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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 191 206
Rank change year-on-year +150 +15 +52
Permanent jobs citing VPN 749 228 262
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 6.49% 1.30% 1.53%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 36.70% 10.51% 8.24%
Number of salaries quoted 80 172 198
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,375 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,750 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% -11.11% +14.63%
75th Percentile £56,161 £51,063 £58,750
90th Percentile £72,625 £63,750 £69,525
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 2,041 2,169 3,179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 17.69% 12.40% 18.56%
Number of salaries quoted 877 1,659 1,261
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,875 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £34,025
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% -5.56% -2.64%
75th Percentile £53,750 £61,250 £58,000
90th Percentile £73,600 £72,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -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 15 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 15 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 +178 677 £34,000 -24.44% 50
Yorkshire +14 59 £42,500 +13.33% 69
North East +27 13 £40,000 +13.48% 16
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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 19 (2.54%) SharePoint
2 15 (2.00%) 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 16 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.80%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 48 (6.41%) Microsoft 365
2 38 (5.07%) Azure
3 15 (2.00%) AWS
3 15 (2.00%) Entra ID
4 12 (1.60%) SaaS
5 9 (1.20%) OneDrive
6 8 (1.07%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (0.93%) Power Platform
8 6 (0.80%) IaaS
8 6 (0.80%) Nutanix
9 5 (0.67%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (0.53%) Azure AI
10 4 (0.53%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 4 (0.53%) Azure Key Vault
10 4 (0.53%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (0.53%) GCP
10 4 (0.53%) GitHub
10 4 (0.53%) Mimecast
10 4 (0.53%) PaaS
10 4 (0.53%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 436 (58.21%) DNS
2 255 (34.05%) Cisco IOS
3 75 (10.01%) Firewall
4 45 (6.01%) WAN
5 35 (4.67%) LAN
6 30 (4.01%) TCP/IP
7 23 (3.07%) Network Security
8 21 (2.80%) DHCP
9 10 (1.34%) Cisco Nexus
9 10 (1.34%) Wireless
10 9 (1.20%) SD-WAN
11 8 (1.07%) VLAN
11 8 (1.07%) Wi-Fi
12 7 (0.93%) MPLS
12 7 (0.93%) SAN
13 6 (0.80%) DWDM
13 6 (0.80%) HTTP
13 6 (0.80%) Intrusion Detection
14 5 (0.67%) NAS
14 5 (0.67%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (0.93%) Power BI
1 7 (0.93%) SQL Server
2 5 (0.67%) MySQL
3 4 (0.53%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.27%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.13%) Big Data
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 10 (1.34%) Git
2 8 (1.07%) JIRA
2 8 (1.07%) Sonatype Nexus
3 5 (0.67%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.53%) Cucumber
4 4 (0.53%) Robot Framework
5 2 (0.27%) Spinnaker
General
1 646 (86.25%) Analytical Skills
2 644 (85.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 395 (52.74%) Finance
4 43 (5.74%) Social Skills
5 7 (0.93%) Manufacturing
6 6 (0.80%) Telecoms
7 5 (0.67%) Banking
8 4 (0.53%) Local Government
8 4 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (0.40%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.27%) Electronics
10 2 (0.27%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.27%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.27%) Police
10 2 (0.27%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.13%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.13%) Automotive
11 1 (0.13%) Marketing
11 1 (0.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 388 (51.80%) Developer
1 388 (51.80%) Software Developer
2 256 (34.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 22 (2.94%) Network Engineer
4 17 (2.27%) IT Support
5 13 (1.74%) Support Engineer
6 12 (1.60%) Architect
7 10 (1.34%) Analyst
7 10 (1.34%) Security Engineer
8 9 (1.20%) Lead
8 9 (1.20%) Senior
9 8 (1.07%) Technical Support
