VPN Jobs in Sheffield

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 27 82 71
Rank change year-on-year +55 -11 +12
Permanent jobs citing VPN 15 5 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 5.36% 0.43% 3.53%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 22.39% 5.38% 14.16%
Number of salaries quoted 7 5 19
10th Percentile - £29,300 -
25th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £32,250 £32,200
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +0.16% -20.51%
75th Percentile £48,125 £33,375 £46,250
90th Percentile £67,000 £40,350 £65,250
South Yorkshire median annual salary £32,500 £32,500 £32,200
% change year-on-year - +0.93% -19.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 67 93 219
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 23.93% 7.99% 24.94%
Number of salaries quoted 49 82 87
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,500 £22,805
25th Percentile £29,913 £29,188 £27,675
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £35,000 £36,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -2.78% -34.55%
75th Percentile £49,000 £46,250 £43,750
90th Percentile £70,700 £60,000 £59,500
South Yorkshire median annual salary £32,500 £35,000 £36,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% -2.78% -34.55%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in Sheffield

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Salary Trend in Sheffield

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

Salary trend for VPN in Sheffield

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Salary Histogram in Sheffield

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

Salary histogram for VPN in Sheffield

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 2 (13.33%) Confluence
1 2 (13.33%) Tomcat
1 2 (13.33%) WebSphere
1 2 (13.33%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (40.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) Entra ID
2 5 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (20.00%) AWS
3 3 (20.00%) Azure
4 2 (13.33%) GCP
4 2 (13.33%) GitHub
5 1 (6.67%) Azure AI
5 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (6.67%) IaaS
5 1 (6.67%) PaaS
5 1 (6.67%) Power Automate
5 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
5 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (100.00%) Firewall
2 9 (60.00%) WAN
3 8 (53.33%) Cisco Nexus
3 8 (53.33%) LAN
4 7 (46.67%) DNS
4 7 (46.67%) Network Security
5 6 (40.00%) DWDM
5 6 (40.00%) TCP/IP
6 2 (13.33%) FCoE
6 2 (13.33%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (13.33%) iSCSI
6 2 (13.33%) Multicast
6 2 (13.33%) NAS
6 2 (13.33%) SAN
7 1 (6.67%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (6.67%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (6.67%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (6.67%) MySQL
2 1 (6.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (53.33%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (13.33%) JIRA
3 1 (6.67%) Git
General
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Network Engineer
2 6 (40.00%) Lead
3 5 (33.33%) Help Desk Team Lead
3 5 (33.33%) Team Leader
4 4 (26.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 3 (20.00%) Architect
6 2 (13.33%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
6 2 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
7 1 (6.67%) Lead Network Engineer
7 1 (6.67%) Network Security Engineer
7 1 (6.67%) Python Engineer
7 1 (6.67%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) LDAP
1 2 (13.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 3 (20.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (13.33%) Clustering
3 2 (13.33%) Replication
4 1 (6.67%) NHS
4 1 (6.67%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 7 (46.67%) Windows
2 5 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 2 (13.33%) Linux
3 2 (13.33%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Mentoring
1 11 (73.33%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (53.33%) Technical Leadership
3 7 (46.67%) Migration
4 6 (40.00%) Computer Science
4 6 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 6 (40.00%) Network Architecture
4 6 (40.00%) Runbook
4 6 (40.00%) Task Automation
4 6 (40.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 5 (33.33%) Client Onboarding
5 5 (33.33%) Customer Service
5 5 (33.33%) Process Improvement
6 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
7 2 (13.33%) Continuous Delivery
7 2 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (13.33%) Identity Access Management
7 2 (13.33%) Network Segmentation
7 2 (13.33%) Privileged Access Management
7 2 (13.33%) Server Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) Python
2 3 (20.00%) SQL
3 2 (13.33%) Java
4 1 (6.67%) Bicep
4 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) CCNA
1 7 (46.67%) CCNP
1 7 (46.67%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (40.00%) Degree
2 6 (40.00%) JNCIA
2 6 (40.00%) JNCIS
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
3 1 (6.67%) CCSA
3 1 (6.67%) CCSE
3 1 (6.67%) DBS Check
3 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (46.67%) Hyper-V
1 7 (46.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (13.33%) KVM
2 2 (13.33%) NFS
2 2 (13.33%) SRDF
2 2 (13.33%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 2 (13.33%) Xen
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (53.33%) Ansible
2 6 (40.00%) Terraform
3 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (13.33%) Puppet
4 1 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (86.67%) Microsoft
2 9 (60.00%) Cisco
3 7 (46.67%) VMware
4 6 (40.00%) Arista
5 2 (13.33%) EMC
5 2 (13.33%) F5
5 2 (13.33%) Google
5 2 (13.33%) NetApp
5 2 (13.33%) Oracle
6 1 (6.67%) CheckPoint
6 1 (6.67%) Databricks
6 1 (6.67%) Fortinet
6 1 (6.67%) Meraki
6 1 (6.67%) Palo Alto