VPN Jobs in the North West

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 206 171 240
Rank change year-on-year -35 +69 -66
Permanent jobs citing VPN 88 134 100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.86% 1.77% 1.04%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.51% 8.45% 7.79%
Number of salaries quoted 72 112 92
10th Percentile £30,550 £27,100 £21,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,250 £25,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £31,363
Median % change year-on-year - +43.48% -37.27%
75th Percentile £55,000 £58,000 £53,125
90th Percentile £65,000 £82,500 £66,225
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,172 1,585 1,284
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 11.41% 20.91% 13.38%
Number of salaries quoted 895 653 729
10th Percentile £26,000 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,500 £36,750 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -
75th Percentile £61,250 £59,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £73,441 £71,050
England median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in the North West

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Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for VPN in the North West

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Salary Histogram in the North West

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

Salary histogram for VPN in the North West

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Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the North West region over the 6 months to 28 May 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
Manchester 0 49 £42,500 -15.00% 9
Merseyside +7 23 £48,500 -1.50% 3
Cheshire -22 13 £35,000 -49.09% 17
Lancashire -21 3 £45,000 +19.08%
VPN
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 16 (18.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (12.50%) Apache
3 6 (6.82%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.14%) IIS
4 1 (1.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (10.23%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 39 (44.32%) Microsoft 365
2 33 (37.50%) Azure
3 12 (13.64%) AWS
4 11 (12.50%) Amazon S3
5 7 (7.95%) Entra ID
6 6 (6.82%) IaaS
7 5 (5.68%) GCP
7 5 (5.68%) PaaS
8 3 (3.41%) OneDrive
9 2 (2.27%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.27%) Mimecast
10 1 (1.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (1.14%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.14%) Azure Functions
10 1 (1.14%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.14%) Google Compute Engine
10 1 (1.14%) Serverless
10 1 (1.14%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 53 (60.23%) Firewall
2 40 (45.45%) DNS
3 33 (37.50%) SSL
3 33 (37.50%) WAN
4 28 (31.82%) DHCP
4 28 (31.82%) LAN
5 26 (29.55%) IPsec
6 21 (23.86%) TCP/IP
7 19 (21.59%) Network Security
8 16 (18.18%) BGP
8 16 (18.18%) Internet
8 16 (18.18%) OSPF
9 14 (15.91%) SNMP
10 13 (14.77%) SD-WAN
11 11 (12.50%) MPLS
11 11 (12.50%) VLAN
12 10 (11.36%) VoIP
12 10 (11.36%) Wi-Fi
13 7 (7.95%) Wireless
14 5 (5.68%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.64%) SQL Server
2 10 (11.36%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (11.36%) MongoDB
3 5 (5.68%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.14%) BigQuery
General
1 16 (18.18%) Finance
2 15 (17.05%) Social Skills
3 5 (5.68%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.55%) Telecoms
5 3 (3.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.27%) Law
7 1 (1.14%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 35 (39.77%) Network Engineer
2 13 (14.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 11 (12.50%) Lead
4 10 (11.36%) Consultant
4 10 (11.36%) NetApp Consultant
4 10 (11.36%) Support Engineer
5 9 (10.23%) Senior
6 8 (9.09%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (7.95%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 7 (7.95%) IT Engineer
8 5 (5.68%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
8 5 (5.68%) IT Support
8 5 (5.68%) IT Support Engineer
8 5 (5.68%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 5 (5.68%) Senior Technical Specialist
8 5 (5.68%) Senior Technical Support
8 5 (5.68%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
8 5 (5.68%) Support Specialist
8 5 (5.68%) Technical Specialist
8 5 (5.68%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.36%) RabbitMQ
1 10 (11.36%) YAML
2 1 (1.14%) Ajax
2 1 (1.14%) AngularJS
2 1 (1.14%) CSS
2 1 (1.14%) CSS3
2 1 (1.14%) HTML
2 1 (1.14%) HTML5
2 1 (1.14%) LDAP
2 1 (1.14%) SOAP
2 1 (1.14%) Twitter Bootstrap
2 1 (1.14%) Web Services
2 1 (1.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (20.45%) Data Centre
2 8 (9.09%) Driving Licence
3 7 (7.95%) Replication
4 5 (5.68%) Onboarding
5 4 (4.55%) Security Posture
6 3 (3.41%) PKI
7 2 (2.27%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.14%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.14%) Housing Association
8 1 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.14%) iPhone
8 1 (1.14%) Life Science
8 1 (1.14%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.14%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 41 (46.59%) Windows
2 25 (28.41%) Linux
3 14 (15.91%) Windows Server
4 10 (11.36%) Data ONTAP
5 6 (6.82%) Windows 10
6 2 (2.27%) Android
6 2 (2.27%) Windows XP
7 1 (1.14%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.14%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.14%) Windows 7
7 1 (1.14%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (29.55%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (22.73%) Migration
3 18 (20.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 17 (19.32%) Customer Service
4 17 (19.32%) Disaster Recovery
5 16 (18.18%) Release Management
6 15 (17.05%) ITIL
6 15 (17.05%) Project Management
7 14 (15.91%) Computer Science
8 10 (11.36%) Actionable Insight
8 10 (11.36%) Infrastructure Management
8 10 (11.36%) Project Planning
8 10 (11.36%) Storage Management
9 6 (6.82%) Change Management
9 6 (6.82%) Incident Management
9 6 (6.82%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (5.68%) Agile
10 5 (5.68%) Incident Response
10 5 (5.68%) Line Management
10 5 (5.68%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (11.36%) Python
2 7 (7.95%) SQL
3 3 (3.41%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.14%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 27 (30.68%) Cisco Certification
2 20 (22.73%) CCNA
2 20 (22.73%) CCNP
3 15 (17.05%) Degree
4 8 (9.09%) CISSP
5 6 (6.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (5.68%) Citrix Certification
6 5 (5.68%) JNCIA
6 5 (5.68%) VCAP
6 5 (5.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (4.55%) CCNA CyberOps
7 4 (4.55%) CISM
7 4 (4.55%) CRISC
7 4 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (3.41%) MCSE
8 3 (3.41%) Security Cleared
9 2 (2.27%) Azure Certification
10 1 (1.14%) CCIE
10 1 (1.14%) CISA
10 1 (1.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (9.09%) SLA
3 2 (2.27%) ISO 22301
3 2 (2.27%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.14%) FISMA
4 1 (1.14%) GDPR
4 1 (1.14%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.14%) HITRUST
4 1 (1.14%) NIST
4 1 (1.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 29 (32.95%) Active Directory
2 23 (26.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (11.36%) Docker
4 6 (6.82%) VMware NSX
5 4 (4.55%) Hyper-V
6 3 (3.41%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (2.27%) vSphere
8 1 (1.14%) Terminal Server
8 1 (1.14%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 10 (11.36%) Ansible
2 10 (11.36%) Prometheus
2 10 (11.36%) vCenter Server
3 7 (7.95%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (6.82%) Terraform
5 2 (2.27%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.14%) SCCM
6 1 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 41 (46.59%) VMware
2 34 (38.64%) Cisco
3 24 (27.27%) Microsoft
4 13 (14.77%) Fortinet
4 13 (14.77%) Palo Alto
5 12 (13.64%) Citrix
5 12 (13.64%) Juniper
5 12 (13.64%) Veeam
6 10 (11.36%) Meraki
6 10 (11.36%) NetApp
6 10 (11.36%) Red Hat
6 10 (11.36%) SolidFire
7 7 (7.95%) F5
8 6 (6.82%) SolarWinds
9 5 (5.68%) Dell
9 5 (5.68%) Google
10 4 (4.55%) Apple
10 4 (4.55%) CrowdStrike
11 2 (2.27%) Avaya
11 2 (2.27%) Ubiquiti