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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for VPN skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VPN over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the West Yorkshire region.

 Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank-5365
Matching contract IT job ads0728
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire-0.806 %1.533 %
As % of the Communications & Networking category-10.29 %13.59 %
Daily rates quoted006
Average daily rate--£400
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£350£325
% change year-on-year
-7.140 %+7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted035
Average hourly rate-£20.50£13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-+57.69 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate£17.50£18.00£18.25
% change year-on-year
-2.770 %-1.360 %
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryAll Communications & Networking
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
7268206
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire6.838 %7.834 %11.28 %
Daily rates quoted29751
Average daily rate£325£250£300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+30.00 %-16.66 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£285£218£240
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£380£420£425
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£338£325
% change year-on-year
-3.700 %+3.840 %
Hourly rates quoted7432
Average hourly rate£12.00£26.00£17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-53.84 %+52.94 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£9.00£18.50£12.20
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£20.25£39.00£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£25.00£24.00£27.50
% change year-on-year
+4.160 %-12.72 %
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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.

VPN
Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire VPN Demand Trend

VPN
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire VPN Daily Rate Trend

VPN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire VPN Hourly Rate Trend

VPN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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.

16 (75.00 %)Windows XP
16 (75.00 %)Windows
25 (62.50 %)Microsoft
25 (62.50 %)Windows Server 2003
34 (50.00 %)Firewall
34 (50.00 %)Active Directory
34 (50.00 %)Citrix
43 (37.50 %)Linux
43 (37.50 %)Windows 2000
43 (37.50 %)Incident Management
43 (37.50 %)CheckPoint
52 (25.00 %)UNIX
52 (25.00 %)Middleware
52 (25.00 %)Smartcard
52 (25.00 %)PKI
52 (25.00 %)Blackberry
52 (25.00 %)Aerospace
52 (25.00 %)XML Messaging
52 (25.00 %)LDAP
52 (25.00 %)MS Excel
52 (25.00 %)Windows NT
52 (25.00 %)C
52 (25.00 %)MS Office
52 (25.00 %)Web Services
52 (25.00 %)XML
52 (25.00 %)MS Exchange
52 (25.00 %)LAN
52 (25.00 %)WAN
52 (25.00 %)CA
52 (25.00 %)Unicenter

VPN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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.

West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
12 (25.00 %)Middleware
12 (25.00 %)XML Messaging
12 (25.00 %)Web Services
12 (25.00 %)XML
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
12 (25.00 %)MS Exchange
21 (12.50 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
12 (25.00 %)MS Excel
12 (25.00 %)MS Office
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
14 (50.00 %)Firewall
22 (25.00 %)LDAP
22 (25.00 %)LAN
22 (25.00 %)WAN
31 (12.50 %)SSL
31 (12.50 %)VoIP
31 (12.50 %)Wireless
31 (12.50 %)SSH
31 (12.50 %)3G
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
12 (25.00 %)Aerospace
21 (12.50 %)Health
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
12 (25.00 %)Analyst
12 (25.00 %)Service Analyst
12 (25.00 %)Service Desk Analyst
21 (12.50 %)2nd Line Support Engineer
21 (12.50 %)Deployment Manager
21 (12.50 %)Technical Specialist
21 (12.50 %)Support Manager
21 (12.50 %)Network Specialist
21 (12.50 %)2nd Line Support
21 (12.50 %)Consultant
21 (12.50 %)Systems Engineer
21 (12.50 %)Support Engineer
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
12 (25.00 %)Smartcard
12 (25.00 %)PKI
12 (25.00 %)Blackberry
12 (25.00 %)PDA
21 (12.50 %)NHS
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
16 (75.00 %)Windows XP
16 (75.00 %)Windows
25 (62.50 %)Windows Server 2003
33 (37.50 %)Linux
33 (37.50 %)Windows 2000
42 (25.00 %)UNIX
42 (25.00 %)Windows NT
42 (25.00 %)Windows Vista
51 (12.50 %)HPUX
51 (12.50 %)Solaris
51 (12.50 %)NetWare
51 (12.50 %)Windows Mobile
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
13 (37.50 %)Incident Management
21 (12.50 %)ITIL
21 (12.50 %)PRINCE2
21 (12.50 %)Project Management
21 (12.50 %)Penetration Testing
21 (12.50 %)Service Management
21 (12.50 %)Service Delivery
21 (12.50 %)Benchmarking
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
12 (25.00 %)C
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
12 (25.00 %)SC Cleared
12 (25.00 %)Security Cleared
21 (12.50 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
21 (12.50 %)CCNP
21 (12.50 %)CCNA
21 (12.50 %)CISSP
21 (12.50 %)Cisco Certification
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
11 (12.50 %)ISO17799
11 (12.50 %)ISO27001
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
14 (50.00 %)Active Directory
21 (12.50 %)Novell eDirectory
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
12 (25.00 %)Unicenter
21 (12.50 %)WSUS
21 (12.50 %)CiscoWorks
21 (12.50 %)OpenView
21 (12.50 %)Norton AntiVirus
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
15 (62.50 %)Microsoft
24 (50.00 %)Citrix
33 (37.50 %)CheckPoint
42 (25.00 %)CA
42 (25.00 %)HP
51 (12.50 %)Dell
51 (12.50 %)Novell
51 (12.50 %)Juniper
51 (12.50 %)Cisco
51 (12.50 %)Symantec