West Lothian VPN Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Virtual Private Network (VPN) skills within the West Lothian region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VPN over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Amersham Andover Aylesbury Banbury Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blandford Forum Borehamwood Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Chertsey Chesham Cheshire Chessington Chester Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clevedon Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Dagenham Darlington Dartford Deeside Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Droitwich Dundee Dunfermline Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Farnborough Fife Flintshire Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Grays Great Yarmouth Greenford Guildford Hackney Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Hessle High Wycombe Home Counties Horley Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Huntly Ilford Ipswich Kent Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Monmouthshire Morecambe Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Rochdale Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salford Scotland Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Albans St Asaph St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swindon Teddington Telford Thame Thames Valley Thatcham Torquay Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Wembley West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Wirral Witney Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	36	48
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching permanent IT job ads	3	1
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	13.04 %	4.167 %
Salaries quoted	3	0
Average minimum salary	£29,000	-
Average salary	£29,833	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	£30,667	-
UK excluding London average salary	£35,036	£37,168
% change on same period last year	-5.73 %
Communications & Networking West Lothian
Matching permanent IT job ads	23	24
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.012 %	0.010 %
Salaries quoted	15	8
Average minimum salary	£33,333	£35,353
Average salary	£35,806	£35,912
% change on same period last year	-0.29 %
Average maximum salary	£38,278	£36,471
UK excluding London average salary	£37,397	£39,734
% change on same period last year	-5.88 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing VPN across the West Lothian region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing VPN across the West Lothian region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VPN across the West Lothian region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the West Lothian region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Livingston	-	2	£26,750	-

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Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the West Lothian 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 5 (71.43 %) ITIL 1 5 (71.43 %) Windows 1 5 (71.43 %) Windows XP 1 5 (71.43 %) Active Directory 2 4 (57.14 %) Cisco 2 4 (57.14 %) Finance 3 3 (42.86 %) Lotus Notes 3 3 (42.86 %) MS Office 3 3 (42.86 %) Lotus 4 2 (28.57 %) Cisco Certification 4 2 (28.57 %) CCNA 4 2 (28.57 %) TCP/IP 4 2 (28.57 %) Data Management 4 2 (28.57 %) Communications Security 4 2 (28.57 %) Firewall

5 1 (14.29 %) MS Excel

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the West Lothian 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 3 (42.86 %) Lotus Notes	Applications 1 3 (42.86 %) MS Office 2 1 (14.29 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 2 (28.57 %) TCP/IP 1 2 (28.57 %) Firewall	General 1 4 (57.14 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 4 (57.14 %) Analyst 2 2 (28.57 %) Helpdesk Analyst 2 2 (28.57 %) Service Analyst 2 2 (28.57 %) Helpdesk Support 2 2 (28.57 %) Service Desk Analyst 2 2 (28.57 %) Cisco Engineer 3 1 (14.29 %) Cisco Network Engineer 3 1 (14.29 %) 2nd Line Support 3 1 (14.29 %) Network Engineer	Operating Systems 1 5 (71.43 %) Windows 1 5 (71.43 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (71.43 %) ITIL 2 2 (28.57 %) Data Management 2 2 (28.57 %) Communications Security	Qualifications 1 2 (28.57 %) CCNA 1 2 (28.57 %) Cisco Certification
System Software 1 5 (71.43 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 4 (57.14 %) Cisco 2 3 (42.86 %) Lotus