Leeds VPN Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Virtual Private Network (VPN) skills within the Leeds region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited VPN over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Location Aberdeen Basildon Basingstoke Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester City of London Cleethorpes Coventry Cramlington Cumbria Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Feltham Folkestone Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Greenwich Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Ipswich Kent Kettering Lancashire Leeds Leek Leicestershire Lincolnshire London Manchester Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North Wales North West Northamptonshire Northumberland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Redditch Rickmansworth Romford Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Asaph Staffordshire Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	60	37
Rank change on same period last year	-23
Matching contract IT job ads	19	33
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.025 %	0.035 %
As % of the category below	12.93 %	24.81 %
Daily rates quoted	15	7
Average minimum daily rate	£254	£336
Average daily rate	£272	£339
% change on same period last year	-19.73 %
Average maximum daily rate	£291	£343
UK excluding London average daily rate	£308	£324
% change on same period last year	-5.03 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.83	£17.50
Average hourly rate	£15.08	£17.50
% change on same period last year	-13.85 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.33	£17.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.94	£22.12
% change on same period last year	-0.83 %
Communications & Networking Leeds
Matching contract IT job ads	147	133
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.194 %	0.141 %
Daily rates quoted	42	32
Average minimum daily rate	£288	£318
Average daily rate	£308	£328
% change on same period last year	-6.12 %
Average maximum daily rate	£328	£338
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£344
% change on same period last year	-0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	20	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.24	£22.00
Average hourly rate	£21.14	£22.92
% change on same period last year	-7.74 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.04	£23.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.58	£28.53
% change on same period last year	-10.35 %
VPN West Yorkshire

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 Leeds 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 Leeds region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VPN across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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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 Leeds 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 Leeds region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 36 (92.31 %) Windows 2 27 (69.23 %) Microsoft 3 24 (61.54 %) Active Directory 4 22 (56.41 %) Windows XP 5 19 (48.72 %) TCP/IP 6 18 (46.15 %) Firewall 7 17 (43.59 %) WAN 8 14 (35.90 %) Broadband 9 13 (33.33 %) PRINCE2 9 13 (33.33 %) MS Office 10 12 (30.77 %) ITIL 11 11 (28.21 %) Windows 2000 12 10 (25.64 %) VMware ESX 12 10 (25.64 %) Health 12 10 (25.64 %) MPLS

12 10 (25.64 %) MS Exchange 12 10 (25.64 %) SQL 12 10 (25.64 %) SQL Server 12 10 (25.64 %) Microsoft Certification 12 10 (25.64 %) SAN 12 10 (25.64 %) NHS 12 10 (25.64 %) SQL Server 2005 12 10 (25.64 %) Exchange Server 2003 13 9 (23.08 %) Project Management 14 8 (20.51 %) Windows Mobile 15 7 (17.95 %) Finance 15 7 (17.95 %) Unix 15 7 (17.95 %) Linux 15 7 (17.95 %) LAN 15 7 (17.95 %) MS Excel

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 5 (12.82 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 10 (25.64 %) MS Exchange 1 10 (25.64 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 6 (15.38 %) Exchange Server 2000
Applications 1 13 (33.33 %) MS Office 2 7 (17.95 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 19 (48.72 %) TCP/IP 2 18 (46.15 %) Firewall 3 17 (43.59 %) WAN 4 14 (35.90 %) Broadband 5 10 (25.64 %) MPLS 5 10 (25.64 %) SAN 6 7 (17.95 %) LAN 7 6 (15.38 %) VoIP 8 4 (10.26 %) Internet 9 3 (7.692 %) DNS 10 1 (2.564 %) 3G 10 1 (2.564 %) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (25.64 %) SQL Server 1 10 (25.64 %) SQL Server 2005 2 6 (15.38 %) SQL Server 2000	General 1 10 (25.64 %) Health 2 7 (17.95 %) Finance 3 6 (15.38 %) Government 3 6 (15.38 %) Law 3 6 (15.38 %) Banking
Job Titles 1 19 (48.72 %) Analyst 2 11 (28.21 %) Support Analyst 2 11 (28.21 %) Desktop Support 3 7 (17.95 %) Desktop Analyst 3 7 (17.95 %) Desktop Support Analyst 4 5 (12.82 %) Desktop Support Engineer 4 5 (12.82 %) Support Engineer 4 5 (12.82 %) Consultant 4 5 (12.82 %) Desktop Engineer 4 5 (12.82 %) Project Engineer 5 4 (10.26 %) Service Desk Analyst 5 4 (10.26 %) Technical Consultant 5 4 (10.26 %) Service Analyst 6 3 (7.692 %) 2nd Line Support 6 3 (7.692 %) Deployment Analyst 7 2 (5.128 %) Project Consultant 7 2 (5.128 %) Project Manager 8 1 (2.564 %) Architect 8 1 (2.564 %) Technical Project Manager 8 1 (2.564 %) Network Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 10 (25.64 %) NHS 2 5 (12.82 %) Smartcard 2 5 (12.82 %) PDA 2 5 (12.82 %) Video Conferencing 3 4 (10.26 %) Clustering 4 3 (7.692 %) PKI 5 1 (2.564 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 36 (92.31 %) Windows 2 22 (56.41 %) Windows XP 3 11 (28.21 %) Windows 2000 4 8 (20.51 %) Windows Mobile 5 7 (17.95 %) Unix 5 7 (17.95 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 13 (33.33 %) PRINCE2 2 12 (30.77 %) ITIL 3 9 (23.08 %) Project Management 4 4 (10.26 %) Network Load Balancing 5 1 (2.564 %) Change Management 5 1 (2.564 %) Migration
Programming Languages 1 10 (25.64 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 10 (25.64 %) Microsoft Certification 2 6 (15.38 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 6 (15.38 %) MCP 3 4 (10.26 %) MCSE 4 2 (5.128 %) Network+ Certification 4 2 (5.128 %) Degree 5 1 (2.564 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner
System Software 1 24 (61.54 %) Active Directory 2 10 (25.64 %) VMware ESX 3 6 (15.38 %) VMware Infrastructure	Systems Management 1 5 (12.82 %) ZENworks 2 1 (2.564 %) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors 1 27 (69.23 %) Microsoft 2 6 (15.38 %) HP 2 6 (15.38 %) VMware 3 4 (10.26 %) Novell 4 1 (2.564 %) VERITAS 4 1 (2.564 %) Symantec 4 1 (2.564 %) Dell 4 1 (2.564 %) Cisco