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 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
21 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 51 72
Rank change year-on-year -58 +21 +49
Contract jobs citing VPN 24 43 38
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.32% 3.20% 2.03%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.65% 21.29% 17.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 18 28
10th Percentile £221 £179 £178
25th Percentile £305 £221 £201
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £275 £307
Median % change year-on-year +90.91% -10.50% -21.97%
75th Percentile £538 £297 £413
90th Percentile £630 £386 £550
England median daily rate £450 £464 £465
% change year-on-year -2.96% -0.27% +3.33%
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 £25.47 £35.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -27.23% +66.67% -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 206 202 219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 11.36% 15.05% 11.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 111 167
10th Percentile £203 £178 £210
25th Percentile £305 £239 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £550 £556 £588
90th Percentile £645 £694 £675
England median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 9
10th Percentile - £11.97 £16.17
25th Percentile £15.25 £12.30 £17.22
Median hourly rate £15.50 £16.19 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% -26.41% +2.33%
75th Percentile £34.13 £41.50 -
90th Percentile £45.15 - £30.32
England median hourly rate £34.00 £48.56 £56.49
% change year-on-year -29.98% -14.04% +25.53%

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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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VPN in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 21 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VPN in Yorkshire

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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

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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 21 November 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 -26 12 £350 +16.67% 8
South Yorkshire -41 7 £525 +90.91% 2
North Yorkshire -10 4 - - 3
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England

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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 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 11 (45.83%) Azure
2 9 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (33.33%) AWS
3 8 (33.33%) Entra ID
4 6 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (25.00%) Amazon ELB
4 6 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 6 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (16.67%) IaaS
6 3 (12.50%) PaaS
6 3 (12.50%) SaaS
7 1 (4.17%) AWS KMS
7 1 (4.17%) Mimecast
7 1 (4.17%) OneDrive
7 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 16 (66.67%) Firewall
2 11 (45.83%) TCP/IP
3 9 (37.50%) DNS
4 7 (29.17%) Network Security
4 7 (29.17%) SSL
5 4 (16.67%) DHCP
6 3 (12.50%) LAN
6 3 (12.50%) WAN
6 3 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (8.33%) BGP
7 2 (8.33%) IPsec
7 2 (8.33%) SAN
7 2 (8.33%) VLAN
7 2 (8.33%) Wireless
8 1 (4.17%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (4.17%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (4.17%) EIGRP
8 1 (4.17%) Internet
8 1 (4.17%) Kerberos
8 1 (4.17%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) Electronic Patient Records
1 1 (4.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Git
1 6 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (16.67%) GitLab
General
1 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Finance
3 2 (8.33%) Legal
3 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Law
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 6 (25.00%) Senior
1 6 (25.00%) Senior DevOps
1 6 (25.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Network Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) 2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support
3 3 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Administrator
3 3 (12.50%) Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Architect
3 3 (12.50%) Service Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Service Desk Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Support Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (8.33%) IT Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) IT Support
4 2 (8.33%) Operations Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (8.33%) CCTV
3 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.17%) NHS
3 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.17%) PKI
3 1 (4.17%) Smartcard
3 1 (4.17%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 9 (37.50%) Windows
2 5 (20.83%) Windows 10
3 3 (12.50%) Linux
4 2 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (29.17%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (25.00%) DevOps
2 6 (25.00%) High Availability
2 6 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 5 (20.83%) Mentoring
4 4 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 4 (16.67%) DevSecOps
4 4 (16.67%) Incident Response
4 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (8.33%) Customer Service
6 2 (8.33%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (8.33%) Integration Patterns
6 2 (8.33%) ITSM
6 2 (8.33%) Network Segmentation
6 2 (8.33%) RBAC
7 1 (4.17%) Architecture Governance
7 1 (4.17%) Cloud Security
7 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) Bash
1 6 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 6 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.50%) Azure Certification
2 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.33%) CCNA
3 2 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.17%) CCNP
4 1 (4.17%) CCSA
4 1 (4.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 6 (25.00%) Docker
3 1 (4.17%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.17%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (37.50%) Terraform
2 6 (25.00%) Ansible
2 6 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (8.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) Palo Alto
2 7 (29.17%) CheckPoint
2 7 (29.17%) Microsoft
3 6 (25.00%) F5
4 4 (16.67%) Cisco
5 2 (8.33%) Zscaler
6 1 (4.17%) CloudEndure
6 1 (4.17%) Fortinet
6 1 (4.17%) SolarWinds
6 1 (4.17%) Sophos
6 1 (4.17%) WatchGuard
16 VPN jobs in Yorkshire