VPN Jobs in Northamptonshire

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 66 61
Rank change year-on-year -1 -5 -4
Permanent jobs citing VPN 16 11 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 1.91% 1.30% 0.39%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.81% 11.70% 2.53%
Number of salaries quoted 5 10 2
10th Percentile £34,000 - -
25th Percentile - £25,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £26,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% -62.86% +182.83%
75th Percentile - £26,500 £75,000
90th Percentile - £48,750 -
East Midlands median annual salary £38,750 £39,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year -0.64% +11.43% -22.22%

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 235 94 79
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 28.01% 11.15% 15.34%
Number of salaries quoted 40 90 50
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,249 £30,875
25th Percentile £26,844 £25,005 £33,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £32,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -31.58% +5.56%
75th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £63,125
90th Percentile £67,500 £52,500 £75,000
East Midlands median annual salary £38,500 £40,000 £39,500
% change year-on-year -3.75% +1.27% -7.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in Northamptonshire

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Salary Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Salary trend for VPN in Northamptonshire

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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 29 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
Northampton -11 3 £36,000 +38.46% 18
Towcester - 1 - -
VPN
East Midlands

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) Google Workspace
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (75.00%) TCP/IP
2 5 (31.25%) DHCP
2 5 (31.25%) DNS
3 4 (25.00%) Firewall
4 1 (6.25%) LAN
4 1 (6.25%) WAN
4 1 (6.25%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 11 (68.75%) Cucumber
1 11 (68.75%) Robot Framework
General
1 11 (68.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 11 (68.75%) Social Skills
1 11 (68.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (68.75%) Test Automation Engineer
1 11 (68.75%) Test Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Network Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (68.75%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 15 (93.75%) Windows
2 14 (87.50%) Linux
3 3 (18.75%) CentOS
3 3 (18.75%) Rocky
3 3 (18.75%) Ubuntu
3 3 (18.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Coaching
1 11 (68.75%) DevOps
1 11 (68.75%) Mentoring
1 11 (68.75%) Problem-Solving
1 11 (68.75%) System Testing
1 11 (68.75%) Test Automation
1 11 (68.75%) Test Management
2 4 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (12.50%) Customer-Centricity
3 2 (12.50%) Process Improvement
3 2 (12.50%) Zero Trust
4 1 (6.25%) Data Protection
4 1 (6.25%) Network Optimisation
4 1 (6.25%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 13 (81.25%) PowerShell
2 11 (68.75%) Bash
2 11 (68.75%) JavaScript
2 11 (68.75%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (68.75%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (68.75%) QA
2 2 (12.50%) SLA
3 1 (6.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Ansible
2 2 (12.50%) FortiGate
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Cisco
1 2 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft