VPN Contracts in Cardiff

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff requiring VPN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VPN over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 28 41
Rank change year-on-year +4 +13 +11
Contract jobs citing VPN 6 7 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 3.75% 3.30% 1.48%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 27.27% 30.43% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 5
10th Percentile - £343 £303
25th Percentile £213 £456 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £575 £425
Median % change year-on-year -41.30% +35.29% -19.05%
75th Percentile £471 £667 £438
90th Percentile £475 £676 £441
South Wales median daily rate £350 £575 £400
% change year-on-year -39.13% +43.75% -37.25%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 22 23 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 13.75% 10.85% 8.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 15 26
10th Percentile £206 £182 £188
25th Percentile £213 £199 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £220 £431
Median % change year-on-year +93.18% -48.99% +1.47%
75th Percentile £458 £588 £575
90th Percentile £475 £667 £625
South Wales median daily rate £313 £220 £513
% change year-on-year +42.05% -57.07% +13.89%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in Cardiff

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VPN in Cardiff.

Daily rate trend for VPN in Cardiff

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VPN in Cardiff over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VPN in Cardiff

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VPN in Cardiff.

Hourly rate trend for VPN in Cardiff

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Applications
1 2 (33.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) BGP
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
1 3 (50.00%) IPsec
1 3 (50.00%) OSPF
1 3 (50.00%) Wireless
2 2 (33.33%) DHCP
2 2 (33.33%) DNS
2 2 (33.33%) IPv4
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (16.67%) VLAN
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Senior
2 3 (50.00%) IT Support
2 3 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Senior IT Support
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 2 (33.33%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (16.67%) Network Monitoring
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) CCNP
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (33.33%) CCIE
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco
1 3 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (33.33%) Ekahau
2 2 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
3 1 (16.67%) Meraki
3 1 (16.67%) SolarWinds
3 1 (16.67%) Splunk