The first table below looks at the demand for PPTP skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PPTP 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 London 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
Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing PPTP 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London - - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £25.00 -
All Communications & Networking
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
2861 3664 3392
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 13.25% 13.68% 10.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1759 2236 1957
Average daily rate £400 £400 £385
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +3.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £243 £237
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £525 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 145 211
Average hourly rate £21.50 £22.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.44% +18.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.95 £15.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
PPTP
England

PPTP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London PPTP Jobs Demand Trend

PPTP
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing PPTP 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 PPTP.

1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) IIS
1 2 (100.00%) ASP
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) HP
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (100.00%) L2TP
1 2 (100.00%) Clustering
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco PIX
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (100.00%) Change Control

PPTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing PPTP 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 PPTP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) IIS
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (100.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) L2TP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco PIX
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Change Control
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) HP