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 23 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 60 75
Rank change year-on-year -48 +15 +35
Contract jobs citing VPN 29 21 31
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.40% 2.32% 1.69%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.55% 11.17% 13.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 14 27
10th Percentile £234 £226 £197
25th Percentile £313 £243 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £275 £300
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% -8.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £538 £293 £350
90th Percentile - £381 £468
England median daily rate £450 £475 £430
% change year-on-year -5.26% +10.47% -1.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £22.00
England median hourly rate £16.71 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -52.27% +75.00% +5.65%

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 251 188 225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 12.11% 20.73% 12.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 107 169
10th Percentile £203 £160 £200
25th Percentile £313 £220 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £375 £425
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £688 £696 £618
England median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 5
10th Percentile - £17.94 -
25th Percentile £15.25 £26.40 £12.75
Median hourly rate £15.50 £41.00 £17.06
Median % change year-on-year -62.20% +140.40% +60.44%
75th Percentile £15.75 £41.50 £22.00
90th Percentile - - £24.87
England median hourly rate £28.38 £35.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -18.91% -26.32% +138.93%

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 23 February 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 23 February 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 -17 15 £375 +54.64% 8
South Yorkshire -55 10 £525 +81.03% 5
North Yorkshire -8 3 - - 5
East Yorkshire - 1 £295 - 1
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 (3.45%) Confluence
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (6.90%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Cloudability
1 1 (3.45%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 8 (27.59%) AWS
2 6 (20.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 6 (20.69%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (20.69%) Amazon ELB
2 6 (20.69%) Amazon S3
2 6 (20.69%) Azure
2 6 (20.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 5 (17.24%) Entra ID
3 5 (17.24%) GCP
3 5 (17.24%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (13.79%) GitHub
4 4 (13.79%) SaaS
5 3 (10.34%) IaaS
5 3 (10.34%) PaaS
6 1 (3.45%) Anthos
6 1 (3.45%) Google Compute Engine
6 1 (3.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (3.45%) Kong
6 1 (3.45%) OneDrive
6 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 23 (79.31%) Firewall
2 15 (51.72%) DNS
3 12 (41.38%) TCP/IP
4 10 (34.48%) Network Security
5 8 (27.59%) WAN
6 7 (24.14%) LAN
6 7 (24.14%) SSL
7 4 (13.79%) Cisco ISE
7 4 (13.79%) DHCP
7 4 (13.79%) VLAN
8 3 (10.34%) Wireless
9 2 (6.90%) BGP
9 2 (6.90%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (6.90%) DWDM
9 2 (6.90%) OSPF
9 2 (6.90%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (3.45%) EIGRP
10 1 (3.45%) SAN
10 1 (3.45%) SD-WAN
10 1 (3.45%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (3.45%) Electronic Patient Records
1 1 (3.45%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (34.48%) Jenkins
2 8 (27.59%) Git
3 5 (17.24%) GitLab
4 2 (6.90%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (3.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (3.45%) CircleCI
5 1 (3.45%) JIRA
5 1 (3.45%) Travis CI
General
1 12 (41.38%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.34%) Finance
3 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Banking
3 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.45%) Law
4 1 (3.45%) Legal
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) Network Engineer
2 7 (24.14%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (20.69%) Senior
3 6 (20.69%) Senior DevOps
3 6 (20.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Administrator
4 3 (10.34%) IT Support
4 3 (10.34%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (6.90%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) 2nd Line Support
5 2 (6.90%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) GCP Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) IT Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) IT Support Technician
5 2 (6.90%) IT Technician
5 2 (6.90%) Operations Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Senior Operations Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Support Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.45%) 802.1X
1 1 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (3.45%) JSON
1 1 (3.45%) LDAP
1 1 (3.45%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (3.45%) XML
1 1 (3.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.90%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.90%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.45%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.45%) NHS
3 1 (3.45%) Operational Technology
3 1 (3.45%) PKI
3 1 (3.45%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.45%) Smartcard
3 1 (3.45%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 9 (31.03%) Windows
2 5 (17.24%) Linux
3 3 (10.34%) Windows 10
4 2 (6.90%) Apple iOS
5 1 (3.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (41.38%) Infrastructure as Code
2 11 (37.93%) DevOps
3 9 (31.03%) CI/CD
4 6 (20.69%) High Availability
4 6 (20.69%) Mentoring
4 6 (20.69%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (17.24%) DevSecOps
5 5 (17.24%) Incident Response
5 5 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (13.79%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (13.79%) Task Automation
7 3 (10.34%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (10.34%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (10.34%) Migration
7 3 (10.34%) Network Segmentation
8 2 (6.90%) Change Management
8 2 (6.90%) Runbook
8 2 (6.90%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 13 (44.83%) Python
2 9 (31.03%) Bash
3 5 (17.24%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.45%) Go
4 1 (3.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (24.14%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (20.69%) CCNP
3 5 (17.24%) CCNA
3 5 (17.24%) Security Cleared
4 2 (6.90%) CISSP
4 2 (6.90%) JNCIA
4 2 (6.90%) JNCIS
4 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.45%) CCA
5 1 (3.45%) CCIE
5 1 (3.45%) Citrix Certification
5 1 (3.45%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.45%) Degree
5 1 (3.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) GxP
1 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 8 (27.59%) Active Directory
2 7 (24.14%) Docker
3 2 (6.90%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (3.45%) Firmware
4 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (3.45%) VMware NSX
4 1 (3.45%) XenApp
4 1 (3.45%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 16 (55.17%) Terraform
2 9 (31.03%) Ansible
3 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (10.34%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (6.90%) Kubernetes
4 2 (6.90%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.45%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (3.45%) FortiGate
5 1 (3.45%) Grafana
5 1 (3.45%) Istio
5 1 (3.45%) Kibana
5 1 (3.45%) logstash
5 1 (3.45%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.45%) Puppet
5 1 (3.45%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (27.59%) Cisco
2 7 (24.14%) CheckPoint
2 7 (24.14%) F5
2 7 (24.14%) Microsoft
2 7 (24.14%) Palo Alto
3 4 (13.79%) Google
4 2 (6.90%) Arista
4 2 (6.90%) VMware
4 2 (6.90%) Zscaler
5 1 (3.45%) Aruba
5 1 (3.45%) Citrix
5 1 (3.45%) Dynatrace
5 1 (3.45%) ForeScout
5 1 (3.45%) Fortinet
5 1 (3.45%) Infoblox
5 1 (3.45%) SolarWinds
5 1 (3.45%) Splunk