VPN Contracts in Yorkshire

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 74 78 99
Rank change year-on-year +4 +21 +3
Contract jobs citing VPN 18 22 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.77% 1.30% 1.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.84% 11.76% 12.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 19 24
10th Percentile £198 £267 £130
25th Percentile £229 £275 £162
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £235 £300 £413
Median % change year-on-year -21.67% -27.27% +3.13%
75th Percentile £271 £599 £675
90th Percentile £375 £645 £700
England median daily rate £475 £439 £450
% change year-on-year +8.32% -2.56% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £13.87 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - -36.95% +17.33%
England median hourly rate £18.13 £17.00 £21.61
% change year-on-year +6.65% -21.33% -1.77%

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 183 187 228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 17.99% 11.07% 9.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 136 146
10th Percentile £196 £200 £181
25th Percentile £235 £313 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £459 £475
Median % change year-on-year -12.25% -3.37% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £578 £588
90th Percentile £675 £641 £700
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 38
10th Percentile - £12.75 -
25th Percentile £40.50 £13.87 £9.80
Median hourly rate £41.00 £18.27 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +124.41% +71.87% -41.58%
75th Percentile £41.50 £25.83 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for VPN in Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for VPN in Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for VPN in Yorkshire

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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 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
West Yorkshire +19 11 £235 -27.69% 19
South Yorkshire +4 4 £345 -44.80% 9
North Yorkshire - 3 £194 - 9
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (55.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (27.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (61.11%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (11.11%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 12 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (27.78%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) OneDrive
3 2 (11.11%) AWS
3 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.56%) GCP
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 10 (55.56%) LAN
1 10 (55.56%) WAN
2 9 (50.00%) DNS
3 8 (44.44%) VLAN
4 6 (33.33%) Firewall
4 6 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (27.78%) DHCP
5 5 (27.78%) TCP/IP
5 5 (27.78%) VoIP
6 3 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (16.67%) DWDM
6 3 (16.67%) Network Security
7 2 (11.11%) MPLS
8 1 (5.56%) 4G
8 1 (5.56%) BGP
8 1 (5.56%) EIGRP
8 1 (5.56%) HSRP
8 1 (5.56%) ISDN
8 1 (5.56%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) MySQL
1 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 7 (38.89%) Desktop Engineer
2 7 (38.89%) Desktop Support
2 7 (38.89%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Network Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior
5 1 (5.56%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
5 1 (5.56%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Customer Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Engineering Specialist
5 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) IT Manager
5 1 (5.56%) IT Support
5 1 (5.56%) Junior
5 1 (5.56%) Lead
5 1 (5.56%) Windows Deployment Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
1 1 (5.56%) Operational Technology
1 1 (5.56%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 8 (44.44%) Windows
2 6 (33.33%) Windows 10
3 1 (5.56%) CentOS
3 1 (5.56%) Linux
3 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 4 (22.22%) Case Management
2 4 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
2 4 (22.22%) ITIL
2 4 (22.22%) ITSM
2 4 (22.22%) Network Architecture
2 4 (22.22%) Service Delivery
3 2 (11.11%) Computer Science
3 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (5.56%) Configuration Management
4 1 (5.56%) Conflict Resolution
4 1 (5.56%) High Availability
4 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (5.56%) Mentoring
4 1 (5.56%) Runbook
4 1 (5.56%) Server Management
4 1 (5.56%) Task Automation
4 1 (5.56%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (5.56%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) Python
2 1 (5.56%) Bash
2 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) Degree
2 4 (22.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 3 (16.67%) CCNA
3 3 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (11.11%) CCNP
4 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (11.11%) JNCIA
4 2 (11.11%) JNCIS
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
5 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (61.11%) Active Directory
2 5 (27.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (33.33%) SCCM
3 5 (27.78%) AppManager
4 4 (22.22%) Ansible
4 4 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (72.22%) Microsoft
2 6 (33.33%) Cisco
3 5 (27.78%) Ivanti
3 5 (27.78%) VMware
4 4 (22.22%) Citrix
4 4 (22.22%) ServiceNow
5 3 (16.67%) Arista
6 1 (5.56%) Meraki
6 1 (5.56%) Red Hat