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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 78 104
Rank change year-on-year -36 +26 +23
Contract jobs citing VPN 24 44 28
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.09% 2.17% 1.09%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.09% 19.56% 10.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 31 18
10th Percentile £200 £463 £192
25th Percentile £204 £490 £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £585 £425
Median % change year-on-year -27.35% +37.65% +30.57%
75th Percentile £485 £653 £595
90th Percentile £644 £732 £713
London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
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 159 225 268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 7.20% 11.11% 10.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 158 183
10th Percentile £237 £254 £210
25th Percentile £413 £450 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £535 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% +18.89% -18.18%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £588
90th Percentile £738 £700 £713
London median daily rate £501 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +0.10% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 4
10th Percentile £20.69 - -
25th Percentile - £31.25 £12.75
Median hourly rate £25.47 £32.50 £16.22
Median % change year-on-year -21.63% +100.43% -21.30%
75th Percentile £26.11 £33.75 £18.93
90th Percentile £30.39 - -
London median hourly rate £25.47 £36.25 £22.00
% change year-on-year -29.74% +64.77% -14.43%

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 12 March 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

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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 12 March 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 -21 20 £425 -29.17% 12
Camden +10 3 - - 1
City of Westminster - 3 £201 -
West End of London +10 1 £201 -65.43%
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 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (16.67%) MS Visio
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (58.33%) Azure
2 11 (45.83%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (33.33%) Entra ID
4 3 (12.50%) Google Ads
5 2 (8.33%) AWS
5 2 (8.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
5 2 (8.33%) PowerApps
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (4.17%) Cloudflare
6 1 (4.17%) GCP
6 1 (4.17%) Google Workspace
6 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (4.17%) Rubrik
6 1 (4.17%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 12 (50.00%) Firewall
2 7 (29.17%) DNS
3 5 (20.83%) DHCP
4 4 (16.67%) Network Security
4 4 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (12.50%) SD-WAN
5 3 (12.50%) Softphone
5 3 (12.50%) WAN
6 2 (8.33%) BGP
6 2 (8.33%) Internet
6 2 (8.33%) IPsec
6 2 (8.33%) LAN
6 2 (8.33%) MPLS
6 2 (8.33%) SSL
6 2 (8.33%) TCP/IP
7 1 (4.17%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (4.17%) IPv4
7 1 (4.17%) IPv6
7 1 (4.17%) iSCSI
7 1 (4.17%) OSPF
General
1 11 (45.83%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Finance
3 2 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Law
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Senior
2 4 (16.67%) Desktop Support
2 4 (16.67%) Desktop Support Technician
2 4 (16.67%) Desktop Technician
2 4 (16.67%) Service Desk Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Support Technician
3 3 (12.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Architect
3 3 (12.50%) Help Desk Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Network Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) Support Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (4.17%) Administrator
5 1 (4.17%) Firewall Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Network Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Principal Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Security Administrator
5 1 (4.17%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 2 (8.33%) Web Conferencing
3 1 (4.17%) Anti-Spyware
3 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.17%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (4.17%) CMDB
3 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.17%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (4.17%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.83%) Windows
2 2 (8.33%) Mac OS
2 2 (8.33%) Windows 10
3 1 (4.17%) Linux
3 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) ITIL
2 7 (29.17%) Change Management
3 5 (20.83%) Service Delivery
4 4 (16.67%) Asset Management
4 4 (16.67%) Change Control
4 4 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 4 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 4 (16.67%) Performance Metrics
4 4 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (12.50%) Incident Management
5 3 (12.50%) Inventory Management
5 3 (12.50%) ITSM
5 3 (12.50%) Migration
5 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (12.50%) Security Patching
5 3 (12.50%) Service Management
5 3 (12.50%) Statistics
5 3 (12.50%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (20.83%) Degree
3 3 (12.50%) CCNP
3 3 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (12.50%) MCSE
3 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 2 (8.33%) Azure Certification
4 2 (8.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (8.33%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (4.17%) CCIE
5 1 (4.17%) CCSE
5 1 (4.17%) CISSP
5 1 (4.17%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (20.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (16.67%) GDPR
4 3 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (45.83%) Active Directory
2 3 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (8.33%) Ansible
2 2 (8.33%) Terraform
3 1 (4.17%) CASB
3 1 (4.17%) Dell DRAC
3 1 (4.17%) QRadar
3 1 (4.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (54.17%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.67%) Cisco
2 4 (16.67%) Palo Alto
3 2 (8.33%) CheckPoint
3 2 (8.33%) Juniper
3 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.17%) 3PAR
4 1 (4.17%) Aruba
4 1 (4.17%) Citrix
4 1 (4.17%) CyberArk
4 1 (4.17%) Databricks
4 1 (4.17%) Forcepoint
4 1 (4.17%) Google
4 1 (4.17%) HP
4 1 (4.17%) Meraki
4 1 (4.17%) Okta
4 1 (4.17%) Splunk
4 1 (4.17%) Trend Micro
4 1 (4.17%) Veeam
4 1 (4.17%) Zscaler