VPN Jobs in England

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 205 221 311
Rank change year-on-year +16 +90 -77
Permanent jobs citing VPN 1,220 1,505 1,752
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.41% 1.70% 1.30%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.12% 10.77% 9.71%
Number of salaries quoted 958 1,158 1,420
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £35,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £58,750 £67,393 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,715 £77,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 12,058 13,979 18,050
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.96% 15.83% 13.36%
Number of salaries quoted 8,529 7,169 10,362
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,375 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

VPN
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in England

VPN
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for VPN in England

VPN
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing VPN in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for VPN in England

VPN
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the England region over the 6 months to 17 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
London -3 361 £55,000 -8.33% 82
South East +10 278 £46,500 +10.71% 37
North of England +23 225 £40,000 -11.11% 62
Midlands +21 167 £39,750 -11.67% 46
Yorkshire +82 114 £37,500 -25.00% 25
South West -17 110 £37,500 +7.14% 28
West Midlands +15 98 £39,875 -11.63% 22
North West -48 89 £45,000 - 29
East of England +18 79 £38,750 -22.50% 18
East Midlands +22 68 £39,000 +11.43% 24
North East +10 28 £35,250 -11.27% 8
VPN
UK

VPN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 215 (17.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 176 (14.43%) SharePoint
3 38 (3.11%) Apache
4 33 (2.70%) IIS
5 32 (2.62%) Exchange Server 2010
6 9 (0.74%) Skype for Business
6 9 (0.74%) WordPress
7 7 (0.57%) Confluence
7 7 (0.57%) nginx
7 7 (0.57%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.49%) Exchange Server 2007
8 6 (0.49%) Exchange Server 2013
8 6 (0.49%) SAS
8 6 (0.49%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.16%) CMS
9 2 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2003
9 2 (0.16%) Resin
10 1 (0.082%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.082%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 163 (13.36%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.74%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.16%) Trello
6 1 (0.082%) 1Password
6 1 (0.082%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.41%) Carpe Diem
1 5 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.33%) Sage 200
3 3 (0.25%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.16%) Eikon
4 2 (0.16%) Shopify
5 1 (0.082%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 575 (47.13%) Azure
2 518 (42.46%) Microsoft 365
3 163 (13.36%) AWS
4 159 (13.03%) Entra ID
5 77 (6.31%) OneDrive
6 68 (5.57%) IaaS
7 60 (4.92%) PaaS
8 56 (4.59%) SaaS
9 45 (3.69%) Amazon S3
10 43 (3.52%) GCP
11 33 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
12 31 (2.54%) Azure Monitor
12 31 (2.54%) Mimecast
13 25 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
14 21 (1.72%) GitHub
15 16 (1.31%) Amazon EC2
15 16 (1.31%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 16 (1.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 15 (1.23%) Power Platform
17 14 (1.15%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 797 (65.33%) Firewall
2 435 (35.66%) WAN
3 420 (34.43%) LAN
4 387 (31.72%) DNS
5 297 (24.34%) DHCP
6 251 (20.57%) VLAN
7 229 (18.77%) TCP/IP
8 191 (15.66%) Wi-Fi
9 180 (14.75%) Wireless
10 169 (13.85%) Network Security
11 133 (10.90%) Internet
12 126 (10.33%) IPsec
13 118 (9.67%) BGP
14 117 (9.59%) MPLS
15 112 (9.18%) SAN
16 108 (8.85%) VoIP
17 101 (8.28%) OSPF
18 97 (7.95%) SD-WAN
19 77 (6.31%) SSL
20 52 (4.26%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (6.15%) SQL Server
