VPN Contracts in Gloucestershire

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
South West > Gloucestershire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire with a requirement for VPN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VPN over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 58 55
Rank change year-on-year +9 -3 -8
Contract jobs citing VPN 4 7 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 0.94% 1.46% 1.31%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.56% 7.95% 7.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 6
10th Percentile £505 £225 £154
25th Percentile £513 £309 £180
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £318
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% +33.86% -51.71%
75th Percentile £575 £544 £461
90th Percentile - £588 £509
South West median daily rate £425 £469 £400
% change year-on-year -9.33% +17.19% +6.67%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Gloucestershire

VPN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 61 88 90
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 14.29% 18.33% 16.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 69 62
10th Percentile £339 £298 £258
25th Percentile £475 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £460 £438
Median % change year-on-year +30.43% +5.14% -2.78%
75th Percentile £700 £600 £573
90th Percentile £776 £700 £588
South West median daily rate £538 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +7.50% +11.11% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.75 - -
Median hourly rate £16.50 - £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.04%
75th Percentile £19.13 - -
90th Percentile £21.00 - -
South West median hourly rate £40.00 £9.80 £50.53
% change year-on-year +308.16% -80.61% +7.51%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Job postings citing VPN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Job vacancy trend for VPN in Gloucestershire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VPN in Gloucestershire.

Daily rate trend for VPN in Gloucestershire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VPN in Gloucestershire.

Hourly rate trend for VPN in Gloucestershire

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Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 2 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cheltenham +1 3 £550 +15.79% 2
Gloucester +17 1 £500 +53.85% 2
VPN
South West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) IPv4
1 3 (75.00%) OSPF
1 3 (75.00%) VLAN
2 1 (25.00%) DMZ
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (75.00%) Task Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (25.00%) Hardware Maintenance
4 1 (25.00%) High Availability
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) GIAC
3 1 (25.00%) RHCE
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) Puppet
2 2 (50.00%) Terraform
3 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) F5
1 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (25.00%) VMware