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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 61 42
Rank change year-on-year +29 -19 +27
Contract jobs citing VPN 40 6 31
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 5.92% 0.83% 3.96%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 27.21% 7.32% 16.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 3 14
10th Percentile £128 £381 £191
25th Percentile £263 £408 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £458 £310
Median % change year-on-year -12.57% +47.58% -11.43%
75th Percentile £466 £518 £744
90th Percentile £525 £552 £750
West Midlands median daily rate £380 £345 £400
% change year-on-year +10.14% -13.75% -5.88%

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 147 82 185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 21.75% 11.34% 23.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 44 83
10th Percentile £237 £163 £204
25th Percentile £285 £205 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £378 £385
Median % change year-on-year +10.60% -1.95% -13.68%
75th Percentile £488 £580 £475
90th Percentile £575 £613 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £500 £400
% change year-on-year -15.00% +25.00% -8.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 9
10th Percentile £44.35 £25.13 -
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% -
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% +13.40%

VPN
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

VPN job vacancy trend 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 8 November 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 & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (17.50%) AWS
1 7 (17.50%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (10.00%) Amazon ELB
2 4 (10.00%) Amazon S3
2 4 (10.00%) Azure
2 4 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (2.50%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (2.50%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 23 (57.50%) BGP
2 22 (55.00%) IPsec
3 21 (52.50%) MPLS
3 21 (52.50%) WAN
4 13 (32.50%) DNS
4 13 (32.50%) TCP/IP
5 11 (27.50%) Firewall
6 9 (22.50%) Network Security
7 7 (17.50%) DHCP
8 5 (12.50%) Junos
8 5 (12.50%) SSL
9 2 (5.00%) OSPF
10 1 (2.50%) Broadband
10 1 (2.50%) IP Telephony
10 1 (2.50%) NGFW
10 1 (2.50%) VLAN
10 1 (2.50%) VoIP
10 1 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (2.50%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Git
2 4 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (7.50%) GitLab
4 1 (2.50%) JIRA
General
1 14 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.00%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.50%) Legal
5 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 16 (40.00%) Support Engineer
2 13 (32.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 12 (30.00%) 3rd Line Support
3 12 (30.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 8 (20.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 8 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support
4 8 (20.00%) WAN Engineer
5 6 (15.00%) Analyst
5 6 (15.00%) Network Engineer
6 5 (12.50%) 1st/2nd Line Support
6 5 (12.50%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
6 5 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
6 5 (12.50%) IT Analyst
6 5 (12.50%) IT Support
6 5 (12.50%) IT Support Analyst
6 5 (12.50%) Support Analyst
7 4 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (10.00%) Senior
7 4 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (10.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.50%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 21 (52.50%) PKI
2 8 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (12.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 3 (7.50%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.50%) Educational Technology
5 1 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.50%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.50%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 12 (30.00%) Windows
2 6 (15.00%) Windows 10
3 4 (10.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.50%) Check Point GAiA
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (40.00%) Load Balancing
2 11 (27.50%) Network Design
3 10 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (17.50%) ITIL
5 6 (15.00%) Knowledge Transfer
6 5 (12.50%) Change Management
6 5 (12.50%) CRM
6 5 (12.50%) Customer Service
6 5 (12.50%) DevOps
6 5 (12.50%) Disk Encryption
6 5 (12.50%) Mobile Device Management
6 5 (12.50%) Problem Management
6 5 (12.50%) Service Delivery
7 4 (10.00%) CI/CD
7 4 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (10.00%) DevSecOps
7 4 (10.00%) High Availability
7 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
8 3 (7.50%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 5 (12.50%) Bash
1 5 (12.50%) Python
2 2 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 27 (67.50%) Security Cleared
2 23 (57.50%) SC Cleared
3 7 (17.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (15.00%) MCP
5 5 (12.50%) MCDST
6 3 (7.50%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (5.00%) CCNA
7 2 (5.00%) CCNP
8 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
8 1 (2.50%) CCIE
8 1 (2.50%) CCSE
8 1 (2.50%) CISSP
8 1 (2.50%) Degree
8 1 (2.50%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (22.50%) Active Directory
2 4 (10.00%) Docker
3 1 (2.50%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (15.00%) SCCM
2 5 (12.50%) Terraform
3 4 (10.00%) Ansible
4 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (5.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 21 (52.50%) Juniper
2 12 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 9 (22.50%) Cisco
4 6 (15.00%) CheckPoint
5 5 (12.50%) iManage
5 5 (12.50%) Mitel
5 5 (12.50%) Palo Alto
6 4 (10.00%) F5
7 1 (2.50%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.50%) VMware