56.67%) Cisco
3 16 (53.33%) Cisco Certification
4 13 (43.33%) Wireless
4 13 (43.33%) VMware
5 12 (40.00%) WAN
6 11 (36.67%) CCNP
6 11 (36.67%) VMware Infrastructure
7 10 (33.33%) Network Design
8 9 (30.00%) Juniper
8 9 (30.00%) CheckPoint
9 8 (26.67%) MPLS
9 8 (26.67%) BGP
9 8 (26.67%) CCNA
9 8 (26.67%) Cisco ASA
9 8 (26.67%) F5
9 8 (26.67%) FWSM
9 8 (26.67%) Cisco Nexus
10 7 (23.33%) Windows 7
10 7 (23.33%) Windows
10 7 (23.33%) Linux
11 6 (20.00%) SQL Server
11 6 (20.00%) Microsoft
11 6 (20.00%) DNS
11 6 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
11 6 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
11 6 (20.00%) Network Security
12 5 (16.67%) SSH
12 5 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 5 (16.67%) qmail

VPN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Middlesex 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 5 (16.67%) Apache
2 2 (6.667%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (3.333%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.333%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 2 (6.667%) MS Office
1 2 (6.667%) MS Excel
2 1 (3.333%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 2 (6.667%) Line 50
Communications & Networking
1 19 (63.33%) Firewall
2 13 (43.33%) Wireless
3 12 (40.00%) WAN
4 8 (26.67%) MPLS
4 8 (26.67%) BGP
4 8 (26.67%) Cisco ASA
4 8 (26.67%) FWSM
4 8 (26.67%) Cisco Nexus
5 6 (20.00%) DNS
5 6 (20.00%) Network Security
6 5 (16.67%) SSH
6 5 (16.67%) SAN
6 5 (16.67%) SSL
6 5 (16.67%) FTP
7 4 (13.33%) X.25
7 4 (13.33%) Internet
7 4 (13.33%) IPsec
8 2 (6.667%) TCP/IP
9 1 (3.333%) VLAN
9 1 (3.333%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (16.67%) MySQL
General
1 1 (3.333%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 8 (26.67%) Network Consultant
1 8 (26.67%) Consultant
2 7 (23.33%) Cisco Network Consultant
2 7 (23.33%) Cisco Consultant
3 5 (16.67%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 5 (16.67%) Linux Administrator
3 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (16.67%) Administrator
3 5 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
4 4 (13.33%) Analyst
4 4 (13.33%) Security Analyst
4 4 (13.33%) Pre Sales Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Security Operations Analyst
5 3 (10.00%) Operations Analyst
5 3 (10.00%) Support Engineer
6 2 (6.667%) IT Support
7 1 (3.333%) Windows Support Engineer
7 1 (3.333%) Exchange Engineer
7 1 (3.333%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.333%) IT Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Clustering
2 3 (10.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (10.00%) Blackberry
3 2 (6.667%) Client/Server
3 2 (6.667%) Smartphone
4 1 (3.333%) Mobile Payment
4 1 (3.333%) EMV
Operating Systems
1 7 (23.33%) Windows 7
1 7 (23.33%) Windows
1 7 (23.33%) Linux
2 6 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 6 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (13.33%) Windows 8
5 2 (6.667%) Windows XP
6 1 (3.333%) Android
6 1 (3.333%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) Network Design
2 4 (13.33%) Data Security
2 4 (13.33%) Vulnerability Management
3 3 (10.00%) SIEM
3 3 (10.00%) ITIL
4 2 (6.667%) CAD
5 1 (3.333%) Time Management
5 1 (3.333%) Change Control
5 1 (3.333%) Validation
5 1 (3.333%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.67%) PHP
1 5 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (3.333%) C
Qualifications
1 16 (53.33%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (36.67%) CCNP
3 8 (26.67%) CCNA
4 5 (16.67%) LPIC
4 5 (16.67%) RHCA
4 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (16.67%) RHCE
5 4 (13.33%) MCITP
5 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Certified Master
6 3 (10.00%) PCI QSA
6 3 (10.00%) Degree
7 1 (3.333%) CCIE
7 1 (3.333%) MCSE
7 1 (3.333%) MCSA
7 1 (3.333%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.333%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (36.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (16.67%) qmail
2 5 (16.67%) Postfix
2 5 (16.67%) Sendmail
3 4 (13.33%) Active Directory
4 2 (6.667%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 4 (13.33%) Nagios
2 2 (6.667%) Nessus
Vendors
1 17 (56.67%) Cisco
2 13 (43.33%) VMware
3 9 (30.00%) Juniper
3 9 (30.00%) CheckPoint
4 8 (26.67%) F5
5 6 (20.00%) Microsoft
6 5 (16.67%) Rackspace
6 5 (16.67%) HP
6 5 (16.67%) Red Hat
6 5 (16.67%) Symantec
7 4 (13.33%) IBM
7 4 (13.33%) PlateSpin
8 3 (10.00%) ArcSight
9 2 (6.667%) Sage
9 2 (6.667%) Qualys
10 1 (3.333%) Citrix
10 1 (3.333%) Avaya
10 1 (3.333%) NetApp
10 1 (3.333%) Nokia
10 1 (3.333%) Veritas