The first table below looks at the demand for VPN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Nottinghamshire 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 Nottinghamshire 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 33 38 29
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -9
Contract jobs citing VPN 8 1 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire 2.462% 0.353% 2.310%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.31% 3.571% 11.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £293 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £313 £300
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £27.50 - £21.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £21.00 £14.00
% change year-on-year
+42.85% +50.00%
All Communications & Networking
Nottinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
65 28 60
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire 20.00% 9.894% 19.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 13 15
Average daily rate £325 £238 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+36.84% -13.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £165 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £385 £396 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 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 £11.85 £30.00 £13.05
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £30.00 £21.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.27% -7.72%
VPN
East Midlands

VPN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottinghamshire 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 Nottinghamshire region.

Nottinghamshire 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 Nottinghamshire region.

Nottinghamshire VPN Hourly Rate Trend

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 Nottinghamshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 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
Nottingham -3 7 £293 -
VPN
East Midlands

VPN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottinghamshire 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 11 (78.57%) Cisco
1 11 (78.57%) Firewall
2 8 (57.14%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (57.14%) LAN
2 8 (57.14%) WAN
3 6 (42.86%) Windows
3 6 (42.86%) CCNA
4 5 (35.71%) Citrix
4 5 (35.71%) Wireless
4 5 (35.71%) Windows 7
5 4 (28.57%) SolarWinds
5 4 (28.57%) SolarWinds Orion
5 4 (28.57%) MPLS
5 4 (28.57%) WLAN
5 4 (28.57%) Juniper
5 4 (28.57%) Nokia
5 4 (28.57%) TCP/IP
5 4 (28.57%) DMVPN
6 3 (21.43%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
6 3 (21.43%) Windows XP
6 3 (21.43%) Nortel
6 3 (21.43%) VMware
6 3 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (14.29%) SCCM
7 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (14.29%) Network Management
7 2 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (14.29%) Finance

VPN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottinghamshire 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 (7.143%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 2 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2010
1 2 (14.29%) MS Exchange
2 1 (7.143%) Lotus Notes
2 1 (7.143%) Apache
2 1 (7.143%) IIS
2 1 (7.143%) Lync
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) MS Office
1 2 (14.29%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (78.57%) Firewall
2 8 (57.14%) LAN
2 8 (57.14%) WAN
3 5 (35.71%) Wireless
4 4 (28.57%) MPLS
4 4 (28.57%) WLAN
4 4 (28.57%) TCP/IP
4 4 (28.57%) DMVPN
5 3 (21.43%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (14.29%) DHCP
6 2 (14.29%) VoIP
6 2 (14.29%) DNS
6 2 (14.29%) NetScaler
7 1 (7.143%) Internet
7 1 (7.143%) BIG-IP
7 1 (7.143%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.143%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 2 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (7.143%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Network Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Network Analyst
2 4 (28.57%) Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) Trainer
4 1 (7.143%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) Cisco Network Analyst
4 1 (7.143%) Microsoft Trainer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.143%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Windows
2 5 (35.71%) Windows 7
3 3 (21.43%) Windows XP
4 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (7.143%) UNIX
5 1 (7.143%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (14.29%) Network Management
2 1 (7.143%) Validation
2 1 (7.143%) Migration
Qualifications
1 8 (57.14%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (42.86%) CCNA
3 2 (14.29%) CCNP
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.143%) MetaFrame
2 1 (7.143%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) SolarWinds Orion
2 2 (14.29%) SCCM
3 1 (7.143%) Tivoli
3 1 (7.143%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 11 (78.57%) Cisco
2 5 (35.71%) Citrix
3 4 (28.57%) SolarWinds
3 4 (28.57%) Juniper
3 4 (28.57%) Nokia
4 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
4 3 (21.43%) Nortel
4 3 (21.43%) VMware
5 2 (14.29%) CheckPoint
5 2 (14.29%) HP
6 1 (7.143%) Lotus
6 1 (7.143%) Hitachi
6 1 (7.143%) IBM
6 1 (7.143%) McAfee
6 1 (7.143%) F5
6 1 (7.143%) Veeam