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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 48 85
Rank change year-on-year +1 +37 -25
Permanent jobs citing VPN 42 24 15
As % of all permanent jobs in Oxfordshire 2.70% 3.37% 1.08%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 35.90% 16.00% 11.11%
Number of salaries quoted 39 14 14
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,500 £27,400
25th Percentile £41,875 £35,000 £41,732
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £37,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +35.14% -22.11% -9.52%
75th Percentile £70,000 £64,250 £54,375
90th Percentile £73,750 £92,625 £68,375
South East median annual salary £47,166 £45,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year +4.81% -3.23% +2.20%

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 117 150 135
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 7.51% 21.07% 9.71%
Number of salaries quoted 77 89 113
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,850 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £41,500 £44,089
Median % change year-on-year +2.41% -5.87% -2.03%
75th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £55,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £66,500 £66,200
South East median annual salary £47,500 £41,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.46% -17.00% +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

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Salary Histogram in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing VPN in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 7 August 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 7 August 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 13 £47,166 -0.70% 3
Abingdon - 5 £35,000 - 2
Henley-on-Thames - 5 £43,750 -
Bicester -12 3 £50,000 - 1
Wallingford - 3 £40,000 -
VPN
South East

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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 (28.57%) SharePoint
2 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.38%) IIS
Business Applications
1 6 (14.29%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 21 (50.00%) Azure
2 14 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (23.81%) Entra ID
4 7 (16.67%) AWS
5 3 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (7.14%) Azure Key Vault
5 3 (7.14%) PaaS
5 3 (7.14%) Power Automate
6 2 (4.76%) GCP
7 1 (2.38%) Google Workspace
7 1 (2.38%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (78.57%) DNS
2 30 (71.43%) DHCP
3 27 (64.29%) Firewall
4 25 (59.52%) VLAN
5 21 (50.00%) WAN
6 19 (45.24%) Network Security
7 17 (40.48%) Wi-Fi
8 13 (30.95%) BGP
8 13 (30.95%) SD-WAN
9 10 (23.81%) FTP
9 10 (23.81%) HTTP
9 10 (23.81%) ICMP
9 10 (23.81%) IPsec
9 10 (23.81%) LAN
9 10 (23.81%) MPLS
9 10 (23.81%) SNMP
9 10 (23.81%) SSH
9 10 (23.81%) SSL
10 9 (21.43%) TCP/IP
10 9 (21.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.52%) SQL Server
2 3 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 13 (30.95%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.38%) Aviation
4 1 (2.38%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 12 (28.57%) Network Engineer
2 10 (23.81%) Architect
2 10 (23.81%) Network Architect
2 10 (23.81%) Network Security Architect
2 10 (23.81%) Security Architect
3 9 (21.43%) IT Engineer
4 6 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (14.29%) Network Operations Engineer
4 6 (14.29%) Operations Engineer
5 5 (11.90%) Administrator
5 5 (11.90%) Systems Administrator
6 4 (9.52%) IT Support
7 3 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) IT Support Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Senior
7 3 (7.14%) Support Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (23.81%) OAuth
1 10 (23.81%) SAML
2 1 (2.38%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (23.81%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 9 (21.43%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (14.29%) CCTV
4 4 (9.52%) Onboarding
4 4 (9.52%) Security Posture
5 2 (4.76%) Replication
6 1 (2.38%) Clustering
6 1 (2.38%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.38%) IoT
6 1 (2.38%) Robotics
6 1 (2.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (26.19%) Windows
2 8 (19.05%) Windows Server
3 6 (14.29%) Linux
4 4 (9.52%) Windows 10
5 2 (4.76%) Mac OS
6 1 (2.38%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (2.38%) Rocky
6 1 (2.38%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (35.71%) Cybersecurity
3 13 (30.95%) Disaster Recovery
4 10 (23.81%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 10 (23.81%) Network Segmentation
5 9 (21.43%) Customer Service
6 8 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (16.67%) Data Protection
7 7 (16.67%) High Availability
7 7 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
8 6 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 6 (14.29%) Mentoring
8 6 (14.29%) Time Management
9 5 (11.90%) Business Continuity
9 5 (11.90%) Incident Response
9 5 (11.90%) Technical Leadership
10 4 (9.52%) DevOps
10 4 (9.52%) ISMS
10 4 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (9.52%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 16 (38.10%) PowerShell
2 7 (16.67%) Python
3 3 (7.14%) Bicep
4 2 (4.76%) SQL
5 1 (2.38%) Go
Qualifications
1 9 (21.43%) CCNP
1 9 (21.43%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (19.05%) CCNA
3 2 (4.76%) Azure Certification
3 2 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.76%) Degree
4 1 (2.38%) MCSE
4 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.38%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (30.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (26.19%) NIST
3 7 (16.67%) GDPR
4 4 (9.52%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (2.38%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (47.62%) Active Directory
2 13 (30.95%) Hyper-V
3 7 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (14.29%) vSphere
5 1 (2.38%) Docker
5 1 (2.38%) Firmware
5 1 (2.38%) iptables
5 1 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (33.33%) FortiGate
2 10 (23.81%) CASB
3 8 (19.05%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (4.76%) Terraform
5 1 (2.38%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (2.38%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 38 (90.48%) Microsoft
2 20 (47.62%) Cisco
3 14 (33.33%) Palo Alto
4 12 (28.57%) VMware
5 9 (21.43%) Fortinet
6 4 (9.52%) Aruba
7 1 (2.38%) Apple
7 1 (2.38%) Dell
7 1 (2.38%) Google
7 1 (2.38%) Meraki
7 1 (2.38%) Veeam