VPN Jobs in the City of London

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 126 132
Rank change year-on-year +14 +6 +77
Permanent jobs citing VPN 27 52 98
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 1.38% 1.55% 2.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.59% 11.50% 19.41%
Number of salaries quoted 25 43 85
10th Percentile £41,150 £42,250 £35,500
25th Percentile £58,000 £46,250 £42,444
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £50,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +55.00% -20.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,125 £68,750
90th Percentile £102,250 £106,250 £75,500
Central London median annual salary £76,250 £50,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +52.50% -20.00% +13.64%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 233 452 505
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 11.91% 13.51% 11.28%
Number of salaries quoted 195 332 400
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,775 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -12.00% -
75th Percentile £81,875 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £99,000 £93,625 £100,000
Central London median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +13.64% -12.00% +0.81%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in the City of London

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Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VPN in the City of London.

Salary trend for VPN in the City of London

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Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing VPN in the City of London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for VPN in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 7 (25.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (14.81%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 22 (81.48%) Azure
2 10 (37.04%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (33.33%) Entra ID
4 7 (25.93%) PaaS
5 4 (14.81%) AWS
5 4 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (14.81%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 4 (14.81%) GitHub
5 4 (14.81%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (11.11%) IaaS
7 2 (7.41%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (7.41%) GCP
7 2 (7.41%) Mimecast
7 2 (7.41%) OneDrive
8 1 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (3.70%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (3.70%) Amazon Macie
8 1 (3.70%) AWS KMS
8 1 (3.70%) Pulumi
8 1 (3.70%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 11 (40.74%) Firewall
2 10 (37.04%) WAN
3 7 (25.93%) LAN
4 6 (22.22%) DHCP
4 6 (22.22%) DNS
4 6 (22.22%) IPsec
5 5 (18.52%) Network Security
6 3 (11.11%) NetScaler
6 3 (11.11%) SD-WAN
6 3 (11.11%) VLAN
6 3 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (7.41%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (7.41%) TCP/IP
7 2 (7.41%) Wireless
8 1 (3.70%) BGP
8 1 (3.70%) IPv4
8 1 (3.70%) IPv6
8 1 (3.70%) MPLS
8 1 (3.70%) OSPF
8 1 (3.70%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.70%) Power BI
2 1 (3.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) JIRA
General
1 10 (37.04%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.93%) Finance
3 6 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (11.11%) Banking
5 2 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (7.41%) Legal
6 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) Senior
2 7 (25.93%) Azure Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) IT Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Network Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Platform Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Senior IT Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) IT Support Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Junior
5 2 (7.41%) Network Technician
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Support Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Service Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Support Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.70%) 802.1X
1 1 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Onboarding
2 2 (7.41%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (7.41%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.41%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.70%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.70%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (44.44%) Windows
2 9 (33.33%) Linux
3 6 (22.22%) Windows Server
4 4 (14.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (7.41%) Windows 10
6 2 (7.41%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (7.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (51.85%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (33.33%) ITIL
3 7 (25.93%) CI/CD
3 7 (25.93%) Cybersecurity
3 7 (25.93%) DevOps
4 6 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
4 6 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (18.52%) Mentoring
5 5 (18.52%) Platform Engineering
6 4 (14.81%) Agile
6 4 (14.81%) Business Continuity
6 4 (14.81%) Capacity Planning
6 4 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (14.81%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (14.81%) Network Virtualisation
6 4 (14.81%) PRINCE2
6 4 (14.81%) Regulatory Compliance
6 4 (14.81%) Test Automation
7 3 (11.11%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.81%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.70%) Groovy
2 1 (3.70%) Python
2 1 (3.70%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) Degree
2 4 (14.81%) Azure Certification
3 3 (11.11%) AWS Certification
3 3 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (11.11%) CISM
3 3 (11.11%) CISSP
4 2 (7.41%) CCNA
4 2 (7.41%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (3.70%) CCIE
5 1 (3.70%) CCNP
5 1 (3.70%) CEH
5 1 (3.70%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (18.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (11.11%) PCI DSS
3 2 (7.41%) ISO 22301
3 2 (7.41%) ISO 9001
3 2 (7.41%) NIST
4 1 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (3.70%) GDPR
4 1 (3.70%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (40.74%) Active Directory
2 10 (37.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (22.22%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (14.81%) Hyper-V
5 3 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (29.63%) Microsoft Intune
1 8 (29.63%) Terraform
2 4 (14.81%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (11.11%) SCCM
3 3 (11.11%) vCenter Server
4 2 (7.41%) Kubernetes
4 2 (7.41%) SCOM
5 1 (3.70%) CASB
5 1 (3.70%) Consul
5 1 (3.70%) FortiGate
5 1 (3.70%) Packer
5 1 (3.70%) Plesk
5 1 (3.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (51.85%) Microsoft
2 10 (37.04%) VMware
3 7 (25.93%) Citrix
4 6 (22.22%) Cisco
5 4 (14.81%) Red Hat
6 3 (11.11%) Bloomberg
6 3 (11.11%) FactSet
6 3 (11.11%) Fortinet
6 3 (11.11%) HP
6 3 (11.11%) Juniper
6 3 (11.11%) Mitel
6 3 (11.11%) NetApp
6 3 (11.11%) Refinitiv
6 3 (11.11%) Veeam
7 2 (7.41%) Avaya
7 2 (7.41%) Google
7 2 (7.41%) Palo Alto
7 2 (7.41%) ServiceNow
8 1 (3.70%) CheckPoint
8 1 (3.70%) Sophos