VPN Jobs in England

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 27 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 198 228
Rank change year-on-year +81 +30 +65
Permanent jobs citing VPN 1,145 1,265 1,520
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.49% 1.49% 1.63%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 19.98% 10.39% 10.55%
Number of salaries quoted 576 1,003 1,180
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £27,725
25th Percentile £34,125 £32,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -7.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £66,250 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £75,000 £78,525
UK median annual salary £50,000 £46,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.53% -7.00% +5.26%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,732 12,171 14,406
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 12.48% 14.33% 15.44%
Number of salaries quoted 3,714 8,624 7,488
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,250 £77,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,500
% change year-on-year - -5.94% -3.81%

VPN
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in England

VPN
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for VPN in England

VPN
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing VPN in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2025.

Salary histogram for VPN in England

VPN
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
North of England +122 499 £40,000 - 97
North West +157 427 £35,000 -22.22% 48
London -9 235 £62,500 +13.64% 267
South East +27 157 £55,000 +18.28% 120
Midlands +4 88 £38,750 -0.64% 53
South West +83 80 £47,500 +26.67% 46
East of England +57 80 £37,500 -3.23% 54
Yorkshire +15 57 £43,600 +16.27% 39
West Midlands +2 49 £37,500 -5.66% 34
East Midlands +24 39 £40,000 +2.56% 17
North East +36 15 £37,500 +6.38% 15
VPN
UK

