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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 103 102
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 +10
Contract jobs citing VPN 48 26 31
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.92% 1.31% 1.34%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 21.15% 12.15% 13.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 17 21
10th Percentile £252 £237 £265
25th Percentile £300 £263 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £535
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -11.21% +14.13%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £614
90th Percentile £724 £680 £675
London median daily rate £500 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% -15.00%

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 227 214 234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 9.09% 10.77% 10.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 151 142
10th Percentile £294 £256 £267
25th Percentile £410 £377 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £536 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +2.10% -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £664 £614
90th Percentile £715 £775 £751
London median daily rate £500 £500 £518
% change year-on-year - -3.38% -5.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £19.42 £27.56 -
25th Percentile £21.88 £33.28 -
Median hourly rate £45.00 £44.11 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.02% - -
75th Percentile £64.69 £55.49 -
90th Percentile £76.88 £61.54 -
London median hourly rate £33.25 £25.15 £24.18
% change year-on-year +32.21% +4.01% -21.37%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VPN relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

VPN job vacancy trend 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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VPN in Central London over the 6 months to 1 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VPN in Central London

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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

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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 1 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
City of London +9 47 £500 +2.56% 16
City of Westminster -9 2 £425 -5.56% 4
West End of London -8 1 £425 +70.00% 3
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London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 8 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (6.25%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.17%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 17 (35.42%) Azure
2 11 (22.92%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (18.75%) GCP
4 8 (16.67%) AWS
5 4 (8.33%) Entra ID
5 4 (8.33%) GitHub
5 4 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (8.33%) IaaS
5 4 (8.33%) OpenShift
5 4 (8.33%) PaaS
6 3 (6.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (6.25%) OneDrive
6 3 (6.25%) Power Automate
6 3 (6.25%) Power Platform
6 3 (6.25%) PowerApps
7 2 (4.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (2.08%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.08%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (2.08%) Google Docs
8 1 (2.08%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 28 (58.33%) DNS
2 26 (54.17%) Firewall
3 17 (35.42%) DHCP
4 12 (25.00%) TCP/IP
5 11 (22.92%) WAN
6 10 (20.83%) Network Security
7 9 (18.75%) Wi-Fi
8 8 (16.67%) SD-WAN
9 7 (14.58%) Internet
9 7 (14.58%) LAN
9 7 (14.58%) VLAN
10 6 (12.50%) Multicast
11 4 (8.33%) BGP
11 4 (8.33%) OSPF
12 3 (6.25%) Cisco Nexus
12 3 (6.25%) MPLS
12 3 (6.25%) SMTP
12 3 (6.25%) Wireless
13 2 (4.17%) DMZ
14 1 (2.08%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (6.25%) Big Data
1 3 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (6.25%) Power BI
1 3 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (20.83%) JIRA
2 2 (4.17%) Artifactory
2 2 (4.17%) Bitbucket
2 2 (4.17%) Git
2 2 (4.17%) GitLab
2 2 (4.17%) Jenkins
General
1 18 (37.50%) Finance
2 16 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.25%) Banking
3 3 (6.25%) Front Office
3 3 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.17%) Law
5 1 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (31.25%) Network Engineer
2 10 (20.83%) Support Engineer
3 4 (8.33%) Analyst
3 4 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (8.33%) IT Engineer
3 4 (8.33%) Middleware Engineer
3 4 (8.33%) Network Security Engineer
3 4 (8.33%) Security Engineer
3 4 (8.33%) Senior
4 3 (6.25%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 3 (6.25%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (6.25%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 3 (6.25%) 3rd Line Support
4 3 (6.25%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (6.25%) Applications Engineer
4 3 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (6.25%) Infrastructure Support
4 3 (6.25%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 3 (6.25%) IT Support
4 3 (6.25%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.50%) Terraform
2 4 (8.33%) Middleware
3 2 (4.17%) .NET
3 2 (4.17%) 802.1X
4 1 (2.08%) eBPF
4 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 6 (12.50%) Onboarding
3 4 (8.33%) Clustering
3 4 (8.33%) Fixed Income
3 4 (8.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (8.33%) Replication
4 3 (6.25%) PKI
4 3 (6.25%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (4.17%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.08%) BYOD
6 1 (2.08%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.08%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (2.08%) CMDB
6 1 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.08%) Fat Client
6 1 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.08%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 20 (41.67%) Windows
2 10 (20.83%) Linux
3 8 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 5 (10.42%) Windows 10
5 4 (8.33%) Mac OS
6 3 (6.25%) Unix
7 1 (2.08%) Android
7 1 (2.08%) Apple iOS
7 1 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (2.08%) SUSE
7 1 (2.08%) VMS
7 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (27.08%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (18.75%) DevOps
3 8 (16.67%) ITIL
4 7 (14.58%) High Availability
4 7 (14.58%) Load Balancing
4 7 (14.58%) Migration
4 7 (14.58%) Observability
5 6 (12.50%) Electronic Trading
5 6 (12.50%) Incident Management
5 6 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (12.50%) ITSM
5 6 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
5 6 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (8.33%) CI/CD
6 4 (8.33%) Customer Service
6 4 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (8.33%) Kalman Filter
6 4 (8.33%) Low Latency
6 4 (8.33%) Requirements Gathering
6 4 (8.33%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 12 (25.00%) Python
2 11 (22.92%) PowerShell
3 4 (8.33%) Bash
3 4 (8.33%) SQL
4 3 (6.25%) Shell Script
5 2 (4.17%) Java
Qualifications
1 10 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 6 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.42%) CCNP
3 5 (10.42%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (10.42%) Degree
4 3 (6.25%) CCIE
4 3 (6.25%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.17%) Azure Certification
5 2 (4.17%) CCNA
6 1 (2.08%) CISM
6 1 (2.08%) CISSP
6 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (4.17%) SLA
2 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.08%) NIST
2 1 (2.08%) QA
System Software
1 15 (31.25%) Active Directory
2 7 (14.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (10.42%) Hyper-V
5 4 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (6.25%) BitLocker
6 3 (6.25%) Docker
6 3 (6.25%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (6.25%) Terminal Services
7 2 (4.17%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (2.08%) Firmware
8 1 (2.08%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 8 (16.67%) SCCM
3 6 (12.50%) vCenter Server
4 5 (10.42%) Grafana
4 5 (10.42%) ITRS Geneos
5 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (6.25%) Ansible
6 3 (6.25%) Nagios
6 3 (6.25%) Prometheus
6 3 (6.25%) Puppet
6 3 (6.25%) vMotion
7 2 (4.17%) FortiGate
7 2 (4.17%) Istio
7 2 (4.17%) Nessus
8 1 (2.08%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (2.08%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (2.08%) PingFederate
8 1 (2.08%) VxRail
Vendors
1 15 (31.25%) Cisco
2 14 (29.17%) Microsoft
3 10 (20.83%) Citrix
3 10 (20.83%) Palo Alto
4 9 (18.75%) VMware
5 7 (14.58%) ServiceNow
6 6 (12.50%) Fortinet
6 6 (12.50%) Google
7 5 (10.42%) Bloomberg
7 5 (10.42%) Dynatrace
7 5 (10.42%) F5
7 5 (10.42%) Splunk
7 5 (10.42%) Zscaler
8 4 (8.33%) Solace
9 3 (6.25%) AppDynamics
9 3 (6.25%) HP
9 3 (6.25%) ION Trading
9 3 (6.25%) Symantec
10 2 (4.17%) Oracle
10 2 (4.17%) Remedy