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 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 74 82
Rank change year-on-year -53 +8 +13
Contract jobs citing VPN 25 18 24
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.94% 1.66% 1.42%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.37% 9.73% 12.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 14 20
10th Percentile £299 £197 £178
25th Percentile £401 - £265
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £235 £300
Median % change year-on-year +78.19% -21.67% -20.00%
75th Percentile £494 £421 £623
90th Percentile £538 £596 £645
England median daily rate £490 £475 £430
% change year-on-year +3.16% +10.47% -9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £13.87
England median hourly rate £12.56 £36.65 £16.56
% change year-on-year -65.73% +121.35% -23.39%

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 339 185 187
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 12.76% 17.05% 11.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 102 133
10th Percentile £297 £210 £200
25th Percentile £366 £268 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% - -
75th Percentile £540 £566 £588
90th Percentile £679 £624 £638
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 0 9
10th Percentile £18.84 - £12.75
25th Percentile £21.33 - £13.87
Median hourly rate £22.81 - £18.27
Median % change year-on-year - - +71.87%
75th Percentile £25.77 - £25.83
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £32.50 £39.66 £40.00
% change year-on-year -18.05% -0.85% +134.40%

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 4 June 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 4 June 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 -22 13 £413 +75.53% 7
South Yorkshire -47 8 £418 +4.38% 7
North Yorkshire -6 3 - -
East Yorkshire - 1 £295 -
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 (4.00%) Confluence
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (8.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Cloudability
1 1 (4.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 7 (28.00%) GCP
2 6 (24.00%) GitHub
3 5 (20.00%) Azure
4 3 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (8.00%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (8.00%) Google Compute Engine
5 2 (8.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (4.00%) Anthos
6 1 (4.00%) Apigee
6 1 (4.00%) AWS
6 1 (4.00%) Azure AKS
6 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.00%) Kong
6 1 (4.00%) OpenShift
6 1 (4.00%) PaaS
6 1 (4.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (72.00%) Firewall
2 11 (44.00%) DNS
2 11 (44.00%) Network Security
3 6 (24.00%) WAN
4 4 (16.00%) LAN
4 4 (16.00%) TCP/IP
5 3 (12.00%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (8.00%) BGP
6 2 (8.00%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (8.00%) DWDM
6 2 (8.00%) OSPF
6 2 (8.00%) VLAN
7 1 (4.00%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (4.00%) DMVPN
7 1 (4.00%) EIGRP
7 1 (4.00%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (4.00%) LTE
7 1 (4.00%) NAS
7 1 (4.00%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (4.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 6 (24.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (12.00%) Git
3 2 (8.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (4.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (4.00%) CircleCI
4 1 (4.00%) GitLab
4 1 (4.00%) JIRA
4 1 (4.00%) Travis CI
General
1 9 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Finance
3 4 (16.00%) Banking
4 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Legal
4 1 (4.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) Network Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Firewall Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) GCP Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) GCP DevOps
3 3 (12.00%) IT Support
3 3 (12.00%) IT Support Technician
3 3 (12.00%) IT Technician
3 3 (12.00%) Support Technician
4 2 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) IT Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Network Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Security Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) 802.1X
1 1 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (4.00%) JSON
1 1 (4.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (4.00%) XML
1 1 (4.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (8.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (8.00%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (8.00%) Replication
2 1 (4.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (4.00%) PKI
2 1 (4.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.00%) Windows
2 3 (12.00%) Apple iOS
2 3 (12.00%) Linux
3 1 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (36.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (28.00%) DevOps
3 6 (24.00%) Migration
4 5 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (20.00%) Task Automation
5 4 (16.00%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (16.00%) High Availability
5 4 (16.00%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (16.00%) Runbook
6 3 (12.00%) Data Protection
6 3 (12.00%) Deployment Automation
6 3 (12.00%) Network Segmentation
6 3 (12.00%) Technical Leadership
7 2 (8.00%) Analytics
7 2 (8.00%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (8.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 2 (8.00%) Mentoring
7 2 (8.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (36.00%) Python
2 6 (24.00%) Bash
3 2 (8.00%) Bicep
3 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (8.00%) SQL
4 1 (4.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 6 (24.00%) JNCIA
1 6 (24.00%) JNCIS
2 5 (20.00%) CCNP
2 5 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (12.00%) CCNA
4 2 (8.00%) CISSP
5 1 (4.00%) CCIE
5 1 (4.00%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.00%) Degree
5 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) GxP
1 1 (4.00%) QA
1 1 (4.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (16.00%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (8.00%) Docker
3 1 (4.00%) Firmware
3 1 (4.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.00%) NFS
3 1 (4.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (36.00%) Terraform
2 5 (20.00%) FortiGate
3 4 (16.00%) Ansible
4 3 (12.00%) Kubernetes
5 2 (8.00%) Prometheus
6 1 (4.00%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (4.00%) Grafana
6 1 (4.00%) Istio
6 1 (4.00%) Kibana
6 1 (4.00%) logstash
6 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (4.00%) Podman
6 1 (4.00%) Progress Chef
6 1 (4.00%) Puppet
6 1 (4.00%) SELinux
Vendors
1 10 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (28.00%) Cisco
3 6 (24.00%) Google
4 5 (20.00%) Fortinet
5 4 (16.00%) Juniper
6 2 (8.00%) Arista
6 2 (8.00%) VMware
7 1 (4.00%) Adobe
7 1 (4.00%) Aruba
7 1 (4.00%) BMC
7 1 (4.00%) CheckPoint
7 1 (4.00%) Dynatrace
7 1 (4.00%) ForeScout
7 1 (4.00%) Infoblox
7 1 (4.00%) Meraki
7 1 (4.00%) Red Hat
7 1 (4.00%) Remedy
7 1 (4.00%) Samsung
7 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow
7 1 (4.00%) Splunk