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 27 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 59 78
Rank change year-on-year +1 +19 +23
Contract jobs citing VPN 10 16 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 1.39% 1.81% 1.06%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.99% 17.58% 12.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 13
10th Percentile - £280 £229
25th Percentile - £288 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £235 £300 £375
Median % change year-on-year -21.67% -20.00% -31.82%
75th Percentile £341 £338 £700
90th Percentile £435 £345 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £263 £300 £288
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -28.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £13.87 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £13.87 £22.00
% change year-on-year - -36.95% +16.56%

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 91 91 116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 12.67% 10.31% 8.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 60 95
10th Percentile £235 £298 £263
25th Percentile £415 £420 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £605 £588
90th Percentile £575 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £13.87 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £18.27 £22.00
% change year-on-year - -16.95% +16.56%

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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 27 July 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 27 July 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 0 10 £235 -21.67% 14
VPN
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 7 (70.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon Macie
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Direct Connect
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (10.00%) AWS KMS
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (10.00%) Serverless
3 1 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Firewall
2 2 (20.00%) Network Security
2 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (10.00%) DNS
3 1 (10.00%) LAN
3 1 (10.00%) SSL
3 1 (10.00%) VLAN
3 1 (10.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (10.00%) MySQL
1 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 6 (60.00%) Desktop Support
1 6 (60.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 6 (60.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Engineering Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) NOC Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) CentOS
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Case Management
1 6 (60.00%) Collaborative Working
1 6 (60.00%) Customer Service
1 6 (60.00%) ITIL
1 6 (60.00%) ITSM
1 6 (60.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (20.00%) High Availability
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (10.00%) Database Security
3 1 (10.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (10.00%) Network Load Balancing
3 1 (10.00%) Release Management
3 1 (10.00%) Resource Management
3 1 (10.00%) Server Management
3 1 (10.00%) SIEM
3 1 (10.00%) Software Distribution
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Bash
2 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) Degree
1 6 (60.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (10.00%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (70.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (10.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (10.00%) GDPR
2 1 (10.00%) NIST
2 1 (10.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (70.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (70.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (20.00%) Ansible
2 2 (20.00%) Terraform
3 1 (10.00%) Grafana
3 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (10.00%) Kustomize
3 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (10.00%) Puppet
3 1 (10.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (60.00%) Citrix
2 6 (60.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (10.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco
3 1 (10.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (10.00%) Splunk