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 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 34 42
Rank change year-on-year -3 +8 +20
Contract jobs citing VPN 4 10 7
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 1.04% 3.28% 1.46%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.52% 17.54% 12.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 3
10th Percentile £476 £378 -
25th Percentile £497 £481 £235
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £240
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% +108.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £572 £625 £245
90th Percentile £589 £755 -
East of England median daily rate £475 £275 £475
% change year-on-year +72.73% -42.11% +187.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
East of England median hourly rate - £72.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +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 42 57 55
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 10.94% 18.69% 11.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 27 24
10th Percentile £185 £415 £179
25th Percentile £356 £458 £235
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £475 £278
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% +71.17% -38.33%
75th Percentile £531 £600 £475
90th Percentile £619 £655 £574
East of England median daily rate £413 £475 £430
% change year-on-year -13.16% +10.47% +1.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 13 25
10th Percentile - £15.08 £14.82
25th Percentile - £15.44 £16.30
Median hourly rate £16.00 £21.46 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year -25.44% +0.42% +37.87%
75th Percentile £34.81 - £61.75
90th Percentile £68.68 £22.85 £63.75
East of England median hourly rate £22.50 £23.83 £62.50
% change year-on-year -5.58% -61.87% +19.05%

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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 20 February 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 20 February 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 -10 4 £538 +7.50% 4
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 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Control Tower
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
1 1 (25.00%) Sumo Logic
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (50.00%) DNS
2 2 (50.00%) Network Security
3 1 (25.00%) 802.11
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (25.00%) WAN
3 1 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Architect
2 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Solution Architect
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Security Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) 802.1X
1 1 (25.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Business Enablement
1 2 (50.00%) Change Management
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (50.00%) Security Management
1 2 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) Cost Management
2 1 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CCNP
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (25.00%) CCIE
2 1 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
1 3 (75.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (25.00%) CloudEndure
3 1 (25.00%) Meraki