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 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 97 125
Rank change year-on-year +2 +28 +26
DemandTrendContract jobs citing VPN 27 23 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.47% 1.12% 1.38%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.52% 11.86% 14.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 17 32
10th Percentile £263 £262 £133
25th Percentile £396 £400 £153
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £450 £469
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -4.00% -11.56%
75th Percentile £644 £614 £588
90th Percentile £673 £638 £649
Central London median daily rate £580 £481 £469
% change year-on-year +20.52% +2.67% -6.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £22.50

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 186 194 294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 10.13% 9.43% 9.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 115 196
10th Percentile £263 £261 £213
25th Percentile £406 £391 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £525 £548
Median % change year-on-year +4.05% -4.11% +4.29%
75th Percentile £667 £625 £650
90th Percentile £758 £756 £738
Central London median daily rate £543 £518 £540
% change year-on-year +4.83% -4.17% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £27.56 - £26.38
25th Percentile £33.28 - £34.06
Median hourly rate £44.11 - £48.75
Median % change year-on-year - - +87.50%
75th Percentile £55.49 - £64.06
90th Percentile £61.54 - £72.13
Central London median hourly rate £44.11 - £48.75
% change year-on-year - - +87.50%

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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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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing VPN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing VPN

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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 23 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VPN in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing VPN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing VPN

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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 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.70%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 14 (51.85%) Azure
2 10 (37.04%) AWS
3 8 (29.63%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 6 (22.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (14.81%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (14.81%) Amazon S3
6 3 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (11.11%) GitHub
6 3 (11.11%) Serverless
7 2 (7.41%) Amazon Cognito
7 2 (7.41%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (7.41%) Amazon ELB
7 2 (7.41%) Cloud9 IDE
7 2 (7.41%) GCP
8 1 (3.70%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (3.70%) Entra ID
8 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (3.70%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 19 (70.37%) DNS
1 19 (70.37%) Firewall
2 8 (29.63%) NGFW
3 7 (25.93%) TCP/IP
4 4 (14.81%) DHCP
5 3 (11.11%) LAN
5 3 (11.11%) Network Security
5 3 (11.11%) SSL
5 3 (11.11%) WAN
6 2 (7.41%) Internet
7 1 (3.70%) BGP
7 1 (3.70%) HTTP
7 1 (3.70%) IP Telephony
7 1 (3.70%) IPsec
7 1 (3.70%) iSCSI
7 1 (3.70%) MPLS
7 1 (3.70%) OSPF
7 1 (3.70%) SD-WAN
7 1 (3.70%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (3.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.81%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (7.41%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Jenkins
2 3 (11.11%) Git
3 2 (7.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (3.70%) JIRA
General
1 6 (22.22%) Finance
2 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Banking
3 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 8 (29.63%) Azure Engineer
2 8 (29.63%) Network Support
2 8 (29.63%) Network Support Engineer
2 8 (29.63%) Support Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (11.11%) Lead
5 2 (7.41%) Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) AWS Specialist
5 2 (7.41%) Consultant
5 2 (7.41%) DevOps Specialist
5 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 2 (7.41%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Senior
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Voice Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Firewall Specialist
6 1 (3.70%) Network Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (29.63%) ADO
2 2 (7.41%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (7.41%) Node.js
2 2 (7.41%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 8 (29.63%) Anti-Spyware
2 3 (11.11%) Virtual Team
3 2 (7.41%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.41%) Distributed Applications
3 2 (7.41%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.70%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.70%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.70%) SCADA
4 1 (3.70%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (18.52%) Linux
1 5 (18.52%) Windows
2 4 (14.81%) Unix
3 2 (7.41%) Windows 10
4 1 (3.70%) Mac OS
4 1 (3.70%) Mac OS X
4 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (48.15%) Infrastructure as Code
2 12 (44.44%) Agile
3 8 (29.63%) DevOps
3 8 (29.63%) Kalman Filter
3 8 (29.63%) Migration
4 6 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (14.81%) Containerisation
7 3 (11.11%) Cloud Security
7 3 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (11.11%) High Availability
7 3 (11.11%) Load Balancing
7 3 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (11.11%) Project Management
8 2 (7.41%) Configuration Management
8 2 (7.41%) Continuous Deployment
8 2 (7.41%) Cybersecurity
8 2 (7.41%) DevSecOps
8 2 (7.41%) ITIL
8 2 (7.41%) Log Aggregation
Programming Languages
1 6 (22.22%) Python
2 4 (14.81%) Shell Script
3 2 (7.41%) Bash
3 2 (7.41%) Java
3 2 (7.41%) JavaScript
3 2 (7.41%) Perl
4 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 6 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) AWS Certification
2 2 (7.41%) AWS Certified Developer
2 2 (7.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (7.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (7.41%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 2 (7.41%) CCNP
2 2 (7.41%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (7.41%) Degree
3 1 (3.70%) CCNA
3 1 (3.70%) CCSE
3 1 (3.70%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.70%) PMP
3 1 (3.70%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) SLA
2 1 (3.70%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (22.22%) Docker
2 3 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.70%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (59.26%) Terraform
2 4 (14.81%) Kubernetes
3 3 (11.11%) Ansible
3 3 (11.11%) Progress Chef
3 3 (11.11%) Puppet
4 1 (3.70%) FortiGate
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (3.70%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (51.85%) Palo Alto
2 12 (44.44%) CheckPoint
3 8 (29.63%) Infoblox
4 4 (14.81%) Citrix
4 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
5 2 (7.41%) BT
5 2 (7.41%) Cisco
5 2 (7.41%) F5
5 2 (7.41%) Juniper
5 2 (7.41%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.70%) 3PAR
6 1 (3.70%) AlgoSec
6 1 (3.70%) Barracuda Networks
6 1 (3.70%) Forcepoint
6 1 (3.70%) Fortinet
6 1 (3.70%) HP
6 1 (3.70%) IBM
6 1 (3.70%) Trend Micro
6 1 (3.70%) Tufin
6 1 (3.70%) VMware