VPN Contracts in the East Midlands

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 45 51
Rank change year-on-year -17 +6 +24
Contract jobs citing VPN 4 22 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.52% 2.92% 2.07%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.63% 23.91% 16.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 11 12
10th Percentile - £160 £284
25th Percentile £425 £338 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £350
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +57.14% -9.68%
75th Percentile £475 £581 £648
90th Percentile - £600 £700
England median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +0.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 4
10th Percentile - - £10.76
25th Percentile - £12.75 £10.77
Median hourly rate - £13.50 £15.89
Median % change year-on-year - -15.01% -9.54%
75th Percentile - £14.25 £21.50
90th Percentile - £14.26 -
England median hourly rate £63.50 £16.22 £19.00
% change year-on-year +291.49% -14.63% -14.61%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 71 92 111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 9.24% 12.22% 12.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 55 77
10th Percentile £171 £205 £213
25th Percentile £257 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £500 £455
Median % change year-on-year -14.20% +9.78% +7.16%
75th Percentile £492 £588 £631
90th Percentile £605 £646 £700
England median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 6
10th Percentile - - £10.76
25th Percentile - £12.75 £13.08
Median hourly rate £13.81 £24.20 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.93% +18.05% -4.65%
75th Percentile £21.91 £26.15 £21.50
90th Percentile £25.15 - £37.75
England median hourly rate £42.50 £54.88 £55.00
% change year-on-year -22.55% -0.23% +69.23%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing VPN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for VPN in the East Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VPN in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for VPN in the East Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VPN in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for VPN in the East Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 August 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
Leicestershire -3 2 £450 -10.00% 5
Nottinghamshire -8 1 - - 10
Northamptonshire -17 1 - - 2
VPN
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure App Service
2 2 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Storage
2 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (50.00%) IaaS
2 2 (50.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
2 3 (75.00%) DNS
3 1 (25.00%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Project Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) VMS
2 1 (25.00%) CentOS
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Rocky
2 1 (25.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Operations
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (50.00%) Identity Management
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 2 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement Process
2 1 (25.00%) Customer-Centricity
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CCNA
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft