VPN Contract Job Trends in Norfolk

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
East of England > Norfolk

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Norfolk requiring VPN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing VPN 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Norfolk 1.48% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.71% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £217 - -
25th Percentile £258 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £333 - -
75th Percentile £413 - -
90th Percentile £458 - -
East of England median daily rate £475 £275 £475
% change year-on-year +72.73% -42.11% +137.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Norfolk

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 Norfolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 35 15 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Norfolk 25.93% 25.86% 12.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 5
10th Percentile £210 £164 £131
25th Percentile £213 £200 £140
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £246 £285 £180
Median % change year-on-year -13.60% +58.33% -19.10%
75th Percentile £327 £308 £375
90th Percentile £355 £536 -
East of England median daily rate £413 £475 £430
% change year-on-year -13.16% +10.47% +1.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 5 1
10th Percentile £12.97 - -
25th Percentile £13.25 - £14.50
Median hourly rate £14.97 £20.00 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.15% +33.33% -11.76%
75th Percentile £16.50 - £15.50
90th Percentile £18.63 £20.34 -
East of England median hourly rate £55.50 £35.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +58.57% -46.15% +3.59%

VPN
Job Vacancy Trend in Norfolk

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

VPN job vacancy trend in Norfolk

VPN
Daily Rate Trend in Norfolk

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Norfolk citing VPN

VPN
Daily Rate Histogram in Norfolk

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VPN in Norfolk over the 6 months to 9 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VPN in Norfolk

VPN
Hourly Rate Trend in Norfolk

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Norfolk citing VPN

VPN
Contract Job Locations in Norfolk

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the Norfolk region over the 6 months to 9 January 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
Great Yarmouth - 1 £190 -
Norwich - 1 £475 -
VPN
East of England

VPN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Norfolk 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) Route 53
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Kerberos
1 1 (50.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Nagios
1 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Altiris
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) SaltStack