VPN Contracts in the Thames Valley

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 78 88 118
Rank change year-on-year +10 +30 -33
Contract jobs citing VPN 58 65 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.21% 2.29% 1.45%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.62% 13.89% 8.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 36 35
10th Percentile £213 £268 £201
25th Percentile £322 £459 £224
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £510 £375
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +36.00% -
75th Percentile £519 £586 £574
90th Percentile £590 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £420 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -16.00% +17.65% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.00 £18.50 £25.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year - -26.92% +13.04%
75th Percentile £22.51 £19.50 £26.50
90th Percentile £22.54 - -
South East median hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £21.06
% change year-on-year - -9.76% -4.30%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 546 468 649
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 20.78% 16.50% 18.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 284 366
10th Percentile £205 £280 £213
25th Percentile £350 £400 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £481 £484
Median % change year-on-year +4.05% -0.66% +20.94%
75th Percentile £600 £576 £562
90th Percentile £638 £650 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £475 £455
% change year-on-year +5.26% +4.40% +7.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 18 21
10th Percentile £16.73 £17.15 £12.25
25th Percentile £22.58 £18.75 £13.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +238.24% -38.18%
75th Percentile £85.65 £80.25 £20.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £81.11 £26.50
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £52.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +9.24% +144.19% -42.28%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing VPN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for VPN in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VPN in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for VPN in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VPN in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VPN in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VPN in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for VPN in the Thames Valley

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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 VPN within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 28 May 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
Berkshire -7 40 £450 -20.00% 12
Buckinghamshire +19 13 £475 -5.00% 8
Oxfordshire +13 5 £400 - 2
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 8 (13.79%) Apache
1 8 (13.79%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.45%) Confluence
2 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (15.52%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (17.24%) Azure
2 9 (15.52%) AWS
3 7 (12.07%) IaaS
3 7 (12.07%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (12.07%) PaaS
4 6 (10.34%) SaaS
5 4 (6.90%) Entra ID
6 3 (5.17%) Azure API Management
6 3 (5.17%) Azure Event Grid
6 3 (5.17%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (5.17%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (5.17%) GCP
7 2 (3.45%) Google Workspace
8 1 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.72%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.72%) Cloudflare
8 1 (1.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 26 (44.83%) Firewall
2 18 (31.03%) MPLS
3 16 (27.59%) BGP
4 12 (20.69%) Cisco Nexus
4 12 (20.69%) WAN
5 11 (18.97%) DMZ
6 8 (13.79%) Ethernet VPN
6 8 (13.79%) Network Security
6 8 (13.79%) Radio Access Network
7 7 (12.07%) IPsec
7 7 (12.07%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (10.34%) LAN
9 5 (8.62%) EIGRP
10 4 (6.90%) DNS
10 4 (6.90%) Junos
10 4 (6.90%) OSPF
10 4 (6.90%) SD-WAN
11 3 (5.17%) Cisco ASA
11 3 (5.17%) Cisco IOS
12 2 (3.45%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.79%) MongoDB
1 8 (13.79%) NoSQL
1 8 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.72%) MySQL
2 1 (1.72%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.72%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.72%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (20.69%) JIRA
2 8 (13.79%) GitLab
2 8 (13.79%) Robot Framework
2 8 (13.79%) TestRail
3 3 (5.17%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.72%) Git
