VPN Contracts in Yorkshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for VPN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VPN over the 3 months to 22 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 Yorkshire 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Rank 98 95 78
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -17
Contract jobs citing VPN 15 19 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.795% 0.826% 1.005%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.732% 6.667% 9.424%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 1
Average daily rate £300 £475 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-36.84% +22.58%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 7
Average hourly rate £17.96 £16.50 £26.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.84% -37.73%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.53 £12.00 £11.90
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.39 £30.00 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £21.00 £14.00
% change year-on-year
+30.95% +50.00%
All Communications & Networking
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 317 285 191
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 16.80% 12.39% 10.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 145 79
Average daily rate £300 £280 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -16.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £200 £163
10% offered a daily rate of more than £404 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 36 32
Average hourly rate £16.50 £15.00 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -52.38%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.42 £12.00 £11.93
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £115.00 £35.00 £60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-18.22% -7.72%
VPN
England

VPN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire VPN Daily Rate Trend

VPN
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VPN across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Yorkshire VPN Daily Rate Histogram

VPN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
West Yorkshire -4 11 £300 +81.81%
South Yorkshire -3 3 £437 -16.71%
North Yorkshire - 1 £300 -
VPN
England

VPN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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.

1 22 (68.75%) Firewall
2 21 (65.63%) Cisco
3 13 (40.63%) Cisco Certification
3 13 (40.63%) CheckPoint
4 12 (37.50%) Microsoft
4 12 (37.50%) Windows
5 9 (28.13%) OSPF
6 8 (25.00%) BGP
6 8 (25.00%) WAN
6 8 (25.00%) DNS
6 8 (25.00%) Citrix
7 7 (21.88%) CCNP
7 7 (21.88%) UNIX
7 7 (21.88%) ITIL
7 7 (21.88%) MPLS
8 6 (18.75%) Finance
8 6 (18.75%) VMware
8 6 (18.75%) Linux
8 6 (18.75%) LAN
8 6 (18.75%) CCNA
8 6 (18.75%) Windows Server 2003
8 6 (18.75%) Load Balancing
8 6 (18.75%) Network Security
9 5 (15.63%) Cisco ASA
9 5 (15.63%) FWSM
9 5 (15.63%) SSL
9 5 (15.63%) DHCP
9 5 (15.63%) Blue Coat
10 4 (12.50%) NetWare
10 4 (12.50%) Solaris

VPN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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.

Application Development
1 1 (3.125%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 3 (9.375%) Oracle Application Server
2 2 (6.250%) MS Exchange
3 1 (3.125%) Apache
3 1 (3.125%) IIS
3 1 (3.125%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 4 (12.50%) MS Office
2 2 (6.250%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (9.375%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 22 (68.75%) Firewall
2 9 (28.13%) OSPF
3 8 (25.00%) BGP
3 8 (25.00%) WAN
3 8 (25.00%) DNS
4 7 (21.88%) MPLS
5 6 (18.75%) LAN
5 6 (18.75%) Network Security
6 5 (15.63%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (15.63%) FWSM
6 5 (15.63%) SSL
6 5 (15.63%) DHCP
7 4 (12.50%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (9.375%) VLAN
8 3 (9.375%) Cisco IOS
8 3 (9.375%) HSRP
8 3 (9.375%) IPsec
9 2 (6.250%) EIGRP
9 2 (6.250%) VRRP
9 2 (6.250%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.375%) SQL Server 2008
1 3 (9.375%) Oracle 11g
1 3 (9.375%) SQL Server 2005
1 3 (9.375%) SQL Server 2000
1 3 (9.375%) Oracle 10g
1 3 (9.375%) SQL Server
1 3 (9.375%) Oracle 8/8i
1 3 (9.375%) Oracle 9i
Development Applications
1 2 (6.250%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 6 (18.75%) Finance
2 1 (3.125%) Banking
2 1 (3.125%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (28.13%) Network Engineer
2 7 (21.88%) Analyst
3 3 (9.375%) Oracle DBA
3 3 (9.375%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 3 (9.375%) DBA
4 2 (6.250%) Architect
4 2 (6.250%) Service Analyst
4 2 (6.250%) Network Security Engineer
4 2 (6.250%) Support Analyst
4 2 (6.250%) Service Desk Analyst
4 2 (6.250%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.250%) Design Engineer
4 2 (6.250%) Network Specialist
4 2 (6.250%) Security Engineer
5 1 (3.125%) Lead Architect
5 1 (3.125%) Test Leader
5 1 (3.125%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
5 1 (3.125%) Senior Design Engineer
5 1 (3.125%) Network Architect
5 1 (3.125%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.375%) Replication
2 2 (6.250%) Blackberry
2 2 (6.250%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.125%) iPhone
3 1 (3.125%) PDA
3 1 (3.125%) Fat Client
3 1 (3.125%) Mathematics
3 1 (3.125%) Computer Science
3 1 (3.125%) IaaS
3 1 (3.125%) SaaS
3 1 (3.125%) PaaS
3 1 (3.125%) iPad
3 1 (3.125%) Thin Client
3 1 (3.125%) Client/Server
3 1 (3.125%) SecurID
Operating Systems
1 12 (37.50%) Windows
2 7 (21.88%) UNIX
3 6 (18.75%) Linux
3 6 (18.75%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (12.50%) NetWare
4 4 (12.50%) Solaris
4 4 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (9.375%) Windows 2000 Server
6 2 (6.250%) Windows XP
6 2 (6.250%) Windows 7
7 1 (3.125%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (3.125%) Windows 8
7 1 (3.125%) Apple iOS
7 1 (3.125%) Mac OS X
7 1 (3.125%) VMS
7 1 (3.125%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (21.88%) ITIL
2 6 (18.75%) Load Balancing
3 3 (9.375%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (9.375%) Incident Management
3 3 (9.375%) Service Management
4 2 (6.250%) ITSM
4 2 (6.250%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (6.250%) Performance Management
5 1 (3.125%) Information Assurance
5 1 (3.125%) Test Automation
5 1 (3.125%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (3.125%) Performance Testing
5 1 (3.125%) Load Testing
5 1 (3.125%) Network Load Balancing
5 1 (3.125%) Problem Management
5 1 (3.125%) Network Architecture
5 1 (3.125%) Network Management
5 1 (3.125%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (3.125%) ERP
5 1 (3.125%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.375%) SQL
2 1 (3.125%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.125%) Bash shell
2 1 (3.125%) BeanShell
2 1 (3.125%) VBScript
2 1 (3.125%) C
2 1 (3.125%) Java
Qualifications
1 13 (40.63%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (21.88%) CCNP
3 6 (18.75%) CCNA
4 3 (9.375%) Security Cleared
4 3 (9.375%) CCSE
4 3 (9.375%) CCSA
5 2 (6.250%) CCIE
5 2 (6.250%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (3.125%) SC Cleared
6 1 (3.125%) Degree
6 1 (3.125%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (3.125%) CCDA
6 1 (3.125%) CCSP
6 1 (3.125%) MCSE
6 1 (3.125%) JNCIP
6 1 (3.125%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.250%) SLA
1 2 (6.250%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.125%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.125%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.125%) Xen
2 1 (3.125%) vSphere
2 1 (3.125%) ProxySG
2 1 (3.125%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 3 (9.375%) McAfee ePO
1 3 (9.375%) ARCserve
2 1 (3.125%) SolarWinds Orion
2 1 (3.125%) Unicenter
2 1 (3.125%) OpenView
Vendors
1 21 (65.63%) Cisco
2 13 (40.63%) CheckPoint
3 12 (37.50%) Microsoft
4 8 (25.00%) Citrix
5 6 (18.75%) VMware
6 5 (15.63%) Blue Coat
7 4 (12.50%) Novell
8 3 (9.375%) Riverbed
8 3 (9.375%) NetApp
8 3 (9.375%) Nokia
8 3 (9.375%) Juniper
8 3 (9.375%) Sun
8 3 (9.375%) Oracle
8 3 (9.375%) McAfee
9 2 (6.250%) HP
9 2 (6.250%) Red Hat
9 2 (6.250%) SolarWinds
9 2 (6.250%) F5
10 1 (3.125%) TippingPoint
10 1 (3.125%) NetScout
3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer, Windows Server, VMWare
Wakefield, West Yorkshire
3 rd Line Infrastructure Engineer, Citrix, Novell, VMWare... You must have most of the following skills: Windows Server (Group Policy, DNS, DHCP), Citrix, Cisco, Backup Software, VMWare, Firewalls,...
Latcom Ltd
Rate: From £200 to £300 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Network and Secuirty Engineer
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Austin Fraser are currently looking for a Network Security Engineerbased in Leeds for an initial 6 month contract with view to extensions. The role of the Network Security...
Austin Fraser
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
Infrastructure Analyst - Contract
Leeds, West Yorkshire
An ideal candidate would have a number of these skills and Microsoft / Cisco certification would be advantageous although not essential: Windows Server 2000 \ 2003 \ 2008 (Group Policy \ DNS \...
Search Consultancy
Rate: Market rate
Posted: 15 May 2013
Network and Security Specialist
North Yorkshire
We are seeking a CCNA qualified Network and Security specialist to work on my clients Checkpoint Firewall upgrade. Candidates must have the following experience: Proven track record of...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £280.00 - £320.00 per day
Posted: 4 May 2013
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