The first table below looks at the demand for VPN skills in IT jobs advertised for the St Albans region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VPN over the 3 months to 21 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 St Albans region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Rank 37 26 -
Rank change year-on-year
-11 -
Permanent jobs citing VPN 2 5 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Albans 1.075% 3.676% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.410% 17.86% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 4 0
Average salary £25,000 £26,750 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.54% -
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £36,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
- +10.76%
All Communications & Networking
St Albans
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
83 28 84
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Albans 44.62% 20.59% 46.93%
Number of salaries quoted 29 8 16
Average salary £28,500 £27,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.63% -38.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,500 £37,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
VPN
Hertfordshire

VPN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

St Albans 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 St Albans region.

St Albans VPN Salary Trend

VPN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the St Albans 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 9 (75.00%) MS Excel
1 9 (75.00%) MS Exchange
1 9 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 9 (75.00%) Migration
2 5 (41.67%) Wireless
3 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (25.00%) Symantec
4 3 (25.00%) Windows
4 3 (25.00%) Norton AntiVirus
4 3 (25.00%) Cisco
4 3 (25.00%) Network Security
5 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
5 2 (16.67%) DV Cleared
5 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
5 2 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (16.67%) Cisco PIX
5 2 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (16.67%) Unified Communications
5 2 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (16.67%) Network Design
5 2 (16.67%) CCIE
5 2 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (16.67%) LAN
5 2 (16.67%) WLAN
6 1 (8.333%) SMTP
6 1 (8.333%) DHCP
6 1 (8.333%) Ethernet
6 1 (8.333%) FTP
6 1 (8.333%) NFS
6 1 (8.333%) SNMP

VPN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the St Albans 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 (75.00%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 9 (75.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) Wireless
2 3 (25.00%) Network Security
3 2 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (16.67%) Cisco PIX
3 2 (16.67%) Unified Communications
3 2 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (16.67%) LAN
3 2 (16.67%) WLAN
4 1 (8.333%) SMTP
4 1 (8.333%) DHCP
4 1 (8.333%) Ethernet
4 1 (8.333%) FTP
4 1 (8.333%) SNMP
4 1 (8.333%) TCP/IP
4 1 (8.333%) DNS
4 1 (8.333%) OSPF
4 1 (8.333%) Internet
4 1 (8.333%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (8.333%) IPsec
4 1 (8.333%) BGP
General
1 1 (8.333%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 9 (75.00%) Support Engineer
1 9 (75.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 9 (75.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 9 (75.00%) IT Support
2 2 (16.67%) Network Consultant
2 2 (16.67%) Consultant
2 2 (16.67%) Security Consultant
3 1 (8.333%) Solutions Designer
3 1 (8.333%) Network Designer
3 1 (8.333%) Designer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (8.333%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (8.333%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Migration
2 2 (16.67%) Network Design
3 1 (8.333%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (8.333%) Change Management
3 1 (8.333%) Capacity Planning
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) DV Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) CCIE
2 2 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (8.333%) NFS
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) Symantec
2 3 (25.00%) Cisco
3 1 (8.333%) Twitter