Shropshire VPN Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Virtual Private Network (VPN) skills within the Shropshire region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VPN over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Location Abingdon Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Avonmouth Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Borehamwood Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chessington Chester Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Colchester Corby Cornwall Coulsdon County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Dunfermline Dunstable Ealing East Grinstead East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Flintshire Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hackney Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Isle of Wight Keighley Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Liversedge London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Monmouth Monmouthshire New Malden Newbury Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rochester Rotherham Royston Rugby Sale Salford Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Croydon South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Stowmarket Stratford-upon-Avon Strathclyde Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Tadworth Teddington Thame Thames Valley Torquay Truro Tunbridge Wells Twickenham UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Wellingborough West Drayton West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Woking Wolverhampton Worthing Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	52	27
Rank change on same period last year	-25
Matching permanent IT job ads	6	13
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	5.128 %	14.44 %
Salaries quoted	3	7
Average minimum salary	£50,000	£24,714
Average salary	£56,667	£26,143
% change on same period last year	+116.75 %
Average maximum salary	£63,333	£27,571
UK excluding London average salary	£34,486	£35,954
% change on same period last year	-4.08 %
Communications & Networking Shropshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	117	90
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.068 %	0.039 %
Salaries quoted	69	58
Average minimum salary	£44,638	£40,287
Average salary	£47,679	£42,795
% change on same period last year	+11.41 %
Average maximum salary	£50,721	£45,303
UK excluding London average salary	£37,899	£38,913
% change on same period last year	-2.60 %
VPN West Midlands

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing VPN across the Shropshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VPN across the Shropshire region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT jobs across the Shropshire 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 13 (92.86 %) Firewall 2 8 (57.14 %) Cisco 3 6 (42.86 %) CCIE 3 6 (42.86 %) CCNP 3 6 (42.86 %) Wireless 3 6 (42.86 %) Cisco Certification 3 6 (42.86 %) MPLS 4 5 (35.71 %) Internet 4 5 (35.71 %) Citrix 5 4 (28.57 %) TCP/IP 5 4 (28.57 %) DNS 5 4 (28.57 %) SQL Server 5 4 (28.57 %) IIS 5 4 (28.57 %) Linux 5 4 (28.57 %) Lotus Domino

5 4 (28.57 %) Apache 5 4 (28.57 %) LAN 5 4 (28.57 %) CheckPoint 5 4 (28.57 %) DDNS 5 4 (28.57 %) Active Directory 5 4 (28.57 %) Clustering 6 3 (21.43 %) Network Design 6 3 (21.43 %) BIG-IP 6 3 (21.43 %) Risk Assessment 6 3 (21.43 %) CISSP 6 3 (21.43 %) Microsoft Certification 6 3 (21.43 %) VoIP 6 3 (21.43 %) WAN 6 3 (21.43 %) MCSE 6 3 (21.43 %) SSL

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT jobs across the Shropshire 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 (7.143 %) ASP 1 1 (7.143 %) Adobe Flex	Application Platforms 1 4 (28.57 %) IIS 1 4 (28.57 %) Lotus Domino 1 4 (28.57 %) Apache
Applications 1 1 (7.143 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 1 (7.143 %) Dynamics NAV 1 1 (7.143 %) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking 1 13 (92.86 %) Firewall 2 6 (42.86 %) Wireless 2 6 (42.86 %) MPLS 3 5 (35.71 %) Internet 4 4 (28.57 %) DDNS 4 4 (28.57 %) LAN 4 4 (28.57 %) TCP/IP 4 4 (28.57 %) DNS 5 3 (21.43 %) SSL 5 3 (21.43 %) VoIP 5 3 (21.43 %) WAN 5 3 (21.43 %) BIG-IP 5 3 (21.43 %) VLAN 5 3 (21.43 %) Cisco PIX 5 3 (21.43 %) Network Security 5 3 (21.43 %) Wireless Security 5 3 (21.43 %) Cisco ASA 6 2 (14.29 %) Cisco IOS 7 1 (7.143 %) IP Telephony 7 1 (7.143 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (28.57 %) SQL Server
General 1 1 (7.143 %) Telecoms 1 1 (7.143 %) Education 1 1 (7.143 %) Government	Job Titles 1 6 (42.86 %) Support Engineer 2 4 (28.57 %) Technical Engineer 3 3 (21.43 %) Security Specialist 3 3 (21.43 %) Network Architect 3 3 (21.43 %) Technical Support 3 3 (21.43 %) Architect 3 3 (21.43 %) Technical Support Engineer 4 2 (14.29 %) 2nd Line Support 4 2 (14.29 %) 2nd Line Support Engineer 5 1 (7.143 %) 3rd Line Support Analyst 5 1 (7.143 %) Customer Services Manager 5 1 (7.143 %) Service Manager 5 1 (7.143 %) Technical Support Analyst 5 1 (7.143 %) Technical Analyst 5 1 (7.143 %) Analyst 5 1 (7.143 %) Support Analyst 5 1 (7.143 %) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous 1 4 (28.57 %) Clustering 2 3 (21.43 %) PKI 3 2 (14.29 %) Video Conferencing	Operating Systems 1 4 (28.57 %) Linux 2 2 (14.29 %) Windows NT 2 2 (14.29 %) Windows 2000 Server 2 2 (14.29 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (21.43 %) Risk Assessment 1 3 (21.43 %) Network Design 1 3 (21.43 %) Incident Management 1 3 (21.43 %) Business Development 1 3 (21.43 %) Load Balancing 1 3 (21.43 %) SC Cleared 1 3 (21.43 %) BC Cleared 1 3 (21.43 %) Security Cleared 2 2 (14.29 %) Migration 3 1 (7.143 %) CRM	Qualifications 1 6 (42.86 %) CCIE 1 6 (42.86 %) CCNP 1 6 (42.86 %) Cisco Certification 2 3 (21.43 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (21.43 %) Degree 2 3 (21.43 %) CISSP 2 3 (21.43 %) CCIP 2 3 (21.43 %) CCNA 2 3 (21.43 %) CCDP 2 3 (21.43 %) CCSP 2 3 (21.43 %) MCSE 3 2 (14.29 %) MCSA 3 2 (14.29 %) Citrix Certification 4 1 (7.143 %) HND 4 1 (7.143 %) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (7.143 %) ISO9001 1 1 (7.143 %) SLA	System Software 1 4 (28.57 %) Active Directory 2 2 (14.29 %) Terminal Services 3 1 (7.143 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 1 (7.143 %) MetaFrame
Vendors 1 8 (57.14 %) Cisco 2 5 (35.71 %) Citrix 3 4 (28.57 %) CheckPoint 4 1 (7.143 %) Microsoft