VPN Jobs in Lancashire

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 85 64
Rank change year-on-year +65 -21 +57
Permanent jobs citing VPN 477 3 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 20.59% 0.23% 1.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 82.38% 2.44% 6.06%
Number of salaries quoted 6 3 9
10th Percentile - - £20,750
25th Percentile £24,500 £42,500 £23,194
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,000 £45,000 £27,000
Median % change year-on-year -44.44% +66.67% +8.00%
75th Percentile £25,500 £47,500 £49,594
90th Percentile £46,500 - -
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
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 579 123 165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 24.99% 9.40% 23.64%
Number of salaries quoted 75 116 63
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,500 £23,750
25th Percentile £24,500 £32,000 £28,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +25.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £48,750
90th Percentile £61,250 £67,968 £50,919
North West median annual salary £33,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -26.67% -5.26% -

VPN
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in Lancashire

VPN
Salary Trend in Lancashire

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

Salary trend for VPN in Lancashire

VPN
Salary Histogram in Lancashire

Salary distribution for jobs citing VPN in Lancashire over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for VPN in Lancashire

VPN
Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 16 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
Preston - 8 - - 2
Accrington - 7 - -
Blackburn - 7 - -
Chorley - 7 - - 1
Darwen - 7 - -
Skelmersdale - 6 - -
Rossendale - 5 - -
Blackpool -28 4 - - 1
Clitheroe - 4 - -
Newton-le-Willows - 4 - -
Ormskirk - 4 - -
Poulton-le-Fylde - 3 - -
Nelson - 3 - -
Colne - 3 - -
Burnley - 3 - -
Bacup - 2 - -
Barnoldswick - 1 - -
Fleetwood - 1 - -
Morecambe - 1 - -
VPN
North West

VPN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 5 (1.05%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (1.05%) Microsoft 365
1 5 (1.05%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 305 (63.94%) DNS
2 163 (34.17%) Cisco IOS
3 5 (1.05%) LAN
3 5 (1.05%) WAN
4 4 (0.84%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.21%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 3 (0.63%) Cucumber
1 3 (0.63%) Robot Framework
General
1 471 (98.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 468 (98.11%) Analytical Skills
3 305 (63.94%) Finance
4 3 (0.63%) Social Skills
4 3 (0.63%) Telecoms
5 1 (0.21%) Aerospace
5 1 (0.21%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 305 (63.94%) Developer
1 305 (63.94%) Software Developer
2 163 (34.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (1.26%) Analyst
4 5 (1.05%) IT Analyst
4 5 (1.05%) IT Support
4 5 (1.05%) IT Support Analyst
4 5 (1.05%) Support Analyst
5 3 (0.63%) Test Automation Engineer
5 3 (0.63%) Test Engineer
6 1 (0.21%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (34.17%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 468 (98.11%) Cyberattack
2 5 (1.05%) Onboarding
3 3 (0.63%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (0.21%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (0.21%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 471 (98.74%) Linux
2 468 (98.11%) Android
3 171 (35.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 468 (98.11%) Line Management
1 468 (98.11%) Mathematics
2 305 (63.94%) Agile
2 305 (63.94%) Android Development
2 305 (63.94%) Design Patterns
2 305 (63.94%) OO
2 305 (63.94%) OOP
3 171 (35.85%) Problem-Solving
4 166 (34.80%) DevOps
5 163 (34.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 163 (34.17%) Platform Engineering
5 163 (34.17%) Risk Management
5 163 (34.17%) Storage Management
5 163 (34.17%) Task Automation
6 5 (1.05%) Asset Management
6 5 (1.05%) Data Protection
6 5 (1.05%) IT Asset Management
6 5 (1.05%) Mobile Device Management
7 3 (0.63%) System Testing
7 3 (0.63%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 471 (98.74%) Python
2 305 (63.94%) C++
2 305 (63.94%) Go
2 305 (63.94%) Java
3 166 (34.80%) Bash
3 166 (34.80%) PowerShell
4 3 (0.63%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 305 (63.94%) DV Cleared
1 305 (63.94%) Security Cleared
2 5 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (0.63%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (0.63%) QA
System Software
1 468 (98.11%) Docker
2 163 (34.17%) Hyper-V
2 163 (34.17%) VMware NSX
2 163 (34.17%) vSphere
3 5 (1.05%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 468 (98.11%) Ansible
2 163 (34.17%) Terraform
3 5 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 163 (34.17%) 3PAR
1 163 (34.17%) Cisco
1 163 (34.17%) Juniper
1 163 (34.17%) Splunk
2 5 (1.05%) Microsoft