VPN Jobs in Central London

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 142 141
Rank change year-on-year +6 -1 +32
Permanent jobs citing VPN 29 55 108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 1.14% 1.45% 2.04%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.47% 11.27% 16.93%
Number of salaries quoted 26 45 92
10th Percentile £36,625 £37,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £44,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £50,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +45.00% -23.08% +18.18%
75th Percentile £88,750 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £78,625
London median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% +9.09%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 277 488 638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 10.91% 12.90% 12.04%
Number of salaries quoted 225 370 505
10th Percentile £35,300 £32,450 £34,509
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,063 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -15.38% +4.84%
75th Percentile £85,000 £76,897 £78,750
90th Percentile £99,000 £87,500 £105,000
London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% +4.17%

VPN
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in Central London

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Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for VPN in Central London

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Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing VPN in Central London over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for VPN in Central London

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Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the Central London region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
City of London +14 29 £72,500 +45.00% 13
City of Westminster - 1 £26,000 -
VPN
London

VPN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 (27.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (20.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 25 (86.21%) Azure
2 13 (44.83%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (31.03%) Entra ID
4 6 (20.69%) PaaS
5 4 (13.79%) AWS
5 4 (13.79%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (13.79%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 4 (13.79%) GitHub
5 4 (13.79%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (10.34%) IaaS
6 3 (10.34%) OneDrive
7 2 (6.90%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (6.90%) GCP
7 2 (6.90%) Mimecast
8 1 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (3.45%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (3.45%) AWS KMS
8 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
8 1 (3.45%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 12 (41.38%) Firewall
2 11 (37.93%) WAN
3 8 (27.59%) DHCP
3 8 (27.59%) DNS
3 8 (27.59%) LAN
4 6 (20.69%) IPsec
5 5 (17.24%) Network Security
6 4 (13.79%) Wireless
7 3 (10.34%) Remote Desktop
7 3 (10.34%) SD-WAN
7 3 (10.34%) VLAN
7 3 (10.34%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (6.90%) 4G
8 2 (6.90%) NetScaler
8 2 (6.90%) TCP/IP
9 1 (3.45%) BIG-IP
9 1 (3.45%) Cisco ISE
9 1 (3.45%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (3.45%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 1 (3.45%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.45%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (3.45%) Power BI
2 1 (3.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Eclipse
1 1 (3.45%) JIRA
General
1 13 (44.83%) Social Skills
2 7 (24.14%) Finance
3 6 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Banking
4 2 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (6.90%) Legal
4 2 (6.90%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (31.03%) Senior
2 7 (24.14%) Azure Engineer
3 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (17.24%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (17.24%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 5 (17.24%) IT Engineer
4 5 (17.24%) Platform Engineer
4 5 (17.24%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 4 (13.79%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 4 (13.79%) IT Support
5 4 (13.79%) Network Engineer
5 4 (13.79%) Support Engineer
6 3 (10.34%) IT Support Engineer
6 3 (10.34%) Senior IT Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Analyst
7 2 (6.90%) IT Manager
7 2 (6.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Service Analyst
7 2 (6.90%) Technical Analyst
7 2 (6.90%) Technical Services Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.45%) 802.1X
1 1 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Onboarding
2 2 (6.90%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.90%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (6.90%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.45%) NHS
3 1 (3.45%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.45%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (3.45%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 15 (51.72%) Windows
2 9 (31.03%) Windows Server
3 7 (24.14%) Linux
4 5 (17.24%) Windows 10
5 4 (13.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (10.34%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (6.90%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (6.90%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (3.45%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (48.28%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (44.83%) ITIL
3 8 (27.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (24.14%) CI/CD
4 7 (24.14%) DevOps
5 6 (20.69%) Business Continuity
5 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure Automation
6 5 (17.24%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (17.24%) Platform Engineering
7 4 (13.79%) Agile
7 4 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (13.79%) Customer Service
7 4 (13.79%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (13.79%) High Availability
7 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Management
7 4 (13.79%) Mentoring
7 4 (13.79%) Network Virtualisation
7 4 (13.79%) Regulatory Compliance
7 4 (13.79%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.34%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.45%) Groovy
2 1 (3.45%) Python
2 1 (3.45%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) Azure Certification
2 4 (13.79%) Degree
3 3 (10.34%) AWS Certification
3 3 (10.34%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (6.90%) CCNA
4 2 (6.90%) CISM
4 2 (6.90%) CISSP
5 1 (3.45%) A+ Certification
5 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (3.45%) CCIE
5 1 (3.45%) CCNP
5 1 (3.45%) CEH
5 1 (3.45%) CISA
5 1 (3.45%) MCP
5 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.45%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (10.34%) PCI DSS
3 2 (6.90%) ISO 22301
3 2 (6.90%) ISO 9001
4 1 (3.45%) GDPR
4 1 (3.45%) NIST
4 1 (3.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (44.83%) Active Directory
2 11 (37.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (24.14%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (17.24%) Hyper-V
5 2 (6.90%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (31.03%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (27.59%) Terraform
3 4 (13.79%) SCCM
4 3 (10.34%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (6.90%) FortiGate
5 2 (6.90%) Kubernetes
5 2 (6.90%) vCenter Server
6 1 (3.45%) Backup Exec
6 1 (3.45%) Consul
6 1 (3.45%) Packer
6 1 (3.45%) Prometheus
6 1 (3.45%) SCOM
6 1 (3.45%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 14 (48.28%) Microsoft
2 12 (41.38%) VMware
3 6 (20.69%) Cisco
3 6 (20.69%) Citrix
4 4 (13.79%) Red Hat
5 3 (10.34%) HP
5 3 (10.34%) Mitel
5 3 (10.34%) Veeam
6 2 (6.90%) Avaya
6 2 (6.90%) Bloomberg
6 2 (6.90%) FactSet
6 2 (6.90%) Fortinet
6 2 (6.90%) Google
6 2 (6.90%) NetApp
6 2 (6.90%) Refinitiv
6 2 (6.90%) ServiceNow
7 1 (3.45%) Dynatrace
7 1 (3.45%) ESET
7 1 (3.45%) Meraki
7 1 (3.45%) Palo Alto