VPN Contracts in the City of London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for VPN skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VPN over the 3 months to 24 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 City of London 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Rank 159 143 183
Rank change year-on-year
-16 +40
Contract jobs citing VPN 44 75 62
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.690% 0.954% 0.633%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.333% 7.440% 6.219%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 51 38
Average daily rate £290 £413 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-29.69% +43.47%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £200 £100
10% offered a daily rate of more than £423 £498 £476
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £307 £300
% change year-on-year
-2.12% +2.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 4
Average hourly rate £34.25 £19.75 £15.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+73.41% +29.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.55 £18.10 £11.95
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.80 £30.50 £33.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £21.25 £14.00
% change year-on-year
+29.41% +51.78%
Search 35 VPN jobs in the City of London
All Communications & Networking
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 825 1008 997
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 12.93% 12.82% 10.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 541 686 637
Average daily rate £400 £413 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.03% +3.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £256 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £525 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 38 76
Average hourly rate £43.75 £22.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+98.86% +4.76%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £17.50 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.00 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
VPN
London

VPN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London 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 City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London VPN Hourly Rate Trend

VPN
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VPN across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London VPN Hourly Rate Histogram

VPN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 57 (54.81%) Windows
2 50 (48.08%) Active Directory
3 45 (43.27%) Cisco
4 39 (37.50%) Microsoft
4 39 (37.50%) MS Office
4 39 (37.50%) Firewall
5 27 (25.96%) Blackberry
6 24 (23.08%) MS Exchange
6 24 (23.08%) Windows 7
7 22 (21.15%) DNS
8 20 (19.23%) Citrix
9 19 (18.27%) Dell
10 18 (17.31%) TCP/IP
10 18 (17.31%) Windows XP
10 18 (17.31%) Cisco Certification
10 18 (17.31%) Banking
11 17 (16.35%) Finance
12 16 (15.38%) VMware
12 16 (15.38%) Wireless
12 16 (15.38%) ITIL
13 15 (14.42%) MS Visio
13 15 (14.42%) LAN
13 15 (14.42%) SSL
13 15 (14.42%) Juniper
13 15 (14.42%) 3G
13 15 (14.42%) Windows Server 2003
14 14 (13.46%) Microsoft Certification
14 14 (13.46%) WAN
14 14 (13.46%) Broadband
14 14 (13.46%) DHCP

VPN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 Development
1 2 (1.923%) .NET
2 1 (0.962%) LAMP
2 1 (0.962%) Ruby on Rails
2 1 (0.962%) Web Services
2 1 (0.962%) HTML
2 1 (0.962%) iOS SDK
2 1 (0.962%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 24 (23.08%) MS Exchange
2 14 (13.46%) Exchange Server 2003
2 14 (13.46%) Exchange Server 2007
3 10 (9.615%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 8 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2010
5 4 (3.846%) SharePoint
6 3 (2.885%) Lotus Notes
