VPN Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring VPN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 26 34
Rank change year-on-year -7 +8 -3
Contract jobs citing VPN 4 3 6
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 1.82% 1.82% 2.42%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.67% 13.04% 17.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £133 £543 -
25th Percentile £190 £543 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £285 £559 £325
Median % change year-on-year -48.99% +71.92% -13.33%
75th Percentile £380 £578 £338
90th Percentile £437 £580 -
East of England median daily rate £475 £275 £475
% change year-on-year +72.73% -42.11% +120.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £100.50 - -
Median hourly rate £103.00 - -
75th Percentile £105.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £103.00 £72.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year +42.07% +262.50% +17.65%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 24 23 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 10.91% 13.94% 13.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 11 19
10th Percentile £61 £180 £310
25th Percentile £95 £288 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +11.11% +20.00%
75th Percentile £475 £538 £500
90th Percentile £643 £568 £555
East of England median daily rate £413 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -13.16% +5.56% +7.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £82.05 £29.20 -
25th Percentile £85.13 £29.50 £51.25
Median hourly rate £91.50 £30.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +205.00% -42.86% +237.40%
75th Percentile £99.13 £40.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £102.95 £46.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £55.00 £35.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +57.14% -46.15% +4.00%

VPN
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VPN relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

VPN job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

VPN
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing VPN

VPN
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VPN in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VPN in Bedfordshire

VPN
Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing VPN

VPN
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 23 December 2025. 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
Luton -5 2 £95 -83.00% 4
Bedford - 2 £475 - 3
VPN
East of England

VPN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) Network Security
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (50.00%) DHCP
2 2 (50.00%) DNS
2 2 (50.00%) LAN
2 2 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 2 (50.00%) WAN
2 2 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 2 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Network Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (25.00%) IT Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 4 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (50.00%) ITSM
2 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Service Management
2 2 (50.00%) SIEM
2 2 (50.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 2 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Server Management
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (50.00%) CCIE
2 2 (50.00%) CCIE Security
2 2 (50.00%) CCNP
2 2 (50.00%) CISSP
2 2 (50.00%) GIAC
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) CCNA
3 1 (25.00%) MCSE
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (50.00%) Barracuda Networks
2 2 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Zscaler