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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 72 74
Rank change year-on-year -50 +2 +15
Contract jobs citing VPN 28 19 31
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.03% 1.61% 1.78%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.84% 9.60% 15.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 14 23
10th Percentile £303 £197 £178
25th Percentile £381 - £226
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £235 £300
Median % change year-on-year +79.79% -21.67% +0.84%
75th Percentile £505 £421 £622
90th Percentile £534 £596 £644
England median daily rate £490 £475 £425
% change year-on-year +3.16% +11.76% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Median hourly rate £28.00 - £13.87
England median hourly rate £16.00 £36.65 £16.93
% change year-on-year -56.34% +116.45% -27.96%

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 357 198 194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 13.08% 16.81% 11.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 105 131
10th Percentile £308 £235 £193
25th Percentile £367 £373 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £485
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% +0.93% +2.11%
75th Percentile £565 £575 £594
90th Percentile £684 £616 £638
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 0 9
10th Percentile £19.26 - £12.75
25th Percentile £21.33 - £13.87
Median hourly rate £25.77 - £18.27
Median % change year-on-year - - +71.87%
75th Percentile - - £25.83
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £37.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% -12.79% +134.08%

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 19 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 19 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 -16 16 £425 +80.85% 3
South Yorkshire -42 7 £418 +4.38% 6
North Yorkshire -8 3 - - 2
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 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (7.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Cloudability
1 1 (3.57%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (21.43%) Azure
1 6 (21.43%) GCP
2 5 (17.86%) GitHub
3 4 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (7.14%) Entra ID
4 2 (7.14%) Google Compute Engine
4 2 (7.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (3.57%) Anthos
5 1 (3.57%) AWS
5 1 (3.57%) Azure AKS
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (3.57%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.57%) PaaS
5 1 (3.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (64.29%) Firewall
2 11 (39.29%) DNS
2 11 (39.29%) Network Security
3 7 (25.00%) WAN
4 5 (17.86%) LAN
5 3 (10.71%) SD-WAN
5 3 (10.71%) TCP/IP
6 2 (7.14%) BGP
6 2 (7.14%) Broadband
6 2 (7.14%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (7.14%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (7.14%) DHCP
6 2 (7.14%) DWDM
6 2 (7.14%) MPLS
6 2 (7.14%) OSPF
6 2 (7.14%) Structured Cabling
6 2 (7.14%) VLAN
6 2 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (7.14%) Wireless
7 1 (3.57%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.14%) Git
2 2 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 6 (21.43%) Finance
3 5 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (14.29%) Banking
5 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Legal
5 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) Network Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) Firewall Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) GCP Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) IT Support
3 3 (10.71%) GCP DevOps
3 3 (10.71%) IT Support Technician
3 3 (10.71%) IT Technician
3 3 (10.71%) Support Technician
4 2 (7.14%) Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Architect
4 2 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) GCP DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) IT Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Support Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Data Architect
5 1 (3.57%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Cloud Specialist
5 1 (3.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) 802.1X
1 1 (3.57%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) Cloud Native
1 2 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (7.14%) Replication
2 1 (3.57%) BYOD
2 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.57%) Driving Licence
2 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (3.57%) Fat Client
2 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.57%) Operational Technology
2 1 (3.57%) PKI
2 1 (3.57%) Thin Client
2 1 (3.57%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (21.43%) Windows
2 3 (10.71%) Apple iOS
2 3 (10.71%) Linux
3 2 (7.14%) Windows 10
4 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (28.57%) CI/CD
1 8 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (25.00%) Migration
3 6 (21.43%) DevOps
4 5 (17.86%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (14.29%) Data Protection
5 4 (14.29%) High Availability
5 4 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (14.29%) Runbook
5 4 (14.29%) Task Automation
5 4 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (10.71%) Analytics
6 3 (10.71%) Configuration Management
6 3 (10.71%) Deployment Automation
6 3 (10.71%) Network Segmentation
7 2 (7.14%) AI
7 2 (7.14%) ITIL
7 2 (7.14%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 9 (32.14%) Python
2 5 (17.86%) Bash
3 2 (7.14%) Bicep
3 2 (7.14%) PowerShell
3 2 (7.14%) SQL
4 1 (3.57%) Go
Qualifications
1 6 (21.43%) JNCIA
1 6 (21.43%) JNCIS
2 4 (14.29%) CCNP
2 4 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (10.71%) CCNA
4 2 (7.14%) Degree
5 1 (3.57%) CISSP
5 1 (3.57%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) GxP
1 1 (3.57%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (17.86%) Active Directory
2 4 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (7.14%) Firmware
3 2 (7.14%) Hyper-V
3 2 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (3.57%) Docker
4 1 (3.57%) NFS
4 1 (3.57%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (28.57%) Terraform
2 5 (17.86%) FortiGate
3 3 (10.71%) Ansible
4 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
5 1 (3.57%) Istio
5 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (3.57%) Podman
5 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.57%) SCCM
5 1 (3.57%) SELinux
Vendors
1 12 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 9 (32.14%) Cisco
3 6 (21.43%) Google
4 5 (17.86%) Fortinet
5 4 (14.29%) Juniper
6 2 (7.14%) Arista
6 2 (7.14%) VMware
7 1 (3.57%) Adobe
7 1 (3.57%) BMC
7 1 (3.57%) CheckPoint
7 1 (3.57%) Citrix
7 1 (3.57%) Dynatrace
7 1 (3.57%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (3.57%) Infoblox
7 1 (3.57%) Meraki
7 1 (3.57%) Palo Alto
7 1 (3.57%) Red Hat
7 1 (3.57%) Remedy
7 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow
7 1 (3.57%) Zscaler