The first table below looks at the demand for VPN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Nottingham 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 Nottingham 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 29 31 26
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -5
Contract jobs citing VPN 7 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 2.448% 0.448% 1.277%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.96% 4.167% 6.122%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £293 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £307 £300
% change year-on-year
-2.12% +2.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £27.50 - £21.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £21.25 £14.00
% change year-on-year
+29.41% +51.78%
All Communications & Networking
Nottingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
54 24 49
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 18.88% 10.76% 20.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 11 14
Average daily rate £335 £238 £263
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+41.05% -9.60%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £205 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £385 £423 £378
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 4
Average hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% +46.34%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £30.00 £13.05
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £30.00 £21.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
VPN
Nottinghamshire

VPN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottingham 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 Nottingham region.

Nottingham 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 Nottingham region.

Nottingham VPN Hourly Rate Trend

VPN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 6 (66.67%) Windows
1 6 (66.67%) Cisco
1 6 (66.67%) Firewall
2 5 (55.56%) Windows 7
3 4 (44.44%) Citrix
4 3 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (33.33%) Juniper
4 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 3 (33.33%) Windows XP
4 3 (33.33%) LAN
4 3 (33.33%) WAN
4 3 (33.33%) Nokia
4 3 (33.33%) VMware
4 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (33.33%) DMVPN
5 2 (22.22%) Office 365
5 2 (22.22%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (22.22%) Network Management
5 2 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (22.22%) SCCM
5 2 (22.22%) DHCP
5 2 (22.22%) DNS
5 2 (22.22%) VoIP
5 2 (22.22%) MS Exchange
5 2 (22.22%) MS Office
5 2 (22.22%) HP
5 2 (22.22%) Nortel
5 2 (22.22%) CheckPoint

VPN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 (11.11%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2010
1 2 (22.22%) MS Exchange
2 1 (11.11%) Lotus Notes
2 1 (11.11%) Apache
2 1 (11.11%) IIS
2 1 (11.11%) Lync
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Office 365
1 2 (22.22%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) Firewall
2 3 (33.33%) LAN
2 3 (33.33%) WAN
2 3 (33.33%) DMVPN
3 2 (22.22%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (22.22%) DHCP
3 2 (22.22%) DNS
3 2 (22.22%) VoIP
4 1 (11.11%) Internet
4 1 (11.11%) BIG-IP
4 1 (11.11%) Wireless
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (11.11%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Network Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Trainer
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Trainer
3 1 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Windows
2 5 (55.56%) Windows 7
3 3 (33.33%) Windows XP
4 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (11.11%) UNIX
5 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (22.22%) Network Management
1 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (11.11%) Validation
2 1 (11.11%) Migration
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (11.11%) CCNP
2 1 (11.11%) CCNA
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (11.11%) MetaFrame
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) SCCM
2 1 (11.11%) Tivoli
2 1 (11.11%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Cisco
2 4 (44.44%) Citrix
3 3 (33.33%) Juniper
3 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (33.33%) Nokia
3 3 (33.33%) VMware
4 2 (22.22%) HP
4 2 (22.22%) Nortel
4 2 (22.22%) CheckPoint
5 1 (11.11%) McAfee
5 1 (11.11%) Hitachi
5 1 (11.11%) IBM
5 1 (11.11%) Lotus
5 1 (11.11%) F5
5 1 (11.11%) Veeam