The first table below looks at the demand for VPN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Paddington region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VPN over the 3 months to 20 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 Paddington 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing VPN 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Paddington - - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £15.00
% change year-on-year
+25.00% +46.66%
All Communications & Networking
Paddington
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
3 9 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Paddington 14.29% 69.23% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Average daily rate - £175 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -53.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.40% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
VPN
London

VPN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Paddington VPN Jobs Demand Trend

VPN
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Paddington 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 1 (100.00%) MS Office
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 1 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper
1 1 (100.00%) Mac OS X
1 1 (100.00%) Apple
1 1 (100.00%) Quark
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (100.00%) Sophos
1 1 (100.00%) Advertising
1 1 (100.00%) Altiris
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 7
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010

VPN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Paddington 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 Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (100.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 1 (100.00%) Mac OS X
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 7
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper
1 1 (100.00%) Apple
1 1 (100.00%) Quark
1 1 (100.00%) Sophos
1 1 (100.00%) Altiris