VPN Contracts in Reading

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 83 56 77
Rank change year-on-year -27 +21 -32
Contract jobs citing VPN 17 32 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.44% 3.05% 1.37%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.33% 16.67% 7.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 14 10
10th Percentile £264 £480 £354
25th Percentile £359 £525 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £675 £405
Median % change year-on-year -29.63% +66.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £595 £700 £554
90th Percentile £699 £718 £644
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £581 £402
% change year-on-year -22.58% +44.50% +14.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £25.50
Median hourly rate - - £26.00
75th Percentile - - £26.50
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year - -26.92% +22.35%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 232 192 244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 19.63% 18.32% 17.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 100 123
10th Percentile £205 £325 £263
25th Percentile £350 £424 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £563 £463
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% +21.62% +22.52%
75th Percentile £608 £675 £581
90th Percentile - £728 £650
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £494 £466
% change year-on-year +1.21% +5.97% +24.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 5 1
10th Percentile £79.07 - -
25th Percentile - £66.00 £25.50
Median hourly rate £87.46 £75.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.61% +188.46% -44.83%
75th Percentile £87.53 £76.99 £26.50
90th Percentile - £79.62 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £83.77 £72.84 £17.00
% change year-on-year +15.01% +328.44% -47.69%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for VPN in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VPN in Reading over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VPN in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for VPN in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 7 (41.18%) Apache
1 7 (41.18%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) Azure
2 3 (17.65%) AWS
3 2 (11.76%) GCP
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) Cloudflare
4 1 (5.88%) IaaS
4 1 (5.88%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (76.47%) MPLS
2 11 (64.71%) BGP
3 7 (41.18%) Ethernet VPN
3 7 (41.18%) Radio Access Network
4 6 (35.29%) Firewall
5 5 (29.41%) WAN
6 4 (23.53%) EIGRP
7 3 (17.65%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (17.65%) IPsec
7 3 (17.65%) Network Security
7 3 (17.65%) OSPF
7 3 (17.65%) SD-WAN
7 3 (17.65%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (11.76%) Cisco Firepower
8 2 (11.76%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (11.76%) DMVPN
8 2 (11.76%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 2 (11.76%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 2 (11.76%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (11.76%) Sourcefire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (41.18%) MongoDB
1 7 (41.18%) NoSQL
1 7 (41.18%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (5.88%) MySQL
2 1 (5.88%) RDBMS
2 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (52.94%) JIRA
2 7 (41.18%) GitLab
2 7 (41.18%) Robot Framework
2 7 (41.18%) TestRail
3 1 (5.88%) Git
3 1 (5.88%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Network Engineer
2 6 (35.29%) Test Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Consultant
4 2 (11.76%) Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Desktop Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Desktop Support
4 2 (11.76%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Network Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Network Consultant
4 2 (11.76%) Network Security Consultant
4 2 (11.76%) Security Consultant
4 2 (11.76%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Cisco Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) DBA
5 1 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Field Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) NETCONF
1 7 (41.18%) REST
1 7 (41.18%) RESTCONF
1 7 (41.18%) SOAP
1 7 (41.18%) YANG
2 1 (5.88%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.88%) JSON
2 1 (5.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (11.76%) Onboarding
1 2 (11.76%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Windows
2 2 (11.76%) Mac OS
3 1 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Agile
2 9 (52.94%) Scrum
3 8 (47.06%) CI/CD
4 7 (41.18%) Containerisation
4 7 (41.18%) Integration Testing
4 7 (41.18%) Performance Testing
4 7 (41.18%) Regression Testing
4 7 (41.18%) Security Testing
4 7 (41.18%) Test Automation
4 7 (41.18%) Unit Testing
4 7 (41.18%) Workflow
5 3 (17.65%) Migration
6 2 (11.76%) Configuration Management
6 2 (11.76%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (11.76%) ITIL
6 2 (11.76%) Network Architecture
6 2 (11.76%) Requirements Analysis
6 2 (11.76%) Service Design
6 2 (11.76%) User Stories
6 2 (11.76%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) SQL
2 7 (41.18%) Python
3 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (17.65%) CCIE
2 3 (17.65%) CCNA
2 3 (17.65%) CCNP
3 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Terraform
2 1 (5.88%) Ansible
2 1 (5.88%) Grafana
2 1 (5.88%) Graylog
2 1 (5.88%) Nagios
2 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Cisco
2 3 (17.65%) Aruba
2 3 (17.65%) CheckPoint
2 3 (17.65%) Fortinet
2 3 (17.65%) Palo Alto
2 3 (17.65%) Zscaler
3 2 (11.76%) Apple
3 2 (11.76%) Blue Coat
3 2 (11.76%) F5
3 2 (11.76%) Juniper
3 2 (11.76%) McAfee
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.88%) Splunk