VPN Contracts in the North of England

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 144 131
Rank change year-on-year +52 -13 +1
Contract jobs citing VPN 97 70 118
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.07% 1.23% 1.65%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.08% 10.61% 13.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 48 81
10th Percentile £275 £138 £158
25th Percentile £313 £170 £173
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £325 £400
Median % change year-on-year +84.62% -18.75% +18.52%
75th Percentile £850 £478 £475
90th Percentile - £691 £610
England median daily rate £439 £450 £463
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.70% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 8
10th Percentile - - £16.00
25th Percentile - - £16.28
Median hourly rate £13.87 £22.00 £18.88
Median % change year-on-year -36.95% +16.56% -3.21%
75th Percentile £15.80 - £23.19
90th Percentile £16.95 - £34.25
England median hourly rate £16.93 £21.61 £22.00
% change year-on-year -21.66% -1.77% +15.79%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

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 the North of England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 568 660 876
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 12.10% 11.56% 12.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 395 450 608
10th Percentile £200 £205 £180
25th Percentile £313 £325 £312
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £607 £574 £550
90th Percentile £750 £675 £638
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 48 27
10th Percentile £13.31 - £11.01
25th Percentile £18.89 £9.80 £16.00
Median hourly rate £24.87 £10.63 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +133.96% -40.94% +2.86%
75th Percentile £45.88 £15.15 £23.26
90th Percentile £48.75 £34.13 £48.82
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £23.91
% change year-on-year +116.22% -22.63% -4.36%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing VPN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for VPN in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VPN in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for VPN in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VPN in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VPN in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VPN in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for VPN in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the North of England region over the 6 months to 8 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
North West +54 75 £800 +146.15% 30
Yorkshire +22 21 £300 -14.29% 18
North East +15 1 £600 +174.29% 9
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 10 (10.31%) SharePoint
2 9 (9.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (6.19%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (5.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.03%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 24 (24.74%) Azure
2 22 (22.68%) AWS
3 14 (14.43%) GCP
3 14 (14.43%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (6.19%) Apigee
4 6 (6.19%) GitHub
4 6 (6.19%) Kong
5 3 (3.09%) AWS Direct Connect
5 3 (3.09%) OneDrive
5 3 (3.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (2.06%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.03%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 68 (70.10%) Firewall
2 20 (20.62%) WAN
3 19 (19.59%) LAN
4 14 (14.43%) OSPF
5 13 (13.40%) TCP/IP
6 11 (11.34%) DNS
6 11 (11.34%) Wireless
7 10 (10.31%) Ethernet
7 10 (10.31%) VLAN
7 10 (10.31%) Wireless Security
8 6 (6.19%) HTTP
9 5 (5.15%) DHCP
9 5 (5.15%) MPLS
10 4 (4.12%) BGP
10 4 (4.12%) Network Security
10 4 (4.12%) Value-Added Service
10 4 (4.12%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (4.12%) Wireshark
11 3 (3.09%) VoIP
12 2 (2.06%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.19%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 6 (6.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 6 (6.19%) CircleCI
1 6 (6.19%) Git
1 6 (6.19%) GitLab
1 6 (6.19%) Jenkins
1 6 (6.19%) JIRA
1 6 (6.19%) Travis CI
General
1 29 (29.90%) Social Skills
2 10 (10.31%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (8.25%) Legal
4 6 (6.19%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.09%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.03%) Banking
6 1 (1.03%) Finance
6 1 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.03%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.03%) Military
6 1 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 47 (48.45%) Architect
2 38 (39.18%) Technical Architect
3 30 (30.93%) Lead
3 30 (30.93%) Lead Architect
3 30 (30.93%) Technical Leader
4 21 (21.65%) Network Engineer
5 7 (7.22%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
5 7 (7.22%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 7 (7.22%) 3rd Line Support
5 7 (7.22%) Cloud Architect
5 7 (7.22%) IT Support
6 6 (6.19%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 5 (5.15%) Digital Architect
7 5 (5.15%) Digital Technical Architect
7 5 (5.15%) Support Engineer
8 4 (4.12%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
8 4 (4.12%) Automation Engineer
8 4 (4.12%) DevOps Automation Engineer
8 4 (4.12%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.12%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (41.24%) Node.js
2 6 (6.19%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (6.19%) JSON
2 6 (6.19%) XML
2 6 (6.19%) YAML
3 2 (2.06%) LDAP
3 2 (2.06%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 30 (30.93%) Public Cloud
2 9 (9.28%) Product Ownership
3 6 (6.19%) Clustering
3 6 (6.19%) Data Structures
4 5 (5.15%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.09%) Driving Licence
6 2 (2.06%) BYOD
6 2 (2.06%) iPad
6 2 (2.06%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.03%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.03%) PKI
7 1 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.03%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 72 (74.23%) Windows
2 62 (63.92%) Windows Server
3 43 (44.33%) Android
3 43 (44.33%) Apple iOS
4 11 (11.34%) Linux
5 7 (7.22%) Windows 10
6 4 (4.12%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (3.09%) Mac OS
7 3 (3.09%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (2.06%) Windows 7
8 2 (2.06%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (1.03%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (47.42%) CI/CD
1 46 (47.42%) Mobile Device Management
2 43 (44.33%) Risk Management
2 43 (44.33%) Security Architecture
3 40 (41.24%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 40 (41.24%) Threat Intelligence
3 40 (41.24%) Zero Trust
4 37 (38.14%) Agile
4 37 (38.14%) DevOps
5 28 (28.87%) Design Patterns
6 21 (21.65%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (18.56%) Customer Service
8 13 (13.40%) Roadmaps
9 12 (12.37%) Microservices
9 12 (12.37%) Product Strategy
9 12 (12.37%) Strategic Roadmap
10 11 (11.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 10 (10.31%) Containerisation
11 10 (10.31%) Technical Leadership
12 9 (9.28%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 11 (11.34%) PowerShell
2 7 (7.22%) Bash
2 7 (7.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 37 (38.14%) Security Cleared
2 35 (36.08%) SC Cleared
3 12 (12.37%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (8.25%) CCNA
4 8 (8.25%) Degree
5 5 (5.15%) CCNP
5 5 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (4.12%) CCIE
6 4 (4.12%) VCAP
7 1 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.03%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.19%) QA
2 1 (1.03%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.03%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (17.53%) Active Directory
2 13 (13.40%) Hyper-V
2 13 (13.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (6.19%) Docker
4 2 (2.06%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (1.03%) BitLocker
5 1 (1.03%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (1.03%) Terminal Services
5 1 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (6.19%) Ansible
1 6 (6.19%) Docker Swarm
1 6 (6.19%) Grafana
1 6 (6.19%) Kibana
1 6 (6.19%) Kubernetes
1 6 (6.19%) logstash
1 6 (6.19%) Progress Chef
1 6 (6.19%) Prometheus
1 6 (6.19%) Puppet
1 6 (6.19%) Terraform
2 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (3.09%) Autotask
3 3 (3.09%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (3.09%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (3.09%) SCCM
4 2 (2.06%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.03%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.03%) vMotion
Vendors
1 16 (16.49%) VMware
2 13 (13.40%) Microsoft
3 9 (9.28%) Google
4 8 (8.25%) Apple
5 6 (6.19%) Splunk
6 4 (4.12%) Cisco
6 4 (4.12%) LogicMonitor
6 4 (4.12%) SolarWinds
7 3 (3.09%) Datto
7 3 (3.09%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.06%) Autodesk
8 2 (2.06%) Dell
8 2 (2.06%) Wyse
9 1 (1.03%) Blue Coat
9 1 (1.03%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.03%) Citrix
9 1 (1.03%) HP
9 1 (1.03%) Juniper
9 1 (1.03%) Radianz
9 1 (1.03%) Symantec