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 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 65 39
Rank change year-on-year +30 -26 +33
Contract jobs citing VPN 37 6 36
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 5.75% 0.83% 4.44%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 27.21% 7.59% 18.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 3 15
10th Percentile £128 £373 £191
25th Percentile £263 £388 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% +15.52%
75th Percentile £409 £463 £741
90th Percentile £475 £478 £750
West Midlands median daily rate £380 £345 £400
% change year-on-year +10.14% -13.75% +6.67%

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 136 79 193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 21.12% 10.99% 23.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 43 82
10th Percentile £243 £163 £200
25th Percentile £306 £209 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £380 £385
Median % change year-on-year +11.84% -1.30% -6.10%
75th Percentile £488 £565 £475
90th Percentile £575 £596 £703
West Midlands median daily rate £433 £500 £400
% change year-on-year -13.50% +25.00% -6.98%
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% +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% +50.68%

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 17 October 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (16.22%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (10.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (10.81%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (10.81%) Amazon ELB
2 4 (10.81%) Amazon S3
2 4 (10.81%) AWS
2 4 (10.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (2.70%) Azure
3 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (2.70%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (2.70%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 24 (64.86%) BGP
2 23 (62.16%) IPsec
3 19 (51.35%) MPLS
3 19 (51.35%) WAN
4 15 (40.54%) TCP/IP
5 12 (32.43%) DNS
6 11 (29.73%) Firewall
7 9 (24.32%) Network Security
8 8 (21.62%) SSL
9 7 (18.92%) DHCP
10 5 (13.51%) Junos
10 5 (13.51%) OSPF
11 4 (10.81%) VLAN
12 1 (2.70%) Broadband
12 1 (2.70%) IP Telephony
12 1 (2.70%) NGFW
12 1 (2.70%) VoIP
12 1 (2.70%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (2.70%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 5 (13.51%) Git
2 4 (10.81%) Jenkins
3 3 (8.11%) GitLab
General
1 13 (35.14%) Social Skills
2 9 (24.32%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (13.51%) Public Sector
3 5 (13.51%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.70%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.70%) Military
Job Titles
1 14 (37.84%) Support Engineer
2 12 (32.43%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 11 (29.73%) 3rd Line Support
3 11 (29.73%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 8 (21.62%) 2nd Line Support
5 7 (18.92%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 7 (18.92%) WAN Engineer
6 6 (16.22%) Analyst
7 5 (13.51%) 1st/2nd Line Support
7 5 (13.51%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
7 5 (13.51%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
7 5 (13.51%) IT Analyst
7 5 (13.51%) IT Support
7 5 (13.51%) IT Support Analyst
7 5 (13.51%) Network Engineer
7 5 (13.51%) Support Analyst
8 4 (10.81%) Check Point Expert
8 4 (10.81%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (10.81%) Senior DevOps
8 4 (10.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.70%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 19 (51.35%) PKI
2 8 (21.62%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (13.51%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (2.70%) Educational Technology
4 1 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.70%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.70%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 8 (21.62%) Windows
2 6 (16.22%) Windows 10
3 4 (10.81%) Check Point GAiA
4 1 (2.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (40.54%) Load Balancing
2 12 (32.43%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (27.03%) Network Design
4 7 (18.92%) High Availability
4 7 (18.92%) ITIL
5 5 (13.51%) Change Management
5 5 (13.51%) CRM
5 5 (13.51%) Customer Service
5 5 (13.51%) DevOps
5 5 (13.51%) Disk Encryption
5 5 (13.51%) Knowledge Transfer
5 5 (13.51%) Mobile Device Management
5 5 (13.51%) Problem Management
5 5 (13.51%) Service Delivery
6 4 (10.81%) CI/CD
6 4 (10.81%) DevSecOps
6 4 (10.81%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (10.81%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (10.81%) SIEM
7 3 (8.11%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.51%) Bash
1 5 (13.51%) Python
2 2 (5.41%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 24 (64.86%) Security Cleared
2 20 (54.05%) SC Cleared
3 7 (18.92%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (16.22%) MCP
5 5 (13.51%) MCDST
6 4 (10.81%) CCSE
7 3 (8.11%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (5.41%) CCNA
8 2 (5.41%) CCNP
9 1 (2.70%) Azure Certification
9 1 (2.70%) CCIE
9 1 (2.70%) CISSP
9 1 (2.70%) Degree
9 1 (2.70%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.70%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (24.32%) Active Directory
2 4 (10.81%) Docker
3 1 (2.70%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (16.22%) SCCM
2 5 (13.51%) FortiGate
2 5 (13.51%) Terraform
3 4 (10.81%) Ansible
Vendors
1 19 (51.35%) Juniper
2 9 (24.32%) CheckPoint
3 8 (21.62%) Cisco
3 8 (21.62%) Microsoft
4 5 (13.51%) iManage
4 5 (13.51%) Mitel
4 5 (13.51%) Palo Alto
5 4 (10.81%) F5
5 4 (10.81%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.70%) VMware