VPN Jobs in Merseyside

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 71 84
Rank change year-on-year +44 +13 +11
Permanent jobs citing VPN 37 24 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 8.22% 1.83% 1.77%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 38.95% 13.04% 7.54%
Number of salaries quoted 3 19 14
10th Percentile £40,325 £33,200 £22,725
25th Percentile £44,563 £42,500 £29,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,250 £48,500 £49,237
Median % change year-on-year +9.79% -1.50% +12.54%
75th Percentile £58,063 £66,875 £57,813
90th Percentile £59,975 £70,000 £58,750
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
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 95 184 252
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 21.11% 14.01% 23.53%
Number of salaries quoted 53 122 70
10th Percentile £26,400 £25,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £37,154
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £43,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.29% -3.33% +4.05%
75th Percentile £35,750 £54,750 £55,250
90th Percentile £67,500 £66,250 £72,750
North West median annual salary £33,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -26.67% -5.26% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in Merseyside

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Salary Trend in Merseyside

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

Salary trend for VPN in Merseyside

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Salary Histogram in Merseyside

Salary distribution for jobs citing VPN in Merseyside over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for VPN in Merseyside

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Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 18 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
Liverpool +27 5 £46,625 -15.99% 1
Southport - 4 - -
VPN
North West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (24.32%) Azure
2 2 (5.41%) Entra ID
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (5.41%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.70%) AWS
3 1 (2.70%) Azure AI
3 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (2.70%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (2.70%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (2.70%) IaaS
3 1 (2.70%) PaaS
3 1 (2.70%) Power Automate
3 1 (2.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (78.38%) DNS
2 11 (29.73%) Firewall
3 9 (24.32%) WAN
4 6 (16.22%) MPLS
5 5 (13.51%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (8.11%) TCP/IP
7 2 (5.41%) LAN
7 2 (5.41%) Network Security
7 2 (5.41%) NGFW
7 2 (5.41%) VLAN
7 2 (5.41%) VoIP
8 1 (2.70%) DHCP
8 1 (2.70%) Internet
8 1 (2.70%) SD-WAN
8 1 (2.70%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.41%) Power BI
2 1 (2.70%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.70%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Cucumber
1 1 (2.70%) Git
1 1 (2.70%) Robot Framework
General
1 26 (70.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 25 (67.57%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (59.46%) Finance
4 7 (18.92%) Social Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (54.05%) Developer
1 20 (54.05%) Software Developer
2 7 (18.92%) Support Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) Junior
3 6 (16.22%) Junior Support Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) Junior Technical Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) Junior Technical Support
3 6 (16.22%) Junior Technical Support Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) Technical Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) Technical Support
3 6 (16.22%) Technical Support Engineer
4 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Network Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Network Security Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Security Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Analyst
6 1 (2.70%) Architect
6 1 (2.70%) Senior Technical Analyst
6 1 (2.70%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (2.70%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.51%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 25 (67.57%) Cyberattack
2 6 (16.22%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.70%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.70%) NHS
3 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 26 (70.27%) Linux
2 25 (67.57%) Android
3 13 (35.14%) Windows
4 7 (18.92%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.70%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (67.57%) Line Management
1 25 (67.57%) Mathematics
2 21 (56.76%) Agile
3 20 (54.05%) Android Development
3 20 (54.05%) Design Patterns
3 20 (54.05%) OO
3 20 (54.05%) OOP
4 15 (40.54%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (18.92%) Customer Service
5 7 (18.92%) DevOps
5 7 (18.92%) ITIL
5 7 (18.92%) Mentoring
6 6 (16.22%) Customer Experience
7 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (13.51%) Platform Engineering
7 5 (13.51%) Risk Management
7 5 (13.51%) Storage Management
7 5 (13.51%) Task Automation
8 3 (8.11%) Cybersecurity
9 2 (5.41%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 26 (70.27%) Python
2 20 (54.05%) C++
2 20 (54.05%) Go
2 20 (54.05%) Java
3 8 (21.62%) PowerShell
4 6 (16.22%) Bash
5 1 (2.70%) Bicep
5 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (54.05%) DV Cleared
1 20 (54.05%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.70%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.70%) DBS Check
2 1 (2.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 25 (67.57%) Docker
2 12 (32.43%) Hyper-V
3 7 (18.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (13.51%) VMware NSX
4 5 (13.51%) vSphere
5 2 (5.41%) Active Directory
5 2 (5.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (67.57%) Ansible
2 6 (16.22%) Proxmox
3 5 (13.51%) Terraform
4 1 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (29.73%) Cisco
2 7 (18.92%) Microsoft
2 7 (18.92%) VMware
3 5 (13.51%) 3PAR
3 5 (13.51%) Juniper
3 5 (13.51%) Splunk
4 1 (2.70%) Apple
4 1 (2.70%) ConnectWise
4 1 (2.70%) Databricks
4 1 (2.70%) Kaseya
4 1 (2.70%) Meraki