VPN Job Trends in Cheltenham

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring VPN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 43 49
Rank change year-on-year +17 +6 +13
Permanent jobs citing VPN 2 2 24
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 1.55% 0.74% 6.08%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.67% 4.35% 42.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 12
10th Percentile - £50,625 -
25th Percentile £63,750 £57,188 £23,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £71,250 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +103.57% -19.08%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,188 £78,500
90th Percentile - £86,875 £78,725
Gloucestershire median annual salary £52,500 £33,000 £43,750
% change year-on-year +59.09% -24.57% -0.57%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 12 46 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 9.30% 17.10% 14.18%
Number of salaries quoted 6 36 21
10th Percentile £40,125 £46,875 £23,750
25th Percentile £50,313 £57,813 £30,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +27.50% -16.67%
75th Percentile £69,688 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £70,625 £78,750
Gloucestershire median annual salary £53,750 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.38% +5.00% -1.96%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

VPN job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

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Salary Trend in Cheltenham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing VPN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing VPN

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) BGP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (50.00%) OSPF
2 1 (50.00%) VLAN
2 1 (50.00%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) NOC Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) CentOS
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) ITSM
1 1 (50.00%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) VMware NSX
1 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) FortiGate
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Nagios
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
1 1 (50.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (50.00%) VMware