Hertfordshire VPN Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Virtual Private Network (VPN) skills within the Hertfordshire region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited VPN over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dover Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Horsham Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Liverpool London Loughborough Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Wolverhampton Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	64	88
Rank change on same period last year	+24
Matching contract IT job ads	7	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	2.929 %	2.059 %
Daily rates quoted	1	5
Average minimum daily rate	£425	£386
Average daily rate	£425	£386
% change on same period last year	+10.10 %
Average maximum daily rate	£425	£386
UK excluding London average daily rate	£368	£315
% change on same period last year	+16.65 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.50	-
Average hourly rate	£36.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.50	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.98	£22.64
% change on same period last year	+5.92 %
Communications & Networking Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	239	340
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.384 %	0.365 %
Daily rates quoted	49	106
Average minimum daily rate	£340	£311
Average daily rate	£358	£334
% change on same period last year	+7.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£376	£357
UK excluding London average daily rate	£346	£337
% change on same period last year	+2.79 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	48
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.15	£24.02
Average hourly rate	£32.73	£26.08
% change on same period last year	+25.46 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.30	£28.15
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.82	£28.43
% change on same period last year	-2.12 %
VPN East of England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing VPN across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing VPN across the Hertfordshire region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing VPN across the Hertfordshire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VPN across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008.

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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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Stevenage	-	4	-	-
St Albans	-	1	-	-

VPN East of England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 11 (78.57 %) Cisco 2 9 (64.29 %) Firewall 3 7 (50.00 %) LAN 3 7 (50.00 %) Windows 4 6 (42.86 %) WAN 5 5 (35.71 %) CCNP 5 5 (35.71 %) Cisco Certification 5 5 (35.71 %) Network Security 6 4 (28.57 %) Telecoms 6 4 (28.57 %) TCP/IP 7 3 (21.43 %) VoIP 7 3 (21.43 %) Windows XP 7 3 (21.43 %) Linux 7 3 (21.43 %) UNIX 7 3 (21.43 %) CheckPoint

7 3 (21.43 %) IPsec 7 3 (21.43 %) SC Cleared 7 3 (21.43 %) Security Cleared 7 3 (21.43 %) Degree 8 2 (14.29 %) Load Balancing 8 2 (14.29 %) Network Design 8 2 (14.29 %) VMware Infrastructure 8 2 (14.29 %) Cisco ASA 8 2 (14.29 %) Cisco PIX 8 2 (14.29 %) Time Management 8 2 (14.29 %) Windows Server 2003 8 2 (14.29 %) MPLS 8 2 (14.29 %) VMware 8 2 (14.29 %) MS Office 8 2 (14.29 %) Windows 2000

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 2 (14.29 %) MS Office 1 2 (14.29 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 9 (64.29 %) Firewall 2 7 (50.00 %) LAN 3 6 (42.86 %) WAN 4 5 (35.71 %) Network Security 5 4 (28.57 %) TCP/IP 6 3 (21.43 %) IPsec 6 3 (21.43 %) VoIP 7 2 (14.29 %) Cisco PIX 7 2 (14.29 %) Cisco ASA 7 2 (14.29 %) MPLS 8 1 (7.143 %) OSPF 8 1 (7.143 %) DSL 8 1 (7.143 %) TACACS 8 1 (7.143 %) TELNET 8 1 (7.143 %) SSH 8 1 (7.143 %) VLAN 8 1 (7.143 %) DNS 8 1 (7.143 %) HTTPS 8 1 (7.143 %) SSL 8 1 (7.143 %) SMTP
General 1 4 (28.57 %) Telecoms 2 1 (7.143 %) Finance 2 1 (7.143 %) Aerospace	Job Titles 1 4 (28.57 %) Analyst 2 2 (14.29 %) Helpdesk Analyst 2 2 (14.29 %) Network Analyst 2 2 (14.29 %) Data Analyst 2 2 (14.29 %) Security Specialist 2 2 (14.29 %) Network Specialist 2 2 (14.29 %) Network Security Specialist 3 1 (7.143 %) Data Network Engineer 3 1 (7.143 %) Security Engineer 3 1 (7.143 %) Systems Support Engineer 3 1 (7.143 %) Network Manager 3 1 (7.143 %) Service Manager 3 1 (7.143 %) Support Engineer 3 1 (7.143 %) Security Consultant 3 1 (7.143 %) Solutions Designer 3 1 (7.143 %) Consultant 3 1 (7.143 %) Network Engineer 3 1 (7.143 %) Systems Engineer 3 1 (7.143 %) Systems Support
Miscellaneous 1 1 (7.143 %) CMDB	Operating Systems 1 7 (50.00 %) Windows 2 3 (21.43 %) Linux 2 3 (21.43 %) Windows XP 2 3 (21.43 %) UNIX 3 2 (14.29 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (14.29 %) Windows 2000 3 2 (14.29 %) Windows NT 4 1 (7.143 %) AIX 4 1 (7.143 %) Solaris 4 1 (7.143 %) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (21.43 %) SC Cleared 1 3 (21.43 %) Security Cleared 2 2 (14.29 %) Network Design 2 2 (14.29 %) Load Balancing 2 2 (14.29 %) Time Management 3 1 (7.143 %) Configuration Management 3 1 (7.143 %) Security Management	Programming Languages 1 1 (7.143 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 5 (35.71 %) CCNP 1 5 (35.71 %) Cisco Certification 2 3 (21.43 %) Degree 3 2 (14.29 %) CCNA 3 2 (14.29 %) CCDP 4 1 (7.143 %) Citrix Certification 4 1 (7.143 %) Microsoft Certification 4 1 (7.143 %) CCSA 4 1 (7.143 %) CCSE 4 1 (7.143 %) MCSE 4 1 (7.143 %) CCSP	System Software 1 2 (14.29 %) VMware Infrastructure 2 1 (7.143 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 11 (78.57 %) Cisco 2 3 (21.43 %) CheckPoint 3 2 (14.29 %) VMware 3 2 (14.29 %) Intel 3 2 (14.29 %) Nortel 4 1 (7.143 %) Citrix 4 1 (7.143 %) IronPort 4 1 (7.143 %) Oracle