VPN Contracts in the UK excluding London

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring VPN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VPN over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 143 188
Rank change year-on-year +42 +45 -7
Contract jobs citing VPN 437 380 426
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.05% 1.67% 1.40%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.29% 10.76% 10.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 242 293
10th Percentile £200 £160 £158
25th Percentile £275 £220 £193
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% +0.48%
75th Percentile £589 £570 £538
90th Percentile £825 £688 £663
UK median daily rate £425 £488 £493
% change year-on-year -12.82% -1.02% +15.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 15 25
10th Percentile £12.75 £15.29 £14.05
25th Percentile £13.30 £17.52 £16.11
Median hourly rate £14.27 £21.22 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -32.75% +13.17% -6.25%
75th Percentile £21.00 £62.00 £23.00
90th Percentile £43.52 £63.23 £59.50
UK median hourly rate £16.86 £21.22 £20.00
% change year-on-year -20.55% +6.10% +2.56%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

VPN falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,288 3,532 4,254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.42% 15.56% 14.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,852 2,200 2,762
10th Percentile £203 £210 £190
25th Percentile £350 £338 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% +5.56% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £550
90th Percentile £675 £688 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 354 299 243
10th Percentile £13.33 - £14.91
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £19.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% -11.63% -2.27%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.00 £48.62
90th Percentile £73.60 £75.00 £60.93
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +110.53% -26.92% +4.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for VPN in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VPN in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VPN in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for VPN in the UK excluding London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VPN in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for VPN in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
South East +28 113 £410 -18.00% 58
North of England +43 104 £600 +100.00% 51
Midlands +22 102 £375 -21.05% 35
West Midlands +16 82 £375 -23.08% 23
North West +40 73 £800 +156.00% 29
South West +4 44 £475 -2.56% 26
East of England -6 33 £375 -34.78% 20
Scotland +44 32 £240 -49.47% 13
Yorkshire +16 29 £300 +0.84% 18
East Midlands +12 20 £338 -3.57% 12
Wales +28 11 £425 +15.25% 8
North East +10 2 £450 +111.76% 4
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 27 (6.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (4.58%) SharePoint
3 17 (3.89%) Confluence
4 7 (1.60%) Apache
5 6 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.46%) IIS
6 2 (0.46%) WordPress
7 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.23%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 58 (13.27%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 83 (18.99%) Azure
2 52 (11.90%) AWS
3 45 (10.30%) Microsoft 365
4 30 (6.86%) GCP
5 19 (4.35%) Entra ID
6 17 (3.89%) PaaS
7 14 (3.20%) IaaS
8 13 (2.97%) GitHub
9 10 (2.29%) OneDrive
10 9 (2.06%) Kong
11 7 (1.60%) OpenShift
12 6 (1.37%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (1.37%) Apigee
12 6 (1.37%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (1.37%) SaaS
