VPN Contracts in the North of England

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 130 133
Rank change year-on-year +43 +3 +12
Contract jobs citing VPN 104 72 126
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.15% 1.32% 1.77%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 18.41% 10.76% 13.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 45 89
10th Percentile £210 £136 £158
25th Percentile £275 £171 £159
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £300 £400
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -25.00% -5.88%
75th Percentile £838 £388 £488
90th Percentile £850 £695 £575
England median daily rate £425 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -12.82% +2.63% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 9
10th Percentile - £16.35 £14.30
25th Percentile - £17.29 £16.00
Median hourly rate £13.87 £18.86 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.46% +12.60% -16.25%
75th Percentile £31.31 £20.43 £19.50
90th Percentile £41.77 £21.37 £30.75
England median hourly rate £16.86 £21.61 £20.00
% change year-on-year -21.98% +8.05% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 565 669 938
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 11.66% 12.29% 13.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 378 445 658
10th Percentile £200 £206 £179
25th Percentile £313 £325 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £460 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.16% +2.22% +11.11%
75th Percentile £614 £568 £550
90th Percentile £775 £670 £638
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 48 23
10th Percentile £13.31 - £10.67
25th Percentile £21.19 £9.80 £16.12
Median hourly rate £25.44 £10.63 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year +139.28% -39.74% +4.38%
75th Percentile £45.97 £16.67 £21.33
90th Percentile £48.75 £37.85 £51.75
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.37 £23.91
% change year-on-year +117.75% -23.17% +3.02%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing VPN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for VPN in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VPN in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for VPN in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VPN in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VPN in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VPN in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for VPN in the North of England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VPN in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for VPN in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the North of England region over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. 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
North West +40 73 £800 +156.00% 29
Yorkshire +16 29 £300 +0.84% 18
North East +10 2 £450 +111.76% 4
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 9 (8.65%) Confluence
1 9 (8.65%) Microsoft Exchange
1 9 (8.65%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.96%) Apache
Applications
1 9 (8.65%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.96%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 26 (25.00%) Azure
2 21 (20.19%) AWS
3 16 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (13.46%) GCP
5 9 (8.65%) GitHub
5 9 (8.65%) Kong
6 6 (5.77%) Apigee
7 2 (1.92%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.96%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 71 (68.27%) Firewall
2 21 (20.19%) TCP/IP
2 21 (20.19%) WAN
3 20 (19.23%) LAN
4 14 (13.46%) OSPF
5 11 (10.58%) DNS
5 11 (10.58%) Wireless
6 10 (9.62%) Ethernet
6 10 (9.62%) Wireless Security
7 9 (8.65%) HTTP
8 8 (7.69%) VLAN
9 7 (6.73%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (4.81%) MPLS
10 5 (4.81%) Network Security
10 5 (4.81%) Wireshark
11 4 (3.85%) BGP
11 4 (3.85%) Internet
11 4 (3.85%) SSL
11 4 (3.85%) Value-Added Service
11 4 (3.85%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.65%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.96%) MySQL
2 1 (0.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (8.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 9 (8.65%) CircleCI
1 9 (8.65%) Git
1 9 (8.65%) GitLab
1 9 (8.65%) Jenkins
1 9 (8.65%) JIRA
1 9 (8.65%) Travis CI
2 1 (0.96%) Metasploit
General
1 32 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 14 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (7.69%) Legal
4 7 (6.73%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.96%) Banking
6 1 (0.96%) Finance
6 1 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.96%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.96%) Military
