VPN Contracts in Kent
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for VPN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Kent 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 Kent 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 36 33 40
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +7
Contract jobs citing VPN 2 3 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 0.654% 1.132% 1.567%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.128% 10.71% 5.000%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 5
Average daily rate £338 £140 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+141.07% -53.33%
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
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 39 28 100
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 12.75% 10.57% 31.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 17 65
Average daily rate £240 £308 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.95% +2.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 8
Average hourly rate £16.00 £67.50 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-76.29% +68.75%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
VPN
South East

VPN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent 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 Kent region over the 3 months to 17 May 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
Maidstone - 1 - -
VPN
South East

VPN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 12 (100.00%) Firewall
2 10 (83.33%) IPsec
2 10 (83.33%) DNS
2 10 (83.33%) Juniper
3 9 (75.00%) Citrix
3 9 (75.00%) Active Directory
3 9 (75.00%) HP
3 9 (75.00%) DHCP
3 9 (75.00%) Windows
3 9 (75.00%) SharePoint
3 9 (75.00%) VMware
4 8 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
4 8 (66.67%) Windows 2000 Server
4 8 (66.67%) LAN
4 8 (66.67%) WLAN
4 8 (66.67%) WAN
4 8 (66.67%) Dell
5 6 (50.00%) Terminal Services
5 6 (50.00%) VBScript
5 6 (50.00%) TCP/IP
5 6 (50.00%) IPv6
5 6 (50.00%) PowerShell
5 6 (50.00%) Release Management
5 6 (50.00%) SCOM
5 6 (50.00%) PKI
6 5 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (41.67%) Windows Server 2008
6 5 (41.67%) EMC
7 3 (25.00%) Terminal Server
7 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification

VPN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 Development
1 1 (8.333%) COM
1 1 (8.333%) WAP
Application Platforms
1 9 (75.00%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 12 (100.00%) Firewall
2 10 (83.33%) IPsec
2 10 (83.33%) DNS
3 9 (75.00%) DHCP
4 8 (66.67%) LAN
4 8 (66.67%) WLAN
4 8 (66.67%) WAN
5 6 (50.00%) TCP/IP
5 6 (50.00%) IPv6
6 2 (16.67%) VLAN
7 1 (8.333%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (8.333%) Junos
7 1 (8.333%) NetScreen
General
1 1 (8.333%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Server Engineer
2 8 (66.67%) Desktop Engineer
3 4 (33.33%) Project Engineer
3 4 (33.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 4 (33.33%) Server Support Engineer
3 4 (33.33%) Desktop Support
3 4 (33.33%) Server Support
3 4 (33.33%) Support Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Security Consultant
4 1 (8.333%) Administrator
4 1 (8.333%) Consultant
4 1 (8.333%) Network Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Firewall Consultant
4 1 (8.333%) Wintel Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Wintel Server Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Wintel Systems Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Network Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) PKI
2 2 (16.67%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 9 (75.00%) Windows
2 8 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 8 (66.67%) Windows 2000 Server
3 5 (41.67%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Release Management
2 1 (8.333%) Network Architecture
2 1 (8.333%) Project Management
2 1 (8.333%) Change Management
2 1 (8.333%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) VBScript
1 6 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) MCSA
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (8.333%) SC Cleared
2 1 (8.333%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.333%) CCNP
2 1 (8.333%) CCNA
2 1 (8.333%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.333%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (50.00%) Terminal Services
3 5 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (25.00%) Terminal Server
5 1 (8.333%) Squid
5 1 (8.333%) SpamAssassin
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) Juniper
2 9 (75.00%) Citrix
2 9 (75.00%) HP
2 9 (75.00%) VMware
3 8 (66.67%) Dell
4 5 (41.67%) EMC
5 3 (25.00%) Cisco
5 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
6 1 (8.333%) Blue Coat
6 1 (8.333%) TippingPoint
6 1 (8.333%) F5
6 1 (8.333%) Nokia
6 1 (8.333%) CheckPoint
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