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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 42 41
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +25
Contract jobs citing VPN 2 3 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 0.57% 0.69% 1.92%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.99% 5.66% 12.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - £198
25th Percentile - £225 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £250 £250
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.00%
75th Percentile - £275 £275
90th Percentile - - £316
East of England median daily rate £475 £230 £535
% change year-on-year +106.52% -57.01% +47.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £17.95
25th Percentile - - £18.29
Median hourly rate - - £18.86
75th Percentile - - £19.43
90th Percentile - - £19.77
East of England median hourly rate £103.00 - £18.86

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 67 53 79
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 19.09% 12.21% 15.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 15 50
10th Percentile £273 £262 £225
25th Percentile £363 £326 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £538 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.74% +13.16% +11.76%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £517
90th Percentile £718 - £575
East of England median daily rate £523 £406 £450
% change year-on-year +28.62% -9.72% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 21 12
10th Percentile - - £15.26
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £15.46
Median hourly rate £16.30 £16.30 £18.11
Median % change year-on-year - -9.99% +16.84%
75th Percentile £31.31 £21.37 £33.71
90th Percentile £71.25 - £34.95
East of England median hourly rate £62.50 £48.56 £65.00
% change year-on-year +28.71% -25.29% +30.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Job postings citing VPN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Job vacancy trend for VPN 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 18 September 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 0 2 - - 3
VPN
East of England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) 802.11
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCIE
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) CCNP
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Meraki
1 2 (100.00%) Palo Alto