VPN Contracts in the South West
 
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 South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VPN over the 3 months to 24 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 South West 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Rank 67 104 101
Rank change year-on-year
+37 -3
Contract jobs citing VPN 42 32 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 2.082% 0.989% 0.742%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.24% 6.049% 5.660%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 16 2
Average daily rate £440 £375 £371
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.33% +1.01%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £181 £322
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £307 £300
% change year-on-year
-2.12% +2.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 4
Average hourly rate £14.00 £25.25 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-44.55% +32.89%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.60 £17.60 £16.95
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.20 £41.80 £21.05
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £21.25 £14.00
% change year-on-year
+29.41% +51.78%
Search 21 VPN jobs in the South West
All Communications & Networking
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 295 529 371
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 14.63% 16.35% 13.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 270 151
Average daily rate £350 £400 £345
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% +15.94%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £265 £203
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 38 54
Average hourly rate £32.50 £22.50 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+44.44% -22.41%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.93 £20.00 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.10 £42.50 £41.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
VPN
England

VPN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 South West region.

South West 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 South West region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

South West 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 South West region.

South West 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 South West region over the 3 months to 24 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
Wiltshire 0 15 £440 +7.31%
Bristol +23 11 £300 -12.79%
Gloucestershire +31 6 £500 +426.31%
Somerset +11 6 £233 +144.73%
Dorset 0 4 £210 -44.00%
VPN
England

VPN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 41 (52.56%) LAN
2 39 (50.00%) Cisco
2 39 (50.00%) Windows
3 38 (48.72%) WAN
4 35 (44.87%) VMware
5 33 (42.31%) Firewall
6 31 (39.74%) VMware Infrastructure
7 27 (34.62%) Microsoft
8 25 (32.05%) Oracle
9 23 (29.49%) Active Directory
10 22 (28.21%) ITIL
11 20 (25.64%) Citrix
11 20 (25.64%) SAN
11 20 (25.64%) NAS
12 19 (24.36%) Security Cleared
13 17 (21.79%) TCP/IP
14 16 (20.51%) Windows Server 2003
14 16 (20.51%) Windows Server 2008
15 15 (19.23%) MPLS
15 15 (19.23%) Windows XP
16 14 (17.95%) Information Assurance
16 14 (17.95%) Windows 7
17 13 (16.67%) Juniper
17 13 (16.67%) BGP
18 12 (15.38%) Wireless
18 12 (15.38%) Oracle EBS
18 12 (15.38%) Oracle 10g
18 12 (15.38%) Oracle EBS R12
19 11 (14.10%) SolarWinds
19 11 (14.10%) DV Cleared

