VPN Contracts in Birmingham

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 44 79
Rank change year-on-year +7 +35 -18
Contract jobs citing VPN 21 35 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.87% 3.99% 1.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.79% 24.14% 8.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 19 8
10th Percentile £190 £303 £321
25th Percentile £198 £419 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £675 £425
Median % change year-on-year -42.59% +58.82% -0.58%
75th Percentile £569 £731 £441
90th Percentile £958 - £500
West Midlands median daily rate £375 £520 £388
% change year-on-year -27.88% +34.19% +6.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £70.97 - -
Median hourly rate £71.93 £15.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +379.53% -25.00% -
75th Percentile £72.90 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £71.93 £15.00 £20.26
% change year-on-year +379.53% -25.94% +35.03%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 133 145 178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 18.19% 16.51% 13.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 69 111
10th Percentile £200 £313 £168
25th Percentile £289 £378 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +25.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £488 £700 £500
90th Percentile £600 £731 £603
West Midlands median daily rate £400 £498 £400
% change year-on-year -19.60% +24.38% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 3
10th Percentile £13.25 - £12.57
25th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £15.36
Median hourly rate £21.23 £15.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.50% -25.00% +48.48%
75th Percentile £28.75 £18.75 -
90th Percentile £72.90 £20.21 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £19.95 £19.60 £17.00
% change year-on-year +1.77% +15.31% +13.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in Birmingham

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for VPN in Birmingham

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Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VPN in Birmingham over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VPN in Birmingham

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for VPN in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 2 (9.52%) IIS
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (9.52%) SharePoint
1 2 (9.52%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 8 (38.10%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (28.57%) Azure
3 2 (9.52%) OneDrive
4 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 12 (57.14%) WAN
2 9 (42.86%) Firewall
3 6 (28.57%) BGP
3 6 (28.57%) IPsec
3 6 (28.57%) LAN
4 5 (23.81%) DNS
4 5 (23.81%) Junos
4 5 (23.81%) MPLS
5 4 (19.05%) TCP/IP
5 4 (19.05%) VLAN
6 3 (14.29%) VoIP
6 3 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (9.52%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (9.52%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (9.52%) DHCP
7 2 (9.52%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (9.52%) iSCSI
7 2 (9.52%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (9.52%) SAN
7 2 (9.52%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) JIRA
General
1 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Public Sector
3 3 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Finance
4 1 (4.76%) Banking
4 1 (4.76%) Investment Banking
4 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) WAN Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 5 (23.81%) 2nd Line Support
4 4 (19.05%) 3rd Line Support
4 4 (19.05%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Network Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Delivery Manager
5 3 (14.29%) Service Delivery Manager
5 3 (14.29%) Service Manager
6 2 (9.52%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
6 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Project Manager
6 2 (9.52%) Service Analyst
6 2 (9.52%) Service Desk Analyst
6 2 (9.52%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) LAMP
2 1 (4.76%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) PKI
2 3 (14.29%) Clustering
2 3 (14.29%) Driving Licence
3 2 (9.52%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (9.52%) Replication
3 2 (9.52%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.76%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (38.10%) Windows
2 7 (33.33%) Windows Server
2 7 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
3 5 (23.81%) Windows 10
3 5 (23.81%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (19.05%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (14.29%) Linux
5 3 (14.29%) Mac OS
6 2 (9.52%) Ubuntu
6 2 (9.52%) VMS
6 2 (9.52%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (4.76%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (23.81%) Load Balancing
2 4 (19.05%) Change Management
2 4 (19.05%) Decision-Making
2 4 (19.05%) Project Planning
3 3 (14.29%) Architectural Design
3 3 (14.29%) Change Control
3 3 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (14.29%) CRM
3 3 (14.29%) Incident Management
3 3 (14.29%) Mobile Device Management
3 3 (14.29%) Open Source
3 3 (14.29%) Password Management
3 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (14.29%) Project Delivery
3 3 (14.29%) Quality Management
3 3 (14.29%) Roadmaps
3 3 (14.29%) Service Delivery
3 3 (14.29%) Service Design
3 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (14.29%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 5 (23.81%) Degree
3 3 (14.29%) CCNP
3 3 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (9.52%) CCNA
5 1 (4.76%) PMI Certification
5 1 (4.76%) PMP
5 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) QA
System Software
1 6 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 5 (23.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (14.29%) Hyper-V
4 2 (9.52%) Terminal Services
4 2 (9.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (23.81%) SCCM
2 3 (14.29%) Autotask
2 3 (14.29%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (14.29%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (4.76%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) Microsoft
2 7 (33.33%) Juniper
2 7 (33.33%) VMware
3 3 (14.29%) Apple
3 3 (14.29%) Cisco
3 3 (14.29%) Datto
4 2 (9.52%) Aruba
4 2 (9.52%) Fortinet
4 2 (9.52%) Palo Alto
4 2 (9.52%) ProCurve
4 2 (9.52%) Synology
4 2 (9.52%) Veeam
4 2 (9.52%) Zerto
5 1 (4.76%) Blue Coat
5 1 (4.76%) CheckPoint
5 1 (4.76%) F5