The first table below looks at the demand for VPN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow 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 Glasgow 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 78 59 62
Rank change year-on-year
-19 +3
Contract jobs citing VPN 2 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 0.212% 0.130% 0.143%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.077% 1.587% 2.941%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £200 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £15.00
% change year-on-year
+25.00% +46.66%
All Communications & Networking
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
65 63 34
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 6.900% 8.161% 4.857%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 20 12
Average daily rate £335 £305 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.83% -6.15%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £195 £120 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £420 £440 £403
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 14 3
Average hourly rate £14.50 £26.00 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-44.23% +36.84%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
VPN
Scotland

VPN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow VPN Hourly Rate Trend

VPN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (70.00%) Windows
3 6 (60.00%) MS Office
3 6 (60.00%) MS Visio
3 6 (60.00%) Blackberry
4 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
4 4 (40.00%) Banking
5 3 (30.00%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (30.00%) SonicWALL
5 3 (30.00%) Cisco
5 3 (30.00%) HSRP
5 3 (30.00%) FortiGate
5 3 (30.00%) ADSL
5 3 (30.00%) Broadband
5 3 (30.00%) LAN
5 3 (30.00%) WLAN
5 3 (30.00%) EIGRP
5 3 (30.00%) MPLS
5 3 (30.00%) BGP
5 3 (30.00%) 3G
5 3 (30.00%) Firewall
5 3 (30.00%) Wireless
6 2 (20.00%) Migration
6 2 (20.00%) WAN
6 2 (20.00%) E-Commerce
6 2 (20.00%) Marketing
6 2 (20.00%) Customer Insight
6 2 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
6 2 (20.00%) SCCM
7 1 (10.00%) Retail

VPN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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.

Applications
1 6 (60.00%) MS Office
1 6 (60.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (10.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) 3G
1 3 (30.00%) MPLS
1 3 (30.00%) BGP
1 3 (30.00%) EIGRP
1 3 (30.00%) Firewall
1 3 (30.00%) Wireless
1 3 (30.00%) Cisco ASA
1 3 (30.00%) ADSL
1 3 (30.00%) Broadband
1 3 (30.00%) LAN
1 3 (30.00%) WLAN
1 3 (30.00%) HSRP
2 2 (20.00%) WAN
3 1 (10.00%) SAN
3 1 (10.00%) NAS
General
1 4 (40.00%) Banking
2 2 (20.00%) Marketing
3 1 (10.00%) Back Office
3 1 (10.00%) Retail
3 1 (10.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Project Manager
1 3 (30.00%) Desktop Support
1 3 (30.00%) Deployment Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Desktop Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Project Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Support Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Desktop Support Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Project Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Blackberry
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (10.00%) EPoS
2 1 (10.00%) EMV
2 1 (10.00%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
1 2 (20.00%) Migration
1 2 (20.00%) Customer Insight
2 1 (10.00%) Logistics
2 1 (10.00%) Time Management
2 1 (10.00%) Network Management
2 1 (10.00%) ITIL V3
2 1 (10.00%) Project Management
2 1 (10.00%) Change Management
2 1 (10.00%) ITIL
2 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) VMware ESX
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) FortiGate
2 2 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Cisco
2 3 (30.00%) SonicWALL
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) Adobe
3 1 (10.00%) VMware