VPN Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring VPN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 71 49
Rank change year-on-year -17 -22 +14
Contract jobs citing VPN 35 18 44
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.46% 1.34% 2.98%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.57% 8.53% 16.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 14 23
10th Percentile £485 £213 £201
25th Percentile £505 £316 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £475 £250
Median % change year-on-year +24.94% +90.00% -47.37%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £300
90th Percentile £713 - £575
England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.00 £100.50 £71.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £103.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -84.47% +42.07% +262.50%
75th Percentile £17.92 £105.50 £73.75
90th Percentile £18.22 - -
England median hourly rate £25.75 £58.50 £23.80
% change year-on-year -55.98% +145.80% +10.70%

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 331 211 262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 13.77% 15.75% 17.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 85 122
10th Percentile £313 £176 £213
25th Percentile £389 £300 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £550 £460
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +19.57% +2.22%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £600 £700 £599
England median daily rate £500 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 64 52
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £16.30
25th Percentile £22.52 £16.30 £21.37
Median hourly rate £65.00 £45.00 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +44.44% -16.28% -17.31%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £83.91 -
England median hourly rate £38.62 £34.00 £57.38
% change year-on-year +13.60% -40.74% +1.57%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VPN relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

VPN job vacancy trend in the East of England

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Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing VPN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing VPN

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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 10 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VPN in the East of England

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Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing VPN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing VPN

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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 10 October 2026. 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
Essex - 18 £593 - 7
Cambridgeshire +12 7 £750 - 6
Hertfordshire -26 5 £675 -3.57% 4
Suffolk -21 4 £503 +123.33% 3
Bedfordshire -6 1 £510 +76.62%
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.86%) Confluence
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.86%) OpenStack
1 1 (2.86%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 18 (51.43%) GCP
2 8 (22.86%) Azure
3 6 (17.14%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (8.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 3 (8.57%) GitHub
4 3 (8.57%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (8.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (5.71%) AWS
5 2 (5.71%) Azure AKS
5 2 (5.71%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (5.71%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (5.71%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.86%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (2.86%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (65.71%) Firewall
2 5 (14.29%) DHCP
2 5 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (11.43%) DNS
3 4 (11.43%) Network Security
3 4 (11.43%) WAN
3 4 (11.43%) Wireless
4 3 (8.57%) TCP/IP
5 2 (5.71%) LAN
5 2 (5.71%) NGFW
6 1 (2.86%) BGP
6 1 (2.86%) DSL
6 1 (2.86%) FTP
6 1 (2.86%) IPsec
6 1 (2.86%) IPv6
6 1 (2.86%) SD-WAN
6 1 (2.86%) SNMP
6 1 (2.86%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (37.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Git
1 2 (5.71%) JIRA
General
1 12 (34.29%) Finance
2 11 (31.43%) Banking
3 9 (25.71%) Manufacturing
3 9 (25.71%) Social Skills
4 6 (17.14%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.71%) Automotive
6 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (34.29%) Software Engineer
2 11 (31.43%) Developer
2 11 (31.43%) Java Engineer
2 11 (31.43%) Java Software Engineer
3 10 (28.57%) Backend Developer
3 10 (28.57%) Java Developer
4 9 (25.71%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 9 (25.71%) IAM Developer
4 9 (25.71%) Java Software Developer
4 9 (25.71%) Software Developer
5 6 (17.14%) Senior
6 4 (11.43%) IT Support
7 3 (8.57%) Architect
7 3 (8.57%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (8.57%) Support Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) IT Support Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) Monitoring Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) Senior DevOps
8 2 (5.71%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.43%) Terraform
2 1 (2.86%) OAuth
2 1 (2.86%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 4 (11.43%) Management Information System
2 4 (11.43%) Private Cloud
3 3 (8.57%) Cloud Native
3 3 (8.57%) Data Centre
4 2 (5.71%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.86%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.86%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (25.71%) Windows
2 5 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 3 (8.57%) Mac OS
4 2 (5.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (54.29%) CI/CD
1 19 (54.29%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (51.43%) DevOps
3 13 (37.14%) Agile
3 13 (37.14%) Identity Management
3 13 (37.14%) Load Balancing
3 13 (37.14%) Software Engineering
4 11 (31.43%) Identity Access Management
4 11 (31.43%) Web Development
5 9 (25.71%) Customer Service
6 8 (22.86%) Service Management
7 7 (20.00%) ITSM
8 6 (17.14%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (17.14%) ITIL
8 6 (17.14%) Technical Leadership
9 5 (14.29%) Secrets Management
9 5 (14.29%) Zero Trust
10 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure as Code
10 4 (11.43%) Inventory Management
10 4 (11.43%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 13 (37.14%) Java
2 4 (11.43%) PowerShell
3 2 (5.71%) Python
4 1 (2.86%) Bash
4 1 (2.86%) C
4 1 (2.86%) C++
Qualifications
1 7 (20.00%) Degree
2 6 (17.14%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (14.29%) Security Cleared
4 4 (11.43%) A+ Certification
4 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 3 (8.57%) SC Cleared
6 2 (5.71%) CCNP
6 2 (5.71%) CCSP
6 2 (5.71%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (2.86%) CCNA
7 1 (2.86%) CISM
7 1 (2.86%) CISSP
7 1 (2.86%) CRISC
7 1 (2.86%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) GDPR
1 2 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (5.71%) NIST
1 2 (5.71%) SOC 2
2 1 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.86%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (11.43%) Ansible
1 4 (11.43%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.57%) Argo
3 2 (5.71%) SCCM
3 2 (5.71%) SCOM
4 1 (2.86%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (37.14%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.43%) Cisco
2 4 (11.43%) Palo Alto
3 3 (8.57%) ServiceNow
3 3 (8.57%) VMware
4 2 (5.71%) Forcepoint
4 2 (5.71%) Google
5 1 (2.86%) Apple
5 1 (2.86%) Barracuda Networks
5 1 (2.86%) Dell