VPN Job Trends in Stoke-on-Trent

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Staffordshire > Stoke-on-Trent

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent requiring VPN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 34 21
Rank change year-on-year +15 -13 +14
Permanent jobs citing VPN 3 2 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Stoke-on-Trent 1.95% 1.63% 4.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 60.00% 4.00% 13.95%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 6
10th Percentile £29,200 £37,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £33,625 £40,000 £42,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -14.29% +81.03%
75th Percentile - £50,000 £57,500
90th Percentile - £52,250 £58,750
Staffordshire median annual salary £39,250 £51,251 £40,500
% change year-on-year -23.42% +26.55% +13.14%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Stoke-on-Trent

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 Stoke-on-Trent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5 50 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent 3.25% 40.65% 30.07%
Number of salaries quoted 5 44 43
10th Percentile £26,537 - £30,800
25th Percentile £26,968 £32,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £35,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year - -27.84% +14.12%
75th Percentile £41,000 £40,000 £52,500
90th Percentile - £45,000 £57,500
Staffordshire median annual salary £35,000 £40,000 £43,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% -6.98% +1.18%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing VPN relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent.

VPN job vacancy trend in Stoke-on-Trent

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Salary Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing VPN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing VPN

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Salary Histogram in Stoke-on-Trent

Salary distribution for jobs citing VPN in Stoke-on-Trent over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for VPN in Stoke-on-Trent

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stoke-on-Trent 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (66.67%) LAN
2 2 (66.67%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (33.33%) DHCP
3 1 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) Remote Desktop
General
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) IT Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) IT Support
2 1 (33.33%) IT Support Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Driving Licence
1 1 (33.33%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) High Availability
1 2 (66.67%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) VB
2 1 (33.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CCNA
1 2 (66.67%) CCNP
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) Fortinet
1 2 (66.67%) Juniper
2 1 (33.33%) Symantec