VPN Contracts in the South East

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
England > South East

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

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 83 129
Rank change year-on-year +13 +46 +16
Contract jobs citing VPN 92 122 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.85% 2.14% 1.49%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.03% 10.41% 8.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 57 46
10th Percentile £341 £184 £193
25th Percentile £450 £281 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £587 £550 £558
90th Percentile £600 £709 £688
England median daily rate £460 £446 £485
% change year-on-year +3.20% -8.09% +2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 4
10th Percentile - £17.93 -
25th Percentile - £18.00 £18.50
Median hourly rate £32.77 £19.00 £20.11
Median % change year-on-year +72.47% -5.52% -22.65%
75th Percentile - £22.50 £22.29
90th Percentile - £22.53 £24.22
England median hourly rate £37.50 £16.93 £22.00
% change year-on-year +121.50% -23.05% +7.26%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 574 1,172 997
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.80% 20.52% 17.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 380 569 590
10th Percentile £219 £215 £240
25th Percentile £325 £390 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £588
90th Percentile £625 £650 £700
England median daily rate £492 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -1.60% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 139 72
10th Percentile £14.20 £17.35 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.76 £31.88 £32.38
Median hourly rate £50.00 £57.35 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% -0.26% +125.49%
75th Percentile £58.72 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £65.56 £85.65 £78.97
England median hourly rate £37.50 £45.88 £20.71
% change year-on-year -18.27% +121.59% -17.18%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing VPN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for VPN in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VPN in the South East.

Daily rate trend for VPN in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VPN in the South East over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VPN in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VPN in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for VPN in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the South East region over the 6 months to 3 July 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
Hampshire +23 44 £550 +7.58% 36
Thames Valley +5 35 £450 -7.69% 22
Berkshire +25 33 £450 -2.70% 13
Kent -1 7 £375 +82.93% 20
Surrey +9 6 £488 +146.84% 11
Oxfordshire -2 1 £213 -46.88% 7
Buckinghamshire -10 1 £274 -50.15% 3
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 18 (19.57%) SharePoint
2 15 (16.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (6.52%) Confluence
3 6 (6.52%) Exchange Server 2003
3 6 (6.52%) Exchange Server 2007
3 6 (6.52%) Exchange Server 2010
3 6 (6.52%) Exchange Server 2013
3 6 (6.52%) Office Communications Server
3 6 (6.52%) SharePoint Server
3 6 (6.52%) Skype for Business
4 1 (1.09%) Anypoint
Applications
1 9 (9.78%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 27 (29.35%) Azure
2 20 (21.74%) AWS
3 14 (15.22%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (10.87%) GCP
5 9 (9.78%) IaaS
6 8 (8.70%) OpenShift
6 8 (8.70%) PaaS
7 7 (7.61%) Power Platform
8 4 (4.35%) Cloudflare
9 3 (3.26%) Entra ID
10 2 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (2.17%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (1.09%) Azure AKS
11 1 (1.09%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 1 (1.09%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (1.09%) Nutanix
11 1 (1.09%) OneDrive
11 1 (1.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 48 (52.17%) Firewall
2 32 (34.78%) Network Security
2 32 (34.78%) WAN
3 25 (27.17%) DNS
4 23 (25.00%) LAN
5 20 (21.74%) DHCP
5 20 (21.74%) MPLS
5 20 (21.74%) SAN
6 16 (17.39%) TCP/IP
7 14 (15.22%) ATM
7 14 (15.22%) Ethernet
7 14 (15.22%) Frame Relay
7 14 (15.22%) GPRS
7 14 (15.22%) GSM
7 14 (15.22%) LTE
7 14 (15.22%) SDH
7 14 (15.22%) UMTS
7 14 (15.22%) Wireshark
8 13 (14.13%) BGP
9 11 (11.96%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.70%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (8.70%) Big Data
1 8 (8.70%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (7.61%) Power BI
3 1 (1.09%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.09%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.09%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (6.52%) JIRA
2 1 (1.09%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.09%) Git
2 1 (1.09%) GitLab
2 1 (1.09%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.09%) Maven
General
1 39 (42.39%) Social Skills
2 17 (18.48%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (16.30%) Public Sector
3 15 (16.30%) Telecoms
4 4 (4.35%) Military
5 3 (3.26%) Legal
6 2 (2.17%) Finance
6 2 (2.17%) Law
7 1 (1.09%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.09%) Local Government
7 1 (1.09%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (28.26%) Network Engineer
2 16 (17.39%) Support Engineer
3 13 (14.13%) IP Engineer
4 12 (13.04%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 12 (13.04%) 3rd Line Support
4 12 (13.04%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 12 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (13.04%) Test Engineer
5 8 (8.70%) Infrastructure Support
5 8 (8.70%) IT Manager
5 8 (8.70%) Senior
6 7 (7.61%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (7.61%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 7 (7.61%) Architect
6 7 (7.61%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 7 (7.61%) IT Services Manager
6 7 (7.61%) Service Manager
7 6 (6.52%) Exchange Engineer
7 6 (6.52%) Exchange Support
8 5 (5.43%) Senior Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.17%) 802.1X
1 2 (2.17%) REST
2 1 (1.09%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (1.09%) JSON
2 1 (1.09%) LDAP
2 1 (1.09%) MUnit
2 1 (1.09%) NETCONF
2 1 (1.09%) RAML
2 1 (1.09%) RESTCONF
2 1 (1.09%) SOAP
2 1 (1.09%) XML
2 1 (1.09%) YAML
2 1 (1.09%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.22%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (14.13%) Data Centre
3 9 (9.78%) PKI
3 9 (9.78%) Video Conferencing
4 8 (8.70%) Clustering
5 6 (6.52%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (6.52%) Replication
6 4 (4.35%) Public Cloud
7 3 (3.26%) Security Posture
8 2 (2.17%) Cloud Native
8 2 (2.17%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (2.17%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (1.09%) Cyberattack
9 1 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.09%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.09%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 33 (35.87%) Windows
2 27 (29.35%) Linux
3 15 (16.30%) Unix
4 14 (15.22%) Windows Server
4 14 (15.22%) Windows Server 2003
5 8 (8.70%) Windows 10
6 2 (2.17%) Mac OS
6 2 (2.17%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.09%) Android
7 1 (1.09%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.09%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (35.87%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (17.39%) Project Management
3 14 (15.22%) Fault Management
3 14 (15.22%) Network Architecture
3 14 (15.22%) Regression Testing
3 14 (15.22%) Test Strategy
4 13 (14.13%) Business Intelligence
4 13 (14.13%) Cybersecurity
4 13 (14.13%) Security Monitoring
5 12 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 12 (13.04%) ITIL
5 12 (13.04%) Migration
6 11 (11.96%) SIEM
7 10 (10.87%) Disaster Recovery
8 9 (9.78%) DevOps
9 8 (8.70%) Analytics
9 8 (8.70%) Artificial Intelligence
9 8 (8.70%) Computer Science
9 8 (8.70%) Machine Learning
9 8 (8.70%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 14 (15.22%) Java
2 12 (13.04%) Python
3 8 (8.70%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.17%) SQL
5 1 (1.09%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 41 (44.57%) Cisco Certification
2 39 (42.39%) Security Cleared
3 36 (39.13%) CCNP
4 19 (20.65%) SC Cleared
5 18 (19.57%) DV Cleared
6 16 (17.39%) Degree
7 14 (15.22%) ISEB
7 14 (15.22%) ISTQB
7 14 (15.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 12 (13.04%) CCNA
9 8 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (6.52%) CCIE
10 6 (6.52%) CCSA
10 6 (6.52%) CCSE
10 6 (6.52%) Check Point Certification
11 2 (2.17%) A+ Certification
11 2 (2.17%) CEH
11 2 (2.17%) CISSP
12 1 (1.09%) CCSP
12 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.26%) GDPR
1 3 (3.26%) NIST
2 2 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.09%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (1.09%) GRC
3 1 (1.09%) JSP 440
3 1 (1.09%) NCSC
3 1 (1.09%) QA
3 1 (1.09%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (29.35%) Active Directory
2 15 (16.30%) Hyper-V
3 10 (10.87%) Terminal Services
3 10 (10.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (9.78%) Docker
4 9 (9.78%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (8.70%) BitLocker
5 8 (8.70%) Microsoft App-V
6 6 (6.52%) Brightmail
6 6 (6.52%) ISA Server
7 5 (5.43%) vSphere
8 1 (1.09%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (23.91%) Ansible
2 10 (10.87%) Kubernetes
3 8 (8.70%) Nagios
3 8 (8.70%) Puppet
3 8 (8.70%) vCenter Server
3 8 (8.70%) vMotion
4 7 (7.61%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (6.52%) Microsoft Clustering
6 5 (5.43%) Terraform
6 5 (5.43%) Tivoli
7 2 (2.17%) SCCM
8 1 (1.09%) CASB
8 1 (1.09%) CloudHub
8 1 (1.09%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.09%) SCOM
8 1 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 48 (52.17%) Microsoft
2 37 (40.22%) Cisco
3 20 (21.74%) Citrix
4 19 (20.65%) Juniper
5 18 (19.57%) VMware
6 11 (11.96%) CheckPoint
7 9 (9.78%) Google
7 9 (9.78%) HP
7 9 (9.78%) Palo Alto
8 8 (8.70%) Symantec
9 6 (6.52%) F5
9 6 (6.52%) SolarWinds
10 5 (5.43%) Fortinet
10 5 (5.43%) Veeam
10 5 (5.43%) Zscaler
11 4 (4.35%) Splunk
12 3 (3.26%) Mellanox
12 3 (3.26%) NVIDIA
13 1 (1.09%) MuleSoft
13 1 (1.09%) Ubiquiti