VPN Contracts in Somerset

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Somerset 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 28 24
Rank change year-on-year +9 -4 -
Contract jobs citing VPN 8 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Somerset 5.10% 0.92% 2.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 34.78% 5.00% 10.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 3
10th Percentile £513 £171 -
25th Percentile £559 £220 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £616 £319 £488
Median % change year-on-year +93.33% -34.62% -
75th Percentile £649 £420 £506
90th Percentile - £472 -
South West median daily rate £575 £475 £494
% change year-on-year +21.05% -3.80% +23.44%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 23 40 39
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 14.65% 18.35% 20.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 16 30
10th Percentile £225 £238 £155
25th Percentile £363 £250 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £295 £388
Median % change year-on-year +77.97% -23.87% -3.13%
75th Percentile £625 £511 £450
90th Percentile £649 £613 £516
South West median daily rate £550 £538 £523
% change year-on-year +2.33% +2.87% +16.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 4
10th Percentile - £12.50 £16.93
25th Percentile - £26.25 £17.94
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £43.17
Median % change year-on-year - -7.34% -1.77%
75th Percentile - - £75.88
90th Percentile - - £84.35
South West median hourly rate £41.40 £40.00 £9.80
% change year-on-year +3.49% +308.16% -81.29%

VPN
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in Somerset

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Daily rate trend for VPN in Somerset

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Hourly rate trend for VPN in Somerset

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Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 30 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
Bath -3 6 £633 +29.74% 24
Street - 2 £525 - 1
VPN
South West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Somerset 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (50.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) BGP
1 8 (100.00%) MPLS
2 4 (50.00%) DNS
2 4 (50.00%) IPsec
2 4 (50.00%) OSPF
2 4 (50.00%) Unified Communications
3 2 (25.00%) Broadband
3 2 (25.00%) Cisco Firepower
3 2 (25.00%) Firewall
3 2 (25.00%) IPv6
3 2 (25.00%) Multicast
3 2 (25.00%) SD-WAN
3 2 (25.00%) VLAN
3 2 (25.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Network Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Principal Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Principal Network Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Principal Security Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Switch Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Telephony Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) NETCONF
1 4 (50.00%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) PKI
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
1 4 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 4 (50.00%) NsoIT
1 4 (50.00%) Service Management
1 4 (50.00%) System Testing
1 4 (50.00%) Validation
2 2 (25.00%) ArchiMate
2 2 (25.00%) Business Development
2 2 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
2 2 (25.00%) IT Governance
2 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (25.00%) Migration
2 2 (25.00%) Network Architecture
2 2 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (25.00%) Supplier Management
2 2 (25.00%) Time Management
2 2 (25.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (75.00%) CCNP
2 6 (75.00%) SC Cleared
2 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
3 4 (50.00%) CCIE
3 4 (50.00%) Degree
4 2 (25.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (25.00%) Azure Certification
4 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (25.00%) JNCIE
4 2 (25.00%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Ansible
2 2 (25.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Cisco
2 4 (50.00%) Atlassian
2 4 (50.00%) VMware
3 2 (25.00%) Fortinet
3 2 (25.00%) Google
3 2 (25.00%) Juniper
3 2 (25.00%) Palo Alto
3 2 (25.00%) SolarWinds