VPN Contracts in Cardiff

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
South Wales > Cardiff

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 40 47
Rank change year-on-year +13 +7 -14
Contract jobs citing VPN 8 5 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 3.70% 1.46% 1.30%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 33.33% 17.24% 10.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 5
10th Percentile £344 £303 £403
25th Percentile £472 £363 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +35.29% -19.05% +110.00%
75th Percentile £667 £438 £775
90th Percentile £673 £441 -
South Wales median daily rate £550 £375 £638
% change year-on-year +46.67% -41.18% +155.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 24 29 64
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 11.11% 8.48% 11.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 25 49
10th Percentile £185 £216 £155
25th Percentile £199 £375 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £285 £438 £425
Median % change year-on-year -34.86% +2.94% +3.66%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £463
90th Percentile £667 £625 £593
South Wales median daily rate £350 £519 £427
% change year-on-year -32.53% +21.49% +4.15%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in Cardiff

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for VPN in Cardiff

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VPN in Cardiff over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VPN in Cardiff

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Hourly rate trend for VPN in Cardiff

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) AWS
2 6 (75.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 6 (75.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 6 (75.00%) Azure
3 4 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (50.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (12.50%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) Firewall
2 6 (75.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (12.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) MySQL
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (37.50%) RDBMS
2 3 (37.50%) Relational Database
2 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) DBA
2 5 (62.50%) Administrator
3 3 (37.50%) Azure Administrator
3 3 (37.50%) MySQL DBA
4 1 (12.50%) Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Support
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Security Officer
4 1 (12.50%) SQL DBA
4 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Windows
2 6 (75.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Change Control
2 5 (62.50%) DevOps
3 4 (50.00%) Migration
3 4 (50.00%) Project Management
4 3 (37.50%) Analytics
5 2 (25.00%) Agile
5 2 (25.00%) Data Analytics
5 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
6 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (12.50%) Penetration Testing
6 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
6 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) CTC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (75.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Ansible
1 6 (75.00%) Grafana
1 6 (75.00%) Nagios
1 6 (75.00%) Terraform
2 4 (50.00%) Graylog
2 4 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (50.00%) Splunk
3 1 (12.50%) Barracuda Networks
3 1 (12.50%) New Relic
3 1 (12.50%) PagerDuty
3 1 (12.50%) Rackspace
3 1 (12.50%) VMware