VPN Contracts in Chester

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Chester 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 12 6
Rank change year-on-year -3 -6 +8
Contract jobs citing VPN 5 2 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Chester 7.35% 3.70% 17.65%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 27.78% 20.00% 53.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 8
10th Percentile - £205 £213
25th Percentile - £213 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £225 £313
Median % change year-on-year +166.67% -28.00% +56.25%
75th Percentile - £238 £353
90th Percentile - £245 £363
Cheshire median daily rate £363 £475 £338
% change year-on-year -23.68% +40.74% +84.93%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Chester

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 Chester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 18 10 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 26.47% 18.52% 32.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 18
10th Percentile - - £203
25th Percentile - £199 £266
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £200 £325
Median % change year-on-year +62.70% -38.54% +48.57%
75th Percentile £475 £309 £363
90th Percentile £500 £501 £502
Cheshire median daily rate £425 £475 £489
% change year-on-year -10.53% -2.81% +20.38%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in Chester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Chester

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

Daily rate trend for VPN in Chester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Chester

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

Hourly rate trend for VPN in Chester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Chester 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 4 (80.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Skype
2 1 (20.00%) BGP
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (20.00%) DMZ
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) DWDM
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) Internet
2 1 (20.00%) IPsec
2 1 (20.00%) L2TP
2 1 (20.00%) MPLS
2 1 (20.00%) Multicast
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security
2 1 (20.00%) OSPF
2 1 (20.00%) SSL
2 1 (20.00%) WAN
2 1 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (20.00%) Wireless
General
1 5 (100.00%) Banking
2 3 (60.00%) Investment Banking
2 3 (60.00%) Organisational Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Service Desk Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Service Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Implementation Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Network Implementation Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) 802.1X
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
1 4 (80.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Chat Support
1 4 (80.00%) Customer Service
1 4 (80.00%) ITSM
2 1 (20.00%) Architecture Roadmap
2 1 (20.00%) B2B
2 1 (20.00%) Change Management
2 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Product Management
2 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Perl
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) CCIE
2 1 (20.00%) CCNP
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
2 4 (80.00%) Citrix
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (80.00%) Remedy
3 1 (20.00%) Arista
3 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (20.00%) McAfee
3 1 (20.00%) Splunk