VPN Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire 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 29 40 59
Rank change year-on-year +11 +19 +2
Contract jobs citing VPN 9 14 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 3.81% 2.94% 2.40%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 23.08% 15.22% 18.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 17
10th Percentile £121 £116 £185
25th Percentile £274 £143 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £363 £500
Median % change year-on-year +55.86% -27.50% +112.77%
75th Percentile £615 £550 £550
90th Percentile £630 £663 £554
South East median daily rate £495 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +23.75% -20.00% +23.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £20.25 -
South East median hourly rate £19.00 £20.75 £21.22
% change year-on-year -8.43% -2.21% +0.78%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 39 92 112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 16.53% 19.33% 12.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 69 92
10th Percentile £174 £261 £408
25th Percentile £375 £465 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +5.00% +1.78%
75th Percentile £622 £560 £550
90th Percentile £630 £825 £606
South East median daily rate £480 £490 £488
% change year-on-year -2.04% +0.51% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 15 0
Median hourly rate £14.20 £23.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -40.21% - -
South East median hourly rate £54.94 £57.35 £53.00
% change year-on-year -4.21% +8.21% +146.51%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in Buckinghamshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for VPN in Buckinghamshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate histogram for VPN in Buckinghamshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Hourly rate trend for VPN in Buckinghamshire

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Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Milton Keynes +6 6 £574 +4.32% 15
VPN
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) BGP
1 6 (66.67%) MPLS
1 6 (66.67%) OSPF
2 5 (55.56%) Cisco Nexus
2 5 (55.56%) Firewall
2 5 (55.56%) NGFW
2 5 (55.56%) SD-WAN
2 5 (55.56%) TCP/IP
2 5 (55.56%) WAN
3 4 (44.44%) DNS
3 4 (44.44%) VLAN
4 3 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (33.33%) VSAN
5 2 (22.22%) Wireless
6 1 (11.11%) Broadband
6 1 (11.11%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (11.11%) IPv6
General
1 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
1 1 (11.11%) Law
1 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Architect
2 4 (44.44%) Senior
2 4 (44.44%) Technical Architect
3 3 (33.33%) Senior Architect
3 3 (33.33%) Senior Technical Architect
4 2 (22.22%) Desktop Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Desktop Support
4 2 (22.22%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Support Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Analyst
5 1 (11.11%) Desktop Analyst
5 1 (11.11%) Network Architect
5 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Principal Network Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (11.11%) Senior Desktop Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Public Cloud
2 4 (44.44%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (33.33%) PKI
4 2 (22.22%) CMDB
4 2 (22.22%) Management Information System
5 1 (11.11%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) DevSecOps
1 5 (55.56%) TOGAF
2 4 (44.44%) Migration
3 3 (33.33%) Adaptive Security
3 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (33.33%) IT Strategy
3 3 (33.33%) ITIL
3 3 (33.33%) Problem Management
3 3 (33.33%) Requirements Management
3 3 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
4 2 (22.22%) Break/Fix
4 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
4 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (22.22%) Microservices
4 2 (22.22%) Zachman Framework
5 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
5 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
3 3 (33.33%) MCSE
3 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (11.11%) CCIE
5 1 (11.11%) CCNP
5 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
5 1 (11.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (11.11%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (44.44%) NCSC
1 4 (44.44%) NIST
2 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (55.56%) VMware NSX
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Cisco
2 5 (55.56%) Palo Alto
2 5 (55.56%) VMware
3 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
4 1 (11.11%) HP
4 1 (11.11%) McAfee