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 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 53 99
Rank change year-on-year -11 +46 -7
Permanent jobs citing VPN 15 17 18
As % of all permanent jobs in Oxfordshire 1.12% 2.50% 1.02%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.31% 13.39% 7.79%
Number of salaries quoted 14 7 16
10th Percentile - £29,750 £27,750
25th Percentile £31,000 £31,000 £30,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £37,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.86% -26.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £56,250 £64,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £91,500 £68,125
South East median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £46,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +12.90% +9.41%

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 98 127 231
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 7.31% 18.68% 13.05%
Number of salaries quoted 68 74 196
10th Percentile £24,500 £25,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £27,750 £36,000 £35,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,250 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £45,000 £60,000 £55,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £70,300 £65,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% +5.56%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -16 5 £34,000 -8.11%
Wallingford - 2 £40,000 -
Henley-on-Thames - 2 £50,000 - 2
Bicester -11 1 £45,000 - 1
Abingdon - 1 £42,500 - 5
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 1 (6.67%) IIS
1 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (66.67%) Azure
2 9 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (40.00%) Entra ID
4 3 (20.00%) AWS
5 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (6.67%) GCP
5 1 (6.67%) IaaS
5 1 (6.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (80.00%) DNS
2 11 (73.33%) Firewall
3 10 (66.67%) WAN
4 7 (46.67%) DHCP
4 7 (46.67%) LAN
4 7 (46.67%) TCP/IP
5 5 (33.33%) VLAN
6 4 (26.67%) Network Security
7 3 (20.00%) BGP
7 3 (20.00%) FTP
7 3 (20.00%) HTTP
7 3 (20.00%) ICMP
7 3 (20.00%) IPsec
7 3 (20.00%) MPLS
7 3 (20.00%) SD-WAN
7 3 (20.00%) SNMP
7 3 (20.00%) SSH
7 3 (20.00%) SSL
8 1 (6.67%) Internet
8 1 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.67%) Aviation
4 1 (6.67%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) IT Engineer
1 5 (33.33%) IT Support
1 5 (33.33%) IT Support Engineer
1 5 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Architect
2 3 (20.00%) Network Architect
2 3 (20.00%) Network Security Architect
2 3 (20.00%) Security Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Administrator
3 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (6.67%) IT Administrator
4 1 (6.67%) IT Systems Administrator
4 1 (6.67%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (6.67%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (6.67%) Network Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Network Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) OAuth
1 3 (20.00%) SAML
2 1 (6.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (6.67%) Clustering
2 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.67%) Replication
2 1 (6.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (53.33%) Windows
2 7 (46.67%) Linux
2 7 (46.67%) Windows Server
3 5 (33.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 5 (33.33%) Software Deployment
3 4 (26.67%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (20.00%) High Availability
4 3 (20.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 3 (20.00%) Network Segmentation
5 2 (13.33%) Business Continuity
5 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
5 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (13.33%) Patch Management
6 1 (6.67%) BCP
6 1 (6.67%) Data Protection
6 1 (6.67%) ISMS
6 1 (6.67%) ITIL
6 1 (6.67%) Network Design
6 1 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (6.67%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.67%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Azure Certification
1 2 (13.33%) CCNA
1 2 (13.33%) CCNP
1 2 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) MCSE
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.67%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (20.00%) NIST
3 1 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (6.67%) GDPR
3 1 (6.67%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (53.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (20.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (6.67%) Docker
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) CASB
1 3 (20.00%) FortiGate
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (6.67%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 14 (93.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (33.33%) Cisco
3 4 (26.67%) Palo Alto
4 2 (13.33%) VMware
5 1 (6.67%) Aruba
5 1 (6.67%) Fortinet