VPN Job Trends in Oxford

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Oxford requiring VPN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 38 34
Rank change year-on-year +11 -4 +19
Permanent jobs citing VPN 2 1 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Oxford 0.83% 0.39% 0.72%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.38% 2.94% 6.06%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £53,875 - -
25th Percentile £55,938 £46,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £47,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +28.95% -17.39% -14.81%
75th Percentile £65,938 £48,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £67,625 - -
Oxfordshire median annual salary £36,000 £47,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year -24.21% +15.85% -13.68%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Oxford

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 Oxford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13 34 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxford 5.37% 13.28% 11.91%
Number of salaries quoted 9 19 32
10th Percentile £41,100 £32,500 £36,825
25th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% +37.50%
75th Percentile £63,158 £92,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £81,500 £100,000 £78,625
Oxfordshire median annual salary £36,000 £40,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% -15.79% +26.67%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing VPN relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Oxford.

VPN job vacancy trend in Oxford

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Salary Trend in Oxford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing VPN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing VPN

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) BGP
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (50.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Logistics
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Runbook
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Qualys
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk
1 1 (50.00%) Tenable