The first table below looks at the demand for VPN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Newbury region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VPN over the 3 months to 23 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 Newbury 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Rank - 16 15
Contract jobs citing VPN 0 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Newbury - 0.833% 0.943%
As % of the Communications & Networking category - 2.632% 5.000%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £313 £300
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £16.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £21.00 £14.00
% change year-on-year
+42.85% +50.00%
All Communications & Networking
Newbury
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
43 38 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Newbury 37.07% 31.67% 18.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 15 8
Average daily rate £348 £244 £345
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+42.56% -29.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £200 £193
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £453
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 5
Average hourly rate £24.50 £16.50 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+48.48% -2.94%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.27% -7.72%
VPN
Berkshire

VPN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Newbury 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 Newbury region.

Newbury 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 Newbury region.

Newbury VPN Hourly Rate Trend

VPN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Newbury 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 9 (81.82%) Windows
1 9 (81.82%) Linux
1 9 (81.82%) Release Management
2 8 (72.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (72.73%) Windows Server 2008
2 8 (72.73%) NAS
2 8 (72.73%) VMware
2 8 (72.73%) VMware Workstation
2 8 (72.73%) Clustering
2 8 (72.73%) NetBackup
2 8 (72.73%) ITIL
2 8 (72.73%) Windows Server 2003
2 8 (72.73%) Symantec
2 8 (72.73%) SAN
2 8 (72.73%) NetApp
3 2 (18.18%) Project Management
3 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
4 1 (9.091%) DNS
4 1 (9.091%) HTTPS
4 1 (9.091%) CCNA
4 1 (9.091%) Active Directory
4 1 (9.091%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (9.091%) PMI
4 1 (9.091%) PMI Certification
4 1 (9.091%) Lotus Notes
4 1 (9.091%) Apache
4 1 (9.091%) LDAP
4 1 (9.091%) MS Excel
4 1 (9.091%) Windows XP
4 1 (9.091%) LAN

VPN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Newbury 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 (9.091%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 1 (9.091%) Lotus Notes
1 1 (9.091%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (9.091%) MS Excel
1 1 (9.091%) MS Project
1 1 (9.091%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 8 (72.73%) NAS
1 8 (72.73%) SAN
2 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
3 1 (9.091%) DNS
3 1 (9.091%) HTTPS
3 1 (9.091%) LDAP
3 1 (9.091%) LAN
3 1 (9.091%) WLAN
3 1 (9.091%) MPLS
3 1 (9.091%) SSH
3 1 (9.091%) IPsec
General
1 1 (9.091%) Electronics
1 1 (9.091%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Desktop Support
2 3 (27.27%) Support Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Technical Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Technical Project Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Project Manager
4 1 (9.091%) Systems Support
4 1 (9.091%) Support Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (9.091%) Desktop Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Windows Administrator
4 1 (9.091%) Windows Systems Administrator
4 1 (9.091%) Deployment Project Manager
4 1 (9.091%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (9.091%) Administrator
4 1 (9.091%) Deployment Manager
4 1 (9.091%) Desktop Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 8 (72.73%) Clustering
2 1 (9.091%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 9 (81.82%) Windows
1 9 (81.82%) Linux
2 8 (72.73%) Windows Server 2008
2 8 (72.73%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (9.091%) Windows XP
3 1 (9.091%) UNIX
3 1 (9.091%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Release Management
2 8 (72.73%) ITIL
3 2 (18.18%) Project Management
4 1 (9.091%) PRINCE2
4 1 (9.091%) Load Balancing
4 1 (9.091%) Matrix Management
4 1 (9.091%) Change Management
4 1 (9.091%) Continuous Improvement
Qualifications
1 1 (9.091%) CCNA
1 1 (9.091%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (9.091%) PMI Certification
System Software
1 8 (72.73%) VMware Infrastructure
1 8 (72.73%) VMware Workstation
2 1 (9.091%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) VMware
1 8 (72.73%) Symantec
1 8 (72.73%) NetApp
2 1 (9.091%) Lotus
2 1 (9.091%) Remedy