VPN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 100 (8.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 94 (8.21%) SharePoint
3 21 (1.83%) IIS
4 4 (0.35%) Confluence
5 2 (0.17%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.17%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.17%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.087%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.087%) Office Communications Server
6 1 (0.087%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (0.087%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 67 (5.85%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.96%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 5 (0.44%) Blender
3 5 (0.44%) CINEMA 4D
3 5 (0.44%) Maya
4 2 (0.17%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.087%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (0.79%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.35%) SAP ERP
3 3 (0.26%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.17%) Carpe Diem
4 2 (0.17%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.17%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 337 (29.43%) Azure
2 274 (23.93%) Microsoft 365
3 132 (11.53%) AWS
4 124 (10.83%) Entra ID
5 40 (3.49%) OneDrive
6 33 (2.88%) SaaS
7 27 (2.36%) GCP
8 25 (2.18%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (2.01%) GitHub
9 23 (2.01%) Mimecast
10 22 (1.92%) Azure Sentinel
11 21 (1.83%) IaaS
12 19 (1.66%) PaaS
13 16 (1.40%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 13 (1.14%) Azure Monitor
14 13 (1.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 11 (0.96%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (0.96%) AWS Direct Connect
15 11 (0.96%) GitHub Actions
16 10 (0.87%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 621 (54.24%) DNS
2 447 (39.04%) Firewall
3 249 (21.75%) WAN
4 228 (19.91%) LAN
5 222 (19.39%) TCP/IP
6 156 (13.62%) DHCP
7 154 (13.45%) Network Security
8 120 (10.48%) VLAN
9 105 (9.17%) Wi-Fi
10 91 (7.95%) BGP
11 79 (6.90%) OSPF
12 72 (6.29%) MPLS
12 72 (6.29%) SD-WAN
13 64 (5.59%) IPsec
14 59 (5.15%) Wireless
15 46 (4.02%) Cisco Firepower
16 42 (3.67%) VoIP
17 35 (3.06%) Cisco ASA
18 32 (2.79%) Intrusion Detection
19 30 (2.62%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (4.02%) SQL Server
2 20 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (0.61%) MySQL
3 7 (0.61%) Relational Database
4 6 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (0.44%) MongoDB
5 5 (0.44%) Power BI
6 4 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.35%) Metabase
7 3 (0.26%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.17%) Big Data
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.087%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.087%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 65 (5.68%) Robot Framework
2 64 (5.59%) Cucumber
3 19 (1.66%) JIRA
4 10 (0.87%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
5 9 (0.79%) Git
6 4 (0.35%) Spinnaker
7 2 (0.17%) GitLab
8 1 (0.087%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.087%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.087%) TeamCity
General
1 491 (42.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 490 (42.79%) Finance
3 482 (42.10%) Analytical Skills
4 291 (25.41%) Social Skills
5 84 (7.34%) Telecoms
6 38 (3.32%) Banking
7 24 (2.10%) Retail
8 23 (2.01%) Law
9 19 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
10 17 (1.48%) Legal
10 17 (1.48%) Manufacturing
11 13 (1.14%) Public Sector
12 12 (1.05%) Local Government
13 10 (0.87%) Marketing
14 8 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (0.61%) Electronics
15 7 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (0.52%) Back Office
16 6 (0.52%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 402 (35.11%) Developer
2 397 (34.67%) Software Developer
3 149 (13.01%) Network Engineer
4 103 (9.00%) Senior
5 92 (8.03%) IT Support
6 87 (7.60%) Analyst
7 80 (6.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 73 (6.38%) Support Engineer
9 64 (5.59%) Test Automation Engineer
9 64 (5.59%) Test Engineer
10 56 (4.89%) Lead
11 54 (4.72%) IT Engineer
12 46 (4.02%) Support Analyst
13 44 (3.84%) Cloud Engineer
14 41 (3.58%) IT Analyst
15 36 (3.14%) 2nd Line Support
16 35 (3.06%) IT Support Analyst
17 32 (2.79%) Architect
18 31 (2.71%) Security Engineer
19 30 (2.62%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (1.31%) 802.1X
1 15 (1.31%) LDAP
2 13 (1.14%) YAML
3 5 (0.44%) GraphQL
3 5 (0.44%) gRPC
3 5 (0.44%) HTML
3 5 (0.44%) JSON
3 5 (0.44%) Node.js
3 5 (0.44%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (0.44%) React
3 5 (0.44%) React Native
3 5 (0.44%) RESTful
3 5 (0.44%) Sequelize
3 5 (0.44%) SOAP
3 5 (0.44%) XML
3 5 (0.44%) XMPP
4 4 (0.35%) Web Services
4 4 (0.35%) XSLT
5 3 (0.26%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.17%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 397 (34.67%) Cyberattack
2 85 (7.42%) Data Centre
3 71 (6.20%) Linux Command Line
4 45 (3.93%) Driving Licence
5 31 (2.71%) Onboarding
6 27 (2.36%) Management Information System
7 25 (2.18%) Security Posture
8 20 (1.75%) Security Operations Centre
9 19 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
10 17 (1.48%) Cyber Threat
11 16 (1.40%) Cloud Native
12 15 (1.31%) PKI
13 14 (1.22%) Clustering
14 11 (0.96%) Public Cloud
15 10 (0.87%) Replication
16 9 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
16 9 (0.79%) IoT
17 8 (0.70%) Client/Server
18 7 (0.61%) CCTV
18 7 (0.61%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 564 (49.26%) Linux
2 415 (36.24%) Android
3 409 (35.72%) Windows
4 202 (17.64%) Windows Server
5 82 (7.16%) Windows 10
6 42 (3.67%) Mac OS
7 37 (3.23%) Windows Server 2016
8 25 (2.18%) Windows Server 2019
9 13 (1.14%) Apple iOS
10 8 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 8 (0.70%) VMS
11 5 (0.44%) CentOS
11 5 (0.44%) Mac OS X
11 5 (0.44%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.44%) Unix
12 4 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.17%) Rocky
13 2 (0.17%) Solaris
13 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 420 (36.68%) Agile
2 411 (35.90%) Line Management
3 399 (34.85%) Design Patterns
4 397 (34.67%) Android Development
4 397 (34.67%) Mathematics
4 397 (34.67%) OO
4 397 (34.67%) OOP
5 284 (24.80%) Problem-Solving
6 138 (12.05%) ITIL
7 125 (10.92%) DevOps
8 122 (10.66%) Mentoring
9 100 (8.73%) Disaster Recovery
10 96 (8.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 91 (7.95%) Cybersecurity
12 84 (7.34%) Customer Service
13 76 (6.64%) Coaching
14 71 (6.20%) Test Automation
15 65 (5.68%) High Availability
15 65 (5.68%) System Testing
16 64 (5.59%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 528 (46.11%) Python
2 407 (35.55%) C++
3 400 (34.93%) Java
4 397 (34.67%) Go
5 166 (14.50%) PowerShell
6 100 (8.73%) Bash
7 74 (6.46%) JavaScript
8 45 (3.93%) SQL
9 10 (0.87%) Perl
10 6 (0.52%) Bicep
11 5 (0.44%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.35%) C
12 4 (0.35%) Jython
12 4 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.26%) R
14 1 (0.087%) Groovy
14 1 (0.087%) Ruby
14 1 (0.087%) Scala
Qualifications
1 498 (43.49%) Security Cleared
2 429 (37.47%) DV Cleared
3 145 (12.66%) Cisco Certification
4 143 (12.49%) Degree
5 102 (8.91%) CCNP
6 101 (8.82%) CCNA
7 61 (5.33%) SC Cleared
8 50 (4.37%) Microsoft Certification
9 34 (2.97%) A+ Certification
10 33 (2.88%) Azure Certification
11 28 (2.45%) CISSP
12 25 (2.18%) Network+ Certification
13 22 (1.92%) CCIE
13 22 (1.92%) CISM
14 21 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
14 21 (1.83%) JNCIS
15 16 (1.40%) AWS Certification
16 14 (1.22%) MCP
17 11 (0.96%) CompTIA Security+
17 11 (0.96%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (5.68%) QA
2 48 (4.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 39 (3.41%) NIST
4 38 (3.32%) SLA
5 31 (2.71%) GDPR
6 28 (2.45%) Cyber Essentials
7 17 (1.48%) PCI DSS
8 14 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 11 (0.96%) HIPAA
9 11 (0.96%) NCSC
10 8 (0.70%) SOC 2
11 7 (0.61%) Accessibility
11 7 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.26%) COBIT
12 3 (0.26%) GRC
12 3 (0.26%) JSP 440
12 3 (0.26%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.17%) ISO 22301
13 2 (0.17%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.087%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 409 (35.72%) Docker
2 265 (23.14%) Active Directory
3 119 (10.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 95 (8.30%) Hyper-V
5 30 (2.62%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (1.75%) Virtual Desktop
7 18 (1.57%) VMware ESXi
8 17 (1.48%) Firmware
9 10 (0.87%) vSphere
10 7 (0.61%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.26%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.26%) KVM
11 3 (0.26%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.17%) NFS
12 2 (0.17%) SRDF
12 2 (0.17%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 2 (0.17%) VirtualBox
12 2 (0.17%) Xen
13 1 (0.087%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 459 (40.09%) Ansible
2 118 (10.31%) Microsoft Intune
3 50 (4.37%) Terraform
4 32 (2.79%) FortiGate
5 22 (1.92%) SCCM
6 16 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.14%) Kubernetes
8 12 (1.05%) Jamf Pro
8 12 (1.05%) Nagios
9 9 (0.79%) QRadar
10 7 (0.61%) vCenter Server
11 6 (0.52%) Puppet
12 5 (0.44%) Failover Clustering
12 5 (0.44%) Microsoft Clustering
12 5 (0.44%) Proxmox
12 5 (0.44%) WSUS
13 4 (0.35%) Autotask
13 4 (0.35%) Dell DRAC
13 4 (0.35%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 4 (0.35%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 308 (26.90%) Microsoft
2 216 (18.86%) Cisco
3 142 (12.40%) VMware
4 63 (5.50%) Fortinet
5 62 (5.41%) Meraki
6 55 (4.80%) Palo Alto
7 51 (4.45%) CheckPoint
8 47 (4.10%) Citrix
9 45 (3.93%) SolarWinds
10 44 (3.84%) Juniper
11 33 (2.88%) F5
12 30 (2.62%) Veeam
13 26 (2.27%) ServiceNow
14 23 (2.01%) Google
14 23 (2.01%) HP
15 22 (1.92%) Apple
16 18 (1.57%) Arista
17 17 (1.48%) Dell
18 14 (1.22%) Sophos
19 12 (1.05%) Dynatrace