VPN Contracts in the South East

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for VPN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VPN over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 83 128 141
Rank change year-on-year +45 +13 -42
Contract jobs citing VPN 124 96 131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.23% 1.65% 1.69%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.86% 9.71% 10.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 58 92
10th Percentile £184 £185 £165
25th Percentile £263 £303 £209
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £416
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +20.12% +4.06%
75th Percentile £538 £560 £570
90th Percentile £581 £700 £674
England median daily rate £438 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -2.78% - +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 2
10th Percentile - £19.04 £17.05
25th Percentile £18.00 £19.86 £18.46
Median hourly rate £20.75 £21.22 £21.06
Median % change year-on-year -2.21% +0.78% -6.42%
75th Percentile £22.54 £27.74 £23.90
90th Percentile £23.23 £31.64 £25.46
England median hourly rate £17.00 £21.22 £21.26
% change year-on-year -19.89% -0.16% +10.42%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

VPN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,257 989 1,242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 22.65% 16.95% 16.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 613 595 777
10th Percentile £205 £235 £189
25th Percentile £363 £366 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £560
90th Percentile £638 £700 £656
England median daily rate £488 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.00% +5.00% +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 75 68
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.25 £15.25
25th Percentile £27.50 £42.50 £16.81
Median hourly rate £57.35 £52.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.24% +144.19% -34.85%
75th Percentile £64.69 £67.50 £46.40
90th Percentile £85.65 £80.25 £60.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.93 £23.91
% change year-on-year +111.30% -20.83% -4.36%

