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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 86 111
Rank change year-on-year -30 +25 +2
Contract jobs citing VPN 25 39 22
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.02% 1.95% 0.91%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.34% 18.22% 9.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 27 14
10th Percentile £201 £258 £207
25th Percentile £291 £490 £239
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £585 £258
Median % change year-on-year -18.80% +127.18% -
75th Percentile £663 £650 £428
90th Percentile £712 £693 £561
London median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £21.29 - -
25th Percentile £21.98 - £12.75
Median hourly rate £23.87 - £13.50
75th Percentile £25.03 - £14.25
90th Percentile £25.29 - -
London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% +135.29% -65.63%

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 153 214 241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 6.26% 10.69% 9.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 146 167
10th Percentile £239 £259 £206
25th Percentile £422 £420 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £539 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% +19.72% -18.18%
75th Percentile £675 £639 £600
90th Percentile £738 £709 £741
London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -12.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile £20.08 - -
25th Percentile £21.98 - £12.75
Median hourly rate £25.79 - £13.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -35.71%
75th Percentile £26.11 - £16.59
90th Percentile - - £17.99
London median hourly rate £25.31 £42.50 £22.75
% change year-on-year -40.45% +86.81% -47.09%

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

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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 4 May 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 4 May 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 -19 23 £475 -20.83% 13
City of Westminster +1 3 £201 -55.44%
Camden +8 1 - -
West End of London +2 1 £201 -51.69%
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 (16.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (8.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 17 (68.00%) Azure
2 8 (32.00%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 4 (16.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (12.00%) AWS
5 3 (12.00%) GCP
5 3 (12.00%) Google Ads
5 3 (12.00%) Power Platform
5 3 (12.00%) PowerApps
6 2 (8.00%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Stack
7 1 (4.00%) Cloudflare
7 1 (4.00%) GitHub
7 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (4.00%) Power Automate
7 1 (4.00%) Rubrik
7 1 (4.00%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 14 (56.00%) Firewall
2 10 (40.00%) DNS
3 8 (32.00%) Network Security
4 6 (24.00%) DHCP
5 5 (20.00%) SD-WAN
5 5 (20.00%) WAN
6 4 (16.00%) Internet
7 3 (12.00%) TCP/IP
8 2 (8.00%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (8.00%) IPsec
8 2 (8.00%) LAN
8 2 (8.00%) SSL
8 2 (8.00%) VLAN
8 2 (8.00%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (4.00%) iSCSI
9 1 (4.00%) MPLS
9 1 (4.00%) Multicast
9 1 (4.00%) Softphone
9 1 (4.00%) VSAN
9 1 (4.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) Power BI
General
1 11 (44.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Finance
3 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) Network Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) Senior
3 4 (16.00%) Desktop Support
3 4 (16.00%) Desktop Support Technician
3 4 (16.00%) Desktop Technician
3 4 (16.00%) Service Desk Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Support Technician
4 3 (12.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Network Security Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Security Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Administrator
6 1 (4.00%) Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Consultant
6 1 (4.00%) Help Desk Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Integration Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) IT Support Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Security Administrator
6 1 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (8.00%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (8.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (8.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (8.00%) Replication
2 2 (8.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.00%) Anti-Spyware
3 1 (4.00%) BYOD
3 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.00%) Clustering
3 1 (4.00%) CMDB
3 1 (4.00%) Fat Client
3 1 (4.00%) Fixed Income
3 1 (4.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.00%) Thin Client
3 1 (4.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.00%) Windows
2 3 (12.00%) Linux
3 2 (8.00%) Mac OS
3 2 (8.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.00%) SUSE
4 1 (4.00%) Unix
4 1 (4.00%) VMS
4 1 (4.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) ITIL
2 6 (24.00%) Change Management
2 6 (24.00%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (20.00%) Service Delivery
4 4 (16.00%) Asset Management
4 4 (16.00%) Change Control
4 4 (16.00%) Cloud Security
4 4 (16.00%) Mentoring
4 4 (16.00%) Performance Metrics
4 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (12.00%) High Availability
5 3 (12.00%) Incident Management
5 3 (12.00%) Inventory Management
5 3 (12.00%) Kalman Filter
5 3 (12.00%) Migration
5 3 (12.00%) Security Patching
5 3 (12.00%) Service Management
5 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (12.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 8 (32.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (16.00%) Python
3 2 (8.00%) Bash
4 1 (4.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (12.00%) Azure Certification
2 3 (12.00%) CCNP
2 3 (12.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (8.00%) Degree
3 2 (8.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 2 (8.00%) Network+ Certification
3 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.00%) CCNA
4 1 (4.00%) CCSE
4 1 (4.00%) CISSP
4 1 (4.00%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (4.00%) MCSE
4 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 5 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (12.00%) GDPR
3 1 (4.00%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (36.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (8.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (4.00%) Firmware
4 1 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (4.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (24.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (16.00%) Terraform
3 2 (8.00%) Ansible
3 2 (8.00%) SCCM
4 1 (4.00%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (4.00%) Grafana
4 1 (4.00%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (4.00%) QRadar
4 1 (4.00%) vCenter Server
4 1 (4.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 9 (36.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (24.00%) Cisco
2 6 (24.00%) Palo Alto
3 3 (12.00%) Juniper
3 3 (12.00%) Zscaler
4 2 (8.00%) Aruba
4 2 (8.00%) Citrix
4 2 (8.00%) F5
4 2 (8.00%) ServiceNow
4 2 (8.00%) Splunk
4 2 (8.00%) VMware
5 1 (4.00%) 3PAR
5 1 (4.00%) AppDynamics
5 1 (4.00%) Databricks
5 1 (4.00%) Datto
5 1 (4.00%) Dynatrace
5 1 (4.00%) Okta
5 1 (4.00%) Solace
5 1 (4.00%) Trend Micro
5 1 (4.00%) Veeam