VPN Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring VPN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 37 54
Rank change year-on-year +10 +17 -6
Contract jobs citing VPN 9 3 6
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 2.59% 0.96% 1.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 21.95% 4.05% 8.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 4
10th Percentile £428 £271 £228
25th Percentile £470 £303 £233
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £363 £240
Median % change year-on-year +48.97% +51.04% -4.00%
75th Percentile - £428 £253
90th Percentile - £464 £266
East of England median daily rate £505 £250 £407
% change year-on-year +102.00% -38.61% -29.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.00 - -
Median hourly rate £16.00 - -
75th Percentile £17.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £16.00 £103.00 -
% change year-on-year -84.47% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 41 74 74
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 11.78% 23.72% 14.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 33 18
10th Percentile £107 £265 £191
25th Percentile £397 £379 £228
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £473 £275
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +71.82% -42.11%
75th Percentile £540 £530 £519
90th Percentile £675 £683 £588
East of England median daily rate £495 £475 £400
% change year-on-year +4.21% +18.75% -15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 17 46
10th Percentile - - £14.16
25th Percentile £15.00 £14.99 £14.48
Median hourly rate £17.12 £15.44 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +10.88% -5.28% +5.16%
75th Percentile £19.34 £16.30 £21.37
90th Percentile £33.72 £31.00 £39.48
East of England median hourly rate £61.76 £62.00 £33.75
% change year-on-year -0.40% +83.70% -48.08%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

VPN job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing VPN

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Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing VPN

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Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 5 July 2026. 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
Cambridge +7 6 £540 +116.00%
Huntingdon -5 2 £540 +13.68%
VPN
East of England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 (11.11%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) AWS Direct Connect
2 3 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 3 (33.33%) GCP
2 3 (33.33%) GitHub
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (22.22%) Route 53
3 2 (22.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Control Tower
4 1 (11.11%) Azure AKS
4 1 (11.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (11.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (11.11%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) Firewall
1 4 (44.44%) Wireless
2 3 (33.33%) VLAN
3 2 (22.22%) 4G
3 2 (22.22%) IPsec
3 2 (22.22%) MPLS
4 1 (11.11%) BGP
4 1 (11.11%) DNS
4 1 (11.11%) Network Security
4 1 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) GitLab
1 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) MSI
General
1 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
1 3 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Cloud Network Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Cisco Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Cisco Network Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Network Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 3 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 2 (22.22%) Operational Technology
2 2 (22.22%) SCADA
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (11.11%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (44.44%) Customer Service
2 4 (44.44%) ITSM
2 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (44.44%) Service Management
3 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 3 (33.33%) DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (33.33%) Inventory Management
4 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) SIEM
4 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Engineering
5 1 (11.11%) Network Segmentation
5 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (11.11%) Proactive Management
5 1 (11.11%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Bash
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) CCNP
1 4 (44.44%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (33.33%) A+ Certification
2 3 (33.33%) Degree
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Certification
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Certification
3 2 (22.22%) CCNA
4 1 (11.11%) CCIE
4 1 (11.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 3 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Cisco
2 2 (22.22%) Google
2 2 (22.22%) Qualys
2 2 (22.22%) Rockwell
3 1 (11.11%) Juniper
3 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 1 (11.11%) TOWER Software