VPN Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring VPN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 44 49
Rank change year-on-year +2 +5 +5
Permanent jobs citing VPN 4 7 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Northamptonshire 1.00% 1.57% 0.95%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.67% 11.11% 11.76%
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32,500 - £25,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £40,000 £26,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +53.85% -45.83%
75th Percentile £37,500 - £29,250
90th Percentile - - £34,200
East Midlands median annual salary £35,000 £41,000 £34,500
% change year-on-year -14.63% +18.84% -26.60%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 24 63 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 5.99% 14.09% 8.04%
Number of salaries quoted 20 14 21
10th Percentile £27,375 £26,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £30,500 £25,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -20.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £50,625 £66,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £78,875 £62,500
East Midlands median annual salary £30,000 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -25.00% -5.88% -10.53%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing VPN relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire.

VPN job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

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Salary Trend in Northamptonshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing VPN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing VPN

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Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 12 January 2026. 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
Northampton -8 4 £35,000 - 5
VPN
East Midlands

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) DHCP
1 4 (100.00%) DNS
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Analyst
1 4 (100.00%) Applications Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Applications Support
1 4 (100.00%) Applications Support Analyst
1 4 (100.00%) Applications Support Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Support
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Support Analyst
1 4 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Mac OS
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Client Onboarding
1 4 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 4 (100.00%) CRM
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) ITIL
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
1 4 (100.00%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Degree
1 4 (100.00%) MCP
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft