VPN Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring VPN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 24 24
Rank change year-on-year -6 0 +18
Contract jobs citing VPN 5 4 8
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 2.59% 2.56% 4.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.24% 17.39% 28.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 4
10th Percentile £476 - -
25th Percentile £497 - £235
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £240
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% +108.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £572 £563 £246
90th Percentile £589 £675 £249
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £538 £500 £240
% change year-on-year +7.50% +108.33% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate - - £20.00

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 29 23 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 15.03% 14.74% 14.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 16 20
10th Percentile £388 £415 £228
25th Percentile £406 £427 £246
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £538 £425
Median % change year-on-year -7.91% +26.47% -2.86%
75th Percentile £538 £613 £494
90th Percentile £619 £663 £543
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £460 £500 £400
% change year-on-year -8.00% +25.00% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £83.75 - -
Median hourly rate £87.50 £23.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +280.43% +15.00% -60.00%
75th Percentile £91.25 - -
90th Percentile - - £61.25
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.00 £21.46 £27.50
% change year-on-year -25.44% -21.96% +77.42%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

VPN job vacancy trend in Cambridge

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Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing VPN

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VPN in Cambridge over the 6 months to 2 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VPN in Cambridge

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Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing VPN

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (20.00%) AWS CodePipeline
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Control Tower
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (20.00%) Serverless
1 1 (20.00%) Sumo Logic
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (40.00%) 802.11
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (40.00%) DNS
2 2 (40.00%) Network Security
2 2 (40.00%) SD-WAN
2 2 (40.00%) WAN
2 2 (40.00%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Architect
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Architect
3 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Solution Architect
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Network Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Network Security Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Principal Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Principal Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Security Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) 802.1X
2 1 (20.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (40.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Business Enablement
1 2 (40.00%) Change Management
1 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (40.00%) Network Architecture
1 2 (40.00%) Security Management
1 2 (40.00%) Validation
2 1 (20.00%) AI
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (20.00%) Cost Management
2 1 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (40.00%) CCIE
2 2 (40.00%) CCNP
3 1 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco
1 4 (80.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (40.00%) Meraki
2 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (20.00%) CloudEndure