VPN Jobs in the East Midlands

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 127 134
Rank change year-on-year +15 +7 +2
Permanent jobs citing VPN 41 73 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.53% 1.51% 1.37%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.07% 12.65% 6.15%
Number of salaries quoted 14 65 19
10th Percentile £27,550 £25,500 £27,650
25th Percentile £32,188 £31,250 £30,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,750 £39,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.64% +11.43% -20.00%
75th Percentile £40,000 £50,000 £48,125
90th Percentile £45,325 £68,750 £59,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +5.26%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 407 577 618
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 15.16% 11.96% 22.25%
Number of salaries quoted 158 470 206
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £27,813 £30,500 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% - -4.19%
75th Percentile £54,229 £52,500 £55,938
90th Percentile £61,250 £58,750 £61,250
England median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing VPN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for VPN in the East Midlands

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Salary Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VPN in the East Midlands.

Salary trend for VPN in the East Midlands

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Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing VPN in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for VPN in the East Midlands

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Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 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
Northamptonshire +3 16 £40,000 +53.85% 18
Derbyshire -2 13 £35,000 -2.78% 38
Leicestershire +28 4 £37,500 -6.25% 23
Nottinghamshire +19 3 £26,500 -59.23% 26
Lincolnshire +13 3 - - 16
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (9.76%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (29.27%) Azure
2 8 (19.51%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (14.63%) IaaS
4 4 (9.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 4 (9.76%) Entra ID
4 4 (9.76%) PaaS
5 3 (7.32%) AWS
6 2 (4.88%) Azure AI
6 2 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.88%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (4.88%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (4.88%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (4.88%) Google Workspace
6 2 (4.88%) Power Automate
6 2 (4.88%) Power Platform
6 2 (4.88%) SaaS
7 1 (2.44%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 17 (41.46%) TCP/IP
2 15 (36.59%) Firewall
3 11 (26.83%) DNS
3 11 (26.83%) WAN
4 9 (21.95%) LAN
5 8 (19.51%) Cisco IOS
5 8 (19.51%) DHCP
6 4 (9.76%) SD-WAN
6 4 (9.76%) Wireless
7 3 (7.32%) Network Security
8 1 (2.44%) 4G
8 1 (2.44%) 5G
8 1 (2.44%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (2.44%) MPLS
8 1 (2.44%) PBX
8 1 (2.44%) SAN
8 1 (2.44%) VoIP
8 1 (2.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.32%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.88%) Data Lake
2 2 (4.88%) MySQL
2 2 (4.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (31.71%) Cucumber
1 13 (31.71%) Robot Framework
2 2 (4.88%) Git
General
1 22 (53.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 17 (41.46%) Social Skills
3 14 (34.15%) Telecoms
4 11 (26.83%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.88%) Legal
6 1 (2.44%) Electronics
6 1 (2.44%) Finance
6 1 (2.44%) Law
6 1 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (31.71%) Test Automation Engineer
1 13 (31.71%) Test Engineer
2 12 (29.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (9.76%) Analyst
3 4 (9.76%) Network Engineer
4 3 (7.32%) Senior
4 3 (7.32%) Server Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Architect
5 2 (4.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (4.88%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (4.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (19.51%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 13 (31.71%) Linux Command Line
2 9 (21.95%) Cyberattack
3 2 (4.88%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.88%) NHS
4 1 (2.44%) CCTV
4 1 (2.44%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.44%) IoT
4 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.44%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 35 (85.37%) Windows
2 25 (60.98%) Linux
3 12 (29.27%) Windows Server
4 11 (26.83%) Android
5 3 (7.32%) CentOS
5 3 (7.32%) Rocky
5 3 (7.32%) Ubuntu
6 2 (4.88%) Apple iOS
7 1 (2.44%) VMS
7 1 (2.44%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (2.44%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (60.98%) DevOps
2 24 (58.54%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (36.59%) Mentoring
4 13 (31.71%) Coaching
4 13 (31.71%) System Testing
4 13 (31.71%) Test Automation
4 13 (31.71%) Test Management
5 12 (29.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 9 (21.95%) Line Management
6 9 (21.95%) Mathematics
7 8 (19.51%) Platform Engineering
7 8 (19.51%) Risk Management
7 8 (19.51%) Storage Management
7 8 (19.51%) Task Automation
8 7 (17.07%) ITIL
9 6 (14.63%) Disaster Recovery
10 5 (12.20%) Migration
11 4 (9.76%) Continuous Improvement
11 4 (9.76%) Network Virtualisation
11 4 (9.76%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 29 (70.73%) PowerShell
2 22 (53.66%) Python
3 21 (51.22%) Bash
4 13 (31.71%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.88%) Bicep
5 2 (4.88%) SQL
6 1 (2.44%) C++
6 1 (2.44%) Go
6 1 (2.44%) Java
Qualifications
1 13 (31.71%) Degree
2 4 (9.76%) Azure Certification
3 2 (4.88%) A+ Certification
3 2 (4.88%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (4.88%) DBS Check
3 2 (4.88%) MCSA
3 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (4.88%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.44%) CCNA
4 1 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.44%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.44%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (31.71%) QA
2 3 (7.32%) SLA
3 1 (2.44%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (24.39%) Active Directory
2 9 (21.95%) Docker
2 9 (21.95%) Hyper-V
3 8 (19.51%) VMware NSX
3 8 (19.51%) vSphere
4 5 (12.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (4.88%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (2.44%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (29.27%) Ansible
2 8 (19.51%) Terraform
3 2 (4.88%) FortiGate
3 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (4.88%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.44%) Autotask
Vendors
1 11 (26.83%) Cisco
2 10 (24.39%) Microsoft
3 8 (19.51%) 3PAR
3 8 (19.51%) Juniper
3 8 (19.51%) Splunk
4 7 (17.07%) VMware
5 3 (7.32%) Meraki
6 2 (4.88%) Databricks
6 2 (4.88%) Google
6 2 (4.88%) HP
6 2 (4.88%) Sophos
7 1 (2.44%) Barracuda Networks
7 1 (2.44%) NVIDIA