VPN Contract Job Trends in Warrington

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Cheshire > Warrington

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Warrington requiring VPN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 18 14
Rank change year-on-year -6 -4 +13
Contract jobs citing VPN 5 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Warrington 3.40% 1.54% 3.33%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 23.81% 7.69% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £152 - -
25th Percentile £155 £181 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £188 £400
Median % change year-on-year +110.27% -53.13% -
75th Percentile £626 £194 £413
90th Percentile £626 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £525 £475 £438
% change year-on-year +10.53% +8.57% +25.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Warrington

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 Warrington.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 21 13 10
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Warrington 14.29% 20.00% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 6
10th Percentile £156 £162 £374
25th Percentile £200 £214 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £325 £425
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -23.53% -2.86%
75th Percentile £595 £343 £525
90th Percentile £629 £369 £581
Cheshire median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -13.64%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Warrington

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

VPN job vacancy trend in Warrington

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Daily Rate Trend in Warrington

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Warrington citing VPN

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Daily Rate Histogram in Warrington

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VPN in Warrington over the 6 months to 26 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VPN in Warrington

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Hourly Rate Trend in Warrington

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Warrington citing VPN

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Warrington 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) BGP
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) LAN
1 2 (40.00%) MPLS
1 2 (40.00%) OSPF
1 2 (40.00%) SSL
1 2 (40.00%) VLAN
1 2 (40.00%) WAN
1 2 (40.00%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (40.00%) Wireshark
General
1 5 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Legal
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Service Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Service Desk Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Service Management Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (40.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 5 (100.00%) ITIL
1 5 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Customer Service
2 3 (60.00%) ITSM
3 2 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (40.00%) Event Correlation
3 2 (40.00%) High Availability
3 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (40.00%) IT Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (40.00%) Network Design
3 2 (40.00%) Network Management
3 2 (40.00%) Principle of Least Privilege
3 2 (40.00%) Proactive Monitoring
3 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Risk Register
3 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 2 (40.00%) CCNP
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (40.00%) Degree
3 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) SLA
2 2 (40.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (40.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Remedy
1 3 (60.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) F5
2 2 (40.00%) Forcepoint
2 2 (40.00%) Fortinet
2 2 (40.00%) HP
2 2 (40.00%) Juniper
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft