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 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 48 72
Rank change year-on-year -21 +24 +20
Contract jobs citing VPN 41 31 39
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.93% 3.30% 2.05%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.08% 13.54% 13.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 22 28
10th Percentile £285 £212 £231
25th Percentile £416 £225 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £245 £475
Median % change year-on-year +93.88% -48.42% +90.00%
75th Percentile £536 £497 £551
90th Percentile £572 £568 £582
England median daily rate £475 £475 £438
% change year-on-year - +8.57% -2.78%

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 255 229 299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 12.03% 24.39% 15.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 126 150
10th Percentile £192 £225 £205
25th Percentile £311 £334 £293
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £420
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +13.10% -11.58%
75th Percentile £538 £556 £488
90th Percentile £575 £625 £576
England median daily rate £500 £500 £486
% change year-on-year - +2.88% -6.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 54 99
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.99 £14.48
25th Percentile £20.75 £20.93 £16.30
Median hourly rate £61.76 £58.25 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.02% +16.50% -2.44%
75th Percentile £66.75 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £87.50 -
England median hourly rate £48.72 £36.65 £40.00
% change year-on-year +32.95% -8.39% +111.30%

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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 19 April 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 19 April 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 -4 10 £350 +55.56% 2
Cambridgeshire +2 8 £508 +1.50% 5
Essex -4 8 £575 +134.69% 3
Hertfordshire -16 8 £549 -0.13% 12
Bedfordshire -5 6 £475 -20.83% 5
Norfolk -26 1 £190 -5.00% 1
East Anglia - 1 £470 - 4
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 4 (9.76%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 17 (41.46%) Azure
2 10 (24.39%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (21.95%) GCP
4 8 (19.51%) GitHub
5 7 (17.07%) Entra ID
5 7 (17.07%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (14.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 4 (9.76%) AWS
8 3 (7.32%) AWS Direct Connect
8 3 (7.32%) Azure AKS
8 3 (7.32%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (4.88%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (4.88%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (4.88%) Route 53
9 2 (4.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (2.44%) AWS Control Tower
10 1 (2.44%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 24 (58.54%) Firewall
2 14 (34.15%) LAN
2 14 (34.15%) WAN
3 12 (29.27%) Network Security
3 12 (29.27%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (14.63%) TCP/IP
5 5 (12.20%) IPsec
6 4 (9.76%) VLAN
7 3 (7.32%) 4G
7 3 (7.32%) DNS
7 3 (7.32%) MPLS
8 2 (4.88%) ADSL
8 2 (4.88%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (4.88%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (4.88%) Wireless
9 1 (2.44%) BGP
Development Applications
1 3 (7.32%) GitLab
1 3 (7.32%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.44%) Git
2 1 (2.44%) MSI
General
1 7 (17.07%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.32%) Banking
2 3 (7.32%) Finance
2 3 (7.32%) Organisational Skills
2 3 (7.32%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.88%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.44%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.44%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (31.71%) IT Support
2 7 (17.07%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (14.63%) Architect
3 6 (14.63%) Network Engineer
3 6 (14.63%) Senior
4 4 (9.76%) 3rd Line Support
4 4 (9.76%) Analyst
4 4 (9.76%) Senior DevOps
4 4 (9.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 4 (9.76%) Technical Architect
5 3 (7.32%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (7.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Cloud Network Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Firewall Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) IT Analyst
5 3 (7.32%) IT Support Analyst
5 3 (7.32%) Security Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.88%) CSS
1 2 (4.88%) HTML
1 2 (4.88%) React
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) Cloud Native
1 6 (14.63%) Driving Licence
1 6 (14.63%) Operational Technology
2 5 (12.20%) Private Cloud
2 5 (12.20%) SCADA
3 3 (7.32%) PKI
3 3 (7.32%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (4.88%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.44%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (39.02%) Windows
2 11 (26.83%) Windows Server
3 7 (17.07%) Linux
4 4 (9.76%) Windows 10
5 3 (7.32%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (29.27%) DevOps
2 11 (26.83%) CI/CD
2 11 (26.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (26.83%) ITIL
3 10 (24.39%) Zero Trust
4 9 (21.95%) ITSM
5 8 (19.51%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (17.07%) Secrets Management
7 6 (14.63%) Network Segmentation
7 6 (14.63%) Platform Engineering
7 6 (14.63%) Proactive Monitoring
7 6 (14.63%) Service Management
8 5 (12.20%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (12.20%) GitOps
8 5 (12.20%) Infrastructure Automation
8 5 (12.20%) Migration
8 5 (12.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 4 (9.76%) Customer Service
9 4 (9.76%) Runbook
9 4 (9.76%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (9.76%) PowerShell
1 4 (9.76%) Python
2 2 (4.88%) Bash
2 2 (4.88%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 13 (31.71%) SC Cleared
1 13 (31.71%) Security Cleared
2 9 (21.95%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (14.63%) CCNP
4 4 (9.76%) CCNA
4 4 (9.76%) Degree
5 2 (4.88%) AWS Certification
5 2 (4.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.88%) Azure Certification
5 2 (4.88%) CCSP
6 1 (2.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (2.44%) CCIE
6 1 (2.44%) CISM
6 1 (2.44%) CISSP
6 1 (2.44%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (2.44%) CRISC
6 1 (2.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (2.44%) MCSE
6 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.63%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (12.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (4.88%) GDPR
3 2 (4.88%) ISA99
3 2 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (4.88%) NCSC
3 2 (4.88%) NIST
3 2 (4.88%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (34.15%) Active Directory
2 7 (17.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (19.51%) Kubernetes
1 8 (19.51%) Terraform
2 6 (14.63%) Ansible
3 5 (12.20%) Argo
4 4 (9.76%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.44%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (36.59%) Microsoft
2 13 (31.71%) Cisco
3 11 (26.83%) ServiceNow
4 9 (21.95%) VMware
5 8 (19.51%) Palo Alto
6 5 (12.20%) Barracuda Networks
6 5 (12.20%) Meraki
7 3 (7.32%) Google
7 3 (7.32%) Qualys
8 2 (4.88%) Fortinet
8 2 (4.88%) Rockwell
9 1 (2.44%) Altiris
9 1 (2.44%) Juniper
9 1 (2.44%) McAfee
9 1 (2.44%) TOWER Software