VPN Contracts in Edinburgh

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 52 88 121
Rank change year-on-year +36 +33 -14
Contract jobs citing VPN 24 14 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.77% 1.19% 0.68%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 23.76% 11.57% 8.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 10 9
10th Percentile - - £159
25th Percentile £200 £160 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £240 £331 £525
Median % change year-on-year -27.55% -36.90% +20.00%
75th Percentile £275 £544 £575
90th Percentile £438 £550 -
Scotland median daily rate £240 £160 £500
% change year-on-year +50.00% -68.00% +17.65%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 101 121 162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 11.68% 10.28% 8.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 80 102
10th Percentile £179 £163 £316
25th Percentile £212 £291 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £328 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -30.92% -5.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £556 £531 £575
90th Percentile £637 £573 £639
Scotland median daily rate £423 £450 £466
% change year-on-year -6.11% -3.49% +9.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 1 4
10th Percentile £12.63 - £26.41
25th Percentile £15.56 - £39.16
Median hourly rate £18.14 £21.26 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.70% -55.24% -5.00%
75th Percentile £34.69 - £50.14
90th Percentile £60.75 - £52.64
Scotland median hourly rate £18.27 £10.63 £49.14
% change year-on-year +71.87% -78.37% +176.82%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for VPN in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VPN in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VPN in Edinburgh

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for VPN in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Applications
1 19 (79.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.50%) OCI
1 3 (12.50%) PaaS
1 3 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (79.17%) DHCP
1 19 (79.17%) DNS
2 3 (12.50%) IPsec
3 2 (8.33%) FabricPath
3 2 (8.33%) Firewall
3 2 (8.33%) LAN
3 2 (8.33%) NX-OS
3 2 (8.33%) TCP/IP
General
1 5 (20.83%) Public Sector
2 2 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (50.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 9 (37.50%) Desktop Support
3 7 (29.17%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
4 6 (25.00%) Network Engineer
4 6 (25.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Administrator
5 3 (12.50%) Cloud Administrator
6 2 (8.33%) Cisco Consultant
6 2 (8.33%) Consultant
6 2 (8.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Support Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) Oracle Fusion
Operating Systems
1 19 (79.17%) Windows
1 19 (79.17%) Windows 10
2 15 (62.50%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (70.83%) Break/Fix
1 17 (70.83%) Service Delivery
2 15 (62.50%) ITIL
3 9 (37.50%) Customer Service
4 5 (20.83%) Migration
5 3 (12.50%) Analytics
5 3 (12.50%) Change Advisory Board
5 3 (12.50%) Data Migration
5 3 (12.50%) ERP
6 2 (8.33%) Agile
6 2 (8.33%) Capacity Management
6 2 (8.33%) Decision-Making
6 2 (8.33%) Kanban
6 2 (8.33%) Performance Metrics
6 2 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (8.33%) Time Management
Qualifications
1 19 (79.17%) SC Cleared
1 19 (79.17%) Security Cleared
2 15 (62.50%) A+ Certification
3 2 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 19 (79.17%) Active Directory
2 3 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (8.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 19 (79.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 21 (87.50%) Cisco
2 19 (79.17%) Microsoft
3 3 (12.50%) Okta
3 3 (12.50%) Oracle
4 2 (8.33%) VMware