VPN Contracts in Scotland

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 131 146
Rank change year-on-year +34 +15 -3
Contract jobs citing VPN 28 29 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.30% 1.07% 0.62%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.76% 8.19% 7.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 23 14
10th Percentile £200 - £157
25th Percentile £213 - £221
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £240 £160 £463
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -65.41% +15.63%
75th Percentile £438 £538 £548
90th Percentile £558 £550 £575
UK median daily rate £430 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -4.44% -5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.00
Median hourly rate - £13.16 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - -40.18% -
75th Percentile - - £23.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £16.56 £21.61 £20.51
% change year-on-year -23.39% +5.36% +13.94%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 238 354 290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 11.06% 13.10% 8.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 220 186
10th Percentile £182 £160 £208
25th Percentile £240 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £459 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% +1.89% +5.88%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £538
90th Percentile £638 £600 £638
UK median daily rate £490 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -5.68% +3.90% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 22 17
10th Percentile £13.13 - £21.00
25th Percentile £16.25 £10.63 £41.75
Median hourly rate £18.27 £11.90 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.59% -74.96% -24.60%
75th Percentile £60.00 £44.55 £56.00
90th Percentile £60.75 £59.00 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.41
% change year-on-year +116.22% -34.88% +7.21%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for VPN in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VPN in Scotland over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VPN in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for VPN in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 16 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
Edinburgh +39 19 £240 -27.55% 7
Glasgow +9 4 £555 +60.87%
Renfrewshire +3 4 - -
West Lothian - 1 - - 2
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 14 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.86%) Azure
2 4 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 3 (10.71%) OCI
3 3 (10.71%) PaaS
3 3 (10.71%) SaaS
4 2 (7.14%) Catchpoint
Communications & Networking
1 20 (71.43%) DNS
2 18 (64.29%) DHCP
3 10 (35.71%) Firewall
4 4 (14.29%) IPsec
4 4 (14.29%) SMTP
5 3 (10.71%) LAN
6 2 (7.14%) BGP
6 2 (7.14%) FabricPath
6 2 (7.14%) IPv6
6 2 (7.14%) MPLS
6 2 (7.14%) NX-OS
6 2 (7.14%) SSL
6 2 (7.14%) TCP/IP
6 2 (7.14%) WAN
7 1 (3.57%) 5G
7 1 (3.57%) EIGRP
7 1 (3.57%) Network Security
7 1 (3.57%) OSPF
7 1 (3.57%) SD-WAN
7 1 (3.57%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Git
General
1 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (21.43%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) Desktop Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) Desktop Support
2 6 (21.43%) Network Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
4 4 (14.29%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Administrator
5 3 (10.71%) Cloud Administrator
6 2 (7.14%) Cisco Consultant
6 2 (7.14%) Consultant
6 2 (7.14%) Firewall Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Support Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) VMware Consultant
7 1 (3.57%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Senior
7 1 (3.57%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) LDAP
2 3 (10.71%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (3.57%) JSON
3 1 (3.57%) NETCONF
3 1 (3.57%) XML
3 1 (3.57%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Clustering
1 4 (14.29%) PKI
2 2 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 19 (67.86%) Windows
2 14 (50.00%) Windows 10
3 11 (39.29%) Windows 7
4 4 (14.29%) Windows Server
5 2 (7.14%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (3.57%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (42.86%) Break/Fix
1 12 (42.86%) Service Delivery
2 11 (39.29%) ITIL
3 6 (21.43%) Customer Service
3 6 (21.43%) Migration
4 5 (17.86%) Agile
5 4 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
5 4 (14.29%) High Availability
5 4 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
5 4 (14.29%) Project Delivery
6 3 (10.71%) Analytics
6 3 (10.71%) Change Advisory Board
6 3 (10.71%) Data Migration
6 3 (10.71%) ERP
6 3 (10.71%) Network Monitoring
6 3 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (7.14%) BCP
7 2 (7.14%) Capacity Management
7 2 (7.14%) Kanban
7 2 (7.14%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 18 (64.29%) SC Cleared
1 18 (64.29%) Security Cleared
2 11 (39.29%) A+ Certification
3 4 (14.29%) DV Cleared
4 3 (10.71%) CCNP
4 3 (10.71%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (7.14%) CCIE
5 2 (7.14%) Degree
6 1 (3.57%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 18 (64.29%) Active Directory
2 4 (14.29%) BitLocker
2 4 (14.29%) Hyper-V
2 4 (14.29%) Microsoft App-V
2 4 (14.29%) Terminal Services
2 4 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (10.71%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (7.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (50.00%) SCCM
2 4 (14.29%) vCenter Server
2 4 (14.29%) vMotion
3 2 (7.14%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 18 (64.29%) Cisco
1 18 (64.29%) Microsoft
2 6 (21.43%) VMware
3 4 (14.29%) Citrix
3 4 (14.29%) Infoblox
4 3 (10.71%) Okta
4 3 (10.71%) Oracle
4 3 (10.71%) Palo Alto
5 2 (7.14%) AppNeta
5 2 (7.14%) Arista
5 2 (7.14%) Tufin
6 1 (3.57%) Apple
6 1 (3.57%) F5
6 1 (3.57%) Fortinet
6 1 (3.57%) Nokia