The first table below looks at the demand for VPN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VPN over the 3 months to 18 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 Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Rank 28 44 40
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -4
Permanent jobs citing VPN 1 1 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the Midlands 0.417% 0.334% 0.541%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.226% 1.299% 2.857%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 2
Average salary £50,000 £27,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+81.81% -31.25%
UK excluding London average salary £36,500 £35,000 £32,000
% change year-on-year
+4.28% +9.37%
All Communications & Networking
Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
31 77 70
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the Midlands 12.92% 25.75% 18.92%
Number of salaries quoted 17 77 46
Average salary £55,000 £50,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.00% +25.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £45,000 £39,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £61,250 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
VPN
England

VPN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Midlands 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 Midlands region.

Midlands VPN Salary Trend

VPN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Midlands 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 (88.89%) WAN
1 8 (88.89%) LAN
1 8 (88.89%) Cisco
1 8 (88.89%) CCNP
1 8 (88.89%) Cisco Certification
1 8 (88.89%) Firewall
1 8 (88.89%) Load Balancing
1 8 (88.89%) Cisco ASA
2 7 (77.78%) CCSA
2 7 (77.78%) Cisco PIX
2 7 (77.78%) Network Security
2 7 (77.78%) TippingPoint
2 7 (77.78%) Disaster Recovery
2 7 (77.78%) CheckPoint
2 7 (77.78%) MPLS
2 7 (77.78%) OSPF
2 7 (77.78%) BGP
2 7 (77.78%) EIGRP
3 1 (11.11%) Wireless
3 1 (11.11%) SAN
3 1 (11.11%) CiscoWorks
3 1 (11.11%) CCSP
3 1 (11.11%) WLAN
3 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
3 1 (11.11%) DNS
3 1 (11.11%) HTTPS
3 1 (11.11%) VBScript
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 1 (11.11%) IIS
3 1 (11.11%) CSS

VPN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Midlands 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 1 (11.11%) CSS
1 1 (11.11%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) IIS
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon AWS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (88.89%) WAN
1 8 (88.89%) LAN
1 8 (88.89%) Firewall
1 8 (88.89%) Cisco ASA
2 7 (77.78%) MPLS
2 7 (77.78%) OSPF
2 7 (77.78%) BGP
2 7 (77.78%) EIGRP
2 7 (77.78%) Cisco PIX
2 7 (77.78%) Network Security
3 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
3 1 (11.11%) DNS
3 1 (11.11%) HTTPS
3 1 (11.11%) SAN
3 1 (11.11%) WAAS
3 1 (11.11%) FCoE
3 1 (11.11%) FWSM
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (11.11%) Wireless
3 1 (11.11%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Network Consultant
1 7 (77.78%) Senior Consultant
1 7 (77.78%) Consultant
1 7 (77.78%) Network Engineer
1 7 (77.78%) Network Security Engineer
1 7 (77.78%) Security Engineer
1 7 (77.78%) Senior Security Consultant
1 7 (77.78%) Senior Security Engineer
1 7 (77.78%) Senior Network Consultant
1 7 (77.78%) Senior Network Security Engineer
1 7 (77.78%) Network Security Consultant
1 7 (77.78%) Senior Network Security Consultant
1 7 (77.78%) Security Consultant
1 7 (77.78%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Cisco Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Load Balancing
2 7 (77.78%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) VBScript
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (88.89%) CCNP
1 8 (88.89%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (77.78%) CCSA
3 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) CCSP
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) CiscoWorks
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Cisco
2 7 (77.78%) CheckPoint
2 7 (77.78%) TippingPoint
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