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

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 188 208 199
Rank change year-on-year +20 -9 +168
Permanent jobs citing VPN 235 359 612
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.82% 1.52% 1.81%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.95% 10.99% 15.45%
Number of salaries quoted 192 261 470
10th Percentile £33,425 £32,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% +13.21%
75th Percentile £83,750 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £88,750
England 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
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 1,815 3,268 3,961
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 14.08% 13.83% 11.74%
Number of salaries quoted 938 2,006 2,709
10th Percentile £33,925 £32,875 £32,950
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,631
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £86,000 £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 16 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 16 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 +3 29 £75,000 +53.06% 21
West London +35 16 £36,875 -30.42% 8
South London +1 6 £50,000 +30.72%
East London -15 4 £96,250 +140.63% 4
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 (15.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (8.94%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.43%) Confluence
3 1 (0.43%) IIS
Applications
1 22 (9.36%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 5 (2.13%) Blender
2 5 (2.13%) CINEMA 4D
2 5 (2.13%) Maya
3 3 (1.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.70%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.85%) Carpe Diem
2 2 (0.85%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 157 (66.81%) Azure
2 86 (36.60%) Microsoft 365
3 67 (28.51%) AWS
4 49 (20.85%) Entra ID
5 17 (7.23%) GCP
6 16 (6.81%) PaaS
7 15 (6.38%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (5.53%) AWS Direct Connect
8 13 (5.53%) OneDrive
9 12 (5.11%) Mimecast
10 11 (4.68%) Azure Sentinel
10 11 (4.68%) GitHub
10 11 (4.68%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (4.68%) IaaS
10 11 (4.68%) SaaS
11 10 (4.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 8 (3.40%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (3.40%) Amazon S3
13 6 (2.55%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (2.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 143 (60.85%) Firewall
2 90 (38.30%) WAN
3 70 (29.79%) LAN
4 60 (25.53%) Network Security
5 54 (22.98%) DNS
6 51 (21.70%) BGP
7 49 (20.85%) Wi-Fi
8 44 (18.72%) OSPF
9 40 (17.02%) TCP/IP
10 34 (14.47%) DHCP
10 34 (14.47%) MPLS
11 32 (13.62%) IPsec
12 30 (12.77%) SD-WAN
13 25 (10.64%) VLAN
13 25 (10.64%) Wireless
14 17 (7.23%) Cisco ASA
15 16 (6.81%) WLAN
16 14 (5.96%) NX-OS
16 14 (5.96%) VXLAN
17 13 (5.53%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.98%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.55%) MySQL
2 6 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (2.13%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.85%) Power BI
5 1 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.43%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (2.13%) JIRA
2 3 (1.28%) Git
3 2 (0.85%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.43%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.43%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 83 (35.32%) Social Skills
2 70 (29.79%) Finance
3 39 (16.60%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (14.89%) Banking
5 17 (7.23%) Law
6 16 (6.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (5.96%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (5.11%) Legal
9 8 (3.40%) Telecoms
10 7 (2.98%) Marketing
11 6 (2.55%) Front Office
11 6 (2.55%) Games
12 5 (2.13%) Investment Banking
12 5 (2.13%) Retail
13 4 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (1.28%) Local Government
15 2 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
16 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
16 1 (0.43%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 59 (25.11%) Network Engineer
2 51 (21.70%) Senior
3 44 (18.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 35 (14.89%) Analyst
5 22 (9.36%) Lead
5 22 (9.36%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 20 (8.51%) IT Support
7 17 (7.23%) Support Analyst
8 15 (6.38%) IT Engineer
9 14 (5.96%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 13 (5.53%) Cloud Engineer
11 12 (5.11%) Azure Engineer
12 11 (4.68%) Architect
12 11 (4.68%) Support Engineer
13 10 (4.26%) IT Analyst
13 10 (4.26%) IT Support Engineer
14 9 (3.83%) Cisco Engineer
14 9 (3.83%) Cisco Network Engineer
15 8 (3.40%) Security Analyst
15 8 (3.40%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.13%) 802.1X
1 5 (2.13%) GraphQL
1 5 (2.13%) gRPC
1 5 (2.13%) Node.js
1 5 (2.13%) RabbitMQ
1 5 (2.13%) React
1 5 (2.13%) React Native
1 5 (2.13%) RESTful
1 5 (2.13%) Sequelize
2 2 (0.85%) Web Services
3 1 (0.43%) Ajax
3 1 (0.43%) boto
3 1 (0.43%) CSS
