Surrey VPN Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Virtual Private Network (VPN) skills within the Surrey region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited VPN over the 3 months to 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Location Aberdeen Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bootle Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cannock Cardiff Cheshire City of London Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Ely England Essex Exeter Falkirk Farnborough Feltham Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenwich Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Ipswich Kent Kettering King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Liverpool London Luton Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Redditch Romford Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	78	69
Rank change on same period last year	-9
Matching contract IT job ads	16	49
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.022 %	0.049 %
As % of the category below	6.324 %	11.95 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£255
Average daily rate	£313	£260
% change on same period last year	+20.19 %
Average maximum daily rate	£325	£265
UK excluding London average daily rate	£387	£300
% change on same period last year	+28.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.75	£16.57
Average hourly rate	£24.00	£17.00
% change on same period last year	+41.17 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.25	£17.43
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.59	£23.25
% change on same period last year	+1.48 %
Communications & Networking Surrey
Matching contract IT job ads	253	410
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.353 %	0.412 %
Daily rates quoted	35	111
Average minimum daily rate	£326	£324
Average daily rate	£348	£334
% change on same period last year	+4.34 %
Average maximum daily rate	£370	£343
UK excluding London average daily rate	£354	£336
% change on same period last year	+5.14 %
Hourly rates quoted	59	81
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.08	£24.31
Average hourly rate	£24.53	£25.30
% change on same period last year	-3.03 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.98	£26.28
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.35	£28.52
% change on same period last year	-4.11 %
VPN South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing VPN across the Surrey region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

VPN
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing VPN across the Surrey region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing VPN across the Surrey region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VPN across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

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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 Surrey region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Guildford	-	5	£313	-
Dorking	-	1	-	-
Sunbury-on-Thames	-8	1	-	-

VPN South East

VPN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 16 (59.26 %) Firewall 2 11 (40.74 %) Cisco 3 10 (37.04 %) Windows 4 9 (33.33 %) LAN 4 9 (33.33 %) Active Directory 5 8 (29.63 %) TCP/IP 5 8 (29.63 %) Microsoft 6 6 (22.22 %) MS Exchange 6 6 (22.22 %) Citrix 6 6 (22.22 %) Cisco Certification 6 6 (22.22 %) IPsec 7 5 (18.52 %) Wireless 7 5 (18.52 %) Microsoft Certification 7 5 (18.52 %) CheckPoint 7 5 (18.52 %) MS Office

8 4 (14.81 %) WLAN 8 4 (14.81 %) SSL 8 4 (14.81 %) SLA 8 4 (14.81 %) Juniper 8 4 (14.81 %) Windows Server 2003 8 4 (14.81 %) CCNA 8 4 (14.81 %) VLAN 8 4 (14.81 %) Network Security 9 3 (11.11 %) NetScreen 9 3 (11.11 %) Cisco PIX 9 3 (11.11 %) Cisco ASA 9 3 (11.11 %) Windows 2000 Server 9 3 (11.11 %) Intrusion Detection 9 3 (11.11 %) CCNP 9 3 (11.11 %) Nortel