12 6 (1.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 5 (1.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (1.14%) CloudFront
14 4 (0.92%) Amazon S3
14 4 (0.92%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 210 (48.05%) Firewall
2 139 (31.81%) WAN
3 83 (18.99%) LAN
4 80 (18.31%) MPLS
5 79 (18.08%) DNS
6 72 (16.48%) BGP
7 58 (13.27%) IPsec
8 55 (12.59%) TCP/IP
9 52 (11.90%) Wi-Fi
10 50 (11.44%) DHCP
11 48 (10.98%) Junos
12 44 (10.07%) Network Security
13 38 (8.70%) VLAN
14 36 (8.24%) OSPF
15 32 (7.32%) Wireless
16 28 (6.41%) Cisco Nexus
16 28 (6.41%) SD-WAN
17 27 (6.18%) Cisco ASA
18 23 (5.26%) VoIP
19 20 (4.58%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (1.37%) MongoDB
2 6 (1.37%) MySQL
2 6 (1.37%) NoSQL
2 6 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (0.92%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.69%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (0.46%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.46%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.23%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 28 (6.41%) JIRA
2 15 (3.43%) GitLab
3 13 (2.97%) Git
4 11 (2.52%) Jenkins
5 9 (2.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 9 (2.06%) CircleCI
5 9 (2.06%) Travis CI
6 6 (1.37%) Bitbucket
6 6 (1.37%) Robot Framework
6 6 (1.37%) TestRail
7 5 (1.14%) Spinnaker
8 3 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.69%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.23%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 89 (20.37%) Social Skills
2 40 (9.15%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (7.32%) Finance
4 28 (6.41%) Public Sector
5 23 (5.26%) Telecoms
6 12 (2.75%) Banking
6 12 (2.75%) Investment Banking
6 12 (2.75%) Manufacturing
7 10 (2.29%) Legal
8 9 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (1.83%) Retail
10 6 (1.37%) Electronics
10 6 (1.37%) Marketing
11 5 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.46%) Advertising
13 2 (0.46%) Automotive
13 2 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.46%) Law
14 1 (0.23%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 104 (23.80%) Network Engineer
2 91 (20.82%) Architect
3 42 (9.61%) Support Engineer
3 42 (9.61%) Technical Architect
4 41 (9.38%) Lead
5 37 (8.47%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 33 (7.55%) 3rd Line Support
7 32 (7.32%) Network Architect
8 31 (7.09%) Lead Architect
8 31 (7.09%) Technical Leader
9 30 (6.86%) Network Support
10 23 (5.26%) Desktop Engineer
10 23 (5.26%) WAN Engineer
11 22 (5.03%) 2nd Line Support
12 20 (4.58%) Desktop Support
12 20 (4.58%) IT Support
13 19 (4.35%) Analyst
14 18 (4.12%) Cisco Engineer
14 18 (4.12%) Cisco Network Engineer
15 15 (3.43%) 2nd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (9.15%) Node.js
2 15 (3.43%) React
3 14 (3.20%) CSS
3 14 (3.20%) HTML
4 13 (2.97%) Elastic Stack
5 12 (2.75%) JSON
5 12 (2.75%) Web Services
5 12 (2.75%) YAML
6 9 (2.06%) XML
7 8 (1.83%) .NET
8 6 (1.37%) ModSecurity
8 6 (1.37%) NETCONF
8 6 (1.37%) REST
8 6 (1.37%) RESTCONF
8 6 (1.37%) SOAP
8 6 (1.37%) YANG
9 5 (1.14%) OAuth
9 5 (1.14%) OAuth2
9 5 (1.14%) SAML
9 5 (1.14%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 52 (11.90%) PKI
1 52 (11.90%) Public Cloud
2 23 (5.26%) Data Centre
3 16 (3.66%) Clustering
4 14 (3.20%) Product Ownership
5 10 (2.29%) Cloud Native
6 9 (2.06%) Data Structures
7 8 (1.83%) Driving Licence
8 7 (1.60%) iPad
8 7 (1.60%) iPhone
8 7 (1.60%) Security Posture
8 7 (1.60%) Video Conferencing
9 6 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.14%) BYOD
10 5 (1.14%) Mobile App
11 4 (0.92%) Onboarding
12 3 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
13 2 (0.46%) Linux Command Line
13 2 (0.46%) Management Information System
13 2 (0.46%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 179 (40.96%) Windows
