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 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 47 56
Rank change year-on-year -31 +9 +28
Contract jobs citing VPN 28 38 51
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.74% 3.35% 2.99%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.84% 16.67% 16.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 22 26
10th Percentile £212 £220 £313
25th Percentile £263 £221 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £275 £475
Median % change year-on-year +72.73% -42.11% +120.93%
75th Percentile £516 £551 £488
90th Percentile £700 £575 £550
England median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - £18.63
25th Percentile - £71.25 -
Median hourly rate - £72.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +262.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile - £73.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £19.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year +32.37% -7.32% +0.17%

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 218 228 315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 13.58% 20.12% 18.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 110 177
10th Percentile £163 £213 £250
25th Percentile £213 £278 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £475 £440
Median % change year-on-year -13.16% +7.95% +3.53%
75th Percentile £534 £588 £500
90th Percentile £660 £625 £600
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -1.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 35 66
10th Percentile £13.25 £20.00 £17.36
25th Percentile £16.00 £21.46 £42.50
Median hourly rate £55.50 £35.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +58.57% -46.15% +4.00%
75th Percentile £65.50 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.25 -
England median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -2.86% -38.04% +50.64%

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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 28 December 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 28 December 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 9 £253 +14.77% 12
Hertfordshire -16 9 £700 +27.27% 19
Cambridgeshire -4 5 £538 +7.50% 7
Bedfordshire -6 4 £475 -14.41% 8
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 6 (21.43%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (10.71%) AWS
2 3 (10.71%) Entra ID
2 3 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (7.14%) AWS Fargate
3 2 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (7.14%) Serverless
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.57%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (3.57%) AWS Control Tower
4 1 (3.57%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (3.57%) GCP
4 1 (3.57%) GitHub
4 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (3.57%) Route 53
4 1 (3.57%) Sumo Logic
4 1 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (53.57%) Firewall
2 10 (35.71%) WAN
3 8 (28.57%) LAN
3 8 (28.57%) Network Security
4 7 (25.00%) TCP/IP
4 7 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (21.43%) VLAN
6 5 (17.86%) BGP
7 4 (14.29%) DNS
7 4 (14.29%) OSPF
8 3 (10.71%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (10.71%) SD-WAN
9 2 (7.14%) 802.11
9 2 (7.14%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (7.14%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (7.14%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (3.57%) DHCP
10 1 (3.57%) Kerberos
10 1 (3.57%) MPLS
10 1 (3.57%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.57%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) GitLab
2 2 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (3.57%) Git
3 1 (3.57%) JIRA
3 1 (3.57%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (3.57%) Robot Framework
General
1 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 3 (10.71%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) Network Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) Architect
2 5 (17.86%) IT Support
3 4 (14.29%) Analyst
3 4 (14.29%) Desktop Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Desktop Support
3 4 (14.29%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Support Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) IT Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) IT Support Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Security Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Senior
4 3 (10.71%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (10.71%) Support Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Technical Architect
5 2 (7.14%) 3rd Line Support
5 2 (7.14%) IT Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Network Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) 802.1X
2 1 (3.57%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (3.57%) gRPC
2 1 (3.57%) Jinja
2 1 (3.57%) JSON
2 1 (3.57%) LDAP
2 1 (3.57%) Middleware
2 1 (3.57%) RESTful
2 1 (3.57%) WCF
2 1 (3.57%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) iPad
1 3 (10.71%) iPhone
1 3 (10.71%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (7.14%) CCTV
2 2 (7.14%) Data Centre
2 2 (7.14%) Security Posture
2 2 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.57%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 10 (35.71%) Windows
2 6 (21.43%) Windows 10
2 6 (21.43%) Windows Server
3 4 (14.29%) Linux
4 3 (10.71%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (7.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (25.00%) ITIL
3 6 (21.43%) Customer Service
3 6 (21.43%) ITSM
3 6 (21.43%) Network Segmentation
4 5 (17.86%) Migration
4 5 (17.86%) Time Management
5 4 (14.29%) Zero Trust
6 3 (10.71%) Antivirus Management
6 3 (10.71%) Customer Engagement
6 3 (10.71%) Knowledge Management
6 3 (10.71%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (10.71%) Service Management
7 2 (7.14%) Agile
7 2 (7.14%) Change Management
7 2 (7.14%) Configuration Management
7 2 (7.14%) High Availability
7 2 (7.14%) Scrum
7 2 (7.14%) Security Management
7 2 (7.14%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (46.43%) SC Cleared
3 9 (32.14%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (25.00%) CCNP
5 5 (17.86%) Degree
6 3 (10.71%) CCIE
6 3 (10.71%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
7 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (3.57%) CCIE Security
7 1 (3.57%) CCNA
7 1 (3.57%) CISSP
7 1 (3.57%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (3.57%) GIAC
7 1 (3.57%) MCSE
7 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.57%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 4 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (7.14%) Hyper-V
3 2 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (21.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (14.29%) FortiGate
3 3 (10.71%) Ansible
4 2 (7.14%) Terraform
5 1 (3.57%) Nagios
5 1 (3.57%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (50.00%) Cisco
2 12 (42.86%) Palo Alto
3 8 (28.57%) ServiceNow
4 6 (21.43%) Meraki
5 5 (17.86%) Fortinet
5 5 (17.86%) VMware
6 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
7 3 (10.71%) Barracuda Networks
7 3 (10.71%) McAfee
7 3 (10.71%) Starlink
8 1 (3.57%) CloudEndure
8 1 (3.57%) Juniper
8 1 (3.57%) SaltStack
8 1 (3.57%) Zscaler