VPN Contracts in the City of London

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 104 119 156
Rank change year-on-year +15 +37 -20
Contract jobs citing VPN 23 53 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.07% 1.53% 0.98%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.41% 15.32% 10.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 39 32
10th Percentile £240 £131 £318
25th Percentile £251 £133 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £325 £543
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -40.09% +27.65%
75th Percentile £546 £559 £638
90th Percentile £581 £618 £650
Central London median daily rate £400 £265 £535
% change year-on-year +50.94% -50.47% +25.88%
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 - - -
Central London median hourly rate £13.50 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of 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 the City of London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 221 346 400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 10.25% 9.98% 9.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 234 302
10th Percentile £208 £227 £313
25th Percentile £350 £427 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £625 £673 £629
90th Percentile £749 £750 £725
Central London median daily rate £450 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 11
10th Percentile - £21.70 £21.00
25th Percentile £12.75 £23.92 £23.50
Median hourly rate £13.50 £27.85 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.53% -20.42% +137.29%
75th Percentile £14.25 £31.55 £53.13
90th Percentile - £33.62 £62.50
Central London median hourly rate £13.50 £27.85 £37.25
% change year-on-year -51.53% -25.23% +136.51%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VPN in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for VPN in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VPN in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VPN in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VPN in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for VPN in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (8.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) Azure
2 6 (26.09%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (13.04%) AWS
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.35%) IaaS
4 1 (4.35%) OneDrive
4 1 (4.35%) PaaS
4 1 (4.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (65.22%) Firewall
2 7 (30.43%) Wireless
3 5 (21.74%) BGP
4 4 (17.39%) WAN
5 3 (13.04%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (13.04%) DNS
5 3 (13.04%) Network Security
5 3 (13.04%) OSPF
6 2 (8.70%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (8.70%) IPsec
6 2 (8.70%) LAN
6 2 (8.70%) SAN
6 2 (8.70%) SD-WAN
6 2 (8.70%) WLAN
7 1 (4.35%) DHCP
7 1 (4.35%) EIGRP
7 1 (4.35%) MPLS
7 1 (4.35%) NGFW
7 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
7 1 (4.35%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Git
1 1 (4.35%) JIRA
1 1 (4.35%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Finance
3 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
3 3 (13.04%) Telecoms
4 2 (8.70%) Retail
5 1 (4.35%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 5 (21.74%) Desktop Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) IT Support
3 3 (13.04%) Network Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Network Specialist
4 2 (8.70%) Audio Visual Support
4 2 (8.70%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Desktop Support
4 2 (8.70%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Firewall Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) IT Assistant
4 2 (8.70%) IT Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) IT Support Assistant
4 2 (8.70%) IT Support Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Service Desk Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Support Assistant
4 2 (8.70%) Support Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Technical Support
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%) 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%) Data Centre
2 2 (8.70%) IoT
2 2 (8.70%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (43.48%) Windows
1 10 (43.48%) Windows 10
2 4 (17.39%) Mac OS
3 2 (8.70%) Android
3 2 (8.70%) Mac OS X
3 2 (8.70%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (17.39%) Customer Service
2 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (13.04%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (13.04%) Zero Trust
3 2 (8.70%) Agile
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%) Network Segmentation
3 2 (8.70%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (8.70%) Problem Management
3 2 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (4.35%) Application Security
4 1 (4.35%) Full Stack Development
4 1 (4.35%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.35%) Java
2 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (8.70%) CCIE
2 2 (8.70%) CCNP
2 2 (8.70%) Degree
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.35%) CCNA
3 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 8 (34.78%) Active Directory
2 3 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (8.70%) Hyper-V
3 2 (8.70%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (4.35%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) FortiGate
1 4 (17.39%) SCCM
2 1 (4.35%) Cisco Prime
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (4.35%) Terraform
2 1 (4.35%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (39.13%) Cisco
1 9 (39.13%) Microsoft
2 7 (30.43%) Citrix
3 4 (17.39%) Palo Alto
4 3 (13.04%) Apple
4 3 (13.04%) Fortinet
4 3 (13.04%) Juniper
4 3 (13.04%) VMware
5 2 (8.70%) Acronis
5 2 (8.70%) Avaya
5 2 (8.70%) Bloomberg
6 1 (4.35%) Adobe
6 1 (4.35%) CA
6 1 (4.35%) Dell
6 1 (4.35%) Google
6 1 (4.35%) Meraki
6 1 (4.35%) Red Hat
6 1 (4.35%) Remedy
6 1 (4.35%) Salesforce
6 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow