The first table below looks at the demand for VPN skills in IT contracts advertised for the East Midlands 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 East Midlands 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 71 77 63
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -14
Contract jobs citing VPN 12 3 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 0.957% 0.219% 1.506%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.947% 1.852% 12.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 4
Average daily rate £295 £475 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-37.89% +111.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £191 £475 £197
10% offered a daily rate of more than £316 £475 £295
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £307 £300
% change year-on-year
-2.12% +2.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Average hourly rate £27.50 £11.21 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+145.31% -46.61%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £21.25 £14.00
% change year-on-year
+29.41% +51.78%
All Communications & Networking
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
151 162 166
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 12.04% 11.82% 11.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 73 47
Average daily rate £310 £250 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+24.00% -18.03%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £165 £146
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £463 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 23 18
Average hourly rate £15.50 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-22.50% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £10.50 £9.74
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £57.50 £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
VPN
England

VPN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands VPN Hourly Rate Trend

VPN
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Nottinghamshire +4 8 £293 -
Derbyshire +11 2 £315 -
Leicestershire - 1 - -
VPN
England

VPN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 18 (81.82%) Cisco
2 15 (68.18%) Firewall
3 11 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (50.00%) Windows
4 9 (40.91%) LAN
4 9 (40.91%) WAN
5 8 (36.36%) Microsoft
5 8 (36.36%) CCNA
6 7 (31.82%) Juniper
6 7 (31.82%) VMware
6 7 (31.82%) VMware Infrastructure
7 6 (27.27%) Windows 7
7 6 (27.27%) Active Directory
7 6 (27.27%) Citrix
8 5 (22.73%) HP
8 5 (22.73%) CCNP
8 5 (22.73%) MS Exchange
8 5 (22.73%) Nokia
8 5 (22.73%) Wireless
8 5 (22.73%) DMVPN
9 4 (18.18%) Cisco Nexus
9 4 (18.18%) Exchange Server 2010
9 4 (18.18%) SolarWinds
9 4 (18.18%) SolarWinds Orion
9 4 (18.18%) CheckPoint
9 4 (18.18%) WLAN
9 4 (18.18%) MPLS
9 4 (18.18%) Windows XP
9 4 (18.18%) TCP/IP
9 4 (18.18%) Nortel

VPN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 1 (4.545%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 5 (22.73%) MS Exchange
2 4 (18.18%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (9.091%) Lotus Notes
4 1 (4.545%) Apache
4 1 (4.545%) IIS
4 1 (4.545%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (4.545%) Lync
Applications
1 3 (13.64%) MS Office
2 2 (9.091%) MS PowerPoint
2 2 (9.091%) Office 365
2 2 (9.091%) MS Project
2 2 (9.091%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 15 (68.18%) Firewall
2 9 (40.91%) LAN
2 9 (40.91%) WAN
3 5 (22.73%) Wireless
3 5 (22.73%) DMVPN
4 4 (18.18%) Cisco Nexus
4 4 (18.18%) WLAN
4 4 (18.18%) MPLS
4 4 (18.18%) TCP/IP
5 3 (13.64%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (9.091%) Cisco PIX
6 2 (9.091%) NetScaler
6 2 (9.091%) OSPF
6 2 (9.091%) BGP
6 2 (9.091%) EIGRP
6 2 (9.091%) VoIP
6 2 (9.091%) DNS
6 2 (9.091%) DHCP
7 1 (4.545%) Internet
7 1 (4.545%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.545%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 2 (9.091%) Finance
2 1 (4.545%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Network Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Analyst
2 4 (18.18%) Network Analyst
2 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (9.091%) Infrastructure Technician
3 2 (9.091%) Network Technician
3 2 (9.091%) Cisco Engineer
3 2 (9.091%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (9.091%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (4.545%) Trainer
4 1 (4.545%) Cisco Network Analyst
4 1 (4.545%) Microsoft Trainer
4 1 (4.545%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (4.545%) Support Engineer
4 1 (4.545%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.545%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) NHS
2 1 (4.545%) Blackberry
2 1 (4.545%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 11 (50.00%) Windows
2 6 (27.27%) Windows 7
3 4 (18.18%) Windows XP
4 2 (9.091%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (9.091%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (4.545%) NetWare
5 1 (4.545%) UNIX
5 1 (4.545%) Linux
5 1 (4.545%) Windows 2000
5 1 (4.545%) Apple iOS
5 1 (4.545%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (9.091%) Network Management
1 2 (9.091%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (4.545%) ITSM
2 1 (4.545%) Validation
2 1 (4.545%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.545%) VBScript
1 1 (4.545%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (36.36%) CCNA
3 5 (22.73%) CCNP
4 1 (4.545%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 7 (31.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (27.27%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.545%) MetaFrame
3 1 (4.545%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) SolarWinds Orion
2 2 (9.091%) SCCM
3 1 (4.545%) Tivoli
3 1 (4.545%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 1 (4.545%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 18 (81.82%) Cisco
2 8 (36.36%) Microsoft
3 7 (31.82%) Juniper
3 7 (31.82%) VMware
4 6 (27.27%) Citrix
5 5 (22.73%) HP
5 5 (22.73%) Nokia
6 4 (18.18%) SolarWinds
6 4 (18.18%) CheckPoint
6 4 (18.18%) Nortel
7 2 (9.091%) Lotus
8 1 (4.545%) IBM
8 1 (4.545%) McAfee
8 1 (4.545%) Novell
8 1 (4.545%) Hitachi
8 1 (4.545%) F5
8 1 (4.545%) Veeam
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