The first table below looks at the demand for VPN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Staffordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VPN over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Staffordshire region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Rank 69 67 44
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -23
Permanent jobs citing VPN 4 4 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staffordshire 0.625% 0.647% 2.842%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.040% 6.557% 14.16%
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 16
Average salary £29,500 £32,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-9.23% -7.14%
UK excluding London average salary £36,500 £35,000 £32,000
% change year-on-year
+4.28% +9.37%
All Communications & Networking
Staffordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
99 61 113
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staffordshire 15.47% 9.871% 20.07%
Number of salaries quoted 89 54 95
Average salary £35,000 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.50% +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £31,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
VPN
West Midlands

VPN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire VPN Salary Trend

VPN
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VPN across the Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Staffordshire VPN Salary Histogram

VPN
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Burton-upon-Trent -11 3 £29,500 - 1
VPN
West Midlands

VPN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire 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 14 (77.78%) Windows
1 14 (77.78%) Firewall
2 12 (66.67%) Citrix
3 9 (50.00%) Thin Client
3 9 (50.00%) Clustering
3 9 (50.00%) Load Balancing
3 9 (50.00%) Fat Client
3 9 (50.00%) Network Security
4 6 (33.33%) LAN
4 6 (33.33%) WAN
5 5 (27.78%) Avaya
5 5 (27.78%) Cisco
6 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
6 4 (22.22%) Active Directory
6 4 (22.22%) SAN
6 4 (22.22%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (22.22%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (22.22%) VMware
7 3 (16.67%) Replication
7 3 (16.67%) ITIL
7 3 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (16.67%) VLAN
7 3 (16.67%) Terminal Server
7 3 (16.67%) HP
7 3 (16.67%) SQL
7 3 (16.67%) vSphere
8 2 (11.11%) Windows 7
8 2 (11.11%) Unified Communications
8 2 (11.11%) MS Office
8 2 (11.11%) DHCP

VPN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire 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 1 (5.556%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (5.556%) MS Exchange
1 1 (5.556%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 14 (77.78%) Firewall
2 9 (50.00%) Network Security
3 6 (33.33%) LAN
3 6 (33.33%) WAN
4 4 (22.22%) SAN
5 3 (16.67%) VLAN
6 2 (11.11%) Unified Communications
6 2 (11.11%) DHCP
6 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
6 2 (11.11%) DNS
6 2 (11.11%) MPLS
6 2 (11.11%) OSPF
6 2 (11.11%) BGP
7 1 (5.556%) Wireless
7 1 (5.556%) IPsec
7 1 (5.556%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (5.556%) EIGRP
7 1 (5.556%) VoIP
7 1 (5.556%) WLAN
7 1 (5.556%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.556%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.556%) VSS/SourceSafe
Job Titles
1 3 (16.67%) Network Engineer
1 3 (16.67%) Support Specialist
1 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Specialist
1 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
2 2 (11.11%) Avaya Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Support Engineer
3 1 (5.556%) Network Support Engineer
3 1 (5.556%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (5.556%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (5.556%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (5.556%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (5.556%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (5.556%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
3 1 (5.556%) Network Support
3 1 (5.556%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (5.556%) Help Desk Engineer
3 1 (5.556%) IT Support
Miscellaneous
1 9 (50.00%) Thin Client
1 9 (50.00%) Clustering
1 9 (50.00%) Fat Client
2 3 (16.67%) Replication
3 1 (5.556%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 14 (77.78%) Windows
2 4 (22.22%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (22.22%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (11.11%) Windows 7
3 2 (11.11%) Windows XP
4 1 (5.556%) Ubuntu
4 1 (5.556%) Windows Vista
4 1 (5.556%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 3 (16.67%) ITIL
3 2 (11.11%) Service Management
4 1 (5.556%) Validation
4 1 (5.556%) Configuration Management
4 1 (5.556%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (11.11%) CCNP
2 1 (5.556%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.556%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.556%) CCIP
2 1 (5.556%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 3 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (16.67%) Terminal Server
2 3 (16.67%) vSphere
3 1 (5.556%) ProxySG
Vendors
1 12 (66.67%) Citrix
2 5 (27.78%) Avaya
2 5 (27.78%) Cisco
3 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 4 (22.22%) VMware
4 3 (16.67%) HP
5 1 (5.556%) Blue Coat
5 1 (5.556%) CheckPoint
5 1 (5.556%) Lotus
5 1 (5.556%) F5
Burton-On-Trent, Staffordshire
To provide IT support for a Windows 2003/2008 Active Directory server environment... Support of LAN & WAN infrastructure... Microsoft operating systems - Windows 2003/2008 Server... VMWare vSphere 4 &...
Healthcare-at-Home.co.uk
Salary: From £27,000 to £32,000 per annum plus benefits
Posted: 31 May 2013
Stoke-On-Trent, Staffordshire
b) Lotus Notes Administration... d) Experience of Exchange 2007 management. e) Sound knowledge of LAN, WAN, VPN, VOIP and MPLS networking... DESIRABLE SKILLS / EXPERIENCE: a) AVAYA telephony system,...
EasyWebRecruitment.com
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 18 June 2013