VPN Jobs in Tyne and Wear

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 83 79
Rank change year-on-year +33 -4 +5
Permanent jobs citing VPN 7 19 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 1.43% 1.37% 1.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.07% 11.05% 6.10%
Number of salaries quoted 7 17 13
10th Percentile £49,500 £23,500 £22,650
25th Percentile £52,500 £27,500 £23,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £38,000 £38,953
Median % change year-on-year +51.32% -2.45% -8.35%
75th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £43,750
90th Percentile £70,750 £63,750 £47,095
North East median annual salary £48,750 £34,000 £38,953
% change year-on-year +43.38% -12.72% +3.87%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 138 172 213
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 28.28% 12.45% 23.36%
Number of salaries quoted 89 162 91
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,000 £30,750
25th Percentile - £31,250 £34,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,087 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -37.28% -5.88% +3.66%
75th Percentile £38,750 £54,688 £48,750
90th Percentile £68,250 £67,968 £63,750
North East median annual salary £25,087 £42,500 £40,865
% change year-on-year -40.97% +4.00% +2.16%

VPN
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing VPN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for VPN in Tyne and Wear

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Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VPN in Tyne and Wear.

Salary trend for VPN in Tyne and Wear

VPN
Salary Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution for jobs citing VPN in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for VPN in Tyne and Wear

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Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 28 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +36 6 £57,500 +63.12% 17
Gateshead +2 1 £52,500 -4.55% 1
VPN
North East

VPN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) Firewall
1 6 (85.71%) Intrusion Detection
1 6 (85.71%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 5 (71.43%) Manufacturing
1 5 (71.43%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Security Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Network Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Network Security Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) IT Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) IT Security Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Security Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Software Integration Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Systems Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (14.29%) Learning Management System
1 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Business Continuity
1 6 (85.71%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (71.43%) BCP
2 5 (71.43%) Business Continuity Planning
2 5 (71.43%) Identity Access Management
2 5 (71.43%) Root Cause Analysis
2 5 (71.43%) SIEM
2 5 (71.43%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
3 1 (14.29%) Data Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Integration Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Requirements Management
3 1 (14.29%) Server Virtualisation
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Software Testing
3 1 (14.29%) System Testing
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) CISM
1 1 (14.29%) CISSP
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (85.71%) GDPR
1 6 (85.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (85.71%) NIST
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
2 1 (14.29%) QA
2 1 (14.29%) SLA