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 6 (22.22 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (7.407 %) Exchange Server 2000 2 2 (7.407 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 2 (7.407 %) IIS 3 1 (3.704 %) Lotus Notes 3 1 (3.704 %) Apache 3 1 (3.704 %) Tomcat	Applications 1 5 (18.52 %) MS Office 2 1 (3.704 %) MS Excel
Business Applications 1 1 (3.704 %) Line 50	Communications & Networking 1 16 (59.26 %) Firewall 2 9 (33.33 %) LAN 3 8 (29.63 %) TCP/IP 4 6 (22.22 %) IPsec 5 5 (18.52 %) Wireless 6 4 (14.81 %) VLAN 6 4 (14.81 %) Network Security 6 4 (14.81 %) WLAN 6 4 (14.81 %) SSL 7 3 (11.11 %) SAN 7 3 (11.11 %) Internet 7 3 (11.11 %) WAN 7 3 (11.11 %) DNS 7 3 (11.11 %) Cisco PIX 7 3 (11.11 %) Intrusion Detection 7 3 (11.11 %) NetScreen 7 3 (11.11 %) Cisco ASA 8 2 (7.407 %) VoIP 8 2 (7.407 %) MPLS 8 2 (7.407 %) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (11.11 %) SQL Server 2 1 (3.704 %) SQL Server 2000	General 1 1 (3.704 %) Telecoms 1 1 (3.704 %) Education 1 1 (3.704 %) Government 1 1 (3.704 %) Retail 1 1 (3.704 %) Auditing
Job Titles 1 6 (22.22 %) Network Engineer 1 6 (22.22 %) Support Engineer 2 5 (18.52 %) Analyst 3 4 (14.81 %) 3rd Line Support 3 4 (14.81 %) Helpdesk Support 3 4 (14.81 %) Network Support 4 3 (11.11 %) 3rd Line Support Engineer 4 3 (11.11 %) Cisco Engineer 4 3 (11.11 %) Administrator 5 2 (7.407 %) Network Support Engineer 5 2 (7.407 %) Network Security Engineer 5 2 (7.407 %) Support Analyst 5 2 (7.407 %) Desktop Support 5 2 (7.407 %) Network Administrator 5 2 (7.407 %) Cisco Network Engineer 5 2 (7.407 %) Security Engineer 6 1 (3.704 %) Helpdesk Engineer 6 1 (3.704 %) Security Administrator 6 1 (3.704 %) NOC Engineer 6 1 (3.704 %) Cisco Support	Miscellaneous 1 3 (11.11 %) Firmware 2 2 (7.407 %) Dutch Language 3 1 (3.704 %) Video Conferencing 3 1 (3.704 %) Blackberry 3 1 (3.704 %) Clustering
Operating Systems 1 10 (37.04 %) Windows 2 4 (14.81 %) Windows Server 2003 3 3 (11.11 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 2 (7.407 %) Windows Vista 4 2 (7.407 %) Windows XP 4 2 (7.407 %) Mac OS X 4 2 (7.407 %) Windows 2000 5 1 (3.704 %) Windows NT 5 1 (3.704 %) Linux 5 1 (3.704 %) Red Hat Linux 5 1 (3.704 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (7.407 %) Business Intelligence 1 2 (7.407 %) Change Management 2 1 (3.704 %) Data Security 2 1 (3.704 %) Asset Management 2 1 (3.704 %) SC Cleared 2 1 (3.704 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (3.704 %) ITIL 2 1 (3.704 %) CRM
Programming Languages 1 2 (7.407 %) SQL 2 1 (3.704 %) Shell Script	Qualifications 1 6 (22.22 %) Cisco Certification 2 5 (18.52 %) Microsoft Certification 3 4 (14.81 %) CCNA 4 3 (11.11 %) CCNP 4 3 (11.11 %) MCP 4 3 (11.11 %) MCSE 5 2 (7.407 %) CCIE 6 1 (3.704 %) CCSA 6 1 (3.704 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (14.81 %) SLA 2 1 (3.704 %) Sarbanes-Oxley	System Software 1 9 (33.33 %) Active Directory 2 2 (7.407 %) Terminal Services 2 2 (7.407 %) ISA Server 3 1 (3.704 %) Samba 3 1 (3.704 %) VMware ESX 3 1 (3.704 %) NetBackup 3 1 (3.704 %) Xen 3 1 (3.704 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1 (3.704 %) Terminal Server
Systems Management 1 3 (11.11 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 1 (3.704 %) ARCserve 2 1 (3.704 %) MAILsweeper 2 1 (3.704 %) DameWare 2 1 (3.704 %) MOM	Vendors 1 11 (40.74 %) Cisco 2 8 (29.63 %) Microsoft 3 6 (22.22 %) Citrix 4 5 (18.52 %) CheckPoint 5 4 (14.81 %) Juniper 6 3 (11.11 %) Nokia 6 3 (11.11 %) Nortel 7 2 (7.407 %) Remedy 7 2 (7.407 %) VMware 7 2 (7.407 %) Avaya 7 2 (7.407 %) HP 7 2 (7.407 %) Intel 8 1 (3.704 %) Oracle 8 1 (3.704 %) Compaq 8 1 (3.704 %) Dell 8 1 (3.704 %) Adobe 8 1 (3.704 %) Sun 8 1 (3.704 %) NetApp 8 1 (3.704 %) VERITAS 8 1 (3.704 %) Lotus