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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 61 83
Rank change year-on-year -32 +22 +24
Contract jobs citing VPN 25 43 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.63% 2.84% 1.68%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.51% 22.99% 15.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 17 29
10th Percentile £200 £178 £132
25th Percentile £234 £180 £165
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £235 £350 £300
Median % change year-on-year -32.86% +16.67% -25.00%
75th Percentile £388 £625 £413
90th Percentile £619 £645 £700
England median daily rate £450 £520 £450
% change year-on-year -13.46% +15.56% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
Median hourly rate - £13.87 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - -36.95% +7.32%
England median hourly rate £58.50 £17.75 £21.61
% change year-on-year +229.58% -17.86% -9.96%

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 185 187 219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 12.05% 12.34% 10.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 111 173
10th Percentile £208 £178 £178
25th Percentile £350 £364 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +17.65% -5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £617 £588
90th Percentile £608 £650 £700
England median daily rate £490 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -3.92% +2.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 7
10th Percentile - £12.60 £15.60
25th Percentile £47.50 - £19.61
Median hourly rate £50.00 £13.87 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +260.49% -36.95% +2.85%
75th Percentile £52.50 £17.16 £24.39
90th Percentile - £17.83 £33.87
England median hourly rate £41.23 £57.35 £56.49
% change year-on-year -28.12% +1.52% +34.50%

VPN
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing VPN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for VPN 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 13 September 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 13 September 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 -17 15 £235 -32.86% 7
North Yorkshire -5 5 £194 +4.73% 4
South Yorkshire -30 3 £428 -31.60% 4
VPN
England

VPN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (28.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (28.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (56.00%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (36.00%) Azure
3 8 (32.00%) AWS
4 6 (24.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (24.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (16.00%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (16.00%) Amazon ELB
5 4 (16.00%) Amazon S3
6 3 (12.00%) AWS KMS
6 3 (12.00%) Entra ID
7 2 (8.00%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (8.00%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (8.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (8.00%) Amazon Macie
7 2 (8.00%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (8.00%) AWS Direct Connect
7 2 (8.00%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (8.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (52.00%) Firewall
2 9 (36.00%) TCP/IP
3 6 (24.00%) Network Security
3 6 (24.00%) SSL
4 5 (20.00%) DNS
5 2 (8.00%) BGP
5 2 (8.00%) LAN
5 2 (8.00%) MPLS
5 2 (8.00%) SAN
5 2 (8.00%) VLAN
5 2 (8.00%) WAN
5 2 (8.00%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (4.00%) 4G
6 1 (4.00%) EIGRP
6 1 (4.00%) HSRP
6 1 (4.00%) IPsec
6 1 (4.00%) ISDN
6 1 (4.00%) Kerberos
6 1 (4.00%) PSTN
6 1 (4.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (8.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (24.00%) Git
1 6 (24.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (16.00%) GitLab
General
1 11 (44.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.00%) Finance
2 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) Support Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Desktop Support
2 6 (24.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Architect
3 4 (16.00%) Senior
3 4 (16.00%) Senior DevOps
3 4 (16.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Network Architect
4 3 (12.00%) Network Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Firewall Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Lead
5 2 (8.00%) Operations Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Operations Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Service Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) CCTV
1 2 (8.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 2 (8.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (4.00%) PKI
2 1 (4.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.00%) Windows
2 2 (8.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (24.00%) Case Management
1 6 (24.00%) Collaborative Working
1 6 (24.00%) Customer Service
1 6 (24.00%) DevOps
1 6 (24.00%) ITIL
1 6 (24.00%) ITSM
1 6 (24.00%) Service Delivery
2 4 (16.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (16.00%) DevSecOps
2 4 (16.00%) High Availability
2 4 (16.00%) Incident Response
2 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 3 (12.00%) Cloud Security
3 3 (12.00%) Configuration Management
3 3 (12.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (12.00%) RBAC
3 3 (12.00%) SIEM
3 3 (12.00%) Threat Detection
3 3 (12.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 6 (24.00%) Python
2 4 (16.00%) Bash
3 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (8.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (24.00%) Degree
1 6 (24.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 6 (24.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.00%) Azure Certification
4 2 (8.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (8.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.00%) CCNA
4 2 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (4.00%) CCSA
5 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (32.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (8.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (8.00%) GDPR
2 2 (8.00%) NIST
2 2 (8.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (36.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (24.00%) Docker
3 1 (4.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (24.00%) Ansible
2 6 (24.00%) Terraform
3 2 (8.00%) Grafana
3 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (8.00%) Kustomize
3 2 (8.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (8.00%) Puppet
3 2 (8.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (48.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (24.00%) Citrix
2 6 (24.00%) Palo Alto
2 6 (24.00%) ServiceNow
3 5 (20.00%) CheckPoint
4 4 (16.00%) Cisco
4 4 (16.00%) F5
5 2 (8.00%) Splunk
5 2 (8.00%) Zscaler
6 1 (4.00%) CloudEndure
6 1 (4.00%) Fortinet
6 1 (4.00%) SolarWinds
6 1 (4.00%) Sophos
6 1 (4.00%) WatchGuard