VPN Contracts in Reading

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 77 60 79
Rank change year-on-year -17 +19 -36
Contract jobs citing VPN 18 27 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.51% 2.59% 1.40%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.38% 14.67% 8.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 12 11
10th Percentile £264 £430 £363
25th Percentile £359 £486 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £675 £405
Median % change year-on-year -29.63% +66.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £595 £706 £644
90th Percentile £699 £725 £663
Berkshire median daily rate £475 £530 £405
% change year-on-year -10.38% +30.86% +15.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £25.50
Median hourly rate - - £26.00
75th Percentile - - £26.50
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £21.75 £26.25 £26.00
% change year-on-year -17.14% +0.96% +22.35%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 244 184 227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 20.49% 17.68% 16.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 97 115
10th Percentile £205 £337 £164
25th Percentile £335 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +25.00%
75th Percentile £608 £650 £602
90th Percentile - £718 £675
Berkshire median daily rate £490 £486 £467
% change year-on-year +0.77% +4.12% +20.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 1
10th Percentile £77.22 - -
25th Percentile - - £25.50
Median hourly rate £87.46 £66.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.52% +153.85% -45.26%
75th Percentile £87.53 £73.69 £26.50
90th Percentile - £78.30 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £83.77 £66.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year +26.92% +288.24% -50.72%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for VPN in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VPN in Reading over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VPN in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for VPN in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (61.11%) Apache
1 11 (61.11%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) Azure
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
2 1 (5.56%) AWS
2 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.56%) Cloudflare
2 1 (5.56%) IaaS
2 1 (5.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (77.78%) MPLS
2 12 (66.67%) BGP
3 11 (61.11%) Ethernet VPN
3 11 (61.11%) Radio Access Network
4 3 (16.67%) Firewall
5 2 (11.11%) WAN
5 2 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (5.56%) DNS
6 1 (5.56%) EIGRP
6 1 (5.56%) HSRP
6 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
6 1 (5.56%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (61.11%) MongoDB
1 11 (61.11%) NoSQL
1 11 (61.11%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (5.56%) MySQL
2 1 (5.56%) RDBMS
2 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (61.11%) GitLab
1 11 (61.11%) JIRA
1 11 (61.11%) Robot Framework
1 11 (61.11%) TestRail
2 1 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 10 (55.56%) Test Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Desktop Support
3 2 (11.11%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) DBA
4 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Field Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Network Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Network Field Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Telecoms Tester
4 1 (5.56%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (61.11%) NETCONF
1 11 (61.11%) REST
1 11 (61.11%) RESTCONF
1 11 (61.11%) SOAP
1 11 (61.11%) YANG
2 1 (5.56%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.56%) JSON
2 1 (5.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (11.11%) Onboarding
1 2 (11.11%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Windows
2 2 (11.11%) Mac OS
3 1 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) Agile
1 12 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 11 (61.11%) Containerisation
2 11 (61.11%) Integration Testing
2 11 (61.11%) Performance Testing
2 11 (61.11%) Regression Testing
2 11 (61.11%) Scrum
2 11 (61.11%) Security Testing
2 11 (61.11%) Test Automation
2 11 (61.11%) Unit Testing
2 11 (61.11%) Workflow
3 2 (11.11%) Configuration Management
3 2 (11.11%) Network Architecture
3 2 (11.11%) Service Design
3 2 (11.11%) Zero Trust
4 1 (5.56%) Architecture Roadmap
4 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (5.56%) Open Source
4 1 (5.56%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (5.56%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 12 (66.67%) SQL
2 11 (61.11%) Python
3 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (11.11%) CCIE
3 1 (5.56%) CCNA
3 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 11 (61.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Terraform
2 1 (5.56%) Ansible
2 1 (5.56%) Grafana
2 1 (5.56%) Graylog
2 1 (5.56%) Nagios
2 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Apple
1 2 (11.11%) Cisco
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) CheckPoint
2 1 (5.56%) Fortinet
2 1 (5.56%) Splunk
2 1 (5.56%) Zscaler