VPN Jobs in Tyne and Wear

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 79 80 82
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 -5
Permanent jobs citing VPN 19 17 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 1.44% 1.85% 1.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.86% 7.83% 8.22%
Number of salaries quoted 17 15 10
10th Percentile £23,500 £22,800 £23,850
25th Percentile £27,500 £28,750 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £40,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% -4.71% -12.37%
75th Percentile £62,500 £44,315 £51,125
90th Percentile £63,750 £46,689 £61,000
North East median annual salary £35,250 £40,500 £37,550
% change year-on-year -12.96% +7.86% +15.54%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 175 217 146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 13.28% 23.64% 13.66%
Number of salaries quoted 165 95 69
10th Percentile £25,000 £30,650 £24,200
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,750 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - +3.66%
75th Percentile £53,750 £49,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £73,325 £75,000
North East median annual salary £42,500 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +3.66% +2.50% +3.90%

VPN
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing VPN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for VPN in Tyne and Wear

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Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VPN in Tyne and Wear.

Salary trend for VPN in Tyne and Wear

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Salary Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution for jobs citing VPN in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for VPN in Tyne and Wear

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Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 26 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -2 14 £35,250 -12.96% 2
Sunderland -16 4 £45,000 +9.76%
Gateshead +3 1 £55,000 +134.04%
VPN
North East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 (5.26%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (42.11%) Azure
2 7 (36.84%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (26.32%) AWS
4 2 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (10.53%) AWS CloudTrail
4 2 (10.53%) AWS Direct Connect
4 2 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (10.53%) Entra ID
4 2 (10.53%) Route 53
4 2 (10.53%) Serverless
4 2 (10.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (5.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (5.26%) Dropbox
5 1 (5.26%) GCP
5 1 (5.26%) Google Drive
5 1 (5.26%) Google Workspace
5 1 (5.26%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 10 (52.63%) Firewall
2 4 (21.05%) DNS
2 4 (21.05%) LAN
2 4 (21.05%) Network Security
2 4 (21.05%) OSPF
2 4 (21.05%) SD-WAN
2 4 (21.05%) WAN
3 3 (15.79%) BGP
3 3 (15.79%) DMZ
3 3 (15.79%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (15.79%) IPsec
3 3 (15.79%) MPLS
3 3 (15.79%) SSL
4 2 (10.53%) VoIP
5 1 (5.26%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (5.26%) DHCP
5 1 (5.26%) EIGRP
5 1 (5.26%) NAS
5 1 (5.26%) NX-OS
5 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
General
1 8 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Law
4 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Police
4 1 (5.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) IT Technician
1 6 (31.58%) Network Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) IT Support
3 3 (15.79%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Firewall Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) IT Support Technician
3 3 (15.79%) Presales Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Presales Network Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Support Technician
4 2 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Help Desk Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Support
5 1 (5.26%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) PKI
2 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (52.63%) Windows
2 8 (42.11%) Windows Server
3 2 (10.53%) Unix
4 1 (5.26%) Linux
4 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (15.79%) Presales
1 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (15.79%) Reverse Engineering
2 2 (10.53%) CI/CD
2 2 (10.53%) Cloud Security
2 2 (10.53%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (10.53%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (10.53%) Customer Service
2 2 (10.53%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (10.53%) DevOps
2 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (10.53%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 2 (10.53%) Project Management
2 2 (10.53%) Roadmaps
3 1 (5.26%) Event-Driven
3 1 (5.26%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (5.26%) Mobile Device Management
3 1 (5.26%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
1 2 (10.53%) Python
2 1 (5.26%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Azure Certification
2 2 (10.53%) AWS Certification
2 2 (10.53%) CCNA
2 2 (10.53%) CCNP
2 2 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (10.53%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) DV Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Active Directory
1 3 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.26%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.26%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.26%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Terraform
2 1 (5.26%) Autotask
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) CheckPoint
2 3 (15.79%) Fortinet
2 3 (15.79%) VMware
3 2 (10.53%) Cisco
3 2 (10.53%) Forcepoint
3 2 (10.53%) Google
4 1 (5.26%) Citrix
4 1 (5.26%) Draytek
4 1 (5.26%) Meraki
4 1 (5.26%) Synology