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 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 73 37
Rank change year-on-year +18 -36 +81
Permanent jobs citing VPN 14 13 37
As % of all permanent jobs in Oxfordshire 2.05% 1.18% 5.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.53% 10.48% 31.09%
Number of salaries quoted 13 13 35
10th Percentile - £26,850 -
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £44,089 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +24.75% -7.18% +5.56%
75th Percentile £68,750 £48,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £93,000 £69,500 -
South East median annual salary £46,000 £47,500 £46,500
% change year-on-year -3.16% +2.15% +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 133 124 119
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 19.47% 11.29% 16.74%
Number of salaries quoted 83 71 108
10th Percentile £27,450 £25,750 £36,425
25th Percentile £35,000 £34,375 £39,989
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £45,096 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.97% -9.81% +21.21%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £77,500
South East median annual salary £42,500 £52,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year -19.43% +5.50% +2.04%

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 19 October 2025.

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 19 October 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
Oxford +13 7 £63,750 +34.21%
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 2 (14.29%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) Azure
2 6 (42.86%) AWS
3 5 (35.71%) Mimecast
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 2 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (14.29%) Serverless
4 2 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
5 1 (7.14%) IaaS
5 1 (7.14%) PaaS
5 1 (7.14%) Power Automate
5 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
5 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (78.57%) DNS
2 9 (64.29%) Firewall
3 8 (57.14%) DHCP
4 7 (50.00%) WAN
5 6 (42.86%) LAN
6 5 (35.71%) Wireless
7 2 (14.29%) Network Security
7 2 (14.29%) SD-WAN
7 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
8 1 (7.14%) BGP
8 1 (7.14%) InfiniBand
8 1 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
2 1 (7.14%) MySQL
2 1 (7.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
General
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Aerospace
2 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) 3rd Line Support
1 5 (35.71%) Junior
2 4 (28.57%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Network Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Head of Infrastructure
4 1 (7.14%) Head of IT
4 1 (7.14%) Head of IT Infrastructure
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Network Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Security Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 2 (14.29%) Virtual Team
2 1 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (7.14%) NHS
2 1 (7.14%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (57.14%) Windows
2 5 (35.71%) Android
2 5 (35.71%) Apple iOS
2 5 (35.71%) Mac OS
3 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
4 1 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (14.29%) Business Continuity
2 2 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
2 2 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (14.29%) Load Balancing
2 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
2 2 (14.29%) Migration
2 2 (14.29%) Network Architecture
2 2 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (14.29%) Service Delivery
2 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
2 2 (14.29%) Strategic Planning
2 2 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (14.29%) Threat Detection
3 1 (7.14%) Low Latency
3 1 (7.14%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (7.14%) SIEM
3 1 (7.14%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
2 2 (14.29%) Bash
2 2 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) Bicep
3 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) CCNP
1 2 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.14%) CCIE
2 1 (7.14%) CCNA
2 1 (7.14%) CISSP
2 1 (7.14%) DBS Check
2 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) SLA
2 1 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.14%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Active Directory
1 5 (35.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.14%) NFS
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (21.43%) Ansible
2 3 (21.43%) Terraform
3 1 (7.14%) FortiGate
3 1 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (42.86%) HP
3 5 (35.71%) Barracuda Networks
3 5 (35.71%) Dell
3 5 (35.71%) Sophos
3 5 (35.71%) Ubiquiti
3 5 (35.71%) VMware
4 4 (28.57%) Cisco
5 1 (7.14%) Aruba
5 1 (7.14%) Databricks
5 1 (7.14%) Juniper
5 1 (7.14%) Meraki
5 1 (7.14%) Oracle
5 1 (7.14%) Palo Alto
5 1 (7.14%) Qualys
5 1 (7.14%) Splunk
5 1 (7.14%) Tenable