VPN Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring VPN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 49 95
Rank change year-on-year -4 +46 -28
Permanent jobs citing VPN 36 23 17
As % of all permanent jobs in Oxfordshire 2.45% 3.23% 1.04%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 32.73% 15.33% 8.85%
Number of salaries quoted 35 13 15
10th Percentile £31,600 £30,250 £27,950
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £41,732
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,166 £37,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +27.47% -22.11% -17.39%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £53,750
90th Percentile - £93,000 £68,250
South East median annual salary £47,166 £50,000 £47,000
% change year-on-year -5.67% +6.38% +3.30%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 110 150 192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 7.48% 21.07% 11.76%
Number of salaries quoted 74 93 159
10th Percentile £26,525 £25,850 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,000 £35,000 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £41,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% -2.35% -1.16%
75th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £54,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £65,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +11.76% -10.53% +2.15%

VPN
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

VPN job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

VPN
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing VPN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing VPN

VPN
Salary Histogram in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing VPN in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 23 July 2026.

Salary histogram for VPN in Oxfordshire

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Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 23 July 2026. 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
Oxford -21 12 £47,166 -0.70% 2
Henley-on-Thames - 5 £43,750 -
Abingdon - 4 £35,000 - 1
Bicester -13 2 £47,500 - 1
Wallingford - 2 £40,000 - 1
VPN
South East

VPN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (30.56%) SharePoint
2 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.78%) IIS
Business Applications
1 6 (16.67%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 18 (50.00%) Azure
2 12 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 6 (16.67%) AWS
5 3 (8.33%) Power Automate
6 2 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.56%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (5.56%) PaaS
7 1 (2.78%) GCP
7 1 (2.78%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (88.89%) DNS
2 28 (77.78%) DHCP
3 24 (66.67%) Firewall
4 23 (63.89%) VLAN
5 21 (58.33%) WAN
6 16 (44.44%) Network Security
7 15 (41.67%) Wi-Fi
8 12 (33.33%) BGP
8 12 (33.33%) SD-WAN
9 11 (30.56%) LAN
10 10 (27.78%) FTP
10 10 (27.78%) HTTP
10 10 (27.78%) ICMP
10 10 (27.78%) IPsec
10 10 (27.78%) MPLS
10 10 (27.78%) SNMP
10 10 (27.78%) SSH
10 10 (27.78%) SSL
11 8 (22.22%) TCP/IP
11 8 (22.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 12 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.78%) Aviation
4 1 (2.78%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 10 (27.78%) Architect
1 10 (27.78%) IT Engineer
1 10 (27.78%) Network Architect
1 10 (27.78%) Network Security Architect
1 10 (27.78%) Security Architect
2 9 (25.00%) Network Engineer
3 6 (16.67%) Network Operations Engineer
3 6 (16.67%) Operations Engineer
4 5 (13.89%) Administrator
4 5 (13.89%) Systems Administrator
5 4 (11.11%) IT Support
5 4 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Support Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Analyst
7 2 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Lead
7 2 (5.56%) Network Analyst
7 2 (5.56%) Network Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (27.78%) OAuth
1 10 (27.78%) SAML
2 1 (2.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.78%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 9 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (16.67%) CCTV
4 4 (11.11%) Security Posture
5 3 (8.33%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.78%) Clustering
6 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.78%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (27.78%) Windows
2 9 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 6 (16.67%) Linux
4 4 (11.11%) Mac OS
5 3 (8.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (47.22%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (38.89%) Cybersecurity
3 11 (30.56%) Disaster Recovery
4 10 (27.78%) Customer Service
4 10 (27.78%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 10 (27.78%) Network Segmentation
5 7 (19.44%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (19.44%) Data Protection
5 7 (19.44%) Infrastructure Management
6 6 (16.67%) High Availability
6 6 (16.67%) Time Management
7 5 (13.89%) Business Continuity
8 4 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
8 4 (11.11%) Incident Response
8 4 (11.11%) ISMS
8 4 (11.11%) Mentoring
8 4 (11.11%) Software Deployment
8 4 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (11.11%) Strategic Planning
8 4 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 13 (36.11%) PowerShell
2 6 (16.67%) Python
3 2 (5.56%) Bicep
4 1 (2.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (19.44%) CCNA
1 7 (19.44%) CCNP
1 7 (19.44%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (5.56%) Azure Certification
2 2 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.56%) Degree
3 1 (2.78%) MCSE
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.78%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (27.78%) NIST
3 7 (19.44%) GDPR
4 4 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (2.78%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (52.78%) Active Directory
2 12 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 7 (19.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (16.67%) vSphere
5 1 (2.78%) Docker
5 1 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (33.33%) FortiGate
2 10 (27.78%) CASB
3 6 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.78%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 35 (97.22%) Microsoft
2 17 (47.22%) Cisco
3 14 (38.89%) Palo Alto
4 11 (30.56%) VMware
5 6 (16.67%) Fortinet
6 4 (11.11%) Aruba