VPN Jobs in Wales

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 85 74 120
Rank change year-on-year -11 +46 -28
Permanent jobs citing VPN 22 62 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 1.14% 3.63% 0.87%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.68% 21.83% 9.04%
Number of salaries quoted 15 14 17
10th Percentile - £23,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £28,125 £25,063 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,067 £32,500 £40,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.36% -19.75% +6.58%
75th Percentile £45,780 £49,688 £50,000
90th Percentile £52,250 £78,750 £61,500
UK median annual salary £46,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -7.00% +5.26% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 206 284 188
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 10.68% 16.61% 9.60%
Number of salaries quoted 125 90 116
10th Percentile £24,500 £29,000 £29,620
25th Percentile £28,290 £31,888 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,067 £40,000 £45,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% -12.09% +21.33%
75th Percentile £50,000 £58,438 £61,000
90th Percentile £59,900 £73,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £49,000 £51,573 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.99% -1.77% +5.00%

VPN
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in Wales

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Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary trend for VPN in Wales

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Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing VPN in Wales over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for VPN in Wales

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Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the Wales region over the 6 months to 26 July 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
South Wales -7 22 £41,067 -13.54% 3
VPN
UK

VPN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 9 (40.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (22.73%) Apache
3 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (27.27%) Amazon S3
2 5 (22.73%) Azure
3 4 (18.18%) AWS
4 2 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.55%) SaaS
5 1 (4.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (68.18%) Firewall
2 8 (36.36%) DNS
2 8 (36.36%) Network Security
3 7 (31.82%) DHCP
3 7 (31.82%) IPsec
4 6 (27.27%) Remote Desktop
5 5 (22.73%) Internet
5 5 (22.73%) LAN
5 5 (22.73%) MPLS
5 5 (22.73%) SNMP
5 5 (22.73%) VLAN
5 5 (22.73%) WAN
6 3 (13.64%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (13.64%) Wireless
6 3 (13.64%) WLAN
7 2 (9.09%) BGP
7 2 (9.09%) EIGRP
7 2 (9.09%) NAS
7 2 (9.09%) SAN
7 2 (9.09%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (22.73%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (27.27%) Finance
2 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (13.64%) Local Government
3 3 (13.64%) Police
4 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Welsh Language
5 1 (4.55%) Advertising
5 1 (4.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Analyst
1 6 (27.27%) Consultant
1 6 (27.27%) Network Engineer
1 6 (27.27%) Senior
1 6 (27.27%) Service Analyst
1 6 (27.27%) Service Desk Analyst
2 5 (22.73%) NetApp Consultant
2 5 (22.73%) Senior Network Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Service Desk Support
2 5 (22.73%) Service Desk Support Analyst
2 5 (22.73%) Support Analyst
3 3 (13.64%) ICT Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) IT Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Lead
4 1 (4.55%) Lead Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Security Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Senior IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (22.73%) RabbitMQ
1 5 (22.73%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (36.36%) Data Centre
2 6 (27.27%) Smartphone
3 2 (9.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (4.55%) Life Science
4 1 (4.55%) Replication
4 1 (4.55%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (4.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (40.91%) Windows
2 6 (27.27%) Linux
3 5 (22.73%) Data ONTAP
4 4 (18.18%) Windows Server
5 2 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (4.55%) Ubuntu
6 1 (4.55%) Windows 10
6 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (40.91%) Customer Service
1 9 (40.91%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (27.27%) Coaching
2 6 (27.27%) ITSM
2 6 (27.27%) Storage Management
3 5 (22.73%) Actionable Insight
3 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure Management
3 5 (22.73%) Network Management
3 5 (22.73%) Project Management
3 5 (22.73%) Project Planning
3 5 (22.73%) Release Management
4 4 (18.18%) High Availability
5 3 (13.64%) Business Continuity
5 3 (13.64%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (9.09%) Line Management
6 2 (9.09%) Migration
7 1 (4.55%) Network Monitoring
7 1 (4.55%) Performance Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (22.73%) Python
2 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (18.18%) Degree
3 2 (9.09%) CCNA
4 1 (4.55%) CCNP
4 1 (4.55%) CISMP
4 1 (4.55%) CISSP
4 1 (4.55%) MCITP
4 1 (4.55%) MCP
4 1 (4.55%) MCSA
4 1 (4.55%) MCSE
4 1 (4.55%) MCTS
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (4.55%) GDPR
1 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (40.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (36.36%) Active Directory
3 5 (22.73%) Docker
4 2 (9.09%) Hyper-V
4 2 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (4.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 5 (22.73%) Ansible
2 5 (22.73%) Prometheus
2 5 (22.73%) vCenter Server
3 2 (9.09%) Cisco Prime
3 2 (9.09%) WhatsUp Gold
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (40.91%) Microsoft
1 9 (40.91%) VMware
2 7 (31.82%) Cisco
3 5 (22.73%) NetApp
3 5 (22.73%) Palo Alto
3 5 (22.73%) Red Hat
3 5 (22.73%) SolidFire
4 1 (4.55%) Meraki
4 1 (4.55%) Nimble Storage
4 1 (4.55%) Sophos
4 1 (4.55%) Veeam