VPN Contracts in Central London

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring VPN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VPN over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 113 115
Rank change year-on-year +27 +2 +37
Contract jobs citing VPN 38 22 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.90% 0.90% 1.56%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.92% 9.05% 15.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 14 41
10th Percentile £321 £207 £131
25th Percentile £493 £239 £133
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £258 £265
Median % change year-on-year +130.10% -2.83% -50.26%
75th Percentile £650 £428 £550
90th Percentile £694 £561 £613
London median daily rate £500 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £13.50 -
London median hourly rate £50.00 £17.00 £49.47
% change year-on-year +194.12% -65.63% +73.56%

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 212 243 390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 10.61% 9.95% 10.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 169 270
10th Percentile £263 £206 £209
25th Percentile £438 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £640 £600 £669
90th Percentile £715 £739 £750
London median daily rate £500 £500 £561
% change year-on-year - -10.91% +2.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - - £20.46
25th Percentile - £12.75 £20.81
Median hourly rate - £13.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year - -35.71% -46.84%
75th Percentile - £16.59 £24.64
90th Percentile - £17.99 £30.86
London median hourly rate £45.00 £22.00 £46.00
% change year-on-year +104.55% -52.17% +31.43%

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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

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VPN in Central London.

Daily rate trend for VPN in Central London

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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 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VPN in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VPN in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for VPN in Central London

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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 2 May 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 +17 29 £600 +50.00% 15
West End of London -2 1 £580 +176.19% 3
City of Westminster - 1 £650 - 1
Camden - 1 £580 -
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London

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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 1 (2.63%) Anypoint
1 1 (2.63%) Confluence
1 1 (2.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.63%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 21 (55.26%) Azure
2 10 (26.32%) AWS
3 9 (23.68%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 4 (10.53%) Serverless
5 3 (7.89%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (7.89%) GCP
5 3 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (7.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (5.26%) Amazon Cognito
6 2 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (5.26%) Amazon Macie
6 2 (5.26%) Amazon S3
6 2 (5.26%) AWS CloudTrail
6 2 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (5.26%) Cloud9 IDE
6 2 (5.26%) Entra ID
6 2 (5.26%) GitHub
6 2 (5.26%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 25 (65.79%) Firewall
2 13 (34.21%) DNS
3 8 (21.05%) NGFW
4 7 (18.42%) Network Security
5 5 (13.16%) LAN
6 4 (10.53%) BGP
6 4 (10.53%) Internet
6 4 (10.53%) TCP/IP
7 3 (7.89%) DHCP
7 3 (7.89%) MPLS
7 3 (7.89%) OSPF
7 3 (7.89%) VLAN
7 3 (7.89%) WAN
7 3 (7.89%) Wireless
8 2 (5.26%) Broadband
8 2 (5.26%) Cisco Firepower
8 2 (5.26%) HTTP
8 2 (5.26%) IPsec
8 2 (5.26%) IPv6
8 2 (5.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (5.26%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Git
2 2 (5.26%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (2.63%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.63%) Maven
General
1 13 (34.21%) Finance
2 5 (13.16%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.89%) Banking
4 2 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (5.26%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Law
5 1 (2.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (34.21%) Network Engineer
2 10 (26.32%) Azure Engineer
3 9 (23.68%) Support Engineer
4 7 (18.42%) Network Support
4 7 (18.42%) Network Support Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Architect
5 4 (10.53%) Firewall Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) AWS Architect
6 3 (7.89%) IT Support
6 3 (7.89%) Lead
6 3 (7.89%) Security Architect
7 2 (5.26%) AWS Security Architect
7 2 (5.26%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (5.26%) IT Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Principal Network Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Security Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Security Technical Architect
7 2 (5.26%) Voice Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.42%) ADO
2 2 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (5.26%) Node.js
2 2 (5.26%) Symfony
3 1 (2.63%) JSON
3 1 (2.63%) MUnit
3 1 (2.63%) RAML
3 1 (2.63%) REST
3 1 (2.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.05%) Anti-Spyware
2 5 (13.16%) Data Centre
3 3 (7.89%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.63%) CMDB
4 1 (2.63%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (2.63%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.63%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (26.32%) Windows
2 7 (18.42%) Linux
3 3 (7.89%) Unix
3 3 (7.89%) Windows 10
4 2 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (39.47%) Migration
2 11 (28.95%) Agile
3 10 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (23.68%) CI/CD
5 8 (21.05%) Kalman Filter
6 7 (18.42%) Cloud Security
7 6 (15.79%) DevOps
8 5 (13.16%) Containerisation
9 4 (10.53%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (10.53%) High Availability
9 4 (10.53%) Microservices
10 3 (7.89%) Change Management
10 3 (7.89%) Deployment Automation
10 3 (7.89%) Mentoring
10 3 (7.89%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (7.89%) Project Delivery
10 3 (7.89%) Project Management
10 3 (7.89%) SDLC
10 3 (7.89%) SIEM
11 2 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (18.42%) Python
2 5 (13.16%) PowerShell
3 3 (7.89%) Bash
3 3 (7.89%) Shell Script
4 2 (5.26%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.26%) Perl
5 1 (2.63%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (21.05%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (18.42%) Degree
2 7 (18.42%) SC Cleared
2 7 (18.42%) Security Cleared
3 5 (13.16%) CCNP
4 4 (10.53%) AWS Certification
4 4 (10.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (7.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 2 (5.26%) CCIE
6 2 (5.26%) CCNA
7 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (2.63%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.63%) CCSA
7 1 (2.63%) CCSE
7 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.63%) PMI Certification
7 1 (2.63%) PMP
7 1 (2.63%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) SLA
2 1 (2.63%) QA
System Software
1 4 (10.53%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.89%) Docker
3 2 (5.26%) BitLocker
4 1 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.63%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (34.21%) Terraform
2 5 (13.16%) Kubernetes
3 4 (10.53%) Ansible
4 3 (7.89%) Progress Chef
4 3 (7.89%) Puppet
5 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.63%) CloudHub
6 1 (2.63%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (26.32%) CheckPoint
1 10 (26.32%) Palo Alto
2 8 (21.05%) Infoblox
3 6 (15.79%) Microsoft
4 5 (13.16%) Cisco
4 5 (13.16%) Citrix
5 4 (10.53%) Fortinet
6 3 (7.89%) Forcepoint
6 3 (7.89%) SAP
7 2 (5.26%) Arista
7 2 (5.26%) BT
7 2 (5.26%) Meraki
7 2 (5.26%) SolarWinds
7 2 (5.26%) VMware
8 1 (2.63%) 3PAR
8 1 (2.63%) ForeScout
8 1 (2.63%) Google
8 1 (2.63%) MuleSoft
8 1 (2.63%) Trend Micro
8 1 (2.63%) Zscaler