VPN Jobs in Kent

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
South East > Kent

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Kent with a requirement for VPN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited VPN over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 82 45 52
Rank change year-on-year -37 +7 -35
Permanent jobs citing VPN 18 57 67
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 1.22% 4.96% 5.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.96% 16.15% 28.39%
Number of salaries quoted 18 56 67
10th Percentile £25,250 £32,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £26,250 £33,125 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £40,000 £32,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +25.00% -15.79%
75th Percentile £46,250 £43,375 £39,000
90th Percentile £48,875 £65,625 £57,500
South East median annual salary £46,500 £40,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +14.81% -14.74% +5.56%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Kent

VPN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Kent with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 201 353 236
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 13.60% 30.72% 18.44%
Number of salaries quoted 162 182 180
10th Percentile £21,250 £27,075 £27,375
25th Percentile £27,125 £31,625 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,500 £38,250
Median % change year-on-year +4.94% +5.88% -1.92%
75th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £48,750
90th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £62,750
South East median annual salary £47,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% -5.00%

VPN
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in Kent

VPN
Salary Trend in Kent

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

Salary trend for VPN in Kent

VPN
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing VPN in Kent over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for VPN in Kent

VPN
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the Kent region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Stansted - 4 £26,500 -
Maidstone +5 3 £31,500 -24.10%
Tonbridge - 2 £34,250 -
Sevenoaks - 1 £55,000 -
VPN
South East

VPN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 8 (44.44%) SharePoint
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (94.44%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (66.67%) Azure
3 11 (61.11%) Entra ID
4 2 (11.11%) Google Workspace
4 2 (11.11%) Mimecast
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 11 (61.11%) DNS
1 11 (61.11%) Firewall
2 10 (55.56%) LAN
2 10 (55.56%) VLAN
2 10 (55.56%) WAN
3 9 (50.00%) DHCP
4 7 (38.89%) FTP
4 7 (38.89%) TCP/IP
5 6 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (16.67%) Wireless
7 2 (11.11%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (38.89%) Amazon RDS
General
1 9 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 7 (38.89%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 7 (38.89%) 3rd Line Support
2 7 (38.89%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Administrator
3 4 (22.22%) Help Desk Administrator
3 4 (22.22%) IT Administrator
3 4 (22.22%) Senior
4 2 (11.11%) Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Help Desk Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) IT Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) 1st Line Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) 1st Line Support
5 1 (5.56%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (5.56%) Field Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) IT Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Field Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior IT Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (38.89%) Client/Server
2 2 (11.11%) Public Cloud
2 2 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (94.44%) Windows
2 12 (66.67%) Windows Server
3 5 (27.78%) Android
3 5 (27.78%) Windows 10
4 3 (16.67%) Mac OS
5 1 (5.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (38.89%) Customer Service
3 5 (27.78%) ITIL
4 4 (22.22%) Logistics
5 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (11.11%) Incident Management
5 2 (11.11%) Malware Detection/Protection
5 2 (11.11%) Mentoring
6 1 (5.56%) Budget Management
6 1 (5.56%) Business Continuity
6 1 (5.56%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (5.56%) Hardware Maintenance
6 1 (5.56%) Mobile Device Management
6 1 (5.56%) Network Management
6 1 (5.56%) Project Management
6 1 (5.56%) Strategic Planning
6 1 (5.56%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) Bash
1 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 12 (66.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (44.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (11.11%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 16 (88.89%) Microsoft
2 9 (50.00%) Meraki
3 7 (38.89%) Cisco
4 2 (11.11%) Apple
4 2 (11.11%) Google
4 2 (11.11%) WatchGuard
5 1 (5.56%) VMware