VPN Jobs in London

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 188 187 211
Rank change year-on-year -1 +24 +139
Permanent jobs citing VPN 233 386 627
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.83% 1.63% 1.77%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.23% 11.57% 15.26%
Number of salaries quoted 197 281 475
10th Percentile £34,300 £34,000 £33,923
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £83,750 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £94,250 £97,500 £88,750
England 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
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,352 3,337 4,110
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 10.61% 14.13% 11.57%
Number of salaries quoted 973 2,051 2,809
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £95,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%

VPN
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in London

VPN
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for VPN in London

VPN
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing VPN in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for VPN in London

VPN
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Central London +4 30 £75,000 +53.06% 19
West London +42 14 £48,750 -8.88% 10
South London +16 7 £50,000 +30.72% 1
East London -5 4 £96,250 +140.63% 2
VPN
England

VPN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 36 (15.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (9.87%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.43%) Confluence
3 1 (0.43%) IIS
Applications
1 21 (9.01%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 5 (2.15%) Blender
2 5 (2.15%) CINEMA 4D
2 5 (2.15%) Maya
3 3 (1.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.72%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.86%) Carpe Diem
2 2 (0.86%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 161 (69.10%) Azure
2 91 (39.06%) Microsoft 365
3 65 (27.90%) AWS
4 49 (21.03%) Entra ID
5 16 (6.87%) GCP
6 14 (6.01%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (6.01%) OneDrive
6 14 (6.01%) PaaS
7 12 (5.15%) Mimecast
8 11 (4.72%) Azure Sentinel
9 10 (4.29%) GitHub
9 10 (4.29%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (4.29%) IaaS
10 9 (3.86%) AWS Direct Connect
11 8 (3.43%) SaaS
12 7 (3.00%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (3.00%) Amazon S3
12 7 (3.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 5 (2.15%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 5 (2.15%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 143 (61.37%) Firewall
2 88 (37.77%) WAN
3 71 (30.47%) LAN
4 62 (26.61%) Network Security
5 54 (23.18%) DNS
6 47 (20.17%) Wi-Fi
7 44 (18.88%) BGP
8 42 (18.03%) TCP/IP
9 37 (15.88%) OSPF
10 36 (15.45%) DHCP
11 32 (13.73%) MPLS
12 28 (12.02%) VLAN
13 27 (11.59%) SD-WAN
14 26 (11.16%) IPsec
14 26 (11.16%) Wireless
15 14 (6.01%) Cisco ASA
16 12 (5.15%) WLAN
17 11 (4.72%) Cisco Firepower
17 11 (4.72%) VXLAN
18 10 (4.29%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.43%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.15%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (2.15%) MongoDB
3 5 (2.15%) MySQL
4 1 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.43%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.43%) Power BI
4 1 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (2.15%) JIRA
2 2 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.43%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.43%) Git
3 1 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.43%) Robot Framework
General
1 86 (36.91%) Social Skills
2 69 (29.61%) Finance
3 39 (16.74%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (13.30%) Banking
5 16 (6.87%) Law
6 14 (6.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (5.58%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (5.15%) Legal
9 7 (3.00%) Marketing
9 7 (3.00%) Telecoms
10 6 (2.58%) Front Office
11 5 (2.15%) Games
11 5 (2.15%) Retail
12 4 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.29%) Investment Banking
13 3 (1.29%) Local Government
14 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.43%) Japanese Language
14 1 (0.43%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 56 (24.03%) Network Engineer
2 49 (21.03%) Senior
3 44 (18.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 34 (14.59%) Analyst
5 23 (9.87%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 21 (9.01%) IT Support
6 21 (9.01%) Lead
7 17 (7.30%) IT Engineer
8 15 (6.44%) Cloud Engineer
8 15 (6.44%) Support Analyst
9 12 (5.15%) Support Engineer
10 11 (4.72%) Azure Engineer
10 11 (4.72%) IT Analyst
10 11 (4.72%) IT Support Engineer
10 11 (4.72%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (4.29%) Architect
12 8 (3.43%) Security Analyst
12 8 (3.43%) Service Analyst
12 8 (3.43%) Team Leader
13 7 (3.00%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.15%) 802.1X
1 5 (2.15%) GraphQL
1 5 (2.15%) gRPC
1 5 (2.15%) Node.js
1 5 (2.15%) RabbitMQ
1 5 (2.15%) React
1 5 (2.15%) React Native
1 5 (2.15%) RESTful
1 5 (2.15%) Sequelize
2 3 (1.29%) Web Services
