VPN Contract Job Trends in Preston

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Preston requiring VPN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing VPN 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Preston 1.96% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 18.18% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £185 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £190 - -
75th Percentile £195 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Lancashire median daily rate £190 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Preston

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 Preston.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 11 5 1
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 10.78% 8.20% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 0
10th Percentile £185 - -
25th Percentile £208 £350 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £309 £438 -
Median % change year-on-year -29.43% - -
75th Percentile £528 £538 -
90th Percentile £632 - -
Lancashire median daily rate £375 £350 £200
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -46.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £27.46 - -
25th Percentile £36.77 - -
Median hourly rate £41.94 £70.16 -
Median % change year-on-year -40.22% - -
75th Percentile £50.02 - -
90th Percentile £64.56 - -
Lancashire median hourly rate £74.26 £47.37 £45.88
% change year-on-year +56.76% +3.25% -11.99%

VPN
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

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

VPN job vacancy trend in Preston

VPN
Daily Rate Trend in Preston

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Preston citing VPN

VPN
Hourly Rate Trend in Preston

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Preston citing VPN

VPN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Preston 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ITSM
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) WSUS
2 1 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) Tanium
1 2 (100.00%) VMware