VPN Contracts in Berkshire

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 27 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 70 97
Rank change year-on-year -5 +27 -35
Contract jobs citing VPN 40 44 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.08% 2.49% 1.38%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.03% 12.61% 7.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 20 20
10th Percentile £267 £347 £199
25th Percentile £281 £388 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £546 £408
Median % change year-on-year -17.62% +34.05% +12.41%
75th Percentile £500 £691 £591
90th Percentile £588 £703 £663
South East median daily rate £420 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -16.00% +17.65% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.50 £25.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year - -26.92% +22.35%
75th Percentile £19.50 £19.50 £26.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £21.06
% change year-on-year - -9.76% -4.30%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 443 349 455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 23.04% 19.77% 19.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 188 235
10th Percentile £205 £300 £313
25th Percentile £323 £398 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £486 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% +2.37% +26.67%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £575
90th Percentile - £689 £651
South East median daily rate £500 £478 £455
% change year-on-year +4.65% +5.01% +7.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 16 7
10th Percentile £71.75 £16.25 -
25th Percentile £79.94 £19.25 -
Median hourly rate £83.77 £66.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.92% +288.24% -38.18%
75th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £47.00
90th Percentile £87.53 £81.19 £73.60
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £52.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +9.24% +144.19% -46.25%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing VPN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for VPN in Berkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VPN in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for VPN in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VPN in Berkshire over the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VPN in Berkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VPN in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for VPN in Berkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 27 May 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
Reading -22 18 £475 -29.63% 2
Ascot - 11 - -
Bracknell +2 4 £375 - 1
Wokingham - 3 £475 -
Newbury -2 1 - - 2
VPN
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 8 (20.00%) Apache
1 8 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (5.00%) Confluence
2 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (17.50%) Azure
2 6 (15.00%) AWS
3 4 (10.00%) IaaS
3 4 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (10.00%) PaaS
4 3 (7.50%) Azure API Management
4 3 (7.50%) Azure Event Grid
4 3 (7.50%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (7.50%) Entra ID
4 3 (7.50%) SaaS
5 2 (5.00%) GCP
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.50%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 18 (45.00%) Firewall
1 18 (45.00%) MPLS
2 16 (40.00%) BGP
3 11 (27.50%) Cisco Nexus
3 11 (27.50%) DMZ
4 9 (22.50%) WAN
5 8 (20.00%) Ethernet VPN
5 8 (20.00%) Radio Access Network
6 7 (17.50%) IPsec
6 7 (17.50%) Network Security
7 5 (12.50%) EIGRP
8 4 (10.00%) Junos
8 4 (10.00%) OSPF
8 4 (10.00%) SD-WAN
8 4 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (7.50%) Cisco ASA
9 3 (7.50%) LAN
10 2 (5.00%) DNS
10 2 (5.00%) Internet
10 2 (5.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 8 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 8 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.50%) MySQL
2 1 (2.50%) RDBMS
2 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (30.00%) JIRA
2 8 (20.00%) GitLab
2 8 (20.00%) Robot Framework
2 8 (20.00%) TestRail
3 3 (7.50%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.50%) Git
4 1 (2.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 11 (27.50%) Banking
1 11 (27.50%) Investment Banking
2 4 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.50%) Advertising
4 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Finance
4 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 23 (57.50%) Network Engineer
2 12 (30.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 12 (30.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 11 (27.50%) Blue Coat Engineer
3 11 (27.50%) Juniper Engineer
4 7 (17.50%) Test Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Architect
6 3 (7.50%) Cisco Security Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Consultant
6 3 (7.50%) Data Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Data Network Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Lead
6 3 (7.50%) Network Architect
6 3 (7.50%) Network Security Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Security Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Support Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) IT Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Network Security Consultant
7 2 (5.00%) Service Desk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (20.00%) NETCONF
1 8 (20.00%) REST
1 8 (20.00%) RESTCONF
1 8 (20.00%) SOAP
1 8 (20.00%) YANG
2 3 (7.50%) .NET
2 3 (7.50%) Web Services
3 1 (2.50%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.50%) JSON
3 1 (2.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Public Cloud
2 3 (7.50%) PKI
3 2 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.00%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (2.50%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.50%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.00%) Windows
2 2 (5.00%) Mac OS
2 2 (5.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.50%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (40.00%) ITSM
2 14 (35.00%) High Availability
3 12 (30.00%) Change Control
4 11 (27.50%) Agile
4 11 (27.50%) Architectural Patterns
4 11 (27.50%) Design Patterns
5 10 (25.00%) Scrum
6 9 (22.50%) CI/CD
7 8 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 8 (20.00%) Integration Testing
7 8 (20.00%) Performance Testing
7 8 (20.00%) Regression Testing
7 8 (20.00%) Security Testing
7 8 (20.00%) Test Automation
7 8 (20.00%) Unit Testing
7 8 (20.00%) Workflow
8 7 (17.50%) Migration
9 5 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
9 5 (12.50%) Network Architecture
10 4 (10.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 11 (27.50%) Python
2 9 (22.50%) SQL
3 3 (7.50%) C#
3 3 (7.50%) Java
3 3 (7.50%) PHP
3 3 (7.50%) Ruby
4 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (12.50%) CCNA
2 5 (12.50%) CCNP
3 3 (7.50%) Azure Certification
3 3 (7.50%) CCIE
3 3 (7.50%) Security Cleared
4 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.50%) BC Cleared
5 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.50%) CCDP
5 1 (2.50%) CCIP
5 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.50%) Degree
5 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.50%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 11 (27.50%) Docker
2 5 (12.50%) Active Directory
3 3 (7.50%) Hyper-V
3 3 (7.50%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (7.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (7.50%) Kubernetes
1 3 (7.50%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (5.00%) Terraform
3 1 (2.50%) Ansible
3 1 (2.50%) Grafana
3 1 (2.50%) Graylog
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.50%) Nagios
3 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (45.00%) Cisco
1 18 (45.00%) Juniper
2 14 (35.00%) CheckPoint
2 14 (35.00%) Fortinet
3 13 (32.50%) Blue Coat
4 6 (15.00%) Microsoft
5 3 (7.50%) Aruba
5 3 (7.50%) Palo Alto
5 3 (7.50%) VMware
5 3 (7.50%) Zscaler
6 2 (5.00%) Apple
6 2 (5.00%) Bloomberg
6 2 (5.00%) Citrix
6 2 (5.00%) F5
6 2 (5.00%) McAfee
6 2 (5.00%) Reuters
7 1 (2.50%) ADVA
7 1 (2.50%) Alcatel-Lucent
7 1 (2.50%) Splunk