The first part of the table below looks at the demand for VPN skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VPN over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category.

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank159205176
Rank change year-on-year
Up+46Down-29
Matching permanent IT job ads192514421203
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK1.596 %1.176 %1.260 %
As % of the Communications & Networking category9.091 %7.472 %8.173 %
Number of salaries quoted168812261046
Average salary£38,000£35,000£36,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.57 %-4.10 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£24,500£23,000£22,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£61,700£60,000£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£36,000£32,500£32,500
% change year-on-year
+10.76 %-
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryAll Communications & Networking
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
211741929914719
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK17.56 %15.74 %15.42 %
Number of salaries quoted176421597812153
Average salary£42,500£40,000£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£26,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£61,500£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£37,500£37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66 %-

VPN
Demand Trend

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

VPN Demand Trend

VPN
Salary Trend

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

VPN Salary Trend

VPN
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VPN over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 within the UK.

VPN Salary Histogram

VPN
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+431833£39,000+11.42 %
LondonUp+41780£44,500+11.25 %
South EastUp+43567£40,000+6.66 %
City of LondonUp+51197£52,500+10.52 %
BerkshireUp+60163£42,500+8.97 %
SurreyUp+8129£38,000+10.14 %
East of EnglandUp+24127£37,500+25.00 %
YorkshireUp+8109£34,000+4.61 %
HampshireUp+42108£31,750-2.30 %
North WestUp+30103£33,500+11.66 %
ManchesterUp+3380£30,000-
BuckinghamshireUp+3768£37,500-
South WestDown-1264£37,500+23.96 %
West YorkshireDown-1063£34,000+4.61 %
LeedsUp+246£35,000+16.66 %
ReadingUp+844£41,250-8.33 %
West MidlandsDown-5843£33,500+8.06 %
HertfordshireUp+2942£37,000+16.53 %
ScotlandUp+941£35,000+16.66 %
East MidlandsUp+535£36,000+20.00 %
SloughUp+1934£42,500+107.31 %
RochdaleNew entry-32£31,750-
Milton KeynesUp+2830£40,000+37.93 %
OxfordshireUp+1830£26,000-25.17 %
CambridgeshireUp+328£41,250+17.85 %
BracknellNew entry-26£42,500-
WiltshireUp+1325£36,250+11.53 %
SuffolkDown-223£32,500+8.33 %
GuildfordDown-1023£38,250+30.76 %
West SussexDown-1223£28,500-36.66 %

VPN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

12268 (60.32 %)Firewall
21990 (52.93 %)Cisco
31978 (52.61 %)Windows
41299 (34.55 %)Microsoft
51270 (33.78 %)Active Directory
61189 (31.62 %)Cisco Certification
71133 (30.13 %)WAN
81075 (28.59 %)TCP/IP
91059 (28.16 %)LAN
101027 (27.31 %)MS Exchange
11951 (25.29 %)DNS
12906 (24.10 %)Windows Server 2003
13877 (23.32 %)VMware
14844 (22.45 %)Windows Server 2008
15807 (21.46 %)Linux
16738 (19.63 %)MS Excel
17727 (19.34 %)CheckPoint
18691 (18.38 %)CCNP
19670 (17.82 %)Juniper
20649 (17.26 %)CCNA
21627 (16.68 %)Windows XP
22623 (16.57 %)MPLS
23591 (15.72 %)SQL
24586 (15.59 %)DHCP
25581 (15.45 %)Microsoft Certification
26576 (15.32 %)OSPF
27571 (15.19 %)Finance
28556 (14.79 %)VMware Infrastructure
29552 (14.68 %)Network Security
30540 (14.36 %)BGP

VPN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1126 (3.351 %).NET
274 (1.968 %)CSS
365 (1.729 %)HTML
462 (1.649 %)XML
561 (1.622 %)Web Services
646 (1.223 %)LAMP
729 (0.771 %)ASP.NET
818 (0.479 %)XSLT
818 (0.479 %)SOAP
913 (0.346 %)jQuery
913 (0.346 %)SailPoint
1011 (0.293 %)FIX Protocol
1011 (0.293 %)COM
1110 (0.266 %)Middleware
129 (0.239 %)WebSphere
129 (0.239 %)JSP
129 (0.239 %)Forefront TMG
138 (0.213 %)Memcached
138 (0.213 %)Flash
147 (0.186 %)J2ME
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
11027 (27.31 %)MS Exchange
2455 (12.10 %)Exchange Server 2010
3433 (11.52 %)Exchange Server 2003
4373 (9.920 %)Exchange Server 2007
5293 (7.793 %)IIS
6255 (6.782 %)SharePoint
7170 (4.521 %)Apache
8128 (3.404 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
955 (1.463 %)Lync
1054 (1.436 %)Lotus Notes
1151 (1.356 %)Tomcat
1240 (1.064 %)Exchange Server 2000
1334 (0.904 %)SharePoint 2010
1432 (0.851 %)Office Communications Server
1530 (0.798 %)Amazon AWS
1627 (0.718 %)nginx
1718 (0.479 %)Lotus Domino
1817 (0.452 %)WebLogic
198 (0.213 %)SAS
207 (0.186 %)MQSeries
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1738 (19.63 %)MS Excel
2473 (12.58 %)MS Office
380 (2.128 %)MS Visio
464 (1.702 %)MS PowerPoint
517 (0.452 %)Office 365
615 (0.399 %)Google Apps
712 (0.319 %)Acrobat
89 (0.239 %)MS Project
97 (0.186 %)Photoshop
105 (0.133 %)Spreadsheet
114 (0.106 %)AutoCAD
123 (0.080 %)InfoPath
132 (0.053 %)MATLAB
132 (0.053 %)DeltaView
141 (0.027 %)LightWave 3D
141 (0.027 %)Final Cut Pro
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
130 (0.798 %)Dynamics CRM
214 (0.372 %)Line 100
214 (0.372 %)Sage MMS
312 (0.319 %)3000 Xtra
312 (0.319 %)Dynamics AX
49 (0.239 %)Summit
49 (0.239 %)Dynamics NAV
58 (0.213 %)SoftGrid
66 (0.160 %)assyst
66 (0.160 %)SunGard AvantGard
75 (0.133 %)Line 500
75 (0.133 %)Remedy ITSM
84 (0.106 %)GoldMine
93 (0.080 %)SalesLogix
102 (0.053 %)Khalix
102 (0.053 %)Oracle 11i
102 (0.053 %)SunGard GMI
102 (0.053 %)SunGard Stream Clearvision
102 (0.053 %)Oracle EBS R12
111 (0.027 %)ION MarketView
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
12268 (60.32 %)Firewall
21133 (30.13 %)WAN
31075 (28.59 %)TCP/IP
41059 (28.16 %)LAN
5951 (25.29 %)DNS
6623 (16.57 %)MPLS
7586 (15.59 %)DHCP
8576 (15.32 %)OSPF
9552 (14.68 %)Network Security
10540 (14.36 %)BGP
11538 (14.31 %)VoIP
12514 (13.67 %)Cisco ASA
13474 (12.61 %)SAN
14467 (12.42 %)Wireless
15460 (12.23 %)IPsec
16458 (12.18 %)SSL
17431 (11.46 %)Internet
18426 (11.33 %)VLAN
19333 (8.856 %)EIGRP
20307 (8.165 %)Cisco PIX
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1501 (13.32 %)SQL Server
2168 (4.468 %)MySQL
3130 (3.457 %)SQL Server 2005
3130 (3.457 %)SQL Server 2008
452 (1.383 %)SQL Server 2000
547 (1.250 %)DB2
643 (1.144 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
722 (0.585 %)Crystal Reports
722 (0.585 %)PostgreSQL
821 (0.559 %)Oracle 8/8i
916 (0.426 %)RDBMS
916 (0.426 %)Oracle 10g
916 (0.426 %)NoSQL
1014 (0.372 %)MongoDB
1113 (0.346 %)Oracle 11g
129 (0.239 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
138 (0.213 %)Apache Cassandra
146 (0.160 %)QlikView
146 (0.160 %)Oracle 9i
146 (0.160 %)MS Access
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
152 (1.383 %)Subversion
221 (0.559 %)Git (software)
313 (0.346 %)TeamCity
313 (0.346 %)Visual Studio
410 (0.266 %)Ant
56 (0.160 %)Hudson
65 (0.133 %)Metasploit
65 (0.133 %)Team Foundation Server
74 (0.106 %)MSI
74 (0.106 %)NUnit
83 (0.080 %)JUnit
83 (0.080 %)Selenium
83 (0.080 %)Rhino Mocks
92 (0.053 %)JIRA
92 (0.053 %)Eclipse
92 (0.053 %)LabVIEW
101 (0.027 %)InstallShield
101 (0.027 %)Synon
101 (0.027 %)Maven
101 (0.027 %)Mercurial
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1571 (15.19 %)Finance
2436 (11.60 %)Telecoms
3160 (4.255 %)Banking
468 (1.809 %)Retail
561 (1.622 %)Law
654 (1.436 %)Legal
752 (1.383 %)Marketing
848 (1.277 %)Back Office
946 (1.223 %)Games
1033 (0.878 %)Manufacturing
1129 (0.771 %)Investment Banking
1221 (0.559 %)German Language
1319 (0.505 %)Advertising
1319 (0.505 %)Front Office
1418 (0.479 %)French Language
1516 (0.426 %)Electronics
1615 (0.399 %)Italian Language
1712 (0.319 %)Spanish Language
189 (0.239 %)Retail Banking
198 (0.213 %)Publishing
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1718 (19.10 %)Network Engineer
2560 (14.89 %)Analyst
3512 (13.62 %)Support Engineer
4337 (8.963 %)Administrator
5318 (8.457 %)Consultant
6266 (7.074 %)Systems Administrator
7244 (6.489 %)Support Analyst
8204 (5.426 %)IT Support
9183 (4.867 %)Security Engineer
10171 (4.548 %)Technical Support
11161 (4.282 %)Architect
12155 (4.122 %)Cisco Engineer
13152 (4.043 %)3rd Line Support
14144 (3.830 %)Network Analyst
15142 (3.777 %)Network Support
16140 (3.723 %)Systems Engineer
17131 (3.484 %)2nd Line Support
18124 (3.298 %)Desktop Support
18124 (3.298 %)Infrastructure Engineer
19120 (3.191 %)Senior Network Engineer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1314 (8.351 %)Blackberry
2119 (3.165 %)Clustering
2119 (3.165 %)Video Conferencing
399 (2.633 %)Computer Science
495 (2.527 %)Management Information System
592 (2.447 %)PKI
665 (1.729 %)SecurID
756 (1.489 %)Replication
756 (1.489 %)Open Source
855 (1.463 %)Cryptography
953 (1.410 %)iPhone
953 (1.410 %)Statistics
1050 (1.330 %)PDA
1146 (1.223 %)SaaS
1245 (1.197 %)Hedge funds
1337 (0.984 %)Client/Server
1429 (0.771 %)Smartphone
1526 (0.691 %)Fat Client
1526 (0.691 %)Thin Client
1526 (0.691 %)e-Health
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11978 (52.61 %)Windows
2906 (24.10 %)Windows Server 2003
3844 (22.45 %)Windows Server 2008
4807 (21.46 %)Linux
5627 (16.68 %)Windows XP
6486 (12.93 %)Windows 7
7380 (10.11 %)UNIX
8181 (4.814 %)Windows Vista
9124 (3.298 %)Windows 2000
10111 (2.952 %)Debian
1196 (2.553 %)Windows 2000 Server
1196 (2.553 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1289 (2.367 %)Solaris
1382 (2.181 %)CentOS
1473 (1.941 %)Ubuntu
1571 (1.888 %)Windows NT
1665 (1.729 %)Mac OS X
1753 (1.410 %)AIX
1844 (1.170 %)Android
1935 (0.931 %)Windows Mobile
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1489 (13.01 %)ITIL
2315 (8.378 %)Load Balancing
3265 (7.048 %)Network Management
4240 (6.383 %)Network Design
5206 (5.479 %)Disaster Recovery
6159 (4.229 %)Project Management
7148 (3.936 %)Service Delivery
8129 (3.431 %)Change Management
9126 (3.351 %)Service Management
10117 (3.112 %)Information Security
