VPN Contracts in Northamptonshire

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 26 35
Rank change year-on-year -2 +9 +5
Contract jobs citing VPN 1 4 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 0.68% 1.92% 0.84%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.67% 33.33% 6.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £575 -
East Midlands median daily rate - £338 £425
% change year-on-year - -20.59% +88.89%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 15 12 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 10.14% 5.77% 13.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 10 27
10th Percentile £266 £441 £174
25th Percentile £349 £479 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £325
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +53.85% -26.14%
75th Percentile £538 £563 £455
90th Percentile £609 £589 £526
East Midlands median daily rate £444 £500 £445
% change year-on-year -11.25% +12.36% +22.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £11.25
Median hourly rate - - £12.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -41.86%
75th Percentile - - £13.75
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £13.81 £14.27 £22.26
% change year-on-year -3.22% -35.89% +11.30%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in Northamptonshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Daily rate trend for VPN in Northamptonshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Hourly rate trend for VPN in Northamptonshire

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Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 3 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
Northampton -1 1 - - 1
VPN
East Midlands

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Server Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Rocky
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Customer-Centricity
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft