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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 71 73
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 +3
Contract jobs citing VPN 40 21 34
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.82% 1.72% 1.96%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.65% 7.87% 12.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 15 25
10th Percentile £463 £225 £211
25th Percentile £503 £241 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £400 £250
Median % change year-on-year +35.00% +60.00% -54.55%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £479
90th Percentile - - £576
England median daily rate £500 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +8.11% +2.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.00 £100.50 -
Median hourly rate £16.00 £103.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -84.47% - -
75th Percentile £17.00 £105.50 -
90th Percentile £17.73 - -
England median hourly rate £16.56 £50.00 £16.25
% change year-on-year -66.89% +207.69% -22.62%

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 273 267 268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 12.45% 21.83% 15.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 132 131
10th Percentile £303 £225 £200
25th Percentile £408 £363 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £400
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% +30.63% -15.79%
75th Percentile £552 £575 £562
90th Percentile £600 £649 £575
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 71 89
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.67 £28.71 £16.30
Median hourly rate £61.76 £62.00 £21.46
Median % change year-on-year -0.40% +188.91% -66.98%
75th Percentile £70.00 £81.18 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.00 £88.00 -
England median hourly rate £26.72 £45.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -40.62% -5.26% -4.04%

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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 24 July 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 24 July 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
Essex -1 18 £550 +131.58% 4
Cambridgeshire +13 10 £540 +116.00% 2
Hertfordshire -11 6 £612 -12.55% 18
Suffolk -8 5 £503 +123.33% 2
Bedfordshire -4 1 - - 4
East Anglia - 1 £470 - 2
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 1 (2.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 18 (45.00%) GCP
2 16 (40.00%) Azure
3 8 (20.00%) GitHub
3 8 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (17.50%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (15.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 4 (10.00%) AWS
6 4 (10.00%) Entra ID
7 3 (7.50%) AWS Direct Connect
7 3 (7.50%) Azure AKS
7 3 (7.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (5.00%) Route 53
8 2 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (2.50%) AWS Control Tower
9 1 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (2.50%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 28 (70.00%) Firewall
2 8 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
3 7 (17.50%) LAN
3 7 (17.50%) WAN
4 5 (12.50%) IPsec
4 5 (12.50%) Network Security
4 5 (12.50%) Wireless
5 4 (10.00%) VLAN
6 3 (7.50%) 4G
6 3 (7.50%) MPLS
7 2 (5.00%) ADSL
7 2 (5.00%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (5.00%) DNS
8 1 (2.50%) BGP
8 1 (2.50%) DHCP
8 1 (2.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (22.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (7.50%) GitLab
1 3 (7.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.50%) Git
2 1 (2.50%) MSI
General
1 13 (32.50%) Social Skills
2 10 (25.00%) Finance
3 9 (22.50%) Banking
4 7 (17.50%) Manufacturing
5 6 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.00%) Automotive
7 1 (2.50%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 9 (22.50%) Software Engineer
2 8 (20.00%) Developer
3 7 (17.50%) Backend Developer
3 7 (17.50%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 7 (17.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (17.50%) IT Support
3 7 (17.50%) Java Developer
3 7 (17.50%) Java Engineer
3 7 (17.50%) Java Software Engineer
3 7 (17.50%) Software Developer
4 6 (15.00%) IAM Developer
4 6 (15.00%) Java Software Developer
4 6 (15.00%) Senior
5 4 (10.00%) Network Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
5 4 (10.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (7.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) GCP DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.00%) CSS
1 2 (5.00%) HTML
1 2 (5.00%) React
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (2.50%) OAuth
2 1 (2.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.50%) Driving Licence
2 6 (15.00%) Cloud Native
3 5 (12.50%) Operational Technology
3 5 (12.50%) Private Cloud
3 5 (12.50%) SCADA
4 4 (10.00%) Management Information System
4 4 (10.00%) Onboarding
5 3 (7.50%) PKI
6 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (2.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (25.00%) Windows
2 8 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (5.00%) Linux
4 1 (2.50%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (52.50%) DevOps
2 20 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 17 (42.50%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (30.00%) Identity Management
5 11 (27.50%) Agile
5 11 (27.50%) Load Balancing
5 11 (27.50%) Software Engineering
6 9 (22.50%) Cybersecurity
6 9 (22.50%) ITIL
7 8 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (20.00%) Web Development
8 7 (17.50%) Identity Access Management
8 7 (17.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 7 (17.50%) Proactive Monitoring
8 7 (17.50%) Secrets Management
9 6 (15.00%) Customer Service
9 6 (15.00%) ITSM
9 6 (15.00%) Platform Engineering
9 6 (15.00%) Service Management
10 5 (12.50%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 9 (22.50%) Java
2 5 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 4 (10.00%) Python
4 2 (5.00%) Bash
4 2 (5.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (17.50%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (12.50%) CCNP
2 5 (12.50%) Degree
3 4 (10.00%) A+ Certification
3 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 4 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 3 (7.50%) CCNA
4 3 (7.50%) SC Cleared
5 2 (5.00%) AWS Certification
5 2 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.00%) Azure Certification
5 2 (5.00%) CCSP
6 1 (2.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (2.50%) CCIE
6 1 (2.50%) CISM
6 1 (2.50%) CISSP
6 1 (2.50%) CRISC
6 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.00%) GDPR
2 2 (5.00%) ISA99
2 2 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (5.00%) NCSC
2 2 (5.00%) NIST
2 2 (5.00%) SOC 2
3 1 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 11 (27.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 8 (20.00%) Terraform
2 6 (15.00%) Ansible
3 5 (12.50%) Argo
4 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.50%) SCCM
4 1 (2.50%) SCOM
Vendors
1 20 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.50%) Cisco
3 4 (10.00%) VMware
4 3 (7.50%) Google
4 3 (7.50%) Qualys
5 2 (5.00%) Fortinet
5 2 (5.00%) Rockwell
5 2 (5.00%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.50%) Juniper
6 1 (2.50%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.50%) TOWER Software