The first table below looks at the demand for VPN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hampshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VPN over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Hampshire 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Rank 78 76 98
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +22
Contract jobs citing VPN 22 17 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 1.371% 1.088% 0.375%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.875% 5.629% 2.491%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 4
Average daily rate £420 £388 £249
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.38% +55.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £314 £375 £135
10% offered a daily rate of more than £508 £414 £321
UK excluding London average daily rate £293 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
-10.00% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 1
Average hourly rate £40.00 £30.00 £9.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+33.33% +233.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.50 £17.75 £16.00
% change year-on-year
+49.29% +10.93%
All Communications & Networking
Hampshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
320 302 281
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 19.94% 19.32% 15.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 121 88
Average daily rate £350 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £270 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-3.03% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 56 70
Average hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £33.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% +4.47%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £20.75 £17.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year
- -1.96%
VPN
South East

VPN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Fareham +12 4 - - 3
Farnborough +2 1 £575 +36.90%
Portsmouth - 1 - - 2
Southampton - - - - 2
Southsea - - - -
Winchester - - - -
Havant - - - -
Andover - - - -
Basingstoke - - - -
VPN
South East

VPN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 23 (60.53%) Firewall
2 17 (44.74%) Cisco
3 14 (36.84%) VLAN
4 12 (31.58%) Security Cleared
4 12 (31.58%) Juniper
5 11 (28.95%) LAN
6 10 (26.32%) WAN
6 10 (26.32%) SC Cleared
7 8 (21.05%) Network Security
7 8 (21.05%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (18.42%) Cisco ASA
8 7 (18.42%) Sourcefire
9 6 (15.79%) CCNP
9 6 (15.79%) SAN
9 6 (15.79%) MPLS
10 5 (13.16%) CCNA
10 5 (13.16%) Active Directory
10 5 (13.16%) SSL
10 5 (13.16%) VMS
10 5 (13.16%) Windows
10 5 (13.16%) Information Security
10 5 (13.16%) VMware
10 5 (13.16%) Military
10 5 (13.16%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (10.53%) ArcSight
11 4 (10.53%) Network Design
11 4 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 4 (10.53%) Legal
11 4 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
11 4 (10.53%) Replication

VPN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 1 (2.632%) SharePoint
1 1 (2.632%) MS Exchange
1 1 (2.632%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 1 (2.632%) Lync
Applications
1 1 (2.632%) MS Office
1 1 (2.632%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 23 (60.53%) Firewall
2 14 (36.84%) VLAN
3 11 (28.95%) LAN
4 10 (26.32%) WAN
5 8 (21.05%) Network Security
6 7 (18.42%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (15.79%) SAN
7 6 (15.79%) MPLS
8 5 (13.16%) SSL
9 4 (10.53%) TCP/IP
9 4 (10.53%) DNS
9 4 (10.53%) IPsec
10 3 (7.895%) BGP
10 3 (7.895%) Ethernet
11 2 (5.263%) IPv4
11 2 (5.263%) IPv6
11 2 (5.263%) OSPF
11 2 (5.263%) IP Telephony
11 2 (5.263%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (5.263%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.632%) SAP BW
General
1 5 (13.16%) Military
2 4 (10.53%) Legal
3 1 (2.632%) Finance
Job Titles
1 20 (52.63%) Network Engineer
2 6 (15.79%) Architect
3 5 (13.16%) Analyst
3 5 (13.16%) Security Analyst
3 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure Architect
4 4 (10.53%) Installations Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Cisco Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Security Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Network Security Engineer
5 3 (7.895%) Network Analyst
5 3 (7.895%) Design Engineer
5 3 (7.895%) Network Design Engineer
5 3 (7.895%) Network Security Analyst
6 2 (5.263%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 2 (5.263%) Security Manager
6 2 (5.263%) Firewall Engineer
6 2 (5.263%) Firewall Analyst
6 2 (5.263%) Information Security Analyst
6 2 (5.263%) Information Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.53%) Replication
2 3 (7.895%) Blackberry
3 2 (5.263%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.16%) Windows
1 5 (13.16%) VMS
2 4 (10.53%) Windows XP
3 2 (5.263%) Windows 7
4 1 (2.632%) CentOS
4 1 (2.632%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.632%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (13.16%) Information Security
2 4 (10.53%) Network Design
2 4 (10.53%) ITIL
2 4 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (10.53%) Risk Management
3 3 (7.895%) Migration
3 3 (7.895%) Supplier Management
3 3 (7.895%) Content Management
3 3 (7.895%) Service Delivery
3 3 (7.895%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (5.263%) Data Migration
4 2 (5.263%) Network Management
5 1 (2.632%) High Availability
5 1 (2.632%) Network Architecture
5 1 (2.632%) Requirements Management
5 1 (2.632%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.263%) C
Qualifications
1 12 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 10 (26.32%) SC Cleared
3 8 (21.05%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (15.79%) CCNP
5 5 (13.16%) CCNA
6 4 (10.53%) CISSP
6 4 (10.53%) CISM
7 2 (5.263%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (2.632%) VCP5
8 1 (2.632%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (2.632%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (2.632%) A+ Certification
8 1 (2.632%) MCP
8 1 (2.632%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.263%) SLA
3 1 (2.632%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (13.16%) Active Directory
1 5 (13.16%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (7.895%) Snort
2 3 (7.895%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.632%) vSphere
3 1 (2.632%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 3 (7.895%) Nessus
2 2 (5.263%) SCOM
Vendors
1 17 (44.74%) Cisco
2 12 (31.58%) Juniper
3 7 (18.42%) Sourcefire
4 5 (13.16%) VMware
5 4 (10.53%) ArcSight
6 3 (7.895%) CheckPoint
6 3 (7.895%) IBM
7 2 (5.263%) Remedy
7 2 (5.263%) 3Com
7 2 (5.263%) Avaya
8 1 (2.632%) SAP
8 1 (2.632%) Polycom
8 1 (2.632%) McAfee
8 1 (2.632%) BT
8 1 (2.632%) Microsoft
8 1 (2.632%) HP
8 1 (2.632%) Dell
8 1 (2.632%) Nortel