VPN Contract Job Trends in Liverpool

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Merseyside > Liverpool

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

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 16 26
Rank change year-on-year -7 +10 -6
Contract jobs citing VPN 1 12 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Liverpool 0.68% 6.45% 2.53%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.33% 52.17% 13.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £575 £400
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% +43.75% -13.51%
75th Percentile - - £425
90th Percentile - - -
Merseyside median daily rate £475 £575 £325
% change year-on-year -17.39% +76.92% -24.42%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Liverpool

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 Liverpool.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 30 23 36
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Liverpool 20.27% 12.37% 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 7 17
10th Percentile £148 £228 £220
25th Percentile £170 £273 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £295 £413
Median % change year-on-year +35.59% -28.48% -8.33%
75th Percentile £475 £575 £438
90th Percentile £544 £585 £534
Merseyside median daily rate £158 £295 £400
% change year-on-year -46.61% -26.25% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £18.07 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year - -71.33% -
Merseyside median hourly rate - £18.07 £63.00
% change year-on-year - -71.33% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Liverpool

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in Liverpool

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Daily Rate Trend in Liverpool

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Liverpool citing VPN

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Hourly Rate Trend in Liverpool

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Liverpool citing VPN

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Liverpool 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 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Fintech
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Server Hardening
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Darktrace
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Zscaler