VPN Contracts in Merton

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
South London > Merton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merton 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 6 6 10
Rank change year-on-year 0 +4 +1
Contract jobs citing VPN 2 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merton 8.33% 10.53% 2.94%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 100.00% 100.00% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £216 £216 -
25th Percentile £222 £222 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £238 £238 £265
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -10.38% +103.45%
75th Percentile £247 £247 £273
90th Percentile £249 £249 -
South London median daily rate £450 £238 £175
% change year-on-year +89.47% +35.71% -65.85%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Merton

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 Merton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2 2 10
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merton 8.33% 10.53% 29.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 6
10th Percentile £216 £216 £201
25th Percentile £222 £222 £299
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £238 £238 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -47.22% +23.29%
75th Percentile £247 £247 £469
90th Percentile £249 £249 £475
South London median daily rate £474 £375 £513
% change year-on-year +26.33% -26.83% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Median hourly rate - - £50.42
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.92%
South London median hourly rate - - £50.42
% change year-on-year - - +10.46%

VPN
Job Vacancy Trend in Merton

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in Merton

VPN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merton

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

Daily rate trend for VPN in Merton

VPN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merton

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

Hourly rate trend for VPN in Merton

VPN
Contract Job Locations in Merton

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the Merton 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
Morden +3 1 £251 +11.33%
VPN
South London

VPN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merton 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 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 2 (100.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) IT Support
2 1 (50.00%) IT Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Android
1 2 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (50.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) ITSM
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 2 (100.00%) vSphere
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) VMware