VPN Contracts in London

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
England > London

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 190 238 287
Rank change year-on-year +48 +49 -12
Contract jobs citing VPN 226 303 361
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.27% 1.13% 0.93%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.24% 11.32% 9.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 186 262
10th Percentile £150 £153 £229
25th Percentile £255 £250 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.39% -14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £575 £586 £600
90th Percentile £825 £694 £673
England median daily rate £440 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -2.33% - +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 2 7
10th Percentile £13.62 £25.04 £25.95
25th Percentile £15.62 £34.20 £26.25
Median hourly rate £17.00 £49.47 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -65.63% +73.56% -43.00%
75th Percentile £23.90 £64.73 £46.33
90th Percentile £24.88 £73.89 £47.33
England median hourly rate £17.00 £22.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -22.73% - +15.79%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,707 2,676 3,692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.59% 9.94% 9.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,137 1,881 2,550
10th Percentile £213 £256 £313
25th Percentile £350 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +2.27% +15.79%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
England median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 54 82
10th Percentile £14.48 £20.07 £20.90
25th Percentile £18.36 £22.63 £23.91
Median hourly rate £22.00 £43.00 £33.75
Median % change year-on-year -48.84% +27.41% -25.00%
75th Percentile £41.25 £69.88 £48.20
90th Percentile £60.00 £75.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £23.91
% change year-on-year +116.22% -22.63% -4.36%

VPN
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for VPN in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VPN in London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VPN in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for VPN in London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VPN in London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for VPN in London

