The first table below looks at the demand for IPsec skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited IPsec over the 3 months to 22 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 West Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
Rank 191 187 148
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -39
Permanent jobs citing IPsec 8 3 23
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.159% 0.065% 0.565%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.921% 0.412% 3.108%
Number of salaries quoted 7 3 10
Average salary £30,000 £40,000 £31,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-25.00% +29.03%
UK excluding London average salary £43,000 £42,500 £42,000
% change year-on-year
+1.17% +1.19%
All Communications & Networking
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
869 729 740
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 17.28% 15.80% 18.17%
Number of salaries quoted 716 598 583
Average salary £37,500 £34,000 £36,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.29% -6.84%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
IPsec
England

IPsec
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands IPsec Jobs Demand Trend

IPsec
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing IPsec across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands IPsec Salary Trend

IPsec
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IPsec within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 22 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
Birmingham -10 4 £28,000 -62.66%
Staffordshire 0 2 £35,000 +20.68%
Halesowen - 2 £35,000 -
Wednesbury - 2 £35,000 -
Willenhall - 2 £35,000 -
Worcestershire - 1 £30,000 -
IPsec
England

IPsec
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing IPsec 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 IPsec.

1 8 (100.00%) Cisco
1 8 (100.00%) Firewall
2 6 (75.00%) VPN
2 6 (75.00%) VMware
2 6 (75.00%) XenDesktop
2 6 (75.00%) Windows
2 6 (75.00%) Citrix
2 6 (75.00%) SAN
3 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
4 4 (50.00%) Linux
4 4 (50.00%) MS Exchange
4 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
4 4 (50.00%) VMware ESX
4 4 (50.00%) Juniper
4 4 (50.00%) WSUS
4 4 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (25.00%) ProCurve
5 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
5 2 (25.00%) XenApp
5 2 (25.00%) XenServer
5 2 (25.00%) Load Balancing
5 2 (25.00%) SonicWALL
5 2 (25.00%) Fat Client
5 2 (25.00%) Finance
5 2 (25.00%) Replication
5 2 (25.00%) Clustering
5 2 (25.00%) Bash shell
5 2 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
5 2 (25.00%) Forefront TMG

IPsec
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing IPsec 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 IPsec. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 4 (50.00%) MS Exchange
2 2 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (25.00%) Apache
2 2 (25.00%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) Firewall
2 6 (75.00%) VPN
2 6 (75.00%) SAN
3 2 (25.00%) MPLS
3 2 (25.00%) OSPF
3 2 (25.00%) BGP
3 2 (25.00%) DSL
3 2 (25.00%) X.21
3 2 (25.00%) ATM
3 2 (25.00%) ISDN
3 2 (25.00%) Ethernet
3 2 (25.00%) FTP
3 2 (25.00%) HTTP
3 2 (25.00%) PPP
3 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) NOC Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Service Desk Technician
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Installations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Fat Client
1 2 (25.00%) Replication
1 2 (25.00%) Clustering
1 2 (25.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Windows
2 4 (50.00%) Linux
3 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Bash shell
1 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (25.00%) CCNP
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) XenDesktop
2 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (50.00%) VMware ESX
2 4 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (25.00%) XenApp
3 2 (25.00%) XenServer
3 2 (25.00%) Forefront TMG
4 1 (12.50%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) WSUS
2 2 (25.00%) Netcool
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Cisco
2 6 (75.00%) VMware
2 6 (75.00%) Citrix
3 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
4 4 (50.00%) Juniper
5 2 (25.00%) ProCurve
5 2 (25.00%) SonicWALL
5 2 (25.00%) HP
5 2 (25.00%) NetApp
5 2 (25.00%) CheckPoint
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