VPN Job Trends in Central London

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Central London requiring VPN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 114 112
Rank change year-on-year -4 -2 +3
Permanent jobs citing VPN 18 28 70
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 0.61% 1.45% 2.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.59% 12.73% 13.83%
Number of salaries quoted 17 26 34
10th Percentile £26,250 £38,500 £42,875
25th Percentile £36,250 £55,000 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £80,313 £93,438
90th Percentile £92,000 £95,000 £95,000
London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +18.18%

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 170 220 506
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 5.76% 11.36% 15.50%
Number of salaries quoted 129 191 296
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £37,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £83,125
90th Percentile £100,000 £82,500 £96,125
London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -

VPN
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing VPN relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Central London.

VPN job vacancy trend in Central London

VPN
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing VPN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing VPN

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Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing VPN in Central London over the 6 months to 5 October 2026.

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 5 October 2026. 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 -5 17 £56,250 -19.64% 30
City of Westminster +19 4 £27,500 +5.77% 2
VPN
London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (22.22%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (61.11%) Azure
2 8 (44.44%) Entra ID
3 7 (38.89%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (11.11%) AWS
4 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (11.11%) IaaS
4 2 (11.11%) Mimecast
4 2 (11.11%) OneDrive
4 2 (11.11%) PaaS
5 1 (5.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Functions
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (5.56%) Cloudflare
5 1 (5.56%) GCP
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (5.56%) OpenShift
5 1 (5.56%) SaaS
5 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (55.56%) Firewall
2 9 (50.00%) Wireless
3 8 (44.44%) DHCP
3 8 (44.44%) DNS
4 7 (38.89%) TCP/IP
5 6 (33.33%) Network Security
6 5 (27.78%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (16.67%) WAN
8 2 (11.11%) BGP
8 2 (11.11%) LAN
8 2 (11.11%) OSPF
8 2 (11.11%) VLAN
9 1 (5.56%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (5.56%) Cisco ISE
9 1 (5.56%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (5.56%) MPLS
9 1 (5.56%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (5.56%) Spanning Tree
9 1 (5.56%) VXLAN
9 1 (5.56%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) MySQL
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) GitLab
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 11 (61.11%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Law
3 2 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Legal
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Finance
4 1 (5.56%) French Language
4 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) IT Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) IT Support
2 6 (33.33%) Support Engineer
3 5 (27.78%) IT Support Engineer
4 4 (22.22%) IT Support Technician
4 4 (22.22%) IT Technician
4 4 (22.22%) Junior
4 4 (22.22%) Junior IT Engineer
4 4 (22.22%) Junior IT Support
4 4 (22.22%) Junior IT Technician
4 4 (22.22%) Junior Support Engineer
4 4 (22.22%) Junior Support Technician
4 4 (22.22%) Support Technician
5 3 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (16.67%) Network Engineer
6 2 (11.11%) Analyst
6 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (11.11%) IT Analyst
6 2 (11.11%) Network Support
6 2 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) Terraform
2 1 (5.56%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Data Centre
1 2 (11.11%) Operational Technology
2 1 (5.56%) CCTV
2 1 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (5.56%) Cyberattack
2 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.56%) SCADA
2 1 (5.56%) Security Posture
2 1 (5.56%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 11 (61.11%) Windows
2 7 (38.89%) Windows 10
3 4 (22.22%) Windows Server
4 3 (16.67%) Linux
5 1 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (44.44%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (27.78%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (22.22%) Computer Science
4 4 (22.22%) Customer Service
4 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (16.67%) Business Continuity
5 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 3 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (11.11%) DevOps
6 2 (11.11%) Incident Management
6 2 (11.11%) ITIL
6 2 (11.11%) Mentoring
6 2 (11.11%) Network Segmentation
6 2 (11.11%) Runbook
6 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
7 1 (5.56%) Privileged Access Management
7 1 (5.56%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.56%) Bash
2 1 (5.56%) Bicep
2 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Degree
2 4 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.56%) A+ Certification
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.56%) CCIE
4 1 (5.56%) CCNA
4 1 (5.56%) CCNP
4 1 (5.56%) CISSP
4 1 (5.56%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (5.56%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) GDPR
2 1 (5.56%) HIPAA
2 1 (5.56%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 5 (27.78%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (5.56%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (5.56%) vSphere
4 1 (5.56%) Xen
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.56%) Ansible
2 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) Proxmox
2 1 (5.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 4 (22.22%) Cisco
3 3 (16.67%) Meraki
4 2 (11.11%) Palo Alto
4 2 (11.11%) VMware
5 1 (5.56%) Aruba
5 1 (5.56%) Citrix
5 1 (5.56%) Fortinet
5 1 (5.56%) iManage
5 1 (5.56%) Proofpoint
5 1 (5.56%) Red Hat
5 1 (5.56%) Ruckus Wireless
5 1 (5.56%) WatchGuard