VPN Contracts in Yorkshire

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire requiring VPN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VPN over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 74 91
Rank change year-on-year -10 +17 +16
Contract jobs citing VPN 20 32 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.61% 1.86% 1.39%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.05% 16.33% 14.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 23 24
10th Percentile £197 £178 £130
25th Percentile - £226 £149
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £235 £300 £210
Median % change year-on-year -21.67% +42.86% -53.33%
75th Percentile £421 £622 £675
90th Percentile £596 £644 £700
England median daily rate £470 £446 £488
% change year-on-year +5.44% -8.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
Median hourly rate - £13.87 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - -36.95% +31.34%
England median hourly rate £38.75 £16.93 £22.00
% change year-on-year +128.88% -23.05% +7.26%

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 199 196 214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 16.06% 11.42% 9.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 129 139
10th Percentile £235 £192 £150
25th Percentile £359 £275 £221
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £483 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% +7.22% +2.86%
75th Percentile £556 £588 £603
90th Percentile £615 £638 £700
England median daily rate £493 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -1.40% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 31
10th Percentile - £12.75 £9.80
25th Percentile - £13.87 £10.22
Median hourly rate - £18.27 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year - +71.87% -41.58%
75th Percentile - £25.83 -
90th Percentile - - £22.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £46.69 £20.71
% change year-on-year -19.68% +125.50% -17.18%

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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

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VPN in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for VPN in Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VPN in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VPN in Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VPN in Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for VPN in Yorkshire

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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 30 June 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 +5 8 £235 -21.67% 47
North Yorkshire +4 5 £194 +4.73% 8
South Yorkshire -11 5 £400 -36.00% 17
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England

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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 6 (30.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (10.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 12 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (40.00%) Azure
3 4 (20.00%) AWS
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon Macie
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudTrail
4 2 (10.00%) AWS Direct Connect
4 2 (10.00%) AWS Fargate
4 2 (10.00%) AWS KMS
4 2 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (10.00%) GitHub
4 2 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (10.00%) Serverless
4 2 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (45.00%) Firewall
2 8 (40.00%) TCP/IP
3 5 (25.00%) DNS
3 5 (25.00%) LAN
3 5 (25.00%) Network Security
3 5 (25.00%) WAN
4 3 (15.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (15.00%) DWDM
5 2 (10.00%) MPLS
5 2 (10.00%) SAN
5 2 (10.00%) SSL
5 2 (10.00%) VLAN
5 2 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (5.00%) 4G
6 1 (5.00%) BGP
6 1 (5.00%) EIGRP
6 1 (5.00%) HSRP
6 1 (5.00%) ISDN
6 1 (5.00%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (10.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (5.00%) MySQL
2 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (10.00%) Git
2 2 (10.00%) GitLab
2 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 6 (30.00%) Desktop Support
1 6 (30.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 6 (30.00%) Support Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Network Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Network Architect
4 2 (10.00%) 2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Lead
4 2 (10.00%) Lead DevOps
4 2 (10.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Service Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Service Desk Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) CCTV
1 2 (10.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 2 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (5.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Windows
2 2 (10.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (5.00%) CentOS
3 1 (5.00%) Linux
3 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) Case Management
1 6 (30.00%) Collaborative Working
1 6 (30.00%) Customer Service
1 6 (30.00%) ITIL
1 6 (30.00%) ITSM
1 6 (30.00%) Service Delivery
2 4 (20.00%) Network Architecture
2 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (15.00%) Configuration Management
3 3 (15.00%) RBAC
3 3 (15.00%) Zero Trust
4 2 (10.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (10.00%) Cloud Security
4 2 (10.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (10.00%) Incident Response
4 2 (10.00%) Integration Patterns
4 2 (10.00%) Network Segmentation
4 2 (10.00%) Secrets Management
4 2 (10.00%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) Python
2 2 (10.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (5.00%) Bash
3 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (40.00%) Degree
2 6 (30.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 3 (15.00%) Azure Certification
3 3 (15.00%) CCNA
3 3 (15.00%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (10.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (10.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (10.00%) CCNP
4 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (10.00%) JNCIA
4 2 (10.00%) JNCIS
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (10.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (10.00%) GDPR
2 2 (10.00%) NIST
2 2 (10.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.00%) Docker
3 1 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (45.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (30.00%) Ansible
2 6 (30.00%) Terraform
3 2 (10.00%) Grafana
3 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (10.00%) Kustomize
3 2 (10.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (10.00%) Puppet
4 1 (5.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (35.00%) Cisco
3 6 (30.00%) Citrix
3 6 (30.00%) ServiceNow
4 3 (15.00%) Arista
5 2 (10.00%) Splunk
6 1 (5.00%) CloudEndure
6 1 (5.00%) Red Hat