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 4 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 81 84
Rank change year-on-year +40 +3 -16
Contract jobs citing VPN 15 8 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 3.30% 0.83% 0.84%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.65% 3.46% 5.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 3 7
10th Percentile £538 £285 £159
25th Percentile £544 £413 £161
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £175
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +271.43% -62.16%
75th Percentile £703 £688 £625
90th Percentile £738 £695 £685
South West median daily rate £575 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +21.05% -2.56% +14.71%

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 85 231 176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 18.72% 23.94% 16.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 180 145
10th Percentile £470 £440 £414
25th Percentile £534 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £586 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.07% -10.42% +15.83%
75th Percentile £648 £675 £700
90th Percentile £698 £689 £750
South West median daily rate £550 £538 £525
% change year-on-year +2.33% +2.38% +16.67%
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 £41.40 £40.00 £9.80
% change year-on-year +3.49% +308.16% -80.59%

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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 4 June 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 4 June 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 +45 15 £625 -7.41% 1
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 (20.00%) Confluence
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
2 2 (13.33%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) Akamai
1 1 (6.67%) AWS
1 1 (6.67%) Azure
1 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) DNS
2 3 (20.00%) BGP
2 3 (20.00%) Firewall
2 3 (20.00%) IPsec
2 3 (20.00%) MPLS
2 3 (20.00%) Unified Communications
3 2 (13.33%) DHCP
3 2 (13.33%) Skype
4 1 (6.67%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (6.67%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (6.67%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (6.67%) Cisco Wireless
4 1 (6.67%) Network Security
4 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
4 1 (6.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) GitLab
2 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 10 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Electronics
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
3 1 (6.67%) Marketing
3 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Coordinator
1 7 (46.67%) Security Assurance Coordinator
2 5 (33.33%) Network Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Architect
4 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Service Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) NETCONF
1 3 (20.00%) RESTCONF
2 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) Data Centre
2 6 (40.00%) PKI
3 3 (20.00%) Management Information System
4 2 (13.33%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (6.67%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Windows
2 2 (13.33%) Windows 10
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2012
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Critical Thinking
2 7 (46.67%) Incident Management
3 3 (20.00%) Agile
3 3 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 3 (20.00%) NsoIT
3 3 (20.00%) Project Management
3 3 (20.00%) Service Management
3 3 (20.00%) System Testing
3 3 (20.00%) Validation
3 3 (20.00%) Waterfall
4 2 (13.33%) Business Strategy
4 2 (13.33%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (13.33%) IT Strategy
4 2 (13.33%) Security Hardening
4 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (13.33%) Technology Strategy
5 1 (6.67%) CI/CD
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (6.67%) Privileged Access Management
5 1 (6.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) Bash
2 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (93.33%) SC Cleared
3 9 (60.00%) DV Cleared
4 6 (40.00%) Degree
5 3 (20.00%) CCNP
5 3 (20.00%) CESG Certified Professional
5 3 (20.00%) CISA
5 3 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (20.00%) CISSP
6 2 (13.33%) MCSA
6 2 (13.33%) MCSE
6 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (46.67%) JSP 440
1 7 (46.67%) RMADS
2 3 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
4 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Ansible
2 2 (13.33%) OPNET
2 2 (13.33%) SCCM
3 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
3 1 (6.67%) Puppet
3 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Cisco
1 4 (26.67%) VMware
2 3 (20.00%) Atlassian
2 3 (20.00%) SolarWinds
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.67%) Citrix
4 1 (6.67%) Palo Alto
4 1 (6.67%) SAP
4 1 (6.67%) Splunk