The first table below looks at the demand for VPN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Northern Ireland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VPN over the 3 months to 19 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 Northern Ireland region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Rank 38 - 36
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing VPN 2 0 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northern Ireland 0.909% - 1.261%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.704% - 5.263%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
Average salary £35,000 - £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £36,500 £35,000 £32,000
% change year-on-year
+4.28% +9.37%
All Communications & Networking
Northern Ireland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
54 47 57
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northern Ireland 24.55% 23.50% 23.95%
Number of salaries quoted 12 21 7
Average salary £42,500 £32,500 £45,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+30.76% -28.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £15,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £70,000 £41,750
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
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Jobs Demand Trend

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

Northern Ireland VPN Jobs Demand Trend

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Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing VPN across the Northern Ireland region.

Northern Ireland VPN Salary Trend

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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 Northern Ireland region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
County Antrim - 2 £35,000 - 1
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UK

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Northern Ireland 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 25 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 24 (96.00%) Windows
3 23 (92.00%) ADSL
3 23 (92.00%) Internet
3 23 (92.00%) PKI
3 23 (92.00%) Windows Vista
4 18 (72.00%) Cisco
5 12 (48.00%) Danish Language
6 10 (40.00%) Russian Language
6 10 (40.00%) Turkish Language
7 9 (36.00%) Dutch Language
8 6 (24.00%) Hungarian Language
8 6 (24.00%) Polish Language
8 6 (24.00%) Swedish Language
9 2 (8.000%) Wireless Security
9 2 (8.000%) F5
9 2 (8.000%) VLAN
9 2 (8.000%) Firewall
9 2 (8.000%) Wireless
9 2 (8.000%) IPsec
9 2 (8.000%) DNS
9 2 (8.000%) Juniper
9 2 (8.000%) CheckPoint
10 1 (4.000%) CCSA
10 1 (4.000%) Information Security
10 1 (4.000%) CCNA
10 1 (4.000%) Active Directory
10 1 (4.000%) CISSP
10 1 (4.000%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (4.000%) UNIX

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Northern Ireland 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.

Communications & Networking
1 25 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 23 (92.00%) ADSL
2 23 (92.00%) Internet
3 2 (8.000%) Wireless Security
3 2 (8.000%) VLAN
3 2 (8.000%) Firewall
3 2 (8.000%) Wireless
3 2 (8.000%) IPsec
3 2 (8.000%) DNS
General
1 12 (48.00%) Danish Language
2 10 (40.00%) Russian Language
2 10 (40.00%) Turkish Language
3 9 (36.00%) Dutch Language
4 6 (24.00%) Hungarian Language
4 6 (24.00%) Polish Language
4 6 (24.00%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 23 (92.00%) Technical Support
2 2 (8.000%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 23 (92.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 24 (96.00%) Windows
2 23 (92.00%) Windows Vista
3 1 (4.000%) UNIX
3 1 (4.000%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (4.000%) Information Security
Qualifications
1 1 (4.000%) CCSA
1 1 (4.000%) CCNA
1 1 (4.000%) CISSP
1 1 (4.000%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (4.000%) JNCIA
System Software
1 1 (4.000%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 18 (72.00%) Cisco
2 2 (8.000%) F5
2 2 (8.000%) Juniper
2 2 (8.000%) CheckPoint
3 1 (4.000%) Blue Coat
Belfast, County Antrim
Key skills required include, Windows 2000 - XP support skills. Windows 2000 - 2003 Server knowledge... Networking and TCP/IP experience as well as remote access technologies (incl RAS and...
Greywood Associates Limited
Salary: £26000 - £28000 per annum + bens
Posted: 14 June 2013
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