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 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 95 106
Rank change year-on-year -10 +11 +45
Contract jobs citing VPN 23 43 47
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.23% 1.83% 1.54%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.07% 16.54% 15.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 29 30
10th Percentile £201 £310 £195
25th Percentile £234 £463 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £575 £533
Median % change year-on-year -26.09% +7.98% +13.30%
75th Percentile £631 £638 £634
90th Percentile £673 £733 £701
London median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.47 - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £30.00 £23.80 £22.50
% change year-on-year +26.05% +5.78% -17.43%

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 176 260 304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 9.43% 11.08% 9.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 165 195
10th Percentile £250 £280 £233
25th Percentile £406 £431 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.10% - -
75th Percentile £664 £638 £617
90th Percentile £738 £738 £700
London median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £21.25 - £26.38
25th Percentile £22.86 £31.25 £34.06
Median hourly rate £24.99 £32.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -23.12% -33.33% +132.14%
75th Percentile £35.50 £33.75 £64.06
90th Percentile £53.54 - £72.13
London median hourly rate £25.15 £39.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year -36.33% +49.06% +10.83%

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 23 October 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 23 October 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 -7 20 £425 -24.78% 25
City of Westminster 0 1 £250 -56.52% 1
Camden - 1 - - 1
West End of London - 1 £250 - 1
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 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (8.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (4.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 8 (34.78%) Azure
2 7 (30.43%) AWS
3 6 (26.09%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (21.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (17.39%) Entra ID
6 3 (13.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (13.04%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (13.04%) Amazon S3
7 2 (8.70%) Amazon ELB
7 2 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (8.70%) GCP
8 1 (4.35%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (4.35%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (4.35%) Cloud9 IDE
8 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (4.35%) OneDrive
8 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (56.52%) Firewall
2 10 (43.48%) DNS
3 5 (21.74%) TCP/IP
3 5 (21.74%) WAN
4 4 (17.39%) LAN
4 4 (17.39%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (13.04%) BGP
5 3 (13.04%) SSL
6 2 (8.70%) DHCP
6 2 (8.70%) Internet
6 2 (8.70%) MPLS
6 2 (8.70%) Network Security
6 2 (8.70%) OSPF
6 2 (8.70%) SD-WAN
7 1 (4.35%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (4.35%) IP Telephony
7 1 (4.35%) NGFW
7 1 (4.35%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (4.35%) VLAN
7 1 (4.35%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 2 (8.70%) Git
3 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 9 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Finance
3 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Banking
3 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (17.39%) Support Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) Analyst
2 3 (13.04%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (13.04%) Consultant
2 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) Network Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (8.70%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) AWS Specialist
3 2 (8.70%) DevOps Specialist
3 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 2 (8.70%) Network Consultant
3 2 (8.70%) Security Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Senior
3 2 (8.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Build Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) IT Support
4 1 (4.35%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) ADO
1 1 (4.35%) SAML
1 1 (4.35%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Virtual Team
2 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.70%) Distributed Applications
2 2 (8.70%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (8.70%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (8.70%) Web Conferencing
3 1 (4.35%) Anti-Spyware
3 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.35%) Operational Technology
3 1 (4.35%) SCADA
3 1 (4.35%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 8 (34.78%) Windows
2 4 (17.39%) Windows 10
3 3 (13.04%) Linux
4 2 (8.70%) Unix
5 1 (4.35%) Mac OS
5 1 (4.35%) Mac OS X
5 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (26.09%) DevOps
2 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (17.39%) ITIL
2 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (17.39%) Project Management
3 3 (13.04%) Agile
3 3 (13.04%) CI/CD
3 3 (13.04%) Cloud Security
3 3 (13.04%) High Availability
3 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (13.04%) Migration
3 3 (13.04%) Security Monitoring
4 2 (8.70%) Break/Fix
4 2 (8.70%) Containerisation
4 2 (8.70%) Continuous Deployment
4 2 (8.70%) Kalman Filter
4 2 (8.70%) Microservices
4 2 (8.70%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 2 (8.70%) Network Segmentation
4 2 (8.70%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.04%) Python
2 2 (8.70%) Java
2 2 (8.70%) Shell Script
3 1 (4.35%) Bash
3 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) SC Cleared
1 5 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.04%) Degree
3 2 (8.70%) AWS Certification
3 2 (8.70%) AWS Certified Developer
3 2 (8.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (8.70%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 1 (4.35%) CCNA
4 1 (4.35%) CCNP
4 1 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.35%) MCP
4 1 (4.35%) MCSE
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) SLA
2 1 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (4.35%) GDPR
2 1 (4.35%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (30.43%) Active Directory
2 4 (17.39%) Docker
3 1 (4.35%) BitLocker
3 1 (4.35%) Firmware
3 1 (4.35%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Terraform
2 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (13.04%) SCCM
4 2 (8.70%) Ansible
4 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
4 2 (8.70%) Progress Chef
4 2 (8.70%) Puppet
5 1 (4.35%) CASB
5 1 (4.35%) Dell DRAC
5 1 (4.35%) FortiGate
5 1 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Microsoft
1 7 (30.43%) Palo Alto
2 5 (21.74%) CheckPoint
3 4 (17.39%) Citrix
4 3 (13.04%) ServiceNow
5 2 (8.70%) Cisco
5 2 (8.70%) F5
5 2 (8.70%) Meraki
5 2 (8.70%) VMware
6 1 (4.35%) AlgoSec
6 1 (4.35%) BT
6 1 (4.35%) CyberArk
6 1 (4.35%) ForeScout
6 1 (4.35%) Fortinet
6 1 (4.35%) IBM
6 1 (4.35%) Infoblox
6 1 (4.35%) Juniper
6 1 (4.35%) Remedy
6 1 (4.35%) Splunk
6 1 (4.35%) Tufin