VPN Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring VPN skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 61 33
Rank change year-on-year +24 -28 +42
Contract jobs citing VPN 30 5 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 5.07% 0.70% 4.92%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 25.86% 7.69% 20.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 2 18
10th Percentile £127 £418 £192
25th Percentile £263 £425 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £688
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -34.55% +96.43%
75th Percentile £447 £475 £731
90th Percentile £475 £483 £750
West Midlands median daily rate £380 £475 £443
% change year-on-year -20.00% +7.34% +18.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 116 65 201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 19.59% 9.12% 23.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 35 89
10th Percentile £243 £165 £216
25th Percentile £327 £213 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £380 £385
Median % change year-on-year +17.11% -1.30% -3.75%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £626
90th Percentile £575 £592 £726
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -3.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 9
10th Percentile £44.35 £25.13 £17.10
25th Percentile £44.88 £30.94 £62.50
Median hourly rate £47.00 £41.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.94% -36.54% +225.00%
75th Percentile £50.38 £50.94 £67.50
90th Percentile £51.65 £56.38 £69.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -14.29% +27.27% +57.14%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in Birmingham

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Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing VPN

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Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VPN in Birmingham over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VPN in Birmingham

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Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing VPN

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (10.00%) Amazon ELB
2 3 (10.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (10.00%) AWS
2 3 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 21 (70.00%) BGP
2 20 (66.67%) IPsec
3 14 (46.67%) MPLS
3 14 (46.67%) TCP/IP
3 14 (46.67%) WAN
4 11 (36.67%) Firewall
5 10 (33.33%) Network Security
6 9 (30.00%) DNS
6 9 (30.00%) SSL
7 7 (23.33%) OSPF
8 6 (20.00%) VLAN
9 5 (16.67%) DHCP
9 5 (16.67%) Junos
10 1 (3.33%) Broadband
10 1 (3.33%) IP Telephony
10 1 (3.33%) NGFW
10 1 (3.33%) VoIP
10 1 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (3.33%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Git
1 3 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.67%) GitLab
General
1 13 (43.33%) Social Skills
2 9 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (23.33%) Telecoms
4 5 (16.67%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (40.00%) Support Engineer
2 9 (30.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 8 (26.67%) 3rd Line Support
3 8 (26.67%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 7 (23.33%) 2nd Line Support
5 6 (20.00%) Check Point Expert
5 6 (20.00%) Network Engineer
6 5 (16.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 4 (13.33%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 4 (13.33%) Analyst
7 4 (13.33%) Network Support
7 4 (13.33%) Network Support Engineer
7 4 (13.33%) WAN Engineer
8 3 (10.00%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
8 3 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
8 3 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (10.00%) IT Support
8 3 (10.00%) IT Support Analyst
8 3 (10.00%) Senior
8 3 (10.00%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 14 (46.67%) PKI
2 6 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (10.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (3.33%) Educational Technology
4 1 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.33%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.00%) Check Point GAiA
1 6 (20.00%) Windows
2 4 (13.33%) Windows 10
3 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (43.33%) Load Balancing
2 12 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (26.67%) High Availability
4 7 (23.33%) Network Design
5 6 (20.00%) SIEM
6 4 (13.33%) ITIL
7 3 (10.00%) Change Management
7 3 (10.00%) CRM
7 3 (10.00%) Customer Service
7 3 (10.00%) DevOps
7 3 (10.00%) Disk Encryption
7 3 (10.00%) Mobile Device Management
7 3 (10.00%) Problem Management
7 3 (10.00%) Project Delivery
7 3 (10.00%) Service Delivery
8 2 (6.67%) CI/CD
8 2 (6.67%) Incident Response
8 2 (6.67%) Mentoring
8 2 (6.67%) Network Segmentation
8 2 (6.67%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.00%) Bash
1 3 (10.00%) Python
2 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (56.67%) Security Cleared
2 13 (43.33%) SC Cleared
3 6 (20.00%) CCSE
4 4 (13.33%) MCP
4 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (10.00%) MCDST
6 2 (6.67%) CCNA
6 2 (6.67%) CCNP
7 1 (3.33%) CCIE
7 1 (3.33%) CISSP
7 1 (3.33%) Degree
7 1 (3.33%) MCSA
System Software
1 6 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (10.00%) Docker
3 1 (3.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (23.33%) FortiGate
2 4 (13.33%) SCCM
3 3 (10.00%) Ansible
3 3 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (46.67%) Juniper
2 10 (33.33%) CheckPoint
3 6 (20.00%) Fortinet
4 5 (16.67%) Cisco
4 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
5 4 (13.33%) Palo Alto
6 3 (10.00%) F5
6 3 (10.00%) iManage
6 3 (10.00%) Mitel
7 1 (3.33%) VMware