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 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 208 219 282
Rank change year-on-year +11 +63 -12
Contract jobs citing VPN 191 308 377
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.09% 1.21% 0.98%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.44% 11.90% 10.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 191 281
10th Percentile £150 £153 £250
25th Percentile £253 £235 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.63% -9.52% +16.67%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £743 £700 £675
England median daily rate £434 £475 £473
% change year-on-year -8.68% +0.53% +11.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 2 5
10th Percentile £13.62 £25.04 -
25th Percentile £15.62 £34.20 £25.50
Median hourly rate £17.00 £49.47 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -65.63% +73.56% -43.00%
75th Percentile £23.80 £64.73 £46.50
90th Percentile £24.59 £73.89 £47.75
England median hourly rate £16.56 £21.61 £20.00
% change year-on-year -23.39% +8.05% +2.56%

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 1,669 2,589 3,663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.53% 10.18% 9.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,123 1,818 2,545
10th Percentile £215 £250 £313
25th Percentile £350 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +13.52%
75th Percentile £619 £669 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 49 89
10th Percentile £14.48 £18.93 £16.45
25th Percentile £16.71 £22.75 £23.91
Median hourly rate £23.80 £36.54 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.87% +29.35% -43.11%
75th Percentile £41.25 £69.50 £44.50
90th Percentile £59.75 £76.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £17.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year +135.29% -28.90% +3.48%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +3 26 £400 +50.94% 7
West London +14 3 - - 3
South London 0 2 £238 +35.71% 1
East London -5 2 - - 4
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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 (9.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (4.71%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.62%) IIS
4 4 (2.09%) CMS
4 4 (2.09%) Skype for Business
5 2 (1.05%) Apache
5 2 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.05%) MQSeries
5 2 (1.05%) nginx
6 1 (0.52%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 1 (0.52%) WebSphere
Applications
1 29 (15.18%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.09%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.05%) Eikon
2 1 (0.52%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 52 (27.23%) Azure
2 40 (20.94%) AWS
3 36 (18.85%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (7.33%) PaaS
5 11 (5.76%) GCP
5 11 (5.76%) IaaS
6 9 (4.71%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 7 (3.66%) Entra ID
8 6 (3.14%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (3.14%) Mimecast
9 4 (2.09%) Amazon ECR
9 4 (2.09%) Amazon MSK
9 4 (2.09%) Asana
9 4 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (2.09%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (2.09%) Nutanix
9 4 (2.09%) SaaS
9 4 (2.09%) Slack
10 3 (1.57%) Rubrik
10 3 (1.57%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 101 (52.88%) Firewall
2 60 (31.41%) WAN
3 57 (29.84%) LAN
4 49 (25.65%) Wireless
5 47 (24.61%) BGP
6 42 (21.99%) OSPF
7 39 (20.42%) DNS
8 36 (18.85%) Network Security
9 32 (16.75%) IPsec
10 24 (12.57%) MPLS
11 19 (9.95%) SD-WAN
12 18 (9.42%) TCP/IP
13 16 (8.38%) WLAN
14 14 (7.33%) DHCP
15 13 (6.81%) VLAN
16 12 (6.28%) Cisco ASA
16 12 (6.28%) SSL
16 12 (6.28%) Wi-Fi
17 11 (5.76%) Cisco Nexus
18 10 (5.24%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.09%) Amazon QuickSight
1 4 (2.09%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (2.09%) MariaDB
2 2 (1.05%) Power BI
2 2 (1.05%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.52%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (0.52%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.52%) MySQL
3 1 (0.52%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.52%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (6.81%) JIRA
2 6 (3.14%) Git
3 4 (2.09%) Cypress.io
3 4 (2.09%) Snyk
4 3 (1.57%) GitLab
5 2 (1.05%) Robot Framework
5 2 (1.05%) TestRail
6 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.52%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.52%) Subversion
6 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 59 (30.89%) Social Skills
2 40 (20.94%) Finance
3 23 (12.04%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (6.81%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.71%) Banking
6 8 (4.19%) Financial Institution
6 8 (4.19%) Mandarin Language
7 6 (3.14%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.09%) Legal
8 4 (2.09%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.09%) Retail
9 3 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.57%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.05%) Billing
10 2 (1.05%) Cantonese Language
10 2 (1.05%) Local Government
10 2 (1.05%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.05%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 44 (23.04%) Network Engineer
2 27 (14.14%) Support Engineer
3 20 (10.47%) Senior
4 17 (8.90%) Desktop Support
5 16 (8.38%) Desktop Engineer
6 15 (7.85%) IT Support
7 14 (7.33%) Analyst
7 14 (7.33%) Network Specialist
8 13 (6.81%) IT Engineer
9 11 (5.76%) Desktop Support Engineer
10 10 (5.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (4.71%) Security Engineer
11 9 (4.71%) Senior Network Engineer
11 9 (4.71%) Windows Engineer
12 8 (4.19%) Azure Engineer
12 8 (4.19%) Consultant
12 8 (4.19%) Service Analyst
13 7 (3.66%) IT Support Engineer
13 7 (3.66%) Service Desk Analyst
14 6 (3.14%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.71%) JSON
2 8 (4.19%) XMPP
3 6 (3.14%) LDAP
3 6 (3.14%) NETCONF
4 5 (2.62%) YANG
5 4 (2.09%) .NET
5 4 (2.09%) GraphQL
5 4 (2.09%) Kafka
5 4 (2.09%) SAML
5 4 (2.09%) XML
6 3 (1.57%) Software Packaging
7 2 (1.05%) 802.1X
7 2 (1.05%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.05%) HTML
7 2 (1.05%) Jinja
7 2 (1.05%) REST
7 2 (1.05%) RESTCONF
7 2 (1.05%) RESTful
7 2 (1.05%) SOAP
7 2 (1.05%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (12.04%) PKI
2 20 (10.47%) Video Conferencing
3 16 (8.38%) Data Centre
4 8 (4.19%) Blackberry
4 8 (4.19%) BYOD
5 7 (3.66%) Hedge funds
6 6 (3.14%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (3.14%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.62%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.62%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (2.09%) iPad
8 4 (2.09%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.09%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (1.57%) Fat Client
9 3 (1.57%) Thin Client
9 3 (1.57%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.05%) IoT
10 2 (1.05%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.05%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 81 (42.41%) Windows
2 48 (25.13%) Windows 10
3 22 (11.52%) Windows 7
3 22 (11.52%) Windows Server
4 16 (8.38%) Mac OS
5 12 (6.28%) Linux
6 9 (4.71%) Android
7 7 (3.66%) Apple iOS
8 6 (3.14%) Unix
9 4 (2.09%) VMS
10 3 (1.57%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (1.57%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (1.57%) Windows XP
11 2 (1.05%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.52%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (23.56%) Problem-Solving
2 44 (23.04%) Customer Service
3 29 (15.18%) ITIL
4 26 (13.61%) Migration
5 20 (10.47%) ITSM
6 19 (9.95%) DevOps
7 18 (9.42%) Kalman Filter
8 17 (8.90%) Infrastructure as Code
8 17 (8.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 16 (8.38%) Agile
9 16 (8.38%) Change Management
10 13 (6.81%) Cloud Security
11 12 (6.28%) Information Security
12 11 (5.76%) Customer Experience
12 11 (5.76%) Network Virtualisation
12 11 (5.76%) Problem Management
12 11 (5.76%) Service Delivery
13 10 (5.24%) Mobile Device Management
13 10 (5.24%) Root Cause Analysis
13 10 (5.24%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 24 (12.57%) PowerShell
2 16 (8.38%) Python
3 11 (5.76%) SQL
4 6 (3.14%) Java
5 4 (2.09%) C#
5 4 (2.09%) Go
5 4 (2.09%) PHP
6 1 (0.52%) Bicep
6 1 (0.52%) C++
6 1 (0.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (15.18%) Cisco Certification
2 26 (13.61%) CCNP
3 22 (11.52%) Degree
4 18 (9.42%) Security Cleared
5 16 (8.38%) SC Cleared
6 12 (6.28%) CCNA
7 9 (4.71%) CCIE
8 7 (3.66%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (2.62%) MCSA
10 4 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.57%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.57%) MCSE
12 2 (1.05%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 2 (1.05%) DV Cleared
12 2 (1.05%) MCP
13 1 (0.52%) CCDP
13 1 (0.52%) CCIP
13 1 (0.52%) CCSP
13 1 (0.52%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (12.57%) SLA
2 9 (4.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.57%) NIST
3 3 (1.57%) QA
4 2 (1.05%) NCSC
4 2 (1.05%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.52%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.52%) GDPR
System Software
1 45 (23.56%) Active Directory
2 20 (10.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (6.81%) Hyper-V
4 10 (5.24%) Firmware
5 9 (4.71%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (2.09%) BitLocker
6 4 (2.09%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (2.09%) vSphere
7 3 (1.57%) Docker
7 3 (1.57%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (1.57%) NFS
7 3 (1.57%) Terminal Services
7 3 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.57%) VMware NSX
8 2 (1.05%) Samba
8 2 (1.05%) Squid
8 2 (1.05%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 22 (11.52%) SCCM
2 14 (7.33%) Terraform
3 12 (6.28%) FortiGate
4 11 (5.76%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (4.19%) Kubernetes
6 5 (2.62%) Ansible
7 4 (2.09%) Grafana
7 4 (2.09%) Prometheus
7 4 (2.09%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (1.57%) NetBackup
8 3 (1.57%) SCOM
8 3 (1.57%) SCVMM
8 3 (1.57%) VxRail
8 3 (1.57%) WSUS
9 2 (1.05%) AirWatch
9 2 (1.05%) HAProxy
9 2 (1.05%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (1.05%) Nessus
9 2 (1.05%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 74 (38.74%) Cisco
2 69 (36.13%) Microsoft
3 38 (19.90%) Palo Alto
4 24 (12.57%) Juniper
4 24 (12.57%) ServiceNow
5 23 (12.04%) VMware
6 22 (11.52%) Fortinet
7 21 (10.99%) Citrix
8 17 (8.90%) F5
9 9 (4.71%) CheckPoint
9 9 (4.71%) SolarWinds
10 7 (3.66%) Apple
10 7 (3.66%) HP
10 7 (3.66%) Infoblox
10 7 (3.66%) TOWER Software
10 7 (3.66%) Zscaler
11 6 (3.14%) Dell
11 6 (3.14%) Extreme Networks
11 6 (3.14%) Meraki
12 5 (2.62%) Avaya