4 1 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.72%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 11 (18.97%) Banking
1 11 (18.97%) Investment Banking
2 9 (15.52%) Social Skills
3 7 (12.07%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.17%) Finance
4 3 (5.17%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (5.17%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.72%) Advertising
6 1 (1.72%) French Language
6 1 (1.72%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 26 (44.83%) Network Engineer
2 12 (20.69%) Cisco Engineer
2 12 (20.69%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 11 (18.97%) Blue Coat Engineer
3 11 (18.97%) Juniper Engineer
4 7 (12.07%) Test Engineer
5 6 (10.34%) Support Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Analyst
6 4 (6.90%) Architect
6 4 (6.90%) Consultant
7 3 (5.17%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Cisco Security Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Data Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Network Architect
7 3 (5.17%) Network Security Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Security Consultant
7 3 (5.17%) Security Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Service Analyst
7 3 (5.17%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.79%) NETCONF
1 8 (13.79%) REST
1 8 (13.79%) RESTCONF
1 8 (13.79%) SOAP
1 8 (13.79%) YANG
2 3 (5.17%) .NET
2 3 (5.17%) Web Services
3 1 (1.72%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.72%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.72%) JSON
3 1 (1.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.62%) Public Cloud
2 3 (5.17%) Data Centre
2 3 (5.17%) PKI
2 3 (5.17%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.45%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.72%) IoT
4 1 (1.72%) Life Science
4 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 20 (34.48%) Windows
2 7 (12.07%) Windows 7
3 4 (6.90%) Windows Server
4 3 (5.17%) Windows 10
5 2 (3.45%) Linux
5 2 (3.45%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.72%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (27.59%) ITSM
2 15 (25.86%) High Availability
3 12 (20.69%) Change Control
4 11 (18.97%) Agile
4 11 (18.97%) Architectural Patterns
4 11 (18.97%) Design Patterns
4 11 (18.97%) Migration
5 10 (17.24%) Scrum
6 9 (15.52%) CI/CD
7 8 (13.79%) Containerisation
7 8 (13.79%) Integration Testing
7 8 (13.79%) Performance Testing
7 8 (13.79%) Regression Testing
7 8 (13.79%) Security Testing
7 8 (13.79%) Test Automation
7 8 (13.79%) Unit Testing
7 8 (13.79%) Workflow
8 6 (10.34%) Information Security
9 5 (8.62%) Identity Access Management
9 5 (8.62%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 13 (22.41%) Python
2 9 (15.52%) SQL
3 3 (5.17%) C#
3 3 (5.17%) Java
3 3 (5.17%) PHP
3 3 (5.17%) PowerShell
3 3 (5.17%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (18.97%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (17.24%) Security Cleared
3 9 (15.52%) SC Cleared
4 8 (13.79%) CCNP
5 6 (10.34%) CCNA
6 5 (8.62%) Degree
7 3 (5.17%) Azure Certification
7 3 (5.17%) CCIE
8 2 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.72%) A+ Certification
9 1 (1.72%) BC Cleared
9 1 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.72%) CCDP
9 1 (1.72%) CCIP
9 1 (1.72%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.72%) JNCIA
9 1 (1.72%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.62%) SLA
2 2 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 11 (18.97%) Docker
2 8 (13.79%) Active Directory
3 6 (10.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (6.90%) Hyper-V
5 3 (5.17%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (3.45%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.72%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 4 (6.90%) Terraform
2 3 (5.17%) Ansible
2 3 (5.17%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.17%) SCCM
2 3 (5.17%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (3.45%) Netcool
3 2 (3.45%) Rundeck
4 1 (1.72%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.72%) Grafana
4 1 (1.72%) Graylog
4 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.72%) Nagios
4 1 (1.72%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 23 (39.66%) Cisco
2 18 (31.03%) Juniper
3 16 (27.59%) CheckPoint
4 15 (25.86%) Fortinet
4 15 (25.86%) Microsoft
5 13 (22.41%) Blue Coat
6 8 (13.79%) VMware
7 5 (8.62%) Aruba
8 4 (6.90%) Palo Alto
8 4 (6.90%) Zscaler
9 3 (5.17%) HP
9 3 (5.17%) McAfee
10 2 (3.45%) Apple
10 2 (3.45%) Bloomberg
10 2 (3.45%) Citrix
10 2 (3.45%) Google
10 2 (3.45%) IBM
10 2 (3.45%) Nokia
10 2 (3.45%) Reuters
10 2 (3.45%) Sophos