Manchester VPN Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Virtual Private Network (VPN) skills within the Manchester 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 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bootle Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cannock Cardiff Chertsey Cheshire City of London Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Ely England Essex Exeter Falkirk Farnborough Feltham Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenwich Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Horsham Hounslow Ipswich Kent Kettering King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Liverpool London Luton Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Redditch Romford Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	60	60
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	12	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	6.780 %	6.322 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£320	-
Average daily rate	£335	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£350	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	£309
% change on same period last year	+24.97 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.33	£14.00
Average hourly rate	£31.67	£15.00
% change on same period last year	+111.11 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	£16.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.08	£23.16
% change on same period last year	-0.37 %
Communications & Networking Manchester
Matching contract IT job ads	177	174
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.250 %	0.176 %
Daily rates quoted	34	36
Average minimum daily rate	£343	£312
Average daily rate	£362	£332
% change on same period last year	+9.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£380	£351
UK excluding London average daily rate	£354	£336
% change on same period last year	+5.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	24	38
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.06	£17.13
Average hourly rate	£26.13	£18.87
% change on same period last year	+38.48 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.20	£20.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.44	£28.92
% change on same period last year	-5.09 %
VPN North West

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 Manchester 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 Manchester 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 Manchester region.

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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 Manchester region over the 3 months to 13 October 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
Salford	-	1	-	-

VPN North West

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 13 (59.09 %) LAN 1 13 (59.09 %) WAN 2 11 (50.00 %) Cisco 2 11 (50.00 %) Windows 3 10 (45.45 %) MCSE 3 10 (45.45 %) Cisco Certification 3 10 (45.45 %) Microsoft Certification 4 7 (31.82 %) CCNA 5 6 (27.27 %) Windows Server 2003 5 6 (27.27 %) Blackberry 5 6 (27.27 %) CCIE 5 6 (27.27 %) VoIP 6 5 (22.73 %) CheckPoint 6 5 (22.73 %) Firewall 6 5 (22.73 %) Telecoms

6 5 (22.73 %) Construction 6 5 (22.73 %) IP Telephony 6 5 (22.73 %) Degree 6 5 (22.73 %) VSAT 7 4 (18.18 %) MCITP 7 4 (18.18 %) Manufacturing 7 4 (18.18 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 7 4 (18.18 %) CAD 7 4 (18.18 %) MS Office 7 4 (18.18 %) CCNP 7 4 (18.18 %) ERP 7 4 (18.18 %) Windows XP 8 3 (13.64 %) SQL 8 3 (13.64 %) SSL 8 3 (13.64 %) MPLS

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 4 (18.18 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 2 2 (9.091 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (4.545 %) Exchange Server 2003	Applications 1 4 (18.18 %) MS Office 2 1 (4.545 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 13 (59.09 %) WAN 1 13 (59.09 %) LAN 2 6 (27.27 %) VoIP 3 5 (22.73 %) Firewall 3 5 (22.73 %) IP Telephony 3 5 (22.73 %) VSAT 4 3 (13.64 %) Network Security 4 3 (13.64 %) VLAN 4 3 (13.64 %) SSL 4 3 (13.64 %) MPLS 5 2 (9.091 %) Internet 5 2 (9.091 %) TCP/IP 5 2 (9.091 %) HTTP 5 2 (9.091 %) Cisco PIX 5 2 (9.091 %) BIG-IP 6 1 (4.545 %) SSH 6 1 (4.545 %) Intrusion Detection 6 1 (4.545 %) IPX 6 1 (4.545 %) PPP 6 1 (4.545 %) ATM	General 1 5 (22.73 %) Telecoms 1 5 (22.73 %) Construction 2 4 (18.18 %) Manufacturing 3 2 (9.091 %) Law
Job Titles 1 5 (22.73 %) Systems Engineer 1 5 (22.73 %) Project Leader 1 5 (22.73 %) Technical Project Leader 2 3 (13.64 %) 2nd Line Support 3 2 (9.091 %) 2nd Line Support Analyst 3 2 (9.091 %) Cisco Engineer 3 2 (9.091 %) Support Analyst 3 2 (9.091 %) Analyst 3 2 (9.091 %) Consultant 3 2 (9.091 %) Network Engineer 4 1 (4.545 %) Network Consultant 4 1 (4.545 %) Support Engineer 4 1 (4.545 %) Security Consultant 4 1 (4.545 %) Systems Support 4 1 (4.545 %) Support Technician 4 1 (4.545 %) Security Specialist 4 1 (4.545 %) PC Support 4 1 (4.545 %) Cisco Network Engineer 4 1 (4.545 %) Security Engineer 4 1 (4.545 %) Linux Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 6 (27.27 %) Blackberry 2 2 (9.091 %) PKI 3 1 (4.545 %) Cryptography
Operating Systems 1 11 (50.00 %) Windows 2 6 (27.27 %) Windows Server 2003 3 4 (18.18 %) Windows XP 4 2 (9.091 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 2 (9.091 %) Windows 2000 4 2 (9.091 %) HPUX 4 2 (9.091 %) Solaris 5 1 (4.545 %) Linux 5 1 (4.545 %) Windows NT 5 1 (4.545 %) Windows Vista	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (18.18 %) ERP 1 4 (18.18 %) CAD 2 2 (9.091 %) Migration 2 2 (9.091 %) Risk Assessment 3 1 (4.545 %) Problem Management 3 1 (4.545 %) Service Management 3 1 (4.545 %) ITIL 3 1 (4.545 %) CRM
Programming Languages 1 3 (13.64 %) SQL 2 1 (4.545 %) C 2 1 (4.545 %) Java	Qualifications 1 10 (45.45 %) MCSE 1 10 (45.45 %) Cisco Certification 1 10 (45.45 %) Microsoft Certification 2 7 (31.82 %) CCNA 3 6 (27.27 %) CCIE 4 5 (22.73 %) Degree 5 4 (18.18 %) CCNP 5 4 (18.18 %) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (4.545 %) SLA	System Software 1 2 (9.091 %) Active Directory 2 1 (4.545 %) Backup Exec 2 1 (4.545 %) Snort
Systems Management 1 1 (4.545 %) DameWare 1 1 (4.545 %) Nessus 1 1 (4.545 %) ServiceCenter	Vendors 1 11 (50.00 %) Cisco 2 5 (22.73 %) CheckPoint 3 3 (13.64 %) Citrix 4 2 (9.091 %) Microsoft 4 2 (9.091 %) Remedy 4 2 (9.091 %) VMware 5 1 (4.545 %) Oracle 5 1 (4.545 %) HP 5 1 (4.545 %) Avaya 5 1 (4.545 %) VERITAS