The first table below looks at the demand for VPN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Essex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VPN over the 3 months to 23 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 Essex 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Rank 42 45 46
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +1
Contract jobs citing VPN 4 3 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 1.008% 0.735% 0.993%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.797% 6.522% 12.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
Average daily rate £288 £323 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.85% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £313 £300
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £15.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £21.00 £14.00
% change year-on-year
+42.85% +50.00%
All Communications & Networking
Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
69 46 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 17.38% 11.27% 7.692%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 16 8
Average daily rate £325 £371 £308
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.45% +20.73%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £133 £174
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £450 £433
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 12
Average hourly rate £25.00 £23.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.38% +34.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.20 £15.10 £10.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £28.70 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.27% -7.72%
VPN
East of England

VPN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex 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 Essex region over the 3 months to 23 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
Basildon - 1 - -
VPN
East of England

VPN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 5 (55.56%) Cisco
1 5 (55.56%) Firewall
2 4 (44.44%) MS Exchange
2 4 (44.44%) Windows
2 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
2 4 (44.44%) SAN
3 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (33.33%) CCNP
3 3 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (33.33%) ITIL
3 3 (33.33%) Juniper
3 3 (33.33%) SQL
3 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (33.33%) EIGRP
3 3 (33.33%) VMware
3 3 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2003
4 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (22.22%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (22.22%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (22.22%) DFS Replication
4 2 (22.22%) DMVPN
4 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
4 2 (22.22%) IIS
4 2 (22.22%) HP
4 2 (22.22%) BGP
5 1 (11.11%) Blackberry
5 1 (11.11%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (11.11%) BMC
5 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint

VPN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 4 (44.44%) MS Exchange
2 3 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2003
3 2 (22.22%) IIS
4 1 (11.11%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) Firewall
2 4 (44.44%) SAN
3 3 (33.33%) EIGRP
4 2 (22.22%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (22.22%) DMVPN
4 2 (22.22%) BGP
5 1 (11.11%) MPLS
5 1 (11.11%) ISDN
5 1 (11.11%) SMTP
5 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
5 1 (11.11%) IP Telephony
5 1 (11.11%) MGCP
5 1 (11.11%) IPsec
5 1 (11.11%) NAS
5 1 (11.11%) Cisco IPT
5 1 (11.11%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (11.11%) Cisco PIX
5 1 (11.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server 2000
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (11.11%) MySQL
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle 9i
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
General
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
1 1 (11.11%) Law
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Analyst
1 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 3 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server DBA
2 1 (11.11%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Team Leader
2 1 (11.11%) SQL DBA
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Support Team Leader
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Desktop Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Security Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Server Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) DBA
2 1 (11.11%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) 1st Line Support
2 1 (11.11%) Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) Systems Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco Security Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Teradata DBA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Blackberry
1 1 (11.11%) Clustering
1 1 (11.11%) PKI
1 1 (11.11%) Replication
1 1 (11.11%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
2 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (11.11%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (11.11%) Project Management
2 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
2 1 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (11.11%) High Availability
2 1 (11.11%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) CCNP
1 3 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (11.11%) CCNA
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (11.11%) MCDBA
2 1 (11.11%) MCITP
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
2 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (22.22%) DFS Replication
3 1 (11.11%) vSphere
3 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) BMC PATROL
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Cisco
2 3 (33.33%) Juniper
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) VMware
3 2 (22.22%) HP
4 1 (11.11%) BMC
4 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint
4 1 (11.11%) McAfee
4 1 (11.11%) Citrix
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle
4 1 (11.11%) Clearswift
4 1 (11.11%) Riverbed