VPN Contracts in the North of England

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for VPN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VPN over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 138 134
Rank change year-on-year +49 -4 -5
Contract jobs citing VPN 99 79 118
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.08% 1.35% 1.63%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.45% 11.55% 13.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 56 79
10th Percentile £275 £140 £155
25th Percentile £313 £194 £173
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £602 £338 £360
Median % change year-on-year +78.37% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £850 £541 £469
90th Percentile - £681 £613
England median daily rate £438 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -2.78% - +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 8
10th Percentile - - £16.00
25th Percentile £13.87 - £16.28
Median hourly rate £17.72 £22.00 £18.88
Median % change year-on-year -19.45% +16.56% -3.21%
75th Percentile - - £23.19
90th Percentile - - £34.25
England median hourly rate £17.00 £21.61 £22.00
% change year-on-year -21.33% -1.77% +15.79%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

VPN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 602 684 873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 12.64% 11.72% 12.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 422 472 605
10th Percentile £200 £201 £181
25th Percentile £313 £325 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +8.33% +17.19%
75th Percentile £610 £571 £550
90th Percentile £748 £675 £638
England median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 48 28
10th Percentile £13.42 - £11.10
25th Percentile £17.72 £9.80 £16.00
Median hourly rate £24.87 £10.63 £17.82
Median % change year-on-year +133.96% -40.35% -6.21%
75th Percentile £45.88 £15.15 £23.13
90th Percentile £48.75 £34.13 £47.17
England median hourly rate £39.25 £18.88 £23.91
% change year-on-year +107.95% -21.06% -4.36%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing VPN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for VPN in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VPN in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for VPN in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VPN in the North of England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VPN in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VPN in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for VPN in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the North of England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
North West +40 76 £800 +137.04% 30
Yorkshire +14 22 £300 -27.27% 16
North East +17 1 £600 +54.84% 6
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 9 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
1 9 (9.09%) SharePoint
2 6 (6.06%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (6.06%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.01%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 26 (26.26%) Azure
2 25 (25.25%) AWS
3 15 (15.15%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (13.13%) GCP
5 8 (8.08%) GitHub
6 6 (6.06%) Apigee
6 6 (6.06%) Kong
7 4 (4.04%) OneDrive
8 3 (3.03%) AWS Direct Connect
8 3 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (2.02%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.01%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 70 (70.71%) Firewall
2 20 (20.20%) LAN
2 20 (20.20%) WAN
3 13 (13.13%) OSPF
4 12 (12.12%) DNS
4 12 (12.12%) TCP/IP
4 12 (12.12%) Wireless
5 10 (10.10%) Ethernet
5 10 (10.10%) VLAN
5 10 (10.10%) Wireless Security
6 6 (6.06%) DHCP
6 6 (6.06%) HTTP
7 5 (5.05%) DMZ
8 4 (4.04%) MPLS
8 4 (4.04%) Network Security
9 3 (3.03%) BGP
9 3 (3.03%) Value-Added Service
9 3 (3.03%) VoIP
9 3 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (3.03%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.06%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 8 (8.08%) JIRA
2 6 (6.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 6 (6.06%) CircleCI
2 6 (6.06%) Git
2 6 (6.06%) GitLab
2 6 (6.06%) Jenkins
2 6 (6.06%) Travis CI
General
1 34 (34.34%) Social Skills
2 13 (13.13%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (8.08%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.06%) Legal
5 3 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.01%) Banking
6 1 (1.01%) Finance
6 1 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.01%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.01%) Military