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Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Central London +7 22 £258 -2.83% 16
East London -2 5 £700 - 1
West London +13 2 - - 8
South London +2 2 £238 +35.71% 1
VPN
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 18 (7.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (3.54%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.21%) IIS
4 4 (1.77%) CMS
4 4 (1.77%) Skype for Business
5 3 (1.33%) MQSeries
6 2 (0.88%) Apache
6 2 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.88%) nginx
7 1 (0.44%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.44%) Confluence
7 1 (0.44%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.44%) WordPress
Applications
1 34 (15.04%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.77%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Eikon
2 1 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.44%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 58 (25.66%) Azure
2 42 (18.58%) AWS
3 39 (17.26%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (6.19%) GCP
5 12 (5.31%) PaaS
6 10 (4.42%) Cloud Computing
6 10 (4.42%) IaaS
7 6 (2.65%) Asana
7 6 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (2.65%) Entra ID
8 5 (2.21%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 5 (2.21%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (2.21%) Mimecast
8 5 (2.21%) Slack
9 4 (1.77%) Amazon ECR
9 4 (1.77%) Amazon MSK
9 4 (1.77%) OneDrive
9 4 (1.77%) SaaS
9 4 (1.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (1.33%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 123 (54.42%) Firewall
2 81 (35.84%) WAN
3 76 (33.63%) LAN
4 66 (29.20%) BGP
5 65 (28.76%) Wireless
6 62 (27.43%) OSPF
7 50 (22.12%) IPsec
8 45 (19.91%) DNS
9 37 (16.37%) Network Security
10 33 (14.60%) MPLS
11 27 (11.95%) WLAN
12 26 (11.50%) Cisco ASA
13 23 (10.18%) TCP/IP
14 20 (8.85%) SD-WAN
14 20 (8.85%) Wi-Fi
15 17 (7.52%) VLAN
16 15 (6.64%) DHCP
16 15 (6.64%) SSL
17 14 (6.19%) Cisco Nexus
18 13 (5.75%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.77%) Amazon QuickSight
1 4 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (1.77%) MariaDB
2 3 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.88%) Power BI
3 2 (0.88%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.44%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.44%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.44%) MySQL
4 1 (0.44%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (4.87%) JIRA
2 9 (3.98%) Git
3 4 (1.77%) Cypress.io
3 4 (1.77%) Snyk
3 4 (1.77%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (1.33%) GitLab
5 2 (0.88%) Postman
5 2 (0.88%) Robot Framework
5 2 (0.88%) TestRail
6 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.44%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.44%) Subversion
6 1 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 68 (30.09%) Social Skills
2 43 (19.03%) Finance
3 31 (13.72%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (8.85%) Public Sector
5 12 (5.31%) Banking
6 10 (4.42%) Financial Institution
7 8 (3.54%) Mandarin Language
7 8 (3.54%) Telecoms
8 7 (3.10%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.77%) Legal
11 3 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.33%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.33%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.88%) Aviation
12 2 (0.88%) Billing
12 2 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.88%) Local Government
12 2 (0.88%) Marketing
12 2 (0.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 64 (28.32%) Network Engineer
2 29 (12.83%) Support Engineer
3 23 (10.18%) Network Specialist
3 23 (10.18%) Senior
4 19 (8.41%) Desktop Support
5 18 (7.96%) Analyst
6 15 (6.64%) Desktop Engineer
6 15 (6.64%) IT Support
7 14 (6.19%) IT Engineer
8 13 (5.75%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 12 (5.31%) Cisco Engineer
9 12 (5.31%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 12 (5.31%) Senior Network Engineer
9 12 (5.31%) Service Analyst
10 10 (4.42%) Service Desk Analyst
10 10 (4.42%) Windows Engineer
11 9 (3.98%) Azure Engineer
11 9 (3.98%) Security Engineer
12 8 (3.54%) 2nd Line Support
12 8 (3.54%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.87%) JSON
1 11 (4.87%) LDAP
2 8 (3.54%) XMPP
3 6 (2.65%) .NET
3 6 (2.65%) NETCONF
4 5 (2.21%) SAML
4 5 (2.21%) YANG
5 4 (1.77%) GraphQL
5 4 (1.77%) Kafka
5 4 (1.77%) XML
6 3 (1.33%) HTML
7 2 (0.88%) 802.1X
7 2 (0.88%) Jinja
7 2 (0.88%) REST
7 2 (0.88%) RESTCONF
7 2 (0.88%) RESTful
7 2 (0.88%) SOAP
7 2 (0.88%) Software Packaging
7 2 (0.88%) YAML
8 1 (0.44%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 30 (13.27%) PKI
2 27 (11.95%) Data Centre
3 21 (9.29%) Video Conferencing
4 11 (4.87%) Hedge funds
5 9 (3.98%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (3.54%) Blackberry
6 8 (3.54%) BYOD
7 7 (3.10%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (2.21%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.77%) iPad
9 4 (1.77%) NHS
10 3 (1.33%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.88%) Animation
11 2 (0.88%) Clustering
11 2 (0.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (0.88%) Fat Client
11 2 (0.88%) iPhone
11 2 (0.88%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 82 (36.28%) Windows
2 44 (19.47%) Windows 10
3 25 (11.06%) Windows 7
4 24 (10.62%) Linux
4 24 (10.62%) Windows Server
5 13 (5.75%) Mac OS
6 9 (3.98%) Unix
7 8 (3.54%) Android
8 6 (2.65%) Apple iOS
9 4 (1.77%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (1.33%) Ubuntu
10 3 (1.33%) VMS
10 3 (1.33%) Windows XP
11 2 (0.88%) CentOS
11 2 (0.88%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (23.45%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (19.91%) Customer Service
3 37 (16.37%) ITIL
4 29 (12.83%) Migration
5 27 (11.95%) Agile
5 27 (11.95%) Infrastructure as Code
6 26 (11.50%) Change Management
7 23 (10.18%) ITSM
8 22 (9.73%) DevOps
9 21 (9.29%) Threat Management
10 17 (7.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 17 (7.52%) Network Design
11 16 (7.08%) Kalman Filter
12 15 (6.64%) Root Cause Analysis
13 12 (5.31%) Customer Experience
13 12 (5.31%) Network Architecture
13 12 (5.31%) Service Delivery
13 12 (5.31%) Technical Leadership
14 11 (4.87%) Cloud Security
14 11 (4.87%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (9.73%) PowerShell
1 22 (9.73%) Python
2 12 (5.31%) SQL
3 7 (3.10%) C#
4 6 (2.65%) Java
5 4 (1.77%) Go
5 4 (1.77%) PHP
6 3 (1.33%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.33%) Perl
7 2 (0.88%) Bash
8 1 (0.44%) C++
8 1 (0.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 34 (15.04%) Security Cleared
2 32 (14.16%) SC Cleared
3 29 (12.83%) Cisco Certification
4 26 (11.50%) CCNP
5 24 (10.62%) Degree
6 12 (5.31%) CCNA
7 10 (4.42%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (3.98%) CCIE
9 6 (2.65%) MCSA
10 5 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.77%) MCSE
12 3 (1.33%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.33%) MCP
13 2 (0.88%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 2 (0.88%) BC Cleared
13 2 (0.88%) CCDP
13 2 (0.88%) CCIP
14 1 (0.44%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (11.95%) SLA
2 7 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.65%) QA
4 3 (1.33%) NCSC
5 2 (0.88%) NIST
5 2 (0.88%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.44%) Data Quality
System Software
1 44 (19.47%) Active Directory
2 17 (7.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (5.31%) Hyper-V
4 10 (4.42%) Firmware
5 9 (3.98%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (2.21%) vSphere
7 4 (1.77%) NFS
7 4 (1.77%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (1.77%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.77%) VMware NSX
8 3 (1.33%) BitLocker
8 3 (1.33%) Docker
8 3 (1.33%) Samba
8 3 (1.33%) Terminal Services
9 2 (0.88%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.88%) Squid
Systems Management
1 23 (10.18%) FortiGate
2 15 (6.64%) Terraform
3 14 (6.19%) SCCM
4 12 (5.31%) Ansible
5 11 (4.87%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (3.54%) Kubernetes
7 5 (2.21%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.77%) Grafana
8 4 (1.77%) Prometheus
9 3 (1.33%) TrustSec
10 2 (0.88%) Cisco CUCM
10 2 (0.88%) HAProxy
10 2 (0.88%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.88%) Nessus
10 2 (0.88%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.88%) Puppet
10 2 (0.88%) SCOM
10 2 (0.88%) SCVMM
10 2 (0.88%) Stealthwatch
10 2 (0.88%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 99 (43.81%) Cisco
2 72 (31.86%) Microsoft
3 51 (22.57%) Palo Alto
4 34 (15.04%) Juniper
5 29 (12.83%) Fortinet
6 28 (12.39%) ServiceNow
7 21 (9.29%) VMware
8 19 (8.41%) Citrix
8 19 (8.41%) F5
9 12 (5.31%) CheckPoint
10 11 (4.87%) Extreme Networks
11 8 (3.54%) Arista
11 8 (3.54%) Aruba
11 8 (3.54%) Nokia
11 8 (3.54%) SolarWinds
11 8 (3.54%) Zscaler
12 7 (3.10%) Infoblox
12 7 (3.10%) TOWER Software
13 6 (2.65%) HP
13 6 (2.65%) Splunk