VPN Contracts in the City of London

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 104 118
Rank change year-on-year +13 +14 +32
Contract jobs citing VPN 29 20 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.66% 0.92% 1.47%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.26% 9.43% 14.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 12 36
10th Percentile £368 £239 £131
25th Percentile £518 £240 £133
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £400 £295
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% +35.59% -44.86%
75th Percentile £652 £506 £570
90th Percentile £700 £667 £625
Central London median daily rate £585 £260 £250
% change year-on-year +125.00% +4.00% -53.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £13.50 -
Central London median hourly rate - £13.50 -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 168 212 365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.61% 9.76% 10.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 142 252
10th Percentile £258 £207 £233
25th Percentile £466 £350 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +22.06% -18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £634 £675
90th Percentile £741 £773 £750
Central London median daily rate £539 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +19.72% -18.18% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 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 - £14.25 £24.64
90th Percentile - - £30.86
Central London median hourly rate - £13.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year - -35.71% -48.15%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing VPN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for VPN in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VPN in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for VPN in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VPN in the City of London over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VPN in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VPN in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for VPN in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (3.45%) Anypoint
1 1 (3.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.45%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 18 (62.07%) Azure
2 9 (31.03%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 8 (27.59%) AWS
4 4 (13.79%) Serverless
5 2 (6.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (6.90%) Amazon Cognito
5 2 (6.90%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (6.90%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (6.90%) Amazon Macie
5 2 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (6.90%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (6.90%) AWS KMS
5 2 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (6.90%) Cloud9 IDE
5 2 (6.90%) GCP
5 2 (6.90%) GitHub
5 2 (6.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.45%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 21 (72.41%) Firewall
2 12 (41.38%) DNS
3 7 (24.14%) Network Security
3 7 (24.14%) NGFW
4 4 (13.79%) Internet
4 4 (13.79%) TCP/IP
5 3 (10.34%) DHCP
5 3 (10.34%) VLAN
5 3 (10.34%) Wireless
6 2 (6.90%) HTTP
6 2 (6.90%) IPsec
6 2 (6.90%) LAN
6 2 (6.90%) WAN
7 1 (3.45%) BGP
7 1 (3.45%) iSCSI
7 1 (3.45%) MPLS
7 1 (3.45%) NetScaler
7 1 (3.45%) OSPF
7 1 (3.45%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (6.90%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Git
1 2 (6.90%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (3.45%) Bitbucket
2 1 (3.45%) Maven
General
1 11 (37.93%) Finance
2 2 (6.90%) Banking
2 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
2 2 (6.90%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Law
3 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (37.93%) Network Engineer
2 10 (34.48%) Azure Engineer
3 7 (24.14%) Network Support
3 7 (24.14%) Network Support Engineer
3 7 (24.14%) Support Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Firewall Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Architect
5 3 (10.34%) Security Architect
6 2 (6.90%) AWS Architect
6 2 (6.90%) AWS Security Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Lead
6 2 (6.90%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Network Security Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Project Manager
6 2 (6.90%) Security Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Security Technical Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Technical Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Voice Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Cloud Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (24.14%) ADO
2 2 (6.90%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (6.90%) Node.js
2 2 (6.90%) Symfony
3 1 (3.45%) JSON
3 1 (3.45%) MUnit
3 1 (3.45%) RAML
3 1 (3.45%) REST
3 1 (3.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) Anti-Spyware
2 5 (17.24%) Data Centre
3 3 (10.34%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.45%) CMDB
4 1 (3.45%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (3.45%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.24%) Linux
1 5 (17.24%) Windows
2 3 (10.34%) Unix
2 3 (10.34%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (37.93%) Agile
2 10 (34.48%) Infrastructure as Code
2 10 (34.48%) Migration
3 7 (24.14%) CI/CD
3 7 (24.14%) Cloud Security
3 7 (24.14%) Kalman Filter
4 5 (17.24%) Containerisation
4 5 (17.24%) DevOps
5 4 (13.79%) Microservices
6 3 (10.34%) Change Management
6 3 (10.34%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (10.34%) High Availability
6 3 (10.34%) Project Management
6 3 (10.34%) SDLC
6 3 (10.34%) SIEM
7 2 (6.90%) Penetration Testing
7 2 (6.90%) Project Planning
7 2 (6.90%) Protective Monitoring
7 2 (6.90%) Security Architecture
7 2 (6.90%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.69%) Python
2 3 (10.34%) Shell Script
3 2 (6.90%) Bash
3 2 (6.90%) JavaScript
3 2 (6.90%) Perl
3 2 (6.90%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.45%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) Degree
1 6 (20.69%) SC Cleared
1 6 (20.69%) Security Cleared
2 5 (17.24%) CCNP
2 5 (17.24%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (10.34%) AWS Certification
3 3 (10.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (10.34%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (3.45%) CCNA
4 1 (3.45%) CCSA
4 1 (3.45%) CCSE
4 1 (3.45%) PMI Certification
4 1 (3.45%) PMP
4 1 (3.45%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) SLA
2 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.45%) BitLocker
2 1 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (3.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (37.93%) Terraform
2 5 (17.24%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.90%) Ansible
3 2 (6.90%) Progress Chef
3 2 (6.90%) Puppet
4 1 (3.45%) CloudHub
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (34.48%) CheckPoint
2 8 (27.59%) Infoblox
2 8 (27.59%) Palo Alto
3 4 (13.79%) Citrix
3 4 (13.79%) Fortinet
3 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
4 3 (10.34%) Forcepoint
4 3 (10.34%) SAP
5 2 (6.90%) Arista
5 2 (6.90%) BT
5 2 (6.90%) Cisco
5 2 (6.90%) Meraki
6 1 (3.45%) ForeScout
6 1 (3.45%) HP
6 1 (3.45%) Juniper
6 1 (3.45%) MuleSoft
6 1 (3.45%) Oracle
6 1 (3.45%) Salesforce
6 1 (3.45%) VMware
6 1 (3.45%) Zscaler