VPN Contracts in England

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 199 247
Rank change year-on-year +69 +48 -16
Contract jobs citing VPN 642 657 814
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.74% 1.34% 1.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.20% 10.98% 10.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 388 405 573
10th Percentile £197 £163 £165
25th Percentile £280 £250 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.22% +2.78% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £825 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £438 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -2.72% -5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 16 23
10th Percentile £12.75 £15.77 £16.16
25th Percentile £13.87 £18.82 £18.31
Median hourly rate £16.93 £21.61 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.66% -1.77% +14.29%
75th Percentile £22.87 £62.31 £38.21
90th Percentile £24.78 £69.61 £56.72
UK median hourly rate £16.93 £21.22 £22.00
% change year-on-year -20.22% -3.55% +22.22%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,862 5,986 7,802
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.21% 12.20% 11.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,936 3,911 5,113
10th Percentile £207 £235 £223
25th Percentile £350 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £495 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -4.49% +3.65% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 393 431 301
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.86 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +116.22% -22.63% -4.36%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.90 £47.96
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.41
% change year-on-year +116.22% -34.88% +5.22%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for VPN in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VPN in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VPN in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for VPN in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VPN in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for VPN in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the England region over the 6 months to 9 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
London +23 211 £420 -6.67% 84
South East +45 120 £420 -16.00% 47
Midlands +38 112 £375 -25.00% 55
North of England +53 97 £600 +84.62% 56
West Midlands +34 91 £375 -27.88% 28
North West +49 75 £800 +146.15% 31
South West +14 47 £425 -12.82% 25
East of England +4 35 £463 -19.57% 21
Yorkshire +14 21 £300 -14.29% 16
East Midlands +25 20 £338 -3.57% 27
North East +12 1 £600 +174.29% 9
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 48 (7.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 32 (4.98%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.02%) Confluence
4 12 (1.87%) Apache
4 12 (1.87%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.09%) IIS
6 5 (0.78%) Skype for Business
7 4 (0.62%) CMS
7 4 (0.62%) MQSeries
8 3 (0.47%) nginx
8 3 (0.47%) WordPress
9 1 (0.16%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 66 (10.28%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.78%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (0.31%) Eikon
2 1 (0.16%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.16%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 138 (21.50%) Azure
2 97 (15.11%) AWS
3 85 (13.24%) Microsoft 365
4 41 (6.39%) GCP
5 29 (4.52%) PaaS
6 26 (4.05%) Entra ID
7 25 (3.89%) IaaS
8 15 (2.34%) OneDrive
8 15 (2.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 14 (2.18%) Cloud Computing
10 12 (1.87%) GitHub
11 11 (1.71%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 10 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (1.56%) SaaS
13 8 (1.25%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (0.93%) Apigee
14 6 (0.93%) Kong
14 6 (0.93%) Mimecast
15 5 (0.78%) AWS CloudFormation
15 5 (0.78%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 326 (50.78%) Firewall
2 214 (33.33%) WAN
3 147 (22.90%) LAN