11114 (3.032 %)Business Continuity
12101 (2.686 %)Capacity Planning
1399 (2.633 %)Incident Management
1399 (2.633 %)Penetration Testing
1495 (2.527 %)PRINCE2
1593 (2.473 %)Time Management
1688 (2.340 %)CRM
1688 (2.340 %)Security Management
1787 (2.314 %)Problem Management
1876 (2.021 %)Vulnerability Assessment
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1591 (15.72 %)SQL
2102 (2.713 %)Perl
388 (2.340 %)PHP
478 (2.074 %)Java
478 (2.074 %)Python
575 (1.995 %)Bash shell
662 (1.649 %)C
752 (1.383 %)PowerShell
845 (1.197 %)C#
942 (1.117 %)Shell Script
1039 (1.037 %)JavaScript
1133 (0.878 %)C++
1227 (0.718 %)VB
1324 (0.638 %)Ruby
1422 (0.585 %)VBScript
1519 (0.505 %)VB.NET
1615 (0.399 %)Tcl
1712 (0.319 %)T-SQL
189 (0.239 %)Objective-C
197 (0.186 %)VB6
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
11189 (31.62 %)Cisco Certification
2691 (18.38 %)CCNP
3649 (17.26 %)CCNA
4581 (15.45 %)Microsoft Certification
5384 (10.21 %)MCSE
6350 (9.309 %)Degree
7258 (6.862 %)CCSP
8233 (6.197 %)MCP
9227 (6.037 %)MCITP
10225 (5.984 %)CCIE
11171 (4.548 %)MCSA
12166 (4.415 %)CCSE
13157 (4.176 %)CCDP
14151 (4.016 %)CCIP
14151 (4.016 %)Security Cleared
15138 (3.670 %)CCSA
16126 (3.351 %)JNCIA
17110 (2.926 %)SC Cleared
18101 (2.686 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1999 (2.633 %)CISSP
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1246 (6.543 %)SLA
2118 (3.138 %)ISO/IEC 27001
379 (2.101 %)PCI DSS
450 (1.330 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
545 (1.197 %)ISO 9001
614 (0.372 %)ISO/IEC 17799
614 (0.372 %)QA
711 (0.293 %)BS7799
87 (0.186 %)COBIT
96 (0.160 %)HIPAA
104 (0.106 %)JSP 440
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
11270 (33.78 %)Active Directory
2556 (14.79 %)VMware Infrastructure
3187 (4.973 %)vSphere
4169 (4.495 %)Hyper-V
5151 (4.016 %)Terminal Services
6148 (3.936 %)VMware ESX
7127 (3.378 %)XenApp
896 (2.553 %)VMware ESXi
950 (1.330 %)XenServer
950 (1.330 %)ISA Server
1047 (1.250 %)XenDesktop
1146 (1.223 %)Citrix Presentation Server
1242 (1.117 %)NFS
1341 (1.090 %)Xen
1437 (0.984 %)Terminal Server
1437 (0.984 %)UAG
1532 (0.851 %)Squid
1628 (0.745 %)Snort
1726 (0.691 %)Sendmail
1825 (0.665 %)Samba
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1136 (3.617 %)Backup Exec
2117 (3.112 %)Nagios
387 (2.314 %)CiscoWorks
485 (2.261 %)SCCM
564 (1.702 %)Norton AntiVirus
661 (1.622 %)WSUS
755 (1.463 %)OpenView
852 (1.383 %)Cacti
947 (1.250 %)Puppet
1033 (0.878 %)SCOM
1033 (0.878 %)ARCserve
1126 (0.691 %)Netcool
1126 (0.691 %)Tivoli
1225 (0.665 %)Nessus
1323 (0.612 %)DameWare
1323 (0.612 %)Cisco CUCM
1421 (0.559 %)Munin
1421 (0.559 %)SolarWinds Orion
1518 (0.479 %)Cisco IPCC
1617 (0.452 %)NetBackup
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11990 (52.93 %)Cisco
21299 (34.55 %)Microsoft
3877 (23.32 %)VMware
4727 (19.34 %)CheckPoint
5670 (17.82 %)Juniper
6471 (12.53 %)Citrix
7373 (9.920 %)HP
8205 (5.452 %)Nokia
9204 (5.426 %)Red Hat
10200 (5.319 %)F5
11182 (4.840 %)Symantec
12168 (4.468 %)Oracle
13159 (4.229 %)Blue Coat
14148 (3.936 %)Dell
15110 (2.926 %)McAfee
16101 (2.686 %)Riverbed
1795 (2.527 %)Websense
1880 (2.128 %)Bloomberg
1880 (2.128 %)Avaya
1977 (2.048 %)SolarWinds