VPN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 10 (12.82%) Middleware
2 4 (5.128%) WebCenter
3 1 (1.282%) COM
Application Platforms
1 11 (14.10%) Oracle Application Server
1 11 (14.10%) Oracle 10gAS
2 9 (11.54%) MS Exchange
3 7 (8.974%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 5 (6.410%) Exchange Server 2010
4 5 (6.410%) SharePoint
4 5 (6.410%) IIS
5 3 (3.846%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 9 (11.54%) MS Office
2 7 (8.974%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (15.38%) Oracle EBS
1 12 (15.38%) Oracle EBS R12
2 11 (14.10%) Oracle 11i
3 5 (6.410%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 41 (52.56%) LAN
2 38 (48.72%) WAN
3 33 (42.31%) Firewall
4 20 (25.64%) SAN
4 20 (25.64%) NAS
5 17 (21.79%) TCP/IP
6 15 (19.23%) MPLS
7 13 (16.67%) BGP
8 12 (15.38%) Wireless
9 10 (12.82%) VoIP
10 7 (8.974%) DMZ
10 7 (8.974%) OSPF
10 7 (8.974%) DNS
11 6 (7.692%) Internet
11 6 (7.692%) IP Telephony
11 6 (7.692%) Cisco ASA
12 5 (6.410%) VLAN
12 5 (6.410%) Cisco IPT
12 5 (6.410%) Cisco Nexus
12 5 (6.410%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.38%) Oracle 10g
2 9 (11.54%) Oracle BI EE
3 7 (8.974%) SQL Server 2008
3 7 (8.974%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (8.974%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.846%) Oracle 11g
5 1 (1.282%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 10 (12.82%) Finance
2 3 (3.846%) Legal
3 1 (1.282%) Banking
3 1 (1.282%) Billing
3 1 (1.282%) Law
Job Titles
1 18 (23.08%) Infrastructure Team Leader
1 18 (23.08%) Team Leader
2 17 (21.79%) Network Engineer
3 13 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
4 10 (12.82%) Desktop Support
5 9 (11.54%) Support Engineer
6 8 (10.26%) Analyst
6 8 (10.26%) Build Engineer
7 7 (8.974%) Desktop Engineer
7 7 (8.974%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 6 (7.692%) Senior Analyst
8 6 (7.692%) Network Analyst
8 6 (7.692%) Senior Network Analyst
9 5 (6.410%) Information Assurance Leader
10 4 (5.128%) Network Designer
10 4 (5.128%) Network Specialist
10 4 (5.128%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (5.128%) Designer
11 3 (3.846%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
11 3 (3.846%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.54%) Fat Client
1 9 (11.54%) Management Information System
1 9 (11.54%) Blackberry
1 9 (11.54%) Thin Client
2 5 (6.410%) Handset
3 3 (3.846%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.282%) PDA
4 1 (1.282%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (1.282%) iPad
4 1 (1.282%) Cryptography
4 1 (1.282%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 39 (50.00%) Windows
2 16 (20.51%) Windows Server 2003
2 16 (20.51%) Windows Server 2008
3 15 (19.23%) Windows XP
4 14 (17.95%) Windows 7
5 11 (14.10%) Linux
6 10 (12.82%) Oracle Linux
7 4 (5.128%) Windows Vista
8 2 (2.564%) UNIX
8 2 (2.564%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (1.282%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (28.21%) ITIL
2 14 (17.95%) Information Assurance
3 9 (11.54%) Network Management
3 9 (11.54%) BPEL
4 8 (10.26%) PRINCE2
4 8 (10.26%) Configuration Management
5 7 (8.974%) Release Management
5 7 (8.974%) Change Management
5 7 (8.974%) ETL
6 5 (6.410%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (6.410%) ERP
7 4 (5.128%) Information Management
7 4 (5.128%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (3.846%) Network Load Balancing
9 2 (2.564%) Data Analysis
9 2 (2.564%) Network Design
9 2 (2.564%) Performance Management
9 2 (2.564%) Technical Architecture
10 1 (1.282%) Load Balancing
10 1 (1.282%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (10.26%) C
2 3 (3.846%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (24.36%) Security Cleared
2 11 (14.10%) DV Cleared
3 10 (12.82%) MCSE
3 10 (12.82%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (8.974%) SC Cleared
5 6 (7.692%) CCNP
5 6 (7.692%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (7.692%) MCTS
5 6 (7.692%) MCITP
6 5 (6.410%) MCSA
7 4 (5.128%) MCDST
8 3 (3.846%) JNCIS
9 1 (1.282%) CCDP
9 1 (1.282%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.410%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 31 (39.74%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (29.49%) Active Directory
3 11 (14.10%) Oracle RAC
4 7 (8.974%) Forefront TMG
5 6 (7.692%) ISA Server
6 1 (1.282%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.282%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 4 (5.128%) CiscoWorks
2 1 (1.282%) NetBackup
2 1 (1.282%) DameWare
Vendors
1 39 (50.00%) Cisco
2 35 (44.87%) VMware
3 27 (34.62%) Microsoft
4 25 (32.05%) Oracle
5 20 (25.64%) Citrix
6 13 (16.67%) Juniper
7 11 (14.10%) SolarWinds
8 10 (12.82%) Avaya
9 9 (11.54%) HP
10 8 (10.26%) CheckPoint
10 8 (10.26%) Sophos
10 8 (10.26%) Lumension
11 7 (8.974%) Informatica
11 7 (8.974%) Nokia
12 6 (7.692%) Siemens
12 6 (7.692%) BT
13 5 (6.410%) IronPort
13 5 (6.410%) Hyperion
13 5 (6.410%) Siebel
14 4 (5.128%) IBM
Cisco Network Engineer - Bristol
Bristol, Avon
Essential skills: *CCNA *MPLS *ASA Firewalls *Layer 2 Switching *High Speed Routers & Switches Desirable Skills: *CCNP *Knowledge of IP Networking *Experience in Design & Configuration This is a fantastic...
Roc Search
Posted: 22 May 2013
Network Designer
Swindon, Wiltshire
A good understanding of WAN technologies including Ethernet. * Previous experience in IP networking and routing including OSPF, ISIS and BGP. * Previous experience of VPNs using MPLS and IPSec. *...
Experis IT
Rate: Market Rates
Posted: 21 May 2013
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