The first table below looks at the demand for VPN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Crawley 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 Crawley 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 15 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing VPN 10 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Crawley 6.711% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 33.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £438 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £307 £300
% change year-on-year
-2.12% +2.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £32.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £21.25 £14.00
% change year-on-year
+29.41% +51.78%
All Communications & Networking
Crawley
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
30 16 36
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Crawley 20.13% 5.776% 29.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 7 5
Average daily rate £390 £140 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+178.57% -58.51%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £283 £140 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £438 £400 £485
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 5
Average hourly rate £32.50 - £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
VPN
West Sussex

VPN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Crawley 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 Crawley region.

Crawley VPN Daily Rate 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 Crawley region.

Crawley VPN Hourly Rate Trend

VPN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Crawley 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 8 (66.67%) Windows
1 8 (66.67%) Cisco
1 8 (66.67%) Juniper
1 8 (66.67%) Firewall
1 8 (66.67%) VMware
1 8 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 6 (50.00%) XenApp
2 6 (50.00%) Wireless
2 6 (50.00%) Citrix
2 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (50.00%) DHCP
2 6 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 6 (50.00%) DNS
2 6 (50.00%) LAN
2 6 (50.00%) WAN
2 6 (50.00%) Linux
3 4 (33.33%) ITIL
3 4 (33.33%) VoIP
3 4 (33.33%) MS Exchange
3 4 (33.33%) SSL
3 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 4 (33.33%) Avaya
3 4 (33.33%) CheckPoint
3 4 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 4 (33.33%) BGP
3 4 (33.33%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 4 (33.33%) MPLS
3 4 (33.33%) OSPF
3 4 (33.33%) IPsec
3 4 (33.33%) UNIX

VPN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Crawley 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 (16.67%) .NET
1 2 (16.67%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 4 (33.33%) MS Exchange
1 4 (33.33%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 4 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (16.67%) Apache
2 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 2 (16.67%) IIS
2 2 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (16.67%) Zimbra
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) MS Excel
1 2 (16.67%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 8 (66.67%) Firewall
2 6 (50.00%) Wireless
2 6 (50.00%) DHCP
2 6 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 6 (50.00%) DNS
2 6 (50.00%) LAN
2 6 (50.00%) WAN
3 4 (33.33%) VoIP
3 4 (33.33%) SSL
3 4 (33.33%) BGP
3 4 (33.33%) MPLS
3 4 (33.33%) OSPF
3 4 (33.33%) IPsec
3 4 (33.33%) Network Security
3 4 (33.33%) Junos
4 2 (16.67%) EIGRP
4 2 (16.67%) H.323
4 2 (16.67%) SAN
4 2 (16.67%) HTTP
4 2 (16.67%) ADSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server 2000
1 2 (16.67%) MySQL
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
1 2 (16.67%) Finance
1 2 (16.67%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Project Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Network Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 2 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Support Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Support Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Support Team Leader
3 2 (16.67%) Team Leader
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Team Leader
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Support Team Leader
4 1 (8.333%) IT Support
4 1 (8.333%) Windows Systems Administrator
4 1 (8.333%) IT Administrator
4 1 (8.333%) Windows Administrator
4 1 (8.333%) Administrator
4 1 (8.333%) Support Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) IT Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Mainframe
1 2 (16.67%) IVR
1 2 (16.67%) iSeries
1 2 (16.67%) SecurID
Operating Systems
1 8 (66.67%) Windows
1 8 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 6 (50.00%) Linux
3 4 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 4 (33.33%) UNIX
4 2 (16.67%) AIX
4 2 (16.67%) Windows XP
5 1 (8.333%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) ITIL
1 4 (33.33%) Load Balancing
1 4 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
1 4 (33.33%) Analytics
1 4 (33.33%) Mobile Device Management
2 2 (16.67%) Project Management
2 2 (16.67%) Service Management
2 2 (16.67%) Service Delivery
2 2 (16.67%) PRINCE2
2 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (16.67%) Project Planning
2 2 (16.67%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) XenApp
2 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (33.33%) vSphere
3 2 (16.67%) VMware ESX
3 2 (16.67%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (16.67%) Hyper-V
3 2 (16.67%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) SCCM
2 2 (16.67%) Cisco IPCC
2 2 (16.67%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Cisco
1 8 (66.67%) Juniper
1 8 (66.67%) VMware
2 6 (50.00%) Citrix
2 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (33.33%) Avaya
3 4 (33.33%) CheckPoint
4 2 (16.67%) Sophos
4 2 (16.67%) CA
4 2 (16.67%) CommVault
4 2 (16.67%) HP
4 2 (16.67%) Nortel
4 2 (16.67%) Oracle
4 2 (16.67%) F5
4 2 (16.67%) Verint
4 2 (16.67%) Riverbed