DMVPN Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Dynamic Multipoint Virtual Private Network (DMVPN)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring DMVPN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 115 119
Rank change year-on-year -43 +4 +29
Contract jobs citing DMVPN 3 1 7
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.091% 0.060% 0.30%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.71% 0.39% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £412 - £466
25th Percentile £460 £408 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £415 £488
Median % change year-on-year +30.12% -14.87% -22.00%
75th Percentile £620 £423 £541
90th Percentile £668 - £569
South East median daily rate £540 £415 £450
% change year-on-year +30.12% -7.78% -26.53%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

DMVPN 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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 424 255 395
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 12.87% 15.22% 16.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 140 184
10th Percentile £313 £299 £281
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £469 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.53% -6.13% +2.56%
75th Percentile £590 £538 £608
90th Percentile £639 £600 £638
South East median daily rate £525 £498 £500
% change year-on-year +5.53% -0.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 13 21
10th Percentile £17.50 - £22.58
25th Percentile £19.34 £14.20 £65.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £21.90 £73.50
Median % change year-on-year +48.40% -70.20% +11.36%
75th Percentile £43.75 £89.63 £87.46
90th Percentile £58.38 - -
South East median hourly rate £45.10 £55.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year -18.00% -4.10% -0.26%

DMVPN
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DMVPN relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

DMVPN job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

DMVPN
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing DMVPN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing DMVPN

DMVPN
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DMVPN in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 2 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DMVPN in the Thames Valley

DMVPN
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DMVPN within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 2 August 2026. 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
Berkshire -24 3 £540 +30.12% 1
DMVPN
South East

DMVPN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) IPsec
2 2 (66.67%) Network Security
2 2 (66.67%) SSL
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 2 (66.67%) Wireless
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (33.33%) LAN
3 1 (33.33%) MPLS
3 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
3 1 (33.33%) TETRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 1 (33.33%) Police
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Network Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Network Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Network Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Change Control
1 1 (33.33%) Change Management
1 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
1 1 (33.33%) Inventory Management
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) Blue Coat
2 2 (66.67%) CheckPoint
2 2 (66.67%) F5
2 2 (66.67%) Juniper
2 2 (66.67%) Palo Alto
2 2 (66.67%) Zscaler
3 1 (33.33%) Avaya
3 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
3 1 (33.33%) IBM
3 1 (33.33%) Infoblox
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) VMware