VPN Contracts in South London

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
London > South London

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

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 41 43
Rank change year-on-year +8 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing VPN 5 2 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 2.70% 0.83% 2.84%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.41% 13.33% 14.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 11
10th Percentile £228 £216 £140
25th Percentile £250 £222 £145
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £238 £175
Median % change year-on-year +89.47% +35.71% -65.85%
75th Percentile £600 £247 £238
90th Percentile - £249 £273
London median daily rate £500 £444 £450
% change year-on-year +12.68% -1.39% -14.29%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 17 15 74
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 9.19% 6.25% 19.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 14 54
10th Percentile £220 £224 £156
25th Percentile £425 £360 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £376 £513
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -26.63% +3.80%
75th Percentile £538 £534 £582
90th Percentile £588 £730 £643
London median daily rate £500 £500 £563
% change year-on-year - -11.11% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
Median hourly rate - £68.75 £50.42
Median % change year-on-year - +36.35% +10.46%
London median hourly rate £42.50 £22.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year +93.18% -48.84% +27.41%

VPN
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in South London

VPN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for VPN in South London

VPN
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

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

Daily rate histogram for VPN in South London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South London

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

Hourly rate trend for VPN in South London

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Contract Job Locations in South London

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 London region over the 6 months to 3 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
Merton +1 2 £238 +0.11%
Bromley - 2 £600 - 1
Croydon - 1 £450 -
VPN
London

VPN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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:

Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (40.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) IaaS
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (20.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
1 3 (60.00%) WAN
2 2 (40.00%) BGP
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (40.00%) DMZ
2 2 (40.00%) DNS
2 2 (40.00%) DWDM
2 2 (40.00%) Internet
2 2 (40.00%) IPsec
2 2 (40.00%) L2TP
2 2 (40.00%) MPLS
2 2 (40.00%) Multicast
2 2 (40.00%) Network Security
2 2 (40.00%) OSPF
2 2 (40.00%) SSL
2 2 (40.00%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (40.00%) Wireless
3 1 (20.00%) NAS
3 1 (20.00%) SAN
3 1 (20.00%) SD-WAN
General
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
1 2 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 2 (40.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Implementation Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) IT Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Network Implementation Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) IT Support
3 1 (20.00%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Android
2 2 (40.00%) Apple iOS
2 2 (40.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (20.00%) VMS
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Architecture Roadmap
2 2 (40.00%) Asset Management
2 2 (40.00%) B2B
2 2 (40.00%) Change Management
2 2 (40.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) ITSM
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Process Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Product Management
2 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (40.00%) Service Management
2 2 (40.00%) Validation
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (40.00%) Perl
2 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) CCIE
1 2 (40.00%) CCNP
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (40.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (40.00%) vSphere
3 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (40.00%) Ansible
3 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Arista
2 2 (40.00%) Fortinet
2 2 (40.00%) McAfee
2 2 (40.00%) Splunk
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) Dell
3 1 (20.00%) EMC
3 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (20.00%) SonicWALL