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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 200 219
Rank change year-on-year +89 +19 +90
Permanent jobs citing VPN 1,402 1,228 1,510
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.87% 1.43% 1.69%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.00% 10.18% 10.75%
Number of salaries quoted 550 965 1,163
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £33,375 £32,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £67,188 £58,750 £67,070
90th Percentile £83,750 £75,000 £77,715
UK median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +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 8,245 12,060 14,047
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.85% 14.07% 15.73%
Number of salaries quoted 3,701 8,521 7,229
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £35,250
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 £85,000 £77,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 +150 749 £38,750 -3.13% 105
North West +178 677 £34,000 -24.44% 42
London +13 235 £62,500 +13.64% 231
South East +3 155 £52,500 +12.90% 157
Midlands +7 99 £40,000 +0.63% 69
South West +85 82 £47,500 +26.67% 61
East of England +35 76 £37,500 -3.23% 66
Yorkshire +14 59 £42,500 +13.33% 54
West Midlands +11 51 £37,500 -5.96% 47
East Midlands +18 48 £40,000 +2.56% 22
North East +27 13 £40,000 +13.48% 12
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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 93 (6.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 84 (5.99%) SharePoint
3 20 (1.43%) IIS
4 4 (0.29%) Confluence
5 2 (0.14%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.14%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.14%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.071%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.071%) Office Communications Server
6 1 (0.071%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (0.071%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 66 (4.71%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.86%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 5 (0.36%) Blender
3 5 (0.36%) CINEMA 4D
3 5 (0.36%) Maya
4 2 (0.14%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.071%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (0.78%) Dynamics NAV
2 6 (0.43%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.29%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.21%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.14%) Carpe Diem
5 2 (0.14%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.14%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 331 (23.61%) Azure
2 255 (18.19%) Microsoft 365
3 149 (10.63%) AWS
4 133 (9.49%) Entra ID
5 50 (3.57%) SaaS
6 41 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
7 38 (2.71%) OneDrive
8 37 (2.64%) IaaS
9 35 (2.50%) PaaS
10 30 (2.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 29 (2.07%) Azure Monitor
12 28 (2.00%) GCP
13 23 (1.64%) Azure Sentinel
13 23 (1.64%) Power Platform
14 22 (1.57%) Azure Key Vault
14 22 (1.57%) Mimecast
15 21 (1.50%) GitHub
16 16 (1.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 15 (1.07%) AWS Direct Connect
17 15 (1.07%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 628 (44.79%) DNS
2 447 (31.88%) Firewall
3 273 (19.47%) Cisco IOS
4 259 (18.47%) WAN
5 221 (15.76%) LAN
6 214 (15.26%) TCP/IP
7 152 (10.84%) DHCP
8 139 (9.91%) Network Security
9 114 (8.13%) VLAN
10 104 (7.42%) Wi-Fi
11 92 (6.56%) BGP
12 83 (5.92%) OSPF
13 77 (5.49%) MPLS
13 77 (5.49%) SD-WAN
14 64 (4.56%) IPsec
15 54 (3.85%) Wireless
16 47 (3.35%) Cisco Firepower
17 40 (2.85%) VoIP
18 37 (2.64%) Cisco ASA
19 28 (2.00%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (3.21%) SQL Server
2 21 (1.50%) MySQL
3 20 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
4 19 (1.36%) Power BI
5 15 (1.07%) Data Lake
