The first table below looks at the demand for VPN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Middlesex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VPN over the 3 months to 24 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 Middlesex 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Rank 20 24 36
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +12
Contract jobs citing VPN 5 8 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 2.500% 2.589% 0.893%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.20% 19.05% 7.317%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 3
Average daily rate £375 £375 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +25.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £307 £300
% change year-on-year
-2.12% +2.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £21.25 £14.00
% change year-on-year
+29.41% +51.78%
All Communications & Networking
Middlesex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
41 42 41
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 20.50% 13.59% 12.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 18 11
Average daily rate £313 £375 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% +25.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 8
Average hourly rate £32.50 £27.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.37% -6.89%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.00 £12.50 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £27.25 £40.92
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
VPN
South East

VPN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex VPN Daily Rate Trend

VPN
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VPN across the Middlesex region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Middlesex VPN Daily Rate Histogram

VPN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Middlesex VPN Hourly Rate Trend

VPN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 7 (63.64%) Cisco
1 7 (63.64%) Firewall
2 6 (54.55%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (54.55%) CheckPoint
3 5 (45.45%) DMZ
3 5 (45.45%) Internet
3 5 (45.45%) EIGRP
3 5 (45.45%) F5
3 5 (45.45%) OSPF
3 5 (45.45%) BGP
3 5 (45.45%) Migration
3 5 (45.45%) BIG-IP
3 5 (45.45%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (27.27%) MPLS
4 3 (27.27%) VoIP
5 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
5 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
5 2 (18.18%) SNMP
5 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
5 2 (18.18%) DNS
5 2 (18.18%) Perl
5 2 (18.18%) SQL
5 2 (18.18%) Windows
5 2 (18.18%) MS Excel
5 2 (18.18%) VMware
5 2 (18.18%) Performance Management
5 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (9.091%) PowerShell
6 1 (9.091%) UAG

VPN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 (18.18%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (63.64%) Firewall
2 6 (54.55%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (45.45%) DMZ
3 5 (45.45%) Internet
3 5 (45.45%) EIGRP
3 5 (45.45%) OSPF
3 5 (45.45%) BGP
3 5 (45.45%) BIG-IP
3 5 (45.45%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (27.27%) MPLS
4 3 (27.27%) VoIP
5 2 (18.18%) SNMP
5 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
5 2 (18.18%) DNS
6 1 (9.091%) Junos
6 1 (9.091%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (9.091%) IPsec
6 1 (9.091%) DSL
6 1 (9.091%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (9.091%) Network Security
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Cisco Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) Cisco Security Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) Security Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Data Network Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) VoIP Project Manager
3 1 (9.091%) Cisco Voice Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Voice Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Microsoft Consultant
3 1 (9.091%) Technical Manager
3 1 (9.091%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (9.091%) Firewall Specialist
3 1 (9.091%) Project Manager
3 1 (9.091%) Analyst
3 1 (9.091%) Consultant
3 1 (9.091%) Network Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Technical Project Manager
3 1 (9.091%) Security Consultant
3 1 (9.091%) Service Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.091%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
2 1 (9.091%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Migration
2 2 (18.18%) Performance Management
3 1 (9.091%) Load Balancing
3 1 (9.091%) Risk Analysis
3 1 (9.091%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
1 2 (18.18%) Perl
1 2 (18.18%) SQL
2 1 (9.091%) PowerShell
2 1 (9.091%) C
2 1 (9.091%) VBScript
2 1 (9.091%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (9.091%) CCVP
2 1 (9.091%) MCDST
2 1 (9.091%) MCITP
2 1 (9.091%) MCSE
2 1 (9.091%) CCNP
2 1 (9.091%) CCNA
2 1 (9.091%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.091%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (9.091%) UAG
2 1 (9.091%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (9.091%) WSUS
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Cisco
2 6 (54.55%) CheckPoint
3 5 (45.45%) F5
4 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
4 2 (18.18%) VMware
5 1 (9.091%) Crossbeam
5 1 (9.091%) EMC
5 1 (9.091%) Juniper