VPN Jobs in Leeds

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 57 82 153
Rank change year-on-year +25 +71 +10
Permanent jobs citing VPN 19 50 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 2.44% 2.11% 0.84%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 19.79% 14.88% 8.51%
Number of salaries quoted 16 28 12
10th Percentile £28,750 £36,250 £30,200
25th Percentile £42,875 £46,250 £34,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.50% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £63,750 £59,375
90th Percentile £85,000 £72,750 £65,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £44,700 £47,500 £61,180
% change year-on-year -5.89% -22.36% +43.95%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 96 336 282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 12.32% 14.16% 9.85%
Number of salaries quoted 78 227 133
10th Percentile £26,750 £32,500 £26,550
25th Percentile £27,750 £41,250 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +22.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £73,886 £72,113 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,375 £80,000 £76,316
West Yorkshire median annual salary £40,000 £51,500 £46,250
% change year-on-year -22.33% +11.35% -6.57%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in Leeds

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Salary Trend in Leeds

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

Salary trend for VPN in Leeds

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Salary Histogram in Leeds

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

Salary histogram for VPN in Leeds

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 (21.05%) SharePoint
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) Azure
2 7 (36.84%) AWS
3 6 (31.58%) GCP
3 6 (31.58%) OCI
4 4 (21.05%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (21.05%) OneDrive
5 3 (15.79%) Entra ID
5 3 (15.79%) IaaS
5 3 (15.79%) SaaS
6 2 (10.53%) Mimecast
6 2 (10.53%) Nutanix
7 1 (5.26%) Azure AI
7 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (5.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (5.26%) PaaS
7 1 (5.26%) Power Automate
7 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (57.89%) Firewall
2 8 (42.11%) Network Security
2 8 (42.11%) TCP/IP
3 7 (36.84%) VLAN
4 6 (31.58%) BGP
4 6 (31.58%) DNS
4 6 (31.58%) OSPF
5 4 (21.05%) WAN
6 3 (15.79%) LAN
6 3 (15.79%) NAS
6 3 (15.79%) SAN
7 2 (10.53%) DHCP
8 1 (5.26%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Data Lake
1 1 (5.26%) MySQL
1 1 (5.26%) Power BI
1 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Git
1 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Network Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Lead
2 3 (15.79%) Lead Network Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (10.53%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Consultant
3 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) IT Consultant
3 2 (10.53%) IT Support
3 2 (10.53%) Security Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Senior
3 2 (10.53%) Support Consultant
3 2 (10.53%) Technical Consultant
3 2 (10.53%) Technical Support
3 2 (10.53%) Technical Support Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.26%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Windows
1 4 (21.05%) Windows Server
2 1 (5.26%) Linux
2 1 (5.26%) Mac OS
2 1 (5.26%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (36.84%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (31.58%) Load Balancing
3 6 (31.58%) Network Design
3 6 (31.58%) Task Automation
3 6 (31.58%) Technical Leadership
4 5 (26.32%) ITIL
5 3 (15.79%) Decision-Making
5 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (10.53%) Analytical Thinking
6 2 (10.53%) Cloud Security
6 2 (10.53%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Management
6 2 (10.53%) Network Virtualisation
6 2 (10.53%) Performance Metrics
6 2 (10.53%) Server Building
6 2 (10.53%) Server Management
6 2 (10.53%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 2 (10.53%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) Python
2 5 (26.32%) PowerShell
3 2 (10.53%) SQL
4 1 (5.26%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Azure Certification
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.26%) DBS Check
2 1 (5.26%) Degree
2 1 (5.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (10.53%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (26.32%) Active Directory
2 3 (15.79%) Hyper-V
2 3 (15.79%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (10.53%) Firmware
3 2 (10.53%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (5.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (42.11%) Ansible
2 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (15.79%) Backup Exec
3 3 (15.79%) SCCM
3 3 (15.79%) Terraform
4 2 (10.53%) NetBackup
5 1 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (5.26%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
1 5 (26.32%) Veritas
1 5 (26.32%) VMware
2 2 (10.53%) Cisco
2 2 (10.53%) CrowdStrike
2 2 (10.53%) Tenable
2 2 (10.53%) Varonis
2 2 (10.53%) Veeam
3 1 (5.26%) Commvault
3 1 (5.26%) Databricks
3 1 (5.26%) Meraki
3 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow