VPN Contracts in London

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for VPN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VPN over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 202 215 293
Rank change year-on-year +13 +78 -6
Contract jobs citing VPN 208 315 367
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.18% 1.19% 0.95%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.38% 12.02% 10.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 193 271
10th Percentile £150 £155 £230
25th Percentile £255 £235 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £521
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -13.68% +15.84%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £740 £700 £675
England median daily rate £430 £450 £463
% change year-on-year -4.44% -2.70% +10.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 6
10th Percentile £13.44 £25.04 £25.88
25th Percentile £15.24 £34.20 £26.38
Median hourly rate £17.00 £49.47 £36.12
Median % change year-on-year -65.63% +36.95% -27.76%
75th Percentile £23.80 £64.73 £46.42
90th Percentile £24.67 £73.89 £47.54
England median hourly rate £16.86 £21.22 £20.51
% change year-on-year -20.55% +3.46% +7.95%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

VPN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,680 2,621 3,649
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.52% 9.93% 9.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,123 1,839 2,530
10th Percentile £213 £250 £313
25th Percentile £350 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +2.27% +15.79%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £652
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
England median daily rate £498 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.24% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 56 82
10th Percentile £14.48 £20.11 £21.00
25th Percentile £16.86 £22.72 £23.91
Median hourly rate £23.50 £43.00 £33.75
Median % change year-on-year -45.35% +27.41% -28.95%
75th Percentile £41.25 £70.00 £47.35
90th Percentile £60.00 £75.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £23.91
% change year-on-year +116.22% -22.63% -4.36%

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 12 May 2024.

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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Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VPN in London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 12 May 2024. 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 0 23 £265 - 15
East London +1 4 £700 - 1
West London +13 2 - - 5
South London -1 2 £238 +25.00% 1
VPN
England

