VPN Contracts in Edinburgh

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 61 96
Rank change year-on-year -1 +35 +27
Contract jobs citing VPN 5 11 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.80% 1.35% 1.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.06% 12.94% 14.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 10
10th Percentile £272 £200 -
25th Percentile £320 £205 £160
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £258 £331
Median % change year-on-year +55.34% -22.26% -18.46%
75th Percentile £419 £438 £544
90th Percentile £430 £468 £553
Scotland median daily rate £425 £438 £160
% change year-on-year -2.97% +173.75% -59.37%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 62 85 114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 9.92% 10.43% 8.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 45 77
10th Percentile £176 £178 £163
25th Percentile £245 £240 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% +4.40%
75th Percentile £544 £646 £525
90th Percentile £595 £750 £575
Scotland median daily rate £425 £525 £463
% change year-on-year -19.05% +13.51% +2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 14 2
10th Percentile - £14.33 £24.08
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £28.32
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.27 £36.63
Median % change year-on-year +20.42% -50.12% -22.88%
75th Percentile £23.53 £52.06 £46.19
90th Percentile £32.36 £60.75 £51.18
Scotland median hourly rate £22.00 £22.14 £10.63
% change year-on-year -0.61% +108.23% -77.62%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing VPN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for VPN in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VPN in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for VPN in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VPN in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VPN in Edinburgh

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VPN in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for VPN in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Firewall
1 4 (80.00%) IPsec
1 4 (80.00%) LAN
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (60.00%) SD-WAN
2 3 (60.00%) Unified Communications
2 3 (60.00%) WAN
2 3 (60.00%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (40.00%) Network Security
4 1 (20.00%) DHCP
4 1 (20.00%) DNS
4 1 (20.00%) MPLS
4 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (20.00%) WLAN
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Field Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Field Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (20.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) High Availability
1 3 (60.00%) Load Balancing
1 3 (60.00%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Break/Fix
2 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) A+ Certification
1 1 (20.00%) CCNA
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
2 3 (60.00%) F5
2 3 (60.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (20.00%) Meraki
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft