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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 98 101
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 +9
Contract jobs citing VPN 51 22 36
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.09% 1.14% 1.55%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.73% 11.58% 15.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 15 24
10th Percentile £254 £207 £331
25th Percentile £295 £250 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £575
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -26.09% +15.00%
75th Percentile £638 £644 £647
90th Percentile £722 £673 £736
London median daily rate £500 £450 £513
% change year-on-year +11.11% -12.20% +2.50%

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 246 190 238
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 10.10% 9.82% 10.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 138 149
10th Percentile £263 £254 £283
25th Percentile £393 £378 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -1.64%
75th Percentile £625 £661 £638
90th Percentile £714 £728 £754
London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 0
10th Percentile £27.10 £27.56 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £33.28 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £44.11 -
Median % change year-on-year +41.70% - -
75th Percentile £155.34 £55.49 -
90th Percentile - £61.54 -
London median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £38.75
% change year-on-year +108.75% -35.10% +49.04%

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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 October 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

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 1 October 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 +14 50 £500 +5.26% 30
City of Westminster -7 2 £425 +70.00% 2
West End of London -8 1 £425 +70.00%
VPN
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 11 (21.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (5.88%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.92%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.96%) Monis
Cloud Services
1 20 (39.22%) Azure
2 13 (25.49%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (17.65%) AWS
4 8 (15.69%) GCP
5 4 (7.84%) Entra ID
5 4 (7.84%) GitHub
5 4 (7.84%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (7.84%) IaaS
5 4 (7.84%) OneDrive
5 4 (7.84%) OpenShift
5 4 (7.84%) PaaS
6 3 (5.88%) Power Automate
6 3 (5.88%) Power Platform
6 3 (5.88%) PowerApps
7 2 (3.92%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (3.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (1.96%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.96%) Google Docs
8 1 (1.96%) Google Sheets
8 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 29 (56.86%) DNS
2 26 (50.98%) Firewall
3 19 (37.25%) DHCP
4 13 (25.49%) TCP/IP
5 11 (21.57%) WAN
6 9 (17.65%) Network Security
6 9 (17.65%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (15.69%) SD-WAN
8 7 (13.73%) LAN
8 7 (13.73%) VLAN
9 6 (11.76%) BGP
9 6 (11.76%) Multicast
9 6 (11.76%) OSPF
10 5 (9.80%) Internet
10 5 (9.80%) Wireless
11 4 (7.84%) MPLS
12 3 (5.88%) SMTP
13 2 (3.92%) DMZ
13 2 (3.92%) Intrusion Detection
13 2 (3.92%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (5.88%) Big Data
1 3 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (5.88%) Power BI
1 3 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (21.57%) JIRA
2 2 (3.92%) Artifactory
2 2 (3.92%) Bitbucket
2 2 (3.92%) Git
2 2 (3.92%) GitLab
2 2 (3.92%) Jenkins
General
1 21 (41.18%) Finance
2 16 (31.37%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.84%) Banking
3 4 (7.84%) Front Office
4 3 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.92%) Law
6 1 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (27.45%) Network Engineer
2 10 (19.61%) Support Engineer
3 6 (11.76%) Analyst
4 5 (9.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (9.80%) IT Engineer
4 5 (9.80%) IT Support
4 5 (9.80%) Support Analyst
5 4 (7.84%) Architect
5 4 (7.84%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Firewall Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Middleware Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Senior
6 3 (5.88%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 3 (5.88%) 3rd Line Support
6 3 (5.88%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) Infrastructure Support
6 3 (5.88%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (17.65%) Terraform
2 4 (7.84%) Middleware
3 2 (3.92%) .NET
3 2 (3.92%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.96%) eBPF
4 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 9 (17.65%) Data Centre
2 6 (11.76%) Onboarding
3 4 (7.84%) Fixed Income
3 4 (7.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (5.88%) Clustering
4 3 (5.88%) PKI
4 3 (5.88%) Replication
4 3 (5.88%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (3.92%) BYOD
5 2 (3.92%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.96%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.96%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.96%) CMDB
6 1 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.96%) Fat Client
6 1 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.96%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 22 (43.14%) Windows
2 10 (19.61%) Linux
3 9 (17.65%) Windows Server
4 6 (11.76%) Windows 10
5 4 (7.84%) Mac OS
5 4 (7.84%) Unix
6 1 (1.96%) Android
6 1 (1.96%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.96%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (1.96%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.96%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.96%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (27.45%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (17.65%) DevOps
3 8 (15.69%) ITIL
3 8 (15.69%) Observability
4 7 (13.73%) High Availability
4 7 (13.73%) Incident Management
4 7 (13.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (13.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (13.73%) Load Balancing
4 7 (13.73%) Migration
4 7 (13.73%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (11.76%) Electronic Trading
5 6 (11.76%) ITSM
5 6 (11.76%) Performance Tuning
6 5 (9.80%) CI/CD
6 5 (9.80%) Customer Service
7 4 (7.84%) Kalman Filter
7 4 (7.84%) Low Latency
7 4 (7.84%) Requirements Gathering
7 4 (7.84%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 11 (21.57%) PowerShell
1 11 (21.57%) Python
2 6 (11.76%) SQL
3 3 (5.88%) Bash
3 3 (5.88%) Shell Script
4 2 (3.92%) Java
5 1 (1.96%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 6 (11.76%) Degree
2 6 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.84%) CCNP
3 4 (7.84%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (5.88%) CCIE
4 3 (5.88%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.96%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.96%) CCNA
5 1 (1.96%) CISM
5 1 (1.96%) CISSP
5 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.92%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (3.92%) SLA
2 1 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.96%) NIST
2 1 (1.96%) QA
System Software
1 16 (31.37%) Active Directory
2 6 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (9.80%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (7.84%) Hyper-V
5 3 (5.88%) BitLocker
5 3 (5.88%) Docker
5 3 (5.88%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (5.88%) Terminal Services
5 3 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (3.92%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (19.61%) SCCM
2 9 (17.65%) Kubernetes
3 6 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (9.80%) Grafana
4 5 (9.80%) ITRS Geneos
4 5 (9.80%) vCenter Server
5 4 (7.84%) Ansible
5 4 (7.84%) FortiGate
6 3 (5.88%) Nagios
6 3 (5.88%) Prometheus
6 3 (5.88%) Puppet
6 3 (5.88%) vMotion
7 2 (3.92%) Istio
7 2 (3.92%) Nessus
8 1 (1.96%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (1.96%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 18 (35.29%) Cisco
2 17 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 11 (21.57%) Palo Alto
4 10 (19.61%) Citrix
5 8 (15.69%) ServiceNow
5 8 (15.69%) VMware
6 7 (13.73%) Bloomberg
6 7 (13.73%) Fortinet
7 6 (11.76%) Google
8 5 (9.80%) Dynatrace
8 5 (9.80%) Splunk
8 5 (9.80%) Zscaler
9 4 (7.84%) F5
9 4 (7.84%) Solace
10 3 (5.88%) AppDynamics
10 3 (5.88%) HP
10 3 (5.88%) ION Trading
10 3 (5.88%) Meraki
10 3 (5.88%) Refinitiv
10 3 (5.88%) Symantec