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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 69 137
Rank change year-on-year +36 +68 -47
Contract jobs citing VPN 95 70 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 4.93% 2.97% 1.02%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 24.48% 19.66% 9.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 45 18
10th Percentile £194 £263 £110
25th Percentile £356 £313 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £520 £413
Median % change year-on-year -27.88% +26.06% +17.86%
75th Percentile £600 £688 £447
90th Percentile £775 £731 £526
England median daily rate £447 £450 £463
% change year-on-year -0.67% -2.70% +8.82%
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 £21.26
% change year-on-year -21.33% +1.67% +11.87%

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 388 356 377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.15% 15.13% 10.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 220 260
10th Percentile £200 £263 £165
25th Percentile £306 £363 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £485 £400
Median % change year-on-year -17.53% +21.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £606 £504
90th Percentile £690 £700 £619
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 6 17
10th Percentile £10.50 £12.50 £11.93
25th Percentile £13.50 £13.13 £12.38
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 £40.00 £18.50 £23.91
% change year-on-year +116.22% -22.63% -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 4 May 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 4 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
Solihull 0 45 £375 -27.88% 6
Birmingham +1 23 £425 -37.04% 6
Warwickshire +13 11 £750 +25.00% 3
Coventry +11 7 £650 +44.44%
Worcestershire +5 3 £200 -67.69% 3
Tipton - 2 £313 -
Shropshire - 2 £117 - 1
VPN
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 (4.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.16%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.11%) IIS
3 2 (2.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 17 (17.89%) Azure
2 11 (11.58%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (8.42%) Entra ID
4 7 (7.37%) AWS
5 5 (5.26%) CloudFront
5 5 (5.26%) OneDrive
5 5 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.11%) IaaS
6 2 (2.11%) PaaS
6 2 (2.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 66 (69.47%) WAN
2 56 (58.95%) MPLS
3 47 (49.47%) BGP
3 47 (49.47%) IPsec
4 46 (48.42%) Junos
5 23 (24.21%) Firewall
6 21 (22.11%) LAN
7 19 (20.00%) DNS
8 13 (13.68%) VoIP
9 12 (12.63%) SD-WAN
10 9 (9.47%) DHCP
10 9 (9.47%) Network Security
10 9 (9.47%) PBX
10 9 (9.47%) WLAN
11 8 (8.42%) Cisco ISE
12 7 (7.37%) Wi-Fi
13 6 (6.32%) Cisco ASA
13 6 (6.32%) Cisco Firepower
13 6 (6.32%) Cisco Nexus
13 6 (6.32%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.11%) Git
1 2 (2.11%) JIRA
General
1 11 (11.58%) Social Skills
2 10 (10.53%) Finance
3 9 (9.47%) Telecoms
4 8 (8.42%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.26%) Retail
6 3 (3.16%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.16%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.11%) Law
7 2 (2.11%) Legal
8 1 (1.05%) Banking
8 1 (1.05%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.05%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (28.42%) WAN Engineer
2 25 (26.32%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 25 (26.32%) 3rd Line Support
3 21 (22.11%) Network Support
4 16 (16.84%) Network Engineer
5 12 (12.63%) Support Engineer
6 9 (9.47%) Architect
7 8 (8.42%) 2nd Line Support
7 8 (8.42%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
8 7 (7.37%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 6 (6.32%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 5 (5.26%) 1st/2nd Line Support
10 5 (5.26%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 5 (5.26%) Applications Engineer
10 5 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (5.26%) Enterprise Architect
10 5 (5.26%) Security Engineer
11 4 (4.21%) Network Architect
12 3 (3.16%) Delivery Manager
12 3 (3.16%) Firewall Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.47%) Web Services
2 5 (5.26%) OAuth
2 5 (5.26%) OAuth2
2 5 (5.26%) SAML
3 2 (2.11%) JSON
3 2 (2.11%) LAMP
3 2 (2.11%) YAML
4 1 (1.05%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.05%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 47 (49.47%) PKI
2 11 (11.58%) Data Centre
3 5 (5.26%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.21%) Driving Licence
5 3 (3.16%) Clustering
5 3 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.11%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.11%) Replication
7 1 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.05%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.05%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.05%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.05%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.05%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 20 (21.05%) Windows
2 8 (8.42%) Windows 10
2 8 (8.42%) Windows Server
3 7 (7.37%) Windows Server 2019
4 5 (5.26%) Mac OS
4 5 (5.26%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (4.21%) Linux
5 4 (4.21%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (2.11%) Ubuntu
6 2 (2.11%) VMS
6 2 (2.11%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (1.05%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (48.42%) Load Balancing
2 21 (22.11%) Network Design
3 12 (12.63%) Architectural Design
3 12 (12.63%) Project Delivery
4 11 (11.58%) Network Architecture
5 9 (9.47%) Analytics
5 9 (9.47%) Data Analytics
5 9 (9.47%) Mentoring
5 9 (9.47%) Performance Management
5 9 (9.47%) Programme Management
5 9 (9.47%) SOA
5 9 (9.47%) Storage Management
6 8 (8.42%) Cloud Security
6 8 (8.42%) ITIL
7 7 (7.37%) Change Management
7 7 (7.37%) CI/CD
7 7 (7.37%) Customer Service
7 7 (7.37%) Incident Management
8 6 (6.32%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (6.32%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 7 (7.37%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 48 (50.53%) Security Cleared
2 17 (17.89%) Cisco Certification
3 12 (12.63%) CCNP
4 9 (9.47%) CCIE
4 9 (9.47%) CCIE Data Center
5 7 (7.37%) Degree
6 5 (5.26%) AWS Certification
7 4 (4.21%) SC Cleared
8 3 (3.16%) CCNA
8 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (2.11%) MCSE
10 1 (1.05%) Azure Certification
10 1 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (1.05%) JNCIA
10 1 (1.05%) PMI Certification
10 1 (1.05%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.26%) SLA
2 2 (2.11%) QA
System Software
1 16 (16.84%) Active Directory
2 6 (6.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.26%) Docker
4 4 (4.21%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.11%) Terminal Services
5 2 (2.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (7.37%) SCCM
2 5 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (3.16%) Autotask
3 3 (3.16%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (3.16%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (3.16%) Terraform
4 1 (1.05%) Ansible
4 1 (1.05%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 53 (55.79%) Juniper
2 20 (21.05%) Cisco
3 13 (13.68%) Microsoft
4 9 (9.47%) Palo Alto
5 8 (8.42%) VMware
6 7 (7.37%) CheckPoint
7 5 (5.26%) Apple
7 5 (5.26%) Infoblox
7 5 (5.26%) Symantec
7 5 (5.26%) Zscaler
8 4 (4.21%) Fortinet
9 3 (3.16%) Aruba
9 3 (3.16%) Datto
9 3 (3.16%) McAfee
9 3 (3.16%) ServiceNow
10 2 (2.11%) F5
10 2 (2.11%) Laserfiche
10 2 (2.11%) ProCurve
10 2 (2.11%) Synology
10 2 (2.11%) Veeam