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VPN Contracts in the North West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills
Browse 23 VPN job vacancies in the North West

The first table below looks at the demand for VPN skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VPN over the 3 months to 18 June 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 North West 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
18 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Rank 103 100 124
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +24
Contract jobs citing VPN 19 34 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.788% 1.117% 0.263%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.919% 6.439% 1.626%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 0
Average daily rate £300 £325 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £293 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
-10.00% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 3
Average hourly rate £38.25 £17.00 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+125.00% +30.76%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.50 £17.75 £16.00
% change year-on-year
+49.29% +10.93%
All Communications & Networking
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 321 528 492
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 13.32% 17.34% 16.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 191 245
Average daily rate £300 £318 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.51% -2.30%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £190 £232
10% offered a daily rate of more than £451 £450 £398
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-3.03% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 44 47
Average hourly rate £29.50 £22.00 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+34.09% -21.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.50 £14.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £30.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year
- -1.96%
VPN
England

VPN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West 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 North West region.

North West VPN Hourly Rate Trend

VPN
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VPN across the North West region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

North West VPN Hourly Rate Histogram

VPN
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 North West region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Find
Job
Vacancies
Cheshire +4 11 £289 - 6
Manchester -2 5 £300 -7.69% 15
Lancashire +6 2 - - 2
Merseyside +7 1 - -
Cumbria - - - -
VPN
England

VPN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 38 (71.70%) Windows
2 34 (64.15%) Active Directory
3 30 (56.60%) Microsoft
4 23 (43.40%) Citrix
5 19 (35.85%) Cisco
5 19 (35.85%) ITIL
5 19 (35.85%) MS Exchange
6 15 (28.30%) Firewall
6 15 (28.30%) MS Office
6 15 (28.30%) MS Excel
6 15 (28.30%) Cisco Certification
7 13 (24.53%) CCNP
7 13 (24.53%) Windows Server 2008
8 12 (22.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (22.64%) Windows NT
8 12 (22.64%) Wireless
9 11 (20.75%) TCP/IP
9 11 (20.75%) SLA
9 11 (20.75%) Statistics
10 10 (18.87%) Incident Management
10 10 (18.87%) SC Cleared
10 10 (18.87%) DV Cleared
10 10 (18.87%) Security Cleared
10 10 (18.87%) Cisco Nexus
10 10 (18.87%) CCDP
10 10 (18.87%) ISO 9000
10 10 (18.87%) C
10 10 (18.87%) Blackberry
11 9 (16.98%) WAN
11 9 (16.98%) F5

