VPN Contracts in Coventry

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Coventry 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 29 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 12 24
Rank change year-on-year -8 +12 +4
Contract jobs citing VPN 4 8 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Coventry 3.23% 8.60% 2.90%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.67% 42.11% 17.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 6
10th Percentile £223 £167 £296
25th Percentile £228 £363 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £416 £650 £450
Median % change year-on-year -36.04% +44.44% +20.00%
75th Percentile £627 £675 £475
90th Percentile £641 - £500
West Midlands median daily rate £380 £438 £450
% change year-on-year -13.14% -2.78% +20.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 24 19 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 19.35% 20.43% 16.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 17 24
10th Percentile £237 £175 £254
25th Percentile £350 £375 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +26.25% -5.88% +103.59%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £475
90th Percentile £725 - £534
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% -2.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £26.00
Median hourly rate - - £27.00
75th Percentile - - £28.00
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £14.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +114.29% -49.09% +61.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

Job postings citing VPN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Coventry.

Job vacancy trend for VPN in Coventry

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Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing VPN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing VPN

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Daily Rate Histogram in Coventry

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VPN in Coventry over the 6 months to 29 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VPN in Coventry

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Hourly Rate Trend in Coventry

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing VPN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing VPN

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Coventry 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) 5G
2 1 (25.00%) DHCP
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) LoRaWAN
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (25.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (25.00%) Automotive
1 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Information Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Security Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
1 1 (25.00%) IoT
1 1 (25.00%) NB-IoT
1 1 (25.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) Information Security
3 1 (25.00%) Low Latency
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Network Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Network Design
3 1 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Secrets Management
3 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) CASB
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Dell
1 2 (50.00%) HP
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft