The first table below looks at the demand for VPN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Wiltshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VPN over the 3 months to 17 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 Wiltshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Rank 56 62 80
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +18
Permanent jobs citing VPN 22 25 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wiltshire 2.514% 2.458% 0.637%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.05% 12.14% 3.627%
Number of salaries quoted 22 20 7
Average salary £34,500 £36,250 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.82% +3.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,350 £21,000 £32,300
10% offered a salary of more than £43,850 £45,000 £46,000
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £36,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
- +10.76%
All Communications & Networking
Wiltshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
129 206 193
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wiltshire 14.74% 20.26% 17.56%
Number of salaries quoted 123 171 186
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £21,000 £24,250
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
VPN
South West

VPN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region.

Wiltshire VPN Salary Trend

VPN
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VPN across the Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Wiltshire VPN Salary Histogram

VPN
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 Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Swindon +10 9 £34,000 -35.23%
Chippenham - 1 £21,000 -
VPN
South West

VPN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wiltshire 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 56 (82.35%) Firewall
2 43 (63.24%) MPLS
3 42 (61.76%) Cisco
4 41 (60.29%) WAN
5 32 (47.06%) LAN
6 31 (45.59%) Juniper
7 30 (44.12%) Windows
8 26 (38.24%) Cisco Certification
8 26 (38.24%) Active Directory
9 25 (36.76%) VLAN
10 24 (35.29%) VMware
11 22 (32.35%) Windows Server 2003
11 22 (32.35%) MS Exchange
11 22 (32.35%) IP Telephony
12 21 (30.88%) Microsoft
13 20 (29.41%) McAfee
13 20 (29.41%) Video Conferencing
14 19 (27.94%) Exchange Server 2010
14 19 (27.94%) Wireless
14 19 (27.94%) Microsoft Certification
15 18 (26.47%) Avaya
15 18 (26.47%) CCNA
15 18 (26.47%) MCSE
15 18 (26.47%) Windows Server 2008
16 17 (25.00%) Polycom
16 17 (25.00%) SonicWALL
17 16 (23.53%) SAN
18 15 (22.06%) SCCM
18 15 (22.06%) vSphere
19 13 (19.12%) TCP/IP

VPN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wiltshire 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 Development
1 1 (1.471%) CGI
1 1 (1.471%) Middleware
1 1 (1.471%) WebCenter
Application Platforms
1 22 (32.35%) MS Exchange
2 19 (27.94%) Exchange Server 2010
3 10 (14.71%) Exchange Server 2003
4 5 (7.353%) Lync
5 4 (5.882%) Exchange Server 2007
5 4 (5.882%) IIS
6 1 (1.471%) SharePoint
6 1 (1.471%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 1 (1.471%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (1.471%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (1.471%) Oracle 10gAS
Applications
1 6 (8.824%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.471%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.471%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (1.471%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.471%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (1.471%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 56 (82.35%) Firewall
2 43 (63.24%) MPLS
3 41 (60.29%) WAN
4 32 (47.06%) LAN
5 25 (36.76%) VLAN
6 22 (32.35%) IP Telephony
7 19 (27.94%) Wireless
8 16 (23.53%) SAN
9 13 (19.12%) TCP/IP
10 12 (17.65%) NAS
11 10 (14.71%) WLAN
12 8 (11.76%) VoIP
12 8 (11.76%) BGP
13 6 (8.824%) Internet
13 6 (8.824%) OSPF
14 5 (7.353%) Network Security
15 4 (5.882%) DSL
15 4 (5.882%) IPsec
15 4 (5.882%) Cisco IOS
15 4 (5.882%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (16.18%) SQL Server
1 11 (16.18%) SQL Server 2005
1 11 (16.18%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (1.471%) MySQL
2 1 (1.471%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (1.471%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.471%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.471%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.471%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (1.471%) SQL Server 7
2 1 (1.471%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 4 (5.882%) Metasploit
General
1 8 (11.76%) Telecoms
2 4 (5.882%) Finance
3 3 (4.412%) Financial Institution
3 3 (4.412%) Back Office
3 3 (4.412%) Retail
4 2 (2.941%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 39 (57.35%) Analyst
2 32 (47.06%) Technical Analyst
3 13 (19.12%) Network Analyst
4 9 (13.24%) Server Analyst
5 7 (10.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (8.824%) Architect
7 5 (7.353%) Technical Architect
7 5 (7.353%) Consultant
7 5 (7.353%) Senior Analyst
8 4 (5.882%) Senior Technical Engineer
8 4 (5.882%) Windows Engineer
8 4 (5.882%) IT Security Analyst
8 4 (5.882%) Senior Windows Technical Consultant
8 4 (5.882%) Windows Technical Consultant
8 4 (5.882%) Senior Consultant
8 4 (5.882%) Technical Consultant
8 4 (5.882%) Security Analyst
8 4 (5.882%) Network Technician
8 4 (5.882%) Technical Engineer
8 4 (5.882%) Senior Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 20 (29.41%) Video Conferencing
2 9 (13.24%) Clustering
3 5 (7.353%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (5.882%) Replication
4 4 (5.882%) Cryptography
4 4 (5.882%) PKI
4 4 (5.882%) Statistics
5 2 (2.941%) Thin Client
5 2 (2.941%) Fat Client
6 1 (1.471%) CESG
6 1 (1.471%) Blackberry
6 1 (1.471%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.471%) NHS
6 1 (1.471%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 30 (44.12%) Windows
2 22 (32.35%) Windows Server 2003
3 18 (26.47%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (4.412%) Linux
4 3 (4.412%) Windows 7
5 2 (2.941%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (1.471%) UNIX
6 1 (1.471%) Windows 2000
6 1 (1.471%) Windows XP
6 1 (1.471%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.471%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (17.65%) Service Delivery
2 8 (11.76%) ITIL
3 4 (5.882%) Risk Management
3 4 (5.882%) Migration
3 4 (5.882%) Information Security
3 4 (5.882%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 4 (5.882%) Penetration Testing
3 4 (5.882%) Load Balancing
3 4 (5.882%) Problem Management
3 4 (5.882%) SIEM
3 4 (5.882%) WAN Optimisation
4 3 (4.412%) Project Management
4 3 (4.412%) Technical Architecture
4 3 (4.412%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (2.941%) ERP
5 2 (2.941%) Network Design
5 2 (2.941%) Network Management
5 2 (2.941%) Security Testing
6 1 (1.471%) Information Assurance
6 1 (1.471%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.29%) SQL
2 1 (1.471%) Tcl
2 1 (1.471%) Bash shell
2 1 (1.471%) C
2 1 (1.471%) C++
2 1 (1.471%) Perl
Qualifications
1 26 (38.24%) Cisco Certification
2 19 (27.94%) Microsoft Certification
3 18 (26.47%) MCSE
3 18 (26.47%) CCNA
4 9 (13.24%) CCNP
5 8 (11.76%) Security Cleared
6 6 (8.824%) SC Cleared
7 4 (5.882%) JNCIS
7 4 (5.882%) Degree
8 2 (2.941%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.471%) MCP
9 1 (1.471%) A+ Certification
9 1 (1.471%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.471%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (38.24%) Active Directory
2 15 (22.06%) vSphere
3 12 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (7.353%) VMware ESX
5 4 (5.882%) Nmap
5 4 (5.882%) UAG
6 2 (2.941%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.471%) XenApp
7 1 (1.471%) ISA Server
7 1 (1.471%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (1.471%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 15 (22.06%) SCCM
2 5 (7.353%) Norton AntiVirus
3 4 (5.882%) Nessus
4 2 (2.941%) SolarWinds Orion
5 1 (1.471%) WSUS
5 1 (1.471%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 42 (61.76%) Cisco
2 31 (45.59%) Juniper
3 24 (35.29%) VMware
4 21 (30.88%) Microsoft
5 20 (29.41%) McAfee
6 18 (26.47%) Avaya
7 17 (25.00%) SonicWALL
7 17 (25.00%) Polycom
8 12 (17.65%) HP
9 11 (16.18%) CheckPoint
10 5 (7.353%) Symantec
11 3 (4.412%) Nokia
11 3 (4.412%) Citrix
11 3 (4.412%) Oracle
11 3 (4.412%) Tandberg
12 2 (2.941%) SolarWinds
12 2 (2.941%) Nortel
13 1 (1.471%) Dell
13 1 (1.471%) Red Hat
13 1 (1.471%) Informatica
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