2 47 (3.85%) MongoDB
3 40 (3.28%) Elasticsearch
4 37 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
5 28 (2.30%) NoSQL
6 13 (1.07%) MySQL
6 13 (1.07%) Power BI
7 8 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (0.57%) Redis
9 6 (0.49%) BigQuery
9 6 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (0.41%) DB2
11 4 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.25%) Oracle Database
13 2 (0.16%) DynamoDB
13 2 (0.16%) InfluxDB
13 2 (0.16%) Looker
13 2 (0.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 1 (0.082%) Data Warehouse
14 1 (0.082%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 30 (2.46%) JIRA
2 25 (2.05%) Git
3 20 (1.64%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.90%) GitLab
5 10 (0.82%) Trac
6 7 (0.57%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.41%) Subversion
8 3 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.082%) Selenium
General
1 373 (30.57%) Social Skills
2 138 (11.31%) Finance
3 97 (7.95%) Telecoms
4 85 (6.97%) Analytical Skills
5 67 (5.49%) Retail
6 52 (4.26%) Law
7 30 (2.46%) Manufacturing
8 28 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 21 (1.72%) Banking
10 20 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
11 19 (1.56%) Legal
11 19 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
12 14 (1.15%) Billing
12 14 (1.15%) German Language
13 12 (0.98%) Back Office
14 11 (0.90%) Games
15 9 (0.74%) Public Sector
16 7 (0.57%) Investment Banking
16 7 (0.57%) Marketing
16 7 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 229 (18.77%) Network Engineer
2 172 (14.10%) IT Support
3 160 (13.11%) Senior
4 157 (12.87%) Support Engineer
5 156 (12.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 145 (11.89%) IT Engineer
7 141 (11.56%) Analyst
8 102 (8.36%) Architect
9 94 (7.70%) IT Support Engineer
10 66 (5.41%) IT Analyst
11 58 (4.75%) Infrastructure Architect
12 56 (4.59%) Consultant
13 54 (4.43%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 54 (4.43%) Support Analyst
14 53 (4.34%) Service Analyst
15 50 (4.10%) Service Desk Analyst
16 48 (3.93%) IT Support Analyst
16 48 (3.93%) Lead
17 47 (3.85%) 3rd Line Support
18 43 (3.52%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (4.92%) YAML
2 38 (3.11%) 802.1X
3 34 (2.79%) RabbitMQ
4 32 (2.62%) JSON
5 24 (1.97%) XML
6 23 (1.89%) HTML
6 23 (1.89%) LDAP
7 20 (1.64%) SOAP
8 16 (1.31%) Web Services
9 14 (1.15%) REST
10 13 (1.07%) ARM Templates
11 11 (0.90%) CSS
11 11 (0.90%) LAMP
11 11 (0.90%) NETCONF
11 11 (0.90%) RESTCONF
11 11 (0.90%) YANG
12 8 (0.66%) .NET
12 8 (0.66%) SAML
13 7 (0.57%) ADSI
13 7 (0.57%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 197 (16.15%) Data Centre
2 64 (5.25%) Driving Licence
3 56 (4.59%) Public Cloud
4 53 (4.34%) Management Information System
5 51 (4.18%) Replication
6 44 (3.61%) PKI
7 34 (2.79%) Hybrid Cloud
8 28 (2.30%) Onboarding
8 28 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
9 24 (1.97%) Clustering
10 20 (1.64%) Client/Server
10 20 (1.64%) Video Conferencing
11 16 (1.31%) Private Cloud
11 16 (1.31%) Product Ownership
12 13 (1.07%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 12 (0.98%) Security Posture
14 10 (0.82%) Linux Command Line
15 9 (0.74%) CMDB
15 9 (0.74%) IoT
15 9 (0.74%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 662 (54.26%) Windows
2 346 (28.36%) Windows Server
3 252 (20.66%) Linux
4 129 (10.57%) Windows 10
5 75 (6.15%) Windows Server 2019
6 66 (5.41%) Windows Server 2016
7 64 (5.25%) Ubuntu
8 59 (4.84%) Windows Server 2012
9 51 (4.18%) VMS
10 42 (3.44%) Apple iOS
11 38 (3.11%) Mac OS
12 36 (2.95%) Unix
13 34 (2.79%) Android
13 34 (2.79%) Data ONTAP
14 20 (1.64%) Windows 7
15 18 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 18 (1.48%) Windows Server 2008
16 16 (1.31%) CentOS
17 14 (1.15%) Mac OS X
18 11 (0.90%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 236 (19.34%) Problem-Solving
2 196 (16.07%) ITIL
3 193 (15.82%) Customer Service
