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 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 83 113
Rank change year-on-year -33 +30 +8
Contract jobs citing VPN 26 43 26
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.12% 2.18% 1.03%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.67% 19.63% 9.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 29 17
10th Percentile £200 £356 £188
25th Percentile £250 £475 £239
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £575 £260
Median % change year-on-year -26.09% +121.15% -25.71%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £513
90th Percentile £675 £700 £592
London median daily rate £500 £480 £438
% change year-on-year +4.17% +9.71% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £22.22 - -
25th Percentile £24.31 - £12.75
Median hourly rate £25.47 - £13.50
75th Percentile - - £14.25
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £25.47 £50.00 £16.56
% change year-on-year -49.06% +202.02% -12.55%

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 156 219 265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 6.72% 11.13% 10.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 149 179
10th Percentile £248 £260 £211
25th Percentile £425 £450 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £530 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.42% +17.78% -18.18%
75th Percentile £653 £638 £588
90th Percentile £738 £700 £739
London median daily rate £505 £500 £488
% change year-on-year +1.00% +2.56% -12.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 4
10th Percentile £20.53 - -
25th Percentile - £31.25 £12.75
Median hourly rate £25.47 £32.50 £16.22
Median % change year-on-year -21.63% +100.43% -22.24%
75th Percentile £26.11 £33.75 £18.93
90th Percentile £30.39 - -
London median hourly rate £25.79 £41.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -37.10% +86.36% -38.03%

VPN
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

VPN
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VPN in Central London over the 6 months to 3 April 2026.

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 3 April 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 -31 22 £450 -21.74% 13
Camden +9 3 - -
City of Westminster +3 3 £201 -69.15%
West End of London +8 1 £201 -65.43%
VPN
London

VPN
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 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (15.38%) MS Visio
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (65.38%) Azure
2 10 (38.46%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (26.92%) Entra ID
4 4 (15.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (11.54%) AWS
5 3 (11.54%) Google Ads
6 2 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (7.69%) GCP
6 2 (7.69%) Power Platform
6 2 (7.69%) PowerApps
7 1 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Stack
7 1 (3.85%) Cloudflare
7 1 (3.85%) Google Workspace
7 1 (3.85%) Rubrik
7 1 (3.85%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 15 (57.69%) Firewall
2 8 (30.77%) DNS
2 8 (30.77%) Network Security
3 6 (23.08%) SD-WAN
3 6 (23.08%) WAN
4 5 (19.23%) DHCP
4 5 (19.23%) Internet
5 4 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (11.54%) LAN
6 3 (11.54%) Softphone
6 3 (11.54%) TCP/IP
7 2 (7.69%) BGP
7 2 (7.69%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (7.69%) IPsec
7 2 (7.69%) MPLS
7 2 (7.69%) SSL
7 2 (7.69%) VLAN
8 1 (3.85%) IPv4
8 1 (3.85%) IPv6
8 1 (3.85%) OSPF
General
1 12 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Finance
3 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Law
Job Titles
1 5 (19.23%) Network Engineer
1 5 (19.23%) Senior
2 4 (15.38%) Desktop Support
2 4 (15.38%) Desktop Support Technician
2 4 (15.38%) Desktop Technician
2 4 (15.38%) Service Desk Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Support Technician
3 3 (11.54%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Analyst
3 3 (11.54%) Architect
3 3 (11.54%) Help Desk Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Consultant
4 2 (7.69%) Network Security Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Security Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Firewall Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Integration Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Lead Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Network Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Security Administrator
5 1 (3.85%) Web Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Onboarding
2 2 (7.69%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (7.69%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.85%) Anti-Spyware
3 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.85%) Clustering
3 1 (3.85%) CMDB
3 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.85%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.85%) Replication
3 1 (3.85%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (19.23%) Windows
2 2 (7.69%) Linux
2 2 (7.69%) Mac OS
3 1 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.85%) SUSE
3 1 (3.85%) VMS
3 1 (3.85%) Windows 10
3 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (34.62%) ITIL
2 6 (23.08%) Change Management
3 5 (19.23%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (19.23%) Service Delivery
4 4 (15.38%) Asset Management
4 4 (15.38%) Change Control
4 4 (15.38%) Cloud Security
4 4 (15.38%) Mentoring
4 4 (15.38%) Migration
4 4 (15.38%) Performance Metrics
4 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (11.54%) Incident Management
5 3 (11.54%) Inventory Management
5 3 (11.54%) ITSM
5 3 (11.54%) Security Patching
5 3 (11.54%) Service Management
5 3 (11.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (11.54%) Statistics
5 3 (11.54%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 7 (26.92%) PowerShell
2 2 (7.69%) Python
3 1 (3.85%) Bash
Qualifications
1 6 (23.08%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (15.38%) CCNP
2 4 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (15.38%) Degree
3 3 (11.54%) Azure Certification
3 3 (11.54%) MCSE
3 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 2 (7.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (7.69%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (3.85%) CCIE
5 1 (3.85%) CCNA
5 1 (3.85%) CCSE
5 1 (3.85%) CISSP
5 1 (3.85%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (19.23%) Cyber Essentials
1 5 (19.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (11.54%) GDPR
3 2 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (38.46%) Active Directory
2 4 (15.38%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.85%) Firmware
3 1 (3.85%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (30.77%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (7.69%) Ansible
2 2 (7.69%) Terraform
3 1 (3.85%) CASB
3 1 (3.85%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (3.85%) QRadar
3 1 (3.85%) SCCM
3 1 (3.85%) vCenter Server
3 1 (3.85%) VxRail
Vendors
1 11 (42.31%) Microsoft
2 6 (23.08%) Cisco
2 6 (23.08%) Palo Alto
3 3 (11.54%) Juniper
4 2 (7.69%) Aruba
4 2 (7.69%) F5
4 2 (7.69%) ServiceNow
4 2 (7.69%) Zscaler
5 1 (3.85%) 3PAR
5 1 (3.85%) CheckPoint
5 1 (3.85%) Databricks
5 1 (3.85%) Datto
5 1 (3.85%) Forcepoint
5 1 (3.85%) Google
5 1 (3.85%) HP
5 1 (3.85%) Okta
5 1 (3.85%) Splunk
5 1 (3.85%) Trend Micro
5 1 (3.85%) Veeam
5 1 (3.85%) VMware