The first table below looks at the demand for VPN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Slough region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VPN over the 3 months to 22 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 Slough region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Rank 62 34 53
Rank change year-on-year
-28 +19
Permanent jobs citing VPN 4 35 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Slough 0.595% 5.162% 0.610%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.857% 13.89% 2.703%
Number of salaries quoted 4 26 2
Average salary £45,000 £42,500 £20,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.88% +107.31%
UK excluding London average salary £36,500 £35,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+2.81% +9.23%
All Communications & Networking
Slough
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
140 252 111
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Slough 20.83% 37.17% 22.56%
Number of salaries quoted 122 179 68
Average salary £45,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.05% +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £32,500 £29,250
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £55,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
VPN
Berkshire

VPN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Slough 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 Slough region.

Slough VPN Salary Trend

VPN
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VPN across the Slough region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Slough VPN Salary Histogram

VPN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Slough 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 (81.25%) ITIL
1 13 (81.25%) Windows
1 13 (81.25%) Active Directory
2 12 (75.00%) CCNA
2 12 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (75.00%) LAN
2 12 (75.00%) WAN
2 12 (75.00%) Cisco
3 11 (68.75%) VoIP
3 11 (68.75%) Wireless
4 9 (56.25%) VMware
4 9 (56.25%) Service Delivery
4 9 (56.25%) MCTS
4 9 (56.25%) MCITP
4 9 (56.25%) Exchange Server 2007
4 9 (56.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (56.25%) ProCurve
4 9 (56.25%) LDAP
4 9 (56.25%) Microsoft
4 9 (56.25%) TCP/IP
4 9 (56.25%) DNS
4 9 (56.25%) MS Exchange
4 9 (56.25%) HP
4 9 (56.25%) Citrix
4 9 (56.25%) Windows Server 2008
4 9 (56.25%) Hyper-V
5 8 (50.00%) XenServer
5 8 (50.00%) EqualLogic
5 8 (50.00%) DataCore
5 8 (50.00%) 802.11

VPN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Slough 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 9 (56.25%) Exchange Server 2007
1 9 (56.25%) MS Exchange
2 4 (25.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 12 (75.00%) LAN
1 12 (75.00%) WAN
2 11 (68.75%) VoIP
2 11 (68.75%) Wireless
3 9 (56.25%) LDAP
3 9 (56.25%) TCP/IP
3 9 (56.25%) DNS
4 8 (50.00%) 802.11
4 8 (50.00%) SMTP
4 8 (50.00%) DHCP
5 4 (25.00%) Firewall
6 3 (18.75%) OSPF
6 3 (18.75%) BGP
6 3 (18.75%) SSL
6 3 (18.75%) Network Security
6 3 (18.75%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (18.75%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (18.75%) IPsec
6 3 (18.75%) EIGRP
6 3 (18.75%) IGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 8 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 3 (18.75%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Technical Leader
2 3 (18.75%) Network Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Service Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Service Desk Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Service Desk Technician
4 1 (6.250%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (6.250%) Administrator
4 1 (6.250%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 8 (50.00%) EqualLogic
2 4 (25.00%) Blackberry
3 1 (6.250%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 13 (81.25%) Windows
2 9 (56.25%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (25.00%) Windows XP
3 4 (25.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) ITIL
2 9 (56.25%) Service Delivery
3 8 (50.00%) Time Management
4 7 (43.75%) Change Management
5 4 (25.00%) Incident Management
5 4 (25.00%) Problem Management
6 3 (18.75%) Data Security
7 1 (6.250%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.250%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (75.00%) CCNA
1 12 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (56.25%) MCTS
2 9 (56.25%) MCITP
3 4 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (18.75%) CCSP
4 3 (18.75%) JNCIA
5 1 (6.250%) MCSE
5 1 (6.250%) CCA
5 1 (6.250%) Citrix Certification
5 1 (6.250%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) PCI DSS
1 3 (18.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (81.25%) Active Directory
2 9 (56.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (56.25%) Hyper-V
3 8 (50.00%) XenServer
4 1 (6.250%) UAG
4 1 (6.250%) Xen
Vendors
1 12 (75.00%) Cisco
2 9 (56.25%) VMware
2 9 (56.25%) ProCurve
2 9 (56.25%) Microsoft
2 9 (56.25%) HP
2 9 (56.25%) Citrix
3 8 (50.00%) DataCore
4 4 (25.00%) Mitel
5 3 (18.75%) Avaya
5 3 (18.75%) Juniper
6 1 (6.250%) SonicWALL
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