South West IPsec Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) skills within the South West region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited IPsec over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
Location Accrington Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Farnham Greenford Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Kent Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes Newbury North West North Yorkshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Scotland Slough Solihull South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Surrey Tunbridge Wells UK Wakefield Warrington West Midlands West Yorkshire Windsor York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	255	228
Rank change on same period last year	-27
Matching permanent IT job ads	3	27
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	0.153 %	1.557 %
Salaries quoted	2	27
Average minimum salary	£35,000	£39,074
Average salary	£35,000	£41,056
% change on same period last year	-14.74 %
Average maximum salary	£35,000	£43,037
UK excluding London average salary	£39,539	£42,315
% change on same period last year	-6.55 %
Communications & Networking South West
Matching permanent IT job ads	1965	1734
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.037 %	0.710 %
Salaries quoted	1727	1349
Average minimum salary	£31,939	£31,801
Average salary	£35,101	£34,839
% change on same period last year	+0.75 %
Average maximum salary	£38,264	£37,878
UK excluding London average salary	£37,397	£39,734
% change on same period last year	-5.88 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing IPsec across the South West 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 IPsec across the South West region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing IPsec across the South West region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IPsec within the South West region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Bristol	-25	3	£35,000	-26.26 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the South West 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 11 (100.00 %) VPN 2 9 (81.82 %) Linux 3 8 (72.73 %) Red Hat 4 6 (54.55 %) Apache 4 6 (54.55 %) ADSL 4 6 (54.55 %) MySQL 4 6 (54.55 %) HP 5 5 (45.45 %) PHP 5 5 (45.45 %) Ubuntu 5 5 (45.45 %) PHP5 6 4 (36.36 %) UNIX 6 4 (36.36 %) Oracle 6 4 (36.36 %) Cisco 7 3 (27.27 %) IBM 7 3 (27.27 %) SNMP

7 3 (27.27 %) SMTP 7 3 (27.27 %) FTP 7 3 (27.27 %) HTTP 7 3 (27.27 %) NFS 7 3 (27.27 %) AIX 7 3 (27.27 %) Brocade 7 3 (27.27 %) SUSE 7 3 (27.27 %) Back Office 7 3 (27.27 %) SAN 7 3 (27.27 %) PPTP 7 3 (27.27 %) SSL 7 3 (27.27 %) Tivoli 7 3 (27.27 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 8 2 (18.18 %) Active Directory 8 2 (18.18 %) VLAN

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the South West 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 6 (54.55 %) Apache 2 1 (9.091 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (9.091 %) Exchange Server 2007	Communications & Networking 1 11 (100.00 %) VPN 2 6 (54.55 %) ADSL 3 3 (27.27 %) SNMP 3 3 (27.27 %) SMTP 3 3 (27.27 %) FTP 3 3 (27.27 %) HTTP 3 3 (27.27 %) SSL 3 3 (27.27 %) SAN 3 3 (27.27 %) PPTP 4 2 (18.18 %) Firewall 4 2 (18.18 %) VLAN 5 1 (9.091 %) IGMP 5 1 (9.091 %) MPLS 5 1 (9.091 %) OSPF 5 1 (9.091 %) BGP 5 1 (9.091 %) EIGRP 5 1 (9.091 %) RIP 5 1 (9.091 %) TCP/IP 5 1 (9.091 %) LAN 5 1 (9.091 %) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (54.55 %) MySQL 2 1 (9.091 %) SQL Server 2 1 (9.091 %) RDBMS	General 1 3 (27.27 %) Back Office
Job Titles 1 6 (54.55 %) Administrator 1 6 (54.55 %) Systems Administrator 2 3 (27.27 %) AIX Administrator 3 2 (18.18 %) Network Engineer 3 2 (18.18 %) Network Support 4 1 (9.091 %) Senior Support Engineer 4 1 (9.091 %) Cisco Network Engineer 4 1 (9.091 %) Linux Systems Administrator 4 1 (9.091 %) Linux Administrator 4 1 (9.091 %) Network Support Engineer 4 1 (9.091 %) Senior Network Engineer 4 1 (9.091 %) Cisco Engineer 4 1 (9.091 %) Support Engineer 4 1 (9.091 %) Cisco Support 4 1 (9.091 %) Senior Network Support 4 1 (9.091 %) Senior Network Support Engineer	Operating Systems 1 9 (81.82 %) Linux 2 5 (45.45 %) Ubuntu 3 4 (36.36 %) UNIX 4 3 (27.27 %) AIX 4 3 (27.27 %) SUSE 5 2 (18.18 %) Windows 6 1 (9.091 %) Solaris 6 1 (9.091 %) Debian 6 1 (9.091 %) Windows XP 6 1 (9.091 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (18.18 %) E-Commerce 2 1 (9.091 %) Disaster Recovery 2 1 (9.091 %) Migration 2 1 (9.091 %) Network Design 2 1 (9.091 %) ITIL	Programming Languages 1 5 (45.45 %) PHP 1 5 (45.45 %) PHP5 2 2 (18.18 %) PHP4 3 1 (9.091 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 1 (9.091 %) MCSE 1 1 (9.091 %) CCNP 1 1 (9.091 %) Cisco Certification 1 1 (9.091 %) Microsoft Certification	System Software 1 3 (27.27 %) NFS 2 2 (18.18 %) Active Directory 3 1 (9.091 %) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management 1 3 (27.27 %) Tivoli 1 3 (27.27 %) Tivoli Storage Manager	Vendors 1 8 (72.73 %) Red Hat 2 6 (54.55 %) HP 3 4 (36.36 %) Oracle 3 4 (36.36 %) Cisco 4 3 (27.27 %) IBM 4 3 (27.27 %) Brocade 5 1 (9.091 %) Sun 5 1 (9.091 %) Citrix 5 1 (9.091 %) CheckPoint 5 1 (9.091 %) VMware