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 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 71 82
Rank change year-on-year -54 +11 +17
Contract jobs citing VPN 21 18 22
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.86% 1.77% 1.30%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.47% 9.89% 11.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 15 19
10th Percentile £285 £198 £267
25th Percentile £334 £229 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £235 £300
Median % change year-on-year +96.81% -21.67% -27.27%
75th Percentile £534 £271 £599
90th Percentile £549 £375 £645
England median daily rate £475 £467 £438
% change year-on-year +1.66% +6.80% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £13.87
England median hourly rate £14.63 £18.13 £17.00
% change year-on-year -19.29% +6.65% -21.33%

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 281 182 188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 11.54% 17.93% 11.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 96 137
10th Percentile £203 £196 £200
25th Percentile £358 £235 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £403 £453
Median % change year-on-year +11.73% -11.09% -4.63%
75th Percentile £528 £575 £575
90th Percentile £668 £675 £641
England median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 2 9
10th Percentile £19.94 - £12.75
25th Percentile £21.33 £40.50 £13.87
Median hourly rate £22.81 £41.00 £18.27
Median % change year-on-year -44.37% +124.41% +71.87%
75th Percentile £25.40 £41.50 £25.83
90th Percentile £25.77 - -
England median hourly rate £42.38 £36.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +16.10% -8.75% +112.54%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 -23 9 £400 +70.21% 5
South Yorkshire -47 8 £525 +52.17% 8
North Yorkshire -6 3 - - 1
East Yorkshire - 1 £295 - 2
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 1 (4.76%) Confluence
1 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (9.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 7 (33.33%) GCP
2 6 (28.57%) GitHub
3 4 (19.05%) Azure
3 4 (19.05%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 3 (14.29%) SaaS
5 2 (9.52%) Google Compute Engine
5 2 (9.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (9.52%) IaaS
5 2 (9.52%) PaaS
6 1 (4.76%) Anthos
6 1 (4.76%) Apigee
6 1 (4.76%) AWS
6 1 (4.76%) Azure AKS
6 1 (4.76%) Kong
6 1 (4.76%) OneDrive
6 1 (4.76%) OpenShift
6 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 14 (66.67%) Firewall
2 11 (52.38%) DNS
3 5 (23.81%) Network Security
3 5 (23.81%) WAN
4 4 (19.05%) LAN
4 4 (19.05%) TCP/IP
5 3 (14.29%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (9.52%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (9.52%) DHCP
6 2 (9.52%) DWDM
6 2 (9.52%) VLAN
6 2 (9.52%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (4.76%) BGP
7 1 (4.76%) HTTP
7 1 (4.76%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (4.76%) NAS
7 1 (4.76%) NetScaler
7 1 (4.76%) OSPF
7 1 (4.76%) SAN
7 1 (4.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (4.76%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 3 (14.29%) Git
3 2 (9.52%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (4.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (4.76%) CircleCI
4 1 (4.76%) GitLab
4 1 (4.76%) JIRA
4 1 (4.76%) Travis CI
General
1 10 (47.62%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Finance
3 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Banking
4 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.76%) Law
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) GCP Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) GCP DevOps
3 3 (14.29%) IT Support
3 3 (14.29%) IT Support Technician
3 3 (14.29%) IT Technician
3 3 (14.29%) Support Technician
4 2 (9.52%) Administrator
4 2 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) GCP DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (4.76%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (4.76%) Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Citrix Expert
5 1 (4.76%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) IT Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) 802.1X
1 1 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (4.76%) JSON
1 1 (4.76%) LDAP
1 1 (4.76%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (4.76%) XML
1 1 (4.76%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Cloud Native
1 2 (9.52%) Data Centre
1 2 (9.52%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.76%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (4.76%) Operational Technology
2 1 (4.76%) PKI
2 1 (4.76%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (33.33%) Windows
2 5 (23.81%) Linux
3 3 (14.29%) Apple iOS
4 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.76%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 7 (33.33%) DevOps
3 5 (23.81%) Task Automation
4 4 (19.05%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (19.05%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (14.29%) Migration
5 3 (14.29%) Network Segmentation
5 3 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (9.52%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (9.52%) Mentoring
6 2 (9.52%) Network Design
6 2 (9.52%) RBAC
6 2 (9.52%) Runbook
6 2 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (9.52%) Storage Management
6 2 (9.52%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (9.52%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 9 (42.86%) Python
2 6 (28.57%) Bash
3 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 2 (9.52%) SQL
5 1 (4.76%) Go
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) CCNP
1 5 (23.81%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (14.29%) CCNA
3 2 (9.52%) CISSP
3 2 (9.52%) JNCIA
3 2 (9.52%) JNCIS
4 1 (4.76%) CCA
4 1 (4.76%) CCIE
4 1 (4.76%) Citrix Certification
4 1 (4.76%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.76%) Degree
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) GxP
1 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 6 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 4 (19.05%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (9.52%) Docker
3 2 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (4.76%) Firmware
4 1 (4.76%) NFS
4 1 (4.76%) VMware NSX
4 1 (4.76%) XenApp
4 1 (4.76%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 11 (52.38%) Terraform
2 4 (19.05%) Ansible
3 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
4 2 (9.52%) Prometheus
4 2 (9.52%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (4.76%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (4.76%) FortiGate
5 1 (4.76%) Grafana
5 1 (4.76%) Istio
5 1 (4.76%) Kibana
5 1 (4.76%) logstash
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (4.76%) Podman
5 1 (4.76%) Progress Chef
5 1 (4.76%) Puppet
5 1 (4.76%) SELinux
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (28.57%) Cisco
2 6 (28.57%) Google
3 3 (14.29%) VMware
4 2 (9.52%) Arista
5 1 (4.76%) Aruba
5 1 (4.76%) CheckPoint
5 1 (4.76%) Citrix
5 1 (4.76%) Dynatrace
5 1 (4.76%) F5
5 1 (4.76%) ForeScout
5 1 (4.76%) Fortinet
5 1 (4.76%) Infoblox
5 1 (4.76%) Red Hat
5 1 (4.76%) Splunk