VPN Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford 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 48 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing VPN 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 1.41% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.43% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £393 - -
25th Percentile £438 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 - -
75th Percentile £633 - -
90th Percentile £639 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £475 £400 £560
% change year-on-year +18.75% -28.57% +17.89%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 35 11 46
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 12.37% 6.29% 52.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 9 37
10th Percentile £307 £309 £495
25th Percentile £352 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £525 £560
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% -6.25% -10.40%
75th Percentile £488 £788 £593
90th Percentile £580 - £612
Cheshire median daily rate £452 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -11.47% -7.27% +10.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

VPN job vacancy trend in Knutsford

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Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing VPN

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Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VPN in Knutsford over the 6 months to 20 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VPN in Knutsford

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) MPLS
3 1 (25.00%) BGP
3 1 (25.00%) Network Security
3 1 (25.00%) OSPF
3 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (25.00%) VLAN
3 1 (25.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Designer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (50.00%) Observability
1 2 (50.00%) Risk Analysis
1 2 (50.00%) Security Architecture
1 2 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
1 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 1 (25.00%) IT Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Service Design
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CISM
1 2 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (25.00%) CCIE
2 1 (25.00%) CCNP
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) JNCIE
2 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Fluentd
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Cribl.io
1 2 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (50.00%) Splunk
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) F5
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft