VPN Jobs in Berkshire

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring VPN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited VPN over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 122 160
Rank change year-on-year +26 +38 -7
Permanent jobs citing VPN 32 45 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.96% 1.40% 0.92%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 19.63% 8.95% 6.50%
Number of salaries quoted 29 31 7
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £32,750 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £70,625
90th Percentile £79,500 £85,000 £78,000
South East median annual salary £52,500 £46,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +12.90% +9.41% -10.53%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Berkshire

VPN falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 163 503 431
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 9.98% 15.66% 14.09%
Number of salaries quoted 124 363 184
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,880 £24,150
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,125 £34,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,313 £61,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £79,625
South East median annual salary £46,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.16% +5.56% -5.26%

VPN
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in Berkshire

VPN
Salary Trend in Berkshire

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

Salary trend for VPN in Berkshire

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Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing VPN in Berkshire over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for VPN in Berkshire

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Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 30 May 2025. 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
Bracknell +32 9 £52,500 +39.26% 1
Windsor - 8 £29,500 -
Reading +43 7 £66,250 +39.47% 24
Slough -33 1 £55,000 +4.76% 57
VPN
South East

VPN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 8 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (9.38%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.13%) IIS
Business Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 13 (40.63%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (21.88%) AWS
3 6 (18.75%) Azure
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.13%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.13%) IaaS
4 1 (3.13%) PaaS
4 1 (3.13%) Power Automate
4 1 (3.13%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.13%) SaaS
4 1 (3.13%) Serverless
4 1 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 20 (62.50%) Firewall
2 13 (40.63%) DNS
3 12 (37.50%) VLAN
4 9 (28.13%) DHCP
4 9 (28.13%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (25.00%) Network Security
5 8 (25.00%) TCP/IP
6 5 (15.63%) VoIP
6 5 (15.63%) WAN
7 4 (12.50%) BGP
7 4 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
7 4 (12.50%) Cisco Firepower
7 4 (12.50%) Cisco ISE
7 4 (12.50%) Cisco Nexus
7 4 (12.50%) HSRP
7 4 (12.50%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (12.50%) IPsec
7 4 (12.50%) OSPF
7 4 (12.50%) SD-WAN
7 4 (12.50%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (12.50%) Metabase
1 4 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.13%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.13%) MySQL
2 1 (3.13%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Git
General
1 14 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.50%) Manufacturing
3 2 (6.25%) Retail
4 1 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 12 (37.50%) Support Engineer
2 11 (34.38%) Senior
3 7 (21.88%) Senior Support Engineer
4 6 (18.75%) Network Engineer
4 6 (18.75%) Technical Support
5 5 (15.63%) Desktop Engineer
5 5 (15.63%) Desktop Support
5 5 (15.63%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure Manager
6 4 (12.50%) Senior Technical Engineer
6 4 (12.50%) Senior Technical Support
6 4 (12.50%) Senior Technical Support Engineer
6 4 (12.50%) Technical Engineer
6 4 (12.50%) Technical Support Engineer
7 3 (9.38%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
7 3 (9.38%) IT Engineer
7 3 (9.38%) IT Support
7 3 (9.38%) Lead
7 3 (9.38%) Senior IT Engineer
7 3 (9.38%) Senior IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.50%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 10 (31.25%) Data Centre
2 4 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (12.50%) Operational Technology
2 4 (12.50%) Security Posture
3 3 (9.38%) Driving Licence
3 3 (9.38%) Onboarding
4 2 (6.25%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (3.13%) Clustering
5 1 (3.13%) NHS
5 1 (3.13%) Replication
5 1 (3.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (43.75%) Windows
2 8 (25.00%) Windows 10
2 8 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 4 (12.50%) Linux
4 3 (9.38%) Android
4 3 (9.38%) Mac OS
4 3 (9.38%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (21.88%) Project Delivery
3 6 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (18.75%) Risk Management
4 5 (15.63%) Analytics
4 5 (15.63%) Customer Service
4 5 (15.63%) High Availability
4 5 (15.63%) Mentoring
4 5 (15.63%) Server Management
5 4 (12.50%) Business Analytics
5 4 (12.50%) Business Continuity
5 4 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (12.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 4 (12.50%) Decision-Making
5 4 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (12.50%) Load Balancing
5 4 (12.50%) Service Delivery
6 3 (9.38%) Computer Science
6 3 (9.38%) Data Privacy
6 3 (9.38%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (15.63%) Python
1 5 (15.63%) SQL
2 4 (12.50%) C++
3 3 (9.38%) PowerShell
4 2 (6.25%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (3.13%) Bash
5 1 (3.13%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 10 (31.25%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (21.88%) MCP
2 7 (21.88%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (18.75%) A+ Certification
3 6 (18.75%) CCNP
3 6 (18.75%) Degree
4 5 (15.63%) SC Cleared
4 5 (15.63%) Security Cleared
5 4 (12.50%) DBS Check
5 4 (12.50%) Dell Certification
6 3 (9.38%) CCNA
6 3 (9.38%) MCSA
7 2 (6.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (6.25%) CCSP
7 2 (6.25%) CISM
7 2 (6.25%) CISSP
8 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
8 1 (3.13%) CCIE
8 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (28.13%) Active Directory
1 9 (28.13%) Hyper-V
2 8 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (12.50%) FortiGate
2 1 (3.13%) Ansible
2 1 (3.13%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (3.13%) SCCM
2 1 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (46.88%) Microsoft
2 8 (25.00%) VMware
3 6 (18.75%) Cisco
4 4 (12.50%) Dell
4 4 (12.50%) F5
4 4 (12.50%) Fortinet
4 4 (12.50%) Juniper
5 3 (9.38%) Apple
5 3 (9.38%) SonicWALL
6 1 (3.13%) Databricks
6 1 (3.13%) Meraki