The first table below looks at the demand for VPN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Telford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VPN over the 3 months to 23 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 Telford region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Rank 24 21 -
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -
Permanent jobs citing VPN 6 3 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Telford 4.027% 3.261% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.77% 9.677% -
Number of salaries quoted 4 3 0
Average salary £36,250 £27,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+34.25% -
UK excluding London average salary £36,500 £35,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+2.81% +9.23%
All Communications & Networking
Telford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
47 31 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Telford 31.54% 33.70% 25.40%
Number of salaries quoted 15 17 13
Average salary £40,000 £30,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+31.14% -18.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,500 £17,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £51,000 £45,000 £32,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
VPN
Shropshire

VPN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Telford 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 Telford region.

Telford VPN Salary Trend

VPN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Telford 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 (90.00%) Firewall
2 7 (70.00%) CheckPoint
2 7 (70.00%) Cisco
2 7 (70.00%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (60.00%) Riverbed
3 6 (60.00%) SolarWinds
3 6 (60.00%) SolarWinds Orion
3 6 (60.00%) Nokia
3 6 (60.00%) VLAN
3 6 (60.00%) Cisco IOS
3 6 (60.00%) IronPort
3 6 (60.00%) Cisco PIX
3 6 (60.00%) DNS
3 6 (60.00%) CCNP
3 6 (60.00%) LAN
3 6 (60.00%) WAN
3 6 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (40.00%) McAfee
4 4 (40.00%) ISA Server
4 4 (40.00%) VoIP
4 4 (40.00%) QA
4 4 (40.00%) WAN Optimisation
5 3 (30.00%) TCP/IP
5 3 (30.00%) MPLS
6 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
6 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
6 2 (20.00%) Citrix
6 2 (20.00%) DHCP
6 2 (20.00%) SQL

VPN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Telford 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 2 (20.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 9 (90.00%) Firewall
2 7 (70.00%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (60.00%) VLAN
3 6 (60.00%) Cisco IOS
3 6 (60.00%) Cisco PIX
3 6 (60.00%) DNS
3 6 (60.00%) LAN
3 6 (60.00%) WAN
4 4 (40.00%) VoIP
5 3 (30.00%) TCP/IP
5 3 (30.00%) MPLS
6 2 (20.00%) DHCP
7 1 (10.00%) BGP
General
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Network Team Leader
2 3 (30.00%) Team Leader
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) WAN Optimisation
2 1 (10.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (10.00%) Change Management
2 1 (10.00%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) CCNP
1 6 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (20.00%) CCSA
3 1 (10.00%) CCIP
3 1 (10.00%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) ISA Server
2 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) CheckPoint
1 7 (70.00%) Cisco
2 6 (60.00%) Riverbed
2 6 (60.00%) SolarWinds
2 6 (60.00%) Nokia
2 6 (60.00%) IronPort
3 4 (40.00%) McAfee
4 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (20.00%) Citrix
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