The first table below looks at the demand for VPN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Somerset region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VPN over the 3 months to 18 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 Somerset 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Rank 29 - 35
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing VPN 5 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 2.618% - 0.490%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 23.81% - 5.263%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Average daily rate £290 - £120
UK excluding London average daily rate £293 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
-10.00% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £9.75 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.50 £17.75 £16.00
% change year-on-year
+49.29% +10.93%
All Communications & Networking
Somerset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
21 4 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 10.99% 2.247% 9.314%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 12
Average daily rate £290 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.14% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £277 £163 £104
10% offered a daily rate of more than £296 £425 £359
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-3.03% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
Average hourly rate £9.75 - £13.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year
- -1.96%
VPN
South West

VPN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset 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 Somerset region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Frome - 1 - -
Shepton Mallet - - - -
Cheddar - - - -
VPN
South West

VPN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 7 (87.50%) Windows
1 7 (87.50%) Cisco
1 7 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 6 (75.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 6 (75.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (62.50%) Windows 7
3 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
3 5 (62.50%) MS Office
4 4 (50.00%) Oracle
4 4 (50.00%) Windows XP
4 4 (50.00%) VoIP
5 3 (37.50%) Windows Vista
5 3 (37.50%) Exchange Server 2007
5 3 (37.50%) MS Exchange
5 3 (37.50%) SQL
5 3 (37.50%) Citrix
6 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
6 2 (25.00%) VMware
6 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
7 1 (12.50%) Panasonic
7 1 (12.50%) Data Entry
7 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
7 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
7 1 (12.50%) AppSense
7 1 (12.50%) Billing
7 1 (12.50%) Requirements Analysis
7 1 (12.50%) Oracle 8/8i

VPN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 (12.50%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) MS Exchange
1 3 (37.50%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 5 (62.50%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) VoIP
2 1 (12.50%) 3G
2 1 (12.50%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 1 (12.50%) Billing
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Desktop Support
1 4 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) IT Support
3 2 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Support
4 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery Coordinator
4 1 (12.50%) Coordinator
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Windows
2 6 (75.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 6 (75.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (62.50%) Windows 7
4 4 (50.00%) Windows XP
5 3 (37.50%) Windows Vista
6 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
1 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (12.50%) Requirements Analysis
1 1 (12.50%) Data Entry
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Cisco
1 7 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (50.00%) Oracle
3 3 (37.50%) Citrix
4 2 (25.00%) VMware
5 1 (12.50%) AppSense
5 1 (12.50%) Panasonic