VPN Jobs in the South East

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 156 181 233
Rank change year-on-year +25 +52 -57
Permanent jobs citing VPN 273 284 279
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.64% 1.88% 1.42%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.90% 10.91% 9.09%
Number of salaries quoted 224 239 246
10th Percentile £26,500 £24,400 £27,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £40,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.81% -14.74% +5.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £68,375 £63,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £46,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -7.00% +5.26% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,758 2,602 3,070
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 16.61% 17.26% 15.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,898 1,528 1,860
10th Percentile £26,000 £26,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £59,000 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,075 £75,000 £77,500
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 South East

Job postings citing VPN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for VPN in the South East

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Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VPN in the South East.

Salary trend for VPN in the South East

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Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing VPN in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for VPN in the South East

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Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Hampshire -5 91 £37,500 +10.29% 10
Thames Valley +8 85 £52,500 +10.53% 20
Berkshire +36 42 £52,500 +50.00% 11
East Sussex +37 35 £52,500 +10.53% 5
Surrey +14 33 £57,500 +47.44% 6
Buckinghamshire -29 26 £65,000 +30.00% 5
Kent -37 18 £37,500 -6.25% 4
Oxfordshire +6 17 £50,000 +5.26% 4
West Sussex +42 11 £52,500 -41.67% 4
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 66 (24.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 40 (14.65%) SharePoint
3 17 (6.23%) Exchange Server 2010
4 12 (4.40%) IIS
5 6 (2.20%) Apache
6 5 (1.83%) nginx
7 4 (1.47%) WordPress
8 1 (0.37%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.37%) SAS
Applications
1 36 (13.19%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.73%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 140 (51.28%) Microsoft 365
2 128 (46.89%) Azure
3 34 (12.45%) AWS
4 30 (10.99%) Entra ID
5 22 (8.06%) OneDrive
6 19 (6.96%) Azure Monitor
7 18 (6.59%) SaaS
8 16 (5.86%) IaaS
9 15 (5.49%) GitHub
10 13 (4.76%) Mimecast
11 11 (4.03%) Cloud Computing
12 9 (3.30%) Amazon S3
12 9 (3.30%) Azure Sentinel
13 8 (2.93%) GCP
14 7 (2.56%) PaaS
15 6 (2.20%) Amazon EC2
15 6 (2.20%) Twilio
15 6 (2.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 4 (1.47%) Amazon ELB
16 4 (1.47%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 186 (68.13%) Firewall
2 93 (34.07%) DNS
3 72 (26.37%) VLAN
4 71 (26.01%) DHCP
5 66 (24.18%) TCP/IP
6 54 (19.78%) WAN
7 53 (19.41%) LAN
8 36 (13.19%) Network Security
9 34 (12.45%) Wireless
10 31 (11.36%) BGP
11 29 (10.62%) IPsec
12 28 (10.26%) OSPF
12 28 (10.26%) VoIP
13 23 (8.42%) SAN
14 17 (6.23%) Cisco Firepower
14 17 (6.23%) SSL
14 17 (6.23%) Wi-Fi
15 16 (5.86%) 5G
16 15 (5.49%) iSCSI
17 14 (5.13%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.76%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.40%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (3.30%) NoSQL
4 8 (2.93%) MySQL
5 5 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (1.83%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.47%) Oracle Database
6 4 (1.47%) Power BI
6 4 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.37%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.37%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 13 (4.76%) JIRA
2 11 (4.03%) Git
3 10 (3.66%) Jenkins
3 10 (3.66%) Trac
General
1 98 (35.90%) Social Skills
2 32 (11.72%) Telecoms
3 27 (9.89%) Finance
4 15 (5.49%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.03%) Back Office
5 11 (4.03%) Manufacturing
6 7 (2.56%) Games
7 6 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (1.83%) Legal
9 4 (1.47%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.10%) Advertising
11 2 (0.73%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.73%) Electronics
12 1 (0.37%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.37%) Law
12 1 (0.37%) Marketing
12 1 (0.37%) Military
12 1 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (22.71%) Support Engineer
2 54 (19.78%) IT Engineer
3 52 (19.05%) IT Support
4 47 (17.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 42 (15.38%) Senior
6 38 (13.92%) Network Engineer
7 36 (13.19%) IT Support Engineer
8 28 (10.26%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 22 (8.06%) Analyst
10 20 (7.33%) 3rd Line Support
10 20 (7.33%) IT Analyst
11 17 (6.23%) Architect
12 15 (5.49%) IT Support Analyst
12 15 (5.49%) Support Analyst
13 14 (5.13%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
14 13 (4.76%) Network Support
15 11 (4.03%) Azure Engineer
15 11 (4.03%) Infrastructure Support
16 10 (3.66%) Infrastructure Architect
16 10 (3.66%) Senior IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.76%) 802.1X
2 6 (2.20%) Web Services
3 5 (1.83%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (1.83%) YAML
4 4 (1.47%) Azure Blueprints
4 4 (1.47%) CSS
4 4 (1.47%) GraphQL
4 4 (1.47%) gRPC
4 4 (1.47%) HTML
4 4 (1.47%) Knex.js
4 4 (1.47%) LAMP
4 4 (1.47%) LEMP Stack
4 4 (1.47%) Node.js
4 4 (1.47%) React
4 4 (1.47%) React Native
4 4 (1.47%) RESTful
4 4 (1.47%) Sequelize
5 3 (1.10%) REST
5 3 (1.10%) SOAP
6 1 (0.37%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 27 (9.89%) Data Centre
2 23 (8.42%) Driving Licence
3 13 (4.76%) Onboarding
4 11 (4.03%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (3.66%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (3.30%) Replication
7 8 (2.93%) PKI
8 7 (2.56%) Client/Server
8 7 (2.56%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.83%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.83%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.83%) IoT
10 4 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.47%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.10%) Product Ownership
11 3 (1.10%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (1.10%) SCADA
12 2 (0.73%) Fibre Optics
12 2 (0.73%) Molecular Biology
12 2 (0.73%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 170 (62.27%) Windows
2 100 (36.63%) Windows Server
3 50 (18.32%) Linux
4 43 (15.75%) Windows 10
5 30 (10.99%) Windows Server 2019
6 28 (10.26%) Windows Server 2016
7 19 (6.96%) Apple iOS
8 16 (5.86%) Android
9 10 (3.66%) Unix
10 8 (2.93%) Windows 7
10 8 (2.93%) Windows 8
11 7 (2.56%) Mac OS
11 7 (2.56%) Windows Server 2012
12 6 (2.20%) VMS
13 5 (1.83%) Data ONTAP
14 4 (1.47%) Ubuntu
14 4 (1.47%) Windows Server 2003
15 3 (1.10%) Kali Linux
15 3 (1.10%) Windows Server 2008
16 2 (0.73%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (23.08%) Customer Service
2 53 (19.41%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (17.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 40 (14.65%) ITIL
5 31 (11.36%) Project Management
6 29 (10.62%) Cybersecurity
7 25 (9.16%) Customer Experience
8 24 (8.79%) Actionable Insight
8 24 (8.79%) Service Delivery
9 23 (8.42%) Configuration Management
10 22 (8.06%) Analytics
11 21 (7.69%) Mentoring
11 21 (7.69%) Service Management
12 19 (6.96%) Roadmaps
13 18 (6.59%) Computer Science
13 18 (6.59%) DevOps
13 18 (6.59%) Project Delivery
14 17 (6.23%) Identity Management
14 17 (6.23%) Log Analytics
14 17 (6.23%) Remote Monitoring and Management
Programming Languages
1 62 (22.71%) PowerShell
2 32 (11.72%) Python
3 22 (8.06%) SQL
4 9 (3.30%) Bash
5 4 (1.47%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.47%) JSX
5 4 (1.47%) R
5 4 (1.47%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.37%) C
6 1 (0.37%) C++
6 1 (0.37%) Korn
6 1 (0.37%) PHP
Qualifications
1 60 (21.98%) Security Cleared
2 49 (17.95%) SC Cleared
3 39 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
4 38 (13.92%) Degree
5 24 (8.79%) CCNP
5 24 (8.79%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (6.59%) CCNA
7 13 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (4.40%) MCP
9 9 (3.30%) Azure Certification
9 9 (3.30%) CCIE
10 8 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (2.20%) ITIL Certification
11 6 (2.20%) JNCIS
11 6 (2.20%) MCSA
12 5 (1.83%) DBS Check
12 5 (1.83%) JNCIE
13 4 (1.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 4 (1.47%) MCSE
14 3 (1.10%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.42%) SLA
2 15 (5.49%) GDPR
3 8 (2.93%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (2.20%) NIST
5 5 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 3 (1.10%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.10%) QA
System Software
1 116 (42.49%) Active Directory
2 92 (33.70%) Hyper-V
3 37 (13.55%) Virtual Machines
4 32 (11.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 24 (8.79%) Docker
6 16 (5.86%) pfSense
7 13 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
8 11 (4.03%) NFS
8 11 (4.03%) vSphere
9 6 (2.20%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.73%) Firmware
12 1 (0.37%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.37%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 49 (17.95%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (9.16%) Ansible
3 19 (6.96%) Grafana
4 18 (6.59%) SCCM
5 16 (5.86%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 16 (5.86%) SCDPM
5 16 (5.86%) ZABBIX
6 10 (3.66%) Kubernetes
7 6 (2.20%) WSUS
8 5 (1.83%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.83%) vCenter Server
9 4 (1.47%) Autotask
9 4 (1.47%) EMC NetWorker
9 4 (1.47%) NetCrunch
9 4 (1.47%) Terraform
10 3 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.10%) Suricata
11 2 (0.73%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.73%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.73%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 144 (52.75%) Microsoft
2 71 (26.01%) VMware
3 56 (20.51%) Cisco
4 46 (16.85%) Juniper
5 25 (9.16%) Fortinet
5 25 (9.16%) Veeam
6 22 (8.06%) Palo Alto
7 19 (6.96%) Dell
8 17 (6.23%) Apple
9 16 (5.86%) F5
10 15 (5.49%) Barracuda Networks
11 14 (5.13%) ConnectWise
12 13 (4.76%) Meraki
13 12 (4.40%) Sophos
14 10 (3.66%) McAfee
15 9 (3.30%) HP
16 8 (2.93%) Bloomberg
16 8 (2.93%) Zerto
17 7 (2.56%) Aruba
17 7 (2.56%) Splunk