VPN Contracts in Wiltshire

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire 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 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 79 69
Rank change year-on-year +39 -10 -1
Contract jobs citing VPN 13 8 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 2.90% 0.87% 1.69%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.29% 3.42% 11.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 14
10th Percentile - £285 £163
25th Percentile £538 £413 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% +17.08%
75th Percentile £728 £688 -
90th Percentile £738 £695 £579
South West median daily rate £575 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +21.05% -5.00% +25.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 85 234 154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 18.97% 25.52% 14.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 186 122
10th Percentile £456 £445 £334
25th Percentile £513 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year +8.84% -6.52% +9.52%
75th Percentile £640 £672 £675
90th Percentile £689 £675 £759
South West median daily rate £545 £538 £525
% change year-on-year +1.40% +2.38% +13.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 10
10th Percentile - - £56.13
25th Percentile - £68.00 £60.38
Median hourly rate - £71.00 £69.00
Median % change year-on-year - +2.90% +4.86%
75th Percentile - £74.00 £77.50
90th Percentile - - £90.00
South West median hourly rate £17.79 £56.49 £9.80
% change year-on-year -68.51% +476.43% -81.85%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in Wiltshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate trend for VPN in Wiltshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VPN in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VPN in Wiltshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Hourly rate trend for VPN in Wiltshire

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Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Corsham +44 13 £625 -7.41%
VPN
South West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 3 (23.08%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) Akamai
1 1 (7.69%) AWS
1 1 (7.69%) Azure
1 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) DNS
2 3 (23.08%) BGP
2 3 (23.08%) Firewall
2 3 (23.08%) IPsec
2 3 (23.08%) MPLS
2 3 (23.08%) Unified Communications
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco Wireless
3 1 (7.69%) Network Security
3 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
3 1 (7.69%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) GitLab
2 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (76.92%) Analytical Skills
1 10 (76.92%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Electronics
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.69%) Marketing
3 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Coordinator
1 7 (53.85%) Security Assurance Coordinator
2 5 (38.46%) Network Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) NETCONF
1 3 (23.08%) RESTCONF
2 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Data Centre
2 4 (30.77%) PKI
3 3 (23.08%) Management Information System
4 1 (7.69%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Critical Thinking
2 7 (53.85%) Incident Management
3 3 (23.08%) Agile
3 3 (23.08%) Network Virtualisation
3 3 (23.08%) NsoIT
3 3 (23.08%) Project Management
3 3 (23.08%) Service Management
3 3 (23.08%) System Testing
3 3 (23.08%) Validation
3 3 (23.08%) Waterfall
4 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
4 1 (7.69%) Containerisation
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Digital Marketing
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (7.69%) Network Architecture
4 1 (7.69%) Privileged Access Management
4 1 (7.69%) Project Delivery
4 1 (7.69%) Technology Transformation
4 1 (7.69%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Python
2 1 (7.69%) Bash
2 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (92.31%) SC Cleared
3 9 (69.23%) DV Cleared
4 6 (46.15%) Degree
5 3 (23.08%) CCNP
5 3 (23.08%) CESG Certified Professional
5 3 (23.08%) CISA
5 3 (23.08%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (23.08%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (53.85%) JSP 440
1 7 (53.85%) RMADS
2 3 (23.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (23.08%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
2 1 (7.69%) Puppet
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Cisco
1 4 (30.77%) VMware
2 3 (23.08%) Atlassian
2 3 (23.08%) SolarWinds
3 1 (7.69%) Citrix
3 1 (7.69%) Palo Alto
3 1 (7.69%) SAP
3 1 (7.69%) Splunk