VPN Contracts in Central London

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for VPN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VPN over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 118 158
Rank change year-on-year +13 +40 -23
Contract jobs citing VPN 23 62 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.96% 1.66% 0.95%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.58% 16.27% 9.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 44 33
10th Percentile £209 £132 £263
25th Percentile £240 £148 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £306 £258 £535
Median % change year-on-year +18.93% -51.87% +25.88%
75th Percentile £447 £555 £638
90th Percentile £586 £630 £650
London median daily rate £400 £450 £516
% change year-on-year -11.11% -12.83% +14.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.75 - -
Median hourly rate £13.50 - -
75th Percentile £14.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £17.00 £49.47 £43.74
% change year-on-year -65.63% +13.09% -12.52%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Central London

VPN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 240 381 443
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 10.01% 10.17% 9.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 267 339
10th Percentile £205 £184 £313
25th Percentile £333 £364 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £666 £616
90th Percentile £721 £743 £713
London median daily rate £500 £571 £550
% change year-on-year -12.43% +3.82% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 10
10th Percentile - £20.46 £21.00
25th Percentile £12.75 £20.81 £24.50
Median hourly rate £13.50 £21.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% -48.15% +157.14%
75th Percentile £14.25 £24.64 £57.44
90th Percentile - £30.86 £63.43
London median hourly rate £22.75 £40.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -43.13% +14.29% -29.51%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for VPN in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VPN in Central London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VPN in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for VPN in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 17 May 2024. 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
City of London +5 20 £343 +16.10% 12
West End of London +5 1 £210 -
City of Westminster - 1 £575 -
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London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (8.70%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.35%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (4.35%) IIS
3 1 (4.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 9 (39.13%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (34.78%) Azure
3 3 (13.04%) OneDrive
4 2 (8.70%) IaaS
4 2 (8.70%) PaaS
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.35%) AWS
5 1 (4.35%) Azure App Service
5 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.35%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Storage
5 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (52.17%) Firewall
2 7 (30.43%) Wireless
3 3 (13.04%) BGP
3 3 (13.04%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (13.04%) DNS
3 3 (13.04%) WAN
4 2 (8.70%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (8.70%) IPsec
4 2 (8.70%) LAN
4 2 (8.70%) OSPF
4 2 (8.70%) SAN
4 2 (8.70%) WLAN
5 1 (4.35%) EIGRP
5 1 (4.35%) FCoE
5 1 (4.35%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (4.35%) iSCSI
5 1 (4.35%) MPLS
5 1 (4.35%) NAS
5 1 (4.35%) VLAN
5 1 (4.35%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Git
1 1 (4.35%) JIRA
1 1 (4.35%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Finance
2 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
2 3 (13.04%) Retail
2 3 (13.04%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.35%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 4 (17.39%) Desktop Engineer
1 4 (17.39%) IT Support
2 3 (13.04%) IT Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) Network Specialist
2 3 (13.04%) Support Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) Technical Support
3 2 (8.70%) Audio Visual Support
3 2 (8.70%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Desktop Support
3 2 (8.70%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) IT Assistant
3 2 (8.70%) IT Support Assistant
3 2 (8.70%) IT Support Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Network Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Service Desk Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Support Assistant
4 1 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Network Architect
4 1 (4.35%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) ARM Templates
1 1 (4.35%) CSS
1 1 (4.35%) HTML
1 1 (4.35%) JSON
1 1 (4.35%) LAMP
1 1 (4.35%) MFC
1 1 (4.35%) React
1 1 (4.35%) SAML
1 1 (4.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (8.70%) Blackberry
2 2 (8.70%) IoT
2 2 (8.70%) PKI
3 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.35%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.35%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (52.17%) Windows
2 9 (39.13%) Windows 10
3 3 (13.04%) Mac OS
4 2 (8.70%) Android
4 2 (8.70%) Mac OS X
4 2 (8.70%) VMS
4 2 (8.70%) Windows Server
4 2 (8.70%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (4.35%) Linux
5 1 (4.35%) Ubuntu
5 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (21.74%) Customer Service
2 3 (13.04%) Agile
2 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (8.70%) Application Virtualisation
3 2 (8.70%) Asset Management
3 2 (8.70%) Change Management
3 2 (8.70%) CI/CD
3 2 (8.70%) Coaching
3 2 (8.70%) Customer Experience
3 2 (8.70%) DevOps
3 2 (8.70%) Filmmaking
3 2 (8.70%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (8.70%) Problem Management
3 2 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (8.70%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (8.70%) Zero Trust
4 1 (4.35%) Dependency Management
4 1 (4.35%) Patch Management
4 1 (4.35%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (4.35%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.04%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.35%) Java
2 1 (4.35%) SQL
2 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) CCIE
2 1 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 9 (39.13%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.70%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.35%) Firmware
3 1 (4.35%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) FortiGate
2 4 (17.39%) SCCM
3 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (4.35%) Terraform
4 1 (4.35%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (47.83%) Microsoft
2 8 (34.78%) Cisco
3 6 (26.09%) Citrix
4 3 (13.04%) Apple
4 3 (13.04%) Juniper
4 3 (13.04%) Palo Alto
4 3 (13.04%) VMware
5 2 (8.70%) Acronis
5 2 (8.70%) Aruba
5 2 (8.70%) Avaya
5 2 (8.70%) Bloomberg
5 2 (8.70%) ServiceNow
6 1 (4.35%) Barracuda Networks
6 1 (4.35%) Bomgar
6 1 (4.35%) Dell
6 1 (4.35%) Fortinet
6 1 (4.35%) Google
6 1 (4.35%) ProCurve
6 1 (4.35%) Red Hat
6 1 (4.35%) Veeam