VPN Contract Job Trends in Reading

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring VPN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 56 74
Rank change year-on-year -20 +18 -13
Contract jobs citing VPN 15 11 18
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 1.35% 1.84% 1.63%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.64% 15.49% 9.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 7
10th Percentile £265 - £335
25th Percentile £363 - £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% -21.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £450 £463 £644
90th Percentile £496 £530 £728
Berkshire median daily rate £411 £450 £463
% change year-on-year -8.61% -2.70% -5.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £62.09 - -
25th Percentile £62.62 - -
Median hourly rate £67.00 - -
75th Percentile £70.97 - -
90th Percentile £71.24 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £67.00 - £19.00

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 141 71 190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 12.70% 11.87% 17.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 41 80
10th Percentile £326 £245 £317
25th Percentile £391 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £469 £579
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% -18.94% +18.40%
75th Percentile £598 £536 £608
90th Percentile £659 £603 £638
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 1 8
10th Percentile £16.01 - £56.25
25th Percentile £19.34 - £71.81
Median hourly rate £32.50 £55.00 £87.46
Median % change year-on-year -40.91% -37.11% +18.99%
75th Percentile £56.00 - -
90th Percentile £70.69 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.50 £72.50 £83.50
% change year-on-year -55.17% -13.17% +14.64%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

VPN job vacancy trend in Reading

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Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing VPN

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VPN in Reading over the 6 months to 20 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VPN in Reading

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Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing VPN

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (66.67%) Azure
2 5 (33.33%) OpenShift
3 2 (13.33%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (93.33%) Firewall
2 7 (46.67%) DNS
3 5 (33.33%) DHCP
3 5 (33.33%) TCP/IP
4 4 (26.67%) Network Security
4 4 (26.67%) SSL
5 3 (20.00%) WAN
6 2 (13.33%) BIG-IP
6 2 (13.33%) DMVPN
6 2 (13.33%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (13.33%) IPsec
6 2 (13.33%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (13.33%) Wireless
7 1 (6.67%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (6.67%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (6.67%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 1 (6.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (6.67%) HSRP
7 1 (6.67%) Multicast
7 1 (6.67%) VXLAN
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Aerospace
2 4 (26.67%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Public Sector
2 4 (26.67%) Retail
3 3 (20.00%) Telecoms
4 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Security Engineer
1 5 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Head of Infrastructure
2 4 (26.67%) Head of IT
2 4 (26.67%) Head of IT Infrastructure
2 4 (26.67%) Senior
3 3 (20.00%) Network Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Network Security Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Integration Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) IP Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) IP Network Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) IP Security Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior IP Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior IP Network Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Network Security Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Security Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Systems Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) Terraform
2 3 (20.00%) 802.1X
3 2 (13.33%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 4 (26.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
3 2 (13.33%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (6.67%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (6.67%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (6.67%) iPad
4 1 (6.67%) iPhone
4 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (66.67%) Windows
2 9 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 5 (33.33%) Linux
4 1 (6.67%) Apple iOS
4 1 (6.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 7 (46.67%) Change Management
3 6 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (40.00%) Roadmaps
4 5 (33.33%) DevOps
4 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (26.67%) Budget Management
5 4 (26.67%) Budgeting and Forecasting
5 4 (26.67%) Business Continuity
5 4 (26.67%) Capacity Management
5 4 (26.67%) Coaching
5 4 (26.67%) Information Security
5 4 (26.67%) ITIL
5 4 (26.67%) Project Delivery
5 4 (26.67%) Risk Identification and Mitigation
5 4 (26.67%) Strategic Planning
5 4 (26.67%) Technology Roadmap
6 3 (20.00%) Load Balancing
6 3 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 4 (26.67%) Bash
2 4 (26.67%) Python
3 2 (13.33%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 11 (73.33%) SC Cleared
1 11 (73.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Azure Certification
2 2 (13.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 2 (13.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (6.67%) CCNP
3 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.67%) Degree
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) GDPR
1 4 (26.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 5 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 5 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (13.33%) Docker
2 2 (13.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Ansible
1 5 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (13.33%) Grafana
2 2 (13.33%) Istio
2 2 (13.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (6.67%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (33.33%) F5
2 5 (33.33%) VMware
3 4 (26.67%) Cisco
4 3 (20.00%) CheckPoint
5 2 (13.33%) Blue Coat
5 2 (13.33%) Juniper
5 2 (13.33%) Palo Alto
5 2 (13.33%) Red Hat
5 2 (13.33%) Zscaler
6 1 (6.67%) Ekahau
6 1 (6.67%) Fortinet
6 1 (6.67%) Infoblox
6 1 (6.67%) McAfee
6 1 (6.67%) Starlink