VPN Contracts in Reading
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for VPN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VPN over the 3 months to 17 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 Reading 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Rank 50 34 64
Rank change year-on-year
-16 +30
Contract jobs citing VPN 20 49 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 2.410% 4.605% 1.514%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.58% 11.04% 7.547%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 8
Average daily rate £140 £188 £253
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-25.33% -25.74%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £118 £89 £189
10% offered a daily rate of more than £237 £352 £278
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 3
Average hourly rate £18.75 £14.58 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.64% -8.90%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.55 £14.53 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.95 £15.13 £18.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £15.00
% change year-on-year
+25.00% +46.66%
All Communications & Networking
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 189 444 212
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 22.77% 41.73% 20.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 103 71
Average daily rate £275 £275 £355
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -22.58%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £136 £160 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £495
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 13 5
Average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.95 £14.50 £12.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.15 £44.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
VPN
Berkshire

VPN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading VPN Daily Rate Trend

VPN
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VPN across the Reading region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Reading VPN Daily Rate Histogram

VPN
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing VPN across the Reading region.

Reading VPN Hourly Rate Trend

VPN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 25 (52.08%) MS Office
2 21 (43.75%) TCP/IP
3 20 (41.67%) Windows
4 19 (39.58%) WAN
5 17 (35.42%) Ethernet
5 17 (35.42%) Active Directory
5 17 (35.42%) Telecoms
6 16 (33.33%) Citrix
7 15 (31.25%) MPLS
7 15 (31.25%) OSPF
7 15 (31.25%) BGP
8 13 (27.08%) Microsoft
8 13 (27.08%) LAN
8 13 (27.08%) VRRP
8 13 (27.08%) Network Design
9 12 (25.00%) Cisco
9 12 (25.00%) Windows 7
9 12 (25.00%) Radio Access Network
9 12 (25.00%) HSRP
10 11 (22.92%) Capacity Planning
10 11 (22.92%) Windows XP
10 11 (22.92%) RSVP
11 9 (18.75%) VMware
11 9 (18.75%) FTP
11 9 (18.75%) SLA
11 9 (18.75%) Windows Server 2008
12 8 (16.67%) Fault Management
12 8 (16.67%) HTTP
12 8 (16.67%) SMTP
13 7 (14.58%) DNS

VPN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 (2.083%) HTML
1 1 (2.083%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 5 (10.42%) MS Exchange
2 3 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2003
2 3 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2007
2 3 (6.250%) Lotus Notes
3 2 (4.167%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (2.083%) Lotus Domino
4 1 (2.083%) IIS
Applications
1 25 (52.08%) MS Office
2 6 (12.50%) MS Excel
3 1 (2.083%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.083%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 21 (43.75%) TCP/IP
2 19 (39.58%) WAN
3 17 (35.42%) Ethernet
4 15 (31.25%) MPLS
4 15 (31.25%) OSPF
4 15 (31.25%) BGP
5 13 (27.08%) LAN
5 13 (27.08%) VRRP
6 12 (25.00%) Radio Access Network
6 12 (25.00%) HSRP
7 11 (22.92%) RSVP
8 9 (18.75%) FTP
9 8 (16.67%) HTTP
9 8 (16.67%) SMTP
10 7 (14.58%) Internet
10 7 (14.58%) DNS
11 6 (12.50%) LTE
12 5 (10.42%) 4G
12 5 (10.42%) VLAN
12 5 (10.42%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.083%) SQL Server
1 1 (2.083%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (2.083%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 17 (35.42%) Telecoms
2 4 (8.333%) Finance
3 2 (4.167%) Back Office
4 1 (2.083%) Automotive
4 1 (2.083%) French Language
4 1 (2.083%) German Language
Job Titles
1 12 (25.00%) Network Engineer
1 12 (25.00%) Design Engineer
2 11 (22.92%) Network Design Engineer
3 10 (20.83%) Analyst
4 7 (14.58%) Administrator
5 6 (12.50%) Service Analyst
5 6 (12.50%) Service Desk Analyst
6 5 (10.42%) Support Technician
7 3 (6.250%) Desktop Support
7 3 (6.250%) IT Support
8 2 (4.167%) Network Architect
8 2 (4.167%) Senior Support Analyst
8 2 (4.167%) IT Support Technician
8 2 (4.167%) Desktop Support Technician
8 2 (4.167%) Support Analyst
8 2 (4.167%) Network Consultant
8 2 (4.167%) Consultant
8 2 (4.167%) Architect
8 2 (4.167%) Project Manager
8 2 (4.167%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.333%) Blackberry
2 3 (6.250%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (4.167%) NHS
3 2 (4.167%) Clustering
4 1 (2.083%) SecurID
4 1 (2.083%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 20 (41.67%) Windows
2 12 (25.00%) Windows 7
3 11 (22.92%) Windows XP
4 9 (18.75%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (6.250%) Mac OS X
7 1 (2.083%) VMS
7 1 (2.083%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (27.08%) Network Design
2 11 (22.92%) Capacity Planning
3 8 (16.67%) Fault Management
4 5 (10.42%) Project Planning
4 5 (10.42%) ITIL
5 3 (6.250%) Software Distribution
6 2 (4.167%) Incident Management
6 2 (4.167%) Project Management
6 2 (4.167%) Service Management
6 2 (4.167%) Network Architecture
7 1 (2.083%) Problem Management
7 1 (2.083%) Network Management
7 1 (2.083%) Change Control
7 1 (2.083%) WAN Optimisation
7 1 (2.083%) Service Delivery
7 1 (2.083%) Change Management
7 1 (2.083%) ITSM
7 1 (2.083%) Workflow
7 1 (2.083%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.250%) SQL
2 1 (2.083%) C
2 1 (2.083%) C#
2 1 (2.083%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (4.167%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (4.167%) CISSP
1 2 (4.167%) CCSA
2 1 (2.083%) JNCIP
2 1 (2.083%) JNCIE
2 1 (2.083%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (2.083%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 1 (2.083%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (2.083%) PMP
2 1 (2.083%) PMI Certification
2 1 (2.083%) MCP
2 1 (2.083%) HNC
2 1 (2.083%) HND
2 1 (2.083%) MCSE
2 1 (2.083%) CCNP
2 1 (2.083%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.75%) SLA
2 2 (4.167%) ISO 9001
3 1 (2.083%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 17 (35.42%) Active Directory
2 5 (10.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (8.333%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (4.167%) ProxySG
4 2 (4.167%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 4 (8.333%) SCCM
2 3 (6.250%) Unicenter
3 1 (2.083%) WSUS
Vendors
1 16 (33.33%) Citrix
2 13 (27.08%) Microsoft
3 12 (25.00%) Cisco
4 9 (18.75%) VMware
5 7 (14.58%) HP
6 4 (8.333%) Lotus
6 4 (8.333%) CheckPoint
6 4 (8.333%) FrontRange
7 3 (6.250%) Blue Coat
7 3 (6.250%) Apple
7 3 (6.250%) Remedy
7 3 (6.250%) Dell
7 3 (6.250%) Royalblue
7 3 (6.250%) Juniper
7 3 (6.250%) CA
8 2 (4.167%) McAfee
8 2 (4.167%) Sourcefire
8 2 (4.167%) ProCurve
8 2 (4.167%) F5
9 1 (2.083%) Riverbed
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Posted: 17 May 2013
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