The first table below looks at the demand for PPTP skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited PPTP over the 3 months to 24 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.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP)
Rank 850 894 -
Rank change year-on-year
+44 -
Permanent jobs citing PPTP 12 5 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.011% 0.004% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.057% 0.024% -
Number of salaries quoted 10 5 0
Average salary £72,500 £36,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+101.38% -
UK excluding London average salary £72,500 £31,250 -
% change year-on-year
+132.00% -
All Communications & Networking
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
20871 21174 19668
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 19.31% 17.54% 15.81%
Number of salaries quoted 16834 17640 16289
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,127 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%

PPTP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

PPTP Jobs Demand Trend

PPTP
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing PPTP within the UK.

PPTP Salary Trend

PPTP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing PPTP over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 within the UK.

PPTP Salary Histogram

PPTP
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PPTP within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 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
England +33 12 £72,500 +100.00%
South East - 9 £72,500 -
Surrey - 5 £75,000 -
Berkshire - 4 £72,500 -
Reading - 3 £72,500 -
London +51 2 - -
South West - 1 £20,000 -
Gloucestershire - 1 £20,000 -
Tewkesbury - 1 £20,000 -
Reigate - 1 £70,000 -

PPTP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing PPTP 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 PPTP.

1 16 (100.00%) VPN
2 14 (87.50%) Windows
2 14 (87.50%) Microsoft
3 13 (81.25%) Active Directory
3 13 (81.25%) TCP/IP
3 13 (81.25%) Windows Server 2008
4 12 (75.00%) DNS
5 11 (68.75%) MS Exchange
5 11 (68.75%) DHCP
5 11 (68.75%) VMware
5 11 (68.75%) iSCSI
5 11 (68.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (68.75%) Hyper-V
6 10 (62.50%) Cloud Computing
6 10 (62.50%) Lync
6 10 (62.50%) Unified Communications
6 10 (62.50%) Exchange Server 2010
6 10 (62.50%) Exchange Server 2007
7 9 (56.25%) VoIP
8 5 (31.25%) Firewall
8 5 (31.25%) IPsec
9 4 (25.00%) Cisco
10 3 (18.75%) SSL
10 3 (18.75%) OSPF
10 3 (18.75%) BGP
10 3 (18.75%) EIGRP
10 3 (18.75%) Cisco IOS
10 3 (18.75%) WSUS
10 3 (18.75%) Cisco ASA
10 3 (18.75%) Windows 7

PPTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing PPTP 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 PPTP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 11 (68.75%) MS Exchange
2 10 (62.50%) Lync
2 10 (62.50%) Exchange Server 2010
2 10 (62.50%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (6.250%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.250%) MS Office
1 1 (6.250%) MS Excel
1 1 (6.250%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 16 (100.00%) VPN
2 13 (81.25%) TCP/IP
3 12 (75.00%) DNS
4 11 (68.75%) DHCP
4 11 (68.75%) iSCSI
5 10 (62.50%) Unified Communications
6 9 (56.25%) VoIP
7 5 (31.25%) Firewall
7 5 (31.25%) IPsec
8 3 (18.75%) SSL
8 3 (18.75%) OSPF
8 3 (18.75%) BGP
8 3 (18.75%) EIGRP
8 3 (18.75%) Cisco IOS
8 3 (18.75%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (12.50%) Cisco PIX
9 2 (12.50%) VLAN
9 2 (12.50%) IGRP
9 2 (12.50%) WAN
9 2 (12.50%) ISDN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.250%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (6.250%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
1 4 (25.00%) Architect
1 4 (25.00%) Consultant
2 3 (18.75%) Network Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Support Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Network Support Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Network Support
3 2 (12.50%) Network Manager
4 1 (6.250%) Help Desk Support
4 1 (6.250%) Microsoft Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 10 (62.50%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (12.50%) Replication
2 2 (12.50%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 14 (87.50%) Windows
2 13 (81.25%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (18.75%) Windows 7
4 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (6.250%) Linux
5 1 (6.250%) Windows XP
5 1 (6.250%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (12.50%) Load Balancing
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) CCNA
1 2 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (6.250%) A+ Certification
2 1 (6.250%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (81.25%) Active Directory
2 11 (68.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (68.75%) Hyper-V
3 2 (12.50%) DFS Replication
4 1 (6.250%) vSphere
4 1 (6.250%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) WSUS
2 2 (12.50%) Sysprep
3 1 (6.250%) Nagios
3 1 (6.250%) Cacti
Vendors
1 14 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 11 (68.75%) VMware
3 4 (25.00%) Cisco
4 2 (12.50%) WatchGuard
4 2 (12.50%) Nortel
4 2 (12.50%) Nokia
4 2 (12.50%) CheckPoint
5 1 (6.250%) Symantec
5 1 (6.250%) Juniper
5 1 (6.250%) HP
5 1 (6.250%) Dell
5 1 (6.250%) Citrix
5 1 (6.250%) SonicWALL
5 1 (6.250%) NETGEAR
5 1 (6.250%) ProCurve