VPN Contract Job Trends in London

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring VPN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 141 164
Rank change year-on-year -83 +23 +59
Contract jobs citing VPN 205 237 240
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.19% 1.87% 1.34%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.62% 18.17% 13.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 157 154
10th Percentile £250 £255 £150
25th Percentile £413 £388 £255
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £434
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +12.39% -3.61%
75th Percentile £569 £571 £575
90th Percentile £638 £653 £825
England median daily rate £475 £475 £439
% change year-on-year - +8.32% +1.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 14
10th Percentile £22.55 - £13.21
25th Percentile £25.15 - £14.48
Median hourly rate £25.47 £50.00 £16.56
Median % change year-on-year -49.06% +202.02% -12.55%
75th Percentile - - £22.31
90th Percentile - - £24.93
England median hourly rate £16.71 £18.57 £16.86
% change year-on-year -10.02% +10.11% -19.45%

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 1,402 1,304 1,762
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.11% 10.32% 9.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 906 852 1,168
10th Percentile £300 £265 £206
25th Percentile £413 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% +2.56% -11.36%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 15 65
10th Percentile £20.23 £24.66 £14.48
25th Percentile £21.84 £26.54 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.47 £42.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.07% +93.18% -42.11%
75th Percentile £33.90 £51.00 £41.25
90th Percentile £84.50 £62.45 £60.00
England median hourly rate £46.25 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +23.33% -6.25% +110.91%

VPN
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VPN relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

VPN job vacancy trend in London

VPN
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing VPN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing VPN

VPN
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VPN in London over the 6 months to 11 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VPN in London

VPN
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing VPN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing VPN

VPN
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 11 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
Central London -29 26 £425 -24.44% 13
South London -8 11 £513 +13.89% 1
West London -32 3 £188 -53.13% 4
East London -5 2 - - 2
VPN
England

