VPN Jobs in Birmingham

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for VPN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited VPN over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 107 161
Rank change year-on-year -10 +54 -51
Permanent jobs citing VPN 31 36 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.14% 1.80% 1.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.29% 12.29% 8.62%
Number of salaries quoted 21 30 37
10th Percentile £56,250 £36,250 -
25th Percentile £60,000 £51,563 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £59,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.41% +12.38% -
75th Percentile £115,000 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile - - £78,750
West Midlands median annual salary £39,750 £45,512 £42,500
% change year-on-year -12.66% +7.09% -15.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Birmingham

VPN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 374 293 429
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 13.80% 14.64% 13.69%
Number of salaries quoted 308 206 316
10th Percentile £26,750 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,938 £34,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.45% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,188 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £76,875
West Midlands median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -4.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in Birmingham

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Salary Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VPN in Birmingham.

Salary trend for VPN in Birmingham

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Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing VPN in Birmingham over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for VPN in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 2 (6.45%) Exchange Server 2010
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (6.45%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 18 (58.06%) Azure
2 12 (38.71%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (35.48%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (32.26%) IaaS
4 10 (32.26%) PaaS
5 3 (9.68%) Entra ID
6 2 (6.45%) Amazon S3
6 2 (6.45%) AWS
6 2 (6.45%) Mimecast
6 2 (6.45%) OpenDNS
7 1 (3.23%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 20 (64.52%) Firewall
2 14 (45.16%) Network Security
3 10 (32.26%) NGFW
4 9 (29.03%) MPLS
4 9 (29.03%) TCP/IP
5 8 (25.81%) DNS
5 8 (25.81%) LAN
5 8 (25.81%) WAN
6 7 (22.58%) IPsec
6 7 (22.58%) VLAN
6 7 (22.58%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (19.35%) WLAN
8 5 (16.13%) OSPF
9 4 (12.90%) DHCP
9 4 (12.90%) SD-WAN
10 3 (9.68%) BGP
10 3 (9.68%) DMZ
10 3 (9.68%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (9.68%) SSL
11 2 (6.45%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.45%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (6.45%) SQL Server
1 2 (6.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (6.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 2 (6.45%) Finance
1 2 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (6.45%) Law
1 2 (6.45%) Legal
2 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (45.16%) Network Engineer
2 10 (32.26%) Architect
2 10 (32.26%) Citrix Architect
2 10 (32.26%) Cloud Architect
2 10 (32.26%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
2 10 (32.26%) DevOps Architect
3 5 (16.13%) Senior
3 5 (16.13%) Senior Network Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Firewall Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Analyst
5 3 (9.68%) Presales Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Presales Network Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 2 (6.45%) 3rd Line Support
6 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure Support
6 2 (6.45%) IT Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (32.26%) ARM Templates
1 10 (32.26%) JSON
1 10 (32.26%) YAML
2 2 (6.45%) LAMP
2 2 (6.45%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 10 (32.26%) Private Cloud
1 10 (32.26%) Public Cloud
2 5 (16.13%) PKI
3 2 (6.45%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.90%) Windows
1 4 (12.90%) Windows Server
2 2 (6.45%) Linux
2 2 (6.45%) Windows 10
2 2 (6.45%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (6.45%) Windows Server 2012
2 2 (6.45%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (6.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (45.16%) Network Virtualisation
2 11 (35.48%) Agile
2 11 (35.48%) CI/CD
2 11 (35.48%) DevOps
2 11 (35.48%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (32.26%) Network Design
3 10 (32.26%) SDLC
4 5 (16.13%) Collaborative Culture
4 5 (16.13%) Network Architecture
4 5 (16.13%) Network Monitoring
5 4 (12.90%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (12.90%) Computer Science
6 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (9.68%) Migration
6 3 (9.68%) Presales
6 3 (9.68%) Reverse Engineering
7 2 (6.45%) Roadmaps
7 2 (6.45%) Server Management
7 2 (6.45%) Server Migrations
7 2 (6.45%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (38.71%) PowerShell
2 2 (6.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (22.58%) CCNP
1 7 (22.58%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (19.35%) CCNA
3 4 (12.90%) Azure Certification
3 4 (12.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (12.90%) Degree
3 4 (12.90%) JNCIA
4 2 (6.45%) CCDA
4 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) SLA
2 1 (3.23%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (38.71%) VMware ESXi
2 10 (32.26%) Virtual Desktop
2 10 (32.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (32.26%) vSphere
3 4 (12.90%) Active Directory
4 2 (6.45%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 2 (6.45%) Docker
4 2 (6.45%) Hyper-V
4 2 (6.45%) pfSense
4 2 (6.45%) Terminal Services
4 2 (6.45%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 11 (35.48%) Terraform
2 2 (6.45%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 15 (48.39%) Cisco
2 12 (38.71%) Citrix
3 10 (32.26%) VMware
4 6 (19.35%) Juniper
5 4 (12.90%) Microsoft
5 4 (12.90%) Sophos
6 3 (9.68%) CheckPoint
6 3 (9.68%) Fortinet
6 3 (9.68%) Meraki
7 2 (6.45%) Acronis
7 2 (6.45%) Altova
7 2 (6.45%) Aruba
7 2 (6.45%) Avaya
7 2 (6.45%) F5
7 2 (6.45%) HP
7 2 (6.45%) Palo Alto
7 2 (6.45%) SonicWALL
7 2 (6.45%) Veeam
7 2 (6.45%) Veritas
8 1 (3.23%) Snow