6 1 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (45.19%) Architect
2 38 (36.54%) Technical Architect
3 30 (28.85%) Lead
3 30 (28.85%) Lead Architect
3 30 (28.85%) Technical Leader
4 20 (19.23%) Network Engineer
5 10 (9.62%) IT Support
6 8 (7.69%) Support Engineer
7 7 (6.73%) 2nd Line Support
7 7 (6.73%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 7 (6.73%) 3rd Line Support
7 7 (6.73%) Cloud Architect
8 6 (5.77%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 6 (5.77%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
8 6 (5.77%) Automation Engineer
8 6 (5.77%) DevOps Automation Engineer
8 6 (5.77%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (4.81%) Digital Architect
9 5 (4.81%) Digital Technical Architect
10 4 (3.85%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (38.46%) Node.js
2 9 (8.65%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (8.65%) JSON
2 9 (8.65%) XML
2 9 (8.65%) YAML
3 2 (1.92%) XMPP
4 1 (0.96%) LDAP
4 1 (0.96%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 30 (28.85%) Public Cloud
2 9 (8.65%) Data Structures
2 9 (8.65%) Product Ownership
3 7 (6.73%) Clustering
4 5 (4.81%) Mobile App
5 4 (3.85%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.92%) BYOD
6 2 (1.92%) iPad
6 2 (1.92%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.96%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.96%) PKI
7 1 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 78 (75.00%) Windows
2 62 (59.62%) Windows Server
3 43 (41.35%) Android
3 43 (41.35%) Apple iOS
4 12 (11.54%) Windows 10
5 11 (10.58%) Linux
6 4 (3.85%) Mac OS
6 4 (3.85%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (2.88%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (2.88%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.92%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.96%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (47.12%) CI/CD
1 49 (47.12%) Mobile Device Management
2 43 (41.35%) Risk Management
2 43 (41.35%) Security Architecture
3 40 (38.46%) Agile
3 40 (38.46%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 40 (38.46%) DevOps
3 40 (38.46%) Threat Intelligence
3 40 (38.46%) Zero Trust
4 28 (26.92%) Design Patterns
5 26 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (19.23%) Customer Service
7 14 (13.46%) Roadmaps
8 13 (12.50%) Containerisation
9 12 (11.54%) Infrastructure as Code
9 12 (11.54%) Microservices
9 12 (11.54%) Product Strategy
9 12 (11.54%) Strategic Roadmap
10 10 (9.62%) Collaborative Working
10 10 (9.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (14.42%) PowerShell
2 10 (9.62%) Bash
2 10 (9.62%) Python
3 3 (2.88%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 36 (34.62%) Security Cleared
2 34 (32.69%) SC Cleared
3 13 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (8.65%) CCNA
4 9 (8.65%) Degree
5 5 (4.81%) CCNP
5 5 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (3.85%) CCIE
6 4 (3.85%) VCAP
7 1 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.96%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.96%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.65%) QA
2 1 (0.96%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (0.96%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.96%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (20.19%) Active Directory
2 13 (12.50%) Hyper-V
2 13 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (8.65%) Docker
4 2 (1.92%) Firmware
4 2 (1.92%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (0.96%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.96%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.96%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (9.62%) Terraform
2 9 (8.65%) Ansible
2 9 (8.65%) Docker Swarm
2 9 (8.65%) Grafana
2 9 (8.65%) Kibana
2 9 (8.65%) Kubernetes
2 9 (8.65%) logstash
2 9 (8.65%) Progress Chef
2 9 (8.65%) Prometheus
2 9 (8.65%) Puppet
3 5 (4.81%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (4.81%) SCCM
4 4 (3.85%) Autotask
4 4 (3.85%) Failover Clustering
4 4 (3.85%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (1.92%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.96%) OpenVAS
6 1 (0.96%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.96%) vMotion
Vendors
1 18 (17.31%) Microsoft
2 15 (14.42%) VMware
3 10 (9.62%) Splunk
4 8 (7.69%) Apple
5 6 (5.77%) Google
6 4 (3.85%) Datto
6 4 (3.85%) LogicMonitor
6 4 (3.85%) SolarWinds
7 3 (2.88%) Cisco
7 3 (2.88%) F5
8 2 (1.92%) Autodesk
8 2 (1.92%) Dell
8 2 (1.92%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.92%) Wyse
9 1 (0.96%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.96%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.96%) Meraki
9 1 (0.96%) Qualys
9 1 (0.96%) Ubiquiti
9 1 (0.96%) Veeam