VPN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 18 (8.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (7.32%) SharePoint
3 13 (6.34%) Confluence
4 11 (5.37%) nginx
5 2 (0.98%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.49%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.49%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.49%) Traefik
Applications
1 8 (3.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (3.41%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.41%) MS Visio
3 5 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.49%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 99 (48.29%) Azure
2 62 (30.24%) AWS
3 51 (24.88%) Microsoft 365
4 33 (16.10%) GCP
5 26 (12.68%) Entra ID
6 25 (12.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 20 (9.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 17 (8.29%) IaaS
8 17 (8.29%) Route 53
8 17 (8.29%) Serverless
9 16 (7.80%) Amazon EKS
9 16 (7.80%) PaaS
10 15 (7.32%) Amazon S3
11 13 (6.34%) Amazon EC2
12 12 (5.85%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (5.85%) GitHub
13 11 (5.37%) AWS Direct Connect
13 11 (5.37%) Azure Monitor
14 9 (4.39%) Google Workspace
14 9 (4.39%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 126 (61.46%) Firewall
2 65 (31.71%) DNS
3 58 (28.29%) WAN
4 51 (24.88%) Network Security
5 48 (23.41%) TCP/IP
6 35 (17.07%) DHCP
7 33 (16.10%) LAN
8 31 (15.12%) SD-WAN
9 27 (13.17%) Wi-Fi
10 26 (12.68%) BGP
10 26 (12.68%) VLAN
11 21 (10.24%) OSPF
12 15 (7.32%) Wireless
13 12 (5.85%) MPLS
14 10 (4.88%) Cisco Nexus
15 9 (4.39%) DMZ
15 9 (4.39%) Internet
15 9 (4.39%) OpenVPN
16 8 (3.90%) SAN
16 8 (3.90%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.80%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (3.90%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.95%) Power BI
4 3 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.98%) Big Data
5 2 (0.98%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.98%) GIS
5 2 (0.98%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.49%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.49%) DocumentDB
6 1 (0.49%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.49%) Impala
6 1 (0.49%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.49%) MySQL
6 1 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (3.90%) Bitbucket
1 8 (3.90%) JIRA
2 7 (3.41%) Jenkins
2 7 (3.41%) SonarQube
3 6 (2.93%) Chocolatey
4 5 (2.44%) Git
5 3 (1.46%) GitLab
6 1 (0.49%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.49%) Maven
General
1 61 (29.76%) Social Skills
2 26 (12.68%) Finance
3 18 (8.78%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (8.29%) Banking
5 16 (7.80%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (7.32%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.41%) Front Office
7 7 (3.41%) Retail
8 6 (2.93%) Investment Banking
8 6 (2.93%) Law
8 6 (2.93%) Legal
9 3 (1.46%) Local Government
9 3 (1.46%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.98%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.98%) Marketing
10 2 (0.98%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.49%) Electronics
11 1 (0.49%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.49%) Military
11 1 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 47 (22.93%) Network Engineer
2 45 (21.95%) Architect
3 27 (13.17%) Senior
4 21 (10.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 20 (9.76%) Azure Engineer
6 16 (7.80%) Analyst
7 15 (7.32%) Network Architect
8 11 (5.37%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 11 (5.37%) Security Engineer
9 10 (4.88%) Help Desk Analyst
9 10 (4.88%) Technical Architect
10 9 (4.39%) AWS Architect
10 9 (4.39%) Cloud Architect
10 9 (4.39%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (3.90%) IT Engineer
12 7 (3.41%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (3.41%) Consultant
12 7 (3.41%) IT Analyst
12 7 (3.41%) IT Support
12 7 (3.41%) NetApp Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.37%) LDAP
2 9 (4.39%) OpenID
3 5 (2.44%) ARM Templates
4 4 (1.95%) JSON
4 4 (1.95%) SAML
4 4 (1.95%) VML
5 2 (0.98%) 802.1X
5 2 (0.98%) AWS CDK
5 2 (0.98%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.98%) FIDO
5 2 (0.98%) OAuth
5 2 (0.98%) REST
5 2 (0.98%) SAP Basis
5 2 (0.98%) YAML
6 1 (0.49%) Django
6 1 (0.49%) JAAS
6 1 (0.49%) JSSE
6 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.49%) MUnit
6 1 (0.49%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (15.61%) Data Centre
2 19 (9.27%) Hybrid Cloud
3 13 (6.34%) Onboarding
4 11 (5.37%) Clustering
4 11 (5.37%) PKI
5 10 (4.88%) Cloud Native
5 10 (4.88%) Security Posture
6 7 (3.41%) Enterprise Storage
7 6 (2.93%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (1.95%) Replication
9 3 (1.46%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.46%) SCADA
10 2 (0.98%) Cloud Security Posture
10 2 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.98%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.98%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.98%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 60 (29.27%) Windows
2 22 (10.73%) Linux
2 22 (10.73%) Windows Server
3 8 (3.90%) Android
3 8 (3.90%) Windows 10
4 7 (3.41%) VMS
4 7 (3.41%) Windows Server 2003
5 6 (2.93%) Apple iOS
5 6 (2.93%) Mac OS
5 6 (2.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (2.93%) Unix
6 3 (1.46%) SUSE
6 3 (1.46%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.49%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (22.93%) Problem-Solving
2 39 (19.02%) Migration
3 36 (17.56%) ITIL
4 31 (15.12%) DevOps
5 27 (13.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 25 (12.20%) Infrastructure as Code
7 23 (11.22%) Zero Trust
8 21 (10.24%) Roadmaps
9 20 (9.76%) CI/CD
9 20 (9.76%) Incident Management
10 18 (8.78%) Change Management
11 17 (8.29%) Cloud Security
11 17 (8.29%) ITSM
12 16 (7.80%) High Availability
13 15 (7.32%) Agile
13 15 (7.32%) Disaster Recovery
13 15 (7.32%) Observability
13 15 (7.32%) Service Management
13 15 (7.32%) Technical Leadership
14 14 (6.83%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (21.95%) PowerShell
2 30 (14.63%) Python
3 13 (6.34%) Bash
4 5 (2.44%) SQL
5 4 (1.95%) Java
6 3 (1.46%) Bicep
6 3 (1.46%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.49%) Go
7 1 (0.49%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 40 (19.51%) Security Cleared
2 29 (14.15%) Cisco Certification
3 28 (13.66%) CCNP
3 28 (13.66%) SC Cleared
4 18 (8.78%) Azure Certification
5 15 (7.32%) Degree
6 12 (5.85%) CCIE
7 10 (4.88%) CCNA
7 10 (4.88%) DV Cleared
7 10 (4.88%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (3.41%) AWS Certification
9 6 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (2.44%) CCSE
10 5 (2.44%) CISSP
10 5 (2.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (1.46%) JNCIE
11 3 (1.46%) JNCIP
11 3 (1.46%) MCSA
11 3 (1.46%) MCSE
11 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.34%) GDPR
2 11 (5.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (4.88%) SLA
4 5 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (2.44%) NIST
5 2 (0.98%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.98%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.98%) QA
6 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.49%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.49%) NCSC
6 1 (0.49%) PMO
System Software
1 52 (25.37%) Active Directory
2 20 (9.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (6.34%) Hyper-V
4 11 (5.37%) Docker
4 11 (5.37%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (4.88%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (4.39%) Squid
7 8 (3.90%) BitLocker
7 8 (3.90%) Microsoft App-V
8 7 (3.41%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (2.44%) Firmware
9 5 (2.44%) vSphere
10 2 (0.98%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.49%) HDFS
11 1 (0.49%) NFS
11 1 (0.49%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 47 (22.93%) Terraform
2 33 (16.10%) Ansible
3 23 (11.22%) Microsoft Intune
4 22 (10.73%) Kubernetes
5 20 (9.76%) Grafana
5 20 (9.76%) Prometheus
5 20 (9.76%) SCCM
6 16 (7.80%) FortiGate
7 14 (6.83%) Single Sign-On
8 11 (5.37%) vCenter Server
9 9 (4.39%) Puppet
10 8 (3.90%) vMotion
11 7 (3.41%) Consul
12 5 (2.44%) Salt
12 5 (2.44%) WSUS
13 4 (1.95%) QRadar
14 3 (1.46%) Cisco Prime
14 3 (1.46%) Failover Clustering
14 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Clustering
14 3 (1.46%) VxRail
Vendors
1 69 (33.66%) Microsoft
2 59 (28.78%) Cisco
3 40 (19.51%) Palo Alto
4 25 (12.20%) VMware
5 23 (11.22%) CheckPoint
6 22 (10.73%) F5
7 21 (10.24%) Aruba
8 20 (9.76%) Juniper
8 20 (9.76%) Zscaler
9 19 (9.27%) Citrix
10 18 (8.78%) Fortinet
11 17 (8.29%) ServiceNow
12 15 (7.32%) Arista
12 15 (7.32%) Dynatrace
13 14 (6.83%) Google
14 13 (6.34%) Meraki
15 11 (5.37%) NetApp
16 10 (4.88%) Red Hat
17 9 (4.39%) Splunk
18 8 (3.90%) Bloomberg