3 2 (0.86%) YAML
4 1 (0.43%) Ajax
4 1 (0.43%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.43%) CSS
4 1 (0.43%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.43%) HTML
4 1 (0.43%) LDAP
4 1 (0.43%) SOAP
4 1 (0.43%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (13.73%) Data Centre
2 14 (6.01%) Management Information System
3 12 (5.15%) Onboarding
4 11 (4.72%) Cloud Native
5 10 (4.29%) Security Posture
6 9 (3.86%) PKI
7 6 (2.58%) Security Operations Centre
8 5 (2.15%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.72%) IoT
9 4 (1.72%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.72%) Wiki
10 3 (1.29%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.29%) Driving Licence
10 3 (1.29%) EPoS
10 3 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.29%) IPTV
10 3 (1.29%) Video Conferencing
11 2 (0.86%) Cyberattack
11 2 (0.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 104 (44.64%) Windows
2 45 (19.31%) Windows Server
3 35 (15.02%) Windows 10
4 31 (13.30%) Linux
5 16 (6.87%) Mac OS
6 5 (2.15%) Android
6 5 (2.15%) Mac OS X
6 5 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (2.15%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (1.72%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.72%) VMS
7 4 (1.72%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (1.29%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (37.34%) Problem-Solving
2 63 (27.04%) ITIL
3 54 (23.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 35 (15.02%) Cybersecurity
4 35 (15.02%) Network Management
5 33 (14.16%) Disaster Recovery
5 33 (14.16%) High Availability
6 29 (12.45%) Change Management
6 29 (12.45%) DevOps
7 27 (11.59%) Continuous Improvement
7 27 (11.59%) Incident Management
8 24 (10.30%) Customer Service
8 24 (10.30%) Incident Response
8 24 (10.30%) Network Monitoring
9 23 (9.87%) Artificial Intelligence
9 23 (9.87%) CI/CD
10 21 (9.01%) Business Continuity
11 20 (8.58%) SIEM
12 19 (8.15%) Root Cause Analysis
13 18 (7.73%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 36 (15.45%) PowerShell
2 26 (11.16%) Python
3 15 (6.44%) Bash
4 7 (3.00%) JavaScript
5 5 (2.15%) TypeScript
6 4 (1.72%) SQL
7 3 (1.29%) Java
8 2 (0.86%) C++
8 2 (0.86%) Go
9 1 (0.43%) Groovy
9 1 (0.43%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 70 (30.04%) Cisco Certification
2 50 (21.46%) CCNA
3 49 (21.03%) CCNP
4 28 (12.02%) Degree
5 21 (9.01%) Azure Certification
6 15 (6.44%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (5.58%) CCIE
8 10 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (4.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 9 (3.86%) AWS Certification
10 7 (3.00%) CISSP
10 7 (3.00%) Security Cleared
11 5 (2.15%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.29%) A+ Certification
12 3 (1.29%) CISM
12 3 (1.29%) Network+ Certification
13 2 (0.86%) CCSA
13 2 (0.86%) JNCIE
13 2 (0.86%) JNCIP
13 2 (0.86%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (10.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (8.15%) SLA
3 16 (6.87%) NIST
4 15 (6.44%) GDPR
5 10 (4.29%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (3.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 7 (3.00%) HIPAA
8 6 (2.58%) SOC 2
9 4 (1.72%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.86%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.86%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.86%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.43%) COBIT
11 1 (0.43%) QA
11 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 93 (39.91%) Active Directory
2 34 (14.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (7.73%) Hyper-V
4 14 (6.01%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (4.29%) Firmware
6 9 (3.86%) Docker
7 8 (3.43%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (2.58%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (1.29%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.86%) VirtualBox
11 1 (0.43%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.43%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.43%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 56 (24.03%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (8.58%) Terraform
3 15 (6.44%) Ansible
4 14 (6.01%) FortiGate
5 12 (5.15%) Nagios
6 10 (4.29%) SCCM
7 9 (3.86%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (2.58%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (1.72%) Graylog
9 4 (1.72%) Kubernetes
9 4 (1.72%) Opsgenie
9 4 (1.72%) vCenter Server
10 3 (1.29%) Dell DRAC
11 2 (0.86%) SCOM
11 2 (0.86%) WSUS
12 1 (0.43%) Cisco CUCM
12 1 (0.43%) Consul
12 1 (0.43%) HP UCMDB
12 1 (0.43%) Prometheus
12 1 (0.43%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 90 (38.63%) Microsoft
2 88 (37.77%) Cisco
3 48 (20.60%) Meraki
4 38 (16.31%) VMware
5 33 (14.16%) Fortinet
6 30 (12.88%) CheckPoint
7 29 (12.45%) SolarWinds
8 27 (11.59%) Palo Alto
9 21 (9.01%) Citrix
10 12 (5.15%) Arista
11 11 (4.72%) Google
12 10 (4.29%) Veeam
13 8 (3.43%) Dynatrace
13 8 (3.43%) HP
14 7 (3.00%) Apple
14 7 (3.00%) Bloomberg
14 7 (3.00%) Dell
14 7 (3.00%) Juniper
14 7 (3.00%) Refinitiv
14 7 (3.00%) Sophos