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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 97 56
Rank change year-on-year -24 -41 +26
Contract jobs citing VPN 38 28 48
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.33% 1.68% 3.25%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.52% 15.05% 24.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 17 21
10th Percentile £369 £204 £178
25th Percentile £407 - £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £235 £275
Median % change year-on-year +112.77% -14.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile - £440 £622
90th Percentile £558 £615 £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 2
10th Percentile - - £14.01
25th Percentile - - £14.21
Median hourly rate £28.00 - £15.03
75th Percentile - - £16.34
90th Percentile - - £16.83
England median hourly rate £25.75 £58.50 £23.80
% change year-on-year -55.98% +145.80% +10.70%

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 330 186 199
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 11.58% 11.17% 13.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 112 110
10th Percentile £331 £203 £160
25th Percentile £412 £334 £235
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% +17.65%
75th Percentile £576 £538 £587
90th Percentile £675 £636 £645
England median daily rate £500 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 1 4
10th Percentile £13.45 - £11.92
25th Percentile £21.33 £47.50 £12.16
Median hourly rate £25.00 £50.00 £13.69
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +265.36% -37.80%
75th Percentile £25.77 £52.50 £15.73
90th Percentile - - £16.59
England median hourly rate £38.72 £34.00 £57.43
% change year-on-year +13.88% -40.79% +1.66%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -11 24 £500 +111.64% 9
South Yorkshire -10 13 £418 -2.34% 11
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 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.26%) Confluence
2 2 (5.26%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.63%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 18 (47.37%) Azure
2 10 (26.32%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (15.79%) Entra ID
4 3 (7.89%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (7.89%) OpenShift
5 2 (5.26%) Azure AKS
5 2 (5.26%) Azure Storage
5 2 (5.26%) PaaS
6 1 (2.63%) AWS
6 1 (2.63%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (2.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.63%) GCP
6 1 (2.63%) GitHub
6 1 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.63%) Google Compute Engine
6 1 (2.63%) IaaS
6 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (2.63%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 24 (63.16%) Firewall
2 19 (50.00%) DNS
3 18 (47.37%) WAN
4 16 (42.11%) LAN
4 16 (42.11%) Network Security
5 15 (39.47%) VLAN
6 14 (36.84%) Wi-Fi
7 13 (34.21%) Cisco Nexus
7 13 (34.21%) DHCP
8 11 (28.95%) BGP
8 11 (28.95%) Cisco ASA
8 11 (28.95%) Cisco Firepower
8 11 (28.95%) OSPF
8 11 (28.95%) TCP/IP
9 10 (26.32%) Wireless
10 8 (21.05%) IPsec
10 8 (21.05%) VoIP
10 8 (21.05%) WLAN
11 6 (15.79%) SD-WAN
12 4 (10.53%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Jenkins
1 2 (5.26%) JIRA
2 1 (2.63%) Git
2 1 (2.63%) GitLab
2 1 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (21.05%) Public Sector
3 6 (15.79%) Finance
4 5 (13.16%) Banking
4 5 (13.16%) Police
5 3 (7.89%) Retail
6 2 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.63%) Legal
Job Titles
1 20 (52.63%) Network Engineer
2 12 (31.58%) Senior
2 12 (31.58%) Senior Network Engineer
3 4 (10.53%) Cisco Engineer
3 4 (10.53%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 4 (10.53%) Firewall Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) Architect
4 2 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) Project Manager
4 2 (5.26%) Support Engineer
5 1 (2.63%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 1 (2.63%) Azure Architect
5 1 (2.63%) Azure Data Architect
5 1 (2.63%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (2.63%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (2.63%) Cloud Specialist
5 1 (2.63%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.63%) IT Engineer
5 1 (2.63%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (2.63%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.53%) Terraform
2 1 (2.63%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.63%) NETCONF
2 1 (2.63%) RESTCONF
2 1 (2.63%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (28.95%) Data Centre
2 7 (18.42%) PKI
3 6 (15.79%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (10.53%) Driving Licence
5 2 (5.26%) Replication
6 1 (2.63%) BYOD
6 1 (2.63%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.63%) Fat Client
6 1 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.63%) Operational Technology
6 1 (2.63%) SCADA
6 1 (2.63%) Thin Client
6 1 (2.63%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.79%) Windows
2 4 (10.53%) Windows Server
3 3 (7.89%) Linux
4 2 (5.26%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (21.05%) Migration
3 5 (13.16%) Analytics
3 5 (13.16%) High Availability
4 4 (10.53%) Identity Management
4 4 (10.53%) ITIL
4 4 (10.53%) Project Delivery
4 4 (10.53%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (7.89%) Agile
5 3 (7.89%) CI/CD
5 3 (7.89%) Configuration Management
5 3 (7.89%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (7.89%) Log Analytics
5 3 (7.89%) Network Architecture
5 3 (7.89%) Project Management
5 3 (7.89%) RBAC
5 3 (7.89%) Runbook
5 3 (7.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (7.89%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (7.89%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.53%) PowerShell
1 4 (10.53%) Python
2 3 (7.89%) Bicep
3 2 (5.26%) Bash
4 1 (2.63%) Java
Qualifications
1 11 (28.95%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (26.32%) CCNP
3 5 (13.16%) JNCIA
3 5 (13.16%) JNCIS
3 5 (13.16%) SC Cleared
3 5 (13.16%) Security Cleared
4 2 (5.26%) CCNA
4 2 (5.26%) Degree
5 1 (2.63%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.26%) NIST
2 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.63%) NIST 800
2 1 (2.63%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (15.79%) Active Directory
2 5 (13.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (10.53%) Hyper-V
3 4 (10.53%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (5.26%) Docker
5 1 (2.63%) Firmware
5 1 (2.63%) NFS
5 1 (2.63%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (2.63%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 4 (10.53%) Ansible
1 4 (10.53%) FortiGate
1 4 (10.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.26%) Podman
3 1 (2.63%) SCCM
3 1 (2.63%) SELinux
3 1 (2.63%) TrustSec
3 1 (2.63%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 21 (55.26%) Cisco
2 14 (36.84%) Microsoft
3 9 (23.68%) CheckPoint
4 5 (13.16%) VMware
5 4 (10.53%) Fortinet
5 4 (10.53%) Juniper
6 2 (5.26%) Citrix
6 2 (5.26%) Palo Alto
6 2 (5.26%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.63%) Adobe
7 1 (2.63%) Arista
7 1 (2.63%) BMC
7 1 (2.63%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (2.63%) Meraki
7 1 (2.63%) Remedy
7 1 (2.63%) Rockwell
7 1 (2.63%) Samsung
7 1 (2.63%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.63%) Siemens
7 1 (2.63%) Zscaler