6 1 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.01%) Retail
Job Titles
1 46 (46.46%) Architect
2 38 (38.38%) Technical Architect
3 31 (31.31%) Lead
4 30 (30.30%) Lead Architect
4 30 (30.30%) Technical Leader
5 20 (20.20%) Network Engineer
6 7 (7.07%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 7 (7.07%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
6 7 (7.07%) 3rd Line Support
6 7 (7.07%) Cloud Architect
6 7 (7.07%) IT Support
7 6 (6.06%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 6 (6.06%) Support Engineer
8 5 (5.05%) Digital Architect
8 5 (5.05%) Digital Technical Architect
9 4 (4.04%) 2nd Line Support
9 4 (4.04%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 4 (4.04%) Automation Engineer
9 4 (4.04%) DevOps Automation Engineer
9 4 (4.04%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (40.40%) Node.js
2 6 (6.06%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (6.06%) JSON
2 6 (6.06%) XML
2 6 (6.06%) YAML
3 3 (3.03%) LDAP
4 2 (2.02%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 30 (30.30%) Public Cloud
2 9 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 6 (6.06%) Clustering
3 6 (6.06%) Data Structures
4 5 (5.05%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.03%) Driving Licence
6 2 (2.02%) BYOD
6 2 (2.02%) PKI
6 2 (2.02%) Private Cloud
6 2 (2.02%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.01%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.01%) iPad
7 1 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 76 (76.77%) Windows
2 62 (62.63%) Windows Server
3 43 (43.43%) Android
3 43 (43.43%) Apple iOS
4 11 (11.11%) Linux
5 8 (8.08%) Windows 10
6 4 (4.04%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (3.03%) Mac OS
7 3 (3.03%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (2.02%) Windows 7
9 1 (1.01%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (1.01%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (48.48%) CI/CD
2 46 (46.46%) Mobile Device Management
3 45 (45.45%) Risk Management
4 43 (43.43%) Security Architecture
5 41 (41.41%) Zero Trust
6 40 (40.40%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 40 (40.40%) Threat Intelligence
7 39 (39.39%) Agile
8 37 (37.37%) DevOps
9 28 (28.28%) Design Patterns
10 22 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
11 20 (20.20%) Customer Service
12 13 (13.13%) Roadmaps
13 12 (12.12%) Microservices
13 12 (12.12%) Product Strategy
13 12 (12.12%) Strategic Roadmap
13 12 (12.12%) Technical Leadership
14 11 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 10 (10.10%) Containerisation
15 10 (10.10%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 11 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 7 (7.07%) Bash
2 7 (7.07%) Python
Qualifications
1 39 (39.39%) Security Cleared
2 37 (37.37%) SC Cleared
3 10 (10.10%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (7.07%) CCNA
4 7 (7.07%) Degree
5 4 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.03%) CCIE
6 3 (3.03%) CCNP
6 3 (3.03%) VCAP
7 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.01%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.06%) QA
2 1 (1.01%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 18 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 14 (14.14%) Hyper-V
2 14 (14.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (6.06%) Docker
4 2 (2.02%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (1.01%) BitLocker
5 1 (1.01%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (1.01%) Terminal Services
5 1 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (7.07%) Ansible
1 7 (7.07%) Terraform
2 6 (6.06%) Docker Swarm
2 6 (6.06%) Grafana
2 6 (6.06%) Kibana
2 6 (6.06%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.06%) logstash
2 6 (6.06%) Progress Chef
2 6 (6.06%) Prometheus
2 6 (6.06%) Puppet
3 4 (4.04%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (3.03%) Autotask
4 3 (3.03%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (3.03%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (3.03%) SCCM
5 1 (1.01%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.01%) vMotion
Vendors
1 18 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 17 (17.17%) VMware
3 9 (9.09%) Google
4 8 (8.08%) Apple
5 6 (6.06%) Splunk
6 5 (5.05%) Cisco
7 3 (3.03%) Datto
7 3 (3.03%) LogicMonitor
7 3 (3.03%) ServiceNow
7 3 (3.03%) SolarWinds
8 2 (2.02%) Fortinet
8 2 (2.02%) Meraki
9 1 (1.01%) Blue Coat
9 1 (1.01%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.01%) Citrix
9 1 (1.01%) Dell
9 1 (1.01%) HP
9 1 (1.01%) Infoblox
9 1 (1.01%) Veeam
9 1 (1.01%) Wyse