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 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 52 54
Rank change year-on-year -25 +2 +36
Contract jobs citing VPN 21 41 63
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.51% 2.93% 3.39%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.17% 16.60% 17.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 21 39
10th Percentile £210 - £188
25th Percentile £300 £220 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £275 £475
Median % change year-on-year +72.73% -42.11% +90.00%
75th Percentile £700 £568 £583
90th Percentile - £581 £607
England median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - £18.63
25th Percentile £100.50 £71.25 -
Median hourly rate £103.00 £72.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.07% +262.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £105.50 £73.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £23.80 £21.00
% change year-on-year +68.07% +13.33% -4.55%

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 229 247 366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 16.45% 17.64% 19.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 118 208
10th Percentile £175 £218 £218
25th Percentile £253 £290 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £460 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +2.22% +12.50%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £575
90th Percentile £694 £600 £638
England median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 42 62
10th Percentile £14.29 £20.00 £20.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £27.19 -
Median hourly rate £45.00 £53.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% -17.31% +30.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £82.00 - £73.75
England median hourly rate £32.77 £56.13 £56.49
% change year-on-year -41.61% -0.65% +36.12%

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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 22 October 2025.

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 22 October 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
Hertfordshire -6 9 £700 +27.27% 12
Suffolk -6 5 £225 +2.27% 1
Cambridgeshire -4 3 £600 +23.08% 8
Bedfordshire -10 3 £289 -48.67% 2
Norfolk - 1 £475 - 1
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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 4 (19.05%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.76%) Apache
2 1 (4.76%) Confluence
2 1 (4.76%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 8 (38.10%) Azure
2 7 (33.33%) AWS
3 3 (14.29%) AWS Direct Connect
3 3 (14.29%) GCP
3 3 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (9.52%) AWS Fargate
4 2 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (9.52%) Serverless
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.76%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Control Tower
5 1 (4.76%) GitHub
5 1 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.76%) IBM Cloud
5 1 (4.76%) OCI
5 1 (4.76%) Route 53
5 1 (4.76%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 15 (71.43%) Firewall
2 8 (38.10%) BGP
2 8 (38.10%) VLAN
3 7 (33.33%) OSPF
4 6 (28.57%) SD-WAN
4 6 (28.57%) WAN
5 5 (23.81%) Network Security
6 4 (19.05%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (14.29%) DNS
7 3 (14.29%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (9.52%) 802.11
8 2 (9.52%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (9.52%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (9.52%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (9.52%) DHCP
8 2 (9.52%) LAN
8 2 (9.52%) TCP/IP
9 1 (4.76%) Kerberos
9 1 (4.76%) MPLS
9 1 (4.76%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.76%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (4.76%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) GitLab
2 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
2 2 (9.52%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (4.76%) Git
3 1 (4.76%) JIRA
3 1 (4.76%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (4.76%) Robot Framework
General
1 9 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Public Sector
3 2 (9.52%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Network Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Desktop Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Desktop Support
2 4 (19.05%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Support Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Architect
3 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Senior
4 2 (9.52%) Administrator
4 2 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) IT Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) IT Security Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Network Administrator
4 2 (9.52%) Network Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Network Security Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Security Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Security Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Principal Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Principal Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) 802.1X
2 1 (4.76%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (4.76%) gRPC
2 1 (4.76%) Jinja
2 1 (4.76%) JSON
2 1 (4.76%) LDAP
2 1 (4.76%) Middleware
2 1 (4.76%) RESTful
2 1 (4.76%) WCF
2 1 (4.76%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) iPad
1 4 (19.05%) iPhone
2 3 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (9.52%) CCTV
3 2 (9.52%) Onboarding
3 2 (9.52%) Security Posture
4 1 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 5 (23.81%) Windows
2 4 (19.05%) Windows 10
3 3 (14.29%) Windows Server
4 2 (9.52%) Linux
4 2 (9.52%) VMS
5 1 (4.76%) CentOS
5 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (28.57%) ITIL
2 6 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
3 5 (23.81%) DevOps
4 4 (19.05%) CI/CD
4 4 (19.05%) Customer Service
4 4 (19.05%) Network Architecture
4 4 (19.05%) Network Segmentation
5 3 (14.29%) Antivirus Management
5 3 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (14.29%) High Availability
5 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (14.29%) Inventory Management
5 3 (14.29%) Time Management
6 2 (9.52%) Configuration Management
6 2 (9.52%) Network Management
6 2 (9.52%) Security Architecture
6 2 (9.52%) SIEM
6 2 (9.52%) Vulnerability Management
6 2 (9.52%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) Python
2 3 (14.29%) Bash
3 1 (4.76%) Java
3 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (38.10%) CCNP
2 8 (38.10%) Security Cleared
3 7 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 4 (19.05%) CCIE
4 4 (19.05%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (9.52%) CCIE Security
5 2 (9.52%) CISSP
5 2 (9.52%) Degree
5 2 (9.52%) GIAC
6 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
6 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (9.52%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (23.81%) Active Directory
2 2 (9.52%) Docker
2 2 (9.52%) Hyper-V
2 2 (9.52%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (23.81%) Ansible
1 5 (23.81%) Terraform
2 4 (19.05%) FortiGate
2 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (9.52%) Nagios
3 2 (9.52%) Progress Chef
3 2 (9.52%) Puppet
4 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.76%) Salt
Vendors
1 9 (42.86%) Cisco
1 9 (42.86%) Fortinet
2 8 (38.10%) Palo Alto
3 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
3 4 (19.05%) Starlink
4 3 (14.29%) McAfee
4 3 (14.29%) Meraki
5 2 (9.52%) Huawei
5 2 (9.52%) Juniper
5 2 (9.52%) VMware
5 2 (9.52%) Zscaler
6 1 (4.76%) CloudEndure
6 1 (4.76%) IBM
6 1 (4.76%) Oracle
6 1 (4.76%) SaltStack
6 1 (4.76%) SolarWinds
6 1 (4.76%) Vertica