VPN Jobs in the Midlands

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the 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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 172 171 189
Rank change year-on-year -1 +18 +20
Permanent jobs citing VPN 84 168 134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.23% 1.38% 1.49%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.67% 10.75% 7.86%
Number of salaries quoted 42 139 100
10th Percentile £26,625 £26,100 £25,725
25th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,250 £39,750 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.81% -11.67% +5.88%
75th Percentile £45,438 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £48,675 £70,000 £75,000
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
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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 869 1,563 1,705
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.75% 12.85% 18.90%
Number of salaries quoted 445 1,276 720
10th Percentile £26,945 £25,000 £26,225
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -1.18% -5.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £46,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.16% -5.00% -4.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in the Midlands

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Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for VPN in the Midlands

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Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing VPN in the Midlands over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Salary histogram for VPN in the Midlands

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Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 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
West Midlands +16 43 £28,500 -28.30% 124
East Midlands +8 41 £38,750 -0.64% 88
VPN
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 13 (15.48%) SharePoint
2 8 (9.52%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 16 (19.05%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.19%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (7.14%) Dynamics NAV
1 6 (7.14%) SAP ERP
2 2 (2.38%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.38%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (2.38%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 30 (35.71%) Microsoft 365
2 27 (32.14%) Azure
3 14 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 13 (15.48%) AWS
5 8 (9.52%) IaaS
6 6 (7.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 6 (7.14%) PaaS
7 4 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (4.76%) Azure AI
7 4 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
7 4 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (4.76%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (4.76%) Power Automate
7 4 (4.76%) Power Platform
7 4 (4.76%) Route 53
7 4 (4.76%) SaaS
8 2 (2.38%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 46 (54.76%) Firewall
2 39 (46.43%) WAN
3 31 (36.90%) LAN
4 28 (33.33%) TCP/IP
5 23 (27.38%) DNS
6 22 (26.19%) DHCP
7 11 (13.10%) SD-WAN
8 9 (10.71%) Cisco IOS
8 9 (10.71%) Network Security
9 7 (8.33%) VLAN
10 6 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (5.95%) Wireless
12 4 (4.76%) HTTPS
12 4 (4.76%) MPLS
13 3 (3.57%) BGP
13 3 (3.57%) IPsec
13 3 (3.57%) OSPF
13 3 (3.57%) VoIP
14 2 (2.38%) Cisco ASA
14 2 (2.38%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.76%) Data Lake
2 4 (4.76%) MySQL
2 4 (4.76%) Power BI
3 2 (2.38%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.19%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (19.05%) Robot Framework
2 15 (17.86%) Cucumber
3 5 (5.95%) Git
4 1 (1.19%) GitLab
4 1 (1.19%) Jenkins
General
1 30 (35.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 30 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 23 (27.38%) Telecoms
3 17 (20.24%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (8.33%) Finance
5 6 (7.14%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.38%) Electronics
6 2 (2.38%) Law
6 2 (2.38%) Legal
7 1 (1.19%) Marketing
7 1 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.19%) Police
7 1 (1.19%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 25 (29.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 15 (17.86%) Test Automation Engineer
2 15 (17.86%) Test Engineer
3 11 (13.10%) Support Engineer
4 10 (11.90%) Analyst
4 10 (11.90%) IT Support
4 10 (11.90%) Network Engineer
5 7 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (8.33%) IT Engineer
6 6 (7.14%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (7.14%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (7.14%) Infrastructure Support
6 6 (7.14%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 6 (7.14%) IT Analyst
6 6 (7.14%) IT Support Analyst
6 6 (7.14%) Senior
6 6 (7.14%) Support Analyst
7 5 (5.95%) Architect
8 4 (4.76%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.52%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (2.38%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.19%) Jinja
3 1 (1.19%) OpenConfig
3 1 (1.19%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (20.24%) Linux Command Line
2 10 (11.90%) Driving Licence
3 9 (10.71%) Cyberattack
4 6 (7.14%) Data Centre
4 6 (7.14%) NHS
5 5 (5.95%) Operational Technology
6 3 (3.57%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (2.38%) Clustering
7 2 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.19%) CCTV
8 1 (1.19%) IoT
8 1 (1.19%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.19%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.19%) PKI
8 1 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.19%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 63 (75.00%) Windows
2 34 (40.48%) Windows Server
3 30 (35.71%) Linux
4 11 (13.10%) Android
5 9 (10.71%) Windows 10
6 8 (9.52%) Apple iOS
7 6 (7.14%) Mac OS
7 6 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (3.57%) CentOS
8 3 (3.57%) Rocky
8 3 (3.57%) Ubuntu
9 2 (2.38%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (1.19%) VMS
10 1 (1.19%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (1.19%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (45.24%) Problem-Solving
2 32 (38.10%) DevOps
3 26 (30.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 24 (28.57%) ITIL
5 20 (23.81%) Mentoring
6 17 (20.24%) Coaching
7 16 (19.05%) Test Automation
8 15 (17.86%) Customer Service
8 15 (17.86%) System Testing
8 15 (17.86%) Test Management
9 10 (11.90%) Disaster Recovery
9 10 (11.90%) Line Management
10 9 (10.71%) Mathematics
10 9 (10.71%) Migration
11 8 (9.52%) ERP
11 8 (9.52%) Platform Engineering
11 8 (9.52%) Risk Management
11 8 (9.52%) Storage Management
11 8 (9.52%) Task Automation
12 7 (8.33%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 37 (44.05%) PowerShell
2 24 (28.57%) Python
3 23 (27.38%) Bash
4 15 (17.86%) JavaScript
5 8 (9.52%) SQL
6 4 (4.76%) Bicep
7 1 (1.19%) C++
7 1 (1.19%) Go
7 1 (1.19%) Java
Qualifications
1 25 (29.76%) Degree
2 12 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 10 (11.90%) Azure Certification
3 10 (11.90%) Security Cleared
4 8 (9.52%) A+ Certification
4 8 (9.52%) MCSA
5 7 (8.33%) SC Cleared
6 6 (7.14%) CompTIA Security+
6 6 (7.14%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (7.14%) MCP
7 5 (5.95%) AWS Certification
7 5 (5.95%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (4.76%) DBS Check
9 3 (3.57%) CCNA
9 3 (3.57%) DV Cleared
10 2 (2.38%) CCNP
10 2 (2.38%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (1.19%) CISA
11 1 (1.19%) CISM
11 1 (1.19%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (17.86%) QA
2 4 (4.76%) SLA
3 1 (1.19%) GDPR
3 1 (1.19%) GRC
3 1 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.19%) JSP 440
3 1 (1.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 37 (44.05%) Active Directory
2 11 (13.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (11.90%) Docker
3 10 (11.90%) Hyper-V
4 9 (10.71%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (9.52%) VMware NSX
5 8 (9.52%) vSphere
6 2 (2.38%) Firmware
7 1 (1.19%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 14 (16.67%) Ansible
2 11 (13.10%) Terraform
3 8 (9.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (7.14%) FortiGate
4 6 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (2.38%) SCCM
6 1 (1.19%) Autotask
6 1 (1.19%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.19%) Nessus
6 1 (1.19%) WSUS
Vendors
1 40 (47.62%) Microsoft
2 24 (28.57%) Cisco
3 13 (15.48%) VMware
4 12 (14.29%) Juniper
5 9 (10.71%) Apple
6 8 (9.52%) 3PAR
6 8 (9.52%) Meraki
6 8 (9.52%) Splunk
7 7 (8.33%) SAP
8 5 (5.95%) HP
8 5 (5.95%) Sophos
9 4 (4.76%) Databricks
9 4 (4.76%) Veeam
10 3 (3.57%) Aruba
10 3 (3.57%) Dell
10 3 (3.57%) Fortinet
11 2 (2.38%) Citrix
11 2 (2.38%) Hyperion
11 2 (2.38%) Oracle
11 2 (2.38%) PeopleSoft