VPN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 2 (3.774%) Software Packaging
2 1 (1.887%) COM
2 1 (1.887%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 19 (35.85%) MS Exchange
2 5 (9.434%) SharePoint
3 4 (7.547%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 3 (5.660%) IBM Notes
5 2 (3.774%) Exchange Server 2003
6 1 (1.887%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (1.887%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 15 (28.30%) MS Office
1 15 (28.30%) MS Excel
2 2 (3.774%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.887%) Maximo
Communications & Networking
1 15 (28.30%) Firewall
2 12 (22.64%) Wireless
3 11 (20.75%) TCP/IP
4 10 (18.87%) Cisco Nexus
5 9 (16.98%) WAN
6 8 (15.09%) SAN
7 7 (13.21%) SSL
7 7 (13.21%) LAN
8 5 (9.434%) Ethernet
8 5 (9.434%) Internet
9 4 (7.547%) 3G
9 4 (7.547%) ADSL
9 4 (7.547%) NetScreen
9 4 (7.547%) Cisco PIX
10 3 (5.660%) Network Security
10 3 (5.660%) Cisco ASA
10 3 (5.660%) Broadband
10 3 (5.660%) DHCP
10 3 (5.660%) DNS
10 3 (5.660%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.547%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (11.32%) Local Government
2 5 (9.434%) Telecoms
3 3 (5.660%) Banking
4 2 (3.774%) Retail
4 2 (3.774%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.887%) Finance
5 1 (1.887%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.887%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 19 (35.85%) Analyst
2 12 (22.64%) Help Desk Support
2 12 (22.64%) IT Support
3 11 (20.75%) Architect
4 10 (18.87%) Help Desk Analyst
5 7 (13.21%) Network Architect
6 6 (11.32%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.660%) Technical Architect
7 3 (5.660%) Support Engineer
7 3 (5.660%) 3rd Line Support
7 3 (5.660%) 2nd Line Support
7 3 (5.660%) Security Analyst
7 3 (5.660%) Technical Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.660%) Technical Analyst
8 2 (3.774%) Field Support Engineer
8 2 (3.774%) IT Support Analyst
8 2 (3.774%) Server Specialist
8 2 (3.774%) Helpdesk Technician
8 2 (3.774%) Network Engineer
8 2 (3.774%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.75%) Statistics
2 10 (18.87%) Blackberry
3 4 (7.547%) iPad
4 3 (5.660%) Thin Client
4 3 (5.660%) Fat Client
5 2 (3.774%) NHS
5 2 (3.774%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.774%) Handset
5 2 (3.774%) iPhone
6 1 (1.887%) CLARiiON
6 1 (1.887%) Clustering
6 1 (1.887%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.887%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 38 (71.70%) Windows
2 13 (24.53%) Windows Server 2008
3 12 (22.64%) Windows NT
4 9 (16.98%) Windows 7
5 8 (15.09%) Windows XP
6 7 (13.21%) Linux
7 5 (9.434%) UNIX
8 4 (7.547%) Windows 2000
8 4 (7.547%) VMS
8 4 (7.547%) Windows Server 2003
9 3 (5.660%) Windows Vista
10 1 (1.887%) Ubuntu
10 1 (1.887%) Windows 2000 Server
10 1 (1.887%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (35.85%) ITIL
2 10 (18.87%) Incident Management
3 7 (13.21%) Change Management
4 6 (11.32%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (7.547%) Release Management
5 4 (7.547%) Network Design
6 3 (5.660%) Security Management
6 3 (5.660%) Asset Management
7 2 (3.774%) TOGAF
7 2 (3.774%) Content Management
7 2 (3.774%) Computer Security
7 2 (3.774%) Project Management
7 2 (3.774%) Migration
7 2 (3.774%) Information Security
8 1 (1.887%) Service Management
8 1 (1.887%) Validation
8 1 (1.887%) Network Architecture
8 1 (1.887%) Network Management
8 1 (1.887%) Change Control
8 1 (1.887%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (18.87%) C
2 4 (7.547%) SQL
3 1 (1.887%) VBScript
3 1 (1.887%) VB
Qualifications
1 15 (28.30%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (24.53%) CCNP
3 10 (18.87%) CCDP
3 10 (18.87%) SC Cleared
3 10 (18.87%) DV Cleared
3 10 (18.87%) Security Cleared
4 8 (15.09%) CCNA
5 5 (9.434%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (5.660%) CCIE
7 1 (1.887%) CCSP
7 1 (1.887%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.887%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (22.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (20.75%) SLA
3 10 (18.87%) ISO 9000
4 1 (1.887%) QA
System Software
1 34 (64.15%) Active Directory
2 4 (7.547%) XenServer
3 3 (5.660%) XenDesktop
3 3 (5.660%) Terminal Services
3 3 (5.660%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.887%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.887%) XenApp
4 1 (1.887%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (11.32%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 4 (7.547%) SCCM
3 3 (5.660%) Norton AntiVirus
4 1 (1.887%) DameWare
4 1 (1.887%) Backup Exec
4 1 (1.887%) Cisco UCCX
4 1 (1.887%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 30 (56.60%) Microsoft
2 23 (43.40%) Citrix
3 19 (35.85%) Cisco
4 9 (16.98%) F5
5 8 (15.09%) Kaspersky
6 6 (11.32%) SurfControl
6 6 (11.32%) VMware
6 6 (11.32%) CheckPoint
7 5 (9.434%) Symantec
7 5 (9.434%) Clearswift
8 4 (7.547%) Veritas
8 4 (7.547%) HP
8 4 (7.547%) Dell
9 3 (5.660%) Lotus
10 2 (3.774%) EMC
10 2 (3.774%) Avaya
10 2 (3.774%) Juniper
10 2 (3.774%) Brocade
11 1 (1.887%) NETGEAR
11 1 (1.887%) Wyse
Helpdesk Support
Altrincham, North West
Position RequirementsTechnical Skills.*Knowledge of Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Windows 7*Knowledge of Microsoft Office 2003 /2007*Experience in problem solving PC's and Laptops*Experience in...
Rate: £8.50 per hour
Posted: 10 June 2013
Senior Support Engineer
Warrington, North West
The Senior Support Engineer will assist my client during a period of transition. They are implementing several technologies and require assistance with the workload.
Computer Futures
Posted: 10 June 2013
2nd/3rd line Support Team Leader
Manchester, Lancashire
Overseeing quality assurance, change management and administration processes for the support desk service... Producing management reports and statistics. To provide support for the Windows network, desktop applications including...
Robert Walters
Salary: £275 - £325 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
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