VPN Contracts in West London

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West London 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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 40 58
Rank change year-on-year +25 +18 -4
Contract jobs citing VPN 26 3 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 9.25% 0.96% 2.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.89% 5.08% 14.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 1 14
10th Percentile £310 - -
25th Percentile £325 £525 £133
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £550 £138
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +300.00% -37.50%
75th Percentile £450 £575 £229
90th Percentile - - £262
London median daily rate £450 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £23.80 -
London median hourly rate £38.75 £23.80 £22.50
% change year-on-year +62.82% +5.78% -21.05%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West London

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 West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 90 59 99
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 32.03% 18.79% 15.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 45 79
10th Percentile £250 £213 £133
25th Percentile £360 £270 £235
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -15.00% +14.42%
75th Percentile £463 £538 £700
90th Percentile £504 £578 £838
London median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - - £67.00
25th Percentile - - £70.00
Median hourly rate £52.00 £23.80 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +118.49% -68.27% +294.74%
75th Percentile - £44.40 £81.25
90th Percentile - £56.76 £85.00
London median hourly rate £30.00 £23.80 £36.54
% change year-on-year +26.05% -34.87% +43.06%

VPN
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in West London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

Daily rate trend for VPN in West London

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Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VPN in West London over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VPN in West London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West London

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

Hourly rate trend for VPN in West London

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Contract Job Locations in West London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the West London region over the 6 months to 3 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
Hillingdon - 16 £425 - 2
Wembley -3 1 - - 2
Hammersmith - 1 - -
VPN
London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West London 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 (3.85%) IIS
1 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 10 (38.46%) AWS
2 2 (7.69%) Azure
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 22 (84.62%) Firewall
2 18 (69.23%) WAN
3 17 (65.38%) BGP
4 16 (61.54%) LAN
4 16 (61.54%) OSPF
4 16 (61.54%) SD-WAN
4 16 (61.54%) VLAN
5 15 (57.69%) Network Security
6 13 (50.00%) DHCP
6 13 (50.00%) DNS
6 13 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 11 (42.31%) SSL
8 10 (38.46%) EIGRP
9 9 (34.62%) Cisco ISE
9 9 (34.62%) DMVPN
9 9 (34.62%) Wireless
9 9 (34.62%) WLAN
10 8 (30.77%) Cisco Wireless
11 4 (15.38%) Cisco Nexus
11 4 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
1 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
1 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) GitLab
1 1 (3.85%) JIRA
General
1 10 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 7 (26.92%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (23.08%) Telecoms
4 5 (19.23%) Public Sector
5 2 (7.69%) Local Government
6 1 (3.85%) Aviation
6 1 (3.85%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (23.08%) Administrator
1 6 (23.08%) Network Administrator
2 5 (19.23%) Architect
2 5 (19.23%) Network Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Network Architect
3 4 (15.38%) Network Design Architect
3 4 (15.38%) Network Security Administrator
3 4 (15.38%) Network Security Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Security Administrator
3 4 (15.38%) Security Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Support Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support
5 2 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) IT Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) IT Support
5 2 (7.69%) IT Support Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Check Point Consultant
6 1 (3.85%) Check Point Support
6 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) JSON
1 1 (3.85%) NETCONF
1 1 (3.85%) REST
1 1 (3.85%) RESTCONF
1 1 (3.85%) SOAP
1 1 (3.85%) XML
1 1 (3.85%) YAML
1 1 (3.85%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 7 (26.92%) Windows
2 3 (11.54%) Windows 10
3 2 (7.69%) Android
3 2 (7.69%) Apple iOS
3 2 (7.69%) Linux
3 2 (7.69%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.85%) CentOS
4 1 (3.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (34.62%) Network Monitoring
2 6 (23.08%) Patch Management
2 6 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (15.38%) ITIL
3 4 (15.38%) Network Design
4 3 (11.54%) Change Management
4 3 (11.54%) Migration
5 2 (7.69%) High Availability
5 2 (7.69%) ITSM
6 1 (3.85%) Agile
6 1 (3.85%) Analytics
6 1 (3.85%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (3.85%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (3.85%) Process Improvement
6 1 (3.85%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (3.85%) Scrum
6 1 (3.85%) SIEM
6 1 (3.85%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (3.85%) TOGAF
6 1 (3.85%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.69%) Python
2 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (53.85%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (50.00%) CCNP
3 12 (46.15%) CCSA
4 7 (26.92%) Security Cleared
5 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared
6 3 (11.54%) CCNA
6 3 (11.54%) CCSE
6 3 (11.54%) JNCIA
7 2 (7.69%) JNCIS
8 1 (3.85%) CCIE
8 1 (3.85%) JNCIE
8 1 (3.85%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (34.62%) Firmware
2 3 (11.54%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.85%) Docker
3 1 (3.85%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.85%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (26.92%) CA Spectrum
2 2 (7.69%) Ansible
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.85%) SCCM
3 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (84.62%) Cisco
2 14 (53.85%) Juniper
3 13 (50.00%) CheckPoint
3 13 (50.00%) F5
4 10 (38.46%) Meraki
4 10 (38.46%) SolarWinds
5 4 (15.38%) Fortinet
6 3 (11.54%) Remedy
6 3 (11.54%) ServiceNow
7 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
8 1 (3.85%) CyberArk
8 1 (3.85%) EMC
8 1 (3.85%) Forcepoint
8 1 (3.85%) HP
8 1 (3.85%) Mitel
8 1 (3.85%) NetApp
8 1 (3.85%) Veeam
8 1 (3.85%) Veritas
8 1 (3.85%) VMware
8 1 (3.85%) Zscaler