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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 107 116
Rank change year-on-year +16 +9 +41
Contract jobs citing VPN 37 30 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.84% 1.26% 1.62%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.62% 12.00% 15.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 23 47
10th Percentile £253 £239 £132
25th Percentile £427 £256 £153
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £425 £325
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% +30.77% -38.10%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £578
90th Percentile £688 £614 £646
London median daily rate £463 £434 £500
% change year-on-year +6.63% -13.25% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £12.75 £21.25
Median hourly rate - £13.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - -40.00% -
75th Percentile - £14.25 £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £38.75 £17.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +127.94% -24.44% -21.05%

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 210 250 390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 10.45% 10.53% 10.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 166 272
10th Percentile £250 £240 £180
25th Percentile £384 £350 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £463 £550
Median % change year-on-year +17.57% -15.91% +4.76%
75th Percentile £660 £600 £669
90th Percentile £753 £738 £750
London median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £27.56 - £20.43
25th Percentile £33.28 £12.75 £20.74
Median hourly rate £44.11 £13.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +226.72% -40.00% -45.78%
75th Percentile £55.49 £14.25 £29.38
90th Percentile £61.54 - £32.75
London median hourly rate £30.00 £23.80 £36.54
% change year-on-year +26.05% -34.87% +32.87%

VPN
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 5 July 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 5 July 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 +10 29 £600 +45.45% 59
City of Westminster +2 2 £450 -21.74% 3
West End of London - 2 £415 - 3
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 (2.70%) Anypoint
1 1 (2.70%) Confluence
1 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.70%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 20 (54.05%) Azure
2 11 (29.73%) AWS
3 7 (18.92%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 5 (13.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (10.81%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (10.81%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (10.81%) Serverless
6 3 (8.11%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (8.11%) Amazon S3
6 3 (8.11%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (8.11%) GCP
6 3 (8.11%) GitHub
7 2 (5.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (5.41%) Amazon Cognito
7 2 (5.41%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (5.41%) Cloud9 IDE
7 2 (5.41%) Entra ID
7 2 (5.41%) Route 53
8 1 (2.70%) Amazon Macie
8 1 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 25 (67.57%) Firewall
2 17 (45.95%) DNS
3 8 (21.62%) NGFW
4 6 (16.22%) Network Security
5 5 (13.51%) DHCP
5 5 (13.51%) LAN
6 4 (10.81%) TCP/IP
7 3 (8.11%) WAN
7 3 (8.11%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (5.41%) BGP
8 2 (5.41%) HTTP
8 2 (5.41%) Internet
8 2 (5.41%) IPsec
9 1 (2.70%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (2.70%) Ethernet
9 1 (2.70%) iSCSI
9 1 (2.70%) MPLS
9 1 (2.70%) OSPF
9 1 (2.70%) SSL
9 1 (2.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.51%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (5.41%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Git
1 3 (8.11%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.70%) JIRA
3 1 (2.70%) Maven
General
1 13 (35.14%) Finance
2 6 (16.22%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.11%) Banking
4 2 (5.41%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (5.41%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Law
5 1 (2.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (24.32%) Network Engineer
1 9 (24.32%) Support Engineer
2 8 (21.62%) Azure Engineer
3 7 (18.92%) Network Support
3 7 (18.92%) Network Support Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Firewall Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) IT Support
5 3 (8.11%) Analyst
5 3 (8.11%) Architect
5 3 (8.11%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 3 (8.11%) Lead
6 2 (5.41%) Consultant
6 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) IT Support Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) IT Support Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Network Consultant
6 2 (5.41%) Project Manager
6 2 (5.41%) Security Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.92%) ADO
2 2 (5.41%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (5.41%) Node.js
2 2 (5.41%) Symfony
3 1 (2.70%) JSON
3 1 (2.70%) MUnit
3 1 (2.70%) RAML
3 1 (2.70%) REST
3 1 (2.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.62%) Anti-Spyware
2 3 (8.11%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.11%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.41%) Distributed Applications
3 2 (5.41%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.41%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.70%) CMDB
4 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.70%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (32.43%) Windows
2 7 (18.92%) Linux
3 4 (10.81%) Unix
4 3 (8.11%) Windows 10
5 2 (5.41%) Windows Server
6 1 (2.70%) Mac OS
6 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (35.14%) Migration
2 12 (32.43%) Agile
2 12 (32.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (27.03%) CI/CD
4 8 (21.62%) Kalman Filter
5 7 (18.92%) DevOps
6 5 (13.51%) Cloud Security
6 5 (13.51%) Containerisation
6 5 (13.51%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (10.81%) Microservices
7 4 (10.81%) Project Management
8 3 (8.11%) Continuous Deployment
8 3 (8.11%) Deployment Automation
8 3 (8.11%) High Availability
8 3 (8.11%) ITIL
8 3 (8.11%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (8.11%) SDLC
9 2 (5.41%) DevSecOps
9 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 2 (5.41%) Network Segmentation
Programming Languages
1 6 (16.22%) Python
2 4 (10.81%) PowerShell
2 4 (10.81%) Shell Script
3 2 (5.41%) Bash
3 2 (5.41%) Java
3 2 (5.41%) JavaScript
3 2 (5.41%) Perl
Qualifications
1 7 (18.92%) Degree
1 7 (18.92%) SC Cleared
1 7 (18.92%) Security Cleared
2 6 (16.22%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (13.51%) CCNP
4 4 (10.81%) AWS Certification
4 4 (10.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (8.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 2 (5.41%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (5.41%) CCNA
7 1 (2.70%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.70%) CCSE
7 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.70%) PMI Certification
7 1 (2.70%) PMP
7 1 (2.70%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) SLA
2 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 6 (16.22%) Active Directory
2 4 (10.81%) Docker
3 2 (5.41%) BitLocker
4 1 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (40.54%) Terraform
2 5 (13.51%) Kubernetes
3 4 (10.81%) Progress Chef
3 4 (10.81%) Puppet
4 3 (8.11%) Ansible
5 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (5.41%) SCCM
6 1 (2.70%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 11 (29.73%) Palo Alto
2 8 (21.62%) CheckPoint
3 7 (18.92%) Infoblox
4 6 (16.22%) Microsoft
5 5 (13.51%) Citrix
6 4 (10.81%) Fortinet
7 3 (8.11%) Cisco
7 3 (8.11%) SAP
8 2 (5.41%) BT
8 2 (5.41%) Juniper
8 2 (5.41%) ServiceNow
8 2 (5.41%) VMware
9 1 (2.70%) Forcepoint
9 1 (2.70%) ForeScout
9 1 (2.70%) Google
9 1 (2.70%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (2.70%) Meraki
9 1 (2.70%) MuleSoft
9 1 (2.70%) Salesforce
9 1 (2.70%) Zscaler