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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 91 61
Rank change year-on-year -27 -30 +23
Contract jobs citing VPN 36 25 42
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.26% 1.61% 2.79%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.01% 13.30% 22.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 16 17
10th Percentile £369 £200 £178
25th Percentile £407 £234 £180
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £235 £350
Median % change year-on-year +112.77% -32.86% +16.67%
75th Percentile - £388 £625
90th Percentile £558 £619 £645
England median daily rate £500 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +8.11% -9.76% +13.89%
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 £25.75 £50.00 £15.23
% change year-on-year -48.50% +228.30% -29.52%

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 327 188 186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 11.42% 12.14% 12.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 107 110
10th Percentile £318 £210 £178
25th Percentile £410 £350 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £466 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% -6.90% +14.29%
75th Percentile £572 £539 £618
90th Percentile £669 £615 £650
England median daily rate £500 £492 £508
% change year-on-year +1.63% -3.05% +1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 1 5
10th Percentile £17.75 - £12.60
25th Percentile £21.33 £47.50 -
Median hourly rate £25.77 £50.00 £13.87
Median % change year-on-year -48.46% +260.49% -36.95%
75th Percentile - £52.50 £17.16
90th Percentile £25.79 - £17.83
England median hourly rate £32.50 £41.23 £57.35
% change year-on-year -21.16% -28.12% +1.52%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -18 24 £500 +112.77% 8
South Yorkshire -16 11 £418 -2.34% 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 16 (44.44%) Azure
2 9 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (13.89%) Entra ID
4 3 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (5.56%) Azure AKS
5 2 (5.56%) Azure Storage
5 2 (5.56%) OpenShift
5 2 (5.56%) PaaS
6 1 (2.78%) AWS
6 1 (2.78%) Azure ExpressRoute
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%) IaaS
6 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (2.78%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 23 (63.89%) Firewall
2 18 (50.00%) DNS
2 18 (50.00%) WAN
3 16 (44.44%) LAN
4 15 (41.67%) Network Security
5 14 (38.89%) VLAN
5 14 (38.89%) Wi-Fi
6 13 (36.11%) Cisco Nexus
7 12 (33.33%) DHCP
8 11 (30.56%) BGP
8 11 (30.56%) Cisco ASA
8 11 (30.56%) Cisco Firepower
8 11 (30.56%) OSPF
9 10 (27.78%) TCP/IP
9 10 (27.78%) Wireless
10 8 (22.22%) IPsec
10 8 (22.22%) VoIP
10 8 (22.22%) WLAN
11 6 (16.67%) SD-WAN
12 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 10 (27.78%) 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%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) Project Manager
4 2 (5.56%) Support Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) Azure Architect
5 1 (2.78%) Azure Data Architect
5 1 (2.78%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (2.78%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) Cloud Specialist
5 1 (2.78%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) IT Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.11%) Terraform
2 1 (2.78%) ARM Templates
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%) Linux Command Line
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 3 (8.33%) Linux
3 2 (5.56%) Windows 10
3 2 (5.56%) Windows Server
4 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%) Identity Management
4 4 (11.11%) ITIL
4 4 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (8.33%) CI/CD
5 3 (8.33%) Configuration Management
5 3 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (8.33%) Log Analytics
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%) RBAC
5 3 (8.33%) Runbook
5 3 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (8.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.33%) Bicep
1 3 (8.33%) PowerShell
1 3 (8.33%) Python
2 2 (5.56%) Bash
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