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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 196 216
Rank change year-on-year +55 +20 +72
Contract jobs citing VPN 247 203 314
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.99% 1.16% 1.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 18.87% 12.19% 12.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 126 193
10th Percentile £250 £150 £155
25th Percentile £382 £251 £235
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -11.11% -12.20%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £594
90th Percentile £650 £740 £700
England median daily rate £475 £430 £456
% change year-on-year +10.47% -5.75% +0.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 15 2
10th Percentile £37.00 £13.44 £25.04
25th Percentile £38.13 £15.24 £34.20
Median hourly rate £40.00 £17.00 £49.47
Median % change year-on-year +135.29% -65.63% +13.09%
75th Percentile £45.00 £23.80 £64.73
90th Percentile £48.00 £24.67 £73.89
England median hourly rate £19.00 £16.86 £22.00
% change year-on-year +12.69% -23.36% +7.26%

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 1,309 1,665 2,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.55% 9.53% 9.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 833 1,114 1,812
10th Percentile £263 £213 £250
25th Percentile £400 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £618 £675
90th Percentile £724 £738 £775
England median daily rate £500 £495 £525
% change year-on-year +1.01% -5.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 51 56
10th Percentile £24.21 £14.48 £20.11
25th Percentile £24.66 £16.56 £22.72
Median hourly rate £38.75 £23.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +64.89% -45.35% +27.41%
75th Percentile £50.50 £41.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £62.25 £60.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year -30.00% +122.22% -24.72%

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

VPN
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 16 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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Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VPN in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

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 16 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 +18 40 £583 +119.81% 21
West London +25 14 £400 - 8
South London +6 5 £450 +89.47%
East London +18 4 £363 -48.21% 4
North London - 1 £463 -
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 10 (4.05%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (3.24%) Confluence
4 5 (2.02%) CMS
5 1 (0.40%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.40%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.40%) IIS
Applications
1 20 (8.10%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.83%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 119 (48.18%) Azure
2 71 (28.74%) AWS
3 40 (16.19%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (10.93%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 20 (8.10%) Entra ID
5 20 (8.10%) GCP
6 18 (7.29%) Serverless
7 16 (6.48%) AWS CloudFormation
8 15 (6.07%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (5.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 11 (4.45%) IaaS
10 11 (4.45%) PaaS
10 11 (4.45%) SaaS
11 8 (3.24%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (3.24%) Amazon S3
11 8 (3.24%) Asana
11 8 (3.24%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (3.24%) OneDrive
11 8 (3.24%) Slack
12 7 (2.83%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 153 (61.94%) Firewall
2 74 (29.96%) DNS
3 72 (29.15%) WAN
4 64 (25.91%) Network Security
5 59 (23.89%) BGP
6 50 (20.24%) OSPF
7 49 (19.84%) MPLS
8 46 (18.62%) LAN
9 28 (11.34%) DHCP
9 28 (11.34%) TCP/IP
10 27 (10.93%) SD-WAN
11 23 (9.31%) Wireless
12 22 (8.91%) IPsec
12 22 (8.91%) NGFW
13 18 (7.29%) SSL
13 18 (7.29%) VLAN
14 15 (6.07%) Multicast
15 12 (4.86%) Cisco Nexus
15 12 (4.86%) Wi-Fi
16 11 (4.45%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.45%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (2.83%) Data Lake
2 7 (2.83%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.21%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.81%) DynamoDB
4 2 (0.81%) MySQL
5 1 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.40%) Big Data
5 1 (0.40%) Cloudera CDH
5 1 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.40%) DocumentDB
5 1 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.40%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.40%) IDOL
5 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.40%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (6.88%) JIRA
2 9 (3.64%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.24%) Git
4 6 (2.43%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (1.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (1.21%) GitLab
6 2 (0.81%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.40%) HP UFT
7 1 (0.40%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.40%) Maven
7 1 (0.40%) MSI
7 1 (0.40%) TeamCity
General
1 53 (21.46%) Social Skills
2 48 (19.43%) Finance
3 15 (6.07%) Public Sector
4 12 (4.86%) Banking
5 11 (4.45%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.05%) Telecoms
7 9 (3.64%) Marketing
8 7 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.83%) Legal
9 6 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.21%) Law
12 2 (0.81%) Aviation
12 2 (0.81%) Local Government
12 2 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.40%) Dutch Language
13 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.40%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.40%) Retail
Job Titles
1 68 (27.53%) Network Engineer
2 39 (15.79%) Support Engineer
3 23 (9.31%) Azure Engineer
3 23 (9.31%) Senior
4 21 (8.50%) Architect
5 19 (7.69%) IT Support
6 16 (6.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 16 (6.48%) IT Engineer
6 16 (6.48%) Network Support
6 16 (6.48%) Network Support Engineer
7 15 (6.07%) IT Support Engineer
8 13 (5.26%) Firewall Engineer
8 13 (5.26%) Implementation Engineer
9 12 (4.86%) Principal Engineer
10 11 (4.45%) Analyst
10 11 (4.45%) Principal Network Engineer
10 11 (4.45%) Project Manager
11 10 (4.05%) 2nd Line Support
11 10 (4.05%) Consultant
11 10 (4.05%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.48%) ADO
2 6 (2.43%) JSON
3 5 (2.02%) REST
4 4 (1.62%) ARM Templates
4 4 (1.62%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (1.21%) 802.1X
5 3 (1.21%) NETCONF
5 3 (1.21%) Node.js
5 3 (1.21%) XML
6 2 (0.81%) RESTful
6 2 (0.81%) SOAP
6 2 (0.81%) Symfony
7 1 (0.40%) Akka
7 1 (0.40%) OAuth
7 1 (0.40%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.40%) OpenID
7 1 (0.40%) Play Framework
7 1 (0.40%) RAML
7 1 (0.40%) Web Services
7 1 (0.40%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.50%) Data Centre
2 17 (6.88%) Anti-Spyware
3 15 (6.07%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (4.45%) Cloud Native
5 10 (4.05%) PKI
6 9 (3.64%) Onboarding
7 8 (3.24%) Security Posture
8 7 (2.83%) Management Information System
8 7 (2.83%) Video Conferencing
9 5 (2.02%) Security Operations Centre
9 5 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.62%) CMDB
10 4 (1.62%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 4 (1.62%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.21%) Clustering
11 3 (1.21%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.21%) Operational Technology
11 3 (1.21%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.81%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 74 (29.96%) Windows
2 27 (10.93%) Linux
3 17 (6.88%) Windows 10
3 17 (6.88%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.64%) Unix
5 6 (2.43%) Android
6 5 (2.02%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.62%) VMS
8 3 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.81%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.40%) CentOS
10 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.40%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (31.58%) Migration
2 45 (18.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 41 (16.60%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (14.17%) Agile
5 29 (11.74%) DevOps
6 28 (11.34%) CI/CD
6 28 (11.34%) Network Monitoring
7 24 (9.72%) ITIL
8 23 (9.31%) Project Delivery
8 23 (9.31%) Stakeholder Management
9 22 (8.91%) High Availability
10 20 (8.10%) Cloud Security
11 19 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 19 (7.69%) Kalman Filter
11 19 (7.69%) Service Management
12 18 (7.29%) Zero Trust
13 17 (6.88%) Project Management
14 16 (6.48%) Cybersecurity
15 15 (6.07%) Analytics
15 15 (6.07%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 48 (19.43%) Python
2 26 (10.53%) PowerShell
3 13 (5.26%) Bash
4 10 (4.05%) Bicep
5 9 (3.64%) SQL
6 6 (2.43%) Perl
7 5 (2.02%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.62%) Java
9 3 (1.21%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.40%) C
10 1 (0.40%) Groovy
10 1 (0.40%) Scala
Qualifications
1 41 (16.60%) Cisco Certification
2 32 (12.96%) Degree
3 29 (11.74%) Security Cleared
4 26 (10.53%) CCNP
5 21 (8.50%) SC Cleared
6 17 (6.88%) CCNA
7 14 (5.67%) AWS Certification
7 14 (5.67%) Azure Certification
8 12 (4.86%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (4.05%) CCIE
10 9 (3.64%) CCSA
11 8 (3.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (2.43%) JNCIA
13 5 (2.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 5 (2.02%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 5 (2.02%) CCIE Service Provider
13 5 (2.02%) JNCIS
13 5 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (1.62%) CISSP
14 4 (1.62%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.86%) NIST
2 7 (2.83%) SLA
3 6 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.21%) GDPR
4 3 (1.21%) NCSC
4 3 (1.21%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.81%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.81%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.81%) QA
6 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 45 (18.22%) Active Directory
2 16 (6.48%) Docker
3 11 (4.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (3.24%) Firmware
5 7 (2.83%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (2.43%) BitLocker
7 5 (2.02%) Hyper-V
8 4 (1.62%) vSphere
9 3 (1.21%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (1.21%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.81%) Terminal Services
10 2 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.40%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 60 (24.29%) Terraform
2 37 (14.98%) Ansible
3 24 (9.72%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (9.31%) Kubernetes
5 15 (6.07%) FortiGate
6 10 (4.05%) SCCM
7 8 (3.24%) Puppet
7 8 (3.24%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (3.24%) ZABBIX
8 7 (2.83%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.62%) Nagios
10 3 (1.21%) CA Spectrum
11 2 (0.81%) AppManager
11 2 (0.81%) Cisco Prime
11 2 (0.81%) Grafana
11 2 (0.81%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.81%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.81%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.81%) vMotion
12 1 (0.40%) Apache Ranger
Vendors
1 66 (26.72%) Cisco
2 59 (23.89%) Microsoft
3 50 (20.24%) Palo Alto
4 38 (15.38%) Fortinet
5 35 (14.17%) CheckPoint
6 26 (10.53%) SolarWinds
7 17 (6.88%) Infoblox
7 17 (6.88%) VMware
8 16 (6.48%) Meraki
9 15 (6.07%) F5
9 15 (6.07%) Juniper
10 13 (5.26%) Arista
11 12 (4.86%) Google
11 12 (4.86%) Zscaler
12 10 (4.05%) Citrix
13 9 (3.64%) ServiceNow
14 7 (2.83%) CyberArk
15 6 (2.43%) Oracle
15 6 (2.43%) Splunk
16 5 (2.02%) Nokia