VPN Contracts in London

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 143 180 232
Rank change year-on-year +37 +52 +56
Contract jobs citing VPN 244 231 302
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.94% 1.30% 1.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 18.56% 13.44% 11.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 143 185
10th Percentile £250 £150 £153
25th Percentile £388 £255 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £578 £588
90th Percentile £650 £825 £695
England median daily rate £475 £439 £450
% change year-on-year +8.32% -2.56% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 16 2
10th Percentile - £13.62 £25.04
25th Percentile - £15.62 £34.20
Median hourly rate £50.00 £17.00 £49.47
Median % change year-on-year +194.12% -65.63% +73.56%
75th Percentile - £23.90 £64.73
90th Percentile - £24.88 £73.89
England median hourly rate £18.13 £17.00 £21.61
% change year-on-year +6.65% -21.33% -1.77%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,315 1,719 2,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.48% 9.64% 9.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 1,144 1,885
10th Percentile £263 £213 £256
25th Percentile £400 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -10.71% +1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £675
90th Percentile £725 £741 £775
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 59 53
10th Percentile £24.66 £14.48 £20.22
25th Percentile £25.60 £18.36 £22.63
Median hourly rate £43.75 £22.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.86% -52.17% +31.43%
75th Percentile £51.50 £41.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £62.65 £60.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

VPN
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for VPN in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for VPN in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for VPN in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Central London +20 38 £593 +130.10% 19
West London +25 15 £400 - 10
South London +10 5 £450 +89.47% 1
East London +14 4 £363 -48.21% 2
North London - 1 £463 - 1
VPN
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (4.51%) SharePoint
2 10 (4.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (3.28%) Confluence
4 2 (0.82%) CMS
5 1 (0.41%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.41%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.41%) IIS
Applications
1 19 (7.79%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.87%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 115 (47.13%) Azure
2 68 (27.87%) AWS
3 37 (15.16%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (11.07%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 21 (8.61%) GCP
6 20 (8.20%) Entra ID
7 18 (7.38%) Serverless
8 15 (6.15%) AWS CloudFormation
8 15 (6.15%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (4.51%) IaaS
9 11 (4.51%) PaaS
9 11 (4.51%) SaaS
9 11 (4.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 9 (3.69%) OneDrive
11 8 (3.28%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (3.28%) Amazon S3
11 8 (3.28%) Asana
11 8 (3.28%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (3.28%) Slack
12 7 (2.87%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 152 (62.30%) Firewall
2 72 (29.51%) DNS
3 70 (28.69%) WAN
4 66 (27.05%) Network Security
5 61 (25.00%) BGP
6 51 (20.90%) OSPF
7 48 (19.67%) MPLS
8 44 (18.03%) LAN
9 28 (11.48%) DHCP
10 27 (11.07%) SD-WAN
10 27 (11.07%) TCP/IP
11 24 (9.84%) Wireless
12 23 (9.43%) IPsec
13 22 (9.02%) NGFW
14 20 (8.20%) VLAN
15 18 (7.38%) SSL
16 14 (5.74%) EIGRP
17 13 (5.33%) Internet
17 13 (5.33%) Multicast
18 12 (4.92%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.51%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (3.28%) Data Lake
3 7 (2.87%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.64%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.23%) MySQL
5 3 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.82%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.82%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.82%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.41%) Big Data
7 1 (0.41%) Cloudera CDH
7 1 (0.41%) DocumentDB
7 1 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.41%) IDOL
7 1 (0.41%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (6.97%) JIRA
2 9 (3.69%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.28%) Git
4 4 (1.64%) GitLab
4 4 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (0.82%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.41%) HP UFT
6 1 (0.41%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.41%) Maven
6 1 (0.41%) MSI
6 1 (0.41%) TeamCity
General
1 50 (20.49%) Social Skills
2 48 (19.67%) Finance
3 18 (7.38%) Public Sector
4 12 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (4.92%) Banking
4 12 (4.92%) Marketing
4 12 (4.92%) Telecoms
5 7 (2.87%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.46%) Legal
7 4 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.23%) Law
8 3 (1.23%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.82%) Aviation
9 2 (0.82%) Electronics
9 2 (0.82%) Local Government
9 2 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.41%) Billing
10 1 (0.41%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 70 (28.69%) Network Engineer
2 41 (16.80%) Support Engineer
3 23 (9.43%) Azure Engineer
4 22 (9.02%) Architect
4 22 (9.02%) Senior
5 18 (7.38%) IT Support
6 16 (6.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 16 (6.56%) IT Engineer
6 16 (6.56%) Network Support
6 16 (6.56%) Network Support Engineer
7 15 (6.15%) IT Support Engineer
8 13 (5.33%) Consultant
9 12 (4.92%) Firewall Engineer
9 12 (4.92%) Principal Engineer
10 11 (4.51%) 2nd Line Support
10 11 (4.51%) Implementation Engineer
10 11 (4.51%) Principal Network Engineer
10 11 (4.51%) Project Manager
11 10 (4.10%) Analyst
11 10 (4.10%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.56%) ADO
2 7 (2.87%) JSON
3 6 (2.46%) REST
4 4 (1.64%) ARM Templates
4 4 (1.64%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (1.64%) NETCONF
4 4 (1.64%) XML
5 3 (1.23%) 802.1X
5 3 (1.23%) Node.js
5 3 (1.23%) SOAP
6 2 (0.82%) RESTCONF
6 2 (0.82%) RESTful
6 2 (0.82%) Symfony
6 2 (0.82%) YAML
6 2 (0.82%) YANG
7 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (0.41%) MUnit
7 1 (0.41%) OAuth
7 1 (0.41%) OpenID
7 1 (0.41%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.79%) Data Centre
2 17 (6.97%) Anti-Spyware
3 16 (6.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (4.10%) Onboarding
4 10 (4.10%) PKI
5 8 (3.28%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.28%) Security Posture
6 7 (2.87%) Video Conferencing
7 4 (1.64%) Clustering
7 4 (1.64%) CMDB
7 4 (1.64%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 4 (1.64%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.64%) Security Operations Centre
7 4 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.23%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.23%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.82%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.82%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 71 (29.10%) Windows
2 25 (10.25%) Linux
3 17 (6.97%) Windows 10
3 17 (6.97%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.69%) Unix
5 8 (3.28%) Android
6 7 (2.87%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.64%) VMS
8 2 (0.82%) CentOS
8 2 (0.82%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.82%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.41%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (32.38%) Migration
2 45 (18.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 40 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
4 36 (14.75%) Agile
5 29 (11.89%) CI/CD
5 29 (11.89%) DevOps
6 28 (11.48%) Network Monitoring
7 27 (11.07%) ITIL
8 23 (9.43%) Project Delivery
9 22 (9.02%) Stakeholder Management
10 20 (8.20%) Cloud Security
10 20 (8.20%) High Availability
10 20 (8.20%) Kalman Filter
11 19 (7.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 18 (7.38%) Service Management
13 17 (6.97%) Analytics
13 17 (6.97%) Zero Trust
14 16 (6.56%) Cybersecurity
15 15 (6.15%) Project Management
16 13 (5.33%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 46 (18.85%) Python
2 26 (10.66%) PowerShell
3 14 (5.74%) Bash
4 10 (4.10%) Bicep
4 10 (4.10%) SQL
5 7 (2.87%) Perl
6 4 (1.64%) Shell Script
7 3 (1.23%) Java
7 3 (1.23%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.41%) C
8 1 (0.41%) Groovy
8 1 (0.41%) Scala
Qualifications
1 44 (18.03%) Cisco Certification
2 31 (12.70%) Degree
3 29 (11.89%) Security Cleared
4 26 (10.66%) CCNP
5 21 (8.61%) SC Cleared
6 20 (8.20%) CCNA
7 14 (5.74%) Azure Certification
8 13 (5.33%) AWS Certification
9 10 (4.10%) CCIE
9 10 (4.10%) CCSA
10 9 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (2.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (2.46%) JNCIA
13 5 (2.05%) CCIE Service Provider
13 5 (2.05%) JNCIS
13 5 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (1.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 4 (1.64%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 4 (1.64%) CISSP
14 4 (1.64%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.92%) NIST
2 7 (2.87%) SLA
3 6 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.23%) GDPR
4 3 (1.23%) NCSC
4 3 (1.23%) QA
4 3 (1.23%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.82%) DICOM
5 2 (0.82%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.82%) HL7
5 2 (0.82%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 44 (18.03%) Active Directory
2 17 (6.97%) Docker
3 11 (4.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.87%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (2.46%) BitLocker
5 6 (2.46%) Firmware
6 5 (2.05%) Hyper-V
7 4 (1.64%) vSphere
8 3 (1.23%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.82%) Terminal Services
9 2 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.82%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 60 (24.59%) Terraform
2 35 (14.34%) Ansible
3 24 (9.84%) Kubernetes
4 21 (8.61%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (5.74%) FortiGate
6 8 (3.28%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (3.28%) ZABBIX
7 7 (2.87%) Puppet
7 7 (2.87%) SCCM
8 6 (2.46%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.64%) Nagios
10 3 (1.23%) CA Spectrum
11 2 (0.82%) AppManager
11 2 (0.82%) Cisco Prime
11 2 (0.82%) Grafana
11 2 (0.82%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.82%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.82%) vMotion
12 1 (0.41%) Apache Ranger
12 1 (0.41%) OpenView
Vendors
1 69 (28.28%) Cisco
2 58 (23.77%) Microsoft
3 50 (20.49%) Palo Alto
4 37 (15.16%) Fortinet
5 36 (14.75%) CheckPoint
6 26 (10.66%) SolarWinds
7 18 (7.38%) VMware
8 17 (6.97%) Infoblox
9 16 (6.56%) Meraki
10 15 (6.15%) F5
10 15 (6.15%) Juniper
11 13 (5.33%) Google
12 12 (4.92%) Zscaler
13 11 (4.51%) Arista
14 10 (4.10%) Citrix
15 8 (3.28%) ServiceNow
16 7 (2.87%) Oracle
16 7 (2.87%) Splunk
17 6 (2.46%) CyberArk
18 5 (2.05%) Aruba