The first table below looks at the demand for VPN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Worcestershire 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 Worcestershire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Rank 40 42 31
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -11
Permanent jobs citing VPN 1 5 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Worcestershire 0.446% 1.825% 2.830%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.125% 15.15% 12.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 2
Average salary £30,000 £17,000 £45,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+76.47% -62.84%
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £36,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
- +10.76%
All Communications & Networking
Worcestershire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
32 33 47
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Worcestershire 14.29% 12.04% 22.17%
Number of salaries quoted 31 29 40
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £24,500 £22,800 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £62,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
VPN
West Midlands

VPN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Worcestershire 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 Worcestershire region.

Worcestershire VPN Salary Trend

VPN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Worcestershire 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 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) MPLS
1 2 (100.00%) OSPF
1 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Data Security
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
2 1 (50.00%) IPsec
2 1 (50.00%) CCSA
2 1 (50.00%) CCVP
2 1 (50.00%) IP Telephony
2 1 (50.00%) CCSE
2 1 (50.00%) Network Design
2 1 (50.00%) JNCIA
2 1 (50.00%) JNCIS
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco PIX
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (50.00%) Network Management
2 1 (50.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) FWSM
2 1 (50.00%) Twitter
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (50.00%) DSL
2 1 (50.00%) EIGRP
2 1 (50.00%) X.21
2 1 (50.00%) Juniper

VPN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Worcestershire 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.

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) MPLS
1 2 (100.00%) OSPF
1 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
2 1 (50.00%) IPsec
2 1 (50.00%) IP Telephony
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco PIX
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (50.00%) FWSM
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (50.00%) DSL
2 1 (50.00%) EIGRP
2 1 (50.00%) X.21
2 1 (50.00%) ATM
2 1 (50.00%) ISDN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) PPP
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) NOC Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Data Security
1 1 (50.00%) Network Design
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) Network Management
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) CCSA
2 1 (50.00%) CCVP
2 1 (50.00%) CCSE
2 1 (50.00%) JNCIA
2 1 (50.00%) JNCIS
2 1 (50.00%) CCIP
2 1 (50.00%) CCDP
2 1 (50.00%) CCIE
2 1 (50.00%) CCSP
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Netcool
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Juniper
2 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (50.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) Twitter
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Posted: 13 May 2013