VPN Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring VPN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 89 109
Rank change year-on-year -25 +20 -2
Permanent jobs citing VPN 20 19 19
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 0.48% 1.27% 0.83%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.05% 11.66% 7.57%
Number of salaries quoted 10 15 13
10th Percentile £27,450 - -
25th Percentile £30,500 £27,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £48,750 £75,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £50,625 £85,000 £80,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £32,500 £29,500 £41,250
% change year-on-year +10.17% -28.48% +9.27%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 166 163 251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 3.98% 10.86% 10.95%
Number of salaries quoted 122 118 151
10th Percentile £27,025 £27,500 £29,563
25th Percentile £33,500 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £41,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.48% -20.95% +3.98%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,625 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £40,000 £31,625 £44,274
% change year-on-year +26.48% -28.57% +4.17%

VPN
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing VPN relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

VPN job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

VPN
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing VPN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing VPN

VPN
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing VPN in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Salary histogram for VPN in West Yorkshire

VPN
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 13 September 2026. 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
Leeds -49 13 £47,500 -13.64% 6
Wakefield -5 6 £31,000 - 1
Bradford - 1 £28,000 -
VPN
Yorkshire

VPN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 10 (50.00%) Azure
2 9 (45.00%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (20.00%) AWS
4 3 (15.00%) Entra ID
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (10.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (10.00%) Cloudflare
5 2 (10.00%) GitHub
5 2 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (10.00%) IaaS
5 2 (10.00%) Kong
5 2 (10.00%) PaaS
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 15 (75.00%) DNS
2 11 (55.00%) TCP/IP
3 10 (50.00%) DHCP
3 10 (50.00%) LAN
4 9 (45.00%) WAN
5 7 (35.00%) SSL
5 7 (35.00%) VLAN
6 6 (30.00%) Firewall
6 6 (30.00%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (25.00%) HTTP
8 3 (15.00%) Internet
9 2 (10.00%) BGP
9 2 (10.00%) OSPF
9 2 (10.00%) SD-WAN
10 1 (5.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (15.00%) Law
4 1 (5.00%) Dutch Language
4 1 (5.00%) French Language
4 1 (5.00%) German Language
4 1 (5.00%) Italian Language
4 1 (5.00%) Portuguese Language
4 1 (5.00%) Retail
4 1 (5.00%) Spanish Language
4 1 (5.00%) Swedish Language
4 1 (5.00%) Turkish Language
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Support Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Analyst
2 6 (30.00%) Service Analyst
2 6 (30.00%) Service Desk Analyst
2 6 (30.00%) Technical Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) Service Desk Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) Service Desk Support
4 4 (20.00%) Service Desk Support Analyst
4 4 (20.00%) Technical Analyst
4 4 (20.00%) Technical Services Analyst
4 4 (20.00%) Technical Support
4 4 (20.00%) Technical Support Analyst
4 4 (20.00%) Technical Support Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) 3rd Line Support
5 3 (15.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) Web Services
2 3 (15.00%) Terraform
3 1 (5.00%) 802.1X
3 1 (5.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Driving Licence
2 3 (15.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 3 (15.00%) Security Posture
3 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (10.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 13 (65.00%) Windows
2 6 (30.00%) Windows Server
3 5 (25.00%) Linux
4 2 (10.00%) VMS
5 1 (5.00%) Mac OS
5 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) ITIL
2 6 (30.00%) ERP
2 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 5 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
5 3 (15.00%) Change Management
5 3 (15.00%) Customer-Centricity
5 3 (15.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 3 (15.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 3 (15.00%) Forensic Analysis
5 3 (15.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 3 (15.00%) Objectives and Key Results
5 3 (15.00%) Process Improvement
5 3 (15.00%) Project Delivery
5 3 (15.00%) SIEM
5 3 (15.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) Bicep
1 2 (10.00%) Groovy
1 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) CREST Certified
2 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) QA
1 3 (15.00%) SLA
2 2 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (10.00%) GDPR
2 2 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.00%) Docker
2 2 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Autotask
2 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (10.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (5.00%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 9 (45.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (20.00%) SAP
2 4 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 3 (15.00%) ConnectWise
3 3 (15.00%) Remedy
4 2 (10.00%) Cisco
5 1 (5.00%) SolarWinds