10 7 (0.93%) IT Analyst
10 7 (0.93%) IT Support Analyst
10 7 (0.93%) Junior
10 7 (0.93%) Network Security Engineer
10 7 (0.93%) Support Analyst
11 6 (0.80%) Junior Technical Engineer
11 6 (0.80%) Junior Technical Support
11 6 (0.80%) Junior Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 252 (33.64%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (0.80%) LDAP
3 2 (0.27%) 802.1X
3 2 (0.27%) HTML
3 2 (0.27%) Middleware
3 2 (0.27%) SOAP
3 2 (0.27%) XML
3 2 (0.27%) XSLT
4 1 (0.13%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 639 (85.31%) Cyberattack
2 15 (2.00%) Onboarding
3 10 (1.34%) Data Centre
4 6 (0.80%) Private Cloud
4 6 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (0.67%) Management Information System
6 4 (0.53%) Anti-Spyware
6 4 (0.53%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (0.53%) NHS
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%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (0.27%) Driving Licence
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
Operating Systems
1 658 (87.85%) Linux
2 649 (86.65%) Android
3 318 (42.46%) Windows
4 29 (3.87%) Windows Server
5 14 (1.87%) Windows 10
6 8 (1.07%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (0.67%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.27%) Solaris
8 2 (0.27%) Unix
8 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.13%) CentOS
9 1 (0.13%) Debian
9 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 640 (85.45%) Line Management
2 639 (85.31%) Mathematics
3 394 (52.60%) Agile
4 388 (51.80%) Android Development
4 388 (51.80%) Design Patterns
4 388 (51.80%) OO
4 388 (51.80%) OOP
5 302 (40.32%) Problem-Solving
6 265 (35.38%) DevOps
7 258 (34.45%) Task Automation
8 257 (34.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 254 (33.91%) Risk Management
10 251 (33.51%) Platform Engineering
10 251 (33.51%) Storage Management
11 29 (3.87%) Customer Service
12 24 (3.20%) Mentoring
13 22 (2.94%) ITIL
14 14 (1.87%) Migration
15 12 (1.60%) Disaster Recovery
15 12 (1.60%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 657 (87.72%) Python
2 390 (52.07%) Java
3 388 (51.80%) C++
3 388 (51.80%) Go
4 269 (35.91%) PowerShell
5 261 (34.85%) Bash
6 12 (1.60%) SQL
7 6 (0.80%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.53%) Bicep
9 2 (0.27%) C
9 2 (0.27%) Jython
9 2 (0.27%) Perl
Qualifications
1 393 (52.47%) Security Cleared
2 389 (51.94%) DV Cleared
3 17 (2.27%) Degree
4 16 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (1.74%) CCNA
6 10 (1.34%) CCNP
7 7 (0.93%) JNCIA
8 6 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (0.80%) JNCIS
8 6 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.67%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.67%) CISSP
9 5 (0.67%) SC Cleared
10 4 (0.53%) A+ Certification
10 4 (0.53%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.40%) CISM
12 2 (0.27%) CCIE
12 2 (0.27%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (1.20%) NIST
2 7 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (0.80%) GDPR
4 5 (0.67%) PCI DSS
4 5 (0.67%) QA
4 5 (0.67%) SLA
5 2 (0.27%) NCSC
5 2 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 640 (85.45%) Docker
2 279 (37.25%) Hyper-V
3 254 (33.91%) vSphere
4 251 (33.51%) VMware NSX
5 36 (4.81%) Active Directory
5 36 (4.81%) VMware Infrastructure
6 13 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.27%) Firmware
8 2 (0.27%) KVM
8 2 (0.27%) NFS
8 2 (0.27%) SRDF
8 2 (0.27%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 2 (0.27%) Xen
9 1 (0.13%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 659 (87.98%) Ansible
2 265 (35.38%) Terraform
3 13 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (0.93%) Proxmox
6 6 (0.80%) Kubernetes
7 5 (0.67%) SCCM
8 3 (0.40%) Backup Exec
9 2 (0.27%) 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%) SolarWinds Orion
10 1 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 283 (37.78%) Cisco
2 253 (33.78%) Juniper
3 251 (33.51%) 3PAR
3 251 (33.51%) Splunk
4 55 (7.34%) Microsoft
5 40 (5.34%) VMware
6 9 (1.20%) ServiceNow
7 6 (0.80%) Arista
7 6 (0.80%) Citrix
7 6 (0.80%) Meraki
8 5 (0.67%) Avaya
8 5 (0.67%) Veritas
9 4 (0.53%) Apple
9 4 (0.53%) Databricks
9 4 (0.53%) Okta
9 4 (0.53%) Perforce
9 4 (0.53%) Veeam
10 3 (0.40%) CheckPoint
10 3 (0.40%) Oracle
10 3 (0.40%) Remedy