VPN
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 19 (9.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (4.33%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.40%) IIS
4 4 (1.92%) CMS
4 4 (1.92%) Skype for Business
5 3 (1.44%) MQSeries
6 2 (0.96%) Apache
6 2 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.96%) nginx
7 1 (0.48%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.48%) Confluence
7 1 (0.48%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.48%) WordPress
Applications
1 30 (14.42%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.92%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.96%) Eikon
2 1 (0.48%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.48%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 57 (27.40%) Azure
2 43 (20.67%) AWS
3 38 (18.27%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (6.73%) GCP
5 12 (5.77%) PaaS
6 10 (4.81%) IaaS
7 8 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (3.37%) Entra ID
9 6 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.40%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (2.40%) Asana
10 5 (2.40%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 5 (2.40%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (2.40%) Mimecast
11 4 (1.92%) Amazon ECR
11 4 (1.92%) Amazon MSK
11 4 (1.92%) OneDrive
11 4 (1.92%) SaaS
11 4 (1.92%) Slack
11 4 (1.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 111 (53.37%) Firewall
2 68 (32.69%) WAN
3 64 (30.77%) LAN
4 56 (26.92%) Wireless
5 50 (24.04%) BGP
6 46 (22.12%) OSPF
7 43 (20.67%) DNS
8 38 (18.27%) IPsec
9 32 (15.38%) Network Security
10 29 (13.94%) MPLS
11 22 (10.58%) TCP/IP
12 19 (9.13%) Cisco ASA
12 19 (9.13%) SD-WAN
12 19 (9.13%) WLAN
13 16 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
14 15 (7.21%) SSL
15 14 (6.73%) Cisco Nexus
15 14 (6.73%) DHCP
15 14 (6.73%) VLAN
16 11 (5.29%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.92%) Amazon QuickSight
1 4 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (1.92%) MariaDB
2 3 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (1.44%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.96%) Power BI
4 1 (0.48%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.48%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.48%) MySQL
4 1 (0.48%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.48%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (5.77%) JIRA
2 9 (4.33%) Git
3 4 (1.92%) Cypress.io
3 4 (1.92%) Snyk
3 4 (1.92%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (1.44%) GitLab
5 2 (0.96%) Postman
5 2 (0.96%) Robot Framework
5 2 (0.96%) TestRail
6 1 (0.48%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.48%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.48%) Subversion
6 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 64 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 40 (19.23%) Finance
3 25 (12.02%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (8.65%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.29%) Banking
6 8 (3.85%) Financial Institution
6 8 (3.85%) Mandarin Language
6 8 (3.85%) Telecoms
7 7 (3.37%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.92%) Legal
8 4 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.44%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.44%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.96%) Aviation
10 2 (0.96%) Billing
10 2 (0.96%) Local Government
10 2 (0.96%) Marketing
10 2 (0.96%) Retail
Job Titles
1 53 (25.48%) Network Engineer
2 28 (13.46%) Support Engineer
3 21 (10.10%) Senior
4 18 (8.65%) Desktop Support
5 15 (7.21%) Analyst
5 15 (7.21%) Desktop Engineer
6 14 (6.73%) IT Engineer
6 14 (6.73%) IT Support
6 14 (6.73%) Network Specialist
7 12 (5.77%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 10 (4.81%) Senior Network Engineer
9 9 (4.33%) Azure Engineer
9 9 (4.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (4.33%) Service Analyst
9 9 (4.33%) Windows Engineer
10 8 (3.85%) Cisco Engineer
10 8 (3.85%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 8 (3.85%) Lead
10 8 (3.85%) Security Engineer
10 8 (3.85%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.29%) JSON
2 10 (4.81%) LDAP
3 8 (3.85%) XMPP
4 6 (2.88%) .NET
4 6 (2.88%) NETCONF
5 5 (2.40%) SAML
5 5 (2.40%) YANG
6 4 (1.92%) GraphQL
6 4 (1.92%) Kafka
6 4 (1.92%) XML
7 2 (0.96%) 802.1X
7 2 (0.96%) HTML
7 2 (0.96%) Jinja
7 2 (0.96%) REST
7 2 (0.96%) RESTCONF
7 2 (0.96%) RESTful
7 2 (0.96%) SOAP
7 2 (0.96%) Software Packaging
7 2 (0.96%) YAML
8 1 (0.48%) MFC
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.58%) PKI
2 20 (9.62%) Video Conferencing
3 19 (9.13%) Data Centre
4 8 (3.85%) Blackberry
4 8 (3.85%) BYOD
4 8 (3.85%) Hedge funds
5 7 (3.37%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (3.37%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.40%) NHS
6 5 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.92%) iPad
7 4 (1.92%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.44%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.96%) Clustering
9 2 (0.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (0.96%) Fat Client
9 2 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.96%) iPhone
9 2 (0.96%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 83 (39.90%) Windows
2 46 (22.12%) Windows 10
3 28 (13.46%) Windows Server
4 24 (11.54%) Linux
5 23 (11.06%) Windows 7
6 14 (6.73%) Mac OS
7 9 (4.33%) Unix
8 8 (3.85%) Android
9 6 (2.88%) Apple iOS
10 4 (1.92%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (1.44%) Ubuntu
11 3 (1.44%) VMS
11 3 (1.44%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (1.44%) Windows XP
12 2 (0.96%) CentOS
12 2 (0.96%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.96%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.48%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
2 44 (21.15%) Customer Service
3 32 (15.38%) ITIL
4 25 (12.02%) Migration
5 22 (10.58%) DevOps
6 21 (10.10%) ITSM
7 19 (9.13%) Agile
7 19 (9.13%) Change Management
7 19 (9.13%) Infrastructure as Code
8 18 (8.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 16 (7.69%) Kalman Filter
10 13 (6.25%) Threat Management
11 12 (5.77%) Customer Experience
11 12 (5.77%) Root Cause Analysis
12 11 (5.29%) Cloud Security
12 11 (5.29%) Network Virtualisation
12 11 (5.29%) Problem Management
12 11 (5.29%) Server Management
12 11 (5.29%) Service Delivery
12 11 (5.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 23 (11.06%) PowerShell
2 19 (9.13%) Python
3 12 (5.77%) SQL
4 6 (2.88%) C#
4 6 (2.88%) Java
5 4 (1.92%) Go
5 4 (1.92%) PHP
6 3 (1.44%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.44%) Perl
7 2 (0.96%) Bash
8 1 (0.48%) C++
8 1 (0.48%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (13.46%) Cisco Certification
2 25 (12.02%) CCNP
2 25 (12.02%) Security Cleared
3 23 (11.06%) SC Cleared
4 22 (10.58%) Degree
5 11 (5.29%) CCNA
6 10 (4.81%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (4.33%) CCIE
8 6 (2.88%) MCSA
9 5 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.92%) MCSE
11 3 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.44%) DV Cleared
11 3 (1.44%) MCP
12 2 (0.96%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.48%) BC Cleared
13 1 (0.48%) CCIP
13 1 (0.48%) CCSP
13 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (11.54%) SLA
2 7 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.40%) QA
4 3 (1.44%) NCSC
5 2 (0.96%) NIST
5 2 (0.96%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.48%) Data Quality
System Software
1 48 (23.08%) Active Directory
2 21 (10.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (6.25%) Hyper-V
4 10 (4.81%) Firmware
5 9 (4.33%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (2.40%) vSphere
7 4 (1.92%) NFS
7 4 (1.92%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (1.92%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.92%) VMware NSX
8 3 (1.44%) BitLocker
8 3 (1.44%) Docker
8 3 (1.44%) Samba
8 3 (1.44%) Terminal Services
9 2 (0.96%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.96%) Squid
Systems Management
1 19 (9.13%) SCCM
2 18 (8.65%) FortiGate
3 15 (7.21%) Terraform
4 12 (5.77%) Ansible
5 11 (5.29%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (3.85%) Kubernetes
7 5 (2.40%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.92%) Grafana
8 4 (1.92%) Prometheus
9 3 (1.44%) TrustSec
10 2 (0.96%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.96%) HAProxy
10 2 (0.96%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.96%) Nessus
10 2 (0.96%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.96%) Puppet
10 2 (0.96%) SCOM
10 2 (0.96%) SCVMM
10 2 (0.96%) WhatsUp Gold
10 2 (0.96%) WSUS
Vendors
1 85 (40.87%) Cisco
2 71 (34.13%) Microsoft
3 39 (18.75%) Palo Alto
4 26 (12.50%) ServiceNow
5 25 (12.02%) VMware
6 23 (11.06%) Juniper
7 22 (10.58%) Fortinet
8 20 (9.62%) Citrix
9 19 (9.13%) F5
10 10 (4.81%) CheckPoint
11 8 (3.85%) Aruba
11 8 (3.85%) SolarWinds
12 7 (3.37%) Infoblox
12 7 (3.37%) Nokia
12 7 (3.37%) TOWER Software
12 7 (3.37%) Zscaler
13 6 (2.88%) Apple
13 6 (2.88%) Extreme Networks
13 6 (2.88%) HP
13 6 (2.88%) Meraki