VPN Contracts in the West Midlands

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for VPN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VPN over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 78 134
Rank change year-on-year +45 +56 -51
Contract jobs citing VPN 90 68 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 4.69% 2.80% 1.26%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 23.08% 18.68% 11.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 47 24
10th Percentile £200 £263 £133
25th Percentile £363 £381 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £500 £388
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +29.03% +12.73%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £441
90th Percentile £775 £720 £546
England median daily rate £438 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -2.78% - +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile - - £17.03
25th Percentile £70.97 - £18.94
Median hourly rate £71.93 £15.00 £20.26
Median % change year-on-year +379.53% -25.94% +35.03%
75th Percentile £72.90 - £20.51
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £16.56 £21.22 £20.51
% change year-on-year -21.98% +3.46% +7.95%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

VPN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 390 364 402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.31% 14.97% 11.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 226 291
10th Percentile £210 £263 £166
25th Percentile £313 £363 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +18.75% -3.03%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £538
90th Percentile £688 £700 £650
England median daily rate £486 £523 £500
% change year-on-year -6.99% +4.50% +15.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 8 18
10th Percentile £10.50 £12.50 £12.04
25th Percentile £13.50 £14.38 £12.66
Median hourly rate £19.95 £19.60 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% +18.80% +10.00%
75th Percentile £23.75 £23.40 £20.00
90th Percentile £28.75 £26.38 £20.51
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.93 £23.91
% change year-on-year +111.30% -20.83% -4.36%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing VPN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for VPN in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VPN in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for VPN in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VPN in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VPN in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VPN in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for VPN in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Solihull +2 42 £375 -27.88% 5
Birmingham +3 21 £350 -48.15% 8
Warwickshire +7 11 £750 +57.89% 1
Coventry +12 8 £650 +44.44%
Worcestershire +2 4 £200 -62.09% 2
Tipton - 2 £313 -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (4.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.33%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.22%) IIS
3 2 (2.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (18.89%) Azure
2 9 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (8.89%) AWS
3 8 (8.89%) Entra ID
4 5 (5.56%) CloudFront
4 5 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (3.33%) OneDrive
6 2 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.11%) IaaS
7 1 (1.11%) PaaS
7 1 (1.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 62 (68.89%) WAN
2 53 (58.89%) MPLS
3 45 (50.00%) IPsec
4 44 (48.89%) BGP
5 43 (47.78%) Junos
6 23 (25.56%) Firewall
7 20 (22.22%) LAN
8 18 (20.00%) DNS
9 13 (14.44%) VoIP
10 11 (12.22%) SD-WAN
11 10 (11.11%) WLAN
12 9 (10.00%) Cisco ISE
12 9 (10.00%) DHCP
12 9 (10.00%) Network Security
12 9 (10.00%) PBX
13 6 (6.67%) Cisco ASA
13 6 (6.67%) Cisco Firepower
13 6 (6.67%) Cisco Nexus
13 6 (6.67%) Internet
14 5 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Fiddler
1 1 (1.11%) Git
General
1 11 (12.22%) Finance
2 9 (10.00%) Telecoms
3 8 (8.89%) Public Sector
3 8 (8.89%) Social Skills
4 5 (5.56%) Retail
5 3 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.22%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.22%) Law
6 2 (2.22%) Legal
7 1 (1.11%) Banking
7 1 (1.11%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (27.78%) WAN Engineer
2 23 (25.56%) 3rd Line Support
3 21 (23.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 19 (21.11%) Network Support
5 16 (17.78%) Network Engineer
6 10 (11.11%) Support Engineer
7 9 (10.00%) Architect
8 8 (8.89%) 2nd Line Support
9 6 (6.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 6 (6.67%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
10 5 (5.56%) 1st/2nd Line Support
10 5 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 5 (5.56%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 5 (5.56%) Applications Engineer
10 5 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (5.56%) Enterprise Architect
10 5 (5.56%) Security Engineer
11 4 (4.44%) Network Architect
11 4 (4.44%) Service Desk Analyst
11 4 (4.44%) Service Desk Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.00%) Web Services
2 5 (5.56%) OAuth
2 5 (5.56%) OAuth2
2 5 (5.56%) SAML
3 2 (2.22%) LAMP
3 2 (2.22%) LDAP
4 1 (1.11%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.11%) JSON
4 1 (1.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 45 (50.00%) PKI
2 11 (12.22%) Data Centre
3 5 (5.56%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.44%) Driving Licence
5 3 (3.33%) Clustering
5 3 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.22%) Hedge funds
6 2 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.22%) Replication
7 1 (1.11%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.11%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.11%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.11%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 19 (21.11%) Windows
2 8 (8.89%) Windows Server
3 7 (7.78%) Windows 10
3 7 (7.78%) Windows Server 2019
4 5 (5.56%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (4.44%) Linux
5 4 (4.44%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (3.33%) Mac OS
7 2 (2.22%) Ubuntu
7 2 (2.22%) VMS
7 2 (2.22%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (1.11%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (47.78%) Load Balancing
2 19 (21.11%) Network Design
3 12 (13.33%) Architectural Design
4 10 (11.11%) Project Delivery
5 9 (10.00%) Analytics
5 9 (10.00%) Data Analytics
5 9 (10.00%) ITIL
5 9 (10.00%) Mentoring
5 9 (10.00%) Network Architecture
5 9 (10.00%) Performance Management
5 9 (10.00%) Programme Management
5 9 (10.00%) SOA
5 9 (10.00%) Storage Management
6 8 (8.89%) Cloud Security
6 8 (8.89%) Incident Management
7 7 (7.78%) High Availability
8 6 (6.67%) CI/CD
8 6 (6.67%) Customer Service
8 6 (6.67%) Resource Management
8 6 (6.67%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 6 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 47 (52.22%) Security Cleared
2 15 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
3 10 (11.11%) CCNP
4 9 (10.00%) CCIE
4 9 (10.00%) CCIE Data Center
5 5 (5.56%) AWS Certification
6 4 (4.44%) SC Cleared
7 3 (3.33%) Degree
8 2 (2.22%) CCNA
9 1 (1.11%) JNCIA
9 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.44%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (15.56%) Active Directory
2 6 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.56%) Docker
4 4 (4.44%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.22%) Terminal Services
5 2 (2.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (5.56%) SCCM
2 4 (4.44%) Terraform
3 3 (3.33%) Autotask
3 3 (3.33%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (3.33%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (2.22%) Ansible
5 1 (1.11%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 50 (55.56%) Juniper
2 18 (20.00%) Cisco
3 12 (13.33%) Microsoft
4 9 (10.00%) Palo Alto
5 8 (8.89%) VMware
6 6 (6.67%) CheckPoint
6 6 (6.67%) Zscaler
7 5 (5.56%) Fortinet
7 5 (5.56%) Infoblox
7 5 (5.56%) Symantec
8 3 (3.33%) Apple
8 3 (3.33%) Aruba
8 3 (3.33%) Datto
8 3 (3.33%) F5
8 3 (3.33%) McAfee
9 2 (2.22%) Laserfiche
9 2 (2.22%) ProCurve
9 2 (2.22%) ServiceNow
9 2 (2.22%) Synology
9 2 (2.22%) Zerto