OpenVPN Contract Job Trends

OpenVPN
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring OpenVPN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 583 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenVPN 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.013% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.13% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £492 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 - -
75th Percentile £550 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

OpenVPN 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,935 4,046 6,044
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.43% 12.93% 13.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,579 2,349 3,680
10th Percentile £204 £213 £206
25th Percentile £356 £363 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.91%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £685 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £468 £475
% change year-on-year -3.74% -1.58% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 140 381
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.16 £16.50
25th Percentile £18.97 £21.46 £22.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £33.75 £52.21
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -35.35% +152.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 £58.09 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.54 £31.79 £56.49
% change year-on-year +27.52% -43.72% +189.69%

OpenVPN
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OpenVPN relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

OpenVPN job vacancy trend in the UK

OpenVPN
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing OpenVPN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing OpenVPN

OpenVPN
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenVPN within the UK over the 6 months to 26 January 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
London - 5 £519 - 2
England - 5 £519 - 5
Work from Home - 1 £550 -

OpenVPN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (100.00%) Confluence
1 5 (100.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 5 (100.00%) Route 53
1 5 (100.00%) Serverless
1 5 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) DNS
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
1 5 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 5 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 5 (100.00%) JIRA
1 5 (100.00%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Architect
2 4 (80.00%) Technical Architect
3 3 (60.00%) AWS Architect
4 2 (40.00%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (20.00%) AWS Solution Architect
5 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) LDAP
1 5 (100.00%) OpenID
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (100.00%) Roadmaps
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Consul
1 5 (100.00%) FortiGate
1 5 (100.00%) Grafana
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 5 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 5 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Atlassian
1 5 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 5 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft