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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 159 175 232
Rank change year-on-year +16 +57 -60
Permanent jobs citing VPN 280 286 292
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.68% 1.92% 1.47%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.11% 11.06% 9.28%
Number of salaries quoted 226 240 256
10th Percentile £26,500 £24,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £41,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.05% -12.63% +5.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £52,813 £61,563
90th Percentile £68,125 £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 2,770 2,586 3,146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 16.59% 17.35% 15.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,903 1,528 1,878
10th Percentile £26,043 £26,425 £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% -1.04%
75th Percentile £59,000 £62,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,300 £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 5 May 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 5 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
Hampshire -11 92 £37,500 +10.29% 10
Thames Valley +17 91 £52,500 +5.00% 22
Berkshire +37 43 £52,500 -16.00% 10
East Sussex +39 35 £52,500 +15.38% 4
Surrey +7 33 £57,500 +47.44% 7
Buckinghamshire -27 30 £65,000 +30.00% 6
Oxfordshire +12 19 £50,000 +5.26% 6
Kent -42 19 £37,500 -6.25% 4
West Sussex +42 10 £52,500 +11.70% 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 69 (24.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 41 (14.64%) SharePoint
3 21 (7.50%) Exchange Server 2010
4 12 (4.29%) IIS
5 6 (2.14%) Apache
6 5 (1.79%) nginx
7 4 (1.43%) WordPress
8 2 (0.71%) SAS
9 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
Applications
1 37 (13.21%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.71%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 144 (51.43%) Microsoft 365
2 133 (47.50%) Azure
3 35 (12.50%) AWS
4 30 (10.71%) Entra ID
5 23 (8.21%) Azure Monitor
6 22 (7.86%) OneDrive
7 18 (6.43%) SaaS
8 16 (5.71%) IaaS
9 15 (5.36%) GitHub
10 13 (4.64%) Mimecast
11 12 (4.29%) Cloud Computing
12 9 (3.21%) Amazon S3
12 9 (3.21%) Azure Sentinel
13 8 (2.86%) GCP
14 7 (2.50%) PaaS
15 6 (2.14%) Amazon EC2
15 6 (2.14%) Twilio
15 6 (2.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 5 (1.79%) Power Platform
17 4 (1.43%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 187 (66.79%) Firewall
2 95 (33.93%) DNS
3 73 (26.07%) DHCP
3 73 (26.07%) VLAN
4 67 (23.93%) TCP/IP
5 55 (19.64%) WAN
6 54 (19.29%) LAN
7 37 (13.21%) Network Security
8 36 (12.86%) Wireless
9 31 (11.07%) BGP
10 29 (10.36%) IPsec
11 28 (10.00%) OSPF
11 28 (10.00%) VoIP
12 24 (8.57%) SAN
13 17 (6.07%) Cisco Firepower
13 17 (6.07%) SSL
13 17 (6.07%) Wi-Fi
14 16 (5.71%) 5G
14 16 (5.71%) iSCSI
15 15 (5.36%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.64%) SQL Server
2 11 (3.93%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (3.21%) NoSQL
4 8 (2.86%) MySQL
5 5 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (1.79%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.79%) Power BI
6 4 (1.43%) Oracle Database
6 4 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.36%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.36%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 13 (4.64%) JIRA
2 11 (3.93%) Git
3 10 (3.57%) Jenkins
3 10 (3.57%) Trac
General
1 99 (35.36%) Social Skills
2 32 (11.43%) Telecoms
3 26 (9.29%) Finance
4 15 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.93%) Back Office
5 11 (3.93%) Manufacturing
6 7 (2.50%) Games
7 6 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (1.79%) Legal
9 4 (1.43%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.07%) Advertising
11 2 (0.71%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.71%) Electronics
12 1 (0.36%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.36%) Law
12 1 (0.36%) Marketing
12 1 (0.36%) Military
12 1 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (22.14%) Support Engineer
2 54 (19.29%) IT Engineer
3 52 (18.57%) IT Support
4 47 (16.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 43 (15.36%) Senior
6 39 (13.93%) Network Engineer
7 36 (12.86%) IT Support Engineer
8 28 (10.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 21 (7.50%) Analyst
10 20 (7.14%) 3rd Line Support
11 19 (6.79%) IT Analyst
12 18 (6.43%) Architect
13 14 (5.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
13 14 (5.00%) IT Support Analyst
13 14 (5.00%) Support Analyst
14 13 (4.64%) Network Support
15 11 (3.93%) Azure Engineer
15 11 (3.93%) Infrastructure Support
16 10 (3.57%) Infrastructure Architect
16 10 (3.57%) Senior IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.64%) 802.1X
2 7 (2.50%) Web Services
3 5 (1.79%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (1.79%) YAML
4 4 (1.43%) Azure Blueprints
4 4 (1.43%) CSS
4 4 (1.43%) GraphQL
4 4 (1.43%) gRPC
4 4 (1.43%) HTML
4 4 (1.43%) Knex.js
4 4 (1.43%) LAMP
4 4 (1.43%) LEMP Stack
4 4 (1.43%) Node.js
4 4 (1.43%) React
4 4 (1.43%) React Native
4 4 (1.43%) RESTful
4 4 (1.43%) Sequelize
5 3 (1.07%) REST
5 3 (1.07%) SOAP
6 1 (0.36%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 28 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 23 (8.21%) Driving Licence
3 13 (4.64%) Onboarding
4 12 (4.29%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (3.93%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (2.86%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.86%) PKI
6 8 (2.86%) Replication
7 7 (2.50%) Client/Server
8 5 (1.79%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.79%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.79%) IoT
9 4 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.43%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.07%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.07%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (1.07%) SCADA
10 3 (1.07%) Security Posture
11 2 (0.71%) Enterprise Storage
11 2 (0.71%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 170 (60.71%) Windows
2 100 (35.71%) Windows Server
3 51 (18.21%) Linux
4 44 (15.71%) Windows 10
5 31 (11.07%) Windows Server 2019
6 29 (10.36%) Windows Server 2016
7 19 (6.79%) Apple iOS
8 16 (5.71%) Android
9 10 (3.57%) Unix
10 8 (2.86%) Mac OS
10 8 (2.86%) Windows 7
10 8 (2.86%) Windows 8
11 7 (2.50%) Windows Server 2012
12 6 (2.14%) VMS
13 5 (1.79%) Data ONTAP
13 5 (1.79%) Ubuntu
14 4 (1.43%) Kali Linux
14 4 (1.43%) Windows Server 2003
15 3 (1.07%) Windows Server 2008
16 2 (0.71%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (22.50%) Customer Service
2 55 (19.64%) Problem-Solving
3 49 (17.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 40 (14.29%) ITIL
5 31 (11.07%) Project Management
6 30 (10.71%) Cybersecurity
7 26 (9.29%) Analytics
8 25 (8.93%) Customer Experience
9 24 (8.57%) Actionable Insight
9 24 (8.57%) Service Delivery
10 23 (8.21%) Configuration Management
11 21 (7.50%) Identity Management
11 21 (7.50%) Log Analytics
11 21 (7.50%) Mentoring
12 20 (7.14%) Service Management
13 19 (6.79%) Computer Science
14 18 (6.43%) DevOps
14 18 (6.43%) Inventory Management
14 18 (6.43%) Roadmaps
15 17 (6.07%) Remote Monitoring and Management
Programming Languages
1 63 (22.50%) PowerShell
2 33 (11.79%) Python
3 22 (7.86%) SQL
4 9 (3.21%) Bash
5 4 (1.43%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.43%) JSX
5 4 (1.43%) R
5 4 (1.43%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.36%) C
6 1 (0.36%) C++
6 1 (0.36%) Korn
6 1 (0.36%) PHP
Qualifications
1 64 (22.86%) Security Cleared
2 53 (18.93%) SC Cleared
3 40 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
4 39 (13.93%) Degree
5 25 (8.93%) CCNP
6 24 (8.57%) Microsoft Certification
7 18 (6.43%) CCNA
8 17 (6.07%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (4.29%) MCP
10 9 (3.21%) Azure Certification
10 9 (3.21%) CCIE
11 8 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (2.14%) ITIL Certification
12 6 (2.14%) JNCIS
12 6 (2.14%) MCSA
13 5 (1.79%) DBS Check
13 5 (1.79%) JNCIE
14 4 (1.43%) AWS Certification
14 4 (1.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 4 (1.43%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.21%) SLA
2 15 (5.36%) GDPR
3 8 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
4 7 (2.50%) NIST
5 6 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 4 (1.43%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.07%) QA
System Software
1 116 (41.43%) Active Directory
2 92 (32.86%) Hyper-V
3 37 (13.21%) Virtual Machines
4 34 (12.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 24 (8.57%) Docker
6 16 (5.71%) pfSense
7 13 (4.64%) VMware ESXi
8 11 (3.93%) NFS
8 11 (3.93%) vSphere
9 6 (2.14%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (1.43%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.71%) Firmware
12 1 (0.36%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.36%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 52 (18.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (8.93%) Ansible
3 19 (6.79%) Grafana
4 17 (6.07%) SCCM
5 16 (5.71%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 16 (5.71%) SCDPM
5 16 (5.71%) ZABBIX
6 10 (3.57%) Kubernetes
7 6 (2.14%) WSUS
8 5 (1.79%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.79%) vCenter Server
9 4 (1.43%) Autotask
9 4 (1.43%) EMC NetWorker
9 4 (1.43%) NetCrunch
9 4 (1.43%) Suricata
10 3 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.07%) Terraform
11 2 (0.71%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.71%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.71%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 149 (53.21%) Microsoft
2 72 (25.71%) VMware
3 58 (20.71%) Cisco
4 47 (16.79%) Juniper
5 25 (8.93%) Fortinet
5 25 (8.93%) Veeam
6 23 (8.21%) Palo Alto
7 18 (6.43%) Dell
8 17 (6.07%) Apple
9 16 (5.71%) F5
10 15 (5.36%) Barracuda Networks
11 14 (5.00%) ConnectWise
11 14 (5.00%) Meraki
12 12 (4.29%) Sophos
13 10 (3.57%) McAfee
14 8 (2.86%) HP
14 8 (2.86%) Splunk
14 8 (2.86%) Zerto
15 7 (2.50%) Aruba
15 7 (2.50%) Oracle