VPN Jobs in South Wales

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Wales > South Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales with a requirement for VPN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited VPN over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 77 95
Rank change year-on-year +2 +18 -23
Permanent jobs citing VPN 24 31 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 1.67% 2.71% 1.60%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.88% 15.58% 9.47%
Number of salaries quoted 14 7 23
10th Percentile £37,220 £21,800 £25,750
25th Percentile £37,500 - £27,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,886 £23,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +95.16% -51.58% +35.71%
75th Percentile £48,945 £68,000 £49,375
90th Percentile £61,625 £78,750 £67,200
Wales median annual salary £41,067 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -8.74% -5.26% +31.03%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South Wales

VPN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 202 199 243
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 14.05% 17.38% 16.89%
Number of salaries quoted 102 55 125
10th Percentile £24,500 £23,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £28,290 £30,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,067 £37,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.99% -17.78% +25.00%
75th Percentile £47,070 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £64,625 £75,000 £75,000
Wales median annual salary £40,500 £37,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% -16.67% +24.47%

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Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in South Wales

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Salary Trend in South Wales

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

Salary trend for VPN in South Wales

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Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing VPN in South Wales over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for VPN in South Wales

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Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Bridgend -3 15 £44,886 -
Cardiff +1 5 £50,000 +117.39% 2
Newport - 4 £40,000 - 2
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Wales

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 5 (20.83%) Apache
2 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (29.17%) Amazon S3
2 5 (20.83%) AWS
2 5 (20.83%) Azure
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (8.33%) SaaS
3 2 (8.33%) Serverless
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Functions
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.17%) GCP
4 1 (4.17%) Google Compute Engine
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.17%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 20 (83.33%) Firewall
2 13 (54.17%) Network Security
3 10 (41.67%) LAN
3 10 (41.67%) WAN
4 9 (37.50%) IPsec
5 8 (33.33%) Internet
6 7 (29.17%) MPLS
6 7 (29.17%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (25.00%) HTTP
8 5 (20.83%) SNMP
8 5 (20.83%) VLAN
8 5 (20.83%) WLAN
9 3 (12.50%) FTP
9 3 (12.50%) NAS
9 3 (12.50%) SAN
9 3 (12.50%) SMTP
9 3 (12.50%) Sourcefire
9 3 (12.50%) TCP/IP
10 2 (8.33%) BGP
10 2 (8.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (20.83%) MongoDB
2 2 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.17%) BigQuery
3 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
General
1 8 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Finance
3 5 (20.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (20.83%) Local Government
3 5 (20.83%) Police
4 2 (8.33%) Games
4 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Welsh Language
5 1 (4.17%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) Senior
2 8 (33.33%) Consultant
2 8 (33.33%) Network Engineer
3 7 (29.17%) Senior Network Engineer
4 5 (20.83%) ICT Engineer
4 5 (20.83%) NetApp Consultant
5 3 (12.50%) Analyst
5 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) IT Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Senior IT Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) SOC Analyst
6 2 (8.33%) Project Consultant
7 1 (4.17%) Architect
7 1 (4.17%) Cloud Architect
7 1 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
7 1 (4.17%) Network Security Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) RabbitMQ
1 5 (20.83%) YAML
2 3 (12.50%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (16.67%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (8.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (8.33%) PKI
3 2 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.17%) Life Science
4 1 (4.17%) Replication
4 1 (4.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (37.50%) Windows
2 6 (25.00%) Linux
3 5 (20.83%) Data ONTAP
4 4 (16.67%) Windows Server
5 3 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (4.17%) Ubuntu
6 1 (4.17%) Windows 10
6 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (41.67%) Actionable Insight
3 8 (33.33%) Storage Management
4 7 (29.17%) High Availability
4 7 (29.17%) Network Management
5 6 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (20.83%) Business Continuity
6 5 (20.83%) Customer Service
6 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Management
6 5 (20.83%) Project Management
6 5 (20.83%) Project Planning
6 5 (20.83%) Release Management
7 4 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (16.67%) Security Operations
7 4 (16.67%) SIEM
8 3 (12.50%) Compliance Audit
8 3 (12.50%) ITIL
8 3 (12.50%) Migration
8 3 (12.50%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 3 (12.50%) Two-Factor Authentication
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.83%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 6 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (20.83%) Degree
4 3 (12.50%) CCNA
4 3 (12.50%) CCNP
5 2 (8.33%) DV Cleared
6 1 (4.17%) CISMP
6 1 (4.17%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) GDPR
1 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (20.83%) Docker
3 4 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
4 1 (4.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (29.17%) Kubernetes
2 5 (20.83%) Ansible
2 5 (20.83%) FortiGate
2 5 (20.83%) Prometheus
2 5 (20.83%) vCenter Server
3 2 (8.33%) Cisco Prime
3 2 (8.33%) Terraform
3 2 (8.33%) WhatsUp Gold
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (54.17%) Cisco
2 9 (37.50%) VMware
3 7 (29.17%) Palo Alto
4 5 (20.83%) CheckPoint
4 5 (20.83%) Juniper
4 5 (20.83%) NetApp
4 5 (20.83%) Red Hat
4 5 (20.83%) SolidFire
5 3 (12.50%) ArcSight
5 3 (12.50%) F5
5 3 (12.50%) IBM
5 3 (12.50%) Splunk
5 3 (12.50%) TippingPoint
5 3 (12.50%) Trend Micro
6 2 (8.33%) Forcepoint
6 2 (8.33%) McAfee
6 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
6 2 (8.33%) Oracle
7 1 (4.17%) Google
7 1 (4.17%) Sophos