VPN Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring VPN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing VPN 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.14% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.96% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median daily rate £463 £550 £300
% change year-on-year -15.91% +83.33% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 51 13 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 7.08% 5.68% 16.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 10 13
10th Percentile £181 £146 £413
25th Percentile £250 £228 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £340 £585
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -41.88% +46.25%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £644
90th Percentile £643 £528 £788
North East median daily rate £425 £340 £568
% change year-on-year +25.00% -40.09% +41.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £22.93 - -
25th Percentile £25.33 - -
Median hourly rate £26.66 - -
75th Percentile £32.50 - -
90th Percentile £43.00 - -
North East median hourly rate £26.66 - £43.00
% change year-on-year - - +145.71%

VPN
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

VPN job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

VPN
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing VPN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing VPN

VPN
Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing VPN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing VPN

VPN
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 12 September 2026. 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
Sunderland - 1 £425 - 1
VPN
North East

VPN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Route 53
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 1 (100.00%) Security Hardening
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft