VPN Jobs in the East of England

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 19 February 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 123 160
Rank change year-on-year +31 +37 +8
Permanent jobs citing VPN 96 69 78
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 2.63% 1.53% 1.42%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.21% 8.44% 9.32%
Number of salaries quoted 72 62 60
10th Percentile £25,000 £23,875 £29,975
25th Percentile £28,000 £26,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,000 £38,750 £41,250
Median % change year-on-year -17.42% -6.06% -21.43%
75th Percentile £49,063 £56,563 £67,500
90th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £51,058 £46,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +9.80% -2.11% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 631 818 837
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 17.29% 18.18% 15.28%
Number of salaries quoted 292 639 502
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,000 £29,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% - -5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £71,500 £67,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £51,573
% change year-on-year +10.00% -3.05% +1.12%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing VPN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for VPN in the East of England

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Salary Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VPN in the East of England.

Salary trend for VPN in the East of England

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Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing VPN in the East of England over the 6 months to 19 February 2025.

Salary histogram for VPN in the East of England

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Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the East of England region over the 6 months to 19 February 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
Norfolk +23 34 £28,000 +1.82% 2
Cambridgeshire +22 26 £32,000 -21.95% 15
Hertfordshire +16 24 £62,250 +39.89% 8
Essex +23 6 £28,000 -30.00% 6
Bedfordshire -32 4 £35,000 +40.00% 2
Suffolk -14 2 £41,250 -21.43% 3
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 53 (55.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 51 (53.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (7.29%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 63 (65.63%) Microsoft 365
2 50 (52.08%) Azure
3 47 (48.96%) Entra ID
4 7 (7.29%) Mimecast
5 6 (6.25%) OneDrive
6 2 (2.08%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (2.08%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.08%) PowerApps
6 2 (2.08%) SaaS
7 1 (1.04%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 79 (82.29%) Firewall
2 59 (61.46%) DNS
3 37 (38.54%) LAN
4 33 (34.38%) WAN
5 29 (30.21%) TCP/IP
6 17 (17.71%) DHCP
6 17 (17.71%) VLAN
7 15 (15.63%) Internet
8 13 (13.54%) Wi-Fi
9 11 (11.46%) FTP
9 11 (11.46%) HTTP
9 11 (11.46%) SMTP
10 10 (10.42%) Intrusion Detection
11 9 (9.38%) BGP
12 8 (8.33%) SAN
12 8 (8.33%) Wireless
13 7 (7.29%) SNMP
13 7 (7.29%) SSL
14 6 (6.25%) Network Security
15 5 (5.21%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.46%) Relational Database
2 7 (7.29%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (3.13%) JIRA
General
1 14 (14.58%) Social Skills
2 8 (8.33%) Finance
2 8 (8.33%) Retail
3 5 (5.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (4.17%) Manufacturing
4 4 (4.17%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.13%) Legal
5 3 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (3.13%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.08%) Aviation
6 2 (2.08%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (29.17%) IT Support
1 28 (29.17%) IT Technician
2 25 (26.04%) Support Technician
3 18 (18.75%) IT Support Technician
4 16 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
5 14 (14.58%) Analyst
6 11 (11.46%) 1st Line Support
6 11 (11.46%) 2nd Line Support Technician
7 10 (10.42%) Network Engineer
7 10 (10.42%) SOC Analyst
8 9 (9.38%) 1st Line Support Technician
9 7 (7.29%) Administrator
9 7 (7.29%) Systems Administrator
10 6 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (6.25%) Support Engineer
11 5 (5.21%) IT Engineer
12 4 (4.17%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 4 (4.17%) Project Engineer
13 3 (3.13%) Lead
13 3 (3.13%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.46%) LDAP
2 3 (3.13%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 26 (27.08%) Driving Licence
2 11 (11.46%) Client/Server
2 11 (11.46%) Security Operations Centre
3 5 (5.21%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.17%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.17%) IoT
5 3 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (3.13%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.08%) Biopharmaceutical
6 2 (2.08%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.08%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 68 (70.83%) Windows
2 46 (47.92%) Windows Server
3 11 (11.46%) Linux
4 8 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (5.21%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (4.17%) Apple iOS
6 4 (4.17%) Windows 10
7 3 (3.13%) Data ONTAP
7 3 (3.13%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (2.08%) Unix
9 1 (1.04%) Android
9 1 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (13.54%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (11.46%) Malware Analysis
2 11 (11.46%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 11 (11.46%) Reverse Engineering
2 11 (11.46%) Security Operations
2 11 (11.46%) SIEM
3 10 (10.42%) Incident Response
4 9 (9.38%) Network Monitoring
5 8 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (6.25%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (6.25%) Load Balancing
7 5 (5.21%) Customer Service
7 5 (5.21%) High Availability
7 5 (5.21%) ITSM
7 5 (5.21%) Use Case
8 4 (4.17%) Infrastructure Maintenance
8 4 (4.17%) Logistics
8 4 (4.17%) Migration
8 4 (4.17%) Network Design
8 4 (4.17%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (9.38%) Python
2 7 (7.29%) Bash
2 7 (7.29%) PowerShell
3 3 (3.13%) C++
3 3 (3.13%) Perl
4 2 (2.08%) Java
4 2 (2.08%) SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (21.88%) Security Cleared
2 17 (17.71%) DV Cleared
3 15 (15.63%) SC Cleared
4 12 (12.50%) Degree
5 5 (5.21%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (3.13%) VCAP
6 3 (3.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (2.08%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.08%) CCNP
7 2 (2.08%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.04%) CCIE
8 1 (1.04%) CCNA
8 1 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.04%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.29%) SLA
2 3 (3.13%) GDPR
2 3 (3.13%) Government Security Classifications
2 3 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.08%) ISO 22301
3 2 (2.08%) NIST
3 2 (2.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 64 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 10 (10.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (8.33%) Hyper-V
4 3 (3.13%) VMware NSX
4 3 (3.13%) vSphere
5 2 (2.08%) Firmware
5 2 (2.08%) Terminal Server
6 1 (1.04%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 11 (11.46%) QRadar
2 8 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (6.25%) Ansible
4 4 (4.17%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (4.17%) Progress Chef
4 4 (4.17%) Puppet
5 3 (3.13%) Autotask
5 3 (3.13%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (3.13%) PowerCLI
5 3 (3.13%) SCCM
5 3 (3.13%) WMI
5 3 (3.13%) WSUS
6 2 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.04%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 54 (56.25%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.46%) Splunk
3 10 (10.42%) VMware
4 8 (8.33%) Cisco
5 7 (7.29%) Citrix
5 7 (7.29%) SolarWinds
6 4 (4.17%) Veeam
7 3 (3.13%) HP
7 3 (3.13%) NetApp
7 3 (3.13%) WatchGuard
8 2 (2.08%) Datto
8 2 (2.08%) Dell
8 2 (2.08%) Draytek
8 2 (2.08%) Fortinet
8 2 (2.08%) SonicWALL
8 2 (2.08%) Synology
9 1 (1.04%) Aruba
9 1 (1.04%) Meru Networks
9 1 (1.04%) Palo Alto
9 1 (1.04%) Red Hat