VPN Contracts in the South East

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 127 141
Rank change year-on-year +40 +14 -45
Contract jobs citing VPN 121 91 121
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.19% 1.61% 1.58%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.98% 9.87% 9.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 53 84
10th Percentile £184 £188 £165
25th Percentile £263 £313 £209
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £500 £415
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +20.48% -2.35%
75th Percentile £538 £560 £582
90th Percentile £589 £688 £684
England median daily rate £430 £463 £450
% change year-on-year -7.03% +2.78% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 2
10th Percentile - £18.77 £17.05
25th Percentile £18.00 £19.18 £18.46
Median hourly rate £20.75 £20.11 £21.06
Median % change year-on-year +3.18% -4.49% -6.42%
75th Percentile £22.54 £20.79 £23.90
90th Percentile £23.23 £21.05 £25.46
England median hourly rate £16.86 £21.22 £22.00
% change year-on-year -20.55% -3.55% +15.79%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,213 922 1,241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 21.98% 16.30% 16.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 601 551 758
10th Percentile £205 £241 £190
25th Percentile £363 £363 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £481 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% +6.79% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £560
90th Percentile £638 £700 £657
England median daily rate £498 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.24% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 73 73
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £27.50 £42.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £57.35 £52.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.24% +144.19% -37.68%
75th Percentile £64.69 £67.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £85.65 £80.25 £60.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £23.91
% change year-on-year +116.22% -22.63% -4.36%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing VPN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for VPN in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VPN in the South East.

Daily rate trend for VPN in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VPN in the South East over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VPN in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VPN in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for VPN in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the South East region over the 6 months to 11 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
Thames Valley +1 60 £450 -10.00% 17
Hampshire +33 49 £511 +127.22% 9
Berkshire -10 41 £475 -7.77% 8
Surrey +30 23 £200 -46.67% 3
Buckinghamshire +17 14 £363 -27.50% 6
Kent +7 7 £205 -36.92% 5
Oxfordshire +9 5 £400 - 3
West Sussex +6 1 £500 +166.67% 3
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 10 (8.26%) Apache
1 10 (8.26%) Apache Airflow
1 10 (8.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (3.31%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.65%) Confluence
4 1 (0.83%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 13 (10.74%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (9.92%) AWS
1 12 (9.92%) Azure
1 12 (9.92%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (6.61%) IaaS
2 8 (6.61%) PaaS
3 6 (4.96%) SaaS
4 4 (3.31%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (2.48%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (2.48%) Azure API Management
5 3 (2.48%) Azure Event Grid
5 3 (2.48%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (2.48%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (2.48%) Entra ID
5 3 (2.48%) OneDrive
6 2 (1.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (1.65%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.65%) Cloudflare
6 2 (1.65%) GCP
6 2 (1.65%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.83%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 54 (44.63%) Firewall
2 46 (38.02%) WAN
3 36 (29.75%) LAN
4 29 (23.97%) Wi-Fi
5 22 (18.18%) BGP
6 20 (16.53%) MPLS
7 18 (14.88%) Wireless
8 17 (14.05%) VLAN
9 16 (13.22%) Cisco Nexus
9 16 (13.22%) DNS
9 16 (13.22%) Network Security
10 13 (10.74%) Cisco ASA
10 13 (10.74%) TCP/IP
11 11 (9.09%) Cisco ISE
11 11 (9.09%) Radio Access Network
12 10 (8.26%) DMZ
12 10 (8.26%) Ethernet VPN
13 9 (7.44%) DHCP
14 8 (6.61%) OSPF
15 7 (5.79%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.26%) MongoDB
1 10 (8.26%) NoSQL
1 10 (8.26%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.65%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (1.65%) MySQL
2 2 (1.65%) RDBMS
2 2 (1.65%) Relational Database
2 2 (1.65%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (10.74%) JIRA
2 10 (8.26%) GitLab
2 10 (8.26%) Robot Framework
2 10 (8.26%) TestRail
3 3 (2.48%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.83%) Git
