The first table below looks at the demand for OpenVPN 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 OpenVPN 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 West Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
OpenVPN
Rank - - -
Permanent jobs citing OpenVPN 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands - - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category - - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary - £35,000 -
All Communications & Networking
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
871 724 744
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 17.32% 15.88% 17.83%
Number of salaries quoted 708 594 586
Average salary £37,500 £33,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.94% -4.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,050 £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%
OpenVPN
England

OpenVPN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands OpenVPN Jobs Demand Trend

OpenVPN
Salary Trend

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

West Midlands OpenVPN Salary Trend

OpenVPN
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing OpenVPN 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 OpenVPN.

1 3 (100.00%) MySQL
1 3 (100.00%) MS Office
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 3 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 3 (100.00%) LAN
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
1 3 (100.00%) DHCP
1 3 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Vista
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 3 (100.00%) CentOS
1 3 (100.00%) Postfix
1 3 (100.00%) Windows 7
1 3 (100.00%) Samba
2 1 (33.33%) Apple

OpenVPN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing OpenVPN 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 OpenVPN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 3 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 3 (100.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) LAN
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
1 3 (100.00%) DHCP
1 3 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Linux Support
2 2 (66.67%) Linux Support Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Support Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Junior Support Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Junior
3 1 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Vista
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 3 (100.00%) CentOS
1 3 (100.00%) Windows 7
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) Postfix
1 3 (100.00%) Samba
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) Apple