The first part of the table below looks at the demand for VPN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VPN over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the Gloucester region.
| Virtual Private Network (VPN) |
| 3 months to
19 Mar 2010 | Same period 2009 | Same period 2008 |
| Rank | 11 | 6 | - |
| Rank change year-on-year |
 -5 |  - |
|
| Matching contract IT job ads | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucester | 2.857 % | 6.849 % | - |
| As % of the Communications & Networking category | 12.50 % | 41.67 % | - |
| Daily rates quoted | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Average daily rate | - | - | - |
| UK excluding London average daily rate | £325 | £350 | £325 |
| % change year-on-year | |
| Hourly rates quoted | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Average hourly rate | - | - | - |
| UK excluding London average hourly rate | £17.50 | £18.00 | £18.25 |
| % change year-on-year | |
|
|
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category | 16 | 12 | 25 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucester | 22.86 % | 16.44 % | 19.38 % |
| Daily rates quoted | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Average daily rate | £273 | £650 | £449 |
| Average daily rate % change year-on-year | |
| UK excluding London average daily rate | £325 | £338 | £325 |
| % change year-on-year | |
| Hourly rates quoted | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Average hourly rate | £14.50 | - | - |
| UK excluding London average hourly rate | £25.00 | £24.00 | £27.50 |
| % change year-on-year | |
|
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.
VPN
Demand Trend
The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing VPN across the Gloucester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.
