VPN Contracts in the City of London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for VPN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VPN over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 120 149
Rank change year-on-year +10 +29 -25
Contract jobs citing VPN 19 53 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.86% 1.45% 1.04%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.88% 14.68% 10.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 36 32
10th Percentile £239 £131 £207
25th Percentile £240 £133 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £344 £533
Median % change year-on-year +16.36% -35.48% +25.35%
75th Percentile £456 £570 £638
90th Percentile £598 £625 £650
Central London median daily rate £258 £265 £533
% change year-on-year -2.83% -50.26% +25.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.75 - -
Median hourly rate £13.50 - -
75th Percentile £14.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £13.50 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of London

VPN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 214 361 425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.63% 9.90% 10.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 245 326
10th Percentile £221 £239 £313
25th Percentile £350 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £563 £525
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +7.14% +4.53%
75th Percentile £620 £675 £615
90th Percentile £775 £764 £713
Central London median daily rate £450 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 9
10th Percentile - £20.46 -
25th Percentile £12.75 £20.81 £21.00
Median hourly rate £13.50 £21.00 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% -46.84% +125.71%
75th Percentile £16.59 £24.64 £61.75
90th Percentile £17.99 £30.86 £64.35
Central London median hourly rate £16.22 £21.00 £39.50
% change year-on-year -22.79% -46.84% +125.71%

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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 25 April 2024.

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 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.26%) IIS
2 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) Azure
1 7 (36.84%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
2 1 (5.26%) AWS
2 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
2 1 (5.26%) IaaS
2 1 (5.26%) OneDrive
2 1 (5.26%) PaaS
2 1 (5.26%) Route 53
2 1 (5.26%) SaaS
2 1 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (57.89%) Firewall
2 9 (47.37%) Wireless
3 4 (21.05%) BGP
3 4 (21.05%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (21.05%) LAN
3 4 (21.05%) WLAN
4 3 (15.79%) DNS
4 3 (15.79%) IPsec
4 3 (15.79%) OSPF
4 3 (15.79%) WAN
5 2 (10.53%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (5.26%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (5.26%) EIGRP
6 1 (5.26%) FCoE
6 1 (5.26%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (5.26%) iSCSI
6 1 (5.26%) NAS
6 1 (5.26%) SAN
6 1 (5.26%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Git
1 1 (5.26%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 5 (26.32%) Public Sector
1 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Retail
2 2 (10.53%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.26%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Network Specialist
2 4 (21.05%) IT Support
3 2 (10.53%) Audio Visual Support
3 2 (10.53%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Desktop Support
3 2 (10.53%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) IT Assistant
3 2 (10.53%) IT Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) IT Support Assistant
3 2 (10.53%) IT Support Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Network Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Service Desk Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Support Assistant
3 2 (10.53%) Support Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Technical Support
4 1 (5.26%) Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) ARM Templates
1 1 (5.26%) CSS
1 1 (5.26%) HTML
1 1 (5.26%) JSON
1 1 (5.26%) LAMP
1 1 (5.26%) MFC
1 1 (5.26%) React
1 1 (5.26%) SAML
1 1 (5.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Video Conferencing
2 3 (15.79%) PKI
3 2 (10.53%) Blackberry
3 2 (10.53%) IoT
4 1 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (5.26%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (42.11%) Windows
2 6 (31.58%) Windows 10
3 2 (10.53%) Android
3 2 (10.53%) Linux
3 2 (10.53%) Mac OS
3 2 (10.53%) Mac OS X
3 2 (10.53%) Windows Server
4 1 (5.26%) Ubuntu
4 1 (5.26%) VMS
4 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (26.32%) Change Management
1 5 (26.32%) Root Cause Analysis
2 4 (21.05%) Customer Service
3 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (10.53%) Agile
4 2 (10.53%) Application Virtualisation
4 2 (10.53%) Asset Management
4 2 (10.53%) CI/CD
4 2 (10.53%) Coaching
4 2 (10.53%) Customer Experience
4 2 (10.53%) DevOps
4 2 (10.53%) Filmmaking
4 2 (10.53%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (10.53%) Problem Management
4 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (10.53%) Threat Management
4 2 (10.53%) Zero Trust
5 1 (5.26%) Computer Science
5 1 (5.26%) Load Balancing
5 1 (5.26%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.26%) Java
2 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) CCIE
2 1 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.26%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (26.32%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.53%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.26%) Firmware
3 1 (5.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (31.58%) FortiGate
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.26%) SCCM
2 1 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (36.84%) Microsoft
2 6 (31.58%) Cisco
3 4 (21.05%) Citrix
3 4 (21.05%) Palo Alto
4 3 (15.79%) Juniper
5 2 (10.53%) Acronis
5 2 (10.53%) Apple
5 2 (10.53%) Aruba
5 2 (10.53%) Avaya
5 2 (10.53%) Bloomberg
6 1 (5.26%) Barracuda Networks
6 1 (5.26%) Okta
6 1 (5.26%) ProCurve
6 1 (5.26%) Remedy
6 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow
6 1 (5.26%) Synology
6 1 (5.26%) Veeam
6 1 (5.26%) VMware
6 1 (5.26%) Zerto