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

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 159 171 227
Rank change year-on-year +12 +56 -54
Permanent jobs citing VPN 279 280 289
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.66% 1.92% 1.46%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.14% 11.01% 9.24%
Number of salaries quoted 222 235 254
10th Percentile £26,275 £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 £53,750 £62,188
90th Percentile £68,625 £63,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +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 2,751 2,544 3,128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 16.39% 17.42% 15.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,878 1,495 1,863
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £27,500
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 £63,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £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 8 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 8 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
Thames Valley +18 94 £52,500 +5.00% 18
Hampshire -9 90 £37,500 +10.29% 10
Berkshire +45 44 £52,500 -18.29% 9
East Sussex +44 33 £52,500 +15.38% 2
Surrey +13 32 £57,500 +47.44% 5
Buckinghamshire -30 31 £65,000 +30.00% 6
Oxfordshire +10 20 £50,000 +5.26% 3
Kent -37 19 £37,500 -6.25% 5
West Sussex +36 10 £52,500 +11.70% 3
Middlesex - 1 - -
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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 70 (25.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 41 (14.70%) SharePoint
3 22 (7.89%) Exchange Server 2010
4 11 (3.94%) IIS
5 6 (2.15%) Apache
6 5 (1.79%) nginx
7 4 (1.43%) WordPress
8 2 (0.72%) SAS
9 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
Applications
1 38 (13.62%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.72%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 142 (50.90%) Microsoft 365
2 137 (49.10%) Azure
3 37 (13.26%) AWS
4 30 (10.75%) Entra ID
5 24 (8.60%) Azure Monitor
6 22 (7.89%) OneDrive
7 19 (6.81%) SaaS
8 16 (5.73%) IaaS
9 15 (5.38%) GitHub
10 13 (4.66%) Cloud Computing
10 13 (4.66%) Mimecast
11 9 (3.23%) Amazon S3
11 9 (3.23%) Azure Sentinel
11 9 (3.23%) GCP
12 8 (2.87%) PaaS
13 6 (2.15%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (2.15%) Power Platform
13 6 (2.15%) Twilio
13 6 (2.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 4 (1.43%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 188 (67.38%) Firewall
2 95 (34.05%) DNS
3 73 (26.16%) DHCP
4 72 (25.81%) VLAN
5 66 (23.66%) TCP/IP
6 54 (19.35%) WAN
7 53 (19.00%) LAN
8 38 (13.62%) Network Security
9 37 (13.26%) Wireless
10 30 (10.75%) BGP
11 28 (10.04%) IPsec
11 28 (10.04%) VoIP
12 27 (9.68%) OSPF
13 24 (8.60%) SAN
14 17 (6.09%) Cisco Firepower
14 17 (6.09%) Wi-Fi
15 16 (5.73%) 5G
15 16 (5.73%) iSCSI
15 16 (5.73%) SSL
16 14 (5.02%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.30%) SQL Server
2 11 (3.94%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (3.23%) NoSQL
4 8 (2.87%) MySQL
5 6 (2.15%) Power BI
6 5 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (1.79%) MongoDB
6 5 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.08%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.36%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.36%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 13 (4.66%) JIRA
2 12 (4.30%) Git
3 11 (3.94%) Jenkins
4 10 (3.58%) Trac
General
1 99 (35.48%) Social Skills
2 33 (11.83%) Telecoms
3 23 (8.24%) Finance
4 14 (5.02%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.94%) Back Office
5 11 (3.94%) Manufacturing
6 7 (2.51%) Games
7 6 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (1.79%) Legal
9 3 (1.08%) Advertising
9 3 (1.08%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.72%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.72%) Electronics
10 2 (0.72%) Law
10 2 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.36%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.36%) Marketing
11 1 (0.36%) Military
Job Titles
1 62 (22.22%) Support Engineer
2 54 (19.35%) IT Engineer
3 50 (17.92%) IT Support
4 47 (16.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 40 (14.34%) Senior
6 38 (13.62%) Network Engineer
7 37 (13.26%) IT Support Engineer
8 27 (9.68%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 19 (6.81%) 3rd Line Support
9 19 (6.81%) Architect
10 18 (6.45%) Analyst
11 16 (5.73%) IT Analyst
12 13 (4.66%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
13 12 (4.30%) Network Support
14 11 (3.94%) Azure Engineer
14 11 (3.94%) Infrastructure Support
14 11 (3.94%) IT Support Analyst
14 11 (3.94%) Support Analyst
15 10 (3.58%) Infrastructure Architect
16 9 (3.23%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.66%) 802.1X
2 8 (2.87%) 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 (1.08%) REST
5 3 (1.08%) SOAP
6 1 (0.36%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 29 (10.39%) Data Centre
2 23 (8.24%) Driving Licence
3 13 (4.66%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (4.30%) Onboarding
4 12 (4.30%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (3.58%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.87%) PKI
6 8 (2.87%) Replication
7 7 (2.51%) 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
9 4 (1.43%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.08%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.08%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.08%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (1.08%) SCADA
11 2 (0.72%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 168 (60.22%) Windows
2 100 (35.84%) Windows Server
3 53 (19.00%) Linux
4 43 (15.41%) Windows 10
5 32 (11.47%) Windows Server 2019
6 30 (10.75%) Windows Server 2016
7 18 (6.45%) Apple iOS
8 16 (5.73%) Android
9 10 (3.58%) Unix
10 9 (3.23%) Mac OS
11 8 (2.87%) Windows 7
12 7 (2.51%) Windows 8
12 7 (2.51%) Windows Server 2012
13 6 (2.15%) Ubuntu
13 6 (2.15%) VMS
14 5 (1.79%) Data ONTAP
14 5 (1.79%) Kali Linux
15 4 (1.43%) Windows Server 2003
16 3 (1.08%) Windows Server 2008
17 2 (0.72%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (21.86%) Customer Service
2 56 (20.07%) Problem-Solving
3 49 (17.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 38 (13.62%) ITIL
5 31 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
6 29 (10.39%) Project Management
7 28 (10.04%) Analytics
8 25 (8.96%) Customer Experience
9 24 (8.60%) Actionable Insight
10 23 (8.24%) Configuration Management
10 23 (8.24%) Service Delivery
11 22 (7.89%) Identity Management
11 22 (7.89%) Log Analytics
12 21 (7.53%) Computer Science
13 20 (7.17%) Mentoring
14 19 (6.81%) DevOps
14 19 (6.81%) Inventory Management
14 19 (6.81%) Roadmaps
15 18 (6.45%) Service Management
16 17 (6.09%) Remote Monitoring and Management
Programming Languages
1 65 (23.30%) PowerShell
2 35 (12.54%) Python
3 21 (7.53%) SQL
4 10 (3.58%) 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 (22.94%) Security Cleared
2 53 (19.00%) SC Cleared
3 42 (15.05%) Degree
4 40 (14.34%) Cisco Certification
5 25 (8.96%) CCNP
6 23 (8.24%) Microsoft Certification
7 18 (6.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 18 (6.45%) CCNA
8 12 (4.30%) MCP
9 10 (3.58%) Azure Certification
10 9 (3.23%) CCIE
11 8 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (2.15%) ITIL Certification
12 6 (2.15%) JNCIS
12 6 (2.15%) MCSA
13 5 (1.79%) AWS Certification
13 5 (1.79%) CISSP
13 5 (1.79%) DBS Check
13 5 (1.79%) JNCIE
14 4 (1.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.89%) SLA
2 15 (5.38%) GDPR
3 8 (2.87%) Cyber Essentials
3 8 (2.87%) NIST
4 7 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 5 (1.79%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (1.08%) QA
8 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
System Software
1 116 (41.58%) Active Directory
2 91 (32.62%) Hyper-V
3 37 (13.26%) Virtual Machines
4 35 (12.54%) VMware Infrastructure
5 24 (8.60%) Docker
6 16 (5.73%) pfSense
7 13 (4.66%) VMware ESXi
8 11 (3.94%) NFS
8 11 (3.94%) vSphere
9 6 (2.15%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (1.43%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.72%) Firmware
12 1 (0.36%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.36%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 52 (18.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 26 (9.32%) Ansible
3 19 (6.81%) Grafana
4 17 (6.09%) ZABBIX
5 16 (5.73%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 16 (5.73%) SCDPM
6 15 (5.38%) SCCM
7 10 (3.58%) Kubernetes
8 6 (2.15%) WSUS
9 5 (1.79%) Prometheus
9 5 (1.79%) Suricata
9 5 (1.79%) vCenter Server
10 4 (1.43%) Autotask
10 4 (1.43%) EMC NetWorker
10 4 (1.43%) NetCrunch
11 3 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (1.08%) Terraform
12 2 (0.72%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.72%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.72%) Nessus
Vendors
1 149 (53.41%) Microsoft
2 73 (26.16%) VMware
3 59 (21.15%) Cisco
4 48 (17.20%) Juniper
5 25 (8.96%) Fortinet
5 25 (8.96%) Veeam
6 24 (8.60%) Palo Alto
7 17 (6.09%) Apple
8 16 (5.73%) Dell
8 16 (5.73%) F5
9 15 (5.38%) Barracuda Networks
10 14 (5.02%) ConnectWise
10 14 (5.02%) Meraki
11 12 (4.30%) Sophos
12 10 (3.58%) McAfee
12 10 (3.58%) Splunk
13 8 (2.87%) Zerto
14 7 (2.51%) Aruba
15 6 (2.15%) Dell Compellent
15 6 (2.15%) Google