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 27 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 41 43
Rank change year-on-year +7 +2 0
Contract jobs citing VPN 8 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 2.19% 0.55% 0.69%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.51% 3.13% 5.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £435 - -
25th Percentile £488 - £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £250
75th Percentile £663 - £275
90th Percentile £715 - -
East of England median daily rate £550 £479 £240
% change year-on-year +14.88% +99.48% -53.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 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 £72.50
% change year-on-year -84.47% +42.07% +262.50%

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 39 64 52
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 10.68% 17.73% 12.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 22 15
10th Percentile £334 £258 £262
25th Percentile £436 £367 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -11.63% +13.16%
75th Percentile £555 £625 £588
90th Percentile £713 £723 -
East of England median daily rate £495 £550 £413
% change year-on-year -10.00% +33.33% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 15 19
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.00 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £16.56 £16.30 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% - -9.99%
75th Percentile £21.97 £31.62 £21.37
90th Percentile £43.03 £72.00 £58.75
East of England median hourly rate £67.50 £54.50 £51.25
% change year-on-year +23.85% +6.34% -21.15%

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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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Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VPN in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 27 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VPN in Cambridgeshire

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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 27 September 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 +4 3 £575 - 6
Peterborough - 1 - - 1
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 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (12.50%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) Entra ID
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (12.50%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Direct Connect
3 1 (12.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) OneDrive
3 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) Wireless
2 3 (37.50%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (25.00%) DHCP
3 2 (25.00%) DNS
4 1 (12.50%) BGP
4 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
4 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
4 1 (12.50%) VLAN
4 1 (12.50%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MSI
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (62.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Support
3 1 (12.50%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Mac Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Cloud Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior IT Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior IT Support
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Graph
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Onboarding
2 4 (50.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
3 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (12.50%) PKI
3 1 (12.50%) Private Cloud
3 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
3 1 (12.50%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Customer Service
2 6 (75.00%) Service Management
3 5 (62.50%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (62.50%) ITSM
3 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (50.00%) Computer Science
4 4 (50.00%) Incident Management
4 4 (50.00%) Inventory Management
5 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (25.00%) ITIL
5 2 (25.00%) Migration
5 2 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
5 2 (25.00%) Service Delivery
5 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (12.50%) Proactive Management
6 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
6 1 (12.50%) Task Automation
6 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Degree
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (50.00%) A+ Certification
2 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
3 1 (12.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Apple
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Juniper
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow