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 27 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 86 139
Rank change year-on-year +7 +53 -6
DemandTrendContract jobs citing VPN 91 104 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.57% 2.17% 1.27%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.19% 11.45% 6.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 56 41
10th Percentile £358 £272 £186
25th Percentile £450 £372 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £490
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% +7.14% -5.54%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £560
90th Percentile - £711 £700
England median daily rate £450 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 4
10th Percentile £48.06 £17.89 -
25th Percentile £71.00 £18.28 £18.50
Median hourly rate £89.63 £20.70 £20.11
Median % change year-on-year +333.00% +2.93% -16.21%
75th Percentile - £22.45 £22.29
90th Percentile - £22.53 £24.22
England median hourly rate £50.00 £16.19 £21.00
% change year-on-year +208.83% -22.90% -12.50%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 599 908 1,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.92% 18.98% 18.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 411 481 626
10th Percentile £220 £254 £207
25th Percentile £358 £400 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £457
Median % change year-on-year - +9.36% -0.60%
75th Percentile £589 £608 £580
90th Percentile £638 £670 £681
England median daily rate £492 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -2.48% +0.90% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 98 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £26.25 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.94 £51.65 £21.06
Median hourly rate £54.94 £57.35 £58.20
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -1.46% +29.34%
75th Percentile £67.31 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £89.63 £75.07 £75.67
England median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -22.73% -2.64% +43.01%

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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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Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VPN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VPN

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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 27 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VPN in the South East

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VPN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VPN

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VPN in the South East over the 6 months to 27 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for VPN in the South East

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DemandTrendContract 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 27 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hampshire +20 43 £575 +3.60% 34
Thames Valley -19 32 £450 -10.00% 27
Berkshire 0 25 £450 -2.70% 24
Kent -2 10 £259 +65.82% 9
Oxfordshire -8 7 £600 +29.03% 3
Surrey -5 6 £538 +19.44% 7
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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 21 (23.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (20.88%) SharePoint
3 13 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2003
3 13 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2007
3 13 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2010
3 13 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2013
3 13 (14.29%) Office Communications Server
3 13 (14.29%) SharePoint Server
3 13 (14.29%) Skype for Business
4 6 (6.59%) Confluence
5 1 (1.10%) Anypoint
5 1 (1.10%) IIS
5 1 (1.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 18 (19.78%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (19.78%) Azure
2 15 (16.48%) AWS
3 9 (9.89%) IaaS
4 8 (8.79%) GCP
4 8 (8.79%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (8.79%) OpenShift
4 8 (8.79%) PaaS
5 5 (5.49%) Entra ID
6 3 (3.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (3.30%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (2.20%) Cloudflare
7 2 (2.20%) SaaS
8 1 (1.10%) Akamai
8 1 (1.10%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.10%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.10%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.10%) GitHub
8 1 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.10%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 49 (53.85%) Firewall
2 40 (43.96%) DNS
3 30 (32.97%) DHCP
4 29 (31.87%) TCP/IP
5 25 (27.47%) Network Security
6 24 (26.37%) SAN
7 23 (25.27%) WAN
8 17 (18.68%) LAN
8 17 (18.68%) VLAN
9 16 (17.58%) BGP
9 16 (17.58%) MPLS
10 15 (16.48%) OSPF
11 13 (14.29%) DDNS
11 13 (14.29%) Wireshark
12 11 (12.09%) ATM
12 11 (12.09%) Frame Relay
12 11 (12.09%) GPRS
12 11 (12.09%) LTE
12 11 (12.09%) SDH
12 11 (12.09%) UMTS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.79%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (8.79%) Big Data
1 8 (8.79%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.10%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.10%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.10%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.10%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (10.99%) JIRA
2 1 (1.10%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.10%) Git
2 1 (1.10%) GitLab
2 1 (1.10%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.10%) Maven
General
1 33 (36.26%) Social Skills
2 17 (18.68%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 12 (13.19%) Telecoms
5 7 (7.69%) Legal
6 5 (5.49%) Law
7 4 (4.40%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (3.30%) Aerospace
9 2 (2.20%) Advertising
10 1 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.10%) Local Government
10 1 (1.10%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.10%) Military
Job Titles
1 25 (27.47%) Support Engineer
2 24 (26.37%) Network Engineer
3 14 (15.38%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 13 (14.29%) 3rd Line Support
4 13 (14.29%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 13 (14.29%) Exchange Engineer
4 13 (14.29%) Exchange Support
4 13 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (10.99%) IP Engineer
6 9 (9.89%) Test Engineer
7 8 (8.79%) Infrastructure Support
8 7 (7.69%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (7.69%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
8 7 (7.69%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 6 (6.59%) Architect
9 6 (6.59%) IT Support
9 6 (6.59%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 6 (6.59%) Support Officer
10 5 (5.49%) Azure Engineer
10 5 (5.49%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.20%) JSON
1 2 (2.20%) REST
1 2 (2.20%) XML
2 1 (1.10%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.10%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (1.10%) MUnit
2 1 (1.10%) NETCONF
2 1 (1.10%) RAML
2 1 (1.10%) RESTCONF
2 1 (1.10%) SOAP
2 1 (1.10%) YAML
2 1 (1.10%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 13 (14.29%) Replication
2 11 (12.09%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (8.79%) Clustering
3 8 (8.79%) PKI
4 3 (3.30%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (3.30%) SCADA
5 2 (2.20%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.20%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.20%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.10%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.10%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.10%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.10%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.10%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 40 (43.96%) Windows
2 23 (25.27%) Linux
3 21 (23.08%) Windows Server 2003
4 17 (18.68%) Windows Server
5 12 (13.19%) Unix
6 6 (6.59%) Windows 10
7 5 (5.49%) Mac OS
7 5 (5.49%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (5.49%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.10%) Android
8 1 (1.10%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.10%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (28.57%) ITIL
3 17 (18.68%) High Availability
4 16 (17.58%) Migration
5 15 (16.48%) Network Architecture
6 13 (14.29%) Architectural Design
6 13 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
6 13 (14.29%) Content Management
6 13 (14.29%) Enterprise Content Management
6 13 (14.29%) Enterprise Search
6 13 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 12 (13.19%) Computer Science
7 12 (13.19%) Project Management
8 11 (12.09%) Fault Management
8 11 (12.09%) Regression Testing
8 11 (12.09%) SIEM
8 11 (12.09%) Test Strategy
9 9 (9.89%) Cybersecurity
9 9 (9.89%) DevOps
10 8 (8.79%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 12 (13.19%) Java
1 12 (13.19%) Python
2 10 (10.99%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.20%) Bash
3 2 (2.20%) SQL
4 1 (1.10%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 46 (50.55%) Security Cleared
2 37 (40.66%) Cisco Certification
3 32 (35.16%) CCNP
4 25 (27.47%) DV Cleared
5 20 (21.98%) Degree
6 18 (19.78%) SC Cleared
7 11 (12.09%) ISEB
7 11 (12.09%) ISTQB
7 11 (12.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 9 (9.89%) CCNA
9 7 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (6.59%) CCSA
10 6 (6.59%) CCSE
10 6 (6.59%) Check Point Certification
11 5 (5.49%) A+ Certification
11 5 (5.49%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (4.40%) CCIE
13 1 (1.10%) Azure Certification
13 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (1.10%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.89%) GDPR
2 3 (3.30%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.10%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (1.10%) JSP 440
4 1 (1.10%) NCSC
4 1 (1.10%) QA
4 1 (1.10%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (35.16%) Active Directory
2 18 (19.78%) Hyper-V
3 13 (14.29%) Brightmail
3 13 (14.29%) ISA Server
3 13 (14.29%) Terminal Services
3 13 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (10.99%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (9.89%) Docker
6 8 (8.79%) BitLocker
6 8 (8.79%) Microsoft App-V
7 5 (5.49%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (24.18%) Ansible
2 13 (14.29%) Microsoft Clustering
3 10 (10.99%) Kubernetes
3 10 (10.99%) vCenter Server
4 8 (8.79%) Nagios
4 8 (8.79%) Puppet
4 8 (8.79%) vMotion
5 5 (5.49%) FortiGate
5 5 (5.49%) Terraform
5 5 (5.49%) Tivoli
6 4 (4.40%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (2.20%) Iperf
7 2 (2.20%) Nmap
8 1 (1.10%) CloudHub
8 1 (1.10%) SCCM
Vendors
1 50 (54.95%) Microsoft
2 38 (41.76%) Cisco
3 21 (23.08%) Citrix
4 19 (20.88%) VMware
5 16 (17.58%) Palo Alto
6 14 (15.38%) CheckPoint
7 13 (14.29%) Juniper
8 9 (9.89%) Fortinet
9 8 (8.79%) Google
9 8 (8.79%) HP
9 8 (8.79%) SolarWinds
9 8 (8.79%) Symantec
10 5 (5.49%) Veeam
11 4 (4.40%) ServiceNow
12 3 (3.30%) Mellanox
12 3 (3.30%) NVIDIA
13 2 (2.20%) F5
13 2 (2.20%) Sophos
13 2 (2.20%) Splunk
13 2 (2.20%) Zscaler