VPN Job Trends in County Antrim

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in County Antrim requiring VPN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing VPN 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in County Antrim 0.24% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.92% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 - -
75th Percentile £42,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Northern Ireland median annual salary £40,000 - £37,500
% change year-on-year - - -41.06%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
County Antrim

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 County Antrim.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 51 30 48
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in County Antrim 6.14% 12.82% 10.50%
Number of salaries quoted 12 16 12
10th Percentile £30,100 £34,063 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,875 £47,188 £28,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £57,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.09% +43.75% -8.57%
75th Percentile £53,125 £62,125 £42,125
90th Percentile £65,875 £81,295 £58,250
Northern Ireland median annual salary £40,000 £57,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -30.43% +43.75% -5.88%

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Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing VPN relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in County Antrim.

VPN job vacancy trend in County Antrim

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Salary Trend in County Antrim

Salary distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing VPN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing VPN

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Job Locations in County Antrim

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 4 September 2026. 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
Belfast - 2 £40,000 - 10
VPN
Northern Ireland

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in County Antrim by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) OCI
1 1 (50.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle APEX
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Technical Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (50.00%) ERP
1 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (50.00%) RBAC
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (50.00%) Runbook
1 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle