VPN Jobs in the North of England

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 38 199 204
Rank change year-on-year +161 +5 +54
Permanent jobs citing VPN 752 226 254
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 6.45% 1.23% 1.54%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 33.04% 10.27% 7.94%
Number of salaries quoted 82 168 190
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £30,125 £30,875 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,500 £39,750 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.63% -11.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £59,978 £50,625 £63,750
90th Percentile £73,625 £63,750 £77,715
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 of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,276 2,200 3,200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 19.51% 11.98% 19.36%
Number of salaries quoted 943 1,678 1,228
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,838 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £34,723
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £29,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.59% -5.56% -2.17%
75th Percentile £46,750 £61,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in the North of England

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Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for VPN in the North of England

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Salary Histogram in the North of England

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

Salary histogram for VPN in the North of England

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Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the North of England 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
North West +183 678 £33,000 -26.67% 151
Yorkshire +11 60 £42,500 +13.33% 147
North East +32 14 £48,750 +43.38% 42
VPN
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 17 (2.26%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.40%) Confluence
4 2 (0.27%) IIS
4 2 (0.27%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.27%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.27%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 15 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.80%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 45 (5.98%) Microsoft 365
2 41 (5.45%) Azure
3 20 (2.66%) AWS
4 14 (1.86%) Entra ID
5 12 (1.60%) SaaS
6 10 (1.33%) OneDrive
7 9 (1.20%) GCP
8 7 (0.93%) OCI
9 6 (0.80%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (0.80%) IaaS
9 6 (0.80%) Nutanix
9 6 (0.80%) Power Platform
10 5 (0.66%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (0.53%) Azure AI
11 4 (0.53%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 4 (0.53%) Azure Key Vault
11 4 (0.53%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (0.53%) Mimecast
11 4 (0.53%) PaaS
11 4 (0.53%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 438 (58.24%) DNS
2 255 (33.91%) Cisco IOS
3 75 (9.97%) Firewall
4 43 (5.72%) WAN
5 35 (4.65%) TCP/IP
6 33 (4.39%) LAN
7 29 (3.86%) Network Security
8 24 (3.19%) DHCP
9 15 (1.99%) VLAN
10 10 (1.33%) Cisco Nexus
10 10 (1.33%) OSPF
10 10 (1.33%) Wireless
11 9 (1.20%) BGP
11 9 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
12 7 (0.93%) Intrusion Detection
12 7 (0.93%) MPLS
12 7 (0.93%) SAN
12 7 (0.93%) SD-WAN
13 6 (0.80%) DWDM
14 5 (0.66%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (0.93%) SQL Server
2 6 (0.80%) Power BI
3 5 (0.66%) MySQL
4 4 (0.53%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.27%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.13%) Big Data
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 10 (1.33%) Git
2 8 (1.06%) JIRA
2 8 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (0.53%) Cucumber
3 4 (0.53%) Robot Framework
4 3 (0.40%) Jenkins
General
1 647 (86.04%) Analytical Skills
2 643 (85.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 396 (52.66%) Finance
4 42 (5.59%) Social Skills
5 8 (1.06%) Manufacturing
6 6 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (0.66%) Telecoms
8 4 (0.53%) Local Government
9 2 (0.27%) Banking
9 2 (0.27%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.27%) Police
9 2 (0.27%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.13%) Electronics
10 1 (0.13%) Marketing
10 1 (0.13%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 388 (51.60%) Developer
1 388 (51.60%) Software Developer
2 259 (34.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 31 (4.12%) Network Engineer
4 17 (2.26%) IT Support
5 14 (1.86%) Architect
6 12 (1.60%) Security Engineer
6 12 (1.60%) Support Engineer
7 10 (1.33%) Lead
8 9 (1.20%) Network Security Engineer
9 8 (1.06%) Analyst
9 8 (1.06%) Junior
9 8 (1.06%) Technical Support
10 7 (0.93%) 2nd Line Support
10 7 (0.93%) IT Analyst
10 7 (0.93%) IT Support Analyst
10 7 (0.93%) Support Analyst
11 6 (0.80%) Junior Support Engineer
11 6 (0.80%) Junior Technical Support
11 6 (0.80%) Junior Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 252 (33.51%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (0.80%) LDAP
3 2 (0.27%) 802.1X
3 2 (0.27%) Middleware
4 1 (0.13%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 639 (84.97%) Cyberattack
2 12 (1.60%) Onboarding
3 10 (1.33%) Data Centre
4 6 (0.80%) Private Cloud
5 5 (0.66%) Driving Licence
6 4 (0.53%) Anti-Spyware
6 4 (0.53%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (0.53%) Management Information System
6 4 (0.53%) NHS
6 4 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (0.40%) CCTV
7 3 (0.40%) Cloud Native
7 3 (0.40%) Smartphone
8 2 (0.27%) Clustering
8 2 (0.27%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.27%) HP Storage
8 2 (0.27%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.27%) PKI
8 2 (0.27%) Replication
9 1 (0.13%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 657 (87.37%) Linux
2 649 (86.30%) Android
3 314 (41.76%) Windows
4 29 (3.86%) Windows Server
5 15 (1.99%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.40%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.27%) Solaris
8 2 (0.27%) Unix
9 1 (0.13%) CentOS
9 1 (0.13%) Debian
9 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 639 (84.97%) Line Management
1 639 (84.97%) Mathematics
2 394 (52.39%) Agile
3 388 (51.60%) Android Development
3 388 (51.60%) Design Patterns
3 388 (51.60%) OO
3 388 (51.60%) OOP
4 310 (41.22%) Problem-Solving
5 263 (34.97%) DevOps
5 263 (34.97%) Task Automation
6 260 (34.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 254 (33.78%) Risk Management
8 251 (33.38%) Platform Engineering
8 251 (33.38%) Storage Management
9 28 (3.72%) Customer Service
10 24 (3.19%) Mentoring
11 22 (2.93%) ITIL
12 19 (2.53%) Technical Leadership
13 13 (1.73%) Disaster Recovery
13 13 (1.73%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 660 (87.77%) Python
2 390 (51.86%) Java
3 388 (51.60%) C++
3 388 (51.60%) Go
4 268 (35.64%) PowerShell
5 258 (34.31%) Bash
6 10 (1.33%) SQL
7 4 (0.53%) Bicep
7 4 (0.53%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 396 (52.66%) Security Cleared
2 390 (51.86%) DV Cleared
3 18 (2.39%) Cisco Certification
3 18 (2.39%) Degree
4 16 (2.13%) CCNA
5 12 (1.60%) CCNP
6 11 (1.46%) JNCIA
7 8 (1.06%) SC Cleared
8 7 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (0.80%) JNCIS
10 5 (0.66%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.66%) CISSP
11 4 (0.53%) A+ Certification
11 4 (0.53%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.53%) Network+ Certification
12 3 (0.40%) CISM
13 2 (0.27%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 11 (1.46%) NIST
2 8 (1.06%) GDPR
3 7 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (0.66%) QA
4 5 (0.66%) SLA
5 4 (0.53%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.27%) NCSC
7 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 640 (85.11%) Docker
2 277 (36.84%) Hyper-V
3 254 (33.78%) vSphere
4 251 (33.38%) VMware NSX
5 34 (4.52%) VMware Infrastructure
6 33 (4.39%) Active Directory
7 12 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.27%) Firmware
9 2 (0.27%) KVM
9 2 (0.27%) NFS
9 2 (0.27%) SRDF
9 2 (0.27%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 2 (0.27%) Xen
10 1 (0.13%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 664 (88.30%) Ansible
2 265 (35.24%) Terraform
3 16 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (0.93%) Proxmox
6 6 (0.80%) Kubernetes
7 5 (0.66%) SCCM
8 3 (0.40%) Backup Exec
8 3 (0.40%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.27%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.27%) Puppet
10 1 (0.13%) Grafana
10 1 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.13%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 286 (38.03%) Cisco
2 256 (34.04%) Juniper
3 251 (33.38%) 3PAR
3 251 (33.38%) Splunk
4 55 (7.31%) Microsoft
5 36 (4.79%) VMware
6 8 (1.06%) ServiceNow
7 6 (0.80%) Arista
8 5 (0.66%) Avaya
8 5 (0.66%) Citrix
8 5 (0.66%) Veritas
9 4 (0.53%) Databricks
9 4 (0.53%) Meraki
9 4 (0.53%) Okta
9 4 (0.53%) Perforce
9 4 (0.53%) Veeam
10 3 (0.40%) Apple
10 3 (0.40%) CheckPoint
10 3 (0.40%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.40%) Oracle