VPN Jobs in the North East

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
England > North East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 89 95 90
Rank change year-on-year +6 -5 -19
Permanent jobs citing VPN 28 18 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 1.53% 1.41% 1.62%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.20% 5.94% 9.68%
Number of salaries quoted 26 15 22
10th Percentile £24,500 £22,800 £24,500
25th Percentile £25,688 £28,750 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,250 £40,500 £37,550
Median % change year-on-year -12.96% +7.86% +15.54%
75th Percentile £48,438 £44,315 £43,250
90th Percentile £63,125 £46,689 £52,975
England median annual salary £46,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -7.00% +5.26% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North East

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 the North East with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 250 303 248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 13.68% 23.71% 16.76%
Number of salaries quoted 227 116 155
10th Percentile £25,500 £30,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,875 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £41,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.66% +2.50% +3.90%
75th Percentile £61,875 £48,750 £45,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £63,750 £60,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in the North East

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Salary Trend in the North East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VPN in the North East.

Salary trend for VPN in the North East

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Salary Histogram in the North East

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

Salary histogram for VPN in the North East

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Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the North East region over the 6 months to 28 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
Tyne and Wear -5 19 £38,000 -6.17% 2
Durham +10 9 £30,000 - 3
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (3.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (60.71%) Azure
2 16 (57.14%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (28.57%) AWS
4 3 (10.71%) IaaS
4 3 (10.71%) PaaS
4 3 (10.71%) SaaS
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (7.14%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Direct Connect
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (7.14%) Entra ID
5 2 (7.14%) Route 53
5 2 (7.14%) Serverless
5 2 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (3.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (3.57%) Dropbox
6 1 (3.57%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 16 (57.14%) Firewall
2 13 (46.43%) LAN
2 13 (46.43%) WAN
3 9 (32.14%) Wi-Fi
4 8 (28.57%) VoIP
5 6 (21.43%) VLAN
6 4 (14.29%) DHCP
6 4 (14.29%) DNS
6 4 (14.29%) Network Security
6 4 (14.29%) OSPF
6 4 (14.29%) SD-WAN
7 3 (10.71%) BGP
7 3 (10.71%) DMZ
7 3 (10.71%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (10.71%) IPsec
7 3 (10.71%) MPLS
7 3 (10.71%) SSL
8 1 (3.57%) EIGRP
8 1 (3.57%) NAS
8 1 (3.57%) TCP/IP
General
1 13 (46.43%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.86%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Law
5 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Police
5 1 (3.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) 2nd Line Support
2 6 (21.43%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) IT Technician
2 6 (21.43%) Network Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) IT Support
4 3 (10.71%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Firewall Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) IT Support Technician
4 3 (10.71%) Presales Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Presales Network Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Support Technician
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Help Desk Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) Clustering
2 4 (14.29%) Driving Licence
3 3 (10.71%) Mobile App
3 3 (10.71%) PKI
4 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (57.14%) Windows
2 14 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 6 (21.43%) Mac OS
3 6 (21.43%) Windows 10
3 6 (21.43%) Windows Server 2019
4 5 (17.86%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (7.14%) Unix
5 2 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (3.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (25.00%) Mobile Device Management
3 5 (17.86%) Decision-Making
3 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (17.86%) Quality Management
4 4 (14.29%) Security Operations
5 3 (10.71%) Agile
5 3 (10.71%) Cloud Security
5 3 (10.71%) E-Commerce
5 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (10.71%) Observability
5 3 (10.71%) Presales
5 3 (10.71%) Reverse Engineering
6 2 (7.14%) Continuous Delivery
6 2 (7.14%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (7.14%) Customer Service
6 2 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (7.14%) DevOps
6 2 (7.14%) Project Management
6 2 (7.14%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 8 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 2 (7.14%) Python
3 1 (3.57%) Bash
Qualifications
1 7 (25.00%) Degree
2 4 (14.29%) Azure Certification
3 2 (7.14%) AWS Certification
3 2 (7.14%) CCNA
3 2 (7.14%) CCNP
3 2 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (7.14%) DV Cleared
3 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 11 (39.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (25.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.57%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (3.57%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 7 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (21.43%) Autotask
2 6 (21.43%) Failover Clustering
2 6 (21.43%) Jamf Pro
2 6 (21.43%) SCCM
3 3 (10.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (53.57%) Microsoft
2 12 (42.86%) VMware
3 5 (17.86%) Datto
4 4 (14.29%) Apple
5 3 (10.71%) CheckPoint
5 3 (10.71%) Fortinet
6 2 (7.14%) Cisco
6 2 (7.14%) Forcepoint
6 2 (7.14%) Google
7 1 (3.57%) Aruba
7 1 (3.57%) Citrix
7 1 (3.57%) Draytek
7 1 (3.57%) Meraki
7 1 (3.57%) Sophos
7 1 (3.57%) Synology