VPN Jobs in Merseyside

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
North West > Merseyside

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 73 85 96
Rank change year-on-year +12 +11 -
Permanent jobs citing VPN 24 17 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 1.85% 1.57% 1.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.64% 6.91% 6.13%
Number of salaries quoted 19 14 11
10th Percentile £38,200 £22,725 -
25th Percentile £42,500 £29,063 £21,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £49,237 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% +31.30% -
75th Percentile £66,875 £57,813 £68,125
90th Percentile £70,000 £58,750 £77,500
North West median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £36,000
% change year-on-year - +25.00% -28.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 176 246 212
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 13.58% 22.67% 18.07%
Number of salaries quoted 115 70 109
10th Percentile £24,750 £26,650 £22,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,063 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £68,500 £75,000 £73,750
North West median annual salary £45,000 £47,000 £45,250
% change year-on-year -4.26% +3.87% +0.56%

VPN
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in Merseyside

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Salary Trend in Merseyside

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

Salary trend for VPN in Merseyside

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Salary Histogram in Merseyside

Salary distribution for jobs citing VPN in Merseyside over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for VPN in Merseyside

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Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Liverpool +15 20 £62,500 +8.70%
Wirral -4 4 £45,000 -14.29% 1
VPN
North West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 5 (20.83%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (29.17%) Azure
1 7 (29.17%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (20.83%) Amazon S3
2 5 (20.83%) IaaS
2 5 (20.83%) PaaS
3 2 (8.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 18 (75.00%) Firewall
2 12 (50.00%) DNS
3 11 (45.83%) IPsec
4 10 (41.67%) Internet
5 9 (37.50%) DHCP
5 9 (37.50%) LAN
5 9 (37.50%) TCP/IP
5 9 (37.50%) WAN
6 8 (33.33%) SD-WAN
6 8 (33.33%) SSL
7 7 (29.17%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (25.00%) BGP
8 6 (25.00%) MPLS
8 6 (25.00%) OSPF
9 5 (20.83%) SNMP
10 4 (16.67%) 4G
11 3 (12.50%) DMZ
11 3 (12.50%) HSRP
11 3 (12.50%) Intrusion Detection
11 3 (12.50%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (20.83%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (20.83%) MongoDB
2 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (20.83%) Finance
1 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Telecoms
3 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Consultant
2 5 (20.83%) Lead
2 5 (20.83%) NetApp Consultant
3 3 (12.50%) Firewall Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Presales Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Presales Network Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Technical Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Desktop Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Desktop Support
4 2 (8.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) IT Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Support Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Operations Team Leader
5 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Team Leader
5 1 (4.17%) Operations Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Operations Team Leader
5 1 (4.17%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) RabbitMQ
1 5 (20.83%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 3 (12.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (37.50%) Windows
2 5 (20.83%) Data ONTAP
2 5 (20.83%) Linux
3 2 (8.33%) Windows Server
3 2 (8.33%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) Release Management
2 8 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (29.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 7 (29.17%) Project Management
4 5 (20.83%) Actionable Insight
4 5 (20.83%) Change Management
4 5 (20.83%) Cost Management
4 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Management
4 5 (20.83%) Line Management
4 5 (20.83%) Migration
4 5 (20.83%) Performance Management
4 5 (20.83%) Project Planning
4 5 (20.83%) Resource Allocation
4 5 (20.83%) Service-Level Objective
4 5 (20.83%) Storage Management
4 5 (20.83%) Technology Transformation
5 4 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (16.67%) Customer Service
5 4 (16.67%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (37.50%) SQL
2 5 (20.83%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) CCNA
1 3 (12.50%) CCNP
1 3 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) SLA
2 4 (16.67%) ISO 22301
2 4 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (20.83%) Docker
1 5 (20.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 2 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) Ansible
1 5 (20.83%) Kubernetes
1 5 (20.83%) Prometheus
1 5 (20.83%) Terraform
1 5 (20.83%) vCenter Server
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) VMware
2 6 (25.00%) Fortinet
3 5 (20.83%) Cisco
3 5 (20.83%) NetApp
3 5 (20.83%) Palo Alto
3 5 (20.83%) Red Hat
3 5 (20.83%) SolidFire
4 2 (8.33%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 2 (8.33%) SolarWinds
4 2 (8.33%) Veeam