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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 157 159
Rank change year-on-year +5 +2 +35
Permanent jobs citing VPN 45 101 102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.08% 1.28% 1.71%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.24% 10.19% 9.38%
Number of salaries quoted 32 77 88
10th Percentile £26,400 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £27,750 £32,500 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £39,750 £45,125
Median % change year-on-year -23.27% -11.91% +6.18%
75th Percentile £48,000 £58,750 £59,063
90th Percentile £53,194 £88,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +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 487 991 1,087
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.65% 12.56% 18.27%
Number of salaries quoted 306 796 505
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,188 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,750 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.35% -5.56% -2.17%
75th Percentile £61,875 £56,425 £63,750
90th Percentile £74,004 £67,750 £74,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -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 31 May 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 31 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
Birmingham +25 20 £37,500 -42.31% 6
Worcestershire +19 7 £47,500 +35.71% 8
Shropshire +17 6 £28,500 -28.30% 2
Staffordshire +8 4 £53,688 +43.17% 4
Herefordshire +7 3 £42,500 +54.55%
Warwickshire -5 2 - - 7
Solihull +2 1 - -
Coventry -5 1 - - 3
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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 9 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 6 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 15 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (13.33%) Dynamics NAV
1 6 (13.33%) SAP ERP
2 1 (2.22%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.22%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (2.22%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 24 (53.33%) Microsoft 365
2 17 (37.78%) Azure
3 12 (26.67%) Entra ID
4 9 (20.00%) AWS
5 4 (8.89%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (8.89%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (8.89%) Microsoft Purview
5 4 (8.89%) Route 53
6 2 (4.44%) Azure AI
6 2 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.44%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (4.44%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (4.44%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (4.44%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (4.44%) Cloudflare
6 2 (4.44%) IaaS
6 2 (4.44%) PaaS
6 2 (4.44%) Power Automate
6 2 (4.44%) Power Platform
6 2 (4.44%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (73.33%) Firewall
2 30 (66.67%) WAN
3 24 (53.33%) LAN
4 15 (33.33%) DHCP
5 13 (28.89%) DNS
6 12 (26.67%) TCP/IP
7 9 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
8 8 (17.78%) VLAN
9 7 (15.56%) SD-WAN
10 6 (13.33%) Network Security
11 4 (8.89%) HTTPS
12 3 (6.67%) BGP
12 3 (6.67%) MPLS
12 3 (6.67%) OSPF
13 2 (4.44%) Cisco ASA
13 2 (4.44%) IPsec
13 2 (4.44%) SAN
13 2 (4.44%) VoIP
14 1 (2.22%) Cisco Nexus
14 1 (2.22%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.89%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.44%) Data Lake
2 2 (4.44%) MySQL
2 2 (4.44%) Power BI
3 1 (2.22%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.22%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Git
1 3 (6.67%) Robot Framework
2 2 (4.44%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.22%) GitLab
3 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 10 (22.22%) Telecoms
3 7 (15.56%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (15.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (15.56%) Manufacturing
4 5 (11.11%) Finance
5 1 (2.22%) Electronics
5 1 (2.22%) Law
5 1 (2.22%) Local Government
5 1 (2.22%) Marketing
5 1 (2.22%) Police
5 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (28.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (24.44%) IT Support
2 11 (24.44%) Support Engineer
3 7 (15.56%) Network Engineer
4 6 (13.33%) Analyst
4 6 (13.33%) Infrastructure Support
4 6 (13.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 6 (13.33%) IT Analyst
4 6 (13.33%) IT Engineer
4 6 (13.33%) IT Support Analyst
4 6 (13.33%) Support Analyst
5 5 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) Architect
7 3 (6.67%) IT Support Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) Consultant
8 2 (4.44%) IT Manager
8 2 (4.44%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.22%) Jinja
1 1 (2.22%) OpenConfig
1 1 (2.22%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (2.22%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (22.22%) Driving Licence
2 6 (13.33%) Operational Technology
3 4 (8.89%) Data Centre
3 4 (8.89%) NHS
4 3 (6.67%) Clustering
4 3 (6.67%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (6.67%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.22%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 30 (66.67%) Windows
2 23 (51.11%) Windows Server
3 9 (20.00%) Windows 10
4 6 (13.33%) Apple iOS
4 6 (13.33%) Linux
4 6 (13.33%) Mac OS
4 6 (13.33%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.22%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (35.56%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (33.33%) ITIL
3 14 (31.11%) Customer Service
3 14 (31.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (15.56%) Data Security
4 7 (15.56%) ERP
5 6 (13.33%) Collaborative Culture
5 6 (13.33%) DevOps
5 6 (13.33%) Load Balancing
5 6 (13.33%) Logistics
6 5 (11.11%) Identity Management
6 5 (11.11%) Mentoring
7 4 (8.89%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (8.89%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (8.89%) Migration
7 4 (8.89%) Privileged Identity Management
7 4 (8.89%) Proactive Management
7 4 (8.89%) Problem Management
7 4 (8.89%) Security Operations
7 4 (8.89%) Threat Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 8 (17.78%) SQL
3 2 (4.44%) Bash
3 2 (4.44%) Bicep
3 2 (4.44%) JavaScript
3 2 (4.44%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (28.89%) Degree
2 11 (24.44%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (15.56%) A+ Certification
4 6 (13.33%) Azure Certification
4 6 (13.33%) ITIL Certification
4 6 (13.33%) MCP
4 6 (13.33%) MCSA
4 6 (13.33%) Security Cleared
5 5 (11.11%) AWS Certification
5 5 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (8.89%) CompTIA Security+
6 4 (8.89%) Network+ Certification
6 4 (8.89%) SC Cleared
7 3 (6.67%) CCNA
8 2 (4.44%) CCNP
8 2 (4.44%) DBS Check
8 2 (4.44%) DV Cleared
8 2 (4.44%) JNCIA
9 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.44%) QA
2 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.22%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (62.22%) Active Directory
2 7 (15.56%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (15.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.22%) BitLocker
3 1 (2.22%) Docker
3 1 (2.22%) Firmware
3 1 (2.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (15.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (6.67%) FortiGate
2 3 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (4.44%) SCCM
3 2 (4.44%) Terraform
4 1 (2.22%) AirWatch
4 1 (2.22%) Ansible
4 1 (2.22%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.22%) WSUS
Vendors
1 32 (71.11%) Microsoft
2 14 (31.11%) Cisco
3 9 (20.00%) Apple
4 8 (17.78%) VMware
5 7 (15.56%) SAP
6 6 (13.33%) Juniper
7 5 (11.11%) Meraki
8 4 (8.89%) HP
8 4 (8.89%) Veeam
9 3 (6.67%) Aruba
9 3 (6.67%) Dell
9 3 (6.67%) Sophos
10 2 (4.44%) CheckPoint
10 2 (4.44%) Citrix
10 2 (4.44%) Databricks
10 2 (4.44%) Fortinet
10 2 (4.44%) Nexthink
10 2 (4.44%) Palo Alto
10 2 (4.44%) ServiceNow
11 1 (2.22%) Google