VPN Contracts in Cheshire

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 41 41 37
Rank change year-on-year 0 -4 +8
Contract jobs citing VPN 15 20 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 3.01% 3.71% 3.98%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.83% 21.98% 21.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 6
10th Percentile £235 £213 -
25th Percentile £363 £266 £158
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £325 £183
Median % change year-on-year +46.15% +78.08% -
75th Percentile £495 £363 £392
90th Percentile £521 £375 £529
North West median daily rate £800 £325 £283
% change year-on-year +146.15% +15.04% -16.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £17.72 - -
North West median hourly rate £17.72 - £57.50

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 72 91 100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 14.46% 16.88% 18.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 56 47
10th Percentile £65 £269 £163
25th Percentile £199 £325 £209
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £450 £415
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +8.43% -4.21%
75th Percentile £515 £567 £575
90th Percentile £560 £615 £630
North West median daily rate £475 £488 £450
% change year-on-year -2.56% +8.33% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £18.68 - -
25th Percentile £20.11 - -
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.82 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.55% -5.90% -
75th Percentile £24.25 - -
90th Percentile £25.30 - -
North West median hourly rate £26.75 £31.25 £19.25
% change year-on-year -14.40% +62.34% -59.41%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in Cheshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for VPN in Cheshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

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

Daily rate histogram for VPN in Cheshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for VPN in Cheshire

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Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 6 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
Warrington +9 5 £475 - 2
Knutsford - 3 £475 -
Chester -4 2 £225 -28.00% 4
Macclesfield - 1 - -
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North West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 3 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) AWS
1 9 (60.00%) Azure
2 7 (46.67%) GCP
3 4 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (20.00%) AWS Direct Connect
4 3 (20.00%) OneDrive
4 3 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
5 1 (6.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (46.67%) TCP/IP
1 7 (46.67%) VLAN
2 6 (40.00%) Firewall
3 4 (26.67%) BGP
3 4 (26.67%) LAN
3 4 (26.67%) MPLS
3 4 (26.67%) OSPF
3 4 (26.67%) Value-Added Service
3 4 (26.67%) WAN
3 4 (26.67%) Wireshark
4 3 (20.00%) DHCP
4 3 (20.00%) DNS
4 3 (20.00%) Network Security
5 2 (13.33%) Internet
6 1 (6.67%) DMZ
6 1 (6.67%) Wireless
6 1 (6.67%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Network Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Security Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Desktop Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Network Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Network Security Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Network Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) IT Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Lead
5 1 (6.67%) Lead Cloud Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Network Migration Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) iPad
1 2 (13.33%) Private Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Windows
2 2 (13.33%) Windows 10
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (26.67%) Change Management
2 4 (26.67%) Computer Science
2 4 (26.67%) Network Monitoring
2 4 (26.67%) Network Virtualisation
3 3 (20.00%) Business Strategy
3 3 (20.00%) Security Architecture
3 3 (20.00%) Test Scripting
4 2 (13.33%) Migration
4 2 (13.33%) Network Design
5 1 (6.67%) Agile
5 1 (6.67%) Asset Management
5 1 (6.67%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (6.67%) Customer Service
5 1 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (6.67%) High Availability
5 1 (6.67%) Information Security
5 1 (6.67%) Risk Management
5 1 (6.67%) Scrum
5 1 (6.67%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) Bash
1 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) CCIE
1 4 (26.67%) CCNP
1 4 (26.67%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (26.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (26.67%) Degree
1 4 (26.67%) VCAP
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) LogicMonitor
1 4 (26.67%) SolarWinds
2 3 (20.00%) Google
3 2 (13.33%) Autodesk
3 2 (13.33%) Dell
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (13.33%) Wyse
4 1 (6.67%) Cisco
4 1 (6.67%) Meraki
4 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow
4 1 (6.67%) Ubiquiti
4 1 (6.67%) Veeam
4 1 (6.67%) VMware