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 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 47 31
Rank change year-on-year +28 -16 +9
DemandTrendContract jobs citing VPN 21 6 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Basingstoke 9.72% 1.52% 1.00%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 26.25% 6.19% 3.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 4 0
10th Percentile - £273 -
25th Percentile £563 £289 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £412 -
Median % change year-on-year +45.81% - -
75th Percentile - £573 -
90th Percentile - £638 -
Hampshire median daily rate £575 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -8.00%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 80 97 61
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke 37.04% 24.62% 30.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 62 20
10th Percentile £500 - £231
25th Percentile £538 £425 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% -
75th Percentile £613 £638 £653
90th Percentile £650 £688 £716
Hampshire median daily rate £563 £575 £450
% change year-on-year -2.17% +27.78% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £15.50
Median hourly rate - - £16.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -50.77%
75th Percentile - - £23.63
90th Percentile - - £45.00
Hampshire median hourly rate £55.00 £57.35 £58.91
% change year-on-year -4.10% -2.64% +30.90%

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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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Daily Rate Trend in Basingstoke

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing VPN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing VPN

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Hourly Rate Trend in Basingstoke

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing VPN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing VPN

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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 21 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (61.90%) Exchange Server 2003
2 13 (61.90%) Exchange Server 2007
2 13 (61.90%) Exchange Server 2010
2 13 (61.90%) Exchange Server 2013
2 13 (61.90%) Office Communications Server
2 13 (61.90%) SharePoint
2 13 (61.90%) SharePoint Server
2 13 (61.90%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 13 (61.90%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (38.10%) AWS
1 8 (38.10%) GCP
1 8 (38.10%) IaaS
1 8 (38.10%) OpenShift
1 8 (38.10%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (100.00%) DHCP
1 21 (100.00%) DNS
2 13 (61.90%) DDNS
2 13 (61.90%) SAN
3 8 (38.10%) Firewall
3 8 (38.10%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (38.10%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (38.10%) Big Data
1 8 (38.10%) Elasticsearch
General
1 11 (52.38%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (100.00%) Support Engineer
2 13 (61.90%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 13 (61.90%) 3rd Line Support
2 13 (61.90%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 13 (61.90%) Exchange Engineer
2 13 (61.90%) Exchange Support
3 7 (33.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (33.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
3 7 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support
3 7 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Virtualisation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (61.90%) Replication
2 8 (38.10%) Clustering
2 8 (38.10%) Data Centre
2 8 (38.10%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 21 (100.00%) Windows
2 16 (76.19%) Windows Server 2003
3 8 (38.10%) Linux
3 8 (38.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (61.90%) Architectural Design
1 13 (61.90%) Business Intelligence
1 13 (61.90%) Content Management
1 13 (61.90%) Enterprise Content Management
1 13 (61.90%) Enterprise Search
1 13 (61.90%) High Availability
1 13 (61.90%) ITIL
2 8 (38.10%) Artificial Intelligence
2 8 (38.10%) DevOps
2 8 (38.10%) Machine Learning
2 8 (38.10%) Software Deployment
3 7 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (38.10%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 21 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 20 (95.24%) DV Cleared
3 8 (38.10%) Degree
System Software
1 21 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 13 (61.90%) Brightmail
2 13 (61.90%) ISA Server
3 8 (38.10%) BitLocker
3 8 (38.10%) Docker
3 8 (38.10%) Hyper-V
3 8 (38.10%) Microsoft App-V
3 8 (38.10%) Terminal Services
3 8 (38.10%) VMware ESXi
3 8 (38.10%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (61.90%) Microsoft Clustering
2 8 (38.10%) Ansible
2 8 (38.10%) Kubernetes
2 8 (38.10%) Nagios
2 8 (38.10%) Puppet
2 8 (38.10%) vCenter Server
2 8 (38.10%) vMotion
Vendors
1 21 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (38.10%) Citrix
2 8 (38.10%) Google
2 8 (38.10%) HP
2 8 (38.10%) Symantec
2 8 (38.10%) VMware