VPN Job Trends in Cornwall

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
South West > Cornwall

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cornwall requiring VPN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 16 14
Rank change year-on-year -16 -2 +15
Permanent jobs citing VPN 3 2 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Cornwall 1.86% 1.85% 8.06%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.53% 40.00% 15.15%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 5
10th Percentile £30,525 - £27,650
25th Percentile £30,563 £34,250 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,250 £34,500 £31,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.42% +11.29% +3.33%
75th Percentile £31,938 £34,750 £32,250
90th Percentile £31,975 - £36,150
South West median annual salary £42,500 £35,750 £40,000
% change year-on-year +18.88% -10.63% -5.88%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cornwall

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 Cornwall.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 85 5 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cornwall 52.80% 4.63% 53.23%
Number of salaries quoted 54 5 22
10th Percentile £25,087 £27,830 £27,000
25th Percentile £27,500 £34,250 £27,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,000 £34,500 £31,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% +11.29% +29.17%
75th Percentile £34,500 £62,500 £41,188
90th Percentile £36,000 - £49,875
South West median annual salary £34,000 £52,250 £49,000
% change year-on-year -34.93% +6.63% +3.16%

VPN
Job Vacancy Trend in Cornwall

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

VPN job vacancy trend in Cornwall

VPN
Salary Trend in Cornwall

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cornwall citing VPN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cornwall citing VPN

VPN
Job Locations in Cornwall

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the Cornwall region over the 6 months to 18 November 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
Bodmin - 3 £31,250 - 4
VPN
South West

VPN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cornwall 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 3 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (100.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DHCP
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
1 3 (100.00%) IPsec
1 3 (100.00%) LAN
1 3 (100.00%) VLAN
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
1 3 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Field Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) IT Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Service Desk Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 1 (33.33%) Data Security
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) VMware