VPN Jobs in Hampshire

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 84 109 92
Rank change year-on-year +25 -17 +102
Permanent jobs citing VPN 37 88 78
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 1.87% 2.07% 2.81%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.74% 13.15% 14.00%
Number of salaries quoted 28 86 70
10th Percentile £38,025 £26,250 -
25th Percentile £51,250 £27,000 £23,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £37,500 £36,750
Median % change year-on-year +50.67% +2.04% -22.63%
75th Percentile £66,250 £53,750 £49,000
90th Percentile £73,250 £61,250 £55,000
South East median annual salary £52,500 £46,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +12.90% +9.41% -5.56%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 380 669 557
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 19.22% 15.72% 20.04%
Number of salaries quoted 260 589 402
10th Percentile £32,375 £27,000 £26,300
25th Percentile £45,500 £32,500 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% +8.89% -5.26%
75th Percentile £68,125 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £71,000 £75,000
South East median annual salary £46,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.16% +5.56% -5.26%

VPN
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in Hampshire

VPN
Salary Trend in Hampshire

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

Salary trend for VPN in Hampshire

VPN
Salary Histogram in Hampshire

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

Salary histogram for VPN in Hampshire

VPN
Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 31 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
Portsmouth +7 9 £52,500 - 1
Southampton +32 6 £55,000 -4.35% 2
Farnborough +2 6 £62,500 +123.21%
Basingstoke -3 6 £56,500 +68.66% 9
Gosport - 3 - - 6
Ringwood +16 1 - - 1
VPN
South East

VPN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.70%) Exchange Server 2013
2 1 (2.70%) Office Communications Server
2 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.70%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (2.70%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 12 (32.43%) AWS
2 7 (18.92%) Azure
3 6 (16.22%) SaaS
4 4 (10.81%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (10.81%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (10.81%) GCP
4 4 (10.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (5.41%) Azure AI
5 2 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.41%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (5.41%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (5.41%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (5.41%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (5.41%) Entra ID
5 2 (5.41%) IaaS
5 2 (5.41%) PaaS
5 2 (5.41%) Power Automate
5 2 (5.41%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.70%) GitHub
6 1 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 22 (59.46%) Firewall
2 17 (45.95%) TCP/IP
3 12 (32.43%) BGP
3 12 (32.43%) OSPF
4 11 (29.73%) DNS
5 9 (24.32%) Ethernet VPN
5 9 (24.32%) IPsec
5 9 (24.32%) SSL
5 9 (24.32%) WAN
6 8 (21.62%) DHCP
6 8 (21.62%) VXLAN
7 6 (16.22%) EIGRP
7 6 (16.22%) LAN
8 5 (13.51%) Cisco ASA
8 5 (13.51%) Cisco Firepower
8 5 (13.51%) MPLS
8 5 (13.51%) RIP
9 4 (10.81%) VoIP
10 3 (8.11%) Broadband
10 3 (8.11%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.41%) Data Lake
1 2 (5.41%) MySQL
1 2 (5.41%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Git
2 1 (2.70%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (29.73%) Social Skills
2 9 (24.32%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.81%) Finance
4 2 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.70%) Advertising
5 1 (2.70%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (43.24%) Network Engineer
2 11 (29.73%) Senior
3 6 (16.22%) Analyst
3 6 (16.22%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) Senior Network Engineer
4 5 (13.51%) Architect
4 5 (13.51%) SOC Analyst
5 4 (10.81%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Security Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Network Architect
7 2 (5.41%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Support Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Exchange Support
8 1 (2.70%) Juniper Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.81%) JSON
1 4 (10.81%) YAML
2 2 (5.41%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (45.95%) Data Centre
2 5 (13.51%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (13.51%) Security Operations Centre
3 4 (10.81%) Security Posture
4 3 (8.11%) Clustering
4 3 (8.11%) Driving Licence
5 2 (5.41%) NHS
5 2 (5.41%) PKI
6 1 (2.70%) Replication
6 1 (2.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.11%) Windows
2 2 (5.41%) Linux
2 2 (5.41%) Windows Server
2 2 (5.41%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (2.70%) CentOS
3 1 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (29.73%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (27.03%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (24.32%) Incident Response
3 9 (24.32%) SIEM
4 8 (21.62%) Threat Detection
5 7 (18.92%) Agile
5 7 (18.92%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 7 (18.92%) Mentoring
5 7 (18.92%) Threat Intelligence
6 5 (13.51%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 5 (13.51%) Presales
6 5 (13.51%) Security Operations
7 4 (10.81%) Change Management
7 4 (10.81%) Cloud Security
7 4 (10.81%) Forensic Analysis
7 4 (10.81%) Project Delivery
8 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (8.11%) ITIL
8 3 (8.11%) Network Virtualisation
8 3 (8.11%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (21.62%) PowerShell
2 5 (13.51%) Python
3 4 (10.81%) Bash
3 4 (10.81%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (5.41%) Bicep
4 2 (5.41%) SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (62.16%) Security Cleared
2 14 (37.84%) DV Cleared
3 13 (35.14%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (32.43%) CCNP
5 9 (24.32%) CCNA
6 8 (21.62%) SC Cleared
7 7 (18.92%) OSCP
8 5 (13.51%) Degree
9 4 (10.81%) CEH
9 4 (10.81%) CISM
9 4 (10.81%) CISSP
9 4 (10.81%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (8.11%) DBS Check
10 3 (8.11%) JNCIA
10 3 (8.11%) JNCIS
11 2 (5.41%) Azure Certification
12 1 (2.70%) CCIE
12 1 (2.70%) GCIA
12 1 (2.70%) GCIH
12 1 (2.70%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) GDPR
1 5 (13.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (10.81%) HIPAA
2 4 (10.81%) NIST
3 2 (5.41%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (16.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (13.51%) Active Directory
3 3 (8.11%) Hyper-V
3 3 (8.11%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (5.41%) BitLocker
4 2 (5.41%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (5.41%) Terminal Services
4 2 (5.41%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (5.41%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.70%) ISA Server
5 1 (2.70%) KVM
5 1 (2.70%) VMware NSX
5 1 (2.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (10.81%) QRadar
2 2 (5.41%) Ansible
2 2 (5.41%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (5.41%) vCenter Server
2 2 (5.41%) vMotion
3 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (48.65%) Cisco
2 15 (40.54%) Microsoft
3 9 (24.32%) Splunk
4 8 (21.62%) Juniper
5 6 (16.22%) VMware
6 5 (13.51%) Citrix
6 5 (13.51%) Palo Alto
7 2 (5.41%) Databricks
7 2 (5.41%) Fortinet
7 2 (5.41%) Meraki
7 2 (5.41%) ServiceNow
8 1 (2.70%) Broadcom
8 1 (2.70%) CheckPoint
8 1 (2.70%) Dell
8 1 (2.70%) F5
8 1 (2.70%) Mellanox
8 1 (2.70%) NVIDIA
8 1 (2.70%) SonicWALL