VPN Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring VPN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 71 72
Rank change year-on-year -10 +1 +45
Contract jobs citing VPN 8 14 24
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.74% 1.22% 1.48%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.20% 11.29% 12.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 9
10th Percentile £171 £353 £214
25th Percentile £231 £441 £233
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £513 £350
Median % change year-on-year -24.88% +46.43% +79.49%
75th Percentile £467 £564 £438
90th Percentile £600 £601 £453
North West median daily rate £405 £475 £465
% change year-on-year -14.74% +2.15% +8.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 7
10th Percentile - - £15.72
25th Percentile - £46.25 £15.74
Median hourly rate - £47.50 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year - +187.88% -
75th Percentile - £48.75 £17.34
90th Percentile - - £29.21
North West median hourly rate - £47.50 £16.50
% change year-on-year - +187.88% +102.08%

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 87 124 198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 8.10% 10.77% 12.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 82 142
10th Percentile £170 £319 £301
25th Percentile £307 £400 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £441 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.07% +6.67% -3.74%
75th Percentile £569 £565 £554
90th Percentile £682 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £454 £495 £493
% change year-on-year -8.28% +0.41% +6.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 9
10th Percentile - £36.13 £15.72
25th Percentile £18.50 £37.81 £15.75
Median hourly rate £19.50 £41.25 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -52.73% +150.00% -0.39%
75th Percentile £20.00 £45.31 £46.88
90th Percentile - £47.38 £47.50
North West median hourly rate £20.00 £48.56 £16.86
% change year-on-year -58.81% +188.02% -15.19%

VPN
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

VPN job vacancy trend in Manchester

VPN
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing VPN

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VPN in Manchester over the 6 months to 29 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VPN in Manchester

VPN
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing VPN

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) OneDrive
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Firewall
2 2 (25.00%) Network Security
2 2 (25.00%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (25.00%) SD-WAN
2 2 (25.00%) SSL
2 2 (25.00%) WAN
2 2 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (12.50%) 802.11
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (12.50%) DNS
3 1 (12.50%) DWDM
3 1 (12.50%) Ethernet
3 1 (12.50%) Internet
3 1 (12.50%) LAN
3 1 (12.50%) MPLS
3 1 (12.50%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
3 1 (12.50%) WebEx
3 1 (12.50%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
1 1 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Italian Language
3 1 (12.50%) Polish Language
3 1 (12.50%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Network Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Senior
1 3 (37.50%) Senior Network Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Support Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) IT Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) IT Support
2 2 (25.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) 1st Line Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) 1st Line Support
3 1 (12.50%) 1st Line Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 1 (12.50%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Cisco Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) 802.1X
1 1 (12.50%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) High Availability
1 2 (25.00%) ITIL
1 2 (25.00%) Migration
1 2 (25.00%) Network Architecture
1 2 (25.00%) Re-Platforming
1 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
2 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps
2 1 (12.50%) Incident Response
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (12.50%) ITSM
2 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
2 1 (12.50%) Network Design
2 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
2 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) CCIE
1 1 (12.50%) CCNP
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Ansible
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (37.50%) Cisco
3 2 (25.00%) Blue Prism
3 2 (25.00%) Citrix
3 2 (25.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (12.50%) Apple
4 1 (12.50%) Aruba
4 1 (12.50%) CheckPoint
4 1 (12.50%) F5
4 1 (12.50%) HP
4 1 (12.50%) Meraki
4 1 (12.50%) Zscaler