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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 61 60
Rank change year-on-year -12 -1 +22
Contract jobs citing VPN 18 36 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.39% 2.35% 2.97%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.57% 14.12% 15.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 21 35
10th Percentile £245 £200 £184
25th Percentile £363 £220 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £230 £535
Median % change year-on-year +106.52% -57.01% +47.59%
75th Percentile £700 £275 £600
90th Percentile - £568 £642
England median daily rate £450 £513 £450
% change year-on-year -12.20% +13.89% -2.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £17.95
25th Percentile £100.50 - £18.29
Median hourly rate £103.00 - £18.86
75th Percentile £105.50 - £19.43
90th Percentile - - £19.77
England median hourly rate £58.50 £17.75 £22.00
% change year-on-year +229.58% -19.32% -

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 210 255 348
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 16.19% 16.67% 18.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 110 206
10th Percentile £213 £200 £203
25th Percentile £363 £256 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £406 £450
Median % change year-on-year +28.62% -9.72% +5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £700 £588 £675
England median daily rate £488 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -3.94% +1.50% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 62 54
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.32 £17.06
25th Percentile £32.74 £20.00 £56.56
Median hourly rate £62.50 £48.56 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.71% -25.29% +30.00%
75th Percentile £71.25 £65.00 £67.81
90th Percentile £87.50 - £73.75
England median hourly rate £41.72 £57.35 £56.49
% change year-on-year -27.25% +1.52% +34.02%

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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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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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +10 9 £700 +250.00% 24
Suffolk -6 4 £263 +19.32% 2
Cambridgeshire 0 2 - - 6
Bedfordshire -15 2 £483 -14.22% 3
Essex -5 1 £238 -13.64% 4
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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 4 (22.22%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.56%) Apache
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.56%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) Azure
2 4 (22.22%) AWS
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Direct Connect
3 2 (11.11%) GCP
3 2 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (5.56%) IBM Cloud
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.56%) OCI
4 1 (5.56%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 13 (72.22%) Firewall
2 9 (50.00%) VLAN
3 8 (44.44%) BGP
4 7 (38.89%) OSPF
5 6 (33.33%) WAN
6 5 (27.78%) SD-WAN
7 4 (22.22%) Network Security
7 4 (22.22%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (16.67%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (11.11%) 802.11
9 2 (11.11%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (11.11%) DHCP
9 2 (11.11%) DNS
9 2 (11.11%) LAN
9 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
10 1 (5.56%) Cisco ASA
10 1 (5.56%) MPLS
10 1 (5.56%) VoIP
10 1 (5.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (5.56%) GitLab
2 1 (5.56%) Robot Framework
General
1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Desktop Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Desktop Support
2 4 (22.22%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Support Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Senior
4 2 (11.11%) Administrator
4 2 (11.11%) IT Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) IT Security Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Network Administrator
4 2 (11.11%) Security Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Architect
5 1 (5.56%) IP Network Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Network Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Security Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Security Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) 802.1X
2 1 (5.56%) gRPC
2 1 (5.56%) Jinja
2 1 (5.56%) JSON
2 1 (5.56%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) iPad
1 3 (16.67%) iPhone
1 3 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (11.11%) CCTV
2 2 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 2 (11.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Windows
1 4 (22.22%) Windows 10
2 2 (11.11%) VMS
3 1 (5.56%) CentOS
3 1 (5.56%) Linux
3 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (27.78%) ITIL
2 5 (27.78%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (22.22%) Customer Service
3 4 (22.22%) Network Architecture
4 3 (16.67%) Antivirus Management
4 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 3 (16.67%) DevOps
4 3 (16.67%) High Availability
4 3 (16.67%) Inventory Management
4 3 (16.67%) Network Segmentation
4 3 (16.67%) Time Management
5 2 (11.11%) Agile
5 2 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (11.11%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (11.11%) Network Management
5 2 (11.11%) Scrum
5 2 (11.11%) SDLC
5 2 (11.11%) Virtual Environments
5 2 (11.11%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) Python
2 3 (16.67%) Bash
3 1 (5.56%) Java
3 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (38.89%) CCNP
2 7 (38.89%) Security Cleared
3 6 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 3 (16.67%) CCIE
4 3 (16.67%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (11.11%) Degree
6 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (5.56%) CCIE Security
6 1 (5.56%) CISSP
6 1 (5.56%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.56%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 3 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (11.11%) Hyper-V
3 2 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Ansible
1 4 (22.22%) FortiGate
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (16.67%) Terraform
3 1 (5.56%) AppManager
3 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.56%) Nagios
3 1 (5.56%) Progress Chef
3 1 (5.56%) Puppet
3 1 (5.56%) Salt
3 1 (5.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Cisco
1 8 (44.44%) Fortinet
2 7 (38.89%) Palo Alto
3 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
4 3 (16.67%) McAfee
4 3 (16.67%) Meraki
4 3 (16.67%) Starlink
4 3 (16.67%) VMware
5 2 (11.11%) Huawei
5 2 (11.11%) Juniper
6 1 (5.56%) IBM
6 1 (5.56%) Ivanti
6 1 (5.56%) Oracle
6 1 (5.56%) SolarWinds
6 1 (5.56%) Vertica
6 1 (5.56%) Zscaler