VPN Contract Job Trends in Barrow-in-Furness

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Cumbria > Barrow-in-Furness

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Barrow-in-Furness requiring VPN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 19 26
Rank change year-on-year +3 +7 -
Contract jobs citing VPN 4 8 15
As % of all contract jobs in Barrow-in-Furness 4.55% 5.06% 12.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.39% 15.09% 17.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 15
10th Percentile £401 - £466
25th Percentile £401 £430 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £450 £493
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% -8.82% -
75th Percentile £406 £476 £500
90th Percentile £408 £498 £527
Cumbria median daily rate £403 £450 £493
% change year-on-year -10.40% -8.82% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Barrow-in-Furness

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 Barrow-in-Furness.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 23 53 84
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Barrow-in-Furness 26.14% 33.54% 68.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 18 79
10th Percentile £408 £430 £462
25th Percentile £443 £442 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £540 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.24% -6.09% +36.90%
75th Percentile £557 £587 £627
90th Percentile £590 £677 £653
Cumbria median daily rate £525 £526 £575
% change year-on-year -0.24% -8.48% +318.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £48.56 -
Cumbria median hourly rate - £48.56 -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Barrow-in-Furness

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VPN relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Barrow-in-Furness.

VPN job vacancy trend in Barrow-in-Furness

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Daily Rate Trend in Barrow-in-Furness

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Barrow-in-Furness citing VPN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Barrow-in-Furness citing VPN

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Barrow-in-Furness by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) SNMP
2 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 4 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 4 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 4 (100.00%) Server Building
2 3 (75.00%) User Experience
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Bash
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) Juniper
1 4 (100.00%) VMware