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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 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 2024. 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
Thames Valley +12 61 £438 -13.37% 20
Hampshire +32 46 £488 +116.67% 12
Berkshire -4 41 £475 -10.38% 11
Surrey +20 21 £200 -46.67% 6
Buckinghamshire +24 15 £363 -27.50% 4
Kent +6 7 £205 -36.92% 4
Oxfordshire +12 5 £400 - 5
West Sussex +6 3 £500 +185.71% 4
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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 11 (8.87%) Apache
1 11 (8.87%) Apache Airflow
1 11 (8.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (4.03%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.61%) Confluence
4 1 (0.81%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 13 (10.48%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (12.10%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (8.87%) Azure
3 10 (8.06%) AWS
4 7 (5.65%) IaaS
4 7 (5.65%) PaaS
5 5 (4.03%) SaaS
6 3 (2.42%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (2.42%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (2.42%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (2.42%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (1.61%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.61%) Azure API Management
7 2 (1.61%) Azure Event Grid
7 2 (1.61%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (1.61%) Cloudflare
7 2 (1.61%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.61%) GCP
7 2 (1.61%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 53 (42.74%) Firewall
2 45 (36.29%) WAN
3 41 (33.06%) LAN
4 29 (23.39%) Wi-Fi
5 26 (20.97%) BGP
6 22 (17.74%) VLAN
7 21 (16.94%) MPLS
8 18 (14.52%) Wireless
9 17 (13.71%) DNS
9 17 (13.71%) Network Security
10 15 (12.10%) Cisco Nexus
11 13 (10.48%) Cisco ASA
11 13 (10.48%) TCP/IP
12 12 (9.68%) Radio Access Network
13 11 (8.87%) Cisco ISE
13 11 (8.87%) Ethernet VPN
13 11 (8.87%) OSPF
14 10 (8.06%) DMZ
15 9 (7.26%) DHCP
16 7 (5.65%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.87%) MongoDB
1 11 (8.87%) NoSQL
1 11 (8.87%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (1.61%) MySQL
2 2 (1.61%) RDBMS
2 2 (1.61%) Relational Database
2 2 (1.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (11.29%) JIRA
2 11 (8.87%) GitLab
2 11 (8.87%) Robot Framework
2 11 (8.87%) TestRail
3 2 (1.61%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.81%) Git
4 1 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.81%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 23 (18.55%) Social Skills
2 14 (11.29%) Finance
3 9 (7.26%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.45%) Banking
4 8 (6.45%) Investment Banking
4 8 (6.45%) Telecoms
5 7 (5.65%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.42%) Electronics
7 3 (2.42%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.42%) Marketing
8 2 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.61%) Law
9 1 (0.81%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 46 (37.10%) Network Engineer
2 26 (20.97%) Architect
3 24 (19.35%) Network Architect
4 10 (8.06%) Cisco Engineer
4 10 (8.06%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 10 (8.06%) Support Engineer
4 10 (8.06%) Test Engineer
5 8 (6.45%) Blue Coat Engineer
5 8 (6.45%) IT Support
5 8 (6.45%) Juniper Engineer
5 8 (6.45%) Network Support
6 7 (5.65%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 7 (5.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (4.84%) Lead
8 5 (4.03%) IT Engineer
8 5 (4.03%) IT Support Specialist
8 5 (4.03%) Network Specialist
8 5 (4.03%) Network Support Specialist
8 5 (4.03%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 5 (4.03%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.87%) NETCONF
1 11 (8.87%) REST
1 11 (8.87%) RESTCONF
1 11 (8.87%) SOAP
1 11 (8.87%) YANG
2 3 (2.42%) 802.1X
2 3 (2.42%) XMPP
3 2 (1.61%) .NET
3 2 (1.61%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (1.61%) Web Services
4 1 (0.81%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.81%) JSON
4 1 (0.81%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.87%) Data Centre
2 7 (5.65%) Public Cloud
3 6 (4.84%) Video Conferencing
4 4 (3.23%) NHS
5 3 (2.42%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.42%) PKI
5 3 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.61%) CSOC
6 2 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.61%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.81%) IoT
7 1 (0.81%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 29 (23.39%) Windows
2 10 (8.06%) Windows 10
3 7 (5.65%) Linux
3 7 (5.65%) Windows 7
4 6 (4.84%) Windows Server
5 4 (3.23%) Unix
6 2 (1.61%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.81%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (22.58%) Project Management
2 27 (21.77%) Project Delivery
3 14 (11.29%) Agile
3 14 (11.29%) High Availability
3 14 (11.29%) Migration
4 12 (9.68%) CI/CD
4 12 (9.68%) Containerisation
4 12 (9.68%) ITSM
5 11 (8.87%) Integration Testing
5 11 (8.87%) Performance Testing
5 11 (8.87%) Regression Testing
5 11 (8.87%) Scrum
5 11 (8.87%) Security Testing
5 11 (8.87%) Test Automation
5 11 (8.87%) Unit Testing
5 11 (8.87%) Workflow
6 10 (8.06%) Change Control
6 10 (8.06%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (7.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 8 (6.45%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 17 (13.71%) Python
2 13 (10.48%) SQL
3 5 (4.03%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.61%) C#
4 2 (1.61%) Java
4 2 (1.61%) PHP
4 2 (1.61%) Ruby
5 1 (0.81%) C
Qualifications
1 46 (37.10%) Security Cleared
2 33 (26.61%) Cisco Certification
3 24 (19.35%) CCNP
4 22 (17.74%) SC Cleared
5 14 (11.29%) CCNA
6 12 (9.68%) Degree
7 8 (6.45%) JNCIA
8 6 (4.84%) JNCIS
9 5 (4.03%) CCDP
9 5 (4.03%) CCIE
9 5 (4.03%) CCSA
9 5 (4.03%) DV Cleared
9 5 (4.03%) MCSE
9 5 (4.03%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (3.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (1.61%) Azure Certification
11 2 (1.61%) BC Cleared
11 2 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
12 1 (0.81%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.68%) SLA
2 4 (3.23%) QA
3 2 (1.61%) GDPR
3 2 (1.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.81%) HL7
4 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.81%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (12.10%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (11.29%) Docker
3 13 (10.48%) Active Directory
4 4 (3.23%) Firmware
4 4 (3.23%) vSphere
5 3 (2.42%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.61%) BitLocker
6 2 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.61%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.81%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.81%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (6.45%) SCCM
2 6 (4.84%) Terraform
3 5 (4.03%) Ansible
4 3 (2.42%) AppManager
4 3 (2.42%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.61%) FortiGate
5 2 (1.61%) Grafana
5 2 (1.61%) Graylog
5 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.61%) Nagios
5 2 (1.61%) Netcool
5 2 (1.61%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.61%) Rundeck
5 2 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.81%) WSUS
Vendors
1 65 (52.42%) Cisco
2 51 (41.13%) Juniper
3 28 (22.58%) Microsoft
4 20 (16.13%) CheckPoint
5 17 (13.71%) VMware
6 16 (12.90%) Fortinet
7 14 (11.29%) Blue Coat
8 13 (10.48%) Palo Alto
9 11 (8.87%) F5
10 7 (5.65%) Citrix
11 6 (4.84%) SolarWinds
12 5 (4.03%) Meraki
13 4 (3.23%) HP
14 3 (2.42%) Apple
14 3 (2.42%) Ivanti
14 3 (2.42%) Nokia
14 3 (2.42%) SAP
15 2 (1.61%) Google
15 2 (1.61%) Infoblox
15 2 (1.61%) SonicWALL