4 191 (15.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 130 (10.66%) Agile
6 127 (10.41%) Cybersecurity
7 110 (9.02%) Project Management
8 99 (8.11%) DevOps
9 93 (7.62%) Service Management
10 90 (7.38%) Service Delivery
11 86 (7.05%) Disaster Recovery
12 84 (6.89%) Actionable Insight
13 80 (6.56%) Roadmaps
14 79 (6.48%) Computer Science
14 79 (6.48%) Mentoring
15 77 (6.31%) Project Delivery
16 73 (5.98%) Load Balancing
17 72 (5.90%) Migration
18 68 (5.57%) Infrastructure Management
19 59 (4.84%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 193 (15.82%) PowerShell
2 126 (10.33%) Python
3 120 (9.84%) SQL
4 34 (2.79%) Bash
5 15 (1.23%) C#
6 14 (1.15%) JavaScript
7 10 (0.82%) Java
8 7 (0.57%) Perl
9 6 (0.49%) Shell Script
10 5 (0.41%) JSX
10 5 (0.41%) R
10 5 (0.41%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.25%) Groovy
11 3 (0.25%) Ruby
11 3 (0.25%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.16%) Korn
12 2 (0.16%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.16%) PHP
13 1 (0.082%) Rust
13 1 (0.082%) VBA
Qualifications
1 181 (14.84%) Cisco Certification
2 148 (12.13%) Degree
3 124 (10.16%) Security Cleared
4 116 (9.51%) CCNA
5 104 (8.52%) CCNP
6 82 (6.72%) Microsoft Certification
7 72 (5.90%) SC Cleared
8 46 (3.77%) Azure Certification
9 44 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
10 41 (3.36%) MCSE
11 40 (3.28%) CISSP
12 36 (2.95%) DV Cleared
13 34 (2.79%) MCSA
14 26 (2.13%) CCIE
15 21 (1.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 18 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
17 17 (1.39%) A+ Certification
18 16 (1.31%) APMP
18 16 (1.31%) AWS Certification
18 16 (1.31%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (8.85%) SLA
2 40 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 34 (2.79%) GDPR
4 23 (1.89%) NIST
5 19 (1.56%) PCI DSS
6 14 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (0.74%) HIPAA
8 8 (0.66%) NCSC
9 6 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 4 (0.33%) GRC
11 4 (0.33%) QA
12 3 (0.25%) ISO 22301
13 2 (0.16%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.16%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.082%) COBIT
14 1 (0.082%) FISMA
14 1 (0.082%) HITRUST
14 1 (0.082%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 1 (0.082%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 552 (45.25%) Active Directory
2 254 (20.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 221 (18.11%) Hyper-V
4 81 (6.64%) Docker
5 75 (6.15%) vSphere
6 64 (5.25%) VMware ESXi
7 60 (4.92%) Virtual Machines
8 29 (2.38%) Virtual Desktop
9 21 (1.72%) pfSense
10 17 (1.39%) Virtual Servers
11 15 (1.23%) NFS
11 15 (1.23%) vCloud
12 10 (0.82%) Firmware
12 10 (0.82%) Terminal Services
13 6 (0.49%) VMware NSX
14 5 (0.41%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 5 (0.41%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.33%) XenDesktop
16 3 (0.25%) Terminal Server
16 3 (0.25%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 177 (14.51%) Microsoft Intune
2 113 (9.26%) Ansible
3 89 (7.30%) Terraform
4 78 (6.39%) Kubernetes
4 78 (6.39%) SCCM
5 51 (4.18%) WSUS
6 44 (3.61%) vCenter Server
7 43 (3.52%) Prometheus
8 30 (2.46%) ZABBIX
9 29 (2.38%) FortiGate
10 25 (2.05%) Jamf Pro
11 24 (1.97%) Grafana
12 22 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
13 18 (1.48%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
14 17 (1.39%) Puppet
15 16 (1.31%) SCDPM
16 15 (1.23%) Autotask
17 14 (1.15%) AirWatch
18 12 (0.98%) Failover Clustering
18 12 (0.98%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 563 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 363 (29.75%) VMware
3 342 (28.03%) Cisco
4 118 (9.67%) Palo Alto
5 111 (9.10%) Veeam
6 103 (8.44%) Juniper
7 100 (8.20%) Citrix
8 98 (8.03%) Meraki
9 78 (6.39%) Fortinet
10 61 (5.00%) HP
11 57 (4.67%) Red Hat
12 55 (4.51%) SolarWinds
13 47 (3.85%) CheckPoint
13 47 (3.85%) F5
14 44 (3.61%) Apple
15 43 (3.52%) Aruba
16 42 (3.44%) Sophos
17 39 (3.20%) NetApp
18 36 (2.95%) Dell
19 34 (2.79%) Google