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

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Rank 78 51 61
Rank change year-on-year
-27 +10
Permanent jobs citing VPN 8 16 17
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 0.798% 2.367% 1.961%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.063% 20.25% 11.56%
Number of salaries quoted 8 7 9
Average salary £38,750 £20,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+89.02% -45.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £20,500 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £34,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £36,500 £35,000 £32,000
% change year-on-year
+4.28% +9.37%
All Communications & Networking
Oxford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
158 79 147
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 15.75% 11.69% 16.96%
Number of salaries quoted 151 56 112
Average salary £43,000 £35,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+22.85% -17.64%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £20,500 £29,700
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £52,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
VPN
Oxfordshire

VPN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford VPN Salary Trend

VPN
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VPN across the Oxford region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Oxford VPN Salary Histogram

VPN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 17 (85.00%) Windows
2 14 (70.00%) Firewall
3 13 (65.00%) Cisco
4 12 (60.00%) VMware
5 11 (55.00%) Active Directory
5 11 (55.00%) SAN
5 11 (55.00%) Cisco ASA
5 11 (55.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 9 (45.00%) Microsoft
7 8 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
7 8 (40.00%) DHCP
7 8 (40.00%) MS Office
7 8 (40.00%) DNS
8 7 (35.00%) SQL
8 7 (35.00%) TCP/IP
9 6 (30.00%) IIS
9 6 (30.00%) VoIP
9 6 (30.00%) ITIL
9 6 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
9 6 (30.00%) Veeam
9 6 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
10 5 (25.00%) Computer Science
10 5 (25.00%) MCITP
10 5 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (25.00%) CCNP
11 4 (20.00%) HP
11 4 (20.00%) EMC
11 4 (20.00%) Internet
11 4 (20.00%) NetApp
11 4 (20.00%) MCSE

VPN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 6 (30.00%) IIS
2 4 (20.00%) MS Exchange
2 4 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 8 (40.00%) MS Office
2 2 (10.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 14 (70.00%) Firewall
2 11 (55.00%) SAN
2 11 (55.00%) Cisco ASA
3 8 (40.00%) DHCP
3 8 (40.00%) DNS
4 7 (35.00%) TCP/IP
5 6 (30.00%) VoIP
6 4 (20.00%) Internet
6 4 (20.00%) PBX
6 4 (20.00%) iSCSI
7 3 (15.00%) Cisco PIX
7 3 (15.00%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (15.00%) VLAN
7 3 (15.00%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.000%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (5.000%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (5.000%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.000%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 5 (25.00%) IT Manager
3 4 (20.00%) Support Analyst
3 4 (20.00%) Desktop Support
3 4 (20.00%) Analyst
3 4 (20.00%) Network Manager
3 4 (20.00%) Desktop Analyst
3 4 (20.00%) Desktop Support Analyst
4 3 (15.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Network Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Support Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Consultant
5 2 (10.00%) Technical Consultant
6 1 (5.000%) Infrastructure Support Consultant
6 1 (5.000%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (5.000%) Database Engineer
6 1 (5.000%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.000%) Infrastructure Consultant
6 1 (5.000%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 1 (5.000%) Support Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (20.00%) Blackberry
3 1 (5.000%) Online Gambling
3 1 (5.000%) Replication
3 1 (5.000%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 17 (85.00%) Windows
2 11 (55.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 8 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (20.00%) Windows 7
5 3 (15.00%) CentOS
5 3 (15.00%) Ubuntu
5 3 (15.00%) Fedora
5 3 (15.00%) Linux
6 1 (5.000%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (5.000%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) ITIL
1 6 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (20.00%) Service Management
2 4 (20.00%) Project Management
3 3 (15.00%) Network Design
4 2 (10.00%) PRINCE2
4 2 (10.00%) BCP
4 2 (10.00%) Business Continuity
5 1 (5.000%) Network Load Balancing
5 1 (5.000%) Software Engineering
5 1 (5.000%) Configuration Management
5 1 (5.000%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) MCITP
1 5 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (25.00%) CCNP
2 4 (20.00%) MCSE
2 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (10.00%) Degree
4 1 (5.000%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (5.000%) CCNA
System Software
1 11 (55.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (20.00%) Postfix
4 3 (15.00%) Hyper-V
5 2 (10.00%) Terminal Services
5 2 (10.00%) XenApp
5 2 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (5.000%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) WSUS
2 2 (10.00%) Backup Exec
3 1 (5.000%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 13 (65.00%) Cisco
2 12 (60.00%) VMware
3 9 (45.00%) Microsoft
4 6 (30.00%) Veeam
5 4 (20.00%) HP
5 4 (20.00%) EMC
5 4 (20.00%) NetApp
5 4 (20.00%) Brocade
5 4 (20.00%) Barracuda Networks
6 3 (15.00%) Red Hat
7 2 (10.00%) Citrix
7 2 (10.00%) WatchGuard
8 1 (5.000%) Symantec
8 1 (5.000%) Sophos
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