VPN Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring VPN skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 37 62
Rank change year-on-year -5 +25 +13
Contract jobs citing VPN 2 12 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 0.62% 3.26% 1.08%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.26% 26.09% 7.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 12 8
10th Percentile - £353 £133
25th Percentile £273 £478 £146
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £274 £538 £505
Median % change year-on-year -49.12% +6.44% -12.17%
75th Percentile £274 £600 £545
90th Percentile - £818 £560
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £490
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.14% -6.67%

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 38 46 108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 11.69% 12.50% 14.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 42 84
10th Percentile £273 £406 £410
25th Percentile £350 £425 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £539
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -7.19% -0.23%
75th Percentile £538 £540 £625
90th Percentile £557 £585 £696
South East median daily rate £488 £500 £467
% change year-on-year -2.50% +7.18% +0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - £17.50
25th Percentile - - £17.88
Median hourly rate £14.20 - £19.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +32.20%
75th Percentile - - £22.38
90th Percentile - - £22.75
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +33.33%

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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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Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing VPN

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Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing VPN

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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 28 September 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 -8 1 £274 -50.27% 3
Bletchley - 1 £274 - 1
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 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Desktop Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Desktop Support
1 2 (100.00%) Desktop Support Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Video Conferencing
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) ITSM
1 2 (100.00%) Security Patching
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) McAfee
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft