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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 206 220 282
Rank change year-on-year +14 +62 -5
Contract jobs citing VPN 204 312 366
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.17% 1.21% 0.95%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.27% 12.11% 10.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 192 274
10th Percentile £150 £153 £243
25th Percentile £251 £229 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -12.20% +13.89%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £740 £700 £675
England median daily rate £434 £466 £463
% change year-on-year -6.97% +0.81% +12.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 5
10th Percentile £13.44 £25.04 £26.00
25th Percentile £15.24 £34.20 £26.75
Median hourly rate £17.00 £49.47 £43.74
Median % change year-on-year -65.63% +13.09% -12.52%
75th Percentile £23.80 £64.73 £46.50
90th Percentile £24.67 £73.89 £47.75
England median hourly rate £16.56 £22.00 £20.26
% change year-on-year -24.75% +8.62% +5.22%

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 1,663 2,577 3,638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.52% 9.96% 9.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,116 1,810 2,529
10th Percentile £213 £250 £313
25th Percentile £350 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £568 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.89% +3.18% +15.79%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £651
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 54 84
10th Percentile £14.46 £19.25 £20.92
25th Percentile £16.40 £22.53 £23.91
Median hourly rate £22.75 £36.27 £33.75
Median % change year-on-year -37.28% +7.47% -32.03%
75th Percentile £41.25 £69.00 £47.69
90th Percentile £60.00 £75.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year +122.22% -24.72% +0.41%

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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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +14 23 £306 +18.93% 14
East London -4 4 £700 - 14
West London +13 2 - - 3
South London -4 2 £238 +15.85% 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 (8.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (3.92%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.45%) IIS
4 4 (1.96%) CMS
4 4 (1.96%) Skype for Business
5 3 (1.47%) MQSeries
6 2 (0.98%) Apache
6 2 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.98%) nginx
7 1 (0.49%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.49%) Confluence
7 1 (0.49%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.49%) WordPress
Applications
1 30 (14.71%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.96%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.98%) Eikon
2 1 (0.49%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.49%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 55 (26.96%) Azure
2 40 (19.61%) AWS
3 38 (18.63%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (6.86%) GCP
5 13 (6.37%) PaaS
6 9 (4.41%) IaaS
7 7 (3.43%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (2.45%) Asana
9 5 (2.45%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 5 (2.45%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (2.45%) Entra ID
9 5 (2.45%) Mimecast
9 5 (2.45%) OneDrive
10 4 (1.96%) Amazon ECR
10 4 (1.96%) Amazon MSK
10 4 (1.96%) SaaS
10 4 (1.96%) Slack
11 3 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.47%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 108 (52.94%) Firewall
2 65 (31.86%) WAN
3 62 (30.39%) LAN
4 54 (26.47%) Wireless
5 49 (24.02%) BGP
6 45 (22.06%) OSPF
7 42 (20.59%) DNS
8 37 (18.14%) IPsec
9 33 (16.18%) Network Security
10 28 (13.73%) MPLS
11 23 (11.27%) TCP/IP
12 19 (9.31%) SD-WAN
13 17 (8.33%) Cisco ASA
13 17 (8.33%) WLAN
14 15 (7.35%) SSL
14 15 (7.35%) VLAN
14 15 (7.35%) Wi-Fi
15 14 (6.86%) Cisco Nexus
16 13 (6.37%) DHCP
17 12 (5.88%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.96%) Amazon QuickSight
1 4 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (1.96%) MariaDB
2 3 (1.47%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.98%) Power BI
4 1 (0.49%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.49%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.49%) MySQL
4 1 (0.49%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.49%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (6.37%) JIRA
2 9 (4.41%) Git
3 4 (1.96%) Cypress.io
3 4 (1.96%) Snyk
3 4 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (1.47%) GitLab
5 2 (0.98%) Postman
5 2 (0.98%) Robot Framework
5 2 (0.98%) TestRail
6 1 (0.49%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.49%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.49%) Subversion
6 1 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 63 (30.88%) Social Skills
2 40 (19.61%) Finance
3 25 (12.25%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 10 (4.90%) Banking
6 9 (4.41%) Financial Institution
7 8 (3.92%) Mandarin Language
7 8 (3.92%) Telecoms
8 7 (3.43%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.96%) Legal
9 4 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.47%) Retail
10 3 (1.47%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.98%) Aviation
11 2 (0.98%) Billing
11 2 (0.98%) Cantonese Language
11 2 (0.98%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.98%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 51 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 27 (13.24%) Support Engineer
3 20 (9.80%) Senior
4 17 (8.33%) Desktop Support
5 15 (7.35%) Analyst
5 15 (7.35%) Desktop Engineer
6 14 (6.86%) IT Engineer
6 14 (6.86%) IT Support
6 14 (6.86%) Network Specialist
7 11 (5.39%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 9 (4.41%) Azure Engineer
8 9 (4.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (4.41%) Service Analyst
8 9 (4.41%) Windows Engineer
9 8 (3.92%) Lead
9 8 (3.92%) Security Engineer
9 8 (3.92%) Senior Network Engineer
9 8 (3.92%) Service Desk Analyst
10 7 (3.43%) Consultant
10 7 (3.43%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.39%) JSON
2 9 (4.41%) LDAP
3 8 (3.92%) XMPP
4 6 (2.94%) .NET
4 6 (2.94%) NETCONF
5 5 (2.45%) SAML
5 5 (2.45%) YANG
6 4 (1.96%) GraphQL
6 4 (1.96%) Kafka
6 4 (1.96%) XML
7 2 (0.98%) 802.1X
7 2 (0.98%) HTML
7 2 (0.98%) Jinja
7 2 (0.98%) REST
7 2 (0.98%) RESTCONF
7 2 (0.98%) RESTful
7 2 (0.98%) SOAP
7 2 (0.98%) Software Packaging
7 2 (0.98%) YAML
8 1 (0.49%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.78%) PKI
2 20 (9.80%) Video Conferencing
3 16 (7.84%) Data Centre
4 8 (3.92%) Blackberry
4 8 (3.92%) BYOD
4 8 (3.92%) Hedge funds
5 7 (3.43%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.45%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.45%) NHS
8 4 (1.96%) iPad
8 4 (1.96%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.96%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.98%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (0.98%) Fat Client
9 2 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.98%) IoT
9 2 (0.98%) iPhone
9 2 (0.98%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 80 (39.22%) Windows
2 48 (23.53%) Windows 10
3 24 (11.76%) Windows Server
4 23 (11.27%) Windows 7
5 20 (9.80%) Linux
6 14 (6.86%) Mac OS
7 9 (4.41%) Unix
8 8 (3.92%) Android
9 6 (2.94%) Apple iOS
10 4 (1.96%) VMS
10 4 (1.96%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (1.47%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (1.47%) Windows XP
12 2 (0.98%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.49%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.49%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (22.06%) Customer Service
3 32 (15.69%) ITIL
4 24 (11.76%) Migration
5 23 (11.27%) DevOps
6 21 (10.29%) ITSM
7 18 (8.82%) Agile
8 17 (8.33%) Kalman Filter
9 16 (7.84%) Change Management
9 16 (7.84%) Infrastructure as Code
9 16 (7.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 12 (5.88%) Customer Experience
10 12 (5.88%) Information Security
11 11 (5.39%) Cloud Security
11 11 (5.39%) Problem Management
11 11 (5.39%) Service Delivery
12 10 (4.90%) Collaborative Working
12 10 (4.90%) Computer Science
12 10 (4.90%) Network Design
12 10 (4.90%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 24 (11.76%) PowerShell
2 19 (9.31%) Python
3 13 (6.37%) SQL
4 6 (2.94%) C#
4 6 (2.94%) Java
5 4 (1.96%) Go
5 4 (1.96%) PHP
6 3 (1.47%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.47%) Perl
7 2 (0.98%) Bash
8 1 (0.49%) C++
8 1 (0.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (13.73%) Cisco Certification
2 25 (12.25%) CCNP
3 22 (10.78%) Degree
3 22 (10.78%) Security Cleared
4 20 (9.80%) SC Cleared
5 11 (5.39%) CCNA
6 9 (4.41%) CCIE
6 9 (4.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (2.94%) MCSA
8 5 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.96%) MCSE
10 3 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.47%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.47%) MCP
11 2 (0.98%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.98%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 1 (0.49%) BC Cleared
12 1 (0.49%) CCSE
12 1 (0.49%) JNCIA
12 1 (0.49%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (11.76%) SLA
2 8 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.45%) QA
4 2 (0.98%) NCSC
4 2 (0.98%) NIST
4 2 (0.98%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.49%) Data Quality
System Software
1 44 (21.57%) Active Directory
2 19 (9.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (5.88%) Hyper-V
4 10 (4.90%) Firmware
5 9 (4.41%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (2.45%) vSphere
7 4 (1.96%) NFS
7 4 (1.96%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (1.96%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (1.47%) BitLocker
8 3 (1.47%) Docker
8 3 (1.47%) Samba
8 3 (1.47%) Terminal Services
8 3 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (1.47%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.98%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.98%) Squid
Systems Management
1 21 (10.29%) SCCM
2 16 (7.84%) FortiGate
3 13 (6.37%) Terraform
4 12 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (4.90%) Ansible
6 8 (3.92%) Kubernetes
7 5 (2.45%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.96%) Grafana
8 4 (1.96%) Prometheus
9 3 (1.47%) TrustSec
9 3 (1.47%) WSUS
10 2 (0.98%) AirWatch
10 2 (0.98%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.98%) HAProxy
10 2 (0.98%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.98%) Nessus
10 2 (0.98%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.98%) SCOM
10 2 (0.98%) SCVMM
10 2 (0.98%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 81 (39.71%) Cisco
2 72 (35.29%) Microsoft
3 37 (18.14%) Palo Alto
4 26 (12.75%) ServiceNow
5 23 (11.27%) Juniper
5 23 (11.27%) VMware
6 21 (10.29%) Fortinet
7 20 (9.80%) Citrix
8 19 (9.31%) F5
9 10 (4.90%) CheckPoint
10 8 (3.92%) Aruba
10 8 (3.92%) SolarWinds
11 7 (3.43%) Apple
11 7 (3.43%) Infoblox
11 7 (3.43%) Nokia
11 7 (3.43%) TOWER Software
11 7 (3.43%) Zscaler
12 6 (2.94%) Extreme Networks
12 6 (2.94%) HP
12 6 (2.94%) Meraki