4 137 (21.34%) BGP
5 123 (19.16%) MPLS
6 107 (16.67%) DNS
7 100 (15.58%) IPsec
8 93 (14.49%) Wireless
9 90 (14.02%) OSPF
10 80 (12.46%) Network Security
11 69 (10.75%) TCP/IP
12 61 (9.50%) Wi-Fi
13 55 (8.57%) VLAN
14 50 (7.79%) Junos
15 48 (7.48%) DHCP
16 46 (7.17%) Cisco ASA
17 44 (6.85%) SD-WAN
18 41 (6.39%) Cisco Nexus
19 33 (5.14%) VoIP
19 33 (5.14%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (1.71%) MongoDB
1 11 (1.71%) NoSQL
1 11 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (1.25%) SQL Server
4 5 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.62%) Amazon QuickSight
5 4 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (0.62%) MariaDB
5 4 (0.62%) MySQL
6 2 (0.31%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.31%) Power BI
6 2 (0.31%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.31%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.16%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.16%) Redis
Development Applications
1 36 (5.61%) JIRA
2 21 (3.27%) GitLab
3 19 (2.96%) Git
4 12 (1.87%) Robot Framework
4 12 (1.87%) TestRail
5 9 (1.40%) Jenkins
6 7 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 6 (0.93%) CircleCI
7 6 (0.93%) Travis CI
8 5 (0.78%) Bitbucket
8 5 (0.78%) Spinnaker
9 4 (0.62%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.62%) Snyk
10 3 (0.47%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.31%) Postman
11 2 (0.31%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.16%) MSI
12 1 (0.16%) Subversion
General
1 157 (24.45%) Social Skills
2 80 (12.46%) Finance
3 63 (9.81%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (7.79%) Public Sector
5 36 (5.61%) Telecoms
6 24 (3.74%) Banking
7 19 (2.96%) Legal
8 14 (2.18%) Investment Banking
9 13 (2.02%) Manufacturing
10 11 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
10 11 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
11 10 (1.56%) Electronics
11 10 (1.56%) Marketing
12 9 (1.40%) Financial Institution
12 9 (1.40%) Retail
13 8 (1.25%) Mandarin Language
14 6 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 4 (0.62%) Law
17 3 (0.47%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 173 (26.95%) Network Engineer
2 99 (15.42%) Architect
3 68 (10.59%) Support Engineer
4 55 (8.57%) Lead
5 45 (7.01%) Technical Architect
6 40 (6.23%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 35 (5.45%) 3rd Line Support
7 35 (5.45%) Lead Architect
7 35 (5.45%) Network Architect
8 34 (5.30%) Technical Leader
9 32 (4.98%) Analyst
9 32 (4.98%) IT Support
9 32 (4.98%) Senior
10 31 (4.83%) Network Support
11 29 (4.52%) Desktop Support
12 28 (4.36%) Cisco Engineer
12 28 (4.36%) Cisco Network Engineer
12 28 (4.36%) WAN Engineer
13 26 (4.05%) IT Engineer
13 26 (4.05%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (6.85%) Node.js
2 21 (3.27%) JSON
3 16 (2.49%) HTML
3 16 (2.49%) NETCONF
4 15 (2.34%) CSS
4 15 (2.34%) React
4 15 (2.34%) YANG
5 13 (2.02%) .NET
5 13 (2.02%) LDAP
5 13 (2.02%) XMPP
6 12 (1.87%) REST
6 12 (1.87%) RESTCONF
6 12 (1.87%) SOAP
6 12 (1.87%) Web Services
6 12 (1.87%) YAML
7 11 (1.71%) SAML
7 11 (1.71%) XML
8 8 (1.25%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (0.93%) 802.1X
9 6 (0.93%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 73 (11.37%) PKI
2 53 (8.26%) Public Cloud
3 50 (7.79%) Data Centre
4 27 (4.21%) Video Conferencing
5 15 (2.34%) Product Ownership
6 14 (2.18%) Clustering
6 14 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (2.02%) BYOD
8 11 (1.71%) Cloud Native
8 11 (1.71%) iPad
9 9 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (1.40%) Hedge funds
9 9 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
9 9 (1.40%) NHS
10 8 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.25%) Blackberry
10 8 (1.25%) Driving Licence
10 8 (1.25%) Management Information System
10 8 (1.25%) Onboarding
11 7 (1.09%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 236 (36.76%) Windows
2 112 (17.45%) Windows Server
3 82 (12.77%) Windows 10
4 62 (9.66%) Linux
5 55 (8.57%) Android
6 53 (8.26%) Apple iOS
7 45 (7.01%) Windows 7
8 27 (4.21%) Mac OS
9 16 (2.49%) Windows Server 2019
10 15 (2.34%) Unix
11 12 (1.87%) Windows Server 2012
12 10 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
13 6 (0.93%) Ubuntu
14 5 (0.78%) VMS
15 3 (0.47%) Mac OS X
15 3 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
15 3 (0.47%) Windows XP
16 2 (0.31%) CentOS
17 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (16.51%) Problem-Solving
2 99 (15.42%) CI/CD
3 94 (14.64%) Agile
4 91 (14.17%) DevOps
5 87 (13.55%) Customer Service
6 79 (12.31%) Load Balancing
7 61 (9.50%) Mobile Device Management
8 57 (8.88%) ITIL
9 54 (8.41%) Network Design
9 54 (8.41%) Zero Trust
10 51 (7.94%) Migration
11 50 (7.79%) Risk Management
12 49 (7.63%) Security Architecture
13 45 (7.01%) Project Delivery
13 45 (7.01%) Project Management
14 42 (6.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 41 (6.39%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
15 41 (6.39%) Design Patterns
15 41 (6.39%) Infrastructure as Code
15 41 (6.39%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 57 (8.88%) PowerShell
2 56 (8.72%) Python
3 30 (4.67%) SQL
4 22 (3.43%) Java
5 13 (2.02%) TypeScript
6 12 (1.87%) Bash
7 10 (1.56%) C#
8 7 (1.09%) PHP
9 4 (0.62%) Go
9 4 (0.62%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.47%) Perl
10 3 (0.47%) Ruby
11 2 (0.31%) Bicep
12 1 (0.16%) C
12 1 (0.16%) C++
12 1 (0.16%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 183 (28.50%) Security Cleared
2 100 (15.58%) SC Cleared
3 96 (14.95%) Cisco Certification
4 70 (10.90%) CCNP
5 54 (8.41%) Degree
6 40 (6.23%) CCNA
7 28 (4.36%) CCIE
8 20 (3.12%) Microsoft Certification
9 14 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (2.18%) DV Cleared
10 12 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (1.87%) MCSE
11 11 (1.71%) JNCIA
12 9 (1.40%) AWS Certification
12 9 (1.40%) CCIE Data Center
13 7 (1.09%) MCSA
14 6 (0.93%) CCSA
15 5 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 4 (0.62%) BC Cleared
16 4 (0.62%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (7.63%) SLA
2 20 (3.12%) QA
3 10 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (1.25%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.62%) HIPAA
5 4 (0.62%) NIST
6 3 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.47%) GDPR
6 3 (0.47%) NCSC
7 2 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.16%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.16%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.16%) GRC
8 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 113 (17.60%) Active Directory
2 70 (10.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (5.61%) Docker
4 34 (5.30%) Hyper-V
5 17 (2.65%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (2.18%) Firmware
7 13 (2.02%) vSphere
8 12 (1.87%) VMware NSX
9 9 (1.40%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (1.25%) Terminal Services
10 8 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (1.09%) BitLocker
11 7 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
12 5 (0.78%) VMware Workstation
13 4 (0.62%) NFS
13 4 (0.62%) Samba
14 3 (0.47%) Microsoft App-V
15 2 (0.31%) Squid
16 1 (0.16%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 40 (6.23%) SCCM
2 38 (5.92%) Terraform
3 34 (5.30%) Ansible
4 32 (4.98%) Kubernetes
5 26 (4.05%) FortiGate
5 26 (4.05%) Microsoft Intune
6 12 (1.87%) Grafana
6 12 (1.87%) Prometheus
7 11 (1.71%) Puppet
8 8 (1.25%) Failover Clustering
8 8 (1.25%) Jamf Pro
8 8 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.93%) Autotask
9 6 (0.93%) Docker Swarm
9 6 (0.93%) Istio
9 6 (0.93%) Kibana
9 6 (0.93%) logstash
9 6 (0.93%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.62%) OPNET
11 3 (0.47%) AppManager
Vendors
1 221 (34.42%) Cisco
2 154 (23.99%) Microsoft
3 136 (21.18%) Juniper
4 83 (12.93%) VMware
5 70 (10.90%) Palo Alto
6 50 (7.79%) Fortinet
7 48 (7.48%) F5
8 43 (6.70%) CheckPoint
9 34 (5.30%) Citrix
9 34 (5.30%) ServiceNow
10 22 (3.43%) Apple
10 22 (3.43%) SolarWinds
11 20 (3.12%) Google
12 19 (2.96%) Zscaler
13 18 (2.80%) Blue Coat
14 15 (2.34%) Aruba
14 15 (2.34%) HP
14 15 (2.34%) Infoblox
14 15 (2.34%) Splunk
15 12 (1.87%) Meraki