Docklands, London VPN Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Virtual Private Network (VPN) skills within the Docklands, London 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 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bootle Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cannock Cardiff Cheshire City of London Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Ely England Essex Exeter Falkirk Farnborough Feltham Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenwich Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Horsham Hounslow Ipswich Kent Kettering King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Liverpool London Luton Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Redditch Romford Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	63	98
Rank change on same period last year	+35
Matching contract IT job ads	3	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	3.704 %	4.321 %
Daily rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum daily rate	-	£333
Average daily rate	-	£375
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£417
UK excluding London average daily rate	£388	£305
% change on same period last year	+27.27 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.50	£20.00
Average hourly rate	£22.50	£22.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.50	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.22	£23.30
% change on same period last year	-0.34 %
Communications & Networking Docklands, London
Matching contract IT job ads	81	162
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.114 %	0.164 %
Daily rates quoted	30	64
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£394
Average daily rate	£364	£412
% change on same period last year	-11.69 %
Average maximum daily rate	£379	£431
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£335
% change on same period last year	+4.78 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	£19.36
Average hourly rate	£20.50	£21.55
% change on same period last year	-4.85 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.00	£23.73
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.43	£28.95
% change on same period last year	-5.27 %
VPN London

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 Docklands, London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing VPN across the Docklands, London region.

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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 Docklands, London region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VPN across the Docklands, London region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, 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 12 (75.00 %) Cisco 2 11 (68.75 %) WAN 2 11 (68.75 %) LAN 2 11 (68.75 %) CiscoWorks 2 11 (68.75 %) Juniper 3 10 (62.50 %) Finance 4 9 (56.25 %) BGP 4 9 (56.25 %) BMC 4 9 (56.25 %) BMC PATROL 4 9 (56.25 %) OSPF 5 8 (50.00 %) Cisco Certification 5 8 (50.00 %) Banking 6 7 (43.75 %) VoIP 7 6 (37.50 %) CCNP 7 6 (37.50 %) Financial Institution

8 5 (31.25 %) Derivative 9 4 (25.00 %) Service Delivery 9 4 (25.00 %) Blackberry 9 4 (25.00 %) Windows 10 3 (18.75 %) ITIL 10 3 (18.75 %) Windows XP 11 2 (12.50 %) MS Office 11 2 (12.50 %) UNIX 11 2 (12.50 %) Linux 11 2 (12.50 %) Lotus Notes 11 2 (12.50 %) Active Directory 11 2 (12.50 %) OpenView 11 2 (12.50 %) HP 11 2 (12.50 %) Citrix 11 2 (12.50 %) Remedy

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, 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 Platforms 1 2 (12.50 %) Lotus Notes 2 1 (6.250 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (6.250 %) Exchange Server 2000 2 1 (6.250 %) Exchange Server 2003	Applications 1 2 (12.50 %) MS Office 2 1 (6.250 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 11 (68.75 %) WAN 1 11 (68.75 %) LAN 2 9 (56.25 %) OSPF 2 9 (56.25 %) BGP 3 7 (43.75 %) VoIP 4 2 (12.50 %) Network Security 4 2 (12.50 %) Firewall 5 1 (6.250 %) Wireless 5 1 (6.250 %) IPsec 5 1 (6.250 %) TCP/IP 5 1 (6.250 %) DNS 5 1 (6.250 %) Internet 5 1 (6.250 %) MPLS	General 1 10 (62.50 %) Finance 2 8 (50.00 %) Banking 3 6 (37.50 %) Financial Institution 4 2 (12.50 %) Investment Banking
Job Titles 1 10 (62.50 %) Network Support 2 9 (56.25 %) Analyst 3 8 (50.00 %) Support Analyst 4 7 (43.75 %) Network Support Analyst 4 7 (43.75 %) Network Analyst 5 5 (31.25 %) Cisco Support 5 5 (31.25 %) Cisco Network Analyst 5 5 (31.25 %) Cisco Analyst 6 2 (12.50 %) Network Support Specialist 6 2 (12.50 %) Support Specialist 6 2 (12.50 %) Network Specialist 7 1 (6.250 %) Desktop Support 7 1 (6.250 %) Service Analyst 7 1 (6.250 %) 2nd Line Support 7 1 (6.250 %) Administrator 7 1 (6.250 %) Helpdesk Analyst 7 1 (6.250 %) Consultant 7 1 (6.250 %) Support Technician 7 1 (6.250 %) Cisco Consultant 7 1 (6.250 %) Solutions Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 5 (31.25 %) Derivative 2 4 (25.00 %) Blackberry 3 1 (6.250 %) PDA
Operating Systems 1 4 (25.00 %) Windows 2 3 (18.75 %) Windows XP 3 2 (12.50 %) Linux 3 2 (12.50 %) UNIX 4 1 (6.250 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (6.250 %) Windows Server 2003 4 1 (6.250 %) Windows Vista	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (25.00 %) Service Delivery 2 3 (18.75 %) ITIL 3 2 (12.50 %) Electronic Trading 4 1 (6.250 %) Service Management 4 1 (6.250 %) Migration 4 1 (6.250 %) Asset Management
Qualifications 1 8 (50.00 %) Cisco Certification 2 6 (37.50 %) CCNP 3 1 (6.250 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1 (6.250 %) Degree 3 1 (6.250 %) MCP 3 1 (6.250 %) CCIE	System Software 1 2 (12.50 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 11 (68.75 %) CiscoWorks 2 9 (56.25 %) BMC PATROL 3 2 (12.50 %) OpenView	Vendors 1 12 (75.00 %) Cisco 2 11 (68.75 %) Juniper 3 9 (56.25 %) BMC 4 2 (12.50 %) Lotus 4 2 (12.50 %) Remedy 4 2 (12.50 %) HP 4 2 (12.50 %) Citrix 5 1 (6.250 %) Microsoft