VPN Jobs in Cheshire

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring VPN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited VPN over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 88 74
Rank change year-on-year +58 -14 +19
Permanent jobs citing VPN 71 12 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 9.04% 0.77% 1.76%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.52% 6.35% 7.02%
Number of salaries quoted 5 11 16
10th Percentile £28,450 £25,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £27,500 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £35,000 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -49.09% +111.54%
75th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £110,000
North West median annual salary £34,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -24.44% - +38.46%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cheshire

VPN falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 346 189 228
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 44.08% 12.10% 25.14%
Number of salaries quoted 151 153 113
10th Percentile £20,280 £24,840 £25,420
25th Percentile - £29,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £23,504 £37,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -37.32% -11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £29,500 £53,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £40,000 £62,500 £75,000
North West median annual salary £33,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -26.67% -5.26% -

VPN
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in Cheshire

VPN
Salary Trend in Cheshire

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

Salary trend for VPN in Cheshire

VPN
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing VPN in Cheshire over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for VPN in Cheshire

VPN
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 18 May 2025. 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
Warrington +38 19 £34,500 -1.43% 1
Lymm - 3 - -
Chester - 3 £34,000 - 1
Wilmslow - 2 - -
Knutsford +13 1 - -
Alderley Edge - 1 - -
Frodsham - 1 - -
Runcorn - 1 - -
Widnes - 1 - -
VPN
North West

VPN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 4 (5.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.23%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (5.63%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (1.41%) Azure
2 1 (1.41%) Entra ID
2 1 (1.41%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 39 (54.93%) Cisco IOS
2 28 (39.44%) DNS
3 3 (4.23%) Skype
4 1 (1.41%) BGP
4 1 (1.41%) DHCP
4 1 (1.41%) Ethernet
4 1 (1.41%) Firewall
4 1 (1.41%) IPsec
4 1 (1.41%) Junos
4 1 (1.41%) LAN
4 1 (1.41%) Network Security
4 1 (1.41%) SNMP
4 1 (1.41%) SSL
4 1 (1.41%) WAN
4 1 (1.41%) Wireless
4 1 (1.41%) Wireshark
General
1 66 (92.96%) Analytical Skills
1 66 (92.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 27 (38.03%) Finance
3 3 (4.23%) Banking
3 3 (4.23%) Investment Banking
3 3 (4.23%) Social Skills
4 2 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (54.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 27 (38.03%) Developer
2 27 (38.03%) Software Developer
3 3 (4.23%) Service Desk Engineer
4 1 (1.41%) Administrator
4 1 (1.41%) Analyst
4 1 (1.41%) Network Administrator
4 1 (1.41%) Service Analyst
4 1 (1.41%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (54.93%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 66 (92.96%) Cyberattack
2 1 (1.41%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 66 (92.96%) Android
1 66 (92.96%) Linux
2 43 (60.56%) Windows
3 3 (4.23%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.41%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (92.96%) Line Management
1 66 (92.96%) Mathematics
2 39 (54.93%) DevOps
2 39 (54.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 39 (54.93%) Platform Engineering
2 39 (54.93%) Problem-Solving
2 39 (54.93%) Risk Management
2 39 (54.93%) Storage Management
2 39 (54.93%) Task Automation
3 27 (38.03%) Agile
3 27 (38.03%) Android Development
3 27 (38.03%) Design Patterns
3 27 (38.03%) OO
3 27 (38.03%) OOP
4 3 (4.23%) Chat Support
4 3 (4.23%) Customer Service
4 3 (4.23%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 66 (92.96%) Python
2 39 (54.93%) Bash
2 39 (54.93%) PowerShell
3 27 (38.03%) C++
3 27 (38.03%) Go
3 27 (38.03%) Java
Qualifications
1 27 (38.03%) DV Cleared
1 27 (38.03%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.23%) Degree
System Software
1 66 (92.96%) Docker
2 39 (54.93%) Hyper-V
2 39 (54.93%) VMware NSX
2 39 (54.93%) vSphere
3 1 (1.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 66 (92.96%) Ansible
2 39 (54.93%) Terraform
3 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.41%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 42 (59.15%) Cisco
2 40 (56.34%) Juniper
3 39 (54.93%) 3PAR
3 39 (54.93%) Splunk
4 3 (4.23%) Citrix
4 3 (4.23%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.23%) Remedy
5 1 (1.41%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.41%) SolarWinds