VPN Contracts in Surrey

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey 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 11 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 35 63
Rank change year-on-year +1 +28 +15
Contract jobs citing VPN 7 22 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 2.17% 3.87% 1.26%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.07% 18.80% 6.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 6
10th Percentile £443 £255 £186
25th Percentile £469 £316 £193
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £359 £240
Median % change year-on-year +46.34% +49.48% -17.24%
75th Percentile £556 £550 £439
90th Percentile £568 - £519
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% -3.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £32.77 - -
South East median hourly rate £89.63 £20.70 £20.11
% change year-on-year +333.00% +2.93% -22.65%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 58 117 142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 17.96% 20.56% 19.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 85 102
10th Percentile £204 £203 £207
25th Percentile £250 £260 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £403 £450
Median % change year-on-year +17.87% -10.44% +53.85%
75th Percentile £506 £525 £675
90th Percentile £538 £658 £838
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £467
% change year-on-year - +7.18% +2.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 4
10th Percentile - - £22.43
25th Percentile £28.00 £57.50 £31.31
Median hourly rate £30.39 £60.00 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year -49.36% +45.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £60.81 £62.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.16 - -
South East median hourly rate £54.94 £57.35 £57.50
% change year-on-year -4.21% -0.26% +27.78%

VPN
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in Surrey

VPN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Daily rate trend for VPN in Surrey

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Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VPN in Surrey over the 6 months to 11 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VPN in Surrey

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Hourly rate trend for VPN in Surrey

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Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 11 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Redhill - 2 - - 5
Leatherhead +5 1 £525 - 1
Woking -2 1 £550 - 1
Camberley -5 1 £425 -22.73%
Horley - 1 - -
VPN
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
3 1 (14.29%) Akamai
3 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (14.29%) IaaS
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (14.29%) Nutanix
3 1 (14.29%) SaaS
3 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) Firewall
1 5 (71.43%) Network Security
2 3 (42.86%) BGP
2 3 (42.86%) TCP/IP
3 2 (28.57%) DNS
3 2 (28.57%) IPsec
3 2 (28.57%) OSPF
3 2 (28.57%) SSL
3 2 (28.57%) VLAN
3 2 (28.57%) WAN
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (14.29%) DMZ
4 1 (14.29%) LAN
4 1 (14.29%) Multicast
4 1 (14.29%) NGFW
4 1 (14.29%) SD-WAN
4 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (14.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Advertising
4 1 (14.29%) Aerospace
4 1 (14.29%) Finance
4 1 (14.29%) Local Government
4 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Network Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Network Security Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Security Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Data Network Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) ICT Officer
2 1 (14.29%) ICT Support
2 1 (14.29%) ICT Support Officer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Support
2 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) 802.1X
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
1 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
1 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Migration
2 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (42.86%) Kalman Filter
3 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (28.57%) High Availability
3 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (28.57%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (28.57%) Load Balancing
3 2 (28.57%) Network Architecture
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Security Architecture
3 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (28.57%) Web Filtering
4 1 (14.29%) Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Change Control
4 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (14.29%) SIEM
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Bicep
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) JSP 440
1 1 (14.29%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) FortiGate
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Cisco
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Fortinet
2 2 (28.57%) Palo Alto
3 1 (14.29%) Citrix
3 1 (14.29%) Dell KACE
3 1 (14.29%) F5
3 1 (14.29%) Meraki
3 1 (14.29%) Qualys
3 1 (14.29%) SolarWinds
3 1 (14.29%) Ubiquiti
3 1 (14.29%) VMware