The first table below looks at the demand for VPN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Tyne and Wear region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VPN over the 3 months to 20 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 Tyne and Wear 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Rank 23 37 30
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -7
Contract jobs citing VPN 6 4 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 3.390% 1.223% 1.145%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 18.75% 4.598% 8.108%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
Average daily rate £300 £165 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+81.81% -45.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £13.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £15.00
% change year-on-year
+25.00% +46.66%
All Communications & Networking
Tyne and Wear
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
32 87 37
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 18.08% 26.61% 14.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 43 15
Average daily rate £300 £350 £324
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% +8.02%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £220 £168
10% offered a daily rate of more than £301 £450 £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.40% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
Average hourly rate £10.50 £19.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-44.73% -9.52%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
VPN
North East

VPN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region.

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region.

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 20 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +11 5 £300 +81.81%
Sunderland - 1 - -
VPN
North East

VPN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 8 (72.73%) Firewall
2 6 (54.55%) DHCP
2 6 (54.55%) DNS
3 5 (45.45%) Linux
3 5 (45.45%) Apache
3 5 (45.45%) MySQL
3 5 (45.45%) Red Hat
3 5 (45.45%) CentOS
4 4 (36.36%) HP
4 4 (36.36%) Windows
4 4 (36.36%) LDAP
4 4 (36.36%) Windows 7
5 3 (27.27%) Cisco
5 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
5 3 (27.27%) Nagios
5 3 (27.27%) Dell
5 3 (27.27%) Citrix
5 3 (27.27%) SAN
5 3 (27.27%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (27.27%) Identity Management
5 3 (27.27%) XenServer
5 3 (27.27%) SCCM
6 2 (18.18%) Wireless
6 2 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (18.18%) OSPF
6 2 (18.18%) BGP
6 2 (18.18%) CCNP
6 2 (18.18%) CCNA
6 2 (18.18%) MS Visio
6 2 (18.18%) LAN

VPN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 (9.091%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 5 (45.45%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 8 (72.73%) Firewall
2 6 (54.55%) DHCP
2 6 (54.55%) DNS
3 4 (36.36%) LDAP
4 3 (27.27%) SAN
5 2 (18.18%) OSPF
5 2 (18.18%) BGP
5 2 (18.18%) LAN
5 2 (18.18%) Wireless
6 1 (9.091%) IPsec
6 1 (9.091%) Cisco PIX
6 1 (9.091%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (9.091%) FWSM
6 1 (9.091%) WAN
6 1 (9.091%) SSL
6 1 (9.091%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) MySQL
General
1 1 (9.091%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Systems Administrator
1 4 (36.36%) Administrator
1 4 (36.36%) Senior Systems Administrator
1 4 (36.36%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 4 (36.36%) Linux Administrator
1 4 (36.36%) Senior Linux Administrator
1 4 (36.36%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
2 3 (27.27%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Support Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (18.18%) Network Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (9.091%) Senior Linux Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Architect
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Linux
1 5 (45.45%) CentOS
2 4 (36.36%) Windows 7
2 4 (36.36%) Windows
3 1 (9.091%) Windows XP
3 1 (9.091%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (27.27%) Identity Management
2 2 (18.18%) Load Balancing
3 1 (9.091%) Validation
3 1 (9.091%) Network Design
3 1 (9.091%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.091%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) CCNP
1 2 (18.18%) CCNA
1 2 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (9.091%) SC Cleared
2 1 (9.091%) BC Cleared
2 1 (9.091%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
1 3 (27.27%) XenServer
2 1 (9.091%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (9.091%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Nagios
1 3 (27.27%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Red Hat
2 4 (36.36%) HP
3 3 (27.27%) Dell
3 3 (27.27%) Citrix
3 3 (27.27%) Cisco
4 1 (9.091%) Microsoft
4 1 (9.091%) Juniper
4 1 (9.091%) Nokia
4 1 (9.091%) VMware
4 1 (9.091%) TippingPoint
4 1 (9.091%) ProCurve
4 1 (9.091%) SolarWinds