VPN Contracts in Basingstoke

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Hampshire > Basingstoke

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Basingstoke 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 46 36
Rank change year-on-year +30 -10 +6
Contract jobs citing VPN 11 7 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Basingstoke 8.15% 1.64% 0.91%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 19.64% 4.12% 5.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 1
10th Percentile £525 £266 -
25th Percentile £563 £271 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £287 £550
Median % change year-on-year +100.70% -47.91% -12.00%
75th Percentile £600 £295 £575
90th Percentile - £297 -
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £488 £225
% change year-on-year +7.69% +116.67% -58.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Basingstoke

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 Basingstoke.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 56 170 40
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke 41.48% 39.72% 18.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 63 22
10th Percentile £456 - £228
25th Percentile £500 £425 £265
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +15.00% +0.72%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £584
90th Percentile £638 - £650
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £538 £500
% change year-on-year +2.33% +7.50% +1.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - - £18.33
25th Percentile - £27.50 £22.56
Median hourly rate - £38.75 £29.88
Median % change year-on-year - +29.71% -8.08%
75th Percentile - £48.75 £36.94
90th Percentile - - £41.03
Hampshire median hourly rate £59.13 £57.35 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.10% -4.42% +166.67%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Basingstoke

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in Basingstoke

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Basingstoke

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

Daily rate trend for VPN in Basingstoke

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Basingstoke

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

Hourly rate trend for VPN in Basingstoke

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Basingstoke 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 11 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (27.27%) Exchange Server 2003
2 3 (27.27%) Exchange Server 2007
2 3 (27.27%) Exchange Server 2010
2 3 (27.27%) Exchange Server 2013
2 3 (27.27%) Office Communications Server
2 3 (27.27%) SharePoint
2 3 (27.27%) SharePoint Server
2 3 (27.27%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) AWS
1 8 (72.73%) GCP
1 8 (72.73%) IaaS
1 8 (72.73%) OpenShift
1 8 (72.73%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (100.00%) DHCP
1 11 (100.00%) DNS
2 8 (72.73%) Firewall
2 8 (72.73%) SMTP
3 3 (27.27%) DDNS
3 3 (27.27%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (72.73%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (72.73%) Big Data
1 8 (72.73%) Elasticsearch
General
1 8 (72.73%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (100.00%) Support Engineer
2 10 (90.91%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 10 (90.91%) 3rd Line Support
2 10 (90.91%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 7 (63.64%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (63.64%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
3 7 (63.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (63.64%) Infrastructure Support
3 7 (63.64%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 3 (27.27%) Exchange Engineer
4 3 (27.27%) Exchange Support
5 1 (9.09%) Virtualisation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (72.73%) Clustering
1 8 (72.73%) Data Centre
1 8 (72.73%) PKI
2 3 (27.27%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Windows
2 8 (72.73%) Linux
2 8 (72.73%) Windows Server
3 6 (54.55%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Artificial Intelligence
1 8 (72.73%) DevOps
1 8 (72.73%) Machine Learning
1 8 (72.73%) Software Deployment
2 7 (63.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (27.27%) Architectural Design
3 3 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (27.27%) Content Management
3 3 (27.27%) Enterprise Content Management
3 3 (27.27%) Enterprise Search
3 3 (27.27%) High Availability
3 3 (27.27%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (90.91%) DV Cleared
3 8 (72.73%) Degree
System Software
1 11 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (72.73%) BitLocker
2 8 (72.73%) Docker
2 8 (72.73%) Hyper-V
2 8 (72.73%) Microsoft App-V
2 8 (72.73%) Terminal Services
2 8 (72.73%) VMware ESXi
2 8 (72.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (27.27%) Brightmail
3 3 (27.27%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) Ansible
1 8 (72.73%) Kubernetes
1 8 (72.73%) Nagios
1 8 (72.73%) Puppet
1 8 (72.73%) vCenter Server
1 8 (72.73%) vMotion
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (72.73%) Citrix
2 8 (72.73%) Google
2 8 (72.73%) HP
2 8 (72.73%) Symantec
2 8 (72.73%) VMware