VPN Contracts in West Yorkshire

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire requiring VPN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VPN over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 70 97
Rank change year-on-year +19 +27 +7
Contract jobs citing VPN 11 7 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 2.01% 0.70% 0.61%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.94% 7.45% 9.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 10
10th Percentile £223 - £358
25th Percentile - £275 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £235 £325 £550
Median % change year-on-year -27.69% -40.91% +7.32%
75th Percentile £248 £550 £700
90th Percentile £338 £565 £705
Yorkshire median daily rate £235 £300 £413
% change year-on-year -21.67% -27.27% +3.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £13.87 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £13.87 £22.00
% change year-on-year - -36.95% +17.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 85 94 107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 15.51% 9.41% 6.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 69 85
10th Percentile £222 £273 £315
25th Percentile £239 £319 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £465 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -7.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £675
90th Percentile £738 £640 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £403 £459 £475
% change year-on-year -12.25% -3.37% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40.50 £12.75 £31.25
Median hourly rate £41.00 £13.87 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +195.60% -57.32% +84.24%
75th Percentile £41.50 £14.25 £33.75
90th Percentile - £16.66 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £41.00 £18.27 £10.63
% change year-on-year +124.41% +71.87% -41.58%

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Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Job postings citing VPN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for VPN in West Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VPN in West Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for VPN in West Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VPN in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VPN in West Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VPN in West Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for VPN in West Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Leeds +7 11 £235 -27.69% 14
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Yorkshire

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 10 (90.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (45.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (81.82%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (45.45%) OneDrive
3 2 (18.18%) Azure
4 1 (9.09%) AWS
4 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
4 1 (9.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (63.64%) VLAN
2 6 (54.55%) DNS
2 6 (54.55%) LAN
2 6 (54.55%) WAN
2 6 (54.55%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (45.45%) DHCP
3 5 (45.45%) VoIP
4 2 (18.18%) Firewall
5 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) MySQL
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) Support Engineer
2 7 (63.64%) Desktop Engineer
2 7 (63.64%) Desktop Support
2 7 (63.64%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
3 1 (9.09%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (9.09%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Customer Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Customer Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Engineering Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) IT Manager
3 1 (9.09%) IT Support
3 1 (9.09%) IT Support Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Desktop Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Desktop Support
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Support Manager
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Windows
1 5 (45.45%) Windows 10
2 1 (9.09%) CentOS
2 1 (9.09%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Customer Service
2 4 (36.36%) Case Management
2 4 (36.36%) Collaborative Working
2 4 (36.36%) ITIL
2 4 (36.36%) ITSM
2 4 (36.36%) Service Delivery
3 1 (9.09%) Conflict Resolution
3 1 (9.09%) High Availability
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (9.09%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Bash
1 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
1 1 (9.09%) Python
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Degree
1 4 (36.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (90.91%) Active Directory
2 5 (45.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) AppManager
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (45.45%) SCCM
2 1 (9.09%) Ansible
2 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (90.91%) Microsoft
2 5 (45.45%) Ivanti
2 5 (45.45%) VMware
3 4 (36.36%) Citrix
3 4 (36.36%) ServiceNow
4 2 (18.18%) Cisco
5 1 (9.09%) Meraki
5 1 (9.09%) Red Hat