VPN Jobs in Birmingham

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for VPN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited VPN over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 103 156
Rank change year-on-year -16 +53 -46
Permanent jobs citing VPN 33 30 35
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.13% 1.61% 1.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.62% 11.03% 7.92%
Number of salaries quoted 21 24 34
10th Percentile £26,250 £50,750 £39,938
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,875 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,828 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.27% +23.48% -
75th Percentile £115,000 £77,500 £64,188
90th Percentile - - £78,750
West Midlands median annual salary £39,750 £45,125 £42,500
% change year-on-year -11.91% +6.18% -12.82%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Birmingham

VPN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 383 272 442
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 13.14% 14.64% 14.14%
Number of salaries quoted 307 195 335
10th Percentile £26,750 £27,600 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £39,125 £40,559
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.45% - +12.24%
75th Percentile £63,750 £66,250 £66,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
West Midlands median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,955
% change year-on-year -5.56% -2.08% -0.10%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in Birmingham

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Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for VPN in Birmingham

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Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing VPN in Birmingham over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for VPN in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (6.06%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (6.06%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (3.03%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (3.03%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (3.03%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 18 (54.55%) Azure
2 11 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (24.24%) IaaS
4 8 (24.24%) PaaS
5 4 (12.12%) Entra ID
6 3 (9.09%) AWS
7 2 (6.06%) Amazon S3
7 2 (6.06%) Mimecast
7 2 (6.06%) OpenDNS
8 1 (3.03%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 1 (3.03%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (3.03%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 22 (66.67%) Firewall
2 15 (45.45%) Network Security
3 10 (30.30%) DNS
3 10 (30.30%) LAN
3 10 (30.30%) TCP/IP
4 9 (27.27%) MPLS
4 9 (27.27%) WAN
5 8 (24.24%) IPsec
5 8 (24.24%) NGFW
6 7 (21.21%) VLAN
6 7 (21.21%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (21.21%) WLAN
7 6 (18.18%) DHCP
8 5 (15.15%) OSPF
8 5 (15.15%) SD-WAN
9 3 (9.09%) BGP
9 3 (9.09%) DMZ
9 3 (9.09%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (9.09%) SAN
9 3 (9.09%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.06%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (6.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (6.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 3 (9.09%) Finance
1 3 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (9.09%) Legal
2 2 (6.06%) Law
3 1 (3.03%) Back Office
3 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.03%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (45.45%) Network Engineer
2 8 (24.24%) Architect
2 8 (24.24%) Citrix Architect
2 8 (24.24%) Cloud Architect
2 8 (24.24%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
2 8 (24.24%) DevOps Architect
3 6 (18.18%) Senior
3 6 (18.18%) Senior Network Engineer
4 5 (15.15%) Firewall Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Analyst
6 3 (9.09%) Presales Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) Presales Network Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) Service Analyst
6 3 (9.09%) Service Desk Analyst
7 2 (6.06%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Support
7 2 (6.06%) IT Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Senior Firewall Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (24.24%) ARM Templates
1 8 (24.24%) JSON
1 8 (24.24%) YAML
2 2 (6.06%) LAMP
2 2 (6.06%) V-Ray
3 1 (3.03%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 8 (24.24%) Private Cloud
1 8 (24.24%) Public Cloud
2 5 (15.15%) PKI
3 2 (6.06%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.03%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.03%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.03%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.18%) Windows
2 4 (12.12%) Windows Server
3 3 (9.09%) Linux
3 3 (9.09%) Windows 10
3 3 (9.09%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (6.06%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (3.03%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (36.36%) Network Virtualisation
2 9 (27.27%) Agile
2 9 (27.27%) CI/CD
2 9 (27.27%) DevOps
2 9 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (24.24%) Network Design
3 8 (24.24%) SDLC
4 6 (18.18%) Network Monitoring
5 5 (15.15%) Collaborative Culture
5 5 (15.15%) Computer Science
5 5 (15.15%) ITIL
5 5 (15.15%) Network Architecture
6 4 (12.12%) Capacity Planning
6 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (9.09%) Customer Service
7 3 (9.09%) Migration
7 3 (9.09%) Performance Monitoring
7 3 (9.09%) Presales
7 3 (9.09%) Reverse Engineering
7 3 (9.09%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 3 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (24.24%) CCNP
1 8 (24.24%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (18.18%) CCNA
3 5 (15.15%) Degree
4 4 (12.12%) Azure Certification
4 4 (12.12%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (12.12%) JNCIA
5 2 (6.06%) CCDA
5 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared
5 2 (6.06%) Security Cleared
6 1 (3.03%) MCSA
6 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (3.03%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) SLA
2 1 (3.03%) NCSC
System Software
1 10 (30.30%) VMware ESXi
2 9 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (24.24%) Virtual Desktop
3 8 (24.24%) vSphere
4 6 (18.18%) Active Directory
5 3 (9.09%) Hyper-V
5 3 (9.09%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (6.06%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 2 (6.06%) Docker
6 2 (6.06%) pfSense
6 2 (6.06%) Terminal Services
7 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 10 (30.30%) Terraform
2 2 (6.06%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 16 (48.48%) Cisco
2 10 (30.30%) Citrix
3 9 (27.27%) VMware
4 7 (21.21%) Microsoft
5 6 (18.18%) Juniper
6 4 (12.12%) CheckPoint
6 4 (12.12%) Meraki
6 4 (12.12%) Sophos
7 3 (9.09%) Fortinet
7 3 (9.09%) HP
8 2 (6.06%) Acronis
8 2 (6.06%) Altova
8 2 (6.06%) Aruba
8 2 (6.06%) Avaya
8 2 (6.06%) F5
8 2 (6.06%) Palo Alto
8 2 (6.06%) SolarWinds
8 2 (6.06%) SonicWALL
8 2 (6.06%) Veeam
8 2 (6.06%) Veritas