The first table below looks at the demand for VPN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Rank 43 49 47
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -2
Permanent jobs citing VPN 16 4 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 3.259% 0.868% 0.503%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.60% 7.407% 2.632%
Number of salaries quoted 15 3 2
Average salary £32,500 £21,500 £29,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+51.16% -27.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,900 £21,500 £21,100
10% offered a salary of more than £41,500 £21,500 £37,900
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £36,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
- +10.76%
All Communications & Networking
Newcastle upon Tyne
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
127 54 76
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 25.87% 11.71% 19.10%
Number of salaries quoted 116 47 67
Average salary £40,000 £27,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+45.45% -21.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,500 £23,500 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £40,000 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
VPN
Tyne and Wear

VPN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Newcastle upon Tyne VPN Salary Trend

VPN
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VPN across the Newcastle upon Tyne region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Newcastle upon Tyne VPN Salary Histogram

VPN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 28 (96.55%) Firewall
2 19 (65.52%) SAN
3 18 (62.07%) Cisco
3 18 (62.07%) HP
4 16 (55.17%) MS Visio
5 15 (51.72%) VLAN
6 13 (44.83%) Cisco ASA
6 13 (44.83%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (41.38%) WAN
7 12 (41.38%) Network Management
8 11 (37.93%) Hyper-V
8 11 (37.93%) DHCP
8 11 (37.93%) DNS
8 11 (37.93%) Microsoft
8 11 (37.93%) CCNA
9 10 (34.48%) Windows
9 10 (34.48%) Solaris
9 10 (34.48%) Oracle
9 10 (34.48%) MS Excel
9 10 (34.48%) Cisco IOS
9 10 (34.48%) Cisco PIX
9 10 (34.48%) Network Design
9 10 (34.48%) Fibre Channel
9 10 (34.48%) Capacity Planning
10 9 (31.03%) Wireless
11 8 (27.59%) Disaster Recovery
11 8 (27.59%) CentOS
11 8 (27.59%) MySQL
11 8 (27.59%) Linux
11 8 (27.59%) Apache

VPN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 8 (27.59%) Apache
Applications
1 16 (55.17%) MS Visio
2 10 (34.48%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 28 (96.55%) Firewall
2 19 (65.52%) SAN
3 15 (51.72%) VLAN
4 13 (44.83%) Cisco ASA
5 12 (41.38%) WAN
6 11 (37.93%) DHCP
6 11 (37.93%) DNS
7 10 (34.48%) Cisco IOS
7 10 (34.48%) Cisco PIX
7 10 (34.48%) Fibre Channel
8 9 (31.03%) Wireless
9 8 (27.59%) OSPF
9 8 (27.59%) BGP
10 7 (24.14%) LDAP
10 7 (24.14%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (13.79%) LAN
12 3 (10.34%) HSRP
12 3 (10.34%) VoIP
12 3 (10.34%) IPsec
13 2 (6.897%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (27.59%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) Analyst
2 9 (31.03%) Support Analyst
2 9 (31.03%) Network Support Analyst
2 9 (31.03%) Network Analyst
2 9 (31.03%) Network Support
3 8 (27.59%) Administrator
3 8 (27.59%) Systems Administrator
4 5 (17.24%) Linux Administrator
5 4 (13.79%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 4 (13.79%) Network Engineer
6 3 (10.34%) Senior Linux Administrator
6 3 (10.34%) Senior Systems Administrator
7 2 (6.897%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
8 1 (3.448%) Cisco Administrator
8 1 (3.448%) Senior Network Administrator
8 1 (3.448%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 1 (3.448%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (3.448%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (3.448%) Network Administrator
Operating Systems
1 10 (34.48%) Windows
1 10 (34.48%) Solaris
2 8 (27.59%) CentOS
2 8 (27.59%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (41.38%) Network Management
2 10 (34.48%) Network Design
2 10 (34.48%) Capacity Planning
3 8 (27.59%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (20.69%) Identity Management
4 6 (20.69%) Validation
5 4 (13.79%) Change Control
6 2 (6.897%) Time Management
7 1 (3.448%) Project Management
7 1 (3.448%) ITIL
7 1 (3.448%) Performance Management
7 1 (3.448%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 13 (44.83%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (37.93%) CCNA
3 4 (13.79%) RHCE
4 3 (10.34%) Degree
5 2 (6.897%) CCNP
System Software
1 11 (37.93%) Hyper-V
2 8 (27.59%) XenServer
3 1 (3.448%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.448%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.448%) vSphere
3 1 (3.448%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (27.59%) Nagios
Vendors
1 18 (62.07%) Cisco
1 18 (62.07%) HP
2 11 (37.93%) Microsoft
3 10 (34.48%) Oracle
4 8 (27.59%) Red Hat
4 8 (27.59%) Citrix
5 3 (10.34%) VMware
6 1 (3.448%) F5