4 1 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 24 (19.83%) Social Skills
2 12 (9.92%) Finance
3 10 (8.26%) Banking
3 10 (8.26%) Investment Banking
4 9 (7.44%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.79%) Telecoms
6 5 (4.13%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.65%) Advertising
8 2 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.65%) Electronics
8 2 (1.65%) Law
8 2 (1.65%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.65%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 45 (37.19%) Network Engineer
2 22 (18.18%) Architect
3 21 (17.36%) Network Architect
4 12 (9.92%) Cisco Engineer
4 12 (9.92%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 10 (8.26%) Blue Coat Engineer
5 10 (8.26%) Juniper Engineer
6 9 (7.44%) Support Engineer
6 9 (7.44%) Test Engineer
7 8 (6.61%) Network Support
8 7 (5.79%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 7 (5.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (5.79%) IT Support
8 7 (5.79%) Network Specialist
9 5 (4.13%) Analyst
9 5 (4.13%) Consultant
9 5 (4.13%) Desktop Support
9 5 (4.13%) Lead
9 5 (4.13%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 5 (4.13%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.26%) NETCONF
1 10 (8.26%) REST
1 10 (8.26%) RESTCONF
1 10 (8.26%) SOAP
1 10 (8.26%) YANG
2 3 (2.48%) .NET
2 3 (2.48%) 802.1X
2 3 (2.48%) Web Services
2 3 (2.48%) XMPP
3 2 (1.65%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.83%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.83%) JSON
4 1 (0.83%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.44%) Data Centre
2 8 (6.61%) Public Cloud
3 6 (4.96%) Video Conferencing
4 3 (2.48%) PKI
5 2 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.65%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.65%) NHS
5 2 (1.65%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.83%) CSOC
6 1 (0.83%) IoT
6 1 (0.83%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 29 (23.97%) Windows
2 10 (8.26%) Linux
2 10 (8.26%) Windows 10
3 7 (5.79%) Windows 7
3 7 (5.79%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.31%) Unix
5 2 (1.65%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.83%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (21.49%) Project Delivery
1 26 (21.49%) Project Management
2 19 (15.70%) High Availability
3 15 (12.40%) ITSM
4 12 (9.92%) Agile
4 12 (9.92%) Change Control
4 12 (9.92%) Migration
5 11 (9.09%) CI/CD
5 11 (9.09%) Containerisation
6 10 (8.26%) Architectural Patterns
6 10 (8.26%) Design Patterns
6 10 (8.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 10 (8.26%) Integration Testing
6 10 (8.26%) Performance Testing
6 10 (8.26%) Regression Testing
6 10 (8.26%) Scrum
6 10 (8.26%) Security Testing
6 10 (8.26%) Test Automation
6 10 (8.26%) Unit Testing
6 10 (8.26%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 17 (14.05%) Python
2 12 (9.92%) SQL
3 6 (4.96%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.48%) C#
4 3 (2.48%) Java
4 3 (2.48%) PHP
4 3 (2.48%) Ruby
5 1 (0.83%) C
Qualifications
1 46 (38.02%) Security Cleared
2 29 (23.97%) Cisco Certification
3 22 (18.18%) SC Cleared
4 20 (16.53%) CCNP
5 14 (11.57%) CCNA
6 11 (9.09%) Degree
7 8 (6.61%) DV Cleared
7 8 (6.61%) JNCIA
8 5 (4.13%) CCSA
8 5 (4.13%) MCSE
8 5 (4.13%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (3.31%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (3.31%) CCIE
9 4 (3.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (2.48%) Azure Certification
10 3 (2.48%) JNCIS
11 2 (1.65%) BC Cleared
11 2 (1.65%) CCDP
11 2 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
12 1 (0.83%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.92%) SLA
2 4 (3.31%) QA
3 2 (1.65%) GDPR
3 2 (1.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.83%) NIST
System Software
1 20 (16.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (12.40%) Active Directory
3 14 (11.57%) Docker
4 4 (3.31%) Firmware
4 4 (3.31%) Hyper-V
4 4 (3.31%) VMware NSX
4 4 (3.31%) vSphere
5 3 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.65%) BitLocker
6 2 (1.65%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.83%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 9 (7.44%) SCCM
2 6 (4.96%) Terraform
3 5 (4.13%) Ansible
4 4 (3.31%) Kubernetes
5 3 (2.48%) AppManager
5 3 (2.48%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.65%) FortiGate
6 2 (1.65%) Grafana
6 2 (1.65%) Graylog
6 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.65%) Nagios
6 2 (1.65%) Netcool
6 2 (1.65%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.65%) Rundeck
6 2 (1.65%) WSUS
Vendors
1 63 (52.07%) Cisco
2 49 (40.50%) Juniper
3 28 (23.14%) Microsoft
4 22 (18.18%) VMware
5 21 (17.36%) CheckPoint
6 16 (13.22%) Blue Coat
7 15 (12.40%) Fortinet
8 14 (11.57%) F5
8 14 (11.57%) Palo Alto
9 7 (5.79%) Citrix
10 5 (4.13%) HP
10 5 (4.13%) Meraki
10 5 (4.13%) SolarWinds
11 4 (3.31%) Apple
12 3 (2.48%) Ivanti
12 3 (2.48%) Nokia
13 2 (1.65%) Aruba
13 2 (1.65%) Dynatrace
13 2 (1.65%) Google
13 2 (1.65%) Infoblox