VPN Job Trends in Coventry

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Coventry requiring VPN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 32 -
Rank change year-on-year +4 - -
Permanent jobs citing VPN 3 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Coventry 1.13% 0.54% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.00% 4.17% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £63,500 - -
25th Percentile £65,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £45,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +55.56% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 - -
90th Percentile £76,500 - -
West Midlands median annual salary £41,000 £45,000 £44,000
% change year-on-year -8.89% +2.27% +3.53%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 20 24 77
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Coventry 7.52% 12.97% 30.56%
Number of salaries quoted 10 21 73
10th Percentile £31,500 £42,500 -
25th Percentile £35,875 £46,250 £26,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +23.53% -17.44%
75th Percentile £63,400 £70,000 £56,950
90th Percentile £68,500 £72,500 £62,480
West Midlands median annual salary £37,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% +11.11% -5.26%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

VPN job vacancy trend in Coventry

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Salary Trend in Coventry

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing VPN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing VPN

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) Internet
2 2 (66.67%) SSL
3 1 (33.33%) DMVPN
3 1 (33.33%) LAN
3 1 (33.33%) Network Security
3 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
3 1 (33.33%) WAN
3 1 (33.33%) WLAN
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Network Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Network Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (66.67%) PKI
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
1 3 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Cryptography
2 2 (66.67%) Cyber Resilience
2 2 (66.67%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (66.67%) Network Segmentation
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) Product Requirements
2 2 (66.67%) Security Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Security Operations
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Network Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Runbook
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) CASB
1 2 (66.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Netskope
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Meraki