VPN Contracts in the East of England

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 73 93
Rank change year-on-year +22 +20 +2
Contract jobs citing VPN 31 39 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 3.30% 2.04% 1.45%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.09% 13.18% 8.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 28 15
10th Percentile £212 £220 £160
25th Percentile £225 £235 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £245 £475 £250
Median % change year-on-year -48.42% +90.00% -25.93%
75th Percentile £497 £551 £641
90th Percentile £568 £582 £700
England median daily rate £475 £439 £450
% change year-on-year +8.32% -2.56% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 220 296 359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 23.45% 15.51% 17.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 147 199
10th Percentile £225 £199 £202
25th Percentile £344 £261 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £415 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.46% -12.63% +11.76%
75th Percentile £556 £494 £661
90th Percentile £625 £575 £700
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 103 43
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.22 -
25th Percentile £16.30 £16.30 £15.25
Median hourly rate £39.32 £22.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.76% -57.14% +238.71%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.50 - £74.35
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for VPN in the East of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VPN in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VPN in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for VPN in the East of England

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Suffolk -5 14 £225 -52.63% 11
Cambridgeshire +16 9 £500 +108.33% 23
Essex +1 3 £245 -54.12% 28
Hertfordshire +29 2 £550 +22.22% 48
Bedfordshire 0 2 £600 +60.00% 25
Norfolk - 1 £200 - 8
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 10 (32.26%) SharePoint
2 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (3.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (29.03%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (25.81%) Azure
2 5 (16.13%) AWS
3 4 (12.90%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (9.68%) Cloudflare
4 3 (9.68%) OneDrive
5 1 (3.23%) Akamai
5 1 (3.23%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 13 (41.94%) DNS
2 11 (35.48%) LAN
3 10 (32.26%) Firewall
3 10 (32.26%) WAN
4 9 (29.03%) TCP/IP
5 5 (16.13%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (12.90%) DHCP
6 4 (12.90%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (12.90%) WLAN
7 3 (9.68%) VLAN
7 3 (9.68%) VoIP
8 2 (6.45%) BGP
8 2 (6.45%) Network Security
8 2 (6.45%) OSPF
8 2 (6.45%) SD-WAN
9 1 (3.23%) DWDM
9 1 (3.23%) IGRP
9 1 (3.23%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (3.23%) IPsec
9 1 (3.23%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (3.23%) JIRA
1 1 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (51.61%) Social Skills
2 6 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (12.90%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.45%) Retail
5 1 (3.23%) Finance
5 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 13 (41.94%) Support Engineer
2 9 (29.03%) Desktop Engineer
2 9 (29.03%) Desktop Support
3 8 (25.81%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 5 (16.13%) Network Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) Analyst
5 4 (12.90%) Service Analyst
5 4 (12.90%) Service Desk Analyst
6 3 (9.68%) Architect
6 3 (9.68%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Senior
6 3 (9.68%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (6.45%) Senior Desktop Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Senior Desktop Support
7 2 (6.45%) Senior Desktop Support Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Senior Support Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Cisco Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Security Specialist
8 1 (3.23%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.23%) 802.1X
1 1 (3.23%) HTML
1 1 (3.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (22.58%) iPad
1 7 (22.58%) iPhone
1 7 (22.58%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (19.35%) Data Centre
2 6 (19.35%) Driving Licence
3 5 (16.13%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.23%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.23%) EPoS
4 1 (3.23%) FMCG
4 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.23%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.23%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 19 (61.29%) Windows
2 11 (35.48%) Windows 10
3 1 (3.23%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (45.16%) ITIL
2 10 (32.26%) Customer Service
3 9 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (22.58%) Antivirus Management
4 7 (22.58%) Inventory Management
4 7 (22.58%) Root Cause Analysis
4 7 (22.58%) Time Management
5 6 (19.35%) ITSM
6 5 (16.13%) Network Management
7 4 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (12.90%) Network Monitoring
8 3 (9.68%) Kalman Filter
8 3 (9.68%) Migration
8 3 (9.68%) Zero Trust
9 2 (6.45%) Roadmaps
10 1 (3.23%) Business Strategy
10 1 (3.23%) CI/CD
10 1 (3.23%) Cloud Security
10 1 (3.23%) Project Management
10 1 (3.23%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.23%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (45.16%) Security Cleared
2 11 (35.48%) SC Cleared
3 7 (22.58%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (6.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.23%) CCDP
5 1 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (19.35%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (35.48%) Active Directory
2 4 (12.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (12.90%) VMware NSX
3 1 (3.23%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (22.58%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (16.13%) SCCM
3 4 (12.90%) FortiGate
4 3 (9.68%) AppManager
5 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
5 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (58.06%) Microsoft
2 8 (25.81%) VMware
3 7 (22.58%) McAfee
4 6 (19.35%) Cisco
4 6 (19.35%) ServiceNow
5 3 (9.68%) Ivanti
6 2 (6.45%) F5
7 1 (3.23%) Altiris
7 1 (3.23%) Arista
7 1 (3.23%) Blue Coat
7 1 (3.23%) Citrix
7 1 (3.23%) Fortinet
7 1 (3.23%) Juniper
7 1 (3.23%) Palo Alto
7 1 (3.23%) Riverbed
7 1 (3.23%) Splunk
7 1 (3.23%) Zscaler