VPN Contracts in Manchester

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 63 38 101
Rank change year-on-year -25 +63 +7
Contract jobs citing VPN 16 60 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.73% 3.96% 0.90%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.33% 29.27% 7.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 45 13
10th Percentile £300 £313 £172
25th Percentile £363 £350 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £800 £500
Median % change year-on-year -48.44% +60.00% +175.86%
75th Percentile £488 £850 £550
90th Percentile £546 - -
North West median daily rate £475 £800 £338
% change year-on-year -40.63% +137.04% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £17.72 -
North West median hourly rate - £17.72 -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 98 205 233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 10.58% 13.51% 12.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 158 177
10th Percentile £193 £262 £313
25th Percentile £288 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £456 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.85% -8.75% +7.76%
75th Percentile £491 £750 £575
90th Percentile £582 £850 £668
North West median daily rate £450 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 5
10th Percentile - £14.29 £15.00
25th Percentile - - £18.50
Median hourly rate - £17.72 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year - -14.42% +16.65%
75th Percentile - £100.00 £28.75
90th Percentile - £102.40 £32.50
North West median hourly rate £24.59 £26.75 £31.25
% change year-on-year -8.09% -14.40% +68.92%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for VPN in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for VPN in Manchester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for VPN in Manchester

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Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Bolton - 5 £190 - 4
Wigan - 3 £375 -
VPN
North West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) Azure
1 5 (31.25%) GCP
2 3 (18.75%) Entra ID
3 2 (12.50%) AWS
3 2 (12.50%) Google Workspace
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (56.25%) Firewall
2 8 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 6 (37.50%) DHCP
3 6 (37.50%) DNS
4 5 (31.25%) Network Security
4 5 (31.25%) SD-WAN
4 5 (31.25%) WAN
5 4 (25.00%) LAN
5 4 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (18.75%) MPLS
7 2 (12.50%) BGP
7 2 (12.50%) DWDM
7 2 (12.50%) EIGRP
7 2 (12.50%) Ethernet
7 2 (12.50%) Internet
7 2 (12.50%) OSPF
7 2 (12.50%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (12.50%) Wireless
8 1 (6.25%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (6.25%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
General
1 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (25.00%) French Language
3 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.25%) Law
4 1 (6.25%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) IT Support
1 6 (37.50%) Network Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) IT Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) IT Support Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Support Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Project Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Senior
5 2 (12.50%) Cisco Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Lead
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Cisco Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) IT Manager
6 1 (6.25%) IT Support Manager
6 1 (6.25%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (6.25%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.25%) Security Posture
3 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (43.75%) Windows
2 3 (18.75%) Windows 10
3 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
4 1 (6.25%) Linux
4 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (31.25%) Project Management
3 4 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 4 (25.00%) Customer Service
3 4 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (25.00%) ITSM
3 4 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 4 (25.00%) Service Management
4 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (18.75%) Network Design
4 3 (18.75%) Project Delivery
5 2 (12.50%) High Availability
5 2 (12.50%) Network Architecture
5 2 (12.50%) Privileged Access Management
5 2 (12.50%) RBAC
5 2 (12.50%) User Experience
5 2 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
6 1 (6.25%) Network Monitoring
6 1 (6.25%) Problem Management
6 1 (6.25%) Protective Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
1 1 (6.25%) Perl
1 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
1 1 (6.25%) Python
1 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Degree
2 4 (25.00%) A+ Certification
2 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (18.75%) CCNA
3 3 (18.75%) CCNP
3 3 (18.75%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (12.50%) BitLocker
3 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (12.50%) Terraform
3 1 (6.25%) Ansible
3 1 (6.25%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Microsoft
2 6 (37.50%) Cisco
2 6 (37.50%) Google
3 4 (25.00%) Meraki
4 3 (18.75%) Aruba
4 3 (18.75%) HP
5 2 (12.50%) CheckPoint
5 2 (12.50%) Citrix
5 2 (12.50%) CyberArk
5 2 (12.50%) Zscaler
6 1 (6.25%) Dell
6 1 (6.25%) Fortinet
6 1 (6.25%) Palo Alto
6 1 (6.25%) SolarWinds
6 1 (6.25%) Splunk