The first table below looks at the demand for VPN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reigate region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VPN over the 3 months to 22 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 Reigate 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Rank 5 14 18
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +4
Contract jobs citing VPN 2 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reigate 14.29% 4.878% 2.174%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 100.00% 11.11% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 1
Average daily rate - £288 £265
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.49%
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 £21.00 £14.00
% change year-on-year
+30.95% +50.00%
All Communications & Networking
Reigate
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
2 18 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reigate 14.29% 43.90% 15.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 13 4
Average daily rate - £173 £265
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -34.90%
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Average hourly rate - £24.00 £16.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +47.69%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-18.22% -7.72%
VPN
Surrey

VPN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reigate 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 Reigate region.

Reigate VPN Daily Rate Trend

VPN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reigate 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 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) AIX
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 2 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (100.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) IPsec
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 2 (100.00%) SCCM
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (100.00%) XenApp
1 2 (100.00%) vSphere
1 2 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010

VPN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reigate 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 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 2 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 2 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) IPsec
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 2 (100.00%) Team Leader
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 2 (100.00%) Support Manager
1 2 (100.00%) Support Team Leader
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Team Leader
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Support Team Leader
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Support Manager
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) AIX
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) XenApp
1 2 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (100.00%) VMware