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 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 58 78
Rank change year-on-year -41 +20 +41
Contract jobs citing VPN 28 47 38
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.66% 3.21% 1.87%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.74% 23.62% 16.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 21 28
10th Percentile £204 £178 £162
25th Percentile - £213 £189
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £235 £275 £300
Median % change year-on-year -14.55% -8.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £440 £622 £394
90th Percentile £615 £645 £515
England median daily rate £450 £488 £460
% change year-on-year -7.69% +5.98% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
Median hourly rate - £16.19 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - -26.41% -
England median hourly rate £58.50 £23.80 £21.00
% change year-on-year +145.80% +13.33% -4.55%

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 190 199 225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 11.27% 13.59% 11.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 110 174
10th Percentile £203 £160 £192
25th Percentile £331 £223 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £539 £582 £588
90th Percentile £638 £645 £700
England median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.45% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 9
10th Percentile - £11.86 £16.17
25th Percentile £47.50 £12.03 £17.22
Median hourly rate £50.00 £13.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +270.37% -38.64% +1.15%
75th Percentile £52.50 £16.21 -
90th Percentile - £16.78 £30.32
England median hourly rate £34.00 £57.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year -40.87% +1.79% +35.31%

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 14 October 2025.

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 14 October 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 -13 18 £236 -32.50% 12
North Yorkshire -7 6 £194 -11.93% 3
South Yorkshire -41 2 £428 -31.60% 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 7 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (53.57%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (35.71%) AWS
2 10 (35.71%) Azure
3 8 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 8 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 6 (21.43%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (21.43%) Amazon ELB
4 6 (21.43%) Amazon S3
5 4 (14.29%) Entra ID
6 3 (10.71%) AWS KMS
7 2 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (7.14%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (7.14%) Amazon Macie
7 2 (7.14%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (7.14%) AWS Direct Connect
7 2 (7.14%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (53.57%) Firewall
2 12 (42.86%) TCP/IP
3 9 (32.14%) Network Security
4 8 (28.57%) SSL
5 7 (25.00%) DNS
6 3 (10.71%) BGP
6 3 (10.71%) VLAN
7 2 (7.14%) EIGRP
7 2 (7.14%) LAN
7 2 (7.14%) SAN
7 2 (7.14%) WAN
7 2 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (7.14%) Wireless
8 1 (3.57%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (3.57%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (3.57%) HSRP
8 1 (3.57%) IPsec
8 1 (3.57%) Kerberos
8 1 (3.57%) MPLS
8 1 (3.57%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (7.14%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (28.57%) Git
1 8 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 6 (21.43%) GitLab
General
1 12 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.14%) Finance
2 2 (7.14%) Legal
2 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (25.00%) Support Engineer
3 6 (21.43%) Desktop Engineer
3 6 (21.43%) Desktop Support
3 6 (21.43%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 6 (21.43%) Senior
3 6 (21.43%) Senior DevOps
3 6 (21.43%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 5 (17.86%) Network Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) 2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) Architect
5 3 (10.71%) Service Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) Service Desk Analyst
6 2 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Lead
6 2 (7.14%) Lead DevOps
6 2 (7.14%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (7.14%) CCTV
2 2 (7.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.57%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (21.43%) Windows
2 3 (10.71%) Windows 10
3 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (28.57%) DevOps
2 6 (21.43%) Case Management
2 6 (21.43%) CI/CD
2 6 (21.43%) Collaborative Working
2 6 (21.43%) Customer Service
2 6 (21.43%) DevSecOps
2 6 (21.43%) High Availability
2 6 (21.43%) Incident Response
2 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure Automation
2 6 (21.43%) ITIL
2 6 (21.43%) ITSM
2 6 (21.43%) Service Delivery
3 5 (17.86%) Mentoring
4 3 (10.71%) Cloud Security
4 3 (10.71%) Configuration Management
4 3 (10.71%) RBAC
4 3 (10.71%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (10.71%) SIEM
4 3 (10.71%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 8 (28.57%) Python
2 6 (21.43%) Bash
3 2 (7.14%) PowerShell
3 2 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 6 (21.43%) Degree
2 6 (21.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared
4 3 (10.71%) Azure Certification
4 3 (10.71%) CCNA
4 3 (10.71%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Certification
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.57%) CCNP
6 1 (3.57%) CCSA
6 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (32.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (7.14%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (7.14%) GDPR
2 2 (7.14%) NIST
2 2 (7.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (35.71%) Active Directory
2 8 (28.57%) Docker
3 1 (3.57%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.57%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (39.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (28.57%) Ansible
2 8 (28.57%) Terraform
3 2 (7.14%) Grafana
3 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
3 2 (7.14%) Kustomize
3 2 (7.14%) Prometheus
3 2 (7.14%) Puppet
3 2 (7.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 8 (28.57%) Palo Alto
3 7 (25.00%) CheckPoint
4 6 (21.43%) Citrix
4 6 (21.43%) F5
4 6 (21.43%) ServiceNow
5 5 (17.86%) Cisco
6 2 (7.14%) Splunk
6 2 (7.14%) Zscaler
7 1 (3.57%) CloudEndure
7 1 (3.57%) Fortinet
7 1 (3.57%) SolarWinds
7 1 (3.57%) Sophos
7 1 (3.57%) WatchGuard