3 1 (0.43%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.43%) HTML
3 1 (0.43%) Jinja
3 1 (0.43%) LDAP
3 1 (0.43%) SOAP
3 1 (0.43%) XML
3 1 (0.43%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (15.32%) Data Centre
2 18 (7.66%) Management Information System
3 12 (5.11%) Onboarding
4 11 (4.68%) Cloud Native
5 10 (4.26%) Security Posture
6 9 (3.83%) PKI
7 5 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (2.13%) IPTV
7 5 (2.13%) Security Operations Centre
8 4 (1.70%) IoT
8 4 (1.70%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.70%) Wiki
9 3 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.28%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.28%) EPoS
9 3 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.28%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (0.85%) Cyberattack
10 2 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.85%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 98 (41.70%) Windows
2 38 (16.17%) Windows Server
3 35 (14.89%) Windows 10
4 29 (12.34%) Linux
5 16 (6.81%) Mac OS
6 5 (2.13%) Android
6 5 (2.13%) Mac OS X
6 5 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.70%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.70%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (1.70%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (1.28%) VMS
9 2 (0.85%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (37.45%) Problem-Solving
2 62 (26.38%) ITIL
3 54 (22.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 37 (15.74%) Network Management
5 34 (14.47%) Cybersecurity
6 33 (14.04%) High Availability
7 32 (13.62%) Change Management
7 32 (13.62%) DevOps
8 31 (13.19%) Incident Management
9 29 (12.34%) Continuous Improvement
9 29 (12.34%) Disaster Recovery
10 26 (11.06%) Artificial Intelligence
10 26 (11.06%) Incident Response
11 25 (10.64%) CI/CD
12 24 (10.21%) Customer Service
13 22 (9.36%) SIEM
14 21 (8.94%) Network Monitoring
15 20 (8.51%) Root Cause Analysis
16 19 (8.09%) Cloud Security
16 19 (8.09%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 34 (14.47%) PowerShell
2 25 (10.64%) Python
3 15 (6.38%) Bash
4 7 (2.98%) JavaScript
5 5 (2.13%) SQL
5 5 (2.13%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.28%) Java
7 2 (0.85%) C++
7 2 (0.85%) Go
7 2 (0.85%) Groovy
8 1 (0.43%) Bicep
8 1 (0.43%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 73 (31.06%) Cisco Certification
2 53 (22.55%) CCNA
3 49 (20.85%) CCNP
4 28 (11.91%) Degree
5 23 (9.79%) Azure Certification
6 15 (6.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (5.96%) CCIE
8 12 (5.11%) AWS Certification
9 11 (4.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 10 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (3.40%) CISSP
12 5 (2.13%) Security Cleared
13 4 (1.70%) CCSA
13 4 (1.70%) CISM
14 3 (1.28%) CCSE
14 3 (1.28%) DV Cleared
14 3 (1.28%) Network+ Certification
15 2 (0.85%) JNCIE
15 2 (0.85%) JNCIP
15 2 (0.85%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (11.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (8.51%) SLA
3 17 (7.23%) NIST
4 14 (5.96%) GDPR
5 11 (4.68%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (3.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 7 (2.98%) HIPAA
8 6 (2.55%) SOC 2
9 4 (1.70%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.85%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.85%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.85%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.43%) COBIT
11 1 (0.43%) QA
11 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 89 (37.87%) Active Directory
2 29 (12.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (5.96%) Hyper-V
4 13 (5.53%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (4.26%) Docker
6 9 (3.83%) Firmware
7 8 (3.40%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (2.98%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.43%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (0.43%) VirtualBox
9 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.43%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.43%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 56 (23.83%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (8.94%) Terraform
3 14 (5.96%) FortiGate
4 13 (5.53%) Nagios
5 12 (5.11%) Ansible
6 10 (4.26%) SCCM
6 10 (4.26%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (2.55%) Jamf Pro
8 5 (2.13%) Kubernetes
9 4 (1.70%) Graylog
9 4 (1.70%) Opsgenie
9 4 (1.70%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.85%) Dell DRAC
10 2 (0.85%) SCOM
10 2 (0.85%) WSUS
11 1 (0.43%) Backup Exec
11 1 (0.43%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.43%) HP UCMDB
11 1 (0.43%) Packer
11 1 (0.43%) Plesk
Vendors
1 90 (38.30%) Cisco
2 86 (36.60%) Microsoft
3 52 (22.13%) Meraki
4 35 (14.89%) Fortinet
4 35 (14.89%) SolarWinds
5 33 (14.04%) VMware
6 31 (13.19%) CheckPoint
7 25 (10.64%) Palo Alto
8 19 (8.09%) Citrix
9 15 (6.38%) Arista
10 12 (5.11%) Dynatrace
11 11 (4.68%) Google
12 9 (3.83%) Bloomberg
12 9 (3.83%) Refinitiv
12 9 (3.83%) ServiceNow
13 8 (3.40%) Infoblox
13 8 (3.40%) Juniper
13 8 (3.40%) Okta
13 8 (3.40%) Veeam
14 7 (2.98%) HP