VPN Contracts in the South East

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 95 123 149
Rank change year-on-year +28 +26 -39
Contract jobs citing VPN 113 93 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.96% 1.64% 1.53%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.48% 9.47% 8.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 51 79
10th Percentile £184 £185 £164
25th Percentile £281 £369 £229
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £519 £578 £638
90th Percentile £588 £700 £690
England median daily rate £425 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -12.82% +2.63% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 3
10th Percentile - - £17.99
25th Percentile £18.00 £18.50 £20.81
Median hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year - -26.92% +18.18%
75th Percentile £22.51 £20.36 £43.25
90th Percentile £22.54 £20.88 £53.30
England median hourly rate £16.86 £21.61 £20.00
% change year-on-year -21.98% +8.05% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,192 982 1,315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 20.72% 17.34% 17.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 576 578 777
10th Percentile £214 £246 £210
25th Percentile £390 £363 £343
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £481 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.05% +6.79% +5.88%
75th Percentile £608 £588 £560
90th Percentile £650 £700 £651
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 70 85
10th Percentile £17.26 £18.20 £14.27
25th Percentile £29.81 £42.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £57.35 £60.00 £22.10
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +171.49% -48.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £74.81 £47.50
90th Percentile £85.65 £80.25 £63.25
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.37 £23.91
% change year-on-year +117.75% -23.17% +3.02%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing VPN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for VPN in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VPN in the South East.

Daily rate trend for VPN in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VPN in the South East over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VPN in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VPN in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for VPN in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the South East 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
Thames Valley -2 55 £438 -14.22% 22
Hampshire +31 49 £488 -11.36% 10
Berkshire -16 38 £450 -22.58% 13
Surrey +30 23 £270 -46.00% 4
Buckinghamshire +19 12 £550 +10.00% 7
Kent +11 6 £205 -34.40% 10
Oxfordshire +5 5 £400 - 2
West Sussex +7 1 £500 +166.67% 2
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 9 (7.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (5.31%) Apache
2 6 (5.31%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.65%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.77%) Confluence
5 1 (0.88%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 11 (9.73%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (11.50%) Azure
2 12 (10.62%) AWS
3 10 (8.85%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (7.08%) IaaS
4 8 (7.08%) PaaS
5 6 (5.31%) SaaS
6 4 (3.54%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.65%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.65%) Azure API Management
7 3 (2.65%) Azure Event Grid
7 3 (2.65%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (2.65%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (2.65%) GCP
7 3 (2.65%) OneDrive
8 2 (1.77%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.77%) Cloudflare
8 2 (1.77%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 55 (48.67%) Firewall
2 48 (42.48%) WAN
3 35 (30.97%) LAN
4 29 (25.66%) Wi-Fi
5 18 (15.93%) MPLS
5 18 (15.93%) Network Security
6 17 (15.04%) BGP
6 17 (15.04%) VLAN
7 16 (14.16%) DNS
7 16 (14.16%) Wireless
8 15 (13.27%) Cisco Nexus
9 14 (12.39%) Cisco ASA
10 12 (10.62%) Cisco ISE
10 12 (10.62%) TCP/IP
11 11 (9.73%) DMZ
12 10 (8.85%) IPsec
13 9 (7.96%) DHCP
13 9 (7.96%) SD-WAN
14 7 (6.19%) Cisco Firepower
14 7 (6.19%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.31%) MongoDB
1 6 (5.31%) NoSQL
1 6 (5.31%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.88%) MySQL
2 1 (0.88%) RDBMS
2 1 (0.88%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (9.73%) JIRA
2 6 (5.31%) GitLab
2 6 (5.31%) Robot Framework
2 6 (5.31%) TestRail
3 3 (2.65%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.88%) Git
4 1 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.88%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 23 (20.35%) Social Skills
2 11 (9.73%) Banking
2 11 (9.73%) Investment Banking
3 10 (8.85%) Finance
4 7 (6.19%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.31%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.54%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.77%) Advertising
8 2 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.77%) Electronics
8 2 (1.77%) Law
8 2 (1.77%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.77%) Marketing
9 1 (0.88%) French Language
Job Titles
1 38 (33.63%) Network Engineer
2 21 (18.58%) Architect
3 20 (17.70%) Network Architect
4 12 (10.62%) Cisco Engineer
4 12 (10.62%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 11 (9.73%) Blue Coat Engineer
5 11 (9.73%) Juniper Engineer
6 9 (7.96%) Network Specialist
7 8 (7.08%) Network Support
8 7 (6.19%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 7 (6.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (6.19%) Support Engineer
9 6 (5.31%) Consultant
10 5 (4.42%) Desktop Support
10 5 (4.42%) IT Support
10 5 (4.42%) IT Support Specialist
10 5 (4.42%) Network Support Specialist
10 5 (4.42%) Security Consultant
10 5 (4.42%) Support Specialist
10 5 (4.42%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.31%) NETCONF
1 6 (5.31%) REST
1 6 (5.31%) RESTCONF
1 6 (5.31%) SOAP
1 6 (5.31%) YANG
2 3 (2.65%) .NET
2 3 (2.65%) 802.1X
2 3 (2.65%) Web Services
2 3 (2.65%) XMPP
3 1 (0.88%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.88%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.88%) JSON
3 1 (0.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.19%) Data Centre
2 6 (5.31%) Public Cloud
3 4 (3.54%) Video Conferencing
4 3 (2.65%) PKI
5 2 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.77%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.77%) NHS
5 2 (1.77%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.88%) IoT
6 1 (0.88%) Life Science
6 1 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (22.12%) Windows
2 11 (9.73%) Linux
3 8 (7.08%) Windows 10
4 7 (6.19%) Windows 7
4 7 (6.19%) Windows Server
5 4 (3.54%) Unix
6 2 (1.77%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.88%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (21.24%) Project Management
2 23 (20.35%) Project Delivery
3 22 (19.47%) High Availability
4 16 (14.16%) ITSM
5 12 (10.62%) Change Control
6 11 (9.73%) Architectural Patterns
6 11 (9.73%) Design Patterns
7 10 (8.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 10 (8.85%) Migration
8 9 (7.96%) Agile
9 8 (7.08%) Capacity Planning
9 8 (7.08%) Scrum
10 7 (6.19%) Analytics
10 7 (6.19%) CI/CD
10 7 (6.19%) Containerisation
10 7 (6.19%) Information Security
10 7 (6.19%) Network Monitoring
10 7 (6.19%) Patch Management
11 6 (5.31%) Cloud Security
11 6 (5.31%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (11.50%) Python
2 7 (6.19%) SQL
3 6 (5.31%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.65%) C#
4 3 (2.65%) Java
4 3 (2.65%) PHP
4 3 (2.65%) Ruby
5 1 (0.88%) C
Qualifications
1 43 (38.05%) Security Cleared
2 29 (25.66%) Cisco Certification
3 21 (18.58%) CCNP
4 19 (16.81%) SC Cleared
5 15 (13.27%) CCNA
6 8 (7.08%) Degree
6 8 (7.08%) DV Cleared
6 8 (7.08%) JNCIA
7 5 (4.42%) CCIE
7 5 (4.42%) CCSA
7 5 (4.42%) MCSE
7 5 (4.42%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (3.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (2.65%) Azure Certification
9 3 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.77%) JNCIS
11 1 (0.88%) BC Cleared
11 1 (0.88%) CCDP
11 1 (0.88%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.85%) SLA
2 2 (1.77%) GDPR
2 2 (1.77%) QA
2 2 (1.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.88%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (18.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (12.39%) Active Directory
3 10 (8.85%) Docker
4 5 (4.42%) VMware NSX
5 4 (3.54%) Firmware
5 4 (3.54%) Hyper-V
5 4 (3.54%) vSphere
6 3 (2.65%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.77%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.88%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.88%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 8 (7.08%) SCCM
2 5 (4.42%) Terraform
3 4 (3.54%) Ansible
3 4 (3.54%) Kubernetes
4 3 (2.65%) AppManager
4 3 (2.65%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.77%) Netcool
5 2 (1.77%) Rundeck
5 2 (1.77%) WSUS
6 1 (0.88%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.88%) Grafana
6 1 (0.88%) Graylog
6 1 (0.88%) Nagios
6 1 (0.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 61 (53.98%) Cisco
2 47 (41.59%) Juniper
3 26 (23.01%) Microsoft
4 23 (20.35%) CheckPoint
4 23 (20.35%) VMware
5 19 (16.81%) Blue Coat
6 16 (14.16%) Fortinet
7 15 (13.27%) F5
7 15 (13.27%) Palo Alto
8 6 (5.31%) Citrix
9 5 (4.42%) Aruba
9 5 (4.42%) Zscaler
10 4 (3.54%) Apple
10 4 (3.54%) HP
10 4 (3.54%) Meraki
10 4 (3.54%) SolarWinds
11 3 (2.65%) Ivanti
11 3 (2.65%) McAfee
12 2 (1.77%) Google
12 2 (1.77%) Infoblox