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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 85 62
Rank change year-on-year -40 -23 +16
Contract jobs citing VPN 34 22 39
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.19% 1.50% 2.47%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.00% 10.33% 21.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 16 18
10th Percentile £297 £208 £178
25th Percentile £403 £235 £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £263 £300
Median % change year-on-year +80.95% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £500 £407 £624
90th Percentile £515 £569 £645
England median daily rate £498 £450 £479
% change year-on-year +10.56% -6.05% +0.84%
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 £17.12 £50.00 £16.56
% change year-on-year -65.77% +202.02% -21.17%

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 340 213 182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 11.90% 14.49% 11.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 117 116
10th Percentile £313 £235 £186
25th Percentile £403 £373 £343
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £507
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -6.31% +12.67%
75th Percentile £561 £538 £603
90th Percentile £669 £613 £650
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 0 8
10th Percentile £19.94 - £13.87
25th Percentile £21.33 - £14.88
Median hourly rate £25.77 - £21.57
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.95%
75th Percentile - - £25.83
90th Percentile £25.82 - -
England median hourly rate £27.88 £45.00 £50.50
% change year-on-year -38.04% -10.89% +1.00%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 £483 +105.32% 9
South Yorkshire -28 6 £419 +4.69% 8
North Yorkshire -10 3 - - 1
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 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.94%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Cloudability
1 1 (2.94%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 11 (32.35%) Azure
2 8 (23.53%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (20.59%) GCP
4 5 (14.71%) GitHub
5 3 (8.82%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (8.82%) Entra ID
5 3 (8.82%) Google Compute Engine
6 2 (5.88%) Azure AKS
6 2 (5.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (5.88%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.94%) Anthos
7 1 (2.94%) AWS
7 1 (2.94%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (2.94%) Azure Storage
7 1 (2.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (2.94%) PaaS
7 1 (2.94%) SaaS
7 1 (2.94%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 22 (64.71%) Firewall
2 16 (47.06%) DNS
3 10 (29.41%) LAN
3 10 (29.41%) Network Security
4 9 (26.47%) WAN
5 8 (23.53%) TCP/IP
5 8 (23.53%) VLAN
6 7 (20.59%) BGP
6 7 (20.59%) Cisco Nexus
6 7 (20.59%) DHCP
6 7 (20.59%) OSPF
6 7 (20.59%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (20.59%) Wireless
7 6 (17.65%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (17.65%) Cisco Firepower
7 6 (17.65%) IPsec
7 6 (17.65%) VoIP
8 5 (14.71%) WLAN
9 3 (8.82%) SD-WAN
10 2 (5.88%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 5 (14.71%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.88%) Git
3 1 (2.94%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 14 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (17.65%) Finance
2 6 (17.65%) Public Sector
3 5 (14.71%) Banking
4 4 (11.76%) Police
5 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Legal
5 1 (2.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (44.12%) Network Engineer
2 6 (17.65%) Senior
2 6 (17.65%) Senior Network Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) Firewall Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) GCP Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) IT Support
4 3 (8.82%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) GCP DevOps
4 3 (8.82%) IT Support Technician
4 3 (8.82%) IT Technician
4 3 (8.82%) Support Technician
5 2 (5.88%) Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Architect
5 2 (5.88%) GCP DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) IT Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Support Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) 3rd Line Support
6 1 (2.94%) Data Architect
6 1 (2.94%) Desktop Support
6 1 (2.94%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.94%) 802.1X
1 1 (2.94%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (2.94%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.59%) Data Centre
2 6 (17.65%) PKI
3 5 (14.71%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (8.82%) Cloud Native
5 2 (5.88%) Driving Licence
5 2 (5.88%) Replication
6 1 (2.94%) BYOD
6 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (2.94%) Fat Client
6 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.94%) Operational Technology
6 1 (2.94%) Thin Client
6 1 (2.94%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (17.65%) Windows
2 4 (11.76%) Linux
3 3 (8.82%) Apple iOS
4 2 (5.88%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (26.47%) CI/CD
2 8 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (20.59%) DevOps
4 6 (17.65%) Migration
5 5 (14.71%) Collaborative Working
5 5 (14.71%) High Availability
5 5 (14.71%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (11.76%) Analytics
6 4 (11.76%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (8.82%) AI
7 3 (8.82%) Configuration Management
7 3 (8.82%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (8.82%) Identity Management
7 3 (8.82%) Log Analytics
7 3 (8.82%) Network Management
7 3 (8.82%) Network Segmentation
7 3 (8.82%) Runbook
7 3 (8.82%) Task Automation
7 3 (8.82%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (23.53%) Python
2 5 (14.71%) Bash
3 2 (5.88%) Bicep
3 2 (5.88%) PowerShell
3 2 (5.88%) SQL
4 1 (2.94%) Go
Qualifications
1 8 (23.53%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (20.59%) CCNP
3 5 (14.71%) JNCIA
3 5 (14.71%) JNCIS
4 4 (11.76%) SC Cleared
4 4 (11.76%) Security Cleared
5 3 (8.82%) CCNA
6 2 (5.88%) Degree
7 1 (2.94%) CISSP
7 1 (2.94%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) GxP
1 1 (2.94%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (14.71%) Active Directory
1 5 (14.71%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (5.88%) Docker
2 2 (5.88%) Firmware
2 2 (5.88%) Hyper-V
2 2 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.94%) NFS
3 1 (2.94%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (23.53%) Terraform
2 5 (14.71%) FortiGate
3 3 (8.82%) Kubernetes
4 2 (5.88%) Ansible
4 2 (5.88%) Podman
5 1 (2.94%) Istio
5 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.94%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.94%) SCCM
5 1 (2.94%) SELinux
Vendors
1 14 (41.18%) Cisco
2 12 (35.29%) Microsoft
3 7 (20.59%) Google
4 5 (14.71%) CheckPoint
4 5 (14.71%) Fortinet
5 4 (11.76%) Juniper
6 2 (5.88%) Palo Alto
6 2 (5.88%) Red Hat
6 2 (5.88%) VMware
7 1 (2.94%) Arista
7 1 (2.94%) BMC
7 1 (2.94%) Dynatrace
7 1 (2.94%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (2.94%) Infoblox
7 1 (2.94%) Meraki
7 1 (2.94%) Remedy
7 1 (2.94%) Samsung
7 1 (2.94%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.94%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.94%) Zscaler