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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 72 77
Rank change year-on-year +11 +5 +17
Contract jobs citing VPN 25 42 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.18% 2.21% 2.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.84% 14.48% 11.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 30 27
10th Percentile £219 £219 £170
25th Percentile £225 £231 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £407 £575
Median % change year-on-year -38.61% -29.17% +43.75%
75th Percentile £400 £551 £624
90th Percentile £547 £583 £700
England median daily rate £461 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +2.50% -6.25% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £100.50 - -
Median hourly rate £103.00 - -
75th Percentile £105.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £37.50 £16.86 £21.61
% change year-on-year +122.42% -21.98% +1.67%

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 254 290 375
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 22.13% 15.26% 18.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 138 220
10th Percentile £225 £204 £224
25th Percentile £334 £261 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -15.79% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £563 £607
90th Percentile £613 £575 £700
England median daily rate £492 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -1.60% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 97 40
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £15.25
25th Percentile £20.75 £16.30 £16.77
Median hourly rate £62.00 £27.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +125.45% -57.69% +306.63%
75th Percentile £81.01 £65.00 £70.63
90th Percentile £88.00 - £73.88
England median hourly rate £37.50 £45.44 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.47% +101.96% -10.00%

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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 6 July 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 6 July 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 -1 12 £225 +2.27% 8
Hertfordshire +27 4 £400 +23.08% 39
Bedfordshire -9 4 £541 -2.48% 13
Cambridgeshire +15 3 £363 +51.04% 19
Essex -3 1 £238 -55.52% 18
Norfolk - 1 £200 - 6
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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 7 (28.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.00%) Apache
2 1 (4.00%) Confluence
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (24.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (40.00%) Azure
2 6 (24.00%) AWS
3 2 (8.00%) AWS Direct Connect
3 2 (8.00%) GCP
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (8.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (4.00%) Akamai
4 1 (4.00%) GitHub
4 1 (4.00%) IBM Cloud
4 1 (4.00%) OCI
4 1 (4.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 9 (36.00%) Firewall
2 8 (32.00%) DNS
2 8 (32.00%) WAN
3 7 (28.00%) LAN
4 5 (20.00%) BGP
4 5 (20.00%) OSPF
4 5 (20.00%) SD-WAN
4 5 (20.00%) TCP/IP
5 4 (16.00%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (12.00%) DHCP
6 3 (12.00%) Network Security
6 3 (12.00%) VLAN
6 3 (12.00%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (8.00%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (8.00%) Wireless
7 2 (8.00%) WLAN
8 1 (4.00%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (4.00%) GLBP
8 1 (4.00%) Multicast
8 1 (4.00%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) JIRA
1 1 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 14 (56.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Finance
3 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) Support Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Desktop Support
3 5 (20.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Network Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Analyst
4 3 (12.00%) Architect
4 3 (12.00%) Service Analyst
4 3 (12.00%) Service Desk Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Administrator
5 2 (8.00%) Network Administrator
5 2 (8.00%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Cisco Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Network Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Network Security Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Security Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Technical Leader
6 1 (4.00%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) 802.1X
1 1 (4.00%) HTML
1 1 (4.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) iPad
1 6 (24.00%) iPhone
1 6 (24.00%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (20.00%) Driving Licence
3 4 (16.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (16.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.00%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (4.00%) FMCG
4 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (56.00%) Windows
2 8 (32.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (4.00%) CentOS
3 1 (4.00%) Linux
3 1 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (52.00%) ITIL
2 8 (32.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 7 (28.00%) Customer Service
3 7 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (24.00%) Antivirus Management
4 6 (24.00%) Inventory Management
4 6 (24.00%) Time Management
5 5 (20.00%) ITSM
5 5 (20.00%) Network Management
6 3 (12.00%) CI/CD
6 3 (12.00%) DevOps
6 3 (12.00%) Network Monitoring
7 2 (8.00%) Cloud Security
7 2 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (8.00%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (8.00%) High Availability
7 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (8.00%) Load Balancing
7 2 (8.00%) Network Architecture
7 2 (8.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.00%) Bash
1 3 (12.00%) Python
2 1 (4.00%) Java
2 1 (4.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (48.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (24.00%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (12.00%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (8.00%) CCNP
6 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (4.00%) CCDP
6 1 (4.00%) CCIE
6 1 (4.00%) CCIE Security
6 1 (4.00%) CISSP
6 1 (4.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.00%) SLA
2 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.00%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (32.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (8.00%) VMware NSX
3 1 (4.00%) Docker
3 1 (4.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (24.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (16.00%) Terraform
3 3 (12.00%) SCCM
4 2 (8.00%) Ansible
4 2 (8.00%) FortiGate
4 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
5 1 (4.00%) AppManager
5 1 (4.00%) Nagios
5 1 (4.00%) Progress Chef
5 1 (4.00%) Puppet
5 1 (4.00%) Salt
Vendors
1 13 (52.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (24.00%) McAfee
3 5 (20.00%) Cisco
3 5 (20.00%) Fortinet
3 5 (20.00%) ServiceNow
4 4 (16.00%) VMware
5 2 (8.00%) F5
5 2 (8.00%) Huawei
5 2 (8.00%) Juniper
5 2 (8.00%) Palo Alto
5 2 (8.00%) Zscaler
6 1 (4.00%) Altiris
6 1 (4.00%) Arista
6 1 (4.00%) Blue Coat
6 1 (4.00%) Ivanti
6 1 (4.00%) Meraki
6 1 (4.00%) Riverbed
6 1 (4.00%) SolarWinds
6 1 (4.00%) Splunk
6 1 (4.00%) Vertica