VPN Contract Job Trends in Central London

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring VPN skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 99 108
Rank change year-on-year -2 +9 +45
Contract jobs citing VPN 26 31 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.34% 1.35% 1.60%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.13% 13.96% 16.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 21 35
10th Percentile £212 £321 £133
25th Percentile £253 £413 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £565 £475
Median % change year-on-year -24.78% +18.95% -
75th Percentile £647 £614 £569
90th Percentile £679 £732 £650
London median daily rate £467 £438 £500
% change year-on-year +6.63% -12.50% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £33.75 £23.80 £22.50
% change year-on-year +41.81% +5.78% -51.35%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 198 222 320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 10.17% 9.65% 9.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 135 209
10th Percentile £258 £274 £200
25th Percentile £368 £423 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.10% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £664 £625 £625
90th Percentile £748 £747 £689
London median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £27.56 - £26.38
25th Percentile £33.28 - £34.06
Median hourly rate £44.11 - £48.75
Median % change year-on-year - - +87.50%
75th Percentile £55.49 - £64.06
90th Percentile £61.54 - £72.13
London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.75
% change year-on-year -28.14% +13.82% +28.37%

VPN
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in Central London

VPN
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing VPN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing VPN

VPN
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VPN in Central London over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VPN in Central London

VPN
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing VPN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing VPN

VPN
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the Central London region over the 6 months to 17 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
City of London +4 23 £425 -18.85% 12
City of Westminster -1 2 £450 -21.74%
West End of London - 1 £250 -
VPN
London

VPN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (7.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 13 (50.00%) Azure
2 9 (34.62%) AWS
3 5 (19.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 4 (15.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 4 (15.38%) GCP
4 4 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (11.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (11.54%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (11.54%) Amazon S3
5 3 (11.54%) Entra ID
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon ELB
6 2 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (7.69%) Cloud9 IDE
7 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (3.85%) GitHub
7 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.85%) OneDrive
7 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (61.54%) Firewall
2 14 (53.85%) DNS
3 6 (23.08%) TCP/IP
4 4 (15.38%) LAN
4 4 (15.38%) NGFW
4 4 (15.38%) WAN
5 3 (11.54%) DHCP
5 3 (11.54%) Network Security
5 3 (11.54%) SSL
5 3 (11.54%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (7.69%) BGP
6 2 (7.69%) Internet
6 2 (7.69%) OSPF
7 1 (3.85%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (3.85%) IP Telephony
7 1 (3.85%) MPLS
7 1 (3.85%) SD-WAN
7 1 (3.85%) SNMP
7 1 (3.85%) VLAN
7 1 (3.85%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 2 (7.69%) Git
3 1 (3.85%) JIRA
General
1 8 (30.77%) Finance
1 8 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Banking
3 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (23.08%) Network Engineer
1 6 (23.08%) Support Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Network Support
2 4 (15.38%) Network Support Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) 2nd Line Support
3 3 (11.54%) Analyst
3 3 (11.54%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 2 (7.69%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) AWS Specialist
4 2 (7.69%) Consultant
4 2 (7.69%) IT Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) IT Support
4 2 (7.69%) IT Support Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Support Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Voice Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) ADO
2 2 (7.69%) Symfony
3 1 (3.85%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Anti-Spyware
2 3 (11.54%) Virtual Team
3 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.69%) Distributed Applications
3 2 (7.69%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (7.69%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.85%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.85%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (3.85%) SCADA
4 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (34.62%) Windows
2 4 (15.38%) Linux
2 4 (15.38%) Windows 10
3 2 (7.69%) Unix
4 1 (3.85%) Mac OS
4 1 (3.85%) Mac OS X
4 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (26.92%) DevOps
1 7 (26.92%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (23.08%) Agile
2 6 (23.08%) Migration
3 5 (19.23%) Kalman Filter
3 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (15.38%) CI/CD
4 4 (15.38%) High Availability
4 4 (15.38%) ITIL
5 3 (11.54%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (11.54%) Project Management
5 3 (11.54%) Service Management
6 2 (7.69%) Containerisation
6 2 (7.69%) Continuous Deployment
6 2 (7.69%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (7.69%) Log Aggregation
6 2 (7.69%) Microservices
6 2 (7.69%) Network Segmentation
6 2 (7.69%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.54%) Python
2 2 (7.69%) Java
2 2 (7.69%) PowerShell
2 2 (7.69%) Shell Script
3 1 (3.85%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) SC Cleared
1 5 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.54%) AWS Certification
2 3 (11.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (11.54%) Degree
3 2 (7.69%) AWS Certified Developer
3 2 (7.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 2 (7.69%) CCNA
3 2 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.85%) CCNP
4 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.85%) PMI Certification
4 1 (3.85%) PMP
4 1 (3.85%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) SLA
2 1 (3.85%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (23.08%) Active Directory
2 4 (15.38%) Docker
3 1 (3.85%) BitLocker
3 1 (3.85%) Firmware
3 1 (3.85%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (38.46%) Terraform
2 3 (11.54%) Ansible
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (11.54%) SCCM
3 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 2 (7.69%) Progress Chef
3 2 (7.69%) Puppet
4 1 (3.85%) Dell DRAC
4 1 (3.85%) FortiGate
4 1 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (34.62%) Palo Alto
2 7 (26.92%) CheckPoint
3 6 (23.08%) Citrix
3 6 (23.08%) Microsoft
4 4 (15.38%) Infoblox
5 3 (11.54%) ServiceNow
6 2 (7.69%) BT
6 2 (7.69%) Cisco
6 2 (7.69%) F5
6 2 (7.69%) Meraki
6 2 (7.69%) VMware
6 2 (7.69%) Zscaler
7 1 (3.85%) AlgoSec
7 1 (3.85%) Fortinet
7 1 (3.85%) Google
7 1 (3.85%) IBM
7 1 (3.85%) Juniper
7 1 (3.85%) Remedy
7 1 (3.85%) Splunk
7 1 (3.85%) Tufin