VPN Contracts in Scotland
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for VPN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VPN over the 3 months to 23 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 Scotland 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Rank 112 96 101
Rank change year-on-year
-16 +5
Contract jobs citing VPN 8 12 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.328% 0.455% 0.533%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.113% 3.659% 5.639%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 3
Average daily rate £286 £198 £410
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+44.93% -51.82%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £313 £300
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £40.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £21.00 £14.00
% change year-on-year
+42.85% +50.00%
All Communications & Networking
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 257 328 266
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 10.53% 12.43% 9.453%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 134 75
Average daily rate £361 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.21% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £239 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £436 £420 £455
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 31 26
Average hourly rate £32.00 £27.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.36% +44.73%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.60 £22.50 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £35.50 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.27% -7.72%
VPN
UK

VPN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland VPN Hourly Rate Trend

VPN
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Aberdeen +2 5 £311 +159.37%
Glasgow -25 2 £200 -
Edinburgh +9 1 £363 -
VPN
UK

VPN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 23 (62.16%) Cisco
2 20 (54.05%) Wireless
3 17 (45.95%) Microsoft
3 17 (45.95%) LAN
4 16 (43.24%) WAN
5 15 (40.54%) Windows
5 15 (40.54%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (35.14%) EIGRP
6 13 (35.14%) BGP
7 12 (32.43%) Firewall
7 12 (32.43%) Cisco ASA
8 11 (29.73%) Time Management
8 11 (29.73%) Telecoms
9 10 (27.03%) IP Telephony
10 9 (24.32%) Cisco Nexus
10 9 (24.32%) VoIP
10 9 (24.32%) CCIE
11 8 (21.62%) CCNP
11 8 (21.62%) ITIL
11 8 (21.62%) H.323
11 8 (21.62%) MGCP
11 8 (21.62%) Windows Server 2003
11 8 (21.62%) Riverbed
11 8 (21.62%) SCCM
11 8 (21.62%) Windows Server 2008
12 7 (18.92%) Degree
12 7 (18.92%) 3G
12 7 (18.92%) MS Office
12 7 (18.92%) Citrix
12 7 (18.92%) Broadband

VPN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 (2.703%) MS Exchange
1 1 (2.703%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 7 (18.92%) MS Office
2 6 (16.22%) MS Visio
3 3 (8.108%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (16.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 6 (16.22%) SAP CCM
1 6 (16.22%) SAP GTS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (54.05%) Wireless
2 17 (45.95%) LAN
3 16 (43.24%) WAN
4 13 (35.14%) EIGRP
4 13 (35.14%) BGP
5 12 (32.43%) Firewall
5 12 (32.43%) Cisco ASA
6 10 (27.03%) IP Telephony
7 9 (24.32%) Cisco Nexus
7 9 (24.32%) VoIP
8 8 (21.62%) H.323
8 8 (21.62%) MGCP
9 7 (18.92%) 3G
9 7 (18.92%) Broadband
9 7 (18.92%) IPv6
10 5 (13.51%) NetScreen
11 4 (10.81%) WLAN
11 4 (10.81%) ADSL
11 4 (10.81%) MPLS
11 4 (10.81%) HSRP
General
1 11 (29.73%) Telecoms
2 4 (10.81%) Finance
3 3 (8.108%) Banking
4 2 (5.405%) Back Office
4 2 (5.405%) Marketing
5 1 (2.703%) Retail Banking
5 1 (2.703%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (24.32%) Network Engineer
2 7 (18.92%) Designer
2 7 (18.92%) Senior Network Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) Security Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Project Manager
5 3 (8.108%) Deployment Engineer
5 3 (8.108%) Desktop Support
5 3 (8.108%) Analyst
6 2 (5.405%) Technical Project Manager
6 2 (5.405%) Support Analyst
6 2 (5.405%) Desktop Engineer
6 2 (5.405%) Technical Manager
6 2 (5.405%) Network Support
6 2 (5.405%) Desktop Analyst
6 2 (5.405%) Desktop Support Analyst
7 1 (2.703%) Cisco Security Consultant
7 1 (2.703%) Infrastructure Designer
7 1 (2.703%) Cisco Consultant
7 1 (2.703%) Service Desk Analyst
7 1 (2.703%) Project Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Smartcard
2 5 (13.51%) Blackberry
3 3 (8.108%) CMDB
4 1 (2.703%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.703%) PKI
4 1 (2.703%) PDA
4 1 (2.703%) EPoS
4 1 (2.703%) EMV
4 1 (2.703%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 15 (40.54%) Windows
2 8 (21.62%) Windows Server 2003
2 8 (21.62%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (5.405%) Windows XP
4 1 (2.703%) Windows 7
4 1 (2.703%) Windows Vista
4 1 (2.703%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (29.73%) Time Management
2 8 (21.62%) ITIL
3 6 (16.22%) Data Management
4 4 (10.81%) Problem Management
4 4 (10.81%) Release Management
5 3 (8.108%) Network Management
5 3 (8.108%) Configuration Management
6 2 (5.405%) E-Commerce
6 2 (5.405%) PRINCE2
6 2 (5.405%) Change Management
6 2 (5.405%) Project Management
6 2 (5.405%) Migration
6 2 (5.405%) Digital Marketing
6 2 (5.405%) Risk Management
6 2 (5.405%) ITIL V3
6 2 (5.405%) Customer Insight
7 1 (2.703%) Software Deployment
7 1 (2.703%) Change Control
7 1 (2.703%) Incident Management
7 1 (2.703%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.81%) C
Qualifications
1 15 (40.54%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (24.32%) CCIE
3 8 (21.62%) CCNP
4 7 (18.92%) Degree
5 4 (10.81%) CISSP
5 4 (10.81%) CCSP
6 3 (8.108%) CCNA
7 2 (5.405%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (2.703%) JNCIA
8 1 (2.703%) JNCIE
8 1 (2.703%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.703%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (10.81%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.405%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.703%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.703%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.703%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 8 (21.62%) SCCM
2 6 (16.22%) SCOM
3 4 (10.81%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 23 (62.16%) Cisco
2 17 (45.95%) Microsoft
3 8 (21.62%) Riverbed
4 7 (18.92%) Citrix
5 6 (16.22%) SAP
5 6 (16.22%) Juniper
5 6 (16.22%) Remedy
6 5 (13.51%) HP
7 4 (10.81%) SonicWALL
8 2 (5.405%) VMware
9 1 (2.703%) Fortinet
9 1 (2.703%) Brocade
9 1 (2.703%) Websense
9 1 (2.703%) BMC
9 1 (2.703%) Lotus
9 1 (2.703%) Oracle
9 1 (2.703%) Adobe
9 1 (2.703%) Compaq
9 1 (2.703%) EMC
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