The first table below looks at the demand for VPN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VPN 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 Chester 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Rank - 20 -
Contract jobs citing VPN 0 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester - 1.724% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category - 8.696% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £14.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £21.00 £14.00
% change year-on-year
+30.95% +50.00%
All Communications & Networking
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
28 23 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 20.00% 19.83% 7.547%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 7
Average daily rate £270 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-28.00% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £170 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £383 £425 £360
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
Average hourly rate £16.60 £14.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.57% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-18.22% -7.72%
VPN
Cheshire

VPN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester VPN Jobs Demand Trend

VPN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Chester VPN Hourly Rate Trend

VPN
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 (100.00%) Citrix
1 4 (100.00%) SAN
1 4 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) Security Management
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
1 4 (100.00%) Information Security
1 4 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 4 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (75.00%) Local Government
2 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure

VPN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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.

Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) SAN
1 4 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 3 (75.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Security Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Information Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Information Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Security Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Information Security Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Security Management
1 4 (100.00%) Information Security
1 4 (100.00%) TOGAF
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Citrix
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) VMware