VPN Jobs in the North East

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 53 85 98
Rank change year-on-year +32 +13 -1
Permanent jobs citing VPN 14 29 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 1.58% 1.46% 1.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.76% 11.46% 4.68%
Number of salaries quoted 14 27 13
10th Percentile - £24,700 £22,650
25th Percentile £32,000 £25,875 £23,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £34,000 £38,953
Median % change year-on-year +43.38% -12.72% +3.87%
75th Percentile £61,250 £47,500 £43,750
90th Percentile - £63,000 £47,095
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
North East

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 North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 372 253 299
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 41.94% 12.77% 23.66%
Number of salaries quoted 192 230 110
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,000 £30,750
25th Percentile - £31,250 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,087 £42,500 £41,683
Median % change year-on-year -40.97% +1.96% +4.21%
75th Percentile - £62,500 £48,750
90th Percentile £63,725 £70,000 £63,750
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 North East

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in the North East

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Salary Trend in the North East

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

Salary trend for VPN in the North East

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Salary Histogram in the North East

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

Salary histogram for VPN in the North East

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Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the North East 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
Tyne and Wear +37 8 £57,500 +51.32% 20
Durham +12 6 £32,000 - 4
VPN
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 (35.71%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (35.71%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) Azure
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (7.14%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (92.86%) Firewall
2 7 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 7 (50.00%) Network Security
3 5 (35.71%) DHCP
3 5 (35.71%) DNS
4 1 (7.14%) LAN
4 1 (7.14%) VLAN
4 1 (7.14%) VoIP
4 1 (7.14%) WAN
4 1 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (42.86%) Manufacturing
2 6 (42.86%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Security Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) 2nd Line Support
2 5 (35.71%) Network Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Network Security Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) IT Engineer
4 3 (21.43%) IT Security Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) 3rd Line Support
5 1 (7.14%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Integration Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) IT Support
5 1 (7.14%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Security Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Software Integration Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Support Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Systems Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
1 1 (7.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (7.14%) Learning Management System
1 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Windows
1 6 (42.86%) Windows Server
2 1 (7.14%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Mac OS
2 1 (7.14%) Windows 10
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) Disaster Recovery
2 7 (50.00%) Business Continuity
3 6 (42.86%) BCP
3 6 (42.86%) Business Continuity Planning
3 6 (42.86%) Identity Access Management
3 6 (42.86%) Root Cause Analysis
3 6 (42.86%) SIEM
3 6 (42.86%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 5 (35.71%) Customer Service
4 5 (35.71%) Patch Management
4 5 (35.71%) Process Improvement
5 1 (7.14%) Computer Science
5 1 (7.14%) Information Security
5 1 (7.14%) Integration Testing
5 1 (7.14%) Penetration Testing
5 1 (7.14%) Requirements Management
5 1 (7.14%) Risk Management
5 1 (7.14%) Software Engineering
5 1 (7.14%) Software Testing
5 1 (7.14%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) CISM
1 1 (7.14%) CISSP
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
1 1 (7.14%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (50.00%) GDPR
1 7 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (50.00%) NIST
2 1 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (7.14%) PCI DSS
2 1 (7.14%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) Active Directory
1 6 (42.86%) Hyper-V
1 6 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (35.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (7.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
1 6 (42.86%) VMware