The first table below looks at the demand for VPN skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VPN over the 3 months to 17 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 of England 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Rank 88 104 107
Rank change year-on-year
+16 +3
Contract jobs citing VPN 27 25 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 1.253% 0.848% 0.951%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.105% 4.789% 5.656%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 4
Average daily rate £298 £258 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.53% -16.93%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £185 £156
10% offered a daily rate of more than £330 £366 £338
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 8
Average hourly rate £16.00 £25.00 £10.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-36.00% +143.90%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.70 £14.90 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.00 £43.50 £14.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £15.00
% change year-on-year
+25.00% +46.66%
All Communications & Networking
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
380 522 442
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 17.64% 17.71% 16.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 173 132
Average daily rate £325 £325 £298
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +9.24%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £200 £199
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £450 £476
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 50 85
Average hourly rate £19.00 £32.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-41.53% +18.18%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.00 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £52.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
VPN
England

VPN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 of England region.

East of England 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 of England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

East of England 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 of England region.

East of England 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 East of England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

East of England VPN Hourly Rate Histogram

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 of England region over the 3 months to 17 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
Cambridgeshire +21 15 £286 +14.50%
Hertfordshire +3 6 £350 +55.55%
Essex -1 4 £288 -10.85%
Bedfordshire +5 1 £300 -
Suffolk +3 1 £250 -30.55%
VPN
England

VPN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 51 (62.96%) Cisco
2 32 (39.51%) Windows
3 31 (38.27%) Firewall
4 26 (32.10%) WAN
5 24 (29.63%) LAN
6 22 (27.16%) VoIP
7 20 (24.69%) Cisco Certification
8 19 (23.46%) Microsoft
8 19 (23.46%) ITIL
9 16 (19.75%) MPLS
10 15 (18.52%) MS Office
10 15 (18.52%) Active Directory
11 13 (16.05%) DNS
11 13 (16.05%) Telecoms
12 12 (14.81%) Wireless
12 12 (14.81%) Juniper
12 12 (14.81%) CheckPoint
13 11 (13.58%) TCP/IP
13 11 (13.58%) CCNP
13 11 (13.58%) DHCP
13 11 (13.58%) Windows XP
13 11 (13.58%) VLAN
13 11 (13.58%) Network Security
13 11 (13.58%) Cisco ASA
14 10 (12.35%) SAN
15 9 (11.11%) MS Exchange
15 9 (11.11%) OSPF
16 8 (9.877%) Project Management
16 8 (9.877%) VMware
17 7 (8.642%) DMZ

VPN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 (2.469%) WebSphere
2 1 (1.235%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 9 (11.11%) MS Exchange
2 5 (6.173%) Exchange Server 2007
3 3 (3.704%) Exchange Server 2003
3 3 (3.704%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (2.469%) WebSphere MQ
4 2 (2.469%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 2 (2.469%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (2.469%) IIS
5 1 (1.235%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 15 (18.52%) MS Office
2 3 (3.704%) MS Excel
2 3 (3.704%) Acrobat
3 2 (2.469%) Spreadsheet
Communications & Networking
1 31 (38.27%) Firewall
2 26 (32.10%) WAN
3 24 (29.63%) LAN
4 22 (27.16%) VoIP
5 16 (19.75%) MPLS
6 13 (16.05%) DNS
7 12 (14.81%) Wireless
8 11 (13.58%) VLAN
8 11 (13.58%) Network Security
8 11 (13.58%) Cisco ASA
8 11 (13.58%) TCP/IP
8 11 (13.58%) DHCP
9 10 (12.35%) SAN
10 9 (11.11%) OSPF
11 7 (8.642%) DMZ
11 7 (8.642%) IPsec
12 5 (6.173%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (6.173%) BGP
12 5 (6.173%) SNMP
12 5 (6.173%) Cisco PIX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.469%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (2.469%) SQL Server
1 2 (2.469%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (1.235%) MySQL
2 1 (1.235%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (1.235%) Oracle 9i
2 1 (1.235%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (1.235%) SQL Server 2000
2 1 (1.235%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 1 (1.235%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (1.235%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (1.235%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (1.235%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.235%) JIRA
General
1 13 (16.05%) Telecoms
2 5 (6.173%) Finance
3 4 (4.938%) German Language
4 3 (3.704%) French Language
4 3 (3.704%) Swedish Language
5 2 (2.469%) Hebrew Language
5 2 (2.469%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.469%) Marketing
5 2 (2.469%) Danish Language
6 1 (1.235%) Law
6 1 (1.235%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 17 (20.99%) Analyst
2 15 (18.52%) Network Engineer
3 11 (13.58%) Support Analyst
4 10 (12.35%) Support Engineer
5 9 (11.11%) Administrator
6 8 (9.877%) Systems Administrator
7 6 (7.407%) IT Support
8 5 (6.173%) Network Support
8 5 (6.173%) Head of IT
8 5 (6.173%) Desktop Support
8 5 (6.173%) IT Support Analyst
8 5 (6.173%) Team Leader
9 4 (4.938%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 4 (4.938%) Network Security Engineer
9 4 (4.938%) 1st Line Support
9 4 (4.938%) Security Engineer
9 4 (4.938%) Support Team Leader
9 4 (4.938%) Desktop Engineer
10 3 (3.704%) Cisco Engineer
10 3 (3.704%) Cisco Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.642%) iPad
2 6 (7.407%) Blackberry
3 5 (6.173%) iPhone
3 5 (6.173%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (4.938%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (2.469%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (2.469%) IaaS
5 2 (2.469%) SaaS
5 2 (2.469%) PaaS
6 1 (1.235%) Replication
6 1 (1.235%) Clustering
6 1 (1.235%) PKI
6 1 (1.235%) Fat Client
6 1 (1.235%) NHS
6 1 (1.235%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 32 (39.51%) Windows
2 11 (13.58%) Windows XP
3 7 (8.642%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (8.642%) Windows 7
4 6 (7.407%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (6.173%) Mac OS X
6 3 (3.704%) UNIX
7 2 (2.469%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (23.46%) ITIL
2 8 (9.877%) Project Management
3 6 (7.407%) Load Balancing
3 6 (7.407%) ITIL V3
4 5 (6.173%) Service Management
4 5 (6.173%) PRINCE2
5 4 (4.938%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (3.704%) Infrastructure Management
6 3 (3.704%) PDCA
6 3 (3.704%) Six Sigma
6 3 (3.704%) Service Delivery
6 3 (3.704%) Network Design
7 2 (2.469%) Incident Management
7 2 (2.469%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (2.469%) Identity Management
7 2 (2.469%) TOGAF
7 2 (2.469%) Document Management
7 2 (2.469%) PRINCE
7 2 (2.469%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (2.469%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (4.938%) SQL
2 1 (1.235%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (24.69%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (13.58%) CCNP
3 7 (8.642%) CCNA
3 7 (8.642%) Degree
4 5 (6.173%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (6.173%) CCSA
5 4 (4.938%) CCSE
5 4 (4.938%) MCSE
5 4 (4.938%) CCIE
5 4 (4.938%) CCSP
6 3 (3.704%) MCSA
6 3 (3.704%) MCP
7 2 (2.469%) JNCIP
7 2 (2.469%) JNCIE
7 2 (2.469%) Security Cleared
8 1 (1.235%) MCITP
8 1 (1.235%) SC Cleared
8 1 (1.235%) JNCIA
8 1 (1.235%) PMP
8 1 (1.235%) CCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.173%) PCI DSS
2 4 (4.938%) SLA
3 1 (1.235%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.235%) GAMP
3 1 (1.235%) GxP
System Software
1 15 (18.52%) Active Directory
2 6 (7.407%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.704%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.469%) DFS Replication
5 1 (1.235%) vSphere
5 1 (1.235%) ProxySG
5 1 (1.235%) Snort
5 1 (1.235%) NFS
Systems Management
1 6 (7.407%) Nagios
1 6 (7.407%) Cacti
2 5 (6.173%) WhatsUp Gold
2 5 (6.173%) Cisco CUCM
3 2 (2.469%) OVSD
3 2 (2.469%) OpenView
3 2 (2.469%) SCCM
4 1 (1.235%) BMC PATROL
4 1 (1.235%) WSUS
4 1 (1.235%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 51 (62.96%) Cisco
2 19 (23.46%) Microsoft
3 12 (14.81%) Juniper
3 12 (14.81%) CheckPoint
4 8 (9.877%) VMware
5 4 (4.938%) BT
5 4 (4.938%) F5
5 4 (4.938%) Remedy
5 4 (4.938%) HP
6 3 (3.704%) Adobe
6 3 (3.704%) Polycom
6 3 (3.704%) Riverbed
6 3 (3.704%) Citrix
6 3 (3.704%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.469%) Crossbeam
7 2 (2.469%) SolarWinds
7 2 (2.469%) Twitter
7 2 (2.469%) IBM
7 2 (2.469%) Oracle
7 2 (2.469%) SAP
Essex
Network & Security Engineer - Cisco R&S / ASA Firewalls / VPN's... Core Responsibilities: *Support of Cisco / Checkpoint Products *Firewalls / ASA / PIX / *Cisco Core R&S - ISR - 6500's - MPLS /...
Stott & May
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 14 May 2013
UK East Anglia
Working along side the council's Database Analyst in support of the council's database systems - principally Oracle, SQL Server and MS Access."... SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCEEssential:" Significant experience,...
Premier Group
Rate: £20.00 - £22.00 per hour
Posted: 17 May 2013
East Anglia
Network and Systems Engineer Windows Cisco Exchange LAN WAN... " Working along side the council's Database Analyst in support of the council's database systems - principally Oracle, SQL...
Premier Group Recruitment
Rate: £20.00 - £22.00 per hour
Posted: 16 May 2013