VPN Contracts in Wales

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
UK > Wales

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

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 54 62
Rank change year-on-year +18 +8 0
Contract jobs citing VPN 11 9 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 2.74% 1.43% 1.58%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.95% 9.00% 9.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 10
10th Percentile £302 £222 £125
25th Percentile £350 £313 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £425 £638
Median % change year-on-year +35.29% -33.33% +155.00%
75th Percentile £667 £441 £794
90th Percentile £671 £474 £800
UK median daily rate £444 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -1.33% -5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £11.35
25th Percentile - - £11.63
Median hourly rate - - £12.39
75th Percentile - - £12.85
90th Percentile - - £12.94
UK median hourly rate £17.00 £21.61 £22.00
% change year-on-year -21.33% -1.77% +22.22%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Wales

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 Wales with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 38 100 168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 9.48% 15.85% 16.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 76 128
10th Percentile £175 £250 £185
25th Percentile £199 £359 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £500 £427
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% +17.08% -3.49%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £588
90th Percentile £682 £644 £669
UK median daily rate £490 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -5.59% +3.80% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 11
10th Percentile £14.84 - £13.00
25th Percentile £15.56 - £14.31
Median hourly rate £16.77 - £46.25
Median % change year-on-year - - +83.17%
75th Percentile £17.97 - £47.40
90th Percentile £18.69 - -
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £19.00 £28.33
% change year-on-year +100.00% -32.93% -0.60%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in Wales

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for VPN in Wales

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Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

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

Daily rate histogram for VPN in Wales

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for VPN in Wales

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Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the Wales region over the 6 months to 27 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
South Wales +20 10 £575 +43.75% 5
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) AWS
1 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 5 (45.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 5 (45.45%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon S3
4 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (9.09%) Cloudflare
5 1 (9.09%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (63.64%) Firewall
2 5 (45.45%) TCP/IP
3 2 (18.18%) DHCP
4 1 (9.09%) Broadband
4 1 (9.09%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (9.09%) DMVPN
4 1 (9.09%) DNS
4 1 (9.09%) IPsec
4 1 (9.09%) LAN
4 1 (9.09%) MPLS
4 1 (9.09%) Network Security
4 1 (9.09%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (9.09%) VLAN
4 1 (9.09%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) MySQL
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (18.18%) RDBMS
3 2 (18.18%) Relational Database
3 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
General
1 2 (18.18%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Administrator
1 5 (45.45%) DBA
2 3 (27.27%) Azure Administrator
2 3 (27.27%) MySQL DBA
3 1 (9.09%) Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Support
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) IT Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) IT Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) IT Support
3 1 (9.09%) IT Support Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Network Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Security Officer
3 1 (9.09%) SQL DBA
3 1 (9.09%) Support Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Telephony Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (9.09%) .NET
2 1 (9.09%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Public Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) Windows
2 5 (45.45%) Linux
3 2 (18.18%) Windows Server
4 1 (9.09%) Windows 10
4 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Change Control
1 5 (45.45%) DevOps
2 3 (27.27%) Migration
2 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (27.27%) Project Management
3 2 (18.18%) Agile
3 2 (18.18%) Analytics
3 2 (18.18%) Data Analytics
4 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (9.09%) Incident Management
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (9.09%) ITIL
4 1 (9.09%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (9.09%) Privileged Access Management
4 1 (9.09%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (9.09%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) CCNA
1 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (9.09%) CTC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) QA
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
2 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (9.09%) Terminal Services
3 1 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (9.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Ansible
1 5 (45.45%) Grafana
1 5 (45.45%) Nagios
1 5 (45.45%) Terraform
2 3 (27.27%) Graylog
2 3 (27.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) Splunk
2 3 (27.27%) VMware
3 1 (9.09%) Barracuda Networks
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco
3 1 (9.09%) New Relic
3 1 (9.09%) PagerDuty
3 1 (9.09%) Rackspace