VPN Contracts in Leeds

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 49 56 87
Rank change year-on-year +7 +31 +14
Contract jobs citing VPN 11 7 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 2.37% 0.88% 0.68%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.86% 10.45% 10.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 9
10th Percentile £223 - £353
25th Percentile - £275 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £235 £325 £550
Median % change year-on-year -27.69% -40.91% -15.38%
75th Percentile £248 £550 £700
90th Percentile £338 £565 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £235 £325 £550
% change year-on-year -27.69% -40.91% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £13.87 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £13.87 -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 74 67 84
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 15.91% 8.39% 6.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 56 68
10th Percentile £221 £275 £317
25th Percentile £235 £356 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £700
90th Percentile £738 £644 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £465 £500
% change year-on-year +2.15% -7.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40.50 - -
Median hourly rate £41.00 £13.87 -
Median % change year-on-year +195.60% - -
75th Percentile £41.50 £16.07 -
90th Percentile - £17.39 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £41.00 £13.87 £32.50
% change year-on-year +195.60% -57.32% +84.24%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in Leeds

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for VPN in Leeds

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Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VPN in Leeds over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VPN in Leeds

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for VPN in Leeds

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 10 (90.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (45.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (81.82%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (45.45%) OneDrive
3 2 (18.18%) Azure
4 1 (9.09%) AWS
4 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
4 1 (9.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (63.64%) VLAN
2 6 (54.55%) DNS
2 6 (54.55%) LAN
2 6 (54.55%) WAN
2 6 (54.55%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (45.45%) DHCP
3 5 (45.45%) VoIP
4 2 (18.18%) Firewall
5 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) MySQL
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) Support Engineer
2 7 (63.64%) Desktop Engineer
2 7 (63.64%) Desktop Support
2 7 (63.64%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
3 1 (9.09%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (9.09%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Customer Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Customer Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Engineering Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) IT Manager
3 1 (9.09%) IT Support
3 1 (9.09%) IT Support Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Desktop Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Desktop Support
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Support Manager
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Windows
1 5 (45.45%) Windows 10
2 1 (9.09%) CentOS
2 1 (9.09%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Customer Service
2 4 (36.36%) Case Management
2 4 (36.36%) Collaborative Working
2 4 (36.36%) ITIL
2 4 (36.36%) ITSM
2 4 (36.36%) Service Delivery
3 1 (9.09%) Conflict Resolution
3 1 (9.09%) High Availability
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (9.09%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Bash
1 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
1 1 (9.09%) Python
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Degree
1 4 (36.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (90.91%) Active Directory
2 5 (45.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) AppManager
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (45.45%) SCCM
2 1 (9.09%) Ansible
2 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (90.91%) Microsoft
2 5 (45.45%) Ivanti
2 5 (45.45%) VMware
3 4 (36.36%) Citrix
3 4 (36.36%) ServiceNow
4 2 (18.18%) Cisco
5 1 (9.09%) Meraki
5 1 (9.09%) Red Hat