VPN Contracts in Oxfordshire

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
South East > Oxfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire with a requirement for VPN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VPN over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 30 36
Rank change year-on-year +10 +6 -6
Contract jobs citing VPN 5 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 2.19% 0.82% 0.75%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 21.74% 10.00% 6.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £350
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.20%
75th Percentile £446 - -
90th Percentile £462 - -
South East median daily rate £400 £500 £416
% change year-on-year -20.00% +20.12% +4.06%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Oxfordshire

VPN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 23 20 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 10.09% 8.16% 11.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 23
10th Percentile £175 £213 £138
25th Percentile £363 £241 £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £450 £300
Median % change year-on-year -1.11% +50.00% +4.35%
75th Percentile £528 £506 £475
90th Percentile £546 £525 £755
South East median daily rate £489 £488 £450
% change year-on-year +0.26% +8.33% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.00 £48.50 -
Median hourly rate £48.75 £49.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.51% +145.00% -58.97%
75th Percentile £65.00 £49.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £52.25 £21.50
% change year-on-year +9.76% +143.02% -33.85%

VPN
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

Job postings citing VPN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for VPN in Oxfordshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VPN in Oxfordshire.

Daily rate trend for VPN in Oxfordshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VPN in Oxfordshire.

Hourly rate trend for VPN in Oxfordshire

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Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Oxford +11 2 £400 - 2
Bicester - 1 £375 -
VPN
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (40.00%) Google Workspace
2 2 (40.00%) IaaS
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (40.00%) PaaS
2 2 (40.00%) SaaS
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
2 3 (60.00%) LAN
2 3 (60.00%) WAN
3 2 (40.00%) DNS
3 2 (40.00%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (20.00%) Network Security
4 1 (20.00%) Wireless
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
1 4 (80.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Information Security
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (40.00%) Patch Management
2 2 (40.00%) Server Management
3 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CCNA
1 1 (20.00%) CCNP
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) SCCM
2 1 (20.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) Aruba
3 2 (40.00%) Google
3 2 (40.00%) HP
3 2 (40.00%) Meraki
3 2 (40.00%) Sophos
4 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
4 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto