The first table below looks at the demand for VPN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Swindon 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 Swindon 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 26 32 35
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +3
Contract jobs citing VPN 13 6 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 4.452% 1.657% 0.621%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.89% 8.955% 3.448%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 1
Average daily rate £440 £450 £433
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.22% +4.04%
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 £15.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £21.00 £14.00
% change year-on-year
+42.85% +50.00%
All Communications & Networking
Swindon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
45 67 58
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 15.41% 18.51% 18.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 38 16
Average daily rate £440 £400 £385
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% +3.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £269 £297
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £450 £433
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 7
Average hourly rate £26.50 £32.50 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-18.46% +12.06%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.70 £32.50 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.30 £32.50 £35.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.27% -7.72%
VPN
Wiltshire

VPN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon VPN Hourly Rate Trend

VPN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 20 (90.91%) WAN
2 18 (81.82%) Oracle
2 18 (81.82%) LAN
3 16 (72.73%) SAN
3 16 (72.73%) VMware
3 16 (72.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (72.73%) NAS
4 12 (54.55%) Information Assurance
5 11 (50.00%) Linux
5 11 (50.00%) ITIL
6 10 (45.45%) Oracle Linux
7 9 (40.91%) Oracle EBS R12
7 9 (40.91%) Oracle RAC
7 9 (40.91%) Oracle 11i
7 9 (40.91%) Oracle 10g
7 9 (40.91%) Oracle EBS
8 8 (36.36%) BPEL
8 8 (36.36%) Oracle Application Server
8 8 (36.36%) Middleware
8 8 (36.36%) Oracle BI EE
8 8 (36.36%) Oracle 10gAS
9 7 (31.82%) Configuration Management
9 7 (31.82%) Informatica
9 7 (31.82%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (31.82%) ETL
10 6 (27.27%) PRINCE2
10 6 (27.27%) Change Management
10 6 (27.27%) Release Management
11 5 (22.73%) Firewall
11 5 (22.73%) Management Information System

VPN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 8 (36.36%) Middleware
2 4 (18.18%) WebCenter
Application Platforms
1 8 (36.36%) Oracle Application Server
1 8 (36.36%) Oracle 10gAS
Applications
1 1 (4.545%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 9 (40.91%) Oracle EBS R12
1 9 (40.91%) Oracle 11i
1 9 (40.91%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (13.64%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 20 (90.91%) WAN
2 18 (81.82%) LAN
3 16 (72.73%) SAN
3 16 (72.73%) NAS
4 5 (22.73%) Firewall
5 2 (9.091%) IPsec
5 2 (9.091%) MPLS
5 2 (9.091%) OSPF
5 2 (9.091%) BGP
5 2 (9.091%) ATM
5 2 (9.091%) IPv6
6 1 (4.545%) Network Security
6 1 (4.545%) WAAS
6 1 (4.545%) IPv4
6 1 (4.545%) Ethernet
6 1 (4.545%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (40.91%) Oracle 10g
2 8 (36.36%) Oracle BI EE
3 7 (31.82%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (9.091%) Oracle 11g
General
1 5 (22.73%) Finance
Job Titles
1 14 (63.64%) Infrastructure Team Leader
1 14 (63.64%) Team Leader
2 4 (18.18%) Information Assurance Leader
3 2 (9.091%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (9.091%) Network Designer
3 2 (9.091%) Designer
4 1 (4.545%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (4.545%) Oracle Team Leader
4 1 (4.545%) Network Design Engineer
4 1 (4.545%) Consultant
4 1 (4.545%) Network Engineer
4 1 (4.545%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (4.545%) Support Engineer
4 1 (4.545%) Technical Manager
4 1 (4.545%) Security Engineer
4 1 (4.545%) UNIX Engineer
4 1 (4.545%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 1 (4.545%) Deskside Support
4 1 (4.545%) Implementation Consultant
4 1 (4.545%) Technical Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Management Information System
2 2 (9.091%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.545%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 11 (50.00%) Linux
2 10 (45.45%) Oracle Linux
3 3 (13.64%) UNIX
4 2 (9.091%) Windows
4 2 (9.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (4.545%) Windows Vista
5 1 (4.545%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) Information Assurance
2 11 (50.00%) ITIL
3 8 (36.36%) BPEL
4 7 (31.82%) Configuration Management
4 7 (31.82%) ETL
5 6 (27.27%) PRINCE2
5 6 (27.27%) Change Management
5 6 (27.27%) Release Management
6 5 (22.73%) ERP
7 2 (9.091%) Network Design
7 2 (9.091%) Data Analysis
7 2 (9.091%) Capacity Planning
7 2 (9.091%) Performance Management
8 1 (4.545%) Technical Architecture
8 1 (4.545%) Load Balancing
8 1 (4.545%) Project Management
8 1 (4.545%) Service Management
8 1 (4.545%) Scrum
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (18.18%) CCNP
1 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.091%) SC Cleared
2 2 (9.091%) DV Cleared
2 2 (9.091%) JNCIS
3 1 (4.545%) Degree
3 1 (4.545%) CCDP
System Software
1 16 (72.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (40.91%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (4.545%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (4.545%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 18 (81.82%) Oracle
2 16 (72.73%) VMware
3 7 (31.82%) Informatica
4 5 (22.73%) Siebel
4 5 (22.73%) Cisco
4 5 (22.73%) Hyperion
5 4 (18.18%) Juniper
6 3 (13.64%) CheckPoint
7 2 (9.091%) Nokia
7 2 (9.091%) Red Hat
8 1 (4.545%) NetApp
8 1 (4.545%) HP
8 1 (4.545%) Compaq
8 1 (4.545%) Dell
8 1 (4.545%) Microsoft
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