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

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 83 76
Rank change year-on-year +57 -7 +9
Permanent jobs citing VPN 17 5 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 5.84% 0.45% 3.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 23.29% 5.43% 13.49%
Number of salaries quoted 9 5 18
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% -16.40%
75th Percentile £62,500 £33,375 £47,500
90th Percentile £74,000 £40,350 £65,375
South Yorkshire median annual salary £32,500 £34,875 £33,600
% change year-on-year -6.81% +3.79% -14.41%

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 73 92 215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 25.09% 8.34% 23.92%
Number of salaries quoted 55 81 86
10th Percentile £29,300 £26,500 £22,000
25th Percentile £30,625 £29,000 £27,638
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £35,000 £36,750
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -4.76% -33.18%
75th Percentile £64,375 £46,250 £43,750
90th Percentile £73,650 £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 19 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 (11.76%) Confluence
1 2 (11.76%) Tomcat
1 2 (11.76%) WebSphere
1 2 (11.76%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (41.18%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (35.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) Entra ID
2 6 (35.29%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (29.41%) Azure
4 3 (17.65%) AWS
5 2 (11.76%) GCP
5 2 (11.76%) GitHub
6 1 (5.88%) Azure AI
6 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (5.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (5.88%) IaaS
6 1 (5.88%) PaaS
6 1 (5.88%) Power Automate
6 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
6 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (94.12%) Firewall
2 10 (58.82%) WAN
3 9 (52.94%) LAN
4 8 (47.06%) Cisco Nexus
4 8 (47.06%) Network Security
5 7 (41.18%) DNS
5 7 (41.18%) TCP/IP
6 6 (35.29%) DWDM
7 2 (11.76%) FCoE
7 2 (11.76%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (11.76%) iSCSI
7 2 (11.76%) Multicast
7 2 (11.76%) NAS
7 2 (11.76%) SAN
7 2 (11.76%) SD-WAN
8 1 (5.88%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (5.88%) Cisco Firepower
8 1 (5.88%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (5.88%) WebEx
8 1 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
1 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.88%) Data Lake
2 1 (5.88%) MySQL
2 1 (5.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (47.06%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.76%) JIRA
3 1 (5.88%) Git
General
1 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Network Engineer
2 6 (35.29%) Lead
3 5 (29.41%) Help Desk Team Lead
3 5 (29.41%) Team Leader
4 4 (23.53%) Architect
4 4 (23.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
5 2 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Lead Network Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Network Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Network Security Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Python Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Security Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Senior
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Technician
6 1 (5.88%) Service Desk Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) LDAP
1 2 (11.76%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Onboarding
2 3 (17.65%) Data Centre
3 2 (11.76%) Clustering
3 2 (11.76%) Replication
4 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.88%) NHS
4 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (5.88%) Tandem
4 1 (5.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (5.88%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (47.06%) Windows
2 5 (29.41%) Windows Server
3 2 (11.76%) Linux
3 2 (11.76%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Mentoring
1 11 (64.71%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (47.06%) Technical Leadership
3 7 (41.18%) Migration
3 7 (41.18%) Network Architecture
4 6 (35.29%) Computer Science
4 6 (35.29%) Full-Stack Development
4 6 (35.29%) Runbook
4 6 (35.29%) Task Automation
4 6 (35.29%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 5 (29.41%) Client Onboarding
5 5 (29.41%) Customer Service
5 5 (29.41%) Process Improvement
6 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
6 3 (17.65%) Privileged Access Management
7 2 (11.76%) Continuous Delivery
7 2 (11.76%) Identity Access Management
7 2 (11.76%) Network Segmentation
7 2 (11.76%) Roadmaps
7 2 (11.76%) Server Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) Python
2 3 (17.65%) SQL
3 2 (11.76%) Java
4 1 (5.88%) Bicep
4 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (47.06%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (41.18%) CCNA
2 7 (41.18%) CCNP
3 6 (35.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (35.29%) Degree
3 6 (35.29%) JNCIA
3 6 (35.29%) JNCIS
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.88%) CCSA
4 1 (5.88%) CCSE
4 1 (5.88%) DBS Check
4 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) Hyper-V
1 7 (41.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (17.65%) Active Directory
3 2 (11.76%) KVM
3 2 (11.76%) NFS
3 2 (11.76%) SRDF
3 2 (11.76%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 2 (11.76%) Xen
4 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (47.06%) Ansible
2 6 (35.29%) Terraform
3 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
3 2 (11.76%) Puppet
4 1 (5.88%) FortiGate
4 1 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (82.35%) Microsoft
2 10 (58.82%) Cisco
3 7 (41.18%) VMware
4 6 (35.29%) Arista
5 2 (11.76%) EMC
5 2 (11.76%) F5
5 2 (11.76%) Google
5 2 (11.76%) Meraki
5 2 (11.76%) NetApp
5 2 (11.76%) Oracle
6 1 (5.88%) CheckPoint
6 1 (5.88%) Databricks
6 1 (5.88%) Fortinet
6 1 (5.88%) Palo Alto
6 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow
6 1 (5.88%) Zscaler