VPN Contracts in the West Midlands

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 41 54
Rank change year-on-year -34 +13 +94
Contract jobs citing VPN 32 79 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.07% 3.83% 3.57%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.58% 22.01% 19.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 48 53
10th Percentile £145 £190 £191
25th Percentile £161 £339 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £375 £450
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% -16.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £394 £600 £700
90th Percentile £518 £775 £731
England median daily rate £461 £448 £486
% change year-on-year +2.96% -7.87% +2.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31.32 - -
Median hourly rate £36.65 - £15.00
75th Percentile £41.97 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £37.50 £16.86 £21.61
% change year-on-year +122.42% -21.98% +5.36%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 193 359 416
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.50% 17.42% 18.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 220 250
10th Percentile £235 £211 £262
25th Percentile £313 £305 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -11.11% +7.14%
75th Percentile £581 £586 £600
90th Percentile £725 £688 £713
England median daily rate £492 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -1.60% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 17 11
10th Percentile £14.45 £10.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £24.81 £13.50 £16.63
Median hourly rate £30.00 £14.00 £22.41
Median % change year-on-year +114.29% -37.53% +19.52%
75th Percentile £38.62 £23.75 £28.75
90th Percentile £43.63 £25.75 -
England median hourly rate £37.50 £45.88 £22.00
% change year-on-year -18.27% +108.55% -12.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for VPN in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VPN in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VPN in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for VPN in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 July 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
Birmingham +6 13 £350 - 31
Coventry -4 4 £416 -36.04% 9
Warwickshire -7 4 £220 -70.67% 9
Solihull -12 4 £195 -48.00% 1
Worcestershire +6 3 £145 -27.50% 15
Shropshire -2 1 - - 4
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (9.38%) AWS
2 3 (9.38%) Azure
3 2 (6.25%) GCP
3 2 (6.25%) OneDrive
3 2 (6.25%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.13%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 16 (50.00%) BGP
1 16 (50.00%) IPsec
2 15 (46.88%) Firewall
3 13 (40.63%) Network Security
4 10 (31.25%) WAN
5 9 (28.13%) MPLS
5 9 (28.13%) TCP/IP
6 7 (21.88%) OSPF
7 6 (18.75%) SSL
7 6 (18.75%) VLAN
8 4 (12.50%) DHCP
8 4 (12.50%) DNS
9 3 (9.38%) SD-WAN
9 3 (9.38%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (9.38%) Wireless
10 2 (6.25%) Cisco Firepower
10 2 (6.25%) Ethereal
10 2 (6.25%) Wireshark
11 1 (3.13%) Broadband
11 1 (3.13%) IP Telephony
General
1 11 (34.38%) Social Skills
2 8 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (21.88%) Telecoms
4 5 (15.63%) Public Sector
5 3 (9.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (6.25%) Finance
7 1 (3.13%) Automotive
7 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
7 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (31.25%) Support Engineer
2 7 (21.88%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 7 (21.88%) 2nd Line Support
2 7 (21.88%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 6 (18.75%) Check Point Expert
3 6 (18.75%) Network Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) Network Support
4 5 (15.63%) Network Support Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Architect
6 2 (6.25%) 1st/2nd Line Support
6 2 (6.25%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Desktop Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Product Owner
6 2 (6.25%) WAN Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) IT Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 9 (28.13%) PKI
2 2 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.13%) Educational Technology
3 1 (3.13%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 1 (3.13%) IoT
3 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.13%) NB-IoT
3 1 (3.13%) Operational Technology
3 1 (3.13%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.13%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 9 (28.13%) Windows
2 6 (18.75%) Check Point GAiA
2 6 (18.75%) Windows 10
3 2 (6.25%) Mac OS
4 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (34.38%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (28.13%) High Availability
3 8 (25.00%) ITIL
4 6 (18.75%) SIEM
5 5 (15.63%) Customer Service
5 5 (15.63%) Load Balancing
6 4 (12.50%) Cloud Security
7 3 (9.38%) Agile
7 3 (9.38%) Migration
7 3 (9.38%) Network Design
7 3 (9.38%) Problem Management
8 2 (6.25%) Capacity Planning
8 2 (6.25%) Change Management
8 2 (6.25%) Data Migration
8 2 (6.25%) Incident Management
8 2 (6.25%) Product Management
8 2 (6.25%) Scrum
8 2 (6.25%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
8 2 (6.25%) Service Management
8 2 (6.25%) Time Management
Qualifications
1 11 (34.38%) Security Cleared
2 9 (28.13%) SC Cleared
3 6 (18.75%) CCSE
3 6 (18.75%) Degree
4 4 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (9.38%) CCNP
6 2 (6.25%) CCIE
6 2 (6.25%) CCNA
6 2 (6.25%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (6.25%) MCSE
7 1 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (3.13%) CCIE Routing and Switching
7 1 (3.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (3.13%) MCP
7 1 (3.13%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) SLA
2 1 (3.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (21.88%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.25%) Docker
3 1 (3.13%) Firmware
3 1 (3.13%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (18.75%) FortiGate
2 5 (15.63%) SCCM
3 2 (6.25%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.25%) OpenView
4 1 (3.13%) CASB
Vendors
1 13 (40.63%) Cisco
2 9 (28.13%) Juniper
3 8 (25.00%) Fortinet
3 8 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 7 (21.88%) CheckPoint
5 3 (9.38%) Citrix
5 3 (9.38%) Dell
5 3 (9.38%) Nexthink
6 2 (6.25%) Apple
6 2 (6.25%) F5
6 2 (6.25%) Google
6 2 (6.25%) HP
6 2 (6.25%) Salesforce
6 2 (6.25%) ServiceNow
6 2 (6.25%) VMware
7 1 (3.13%) Oracle