VPN Contracts in Scotland

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring VPN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VPN over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 83 127 153
Rank change year-on-year +44 +26 -12
Contract jobs citing VPN 32 37 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.49% 1.38% 0.67%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.55% 10.28% 7.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 31 15
10th Percentile £200 - £157
25th Percentile £206 £160 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £240 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -49.47% -5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £438 £550 £563
90th Percentile £558 - £575
UK median daily rate £425 £488 £493
% change year-on-year -12.82% -1.02% +15.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.00
Median hourly rate - £13.16 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - -40.18% -2.22%
75th Percentile - - £41.50
90th Percentile - - £52.60
UK median hourly rate £16.86 £21.22 £20.00
% change year-on-year -20.55% +6.10% +2.56%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

VPN falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 220 360 304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 10.27% 13.47% 8.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 221 200
10th Percentile £179 £160 £224
25th Percentile £229 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £460 £470
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% +10.59%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £538
90th Percentile £633 £575 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 20 19
10th Percentile £12.88 - £20.80
25th Percentile £15.88 - £41.75
Median hourly rate £18.14 £10.63 £50.77
Median % change year-on-year +70.60% -79.06% +40.06%
75th Percentile £29.56 £38.18 £56.00
90th Percentile £60.75 £59.18 £57.75
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +110.53% -26.92% +4.00%

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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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +37 23 £240 -52.00% 7
Glasgow +12 5 £555 +2.64% 3
Renfrewshire +1 3 - -
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UK

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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 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 19 (59.38%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.50%) Azure
2 3 (9.38%) Entra ID
3 2 (6.25%) Catchpoint
Communications & Networking
1 24 (75.00%) DNS
2 22 (68.75%) DHCP
3 12 (37.50%) Firewall
4 6 (18.75%) LAN
5 4 (12.50%) IPsec
5 4 (12.50%) Network Security
5 4 (12.50%) SD-WAN
5 4 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (9.38%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (9.38%) SMTP
6 3 (9.38%) Unified Communications
6 3 (9.38%) WAN
7 2 (6.25%) FabricPath
7 2 (6.25%) IPv6
7 2 (6.25%) NX-OS
7 2 (6.25%) SSL
7 2 (6.25%) TCP/IP
8 1 (3.13%) BGP
8 1 (3.13%) MPLS
8 1 (3.13%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) Amazon RDS
General
1 6 (18.75%) Public Sector
1 6 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (37.50%) Desktop Engineer
2 10 (31.25%) Network Engineer
3 9 (28.13%) Desktop Support
4 7 (21.88%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
5 6 (18.75%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Support Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Cisco Consultant
7 2 (6.25%) Consultant
7 2 (6.25%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Field Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Firewall Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Network Field Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) VMware Consultant
8 1 (3.13%) Architect
8 1 (3.13%) Lead
8 1 (3.13%) Lead Architect
8 1 (3.13%) Senior
8 1 (3.13%) Senior Network Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Technical Architect
8 1 (3.13%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) Clustering
1 3 (9.38%) Data Centre
1 3 (9.38%) PKI
2 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.13%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (78.13%) Windows
2 19 (59.38%) Windows 10
3 15 (46.88%) Windows 7
4 4 (12.50%) Windows Server
5 1 (3.13%) Android
5 1 (3.13%) Apple iOS
5 1 (3.13%) Linux
5 1 (3.13%) Mac OS
5 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (53.13%) Break/Fix
1 17 (53.13%) Service Delivery
2 15 (46.88%) ITIL
3 9 (28.13%) Customer Service
4 6 (18.75%) Agile
4 6 (18.75%) High Availability
4 6 (18.75%) Network Monitoring
5 4 (12.50%) Roadmaps
6 3 (9.38%) Customer Requirements
6 3 (9.38%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (9.38%) Load Balancing
6 3 (9.38%) Project Delivery
7 2 (6.25%) BCP
7 2 (6.25%) Capacity Management
7 2 (6.25%) Compliance Management
7 2 (6.25%) Decision-Making
7 2 (6.25%) Kanban
7 2 (6.25%) Migration
7 2 (6.25%) Performance Metrics
7 2 (6.25%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 23 (71.88%) SC Cleared
1 23 (71.88%) Security Cleared
2 15 (46.88%) A+ Certification
3 4 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (9.38%) CCNP
4 3 (9.38%) DV Cleared
5 2 (6.25%) CCIE
5 2 (6.25%) CCNA
5 2 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 22 (68.75%) Active Directory
2 3 (9.38%) BitLocker
2 3 (9.38%) Hyper-V
2 3 (9.38%) Microsoft App-V
2 3 (9.38%) Terminal Services
2 3 (9.38%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (6.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 19 (59.38%) SCCM
2 3 (9.38%) vCenter Server
2 3 (9.38%) vMotion
3 1 (3.13%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 25 (78.13%) Cisco
2 22 (68.75%) Microsoft
3 6 (18.75%) Palo Alto
4 5 (15.63%) VMware
5 3 (9.38%) Citrix
5 3 (9.38%) F5
5 3 (9.38%) Infoblox
6 2 (6.25%) AppNeta
6 2 (6.25%) Arista
6 2 (6.25%) Tufin
7 1 (3.13%) Apple
7 1 (3.13%) Fortinet