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 14 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 46 95
Rank change year-on-year -12 +49 +3
Permanent jobs citing VPN 13 15 17
As % of all permanent jobs in Oxfordshire 1.11% 2.43% 1.03%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.38% 17.86% 7.76%
Number of salaries quoted 12 6 15
10th Percentile - £29,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £27,000 £30,375 £36,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £35,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.90% -28.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £37,438 £38,000 £61,305
90th Percentile £43,250 £40,875 £68,250
South East median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year -27.27% +18.28% +14.81%

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 105 84 219
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 8.97% 13.59% 13.26%
Number of salaries quoted 72 66 187
10th Percentile £25,250 £25,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £27,250 £29,750 £35,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £40,000 £42,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -4.76% +12.00%
75th Percentile £45,000 £58,438 £55,000
90th Percentile £66,125 £80,000 £63,000
South East median annual salary £46,000 £47,500 £46,500
% change year-on-year -3.16% +2.15% +3.33%

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 14 April 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 14 April 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 -9 5 £34,000 -4.90%
Wallingford - 2 £40,000 -
Abingdon - 1 £42,500 - 1
Henley-on-Thames - 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 (30.77%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.69%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 12 (92.31%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (84.62%) Azure
3 10 (76.92%) Entra ID
4 1 (7.69%) AWS
4 1 (7.69%) IaaS
4 1 (7.69%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (100.00%) Firewall
2 11 (84.62%) DNS
3 6 (46.15%) DHCP
3 6 (46.15%) LAN
3 6 (46.15%) TCP/IP
3 6 (46.15%) WAN
4 4 (30.77%) VoIP
5 1 (7.69%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (30.77%) Telecoms
4 2 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (7.69%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) IT Engineer
1 9 (69.23%) IT Support
1 9 (69.23%) IT Support Engineer
1 9 (69.23%) Support Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Administrator
2 2 (15.38%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (7.69%) IT Administrator
3 1 (7.69%) IT Systems Administrator
3 1 (7.69%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (7.69%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Driving Licence
2 1 (7.69%) Clustering
2 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (92.31%) Windows
2 7 (53.85%) Linux
2 7 (53.85%) Windows Server
3 5 (38.46%) Mac OS
4 4 (30.77%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (38.46%) Customer Service
2 5 (38.46%) Software Deployment
3 4 (30.77%) B2B
3 4 (30.77%) Collaborative Culture
3 4 (30.77%) Project Delivery
4 1 (7.69%) BCP
4 1 (7.69%) Business Continuity
4 1 (7.69%) Business Continuity Planning
4 1 (7.69%) Computer Science
4 1 (7.69%) Data Protection
4 1 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (7.69%) High Availability
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (7.69%) ISMS
4 1 (7.69%) Observability
4 1 (7.69%) Patch Management
4 1 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (7.69%) Task Automation
4 1 (7.69%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
1 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
1 1 (7.69%) MCSE
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (7.69%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) Cyber Essentials
1 5 (38.46%) SLA
2 2 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (7.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (84.62%) Active Directory
2 2 (15.38%) Hyper-V
3 1 (7.69%) Docker
3 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (7.69%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco
2 1 (7.69%) VMware