VPN Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring VPN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 92 62
Rank change year-on-year -29 -30 +19
Contract jobs citing VPN 36 21 41
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.26% 1.38% 2.66%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.04% 10.77% 23.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 16 17
10th Percentile £361 £206 £178
25th Percentile £406 - £180
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £235 £350
Median % change year-on-year +110.64% -32.86% +16.67%
75th Percentile £500 £446 £625
90th Percentile £556 £619 £645
England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £28.00 - £13.87
75th Percentile - - £15.52
90th Percentile - - £16.50
England median hourly rate £24.28 £50.00 £16.19
% change year-on-year -51.45% +208.83% -23.31%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 326 195 172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 11.40% 12.78% 11.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 108 104
10th Percentile £318 £234 £200
25th Percentile £406 £357 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £466 £520
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% -10.48% +15.56%
75th Percentile £566 £543 £619
90th Percentile £667 £613 £650
England median daily rate £500 £492 £505
% change year-on-year +1.63% -2.57% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 1 9
10th Percentile £18.84 - £13.45
25th Percentile £21.33 £47.50 £13.87
Median hourly rate £25.77 £50.00 £18.27
Median % change year-on-year -48.46% +173.67% -16.95%
75th Percentile - £52.50 £25.83
90th Percentile £25.81 - -
England median hourly rate £26.72 £42.50 £54.94
% change year-on-year -37.13% -22.64% -2.75%

VPN
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

VPN job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

VPN
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing VPN

VPN
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VPN in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 28 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VPN in Yorkshire

VPN
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing VPN

VPN
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 28 August 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
West Yorkshire -15 24 £500 +112.77% 17
South Yorkshire -28 10 £417 -2.49% 3
North Yorkshire -14 1 - - 4
VPN
England

VPN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.56%) Confluence
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.78%) FactoryTalk
2 1 (2.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.78%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 15 (41.67%) Azure
2 10 (27.78%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 3 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (5.56%) Azure AKS
5 2 (5.56%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.78%) AWS
6 1 (2.78%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (2.78%) Azure Storage
6 1 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.78%) GCP
6 1 (2.78%) GitHub
6 1 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.78%) Google Compute Engine
6 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (2.78%) PaaS
6 1 (2.78%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 22 (61.11%) Firewall
2 18 (50.00%) WAN
3 17 (47.22%) DNS
4 16 (44.44%) LAN
5 15 (41.67%) Network Security
6 14 (38.89%) VLAN
6 14 (38.89%) Wi-Fi
7 13 (36.11%) Cisco Nexus
8 12 (33.33%) DHCP
9 11 (30.56%) BGP
9 11 (30.56%) Cisco ASA
9 11 (30.56%) Cisco Firepower
9 11 (30.56%) OSPF
10 10 (27.78%) TCP/IP
10 10 (27.78%) Wireless
11 8 (22.22%) IPsec
11 8 (22.22%) VoIP
11 8 (22.22%) WLAN
12 6 (16.67%) SD-WAN
13 4 (11.11%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) JIRA
2 1 (2.78%) GitLab
2 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (30.56%) Social Skills
2 8 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 6 (16.67%) Finance
4 5 (13.89%) Banking
4 5 (13.89%) Police
5 3 (8.33%) Retail
6 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.78%) Legal
Job Titles
1 20 (55.56%) Network Engineer
2 12 (33.33%) Senior
2 12 (33.33%) Senior Network Engineer
3 4 (11.11%) Cisco Engineer
3 4 (11.11%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 4 (11.11%) Firewall Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) Architect
4 2 (5.56%) IT Support
4 2 (5.56%) Project Manager
4 2 (5.56%) Support Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) 3rd Line Support
5 1 (2.78%) Analyst
5 1 (2.78%) Data Architect
5 1 (2.78%) Desktop Support
5 1 (2.78%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) IT Technician
5 1 (2.78%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) Network Analyst
5 1 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.78%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.33%) Terraform
2 1 (2.78%) NETCONF
2 1 (2.78%) RESTCONF
2 1 (2.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (30.56%) Data Centre
2 7 (19.44%) PKI
3 6 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (8.33%) Driving Licence
5 2 (5.56%) Replication
6 1 (2.78%) BYOD
6 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.78%) Fat Client
6 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.78%) Operational Technology
6 1 (2.78%) SCADA
6 1 (2.78%) Thin Client
6 1 (2.78%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.11%) Windows
2 2 (5.56%) Linux
2 2 (5.56%) Windows 10
2 2 (5.56%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.78%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (19.44%) Migration
3 5 (13.89%) High Availability
4 4 (11.11%) Analytics
4 4 (11.11%) ITIL
4 4 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (8.33%) CI/CD
5 3 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (8.33%) Configuration Management
5 3 (8.33%) Identity Management
5 3 (8.33%) Log Analytics
5 3 (8.33%) Network Architecture
5 3 (8.33%) Network Management
5 3 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (8.33%) Project Delivery
5 3 (8.33%) Project Management
5 3 (8.33%) Runbook
5 3 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (8.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.33%) Python
2 2 (5.56%) Bash
2 2 (5.56%) Bicep
2 2 (5.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (30.56%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (27.78%) CCNP
3 5 (13.89%) JNCIA
3 5 (13.89%) JNCIS
3 5 (13.89%) SC Cleared
3 5 (13.89%) Security Cleared
4 2 (5.56%) CCNA
4 2 (5.56%) Degree
5 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) NIST
2 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.78%) NIST 800
2 1 (2.78%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.33%) Hyper-V
2 3 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.56%) Docker
4 1 (2.78%) Firmware
4 1 (2.78%) NFS
4 1 (2.78%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) FortiGate
2 3 (8.33%) Ansible
3 2 (5.56%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (5.56%) Podman
4 1 (2.78%) SCCM
4 1 (2.78%) SELinux
4 1 (2.78%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 21 (58.33%) Cisco
2 12 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 9 (25.00%) CheckPoint
4 4 (11.11%) Fortinet
4 4 (11.11%) Juniper
5 3 (8.33%) VMware
6 2 (5.56%) Palo Alto
6 2 (5.56%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.78%) Adobe
7 1 (2.78%) Arista
7 1 (2.78%) BMC
7 1 (2.78%) Citrix
7 1 (2.78%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (2.78%) Meraki
7 1 (2.78%) Remedy
7 1 (2.78%) Rockwell
7 1 (2.78%) Samsung
7 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.78%) Siemens
7 1 (2.78%) Zscaler