VPN Jobs in the West Midlands

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 150 185
Rank change year-on-year +2 +35 -18
Permanent jobs citing VPN 48 100 95
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.08% 1.38% 1.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.52% 10.00% 8.31%
Number of salaries quoted 34 80 80
10th Percentile - £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £27,750 £29,563 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £39,750 £45,512
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -12.66% +7.09%
75th Percentile £50,438 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £63,750 £115,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £46,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.53% -7.00% +5.26%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 504 1,000 1,143
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.29% 13.81% 17.15%
Number of salaries quoted 301 829 521
10th Percentile £29,000 £25,910 £25,875
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.94% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £56,950 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing VPN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for VPN in the West Midlands

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Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VPN in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for VPN in the West Midlands

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Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing VPN in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for VPN in the West Midlands

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Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Birmingham +20 19 £37,500 -44.44% 17
Shropshire +19 5 £28,500 -28.30%
Worcestershire +17 5 £27,500 -21.43% 5
Staffordshire +7 5 £51,251 +36.67% 8
Warwickshire -23 5 - - 6
Solihull +4 3 £62,250 +126.36% 1
Herefordshire +5 1 - - 2
Coventry -2 1 £45,000 +66.67% 2
Wolverhampton - 1 £31,000 -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 8 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 8 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (27.08%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.08%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (10.42%) Dynamics NAV
1 5 (10.42%) SAP ERP
2 2 (4.17%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (4.17%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (4.17%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 20 (41.67%) Microsoft 365
2 14 (29.17%) Azure
3 9 (18.75%) AWS
4 7 (14.58%) Entra ID
5 5 (10.42%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
6 4 (8.33%) Route 53
7 2 (4.17%) Cloudflare
7 2 (4.17%) OCI
8 1 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.08%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.08%) OneDrive
8 1 (2.08%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 31 (64.58%) Firewall
2 23 (47.92%) WAN
3 19 (39.58%) LAN
4 16 (33.33%) DHCP
5 12 (25.00%) DNS
6 11 (22.92%) TCP/IP
7 9 (18.75%) Network Security
7 9 (18.75%) VLAN
8 7 (14.58%) Cisco Firepower
9 6 (12.50%) SD-WAN
10 4 (8.33%) HTTPS
10 4 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (6.25%) BGP
11 3 (6.25%) IPsec
11 3 (6.25%) MPLS
11 3 (6.25%) OSPF
12 2 (4.17%) Cisco ASA
12 2 (4.17%) Cisco ISE
12 2 (4.17%) NAS
12 2 (4.17%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.17%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.08%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (6.25%) Robot Framework
2 2 (4.17%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.08%) Git
3 1 (2.08%) GitLab
3 1 (2.08%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 8 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 8 (16.67%) Telecoms
3 5 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.42%) Finance
4 3 (6.25%) Manufacturing
5 2 (4.17%) Police
6 1 (2.08%) Electronics
6 1 (2.08%) Law
6 1 (2.08%) Marketing
6 1 (2.08%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (29.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (20.83%) Support Engineer
3 7 (14.58%) IT Engineer
3 7 (14.58%) IT Support
3 7 (14.58%) Network Engineer
4 6 (12.50%) Analyst
4 6 (12.50%) Infrastructure Support
4 6 (12.50%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 5 (10.42%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (10.42%) IT Analyst
5 5 (10.42%) IT Support Analyst
5 5 (10.42%) Support Analyst
6 4 (8.33%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) Designer
6 4 (8.33%) Network Designer
6 4 (8.33%) Security Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.17%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (2.08%) Jinja
2 1 (2.08%) OpenConfig
2 1 (2.08%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.67%) Driving Licence
2 4 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (4.17%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.17%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.17%) NHS
3 2 (4.17%) Operational Technology
3 2 (4.17%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (2.08%) IoT
4 1 (2.08%) PKI
4 1 (2.08%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 29 (60.42%) Windows
2 23 (47.92%) Windows Server
3 9 (18.75%) Windows 10
4 7 (14.58%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (12.50%) Linux
6 5 (10.42%) Apple iOS
6 5 (10.42%) Mac OS
7 2 (4.17%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (35.42%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (33.33%) ITIL
3 15 (31.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 13 (27.08%) Customer Service
5 7 (14.58%) ERP
5 7 (14.58%) Load Balancing
5 7 (14.58%) Logistics
5 7 (14.58%) Problem Management
6 6 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (10.42%) Collaborative Culture
7 5 (10.42%) Data Security
7 5 (10.42%) DevOps
7 5 (10.42%) Infrastructure Management
7 5 (10.42%) Mentoring
8 4 (8.33%) Coaching
8 4 (8.33%) Cost Management
8 4 (8.33%) Cost Optimisation
8 4 (8.33%) Security Operations
8 4 (8.33%) Threat Management
8 4 (8.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 7 (14.58%) PowerShell
2 2 (4.17%) Bash
2 2 (4.17%) JavaScript
2 2 (4.17%) Python
2 2 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (29.17%) Security Cleared
2 12 (25.00%) Degree
2 12 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 10 (20.83%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (18.75%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (14.58%) CCNA
6 6 (12.50%) A+ Certification
6 6 (12.50%) CCNP
6 6 (12.50%) MCP
6 6 (12.50%) MCSA
7 5 (10.42%) AWS Certification
7 5 (10.42%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (8.33%) Azure Certification
8 4 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (8.33%) JNCIS
9 3 (6.25%) CISA
9 3 (6.25%) CISSP
9 3 (6.25%) GIAC
9 3 (6.25%) ISACA
9 3 (6.25%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.25%) GRC
1 3 (6.25%) JSP 440
1 3 (6.25%) NCSC
2 2 (4.17%) QA
2 2 (4.17%) SLA
3 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 27 (56.25%) Active Directory
2 6 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (8.33%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.17%) Firmware
5 1 (2.08%) BitLocker
5 1 (2.08%) Docker
5 1 (2.08%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.08%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (12.50%) Ansible
2 5 (10.42%) FortiGate
2 5 (10.42%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (6.25%) Nessus
3 3 (6.25%) Terraform
4 2 (4.17%) SCCM
4 2 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.08%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.08%) vCenter Server
5 1 (2.08%) WSUS
Vendors
1 27 (56.25%) Microsoft
2 20 (41.67%) Cisco
3 9 (18.75%) Juniper
4 7 (14.58%) Apple
5 6 (12.50%) F5
5 6 (12.50%) SAP
5 6 (12.50%) VMware
6 5 (10.42%) Fortinet
7 4 (8.33%) Aruba
7 4 (8.33%) Veeam
8 3 (6.25%) HP
8 3 (6.25%) Tenable
9 2 (4.17%) CheckPoint
9 2 (4.17%) Citrix
9 2 (4.17%) Dell
9 2 (4.17%) Hyperion
9 2 (4.17%) JD Edwards
9 2 (4.17%) Oracle
9 2 (4.17%) PeopleSoft
9 2 (4.17%) Sophos