The first table below looks at the demand for VPN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VPN over the 3 months to 20 June 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 Birmingham region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Rank 45 54 44
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -10
Contract jobs citing VPN 4 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.805% 0.314% 0.391%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.143% 3.125% 2.410%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
Average daily rate £325 - £270
UK excluding London average daily rate £290 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
-10.76% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Average hourly rate - £23.75 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +115.90%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.50 £17.75 £15.50
% change year-on-year
+49.29% +14.51%
All Communications & Networking
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
56 64 83
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 11.27% 10.05% 16.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 25 40
Average daily rate £350 £150 £190
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+133.33% -21.05%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £196 £100 £125
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £356 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-3.07% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 8
Average hourly rate £20.00 £30.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-33.33% +122.22%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
- -5.66%
VPN
West Midlands

VPN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham VPN Jobs Demand Trend

VPN
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing VPN across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham VPN Daily Rate Trend

VPN
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VPN across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Birmingham VPN Daily Rate Histogram

VPN
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing VPN across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham VPN Hourly Rate Trend

VPN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited VPN.

1 4 (66.67%) LAN
1 4 (66.67%) WAN
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco
2 3 (50.00%) Citrix
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) IPv6
3 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (33.33%) Internet
3 2 (33.33%) Extranet
3 2 (33.33%) GAP Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Wireless
3 2 (33.33%) Ethernet
3 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 2 (33.33%) VMware
3 2 (33.33%) Clustering
3 2 (33.33%) OpenUP
3 2 (33.33%) WLAN
4 1 (16.67%) Firewall
4 1 (16.67%) XenServer
4 1 (16.67%) XenDesktop
4 1 (16.67%) Bash shell
4 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) VLAN
4 1 (16.67%) WSUS
4 1 (16.67%) System Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
4 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity
4 1 (16.67%) DNS
4 1 (16.67%) FTP

VPN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited VPN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) Tomcat
1 1 (16.67%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) LAN
1 4 (66.67%) WAN
2 2 (33.33%) IPv6
2 2 (33.33%) Internet
2 2 (33.33%) Extranet
2 2 (33.33%) Wireless
2 2 (33.33%) Ethernet
2 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (33.33%) WLAN
3 1 (16.67%) Firewall
3 1 (16.67%) VLAN
3 1 (16.67%) DNS
3 1 (16.67%) FTP
3 1 (16.67%) HTTP
3 1 (16.67%) DHCP
3 1 (16.67%) VoIP
3 1 (16.67%) ADSL
3 1 (16.67%) IPsec
3 1 (16.67%) NetScreen
3 1 (16.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Clustering
2 1 (16.67%) Replication
2 1 (16.67%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) GAP Analysis
1 2 (33.33%) OpenUP
2 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) System Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity
2 1 (16.67%) Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bash shell
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
1 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) XenServer
2 1 (16.67%) XenDesktop
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco
1 3 (50.00%) Citrix
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) Juniper
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat