VPN Contracts in the West Midlands

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 29 73 135
Rank change year-on-year +44 +62 -45
Contract jobs citing VPN 96 68 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 4.99% 2.86% 1.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 24.37% 19.37% 10.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 46 20
10th Percentile £196 £263 £110
25th Percentile £363 £316 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £510 £388
Median % change year-on-year -26.47% +31.61% +12.73%
75th Percentile £575 £688 £438
90th Percentile £775 £731 £460
England median daily rate £438 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -2.78% - +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £70.97 - £20.00
Median hourly rate £71.93 £15.00 £20.26
Median % change year-on-year +379.53% -25.94% +35.03%
75th Percentile £72.90 - £20.51
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £17.00 £21.61 £22.00
% change year-on-year -21.33% -1.77% +15.79%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 394 351 383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.47% 14.75% 10.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 217 267
10th Percentile £201 £263 £165
25th Percentile £313 £363 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +25.00% -4.48%
75th Percentile £575 £606 £505
90th Percentile £688 £700 £618
England median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 6 18
10th Percentile £10.50 £12.50 £12.04
25th Percentile £13.50 £13.13 £12.66
Median hourly rate £19.95 £16.75 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.10% +1.52% +10.00%
75th Percentile £23.75 £20.58 £20.00
90th Percentile £28.75 £21.80 £20.51
England median hourly rate £39.25 £18.88 £23.91
% change year-on-year +107.95% -21.06% -4.36%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing VPN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for VPN in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VPN in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for VPN in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for VPN in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VPN in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for VPN in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the West Midlands 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
Solihull +1 44 £375 -27.88% 6
Birmingham 0 23 £425 -37.04% 8
Warwickshire +11 11 £750 +42.86% 3
Coventry +14 9 £650 +44.44%
Worcestershire +6 3 £200 -67.69% 3
Tipton - 2 £313 -
Shropshire - 2 £117 -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 4 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.13%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.08%) IIS
3 2 (2.08%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (10.42%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 19 (19.79%) Azure
2 11 (11.46%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (8.33%) AWS
3 8 (8.33%) Entra ID
4 5 (5.21%) CloudFront
4 5 (5.21%) OneDrive
4 5 (5.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.08%) IaaS
6 2 (2.08%) PaaS
6 2 (2.08%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 65 (67.71%) WAN
2 55 (57.29%) MPLS
3 46 (47.92%) BGP
3 46 (47.92%) IPsec
4 45 (46.88%) Junos
5 25 (26.04%) Firewall
6 21 (21.88%) LAN
7 19 (19.79%) DNS
8 13 (13.54%) VoIP
9 12 (12.50%) SD-WAN
10 10 (10.42%) Network Security
11 9 (9.38%) DHCP
11 9 (9.38%) PBX
11 9 (9.38%) WLAN
12 8 (8.33%) Cisco ISE
13 7 (7.29%) Wi-Fi
14 6 (6.25%) Cisco ASA
14 6 (6.25%) Cisco Nexus
14 6 (6.25%) Internet
14 6 (6.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Git
1 2 (2.08%) JIRA
2 1 (1.04%) Fiddler
General
1 11 (11.46%) Social Skills
2 10 (10.42%) Finance
3 9 (9.38%) Telecoms
4 8 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.21%) Retail
6 3 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.08%) Law
7 2 (2.08%) Legal
8 1 (1.04%) Banking
8 1 (1.04%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.04%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (28.13%) WAN Engineer
2 23 (23.96%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 23 (23.96%) 3rd Line Support
3 19 (19.79%) Network Support
4 15 (15.63%) Network Engineer
5 10 (10.42%) Support Engineer
6 9 (9.38%) Architect
7 8 (8.33%) 2nd Line Support
8 6 (6.25%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 6 (6.25%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) 1st/2nd Line Support
9 5 (5.21%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) Applications Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) Enterprise Architect
9 5 (5.21%) Security Engineer
10 4 (4.17%) Network Architect
11 3 (3.13%) Firewall Engineer
11 3 (3.13%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.38%) Web Services
2 5 (5.21%) OAuth
2 5 (5.21%) OAuth2
2 5 (5.21%) SAML
3 2 (2.08%) JSON
3 2 (2.08%) LAMP
3 2 (2.08%) YAML
4 1 (1.04%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.04%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 47 (48.96%) PKI
2 11 (11.46%) Data Centre
3 5 (5.21%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.17%) Driving Licence
5 3 (3.13%) Clustering
5 3 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.08%) Replication
7 1 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.04%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.04%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.04%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.04%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 20 (20.83%) Windows
2 8 (8.33%) Windows 10
2 8 (8.33%) Windows Server
3 7 (7.29%) Windows Server 2019
4 5 (5.21%) Mac OS
4 5 (5.21%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (4.17%) Linux
5 4 (4.17%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (2.08%) Ubuntu
6 2 (2.08%) VMS
6 2 (2.08%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (1.04%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (46.88%) Load Balancing
2 19 (19.79%) Network Design
3 12 (12.50%) Architectural Design
3 12 (12.50%) Project Delivery
4 11 (11.46%) Network Architecture
5 9 (9.38%) Analytics
5 9 (9.38%) Cloud Security
5 9 (9.38%) Data Analytics
5 9 (9.38%) Mentoring
5 9 (9.38%) Performance Management
5 9 (9.38%) Programme Management
5 9 (9.38%) SOA
5 9 (9.38%) Storage Management
6 8 (8.33%) ITIL
7 7 (7.29%) Change Management
7 7 (7.29%) CI/CD
7 7 (7.29%) Customer Service
7 7 (7.29%) High Availability
7 7 (7.29%) Incident Management
8 6 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 7 (7.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 49 (51.04%) Security Cleared
2 17 (17.71%) Cisco Certification
3 12 (12.50%) CCNP
4 9 (9.38%) CCIE
4 9 (9.38%) CCIE Data Center
5 7 (7.29%) Degree
6 5 (5.21%) AWS Certification
6 5 (5.21%) SC Cleared
7 3 (3.13%) CCNA
7 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (2.08%) MCSE
9 1 (1.04%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.04%) JNCIA
9 1 (1.04%) PMI Certification
9 1 (1.04%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.21%) SLA
2 2 (2.08%) QA
System Software
1 16 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 6 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.21%) Docker
4 4 (4.17%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.08%) Terminal Services
5 2 (2.08%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (7.29%) SCCM
2 5 (5.21%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (5.21%) Terraform
3 3 (3.13%) Autotask
3 3 (3.13%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (3.13%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (2.08%) Ansible
5 1 (1.04%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 52 (54.17%) Juniper
2 20 (20.83%) Cisco
3 13 (13.54%) Microsoft
4 10 (10.42%) Palo Alto
5 8 (8.33%) VMware
6 7 (7.29%) CheckPoint
7 6 (6.25%) Zscaler
8 5 (5.21%) Apple
8 5 (5.21%) Fortinet
8 5 (5.21%) Infoblox
8 5 (5.21%) Symantec
9 3 (3.13%) Aruba
9 3 (3.13%) Datto
9 3 (3.13%) F5
9 3 (3.13%) McAfee
9 3 (3.13%) ServiceNow
10 2 (2.08%) ProCurve
10 2 (2.08%) Synology
10 2 (2.08%) Veeam
10 2 (2.08%) Zerto