The first table below looks at the demand for IPsec skills in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited IPsec over the 3 months to 24 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 Scotland region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
Rank 145 145 153
Rank change year-on-year
0 +8
Permanent jobs citing IPsec 8 10 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 0.254% 0.289% 0.172%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.942% 1.905% 1.299%
Number of salaries quoted 7 7 2
Average salary £42,500 £35,000 £31,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+21.42% +12.90%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £42,500 £42,000
% change year-on-year
+5.88% +1.19%
All Communications & Networking
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
412 525 462
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 13.09% 15.20% 13.26%
Number of salaries quoted 217 339 324
Average salary £41,500 £35,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.57% -12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £23,000 £21,600
10% offered a salary of more than £45,700 £77,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
IPsec
UK

IPsec
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland IPsec Jobs Demand Trend

IPsec
Salary Trend

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

Scotland IPsec Salary Trend

IPsec
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland region citing IPsec 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 IPsec.

1 16 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 15 (93.75%) DNS
2 15 (93.75%) Firewall
2 15 (93.75%) Wireless
3 13 (81.25%) Business Continuity
3 13 (81.25%) SNMP
3 13 (81.25%) WAN
3 13 (81.25%) DHCP
3 13 (81.25%) LAN
4 11 (68.75%) VPN
4 11 (68.75%) Cisco
4 11 (68.75%) CCNA
4 11 (68.75%) Active Directory
4 11 (68.75%) Cisco Certification
4 11 (68.75%) Juniper
5 10 (62.50%) Windows
6 9 (56.25%) Microsoft
6 9 (56.25%) Finance
7 8 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 8 (50.00%) SSL
7 8 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
7 8 (50.00%) Wireshark
7 8 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
7 8 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
7 8 (50.00%) Cisco PIX
7 8 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
7 8 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
7 8 (50.00%) MRTG
7 8 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
7 8 (50.00%) HP

IPsec
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland region citing IPsec 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 IPsec. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 8 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 8 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 8 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 8 (50.00%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (6.250%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 16 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 15 (93.75%) DNS
2 15 (93.75%) Firewall
2 15 (93.75%) Wireless
3 13 (81.25%) SNMP
3 13 (81.25%) WAN
3 13 (81.25%) DHCP
3 13 (81.25%) LAN
4 11 (68.75%) VPN
5 8 (50.00%) SSL
5 8 (50.00%) Wireshark
5 8 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
5 8 (50.00%) Cisco PIX
5 8 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
5 8 (50.00%) MRTG
5 8 (50.00%) WLAN
5 8 (50.00%) Ethernet
6 5 (31.25%) Unified Communications
6 5 (31.25%) IKE
6 5 (31.25%) Internet
General
1 9 (56.25%) Finance
2 1 (6.250%) Retail
2 1 (6.250%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Support Engineer
1 7 (43.75%) Integration Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Consultant
2 5 (31.25%) Data Consultant
3 4 (25.00%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Network Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Network Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (50.00%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 10 (62.50%) Windows
2 8 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 8 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 8 (50.00%) Linux
3 2 (12.50%) UNIX
3 2 (12.50%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) Business Continuity
2 8 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (31.25%) Network Architecture
3 5 (31.25%) Network Management
3 5 (31.25%) Network Design
3 5 (31.25%) BCP
3 5 (31.25%) Project Management
4 1 (6.250%) Information Security
4 1 (6.250%) Business Intelligence
Qualifications
1 11 (68.75%) CCNA
1 11 (68.75%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (18.75%) CISSP
3 2 (12.50%) JNCIA
3 2 (12.50%) CCSA
System Software
1 11 (68.75%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 11 (68.75%) Cisco
1 11 (68.75%) Juniper
2 9 (56.25%) Microsoft
3 8 (50.00%) HP
3 8 (50.00%) Dell
4 3 (18.75%) CheckPoint
4 3 (18.75%) F5
5 2 (12.50%) Blue Coat