6 7 (0.50%) Relational Database
7 5 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.29%) Metabase
8 4 (0.29%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.21%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.14%) Big Data
10 2 (0.14%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.14%) Oracle Exadata
11 1 (0.071%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 65 (4.64%) Robot Framework
2 64 (4.56%) Cucumber
3 25 (1.78%) Git
4 17 (1.21%) JIRA
5 12 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
6 10 (0.71%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.14%) GitLab
7 2 (0.14%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.071%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.071%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.071%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.071%) TeamCity
General
1 760 (54.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 742 (52.92%) Analytical Skills
3 492 (35.09%) Finance
4 289 (20.61%) Social Skills
5 86 (6.13%) Telecoms
6 40 (2.85%) Banking
7 23 (1.64%) Law
8 21 (1.50%) Retail
9 20 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
10 18 (1.28%) Manufacturing
11 17 (1.21%) Legal
12 10 (0.71%) Marketing
13 8 (0.57%) Investment Banking
13 8 (0.57%) Local Government
13 8 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (0.57%) Public Sector
14 7 (0.50%) Electronics
14 7 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.43%) Aerospace
15 6 (0.43%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 401 (28.60%) Developer
2 397 (28.32%) Software Developer
3 342 (24.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 146 (10.41%) Network Engineer
5 95 (6.78%) Senior
6 92 (6.56%) IT Support
7 89 (6.35%) Analyst
8 74 (5.28%) Support Engineer
9 64 (4.56%) Test Automation Engineer
9 64 (4.56%) Test Engineer
10 59 (4.21%) Lead
11 50 (3.57%) IT Engineer
11 50 (3.57%) Support Analyst
12 43 (3.07%) Architect
13 41 (2.92%) Cloud Engineer
13 41 (2.92%) IT Analyst
14 37 (2.64%) IT Support Analyst
15 33 (2.35%) 2nd Line Support
16 31 (2.21%) Security Engineer
17 30 (2.14%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 265 (18.90%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (1.14%) LDAP
3 14 (1.00%) 802.1X
4 12 (0.86%) YAML
5 5 (0.36%) JSON
6 4 (0.29%) GraphQL
6 4 (0.29%) gRPC
6 4 (0.29%) Node.js
6 4 (0.29%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (0.29%) React
6 4 (0.29%) React Native
6 4 (0.29%) RESTful
6 4 (0.29%) Sequelize
6 4 (0.29%) XMPP
7 3 (0.21%) HTML
7 3 (0.21%) SOAP
7 3 (0.21%) Web Services
7 3 (0.21%) XML
8 2 (0.14%) Middleware
8 2 (0.14%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 659 (47.00%) Cyberattack
2 101 (7.20%) Data Centre
3 71 (5.06%) Linux Command Line
4 45 (3.21%) Driving Licence
5 32 (2.28%) Onboarding
6 28 (2.00%) Management Information System
7 27 (1.93%) Security Posture
8 22 (1.57%) Security Operations Centre
9 18 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
10 17 (1.21%) NHS
11 16 (1.14%) Cloud Native
12 15 (1.07%) PKI
13 13 (0.93%) Clustering
14 12 (0.86%) Operational Technology
14 12 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
15 9 (0.64%) Client/Server
15 9 (0.64%) Public Cloud
15 9 (0.64%) Replication
16 8 (0.57%) Hybrid Cloud
17 7 (0.50%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 817 (58.27%) Linux
2 677 (48.29%) Android
3 647 (46.15%) Windows
4 187 (13.34%) Windows Server
5 79 (5.63%) Windows 10
6 42 (3.00%) Mac OS
7 33 (2.35%) Windows Server 2016
8 19 (1.36%) Windows Server 2019
9 15 (1.07%) Apple iOS
10 7 (0.50%) VMS
11 6 (0.43%) CentOS
11 6 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 5 (0.36%) Mac OS X
12 5 (0.36%) Ubuntu
13 4 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.21%) Rocky
14 3 (0.21%) Unix
15 2 (0.14%) Debian
15 2 (0.14%) Solaris
15 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 670 (47.79%) Line Management
2 659 (47.00%) Mathematics
3 546 (38.94%) Problem-Solving
4 432 (30.81%) Agile
5 400 (28.53%) Design Patterns
5 400 (28.53%) DevOps
6 397 (28.32%) Android Development
6 397 (28.32%) OO
6 397 (28.32%) OOP
7 359 (25.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 287 (20.47%) Risk Management
9 284 (20.26%) Task Automation
10 276 (19.69%) Platform Engineering
11 264 (18.83%) Storage Management
12 154 (10.98%) ITIL
13 129 (9.20%) Mentoring
14 92 (6.56%) Customer Service
14 92 (6.56%) Disaster Recovery
15 86 (6.13%) Cybersecurity
16 74 (5.28%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 789 (56.28%) Python
2 444 (31.67%) PowerShell
3 407 (29.03%) C++
4 400 (28.53%) Java
5 397 (28.32%) Go
6 361 (25.75%) Bash
7 71 (5.06%) JavaScript
8 57 (4.07%) SQL
9 21 (1.50%) Bicep
10 8 (0.57%) Perl
11 4 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (0.29%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.21%) R
13 2 (0.14%) C
13 2 (0.14%) Groovy
13 2 (0.14%) Jython
14 1 (0.071%) Ruby
14 1 (0.071%) Scala
Qualifications
1 496 (35.38%) Security Cleared
2 429 (30.60%) DV Cleared
3 140 (9.99%) Cisco Certification
4 137 (9.77%) Degree
5 100 (7.13%) CCNA
5 100 (7.13%) CCNP
6 58 (4.14%) SC Cleared
7 50 (3.57%) Azure Certification
8 49 (3.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 34 (2.43%) A+ Certification
10 31 (2.21%) CISSP
11 25 (1.78%) CISM
12 22 (1.57%) Network+ Certification
13 20 (1.43%) CCIE
13 20 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
14 19 (1.36%) AWS Certification
14 19 (1.36%) DBS Check
14 19 (1.36%) JNCIS
15 13 (0.93%) MCP
16 12 (0.86%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (4.64%) QA
2 50 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 40 (2.85%) NIST
4 38 (2.71%) SLA
5 30 (2.14%) GDPR
6 28 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
7 15 (1.07%) PCI DSS
8 13 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 11 (0.78%) HIPAA
9 11 (0.78%) NCSC
10 8 (0.57%) SOC 2
11 7 (0.50%) Accessibility
12 5 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.21%) COBIT
13 3 (0.21%) GRC
13 3 (0.21%) JSP 440
14 2 (0.14%) ISO 22301
14 2 (0.14%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.14%) NIST 800
15 1 (0.071%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 671 (47.86%) Docker
2 353 (25.18%) Hyper-V
3 271 (19.33%) vSphere
4 267 (19.04%) VMware NSX
5 243 (17.33%) Active Directory
6 123 (8.77%) VMware Infrastructure
7 44 (3.14%) Virtual Machines
8 19 (1.36%) Virtual Desktop
9 16 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
10 14 (1.00%) Firmware
11 3 (0.21%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.21%) KVM
11 3 (0.21%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.14%) NFS
12 2 (0.14%) SRDF
12 2 (0.14%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 2 (0.14%) Xen
13 1 (0.071%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 1 (0.071%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 720 (51.36%) Ansible
2 315 (22.47%) Terraform
3 112 (7.99%) Microsoft Intune
4 32 (2.28%) Single Sign-On
5 30 (2.14%) FortiGate
6 20 (1.43%) SCCM
7 15 (1.07%) Kubernetes
8 13 (0.93%) Nagios
9 11 (0.78%) QRadar
10 10 (0.71%) Jamf Pro
11 8 (0.57%) Proxmox
12 7 (0.50%) vCenter Server
13 5 (0.36%) CASB
14 4 (0.29%) Backup Exec
14 4 (0.29%) Failover Clustering
14 4 (0.29%) Graylog
14 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Clustering
14 4 (0.29%) Opsgenie
14 4 (0.29%) Puppet
14 4 (0.29%) WSUS
Vendors
1 474 (33.81%) Cisco
2 309 (22.04%) Microsoft
3 303 (21.61%) Juniper
4 278 (19.83%) Splunk
5 262 (18.69%) 3PAR
6 142 (10.13%) VMware
7 81 (5.78%) Meraki
8 68 (4.85%) Fortinet
9 52 (3.71%) Palo Alto
10 50 (3.57%) CheckPoint
10 50 (3.57%) SolarWinds
11 45 (3.21%) Citrix
12 28 (2.00%) F5
12 28 (2.00%) Veeam
13 25 (1.78%) ServiceNow
14 23 (1.64%) HP
15 22 (1.57%) Apple
16 21 (1.50%) Arista
16 21 (1.50%) Databricks
17 20 (1.43%) Google