VPN Contracts with Work from Home Options

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 172 207 281
Rank change year-on-year +35 +74 -43
Contract jobs citing VPN 187 300 412
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.24% 1.19% 0.93%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.98% 10.36% 9.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 199 286
10th Percentile £210 £227 £250
25th Percentile £316 £385 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% +1.01% +15.79%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £585
90th Percentile £734 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £440 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -2.33% -5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 2 12
10th Percentile £12.75 £21.79 £21.68
25th Percentile £14.27 £26.72 £25.50
Median hourly rate £18.00 £37.16 £36.75
Median % change year-on-year -51.56% +1.12% +93.42%
75th Percentile £23.75 £49.33 £55.00
90th Percentile £44.01 £55.30 £60.70
UK median hourly rate £16.93 £21.61 £22.00
% change year-on-year -21.66% -1.77% +22.22%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,561 2,895 4,322
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.34% 11.52% 9.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,015 1,922 2,924
10th Percentile £300 £350 £313
25th Percentile £411 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £495 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -4.44% +3.60% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 95 104
10th Percentile £12.75 £23.30 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.27 £42.50 £26.06
Median hourly rate £24.50 £60.00 £49.29
Median % change year-on-year -59.17% +21.73% +13.97%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.63 £63.25
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.88 £28.25
% change year-on-year +111.92% -33.19% +6.60%

VPN
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing VPN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

VPN trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing VPN.

VPN daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing VPN over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

VPN daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing VPN.

VPN hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing VPN over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

VPN hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 15 (8.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.74%) Confluence
3 6 (3.21%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.07%) nginx
5 1 (0.53%) WebSphere
Applications
1 19 (10.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.07%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 45 (24.06%) Azure
2 34 (18.18%) AWS
3 25 (13.37%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (8.02%) Entra ID
5 12 (6.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 11 (5.88%) IaaS
6 11 (5.88%) PaaS
7 6 (3.21%) GCP
8 5 (2.67%) CloudFront
8 5 (2.67%) GitHub
9 4 (2.14%) Asana
9 4 (2.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 4 (2.14%) Slack
10 3 (1.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (1.60%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.60%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.60%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.60%) OneDrive
10 3 (1.60%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 94 (50.27%) Firewall
2 40 (21.39%) Network Security
3 38 (20.32%) DNS
4 32 (17.11%) WAN
5 30 (16.04%) LAN
6 24 (12.83%) BGP
7 23 (12.30%) TCP/IP
8 22 (11.76%) OSPF
9 20 (10.70%) IPsec
10 19 (10.16%) Wireless
11 17 (9.09%) MPLS
12 14 (7.49%) Cisco ASA
12 14 (7.49%) DHCP
13 13 (6.95%) SSL
14 11 (5.88%) 5G
14 11 (5.88%) VLAN
15 10 (5.35%) 4G
15 10 (5.35%) SD-WAN
15 10 (5.35%) WLAN
16 9 (4.81%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.67%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.60%) Amazon QuickSight
3 3 (1.60%) MariaDB
3 3 (1.60%) MySQL
3 3 (1.60%) RDBMS
3 3 (1.60%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.60%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.53%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 11 (5.88%) JIRA
2 6 (3.21%) Git
3 4 (2.14%) GitLab
4 3 (1.60%) Cypress.io
4 3 (1.60%) Snyk
5 2 (1.07%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (1.07%) CircleCI
5 2 (1.07%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.07%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.07%) Travis CI
5 2 (1.07%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.53%) MSI
6 1 (0.53%) Postman
6 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio
General
1 46 (24.60%) Social Skills
2 29 (15.51%) Finance
3 28 (14.97%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (7.49%) Public Sector
4 14 (7.49%) Telecoms
5 9 (4.81%) Retail
6 6 (3.21%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.67%) Banking
8 4 (2.14%) Electronics
8 4 (2.14%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.14%) Marketing
8 4 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.60%) Automotive
9 3 (1.60%) Legal
9 3 (1.60%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.07%) German Language
11 1 (0.53%) Advertising
11 1 (0.53%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 38 (20.32%) Network Engineer
2 23 (12.30%) Architect
3 19 (10.16%) Senior
4 18 (9.63%) Support Engineer
5 13 (6.95%) Analyst
6 12 (6.42%) IT Engineer
7 11 (5.88%) Lead
7 11 (5.88%) Security Engineer
7 11 (5.88%) Technical Architect
8 9 (4.81%) Network Architect
9 8 (4.28%) Consultant
9 8 (4.28%) DevOps Engineer
9 8 (4.28%) IT Support
9 8 (4.28%) Network Specialist
10 7 (3.74%) 2nd Line Support
10 7 (3.74%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (3.74%) Developer
10 7 (3.74%) Full Stack Engineer
10 7 (3.74%) Java Engineer
11 6 (3.21%) 2nd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.35%) CSS
1 10 (5.35%) HTML
1 10 (5.35%) React
2 8 (4.28%) Node.js
3 6 (3.21%) JSON
3 6 (3.21%) OAuth
3 6 (3.21%) OAuth2
3 6 (3.21%) SAML
4 5 (2.67%) .NET
4 5 (2.67%) YAML
5 4 (2.14%) Web Services
5 4 (2.14%) XML
6 3 (1.60%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.60%) GraphQL
6 3 (1.60%) Kafka
6 3 (1.60%) LDAP
7 2 (1.07%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.07%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.07%) Oracle Fusion
8 1 (0.53%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.02%) Public Cloud
2 14 (7.49%) Data Centre
3 8 (4.28%) Video Conferencing
4 6 (3.21%) PKI
5 5 (2.67%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.67%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.14%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (2.14%) NHS
7 3 (1.60%) IoT
8 2 (1.07%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.07%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.07%) iPad
8 2 (1.07%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.07%) Shadow IT
9 1 (0.53%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Licensing
9 1 (0.53%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 70 (37.43%) Windows
2 23 (12.30%) Windows Server
3 19 (10.16%) Windows 7
4 16 (8.56%) Linux
5 14 (7.49%) Windows 10
6 9 (4.81%) Apple iOS
7 8 (4.28%) Android
8 3 (1.60%) Mac OS
8 3 (1.60%) Windows XP
9 2 (1.07%) Mac OS X
9 2 (1.07%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.53%) CentOS
10 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.53%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (17.65%) Agile
1 33 (17.65%) CI/CD
2 32 (17.11%) DevOps
3 31 (16.58%) Problem-Solving
4 28 (14.97%) Migration
5 22 (11.76%) Load Balancing
6 17 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
7 16 (8.56%) Zero Trust
8 14 (7.49%) Customer Service
8 14 (7.49%) Information Security
8 14 (7.49%) Infrastructure as Code
8 14 (7.49%) Network Design
9 13 (6.95%) Cloud Security
9 13 (6.95%) Full Stack Development
9 13 (6.95%) Risk Management
9 13 (6.95%) Security Architecture
10 12 (6.42%) Change Management
11 11 (5.88%) Network Virtualisation
11 11 (5.88%) Project Management
11 11 (5.88%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 15 (8.02%) Java
2 11 (5.88%) PowerShell
3 10 (5.35%) Python
3 10 (5.35%) TypeScript
4 8 (4.28%) SQL
5 4 (2.14%) Bash
5 4 (2.14%) PHP
6 3 (1.60%) Go
7 2 (1.07%) C#
8 1 (0.53%) Bicep
8 1 (0.53%) C++
8 1 (0.53%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.53%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 40 (21.39%) Security Cleared
2 34 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
3 28 (14.97%) CCNP
4 24 (12.83%) SC Cleared
5 16 (8.56%) CCNA
6 15 (8.02%) Degree
7 9 (4.81%) AWS Certification
7 9 (4.81%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (3.74%) CCIE
9 6 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (2.67%) JNCIA
10 5 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (2.14%) APMP
11 4 (2.14%) BC Cleared
11 4 (2.14%) CEH
11 4 (2.14%) CISM
11 4 (2.14%) CISSP
11 4 (2.14%) PMP
12 3 (1.60%) CCDP
12 3 (1.60%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.02%) SLA
2 12 (6.42%) QA
3 4 (2.14%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.53%) HIPAA
System Software
1 36 (19.25%) Active Directory
2 14 (7.49%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (5.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (4.81%) Docker
5 5 (2.67%) Terminal Services
5 5 (2.67%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (2.14%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.60%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.60%) vSphere
8 2 (1.07%) Squid
8 2 (1.07%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.53%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.53%) Firmware
9 1 (0.53%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 17 (9.09%) Terraform
2 11 (5.88%) Ansible
3 10 (5.35%) FortiGate
3 10 (5.35%) Kubernetes
4 8 (4.28%) Grafana
5 7 (3.74%) SCCM
6 6 (3.21%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.60%) Nagios
7 3 (1.60%) Puppet
7 3 (1.60%) TrustSec
8 2 (1.07%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (1.07%) HAProxy
8 2 (1.07%) Kibana
8 2 (1.07%) logstash
8 2 (1.07%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.53%) Graylog
9 1 (0.53%) Nessus
9 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.53%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 62 (33.16%) Cisco
2 52 (27.81%) Microsoft
3 29 (15.51%) Palo Alto
4 26 (13.90%) Juniper
5 14 (7.49%) VMware
6 13 (6.95%) F5
7 12 (6.42%) Citrix
8 10 (5.35%) Fortinet
8 10 (5.35%) Zscaler
9 6 (3.21%) Splunk
10 5 (2.67%) CheckPoint
10 5 (2.67%) Computacenter
10 5 (2.67%) Oracle
10 5 (2.67%) SolarWinds
11 4 (2.14%) Blue Coat
11 4 (2.14%) HP
11 4 (2.14%) Nokia
11 4 (2.14%) SAP
12 3 (1.60%) Alcatel-Lucent
12 3 (1.60%) Okta