6 3 (2.885%) SharePoint 2010
7 2 (1.923%) Lync
7 2 (1.923%) Apache
7 2 (1.923%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.962%) Office Communications Server
8 1 (0.962%) IIS
Applications
1 39 (37.50%) MS Office
2 15 (14.42%) MS Visio
3 10 (9.615%) MS Excel
4 4 (3.846%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.962%) Summit
Communications & Networking
1 39 (37.50%) Firewall
2 22 (21.15%) DNS
3 18 (17.31%) TCP/IP
4 16 (15.38%) Wireless
5 15 (14.42%) LAN
5 15 (14.42%) SSL
5 15 (14.42%) 3G
6 14 (13.46%) WAN
6 14 (13.46%) Broadband
6 14 (13.46%) DHCP
7 12 (11.54%) IPsec
7 12 (11.54%) VoIP
7 12 (11.54%) MPLS
7 12 (11.54%) OSPF
8 11 (10.58%) BGP
9 10 (9.615%) Cisco ASA
10 9 (8.654%) Cisco IOS
11 8 (7.692%) Network Security
11 8 (7.692%) SAN
12 6 (5.769%) ADSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.885%) MySQL
2 1 (0.962%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (0.962%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (1.923%) Visual Studio
1 2 (1.923%) Subversion
1 2 (1.923%) Bugzilla
2 1 (0.962%) PhoneGap
2 1 (0.962%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 18 (17.31%) Banking
2 17 (16.35%) Finance
3 3 (2.885%) Legal
3 3 (2.885%) Telecoms
4 2 (1.923%) Law
4 2 (1.923%) Financial Institution
5 1 (0.962%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (19.23%) Analyst
2 19 (18.27%) Network Engineer
3 15 (14.42%) Desktop Support
4 12 (11.54%) Support Analyst
5 10 (9.615%) 2nd Line Support
6 9 (8.654%) Desktop Support Analyst
6 9 (8.654%) Desktop Analyst
7 6 (5.769%) 1st Line Support
7 6 (5.769%) Help Desk Support
8 5 (4.808%) Service Desk Analyst
8 5 (4.808%) Help Desk Engineer
8 5 (4.808%) Support Engineer
8 5 (4.808%) Service Analyst
8 5 (4.808%) Architect
9 4 (3.846%) Build Engineer
9 4 (3.846%) Security Architect
9 4 (3.846%) Security Engineer
10 3 (2.885%) Design Engineer
10 3 (2.885%) Network Support
10 3 (2.885%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 27 (25.96%) Blackberry
2 6 (5.769%) Video Conferencing
3 3 (2.885%) iPhone
4 2 (1.923%) Open Source
4 2 (1.923%) iPad
4 2 (1.923%) Symmetrix DMX
4 2 (1.923%) Computer Science
4 2 (1.923%) Celerra
4 2 (1.923%) Clustering
4 2 (1.923%) CLARiiON
4 2 (1.923%) Symmetrix
5 1 (0.962%) Equities
5 1 (0.962%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.962%) Fixed Income
5 1 (0.962%) Replication
5 1 (0.962%) Data Integration
5 1 (0.962%) PKI
5 1 (0.962%) Smartcard
5 1 (0.962%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.962%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 57 (54.81%) Windows
2 24 (23.08%) Windows 7
3 18 (17.31%) Windows XP
4 15 (14.42%) Windows Server 2003
5 13 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
6 12 (11.54%) Linux
7 8 (7.692%) Windows Vista
8 7 (6.731%) Apple iOS
8 7 (6.731%) UNIX
9 4 (3.846%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (3.846%) Mac OS
9 4 (3.846%) Mac OS X
9 4 (3.846%) Android
10 3 (2.885%) Windows 2000
11 2 (1.923%) Windows 8
11 2 (1.923%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (1.923%) Solaris
12 1 (0.962%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.962%) NetWare
12 1 (0.962%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (15.38%) ITIL
2 8 (7.692%) Network Design
3 7 (6.731%) Network Management
4 6 (5.769%) Incident Management
4 6 (5.769%) Information Security
5 5 (4.808%) Change Management
6 4 (3.846%) Data Management
6 4 (3.846%) Logistics
6 4 (3.846%) Risk Management
7 3 (2.885%) Workflow
7 3 (2.885%) SIEM
7 3 (2.885%) OWASP
7 3 (2.885%) Security Architecture
8 2 (1.923%) Capacity Management
8 2 (1.923%) E-Commerce
8 2 (1.923%) Project Management
8 2 (1.923%) TOGAF
8 2 (1.923%) Enterprise Architecture
8 2 (1.923%) System Testing
8 2 (1.923%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (2.885%) JavaScript
1 3 (2.885%) Perl
1 3 (2.885%) Bash shell
2 2 (1.923%) C#
2 2 (1.923%) SQL
2 2 (1.923%) VB.NET
2 2 (1.923%) Python
2 2 (1.923%) Lua
3 1 (0.962%) AWK
3 1 (0.962%) Objective-C
3 1 (0.962%) Ruby
3 1 (0.962%) Shell Script
3 1 (0.962%) VBScript
3 1 (0.962%) VB
3 1 (0.962%) PHP
3 1 (0.962%) sed
Qualifications
1 18 (17.31%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (13.46%) Microsoft Certification
3 12 (11.54%) CCNA
4 10 (9.615%) Security Cleared
5 8 (7.692%) MCDST
5 8 (7.692%) MCSE
5 8 (7.692%) MCP
6 7 (6.731%) CISSP
7 6 (5.769%) SC Cleared
8 5 (4.808%) MCTS
8 5 (4.808%) CCNP
8 5 (4.808%) MCSA
9 4 (3.846%) MCITP
9 4 (3.846%) CCSA
10 3 (2.885%) CISA
10 3 (2.885%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (1.923%) Degree
12 1 (0.962%) GCIA
12 1 (0.962%) GCIH
12 1 (0.962%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.692%) SLA
2 3 (2.885%) ISO/IEC 17799
3 1 (0.962%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.962%) COBIT
3 1 (0.962%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.962%) HIPAA
System Software
1 50 (48.08%) Active Directory
2 13 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (6.731%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (5.769%) ProxySG
5 4 (3.846%) Terminal Services
6 3 (2.885%) VMware ESX
6 3 (2.885%) UAG
6 3 (2.885%) XenApp
6 3 (2.885%) XenDesktop
7 1 (0.962%) Citrix Presentation Server
7 1 (0.962%) Snort
7 1 (0.962%) Nmap
7 1 (0.962%) Terminal Server
7 1 (0.962%) NDS
7 1 (0.962%) XenServer
7 1 (0.962%) qmail
7 1 (0.962%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.962%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (4.808%) SCCM
2 4 (3.846%) CiscoWorks
3 3 (2.885%) Backup Exec
3 3 (2.885%) WSUS
3 3 (2.885%) OpenView
4 2 (1.923%) Legato
4 2 (1.923%) EMC NetWorker
4 2 (1.923%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.962%) DameWare
5 1 (0.962%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.962%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 45 (43.27%) Cisco
2 39 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 20 (19.23%) Citrix
4 19 (18.27%) Dell
5 16 (15.38%) VMware
6 15 (14.42%) Juniper
7 12 (11.54%) HP
8 11 (10.58%) F5
9 10 (9.615%) CheckPoint
10 8 (7.692%) Blue Coat
11 6 (5.769%) IBM
11 6 (5.769%) Apple
12 5 (4.808%) Remedy
12 5 (4.808%) Symantec
12 5 (4.808%) EMC
12 5 (4.808%) SolarWinds
13 4 (3.846%) Nokia
13 4 (3.846%) Sourcefire
14 3 (2.885%) Mitel
14 3 (2.885%) NetApp
Cisco Level 2 Support Engineer
City Of London
This urgent contract role is working at a customer site in London as part of the Network and Storage team, which is responsible for the management, administration and...
GSA Techsource
Rate: GBP250 per day
Posted: 25 May 2013
Senior Infrastructure Support Analyst - £400/day - London
City, London
Knowledge and experience of PRINCE2 project management methodology... Key systems: Microsoft Windows desktop and server operating systems, Active Directory. Server, LAN/WAN switches, routers, firewalls; desktops, laptops, printers...
Oliver James Associates
Rate: £300 - £400 per day
Posted: 24 May 2013
Lync Service Operations Engineer
City of London
As part of a virtual, Global team you will provide level 3 incident, problem and change management for Instant Messaging, Web Conferencing, Lync voice, Lync video, audio and...
IT Human Resources
Rate: £550 per day
Posted: 14 May 2013
Second Line/Helpdesk Support/ Remote support engineer
City, London
Occasional Reactive and scheduled site visits may be required As a Second Line/ Remote Support/ Helpdesk Support engineer you will have : A min 2+ years experience of support *...
Global Technology Solutions Ltd
Rate: £11 - £12 per hour + / may have perm opportunity
Posted: 21 May 2013
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