VPN Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring VPN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 22 18
Rank change year-on-year -32 -4 +11
Contract jobs citing VPN 5 7 4
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 1.10% 4.43% 2.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.89% 53.85% 19.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile £239 - £422
25th Percentile £250 - £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £600 £465
Median % change year-on-year -45.83% +29.03% +55.00%
75th Percentile £425 - £555
90th Percentile £470 - £605
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% +4.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £89.63 -
South East median hourly rate £69.22 £89.63 £20.70
% change year-on-year -22.78% +333.00% +2.93%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 36 13 21
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 7.91% 8.23% 11.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 3 14
10th Percentile £323 £405 £145
25th Percentile £480 £478 £209
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £445
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +34.83% +30.88%
75th Percentile £588 - £600
90th Percentile £608 - £646
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +8.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 3
10th Percentile £55.50 £40.91 -
25th Percentile £61.88 £71.00 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £89.63 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.32% +37.89% -
75th Percentile £77.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £48.72 £55.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year -11.42% -4.10% -2.64%

VPN
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

VPN job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

VPN
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing VPN

VPN
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VPN in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 19 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VPN in Oxfordshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing VPN

VPN
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 19 August 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
Kidlington - 4 £288 -
Oxford -5 1 £500 -16.67% 4
VPN
South East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) Entra ID
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (60.00%) OneDrive
3 2 (40.00%) Google Workspace
4 1 (20.00%) AWS
4 1 (20.00%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) DHCP
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
1 3 (60.00%) LAN
1 3 (60.00%) VLAN
2 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (40.00%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (20.00%) BGP
3 1 (20.00%) HSRP
3 1 (20.00%) Network Security
3 1 (20.00%) VRRP
3 1 (20.00%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) IT Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) IT Support
1 3 (60.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Replication
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Network Design
2 1 (20.00%) Observability
2 1 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Runbook
2 1 (20.00%) Server Patching
2 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (20.00%) CCNP
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Grafana
2 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) Google
3 2 (40.00%) Veeam
3 2 (40.00%) VMware
4 1 (20.00%) Arista
4 1 (20.00%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto