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 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 38 38
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +28
Contract jobs citing VPN 3 4 11
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.85% 1.06% 2.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.17% 9.76% 15.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £271 £194
25th Percentile - £341 £214
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £488 £250
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% +95.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile - £641 £292
90th Percentile - £714 £323
East of England median daily rate £475 £275 £475
% change year-on-year +72.73% -42.11% +115.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £18.63
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £103.00 £72.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year +42.07% +262.50% +17.65%

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 58 41 73
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 16.43% 10.85% 14.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 17 44
10th Percentile £266 £268 £208
25th Percentile £443 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £575 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% +21.05% +11.76%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £538
90th Percentile £700 £648 £584
East of England median daily rate £500 £469 £450
% change year-on-year +6.67% +4.17% +7.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 13
10th Percentile - £17.81 £15.36
25th Percentile £16.00 - £16.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £21.46 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.79% +7.30% +29.03%
75th Percentile £69.38 £48.49 £33.44
90th Percentile £78.75 £61.25 £34.90
East of England median hourly rate £49.75 £52.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -5.24% -19.23% +30.00%

VPN
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 2 November 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
Cambridge -6 3 £600 +140.00% 3
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 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CodePipeline
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Control Tower
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
1 1 (33.33%) Sumo Logic
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) 802.11
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (66.67%) SD-WAN
2 2 (66.67%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Network Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Architect
2 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Solution Architect
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Principal Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Principal Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) 802.1X
2 1 (33.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Network Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Management
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CCIE
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) CCNP
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) Meraki
1 2 (66.67%) Palo Alto
2 1 (33.33%) CloudEndure