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 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 42 63
Rank change year-on-year -33 +21 +25
Contract jobs citing VPN 29 44 51
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.59% 4.12% 2.71%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.95% 18.49% 16.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 25 31
10th Percentile £206 - £313
25th Percentile £280 £225 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £275 £475
Median % change year-on-year +72.73% -42.11% +137.50%
75th Percentile £488 £500 £519
90th Percentile £540 £590 £575
England median daily rate £450 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
Median hourly rate - £72.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +262.50% +17.65%
England median hourly rate £16.71 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -52.27% +75.00% +5.65%

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 224 238 309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 12.27% 22.26% 16.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 128 161
10th Percentile £175 £221 £235
25th Percentile £213 £316 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £475 £430
Median % change year-on-year -13.16% +10.47% -4.44%
75th Percentile £518 £588 £494
90th Percentile £591 £625 £600
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 38 85
10th Percentile £13.25 £15.44 £14.65
25th Percentile £16.00 £20.93 £20.00
Median hourly rate £33.00 £32.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -48.80% +19.05%
75th Percentile £65.00 £69.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.70 £76.80 -
England median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -2.86% -22.22% +133.16%

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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 26 February 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 26 February 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
Suffolk -5 8 £280 +24.44%
Cambridgeshire 0 6 £540 +8.00% 4
Bedfordshire -5 6 £475 -20.83% 5
Hertfordshire -24 5 £475 -13.64% 8
Norfolk - 2 £333 - 1
Essex -9 1 - - 3
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 (17.24%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.45%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (34.48%) Azure
2 6 (20.69%) Entra ID
3 5 (17.24%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (10.34%) AWS
5 2 (6.90%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (6.90%) AWS Fargate
5 2 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (6.90%) Serverless
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.45%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (3.45%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (3.45%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (3.45%) GCP
6 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.45%) Sumo Logic
6 1 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (55.17%) Firewall
2 11 (37.93%) WAN
3 10 (34.48%) LAN
3 10 (34.48%) Network Security
4 8 (27.59%) TCP/IP
4 8 (27.59%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (17.24%) VLAN
6 4 (13.79%) DNS
7 3 (10.34%) 4G
7 3 (10.34%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (10.34%) IPsec
7 3 (10.34%) MPLS
8 2 (6.90%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (6.90%) SD-WAN
9 1 (3.45%) 802.11
9 1 (3.45%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (3.45%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (3.45%) DHCP
9 1 (3.45%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (3.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.45%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) GitLab
1 2 (6.90%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.45%) Git
2 1 (3.45%) JIRA
2 1 (3.45%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (3.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.79%) Public Sector
3 3 (10.34%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (27.59%) Architect
1 8 (27.59%) IT Support
2 4 (13.79%) 3rd Line Support
2 4 (13.79%) Analyst
2 4 (13.79%) Network Engineer
2 4 (13.79%) Technical Architect
3 3 (10.34%) Desktop Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Desktop Support
3 3 (10.34%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) IT Analyst
3 3 (10.34%) IT Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) IT Support Analyst
3 3 (10.34%) Network Architect
3 3 (10.34%) Security Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (10.34%) Support Analyst
3 3 (10.34%) Support Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Cisco Architect
4 2 (6.90%) IT Security Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.45%) 802.1X
1 1 (3.45%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (3.45%) LDAP
1 1 (3.45%) Middleware
1 1 (3.45%) RESTful
1 1 (3.45%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Operational Technology
2 3 (10.34%) SCADA
2 3 (10.34%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (6.90%) CCTV
3 2 (6.90%) Data Centre
3 2 (6.90%) iPad
3 2 (6.90%) iPhone
4 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.45%) Driving Licence
4 1 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.45%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (44.83%) Windows
2 8 (27.59%) Windows Server
3 6 (20.69%) Linux
3 6 (20.69%) Windows 10
4 3 (10.34%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (6.90%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (27.59%) ITSM
2 7 (24.14%) ITIL
3 6 (20.69%) Migration
3 6 (20.69%) Network Segmentation
3 6 (20.69%) Zero Trust
4 5 (17.24%) Customer Service
4 5 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (17.24%) Service Management
5 4 (13.79%) Customer Engagement
5 4 (13.79%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (13.79%) SIEM
5 4 (13.79%) Time Management
6 3 (10.34%) End-to-End Testing
6 3 (10.34%) Knowledge Management
6 3 (10.34%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 2 (6.90%) Change Management
7 2 (6.90%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (6.90%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (6.90%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.90%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (41.38%) SC Cleared
1 12 (41.38%) Security Cleared
2 7 (24.14%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (20.69%) CCNP
4 5 (17.24%) Degree
5 4 (13.79%) CCNA
6 2 (6.90%) CCIE
6 2 (6.90%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
7 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (3.45%) CCIE Security
7 1 (3.45%) CISSP
7 1 (3.45%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (3.45%) GIAC
7 1 (3.45%) MCSE
7 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.24%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.45%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (41.38%) Active Directory
2 6 (20.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (6.90%) Hyper-V
3 2 (6.90%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (17.24%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (6.90%) Ansible
2 2 (6.90%) Terraform
3 1 (3.45%) Nagios
3 1 (3.45%) Progress Chef
3 1 (3.45%) Puppet
3 1 (3.45%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (44.83%) Cisco
2 10 (34.48%) ServiceNow
3 9 (31.03%) Palo Alto
4 8 (27.59%) Microsoft
5 7 (24.14%) VMware
6 6 (20.69%) Meraki
7 5 (17.24%) Barracuda Networks
8 3 (10.34%) Qualys
9 2 (6.90%) McAfee
9 2 (6.90%) Rockwell
9 2 (6.90%) Starlink
10 1 (3.45%) Altiris
10 1 (3.45%) CloudEndure
10 1 (3.45%) Fortinet
10 1 (3.45%) SaltStack
10 1 (3.45%) Zscaler