Chester VPN Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Virtual Private Network (VPN) skills within the Chester region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited VPN over the 3 months to 3 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Devon Docklands, London Dover Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Horsham Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Liverpool London Loughborough Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Wolverhampton Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 3 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	32	29
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	1	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	3.448 %	6.667 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£316
% change on same period last year	+15.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.57	£22.64
% change on same period last year	+8.55 %
Communications & Networking Chester
Matching contract IT job ads	29	15
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.047 %	0.016 %
Daily rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum daily rate	£275	£300
Average daily rate	£278	£317
% change on same period last year	-12.10 %
Average maximum daily rate	£282	£333
UK excluding London average daily rate	£345	£336
% change on same period last year	+2.62 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.09	£36.25
Average hourly rate	£27.41	£36.25
% change on same period last year	-24.37 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.74	£36.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.93	£28.33
% change on same period last year	-1.39 %
VPN Cheshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing VPN across the Chester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 3 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 3 December 2008, 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 1 (100.00 %) MS Excel 1 1 (100.00 %) Tivoli 1 1 (100.00 %) Asset Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 3 December 2008, 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.

Applications 1 1 (100.00 %) MS Excel	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (100.00 %) Asset Management
Systems Management 1 1 (100.00 %) Tivoli