VPN Contracts in Birmingham

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 44 40
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 +37
Contract jobs citing VPN 7 23 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.34% 2.98% 3.87%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 18.92% 15.33% 23.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 13 19
10th Percentile £172 £190 £303
25th Percentile £189 £200 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £235 £425 £675
Median % change year-on-year -44.71% -37.04% +58.82%
75th Percentile £289 £568 £731
90th Percentile £311 £915 -
West Midlands median daily rate £243 £375 £520
% change year-on-year -35.33% -27.88% +30.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £71.93 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year - +379.53% -25.00%
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.13 £71.93 £15.00
% change year-on-year -74.79% +379.53% -25.94%

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 37 150 147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 7.09% 19.40% 16.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 93 68
10th Percentile £165 £205 £313
25th Percentile £319 £290 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £350 £500
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -30.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £597 £488 £700
90th Percentile £698 £600 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £463 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +15.63% -20.00% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 5
10th Percentile - £13.25 -
25th Percentile - £14.00 £12.50
Median hourly rate - £19.95 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year - +33.00% -25.00%
75th Percentile - £28.75 £18.75
90th Percentile - £72.90 £20.21
West Midlands median hourly rate £16.23 £19.95 £16.75
% change year-on-year -18.67% +19.10% +1.52%

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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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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VPN in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for VPN in Birmingham

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Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VPN in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VPN in Birmingham

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VPN in Birmingham.

Hourly rate trend for VPN in Birmingham

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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 1 (14.29%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) IPsec
2 6 (85.71%) BGP
3 5 (71.43%) Firewall
3 5 (71.43%) Network Security
4 4 (57.14%) OSPF
4 4 (57.14%) SSL
4 4 (57.14%) TCP/IP
4 4 (57.14%) VLAN
5 2 (28.57%) MPLS
5 2 (28.57%) WAN
General
1 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
1 4 (57.14%) Telecoms
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Check Point Expert
2 2 (28.57%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) 2nd Line Support
2 2 (28.57%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Support
3 1 (14.29%) Network Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Architect
3 1 (14.29%) WAN Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Check Point GAiA
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) High Availability
1 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (57.14%) SIEM
2 2 (28.57%) Load Balancing
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
3 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) CCSE
2 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
3 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) CheckPoint
1 4 (57.14%) Fortinet
2 2 (28.57%) Juniper
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle