The first table below looks at the demand for VPN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Swindon region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VPN over the 3 months to 20 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 Swindon region.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Rank 51 58 52
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -6
Permanent jobs citing VPN 7 5 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swindon 1.346% 0.883% 0.402%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.77% 5.495% 2.597%
Number of salaries quoted 7 0 2
Average salary £37,000 - £32,250
90% offered a salary of more than £32,800 - £32,050
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 - £32,450
UK excluding London average salary £36,500 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+4.28% +7.69%
All Communications & Networking
Swindon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
65 91 77
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swindon 12.50% 16.08% 15.46%
Number of salaries quoted 59 64 74
Average salary £38,472 £32,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.37% -7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,072 £25,000 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £52,500 £47,050
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
VPN
Wiltshire

VPN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon VPN Salary Trend

VPN
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VPN across the Swindon region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Swindon VPN Salary Histogram

VPN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Swindon 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 19 (82.61%) Cisco
2 18 (78.26%) WAN
3 13 (56.52%) LAN
3 13 (56.52%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (52.17%) MPLS
4 12 (52.17%) Juniper
4 12 (52.17%) Firewall
5 10 (43.48%) TCP/IP
6 9 (39.13%) VLAN
7 8 (34.78%) Video Conferencing
7 8 (34.78%) IP Telephony
7 8 (34.78%) WLAN
7 8 (34.78%) CCNP
8 7 (30.43%) Wireless
9 6 (26.09%) IPsec
9 6 (26.09%) BGP
9 6 (26.09%) OSPF
9 6 (26.09%) McAfee
9 6 (26.09%) Telecoms
9 6 (26.09%) Security Cleared
10 5 (21.74%) SonicWALL
10 5 (21.74%) Polycom
10 5 (21.74%) Service Delivery
10 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (21.74%) Avaya
10 5 (21.74%) CCNA
10 5 (21.74%) Internet
10 5 (21.74%) VoIP
10 5 (21.74%) MCSE
10 5 (21.74%) Enterprise Software

VPN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Swindon 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 (4.348%) WebCenter
1 1 (4.348%) CGI
1 1 (4.348%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 2 (8.696%) MS Exchange
2 1 (4.348%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (4.348%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (4.348%) Oracle 10gAS
2 1 (4.348%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 1 (4.348%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.348%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (4.348%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (4.348%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (4.348%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (78.26%) WAN
2 13 (56.52%) LAN
3 12 (52.17%) MPLS
3 12 (52.17%) Firewall
4 10 (43.48%) TCP/IP
5 9 (39.13%) VLAN
6 8 (34.78%) IP Telephony
6 8 (34.78%) WLAN
7 7 (30.43%) Wireless
8 6 (26.09%) IPsec
8 6 (26.09%) BGP
8 6 (26.09%) OSPF
9 5 (21.74%) Internet
9 5 (21.74%) VoIP
10 4 (17.39%) IPv6
10 4 (17.39%) Cisco PIX
10 4 (17.39%) Cisco ASA
11 3 (13.04%) Network Security
11 3 (13.04%) Cisco IOS
11 3 (13.04%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.348%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (4.348%) Oracle BI EE
1 1 (4.348%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (4.348%) Oracle 10g
1 1 (4.348%) RDBMS
1 1 (4.348%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (4.348%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (4.348%) SQL Server
1 1 (4.348%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (8.696%) Metasploit
General
1 6 (26.09%) Telecoms
2 4 (17.39%) Finance
3 3 (13.04%) Retail
3 3 (13.04%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Analyst
2 6 (26.09%) Technical Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) Designer
3 3 (13.04%) Senior Network Technician
3 3 (13.04%) Network Technician
3 3 (13.04%) Network Consultant
3 3 (13.04%) Consultant
3 3 (13.04%) Lead Designer
4 2 (8.696%) Cisco Network Consultant
4 2 (8.696%) Security Analyst
4 2 (8.696%) IT Security Analyst
4 2 (8.696%) Cisco Consultant
5 1 (4.348%) Information Assurance Leader
5 1 (4.348%) Network Design Consultant
5 1 (4.348%) Infrastructure Team Leader
5 1 (4.348%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.348%) Test Engineer
5 1 (4.348%) Help Desk Support
5 1 (4.348%) Team Leader
5 1 (4.348%) Help Desk Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (34.78%) Video Conferencing
2 5 (21.74%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (17.39%) Cryptography
4 2 (8.696%) PKI
4 2 (8.696%) Statistics
5 1 (4.348%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (17.39%) Windows
2 2 (8.696%) Linux
3 1 (4.348%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (4.348%) Windows 7
3 1 (4.348%) Windows XP
3 1 (4.348%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (4.348%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (21.74%) Service Delivery
2 3 (13.04%) Technical Architecture
2 3 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (13.04%) ITIL
2 3 (13.04%) WAN Optimisation
3 2 (8.696%) SIEM
3 2 (8.696%) Information Security
3 2 (8.696%) Risk Management
3 2 (8.696%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 2 (8.696%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (8.696%) Security Testing
4 1 (4.348%) Information Assurance
4 1 (4.348%) Test Automation
4 1 (4.348%) Waterfall
4 1 (4.348%) Release Management
4 1 (4.348%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (4.348%) Automated Testing
4 1 (4.348%) BPEL
4 1 (4.348%) Supplier Management
4 1 (4.348%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (17.39%) SQL
2 1 (4.348%) Bash shell
2 1 (4.348%) C
2 1 (4.348%) C++
2 1 (4.348%) Perl
2 1 (4.348%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 13 (56.52%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (34.78%) CCNP
3 6 (26.09%) Security Cleared
4 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (21.74%) CCNA
4 5 (21.74%) MCSE
5 4 (17.39%) JNCIS
5 4 (17.39%) SC Cleared
6 3 (13.04%) Degree
7 2 (8.696%) CCDP
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (8.696%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.696%) Nmap
2 2 (8.696%) UAG
3 1 (4.348%) vSphere
3 1 (4.348%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (8.696%) Norton AntiVirus
1 2 (8.696%) Nessus
2 1 (4.348%) SCCM
Vendors
1 19 (82.61%) Cisco
2 12 (52.17%) Juniper
3 6 (26.09%) McAfee
4 5 (21.74%) SonicWALL
4 5 (21.74%) Polycom
4 5 (21.74%) Avaya
5 4 (17.39%) VMware
6 3 (13.04%) Tandberg
6 3 (13.04%) CheckPoint
7 2 (8.696%) Symantec
7 2 (8.696%) Oracle
7 2 (8.696%) Microsoft
8 1 (4.348%) Informatica
8 1 (4.348%) HP
8 1 (4.348%) ServiceNow