2 86 (19.68%) Windows Server
3 63 (14.42%) Windows 10
4 45 (10.30%) Apple iOS
5 44 (10.07%) Android
6 40 (9.15%) Linux
7 37 (8.47%) Windows 7
8 14 (3.20%) Windows Server 2019
9 12 (2.75%) Mac OS
10 10 (2.29%) Windows Server 2012
10 10 (2.29%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (1.14%) Unix
12 2 (0.46%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.46%) VMS
12 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2003
12 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.23%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (19.91%) CI/CD
2 84 (19.22%) Agile
3 75 (17.16%) DevOps
4 66 (15.10%) Problem-Solving
5 61 (13.96%) Load Balancing
6 55 (12.59%) Mobile Device Management
7 52 (11.90%) Customer Service
8 49 (11.21%) Security Architecture
9 47 (10.76%) Risk Management
10 46 (10.53%) Project Management
11 44 (10.07%) Project Delivery
11 44 (10.07%) Zero Trust
12 42 (9.61%) ITIL
13 41 (9.38%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
13 41 (9.38%) Design Patterns
13 41 (9.38%) Threat Intelligence
14 39 (8.92%) High Availability
15 30 (6.86%) Network Design
16 27 (6.18%) Containerisation
16 27 (6.18%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 41 (9.38%) PowerShell
2 35 (8.01%) Python
3 16 (3.66%) Java
4 12 (2.75%) Bash
4 12 (2.75%) TypeScript
5 9 (2.06%) SQL
6 3 (0.69%) ActionScript
6 3 (0.69%) C#
6 3 (0.69%) PHP
6 3 (0.69%) Ruby
7 1 (0.23%) C
7 1 (0.23%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 165 (37.76%) Security Cleared
2 94 (21.51%) SC Cleared
3 68 (15.56%) Cisco Certification
4 45 (10.30%) CCNP
5 36 (8.24%) Degree
6 32 (7.32%) CCNA
7 20 (4.58%) CCIE
8 16 (3.66%) A+ Certification
9 14 (3.20%) DV Cleared
10 10 (2.29%) JNCIA
11 9 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (2.06%) CCIE Data Center
12 8 (1.83%) MCSE
12 8 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (1.60%) AWS Certification
13 7 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
14 6 (1.37%) CCSA
15 4 (0.92%) Azure Certification
15 4 (0.92%) Master's Degree
15 4 (0.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.49%) SLA
2 19 (4.35%) QA
3 5 (1.14%) PCI DSS
4 4 (0.92%) HIPAA
5 3 (0.69%) GDPR
6 2 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.46%) NIST
6 2 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.23%) GRC
7 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.23%) NEBOSH
7 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 89 (20.37%) Active Directory
2 53 (12.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (7.55%) Docker
4 24 (5.49%) Hyper-V
5 13 (2.97%) VMware NSX
6 8 (1.83%) Terminal Services
7 7 (1.60%) vSphere
8 6 (1.37%) BitLocker
8 6 (1.37%) Firmware
8 6 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (1.14%) VMware Workstation
10 4 (0.92%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 40 (9.15%) SCCM
2 28 (6.41%) Kubernetes
2 28 (6.41%) Terraform
3 27 (6.18%) Ansible
4 15 (3.43%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (3.20%) Grafana
6 13 (2.97%) Prometheus
7 12 (2.75%) Puppet
8 9 (2.06%) Docker Swarm
8 9 (2.06%) Kibana
8 9 (2.06%) logstash
8 9 (2.06%) Progress Chef
9 7 (1.60%) Autotask
9 7 (1.60%) Failover Clustering
9 7 (1.60%) FortiGate
9 7 (1.60%) Jamf Pro
10 6 (1.37%) OPNET
11 5 (1.14%) Istio
11 5 (1.14%) Nagios
12 4 (0.92%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 142 (32.49%) Cisco
2 106 (24.26%) Microsoft
3 97 (22.20%) Juniper
4 64 (14.65%) VMware
5 39 (8.92%) Palo Alto
6 32 (7.32%) CheckPoint
6 32 (7.32%) F5
7 26 (5.95%) Fortinet
8 21 (4.81%) Blue Coat
9 18 (4.12%) Apple
10 16 (3.66%) Google
10 16 (3.66%) Splunk
11 12 (2.75%) Zscaler
12 11 (2.52%) Citrix
12 11 (2.52%) Infoblox
13 10 (2.29%) Aruba
13 10 (2.29%) SolarWinds
14 7 (1.60%) Datto
14 7 (1.60%) McAfee
14 7 (1.60%) ServiceNow