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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 47 77
Rank change year-on-year -5 +30 -44
Permanent jobs citing VPN 49 22 13
As % of all permanent jobs in Oxfordshire 2.63% 3.20% 1.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 27.53% 16.30% 10.40%
Number of salaries quoted 44 12 13
10th Percentile £32,500 - £26,850
25th Percentile £44,750 £35,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £55,000 £44,089
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +24.75% -7.18%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £48,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £93,375 £69,500
South East median annual salary £48,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% +4.40%

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 178 135 125
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 9.56% 19.62% 10.81%
Number of salaries quoted 109 76 75
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £27,450
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £38,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £41,500 £45,096
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% -7.97% -9.81%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £59,875
90th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £67,500
South East median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +11.76% -19.05% +5.00%

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 9 October 2026.

Salary histogram for VPN in Oxfordshire

VPN
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 9 October 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 -22 15 £47,166 -21.39% 7
Abingdon - 4 £35,000 -
Henley-on-Thames - 4 £43,750 -
Bicester -11 3 £50,000 - 1
Wallingford - 2 - - 2
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 12 (24.49%) SharePoint
2 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 6 (12.24%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 23 (46.94%) Azure
2 15 (30.61%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (24.49%) Entra ID
4 6 (12.24%) AWS
4 6 (12.24%) Google Workspace
5 3 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (6.12%) Azure Key Vault
5 3 (6.12%) Power Automate
6 2 (4.08%) GCP
6 2 (4.08%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (73.47%) DNS
2 34 (69.39%) DHCP
3 33 (67.35%) VLAN
4 28 (57.14%) Firewall
5 22 (44.90%) Network Security
5 22 (44.90%) WAN
6 19 (38.78%) Wi-Fi
7 15 (30.61%) TCP/IP
8 14 (28.57%) BGP
8 14 (28.57%) SD-WAN
9 13 (26.53%) Wireless
10 11 (22.45%) LAN
11 10 (20.41%) FTP
11 10 (20.41%) HTTP
11 10 (20.41%) ICMP
11 10 (20.41%) IPsec
11 10 (20.41%) MPLS
11 10 (20.41%) SNMP
11 10 (20.41%) SSH
11 10 (20.41%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.12%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (4.08%) SQL Server
General
1 16 (32.65%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.16%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (2.04%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 16 (32.65%) Network Engineer
2 15 (30.61%) IT Engineer
3 11 (22.45%) IT Support
4 10 (20.41%) Architect
4 10 (20.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (20.41%) Network Architect
4 10 (20.41%) Network Security Architect
4 10 (20.41%) Security Architect
5 9 (18.37%) IT Support Engineer
5 9 (18.37%) Support Engineer
6 6 (12.24%) Infrastructure Support
6 6 (12.24%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 6 (12.24%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (12.24%) Network Operations Engineer
6 6 (12.24%) Operations Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) Security Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Administrator
8 3 (6.12%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Network Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (20.41%) OAuth
1 10 (20.41%) SAML
2 2 (4.08%) Terraform
3 1 (2.04%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.41%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 9 (18.37%) Onboarding
2 9 (18.37%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (12.24%) CCTV
3 6 (12.24%) Replication
4 4 (8.16%) Security Posture
5 3 (6.12%) Virtual Team
6 2 (4.08%) IoT
6 2 (4.08%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 15 (30.61%) Windows
2 8 (16.33%) Linux
3 6 (12.24%) Rocky
3 6 (12.24%) Ubuntu
4 4 (8.16%) Windows 10
4 4 (8.16%) Windows Server
5 2 (4.08%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (2.04%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (2.04%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (34.69%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (32.65%) Disaster Recovery
3 15 (30.61%) Cybersecurity
4 12 (24.49%) Customer Service
5 10 (20.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 10 (20.41%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 10 (20.41%) Network Segmentation
6 9 (18.37%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (16.33%) Mentoring
8 7 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
8 7 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
9 6 (12.24%) Asset Management
9 6 (12.24%) Data Protection
9 6 (12.24%) High Availability
9 6 (12.24%) IT Asset Management
9 6 (12.24%) Server Management
9 6 (12.24%) Time Management
10 5 (10.20%) DevOps
10 5 (10.20%) Incident Response
11 4 (8.16%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 20 (40.82%) PowerShell
2 8 (16.33%) Python
3 3 (6.12%) Bicep
4 2 (4.08%) Go
4 2 (4.08%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (24.49%) CCNP
1 12 (24.49%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (18.37%) CCNA
3 1 (2.04%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.04%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (22.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 11 (22.45%) NIST
2 9 (18.37%) GDPR
3 3 (6.12%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 22 (44.90%) Active Directory
2 14 (28.57%) Hyper-V
3 6 (12.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (12.24%) vSphere
4 4 (8.16%) Firmware
5 2 (4.08%) iptables
Systems Management
1 17 (34.69%) FortiGate
2 10 (20.41%) CASB
3 7 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (6.12%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 39 (79.59%) Microsoft
2 25 (51.02%) Cisco
3 16 (32.65%) VMware
4 15 (30.61%) Fortinet
5 14 (28.57%) Palo Alto
6 6 (12.24%) Dell
6 6 (12.24%) Google
6 6 (12.24%) Veeam
7 4 (8.16%) Apple
7 4 (8.16%) Aruba
7 4 (8.16%) Meraki