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 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 70 46
Rank change year-on-year +20 -24 +54
Permanent jobs citing VPN 11 4 27
As % of all permanent jobs in Oxfordshire 1.46% 0.51% 3.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.58% 3.96% 23.48%
Number of salaries quoted 11 4 27
10th Percentile - £34,250 £30,650
25th Percentile £27,000 £38,750 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,000 £56,250 £41,000
Median % change year-on-year -36.00% +37.20% -13.68%
75th Percentile £37,000 £70,000 £48,750
90th Percentile £57,500 - £56,566
South East median annual salary £46,000 £55,000 £43,000
% change year-on-year -16.36% +27.91% +14.67%

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 95 101 115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 12.65% 12.77% 13.69%
Number of salaries quoted 62 58 102
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £27,250 £31,250 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £40,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -15.79% +26.67%
75th Percentile £45,000 £62,500 £59,000
90th Percentile £58,625 £92,500 £67,500
South East median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +5.26%

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 17 January 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 17 January 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 - 3 £55,000 - 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 4 (36.36%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) Azure
2 5 (45.45%) Entra ID
2 5 (45.45%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (36.36%) Mimecast
4 2 (18.18%) AWS
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 9 (81.82%) DNS
2 8 (72.73%) DHCP
3 7 (63.64%) Firewall
4 5 (45.45%) LAN
4 5 (45.45%) WAN
5 4 (36.36%) VoIP
5 4 (36.36%) Wireless
6 1 (9.09%) BGP
6 1 (9.09%) Network Security
6 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
General
1 4 (36.36%) Telecoms
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Aerospace
3 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
3 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) IT Engineer
1 5 (45.45%) IT Support
1 5 (45.45%) IT Support Engineer
1 5 (45.45%) Support Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) 3rd Line Support
2 4 (36.36%) Junior
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Network Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Network Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Driving Licence
2 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (81.82%) Windows
2 5 (45.45%) Mac OS
3 4 (36.36%) Android
3 4 (36.36%) Apple iOS
3 4 (36.36%) Windows 10
4 1 (9.09%) Linux
4 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) B2B
1 4 (36.36%) Collaborative Culture
1 4 (36.36%) Project Delivery
2 1 (9.09%) Customer Service
2 1 (9.09%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (9.09%) Logistics
2 1 (9.09%) Migration
2 1 (9.09%) Network Architecture
2 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (9.09%) Runbook
2 1 (9.09%) SIEM
2 1 (9.09%) Software Deployment
2 1 (9.09%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (9.09%) Vulnerability Scanning
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (36.36%) SLA
3 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (9.09%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (81.82%) Active Directory
2 4 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (9.09%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) Microsoft
2 4 (36.36%) Barracuda Networks
2 4 (36.36%) Dell
2 4 (36.36%) HP
2 4 (36.36%) Sophos
2 4 (36.36%) Ubiquiti
2 4 (36.36%) VMware
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco
3 1 (9.09%) Qualys
3 1 (9.09%) Splunk
3 1 (9.09%) Tenable