VPN Contracts in Yorkshire

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
England > Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 96 103
Rank change year-on-year +21 +7 -19
Contract jobs citing VPN 26 26 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.56% 1.17% 1.48%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.76% 12.04% 12.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 22 28
10th Percentile £183 £130 £174
25th Percentile £275 £156 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £350 £400
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £622 £675 £491
90th Percentile £644 £700 £675
England median daily rate £430 £475 £463
% change year-on-year -9.47% +2.70% +12.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 7
10th Percentile - - £16.00
25th Percentile - - £16.19
Median hourly rate £13.87 £22.00 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year -36.95% +31.34% -16.25%
75th Percentile - - £19.44
90th Percentile - - £21.20
England median hourly rate £16.56 £22.00 £20.26
% change year-on-year -24.75% +8.62% +3.87%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 189 216 308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 11.37% 9.72% 11.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 140 234
10th Percentile £200 £152 £185
25th Percentile £310 £286 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% +11.76% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £545
90th Percentile £630 £700 £638
England median daily rate £493 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.19% +5.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 38 11
10th Percentile £12.75 - £16.00
25th Percentile £13.87 £9.80 £16.19
Median hourly rate £18.27 £10.63 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year +71.87% -39.74% +0.80%
75th Percentile £25.83 - £19.44
90th Percentile - - £22.67
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year +122.22% -24.72% +1.21%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing VPN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for VPN in Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VPN in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for VPN in Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VPN in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VPN in Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VPN in Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for VPN in Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 21 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
South Yorkshire -7 11 £625 -7.41% 6
West Yorkshire +20 5 £300 -48.94% 13
East Yorkshire +2 4 £300 +96.72%
North Yorkshire -6 3 £185 +32.14% 9
Humberside - 3 £300 -
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 (34.62%) Confluence
2 7 (26.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (26.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (34.62%) AWS
1 9 (34.62%) Azure
1 9 (34.62%) GCP
1 9 (34.62%) GitHub
1 9 (34.62%) Kong
2 8 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (23.08%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 16 (61.54%) Firewall
2 12 (46.15%) TCP/IP
3 9 (34.62%) DNS
3 9 (34.62%) HTTP
4 3 (11.54%) BIG-IP
4 3 (11.54%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 3 (11.54%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (11.54%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (34.62%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 9 (34.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 9 (34.62%) CircleCI
1 9 (34.62%) Git
1 9 (34.62%) GitLab
1 9 (34.62%) Jenkins
1 9 (34.62%) JIRA
1 9 (34.62%) Travis CI
General
1 18 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 9 (34.62%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (38.46%) IT Support
2 7 (26.92%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
2 7 (26.92%) 3rd Line Support
3 6 (23.08%) Automation Engineer
3 6 (23.08%) DevOps Automation Engineer
3 6 (23.08%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Security Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Support Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support
5 2 (7.69%) Help Desk Support
5 2 (7.69%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Linux Support
5 2 (7.69%) Linux Support Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Windows Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Windows Support Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) IT Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (34.62%) Elastic Stack
1 9 (34.62%) JSON
1 9 (34.62%) XML
1 9 (34.62%) YAML
2 2 (7.69%) XMPP
3 1 (3.85%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 9 (34.62%) Data Structures
2 2 (7.69%) BYOD
2 2 (7.69%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 17 (65.38%) Windows
2 13 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 4 (15.38%) Linux
3 4 (15.38%) Windows 10
4 2 (7.69%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (42.31%) Customer Service
2 9 (34.62%) Agile
2 9 (34.62%) API Integration
2 9 (34.62%) CI/CD
2 9 (34.62%) Collaborative Working
2 9 (34.62%) Containerisation
2 9 (34.62%) Continuous Deployment
2 9 (34.62%) Continuous Integration
2 9 (34.62%) DevOps
2 9 (34.62%) DevSecOps
2 9 (34.62%) Infrastructure as Code
2 9 (34.62%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (34.62%) Project Management
2 9 (34.62%) Scrum
2 9 (34.62%) Secure Coding
2 9 (34.62%) Stakeholder Management
2 9 (34.62%) Task Automation
2 9 (34.62%) Use Case
2 9 (34.62%) Workflow
3 7 (26.92%) Server Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 9 (34.62%) Bash
1 9 (34.62%) PowerShell
1 9 (34.62%) Python
2 3 (11.54%) ActionScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (34.62%) QA
System Software
1 13 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 9 (34.62%) Docker
3 2 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (7.69%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 9 (34.62%) Ansible
1 9 (34.62%) Docker Swarm
1 9 (34.62%) Grafana
1 9 (34.62%) Kibana
1 9 (34.62%) Kubernetes
1 9 (34.62%) logstash
1 9 (34.62%) Progress Chef
1 9 (34.62%) Prometheus
1 9 (34.62%) Puppet
1 9 (34.62%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (34.62%) Microsoft
1 9 (34.62%) Splunk
2 3 (11.54%) F5
2 3 (11.54%) VMware
3 2 (7.69%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.85%) Cisco