The first table below looks at the demand for VPN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Portsmouth region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VPN over the 3 months to 19 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 Portsmouth 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Rank 21 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing VPN 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Portsmouth 0.990% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.250% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £290 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
-10.76% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.50 £17.75 £15.50
% change year-on-year
+49.29% +14.51%
All Communications & Networking
Portsmouth
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
16 15 35
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Portsmouth 15.84% 16.85% 22.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 2
Average daily rate £370 £344 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.60% +10.03%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £328 £303
10% offered a daily rate of more than £396 £350 £323
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 9 19
Average hourly rate £27.50 £24.25 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.40% +27.63%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
VPN
Hampshire

VPN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth region.

Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth region.

Portsmouth VPN Hourly Rate Trend

VPN
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Portsmouth 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 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) VLAN
2 2 (50.00%) SCOM
2 2 (50.00%) Network Management
2 2 (50.00%) IPsec
2 2 (50.00%) Juniper
2 2 (50.00%) OSPF
2 2 (50.00%) BGP
2 2 (50.00%) C
2 2 (50.00%) Ethernet
2 2 (50.00%) SNMP
2 2 (50.00%) SSL
2 2 (50.00%) IPv4
2 2 (50.00%) IPv6
3 1 (25.00%) CCNP
3 1 (25.00%) CCNA
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) MPLS
3 1 (25.00%) Sourcefire
3 1 (25.00%) ArcSight
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco ASA

VPN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Portsmouth 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.

Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) VLAN
2 2 (50.00%) IPsec
2 2 (50.00%) OSPF
2 2 (50.00%) BGP
2 2 (50.00%) Ethernet
2 2 (50.00%) SNMP
2 2 (50.00%) SSL
2 2 (50.00%) IPv4
2 2 (50.00%) IPv6
3 1 (25.00%) MPLS
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CCNP
1 1 (25.00%) CCNA
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Juniper
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Sourcefire
2 1 (25.00%) ArcSight