VPN Jobs in the North of England

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 185 207 247
Rank change year-on-year +22 +40 -76
Permanent jobs citing VPN 231 266 226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.32% 1.54% 1.25%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.66% 8.40% 8.10%
Number of salaries quoted 175 203 205
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,250 £24,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £27,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £50,750 £58,750 £56,250
90th Percentile £63,750 £76,672 £69,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

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 of England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,166 3,168 2,789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 12.39% 18.37% 15.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,662 1,257 1,688
10th Percentile £25,888 £26,000 £26,675
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -
75th Percentile £60,938 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £73,706 £73,675
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 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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Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for VPN in the North of England

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Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing VPN in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for VPN in the North of England

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Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the North of England region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
Yorkshire +88 119 £37,500 -25.00% 18
North West -37 90 £45,000 - 30
North East +8 28 £35,250 -12.96% 9
VPN
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 37 (16.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (11.69%) SharePoint
3 16 (6.93%) Apache
4 3 (1.30%) IIS
5 2 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.87%) Resin
6 1 (0.43%) Confluence
6 1 (0.43%) WebSphere
Applications
1 35 (15.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 106 (45.89%) Microsoft 365
2 104 (45.02%) Azure
3 27 (11.69%) AWS
4 25 (10.82%) Entra ID
5 17 (7.36%) Amazon S3
6 11 (4.76%) GCP
6 11 (4.76%) IaaS
7 10 (4.33%) OneDrive
8 9 (3.90%) PaaS
9 8 (3.46%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (2.60%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (2.16%) SaaS
11 5 (2.16%) Snowflake
12 4 (1.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (1.73%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (1.73%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (1.73%) Serverless
13 3 (1.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 2 (0.87%) AWS Direct Connect
14 2 (0.87%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 143 (61.90%) Firewall
2 109 (47.19%) WAN
3 104 (45.02%) LAN
4 80 (34.63%) DNS
5 69 (29.87%) DHCP
6 48 (20.78%) TCP/IP
7 43 (18.61%) Network Security
8 42 (18.18%) Wi-Fi
9 38 (16.45%) SSL
10 35 (15.15%) VoIP
11 31 (13.42%) IPsec
11 31 (13.42%) VLAN
12 29 (12.55%) Internet
13 21 (9.09%) OSPF
13 21 (9.09%) SD-WAN
14 20 (8.66%) BGP
14 20 (8.66%) WLAN
15 19 (8.23%) SNMP
16 16 (6.93%) MPLS
16 16 (6.93%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (9.96%) SQL Server
2 20 (8.66%) Elasticsearch
3 15 (6.49%) MongoDB
4 7 (3.03%) Redis
5 6 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (2.16%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (2.16%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.73%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.87%) Looker
9 1 (0.43%) MySQL
9 1 (0.43%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (0.87%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.43%) JIRA
General
1 55 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 34 (14.72%) Finance
3 20 (8.66%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (4.33%) Retail
4 10 (4.33%) Telecoms
5 7 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.60%) French Language
6 6 (2.60%) German Language
6 6 (2.60%) Italian Language
6 6 (2.60%) Portuguese Language
6 6 (2.60%) Spanish Language
6 6 (2.60%) Swedish Language
6 6 (2.60%) Turkish Language
7 4 (1.73%) Agriculture
7 4 (1.73%) Law
7 4 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.30%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.43%) Legal
9 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 57 (24.68%) Network Engineer
2 36 (15.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 28 (12.12%) Analyst
3 28 (12.12%) IT Support
4 20 (8.66%) IT Engineer
5 17 (7.36%) Consultant
5 17 (7.36%) Support Engineer
6 15 (6.49%) NetApp Consultant
7 13 (5.63%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 12 (5.19%) 2nd Line Support
8 12 (5.19%) IT Technician
8 12 (5.19%) Lead
8 12 (5.19%) Senior
9 11 (4.76%) IT Manager
10 10 (4.33%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (3.90%) Architect
11 9 (3.90%) Head of IT
11 9 (3.90%) Service Analyst
11 9 (3.90%) Service Desk Analyst
12 8 (3.46%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.49%) RabbitMQ
1 15 (6.49%) YAML
2 5 (2.16%) Middleware
3 2 (0.87%) .NET
3 2 (0.87%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (0.43%) JSON
4 1 (0.43%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 41 (17.75%) Data Centre
2 16 (6.93%) Management Information System
3 15 (6.49%) Driving Licence
4 11 (4.76%) Onboarding
4 11 (4.76%) Replication
5 10 (4.33%) Clustering
6 8 (3.46%) Product Ownership
7 7 (3.03%) PMI
7 7 (3.03%) Public Cloud
8 6 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.73%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.30%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.30%) PKI
11 2 (0.87%) Cloud Native
11 2 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.87%) NHS
12 1 (0.43%) Cyber Threat
12 1 (0.43%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 136 (58.87%) Windows
2 66 (28.57%) Windows Server
3 59 (25.54%) Linux
4 21 (9.09%) Windows 10
5 15 (6.49%) Data ONTAP
6 12 (5.19%) Windows Server 2012
6 12 (5.19%) Windows Server 2019
7 11 (4.76%) Apple iOS
7 11 (4.76%) Mac OS
8 9 (3.90%) Android
9 6 (2.60%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.87%) Unix
10 2 (0.87%) VMS
10 2 (0.87%) Windows XP
11 1 (0.43%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
2 52 (22.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 41 (17.75%) Customer Service
4 33 (14.29%) ITIL
5 32 (13.85%) Migration
6 28 (12.12%) Project Management
7 27 (11.69%) Computer Science
8 24 (10.39%) Disaster Recovery
9 21 (9.09%) Infrastructure Management
9 21 (9.09%) Release Management
10 20 (8.66%) Cybersecurity
11 18 (7.79%) Service Management
12 15 (6.49%) Actionable Insight
12 15 (6.49%) Kalman Filter
12 15 (6.49%) Patch Management
12 15 (6.49%) Project Planning
12 15 (6.49%) Roadmaps
12 15 (6.49%) Storage Management
13 14 (6.06%) Agile
13 14 (6.06%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (12.12%) SQL
2 26 (11.26%) PowerShell
3 21 (9.09%) Python
4 7 (3.03%) Bash
5 2 (0.87%) Java
Qualifications
1 52 (22.51%) Cisco Certification
2 40 (17.32%) Degree
3 35 (15.15%) CCNA
3 35 (15.15%) CCNP
4 23 (9.96%) CISSP
5 20 (8.66%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (7.36%) Azure Certification
6 17 (7.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (5.63%) MCSE
8 11 (4.76%) CCIE
9 9 (3.90%) MCSA
9 9 (3.90%) Security Cleared
10 7 (3.03%) PMI Certification
11 5 (2.16%) Citrix Certification
11 5 (2.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 5 (2.16%) JNCIA
11 5 (2.16%) SC Cleared
11 5 (2.16%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (2.16%) VCAP
11 5 (2.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (12.12%) SLA
2 14 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.30%) ISO 22301
3 3 (1.30%) NIST
4 2 (0.87%) ISO 9001
4 2 (0.87%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.87%) QA
5 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.43%) FISMA
5 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.43%) HITRUST
5 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 109 (47.19%) Active Directory
2 64 (27.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (15.58%) Hyper-V
4 18 (7.79%) Docker
5 9 (3.90%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (3.90%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (3.46%) vSphere
7 6 (2.60%) VMware NSX
8 4 (1.73%) Firmware
8 4 (1.73%) vCloud
9 3 (1.30%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.43%) Terminal Server
11 1 (0.43%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.43%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 40 (17.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (10.82%) Kubernetes
3 20 (8.66%) Prometheus
4 19 (8.23%) vCenter Server
5 17 (7.36%) SCCM
6 16 (6.93%) Ansible
7 13 (5.63%) Terraform
8 10 (4.33%) Failover Clustering
9 9 (3.90%) SCOM
10 7 (3.03%) FortiGate
11 6 (2.60%) Autotask
11 6 (2.60%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (2.16%) Grafana
13 4 (1.73%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 4 (1.73%) WSUS
14 3 (1.30%) ZABBIX
15 2 (0.87%) Backup Exec
15 2 (0.87%) Host Intrusion Detection System
16 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 109 (47.19%) Microsoft
2 96 (41.56%) VMware
3 64 (27.71%) Cisco
4 30 (12.99%) Palo Alto
5 25 (10.82%) Veeam
6 22 (9.52%) Meraki
7 21 (9.09%) Citrix
8 18 (7.79%) SolarWinds
9 17 (7.36%) NetApp
10 16 (6.93%) Fortinet
11 15 (6.49%) Red Hat
11 15 (6.49%) SolidFire
12 12 (5.19%) Juniper
13 10 (4.33%) Google
14 8 (3.46%) Aruba
15 7 (3.03%) Apple
15 7 (3.03%) F5
15 7 (3.03%) SAP
16 6 (2.60%) CheckPoint
16 6 (2.60%) Oracle