VPN Contract Job Trends in Cumbria

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
North West > Cumbria

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cumbria requiring VPN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 26 31
Rank change year-on-year +9 +5 -
Contract jobs citing VPN 4 8 17
As % of all contract jobs in Cumbria 3.60% 3.59% 8.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.29% 13.11% 15.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 16
10th Percentile £401 - £461
25th Percentile £401 £430 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £450 £493
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% -8.82% -
75th Percentile £406 £476 £501
90th Percentile £408 £498 £581
North West median daily rate £409 £475 £465
% change year-on-year -13.89% +2.15% +3.91%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cumbria

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 Cumbria.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 28 61 108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 25.23% 27.35% 51.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 22 89
10th Percentile £411 £426 £450
25th Percentile £447 £432 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £526 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.24% -8.48% +318.18%
75th Percentile £551 £587 £627
90th Percentile £579 £686 £650
North West median daily rate £450 £498 £493
% change year-on-year -9.55% +0.91% +4.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £48.56 -
North West median hourly rate £19.00 £48.56 £16.68
% change year-on-year -60.87% +191.13% -16.10%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

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

VPN job vacancy trend in Cumbria

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Daily Rate Trend in Cumbria

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cumbria citing VPN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cumbria citing VPN

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Hourly Rate Trend in Cumbria

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cumbria citing VPN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cumbria citing VPN

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Contract Job Locations in Cumbria

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the Cumbria region over the 6 months to 19 October 2025. 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
Barrow-in-Furness +4 4 £403 -10.40% 3
VPN
North West

VPN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cumbria 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