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 12 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 47 65
Rank change year-on-year -34 +18 +22
Contract jobs citing VPN 37 32 42
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.77% 3.42% 2.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.45% 13.97% 13.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 23 28
10th Percentile £212 £213 £289
25th Percentile £325 £225 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £245 £475
Median % change year-on-year +93.88% -48.42% +90.00%
75th Percentile £501 £500 £551
90th Percentile £578 £595 £582
England median daily rate £475 £475 £430
% change year-on-year - +10.47% -0.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
England median hourly rate £16.71 £18.57 £16.86
% change year-on-year -10.02% +10.11% -19.45%

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 256 229 309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 12.23% 24.49% 16.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 130 156
10th Percentile £185 £225 £206
25th Percentile £291 £334 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £418
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +13.77% -12.11%
75th Percentile £538 £556 £488
90th Percentile £575 £625 £588
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 52 95
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.99 £14.48
25th Percentile £20.63 £21.46 £16.30
Median hourly rate £61.76 £58.25 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.02% +16.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67.25 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £87.50 -
England median hourly rate £47.50 £37.07 £40.00
% change year-on-year +28.13% -7.32% +111.30%

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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 12 April 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 12 April 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
Cambridgeshire +1 9 £540 +8.00% 3
Suffolk -4 9 £315 +40.00% 1
Essex -5 7 £575 +134.69% 3
Bedfordshire -3 6 £475 -20.83% 4
Hertfordshire -18 5 £475 -13.64% 10
Norfolk -25 1 £190 -5.00% 2
East Anglia - 1 £470 - 1
VPN
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 5 (13.51%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.70%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 15 (40.54%) Azure
2 9 (24.32%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (18.92%) Entra ID
4 6 (16.22%) GitHub
5 5 (13.51%) GCP
5 5 (13.51%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (10.81%) AWS
6 4 (10.81%) AWS Direct Connect
7 3 (8.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (8.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (5.41%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (5.41%) AWS Control Tower
8 2 (5.41%) Route 53
9 1 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (2.70%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (2.70%) Azure AKS
9 1 (2.70%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 22 (59.46%) Firewall
2 13 (35.14%) LAN
2 13 (35.14%) WAN
3 11 (29.73%) Wi-Fi
4 10 (27.03%) Network Security
5 6 (16.22%) TCP/IP
6 5 (13.51%) IPsec
7 4 (10.81%) VLAN
8 3 (8.11%) 4G
8 3 (8.11%) DNS
8 3 (8.11%) MPLS
9 2 (5.41%) ADSL
9 2 (5.41%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (5.41%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (5.41%) Wireless
10 1 (2.70%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.70%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) GitLab
1 4 (10.81%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.70%) Git
2 1 (2.70%) JIRA
2 1 (2.70%) MSI
General
1 6 (16.22%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.11%) Organisational Skills
2 3 (8.11%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.41%) Banking
3 2 (5.41%) Finance
3 2 (5.41%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.70%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (32.43%) IT Support
2 7 (18.92%) Architect
3 6 (16.22%) Network Engineer
4 5 (13.51%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) 3rd Line Support
5 4 (10.81%) Analyst
5 4 (10.81%) AWS DevOps
5 4 (10.81%) Technical Architect
6 3 (8.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Cloud Network Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Firewall Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) IT Analyst
6 3 (8.11%) IT Support Analyst
6 3 (8.11%) Security Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Senior
6 3 (8.11%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (8.11%) Support Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) Desktop Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.41%) CSS
1 2 (5.41%) HTML
1 2 (5.41%) React
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (2.70%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Operational Technology
2 5 (13.51%) Driving Licence
2 5 (13.51%) SCADA
3 3 (8.11%) Cloud Native
3 3 (8.11%) PKI
3 3 (8.11%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (5.41%) Data Centre
4 2 (5.41%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.70%) iPad
5 1 (2.70%) iPhone
5 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (43.24%) Windows
2 10 (27.03%) Windows Server
3 7 (18.92%) Linux
4 5 (13.51%) Windows 10
5 3 (8.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (29.73%) ITIL
2 9 (24.32%) ITSM
3 8 (21.62%) DevOps
3 8 (21.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (18.92%) CI/CD
4 7 (18.92%) Zero Trust
5 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (16.22%) Migration
5 6 (16.22%) Network Segmentation
5 6 (16.22%) Service Management
6 5 (13.51%) Customer Service
6 5 (13.51%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (13.51%) Proactive Monitoring
6 5 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (10.81%) Customer Engagement
7 4 (10.81%) Infrastructure Automation
8 3 (8.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (8.11%) Knowledge Management
8 3 (8.11%) SIEM
8 3 (8.11%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.11%) PowerShell
1 3 (8.11%) Python
2 2 (5.41%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.70%) Bash
Qualifications
1 14 (37.84%) SC Cleared
1 14 (37.84%) Security Cleared
2 7 (18.92%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (16.22%) CCNP
4 4 (10.81%) CCNA
5 3 (8.11%) Degree
6 2 (5.41%) AWS Certification
6 2 (5.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.70%) CCIE
7 1 (2.70%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (2.70%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (2.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (2.70%) MCSE
7 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.22%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (8.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (5.41%) ISA99
3 2 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (5.41%) NCSC
System Software
1 14 (37.84%) Active Directory
2 6 (16.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (16.22%) Terraform
2 5 (13.51%) Kubernetes
2 5 (13.51%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (8.11%) Ansible
4 2 (5.41%) Argo
5 1 (2.70%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (40.54%) Microsoft
2 13 (35.14%) Cisco
3 11 (29.73%) ServiceNow
4 7 (18.92%) Palo Alto
4 7 (18.92%) VMware
5 5 (13.51%) Barracuda Networks
5 5 (13.51%) Meraki
6 3 (8.11%) Google
6 3 (8.11%) Qualys
7 2 (5.41%) Fortinet
7 2 (5.41%) Rockwell
8 1 (2.70%) Altiris
8 1 (2.70%) CloudEndure
8 1 (2.70%) Juniper
8 1 (2.70%) McAfee
8 1 (2.70%) Starlink
8 1 (2.70%) TOWER Software