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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Rank 30 35 29
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -6
Permanent jobs citing VPN 5 4 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Uxbridge 2.451% 1.770% 2.703%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.475% 12.90% 11.63%
Number of salaries quoted 2 4 5
Average salary £40,000 £31,250 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+28.00% +25.00%
UK excluding London average salary £36,500 £35,154 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+3.82% +8.16%
All Communications & Networking
Uxbridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
59 31 43
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Uxbridge 28.92% 13.72% 23.24%
Number of salaries quoted 54 30 40
Average salary £47,500 £41,250 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.15% -8.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £24,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £80,000 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
VPN
London

VPN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Uxbridge 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 Uxbridge region.

Uxbridge VPN Salary Trend

VPN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Uxbridge 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 10 (100.00%) Firewall
2 8 (80.00%) Windows
3 6 (60.00%) Active Directory
4 5 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (50.00%) Linux
4 5 (50.00%) MS Exchange
4 5 (50.00%) LAN
4 5 (50.00%) WAN
4 5 (50.00%) DNS
4 5 (50.00%) VMware
4 5 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
5 4 (40.00%) Cisco
6 3 (30.00%) MySQL
6 3 (30.00%) CCNA
6 3 (30.00%) SMTP
6 3 (30.00%) DHCP
6 3 (30.00%) TCP/IP
6 3 (30.00%) SMS
6 3 (30.00%) PHP
6 3 (30.00%) MCSE
6 3 (30.00%) Apache
6 3 (30.00%) FreeBSD
6 3 (30.00%) Nagios
6 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (30.00%) Remedy
6 3 (30.00%) CentOS
6 3 (30.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (30.00%) Cacti

VPN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Uxbridge 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 5 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 5 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 3 (30.00%) Apache
2 3 (30.00%) Exchange Server 2007
3 2 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2003
3 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 10 (100.00%) Firewall
2 5 (50.00%) LAN
2 5 (50.00%) WAN
2 5 (50.00%) DNS
3 3 (30.00%) SMTP
3 3 (30.00%) DHCP
3 3 (30.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (30.00%) SMS
3 3 (30.00%) IMAP
3 3 (30.00%) OpenVPN
3 3 (30.00%) MRTG
4 2 (20.00%) FWSM
4 2 (20.00%) IPsec
4 2 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (20.00%) Cisco PIX
4 2 (20.00%) Network Security
4 2 (20.00%) BGP
4 2 (20.00%) SAN
4 2 (20.00%) MPLS
4 2 (20.00%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) MySQL
General
1 2 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Analyst
1 3 (30.00%) Systems Administrator
1 3 (30.00%) Administrator
1 3 (30.00%) Senior Analyst
1 3 (30.00%) Senior Technical Analyst
1 3 (30.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 3 (30.00%) Linux Administrator
1 3 (30.00%) Technical Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Network Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Network Infrastructure Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) SaaS
1 2 (20.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Windows
2 5 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 5 (50.00%) Linux
2 5 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (30.00%) FreeBSD
3 3 (30.00%) CentOS
3 3 (30.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (30.00%) Windows 7
3 3 (30.00%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Problem Management
1 3 (30.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (20.00%) Business Continuity
2 2 (20.00%) Load Balancing
2 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (20.00%) BCP
2 2 (20.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) PHP
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (30.00%) CCNA
2 3 (30.00%) MCSE
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) CCNP
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (30.00%) Xen
2 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Nagios
1 3 (30.00%) Cacti
2 2 (20.00%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) VMware
2 4 (40.00%) Cisco
3 3 (30.00%) Remedy
3 3 (30.00%) Red Hat
4 2 (20.00%) F5
4 2 (20.00%) Blue Coat
4 2 (20.00%) CheckPoint
4 2 (20.00%) WatchGuard
4 2 (20.00%) Dell
Uxbridge, Middlesex
The Windows Systems Engineer will need: - Microsoft Server technologies 2008, - Microsoft Exchange 2003/2007/2010, - Active Directory administration, DHCP, DNS, VPN, WDS and Group Policies, - Windows XP, Vista...
Vertical IT
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013
Uxbridge, Middlesex
The Windows Systems Engineer will need: - Microsoft Server technologies 2008, - Microsoft Exchange 2003/2007/2010, - Active Directory administration, DHCP, DNS, VPN, WDS and Group Policies, - Windows XP, Vista...
Vertical IT
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013