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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 86 41
Rank change year-on-year +43 -45 +74
Permanent jobs citing VPN 24 12 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 3.53% 0.96% 4.63%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.52% 9.68% 26.17%
Number of salaries quoted 14 12 36
10th Percentile £30,500 £26,300 -
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,111 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,000 £45,794 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.39% -3.59% -5.00%
75th Percentile £64,250 £49,688 £58,750
90th Percentile £92,625 £66,000 -
South East median annual salary £48,750 £47,000 £45,500
% change year-on-year +3.72% +3.30% +1.11%

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 137 124 149
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 20.18% 9.87% 17.70%
Number of salaries quoted 78 82 129
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,813 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £44,991 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.76% -5.28% +5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £55,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £67,450 £62,500
South East median annual salary £41,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -17.00% - +5.26%

VPN
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

Job postings citing VPN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for VPN 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +23 9 £59,000 +24.21%
Kidlington 0 2 - -
Chinnor - 2 - -
Bicester - 1 - -
VPN
South East

VPN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.33%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 7 (29.17%) Azure
2 5 (20.83%) Mimecast
3 4 (16.67%) AWS
3 4 (16.67%) SaaS
4 2 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (8.33%) Amazon S3
4 2 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (8.33%) Serverless
4 2 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (4.17%) Azure AI
5 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.17%) OCI
5 1 (4.17%) Power Automate
5 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 14 (58.33%) DNS
1 14 (58.33%) TCP/IP
2 8 (33.33%) DHCP
3 7 (29.17%) Firewall
3 7 (29.17%) WAN
4 6 (25.00%) LAN
5 5 (20.83%) Wireless
6 2 (8.33%) SD-WAN
7 1 (4.17%) InfiniBand
7 1 (4.17%) Network Security
7 1 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.17%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.17%) MySQL
2 1 (4.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (37.50%) Cucumber
1 9 (37.50%) Robot Framework
2 1 (4.17%) Git
General
1 14 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 9 (37.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 9 (37.50%) Telecoms
3 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Test Automation Engineer
1 9 (37.50%) Test Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) 3rd Line Support
2 5 (20.83%) Junior
3 3 (12.50%) Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Senior
3 3 (12.50%) Support Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Service Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Service Delivery Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Service Delivery Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Support Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Head of IT Infrastructure
5 1 (4.17%) Lead
5 1 (4.17%) Technical Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 10 (41.67%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (8.33%) Virtual Team
3 1 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 20 (83.33%) Windows
2 10 (41.67%) Linux
3 8 (33.33%) Mac OS
4 5 (20.83%) Android
4 5 (20.83%) Apple iOS
5 2 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (45.83%) Mentoring
3 10 (41.67%) DevOps
4 9 (37.50%) Coaching
4 9 (37.50%) System Testing
4 9 (37.50%) Test Automation
4 9 (37.50%) Test Management
5 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (16.67%) Service Delivery
6 3 (12.50%) Data Entry
7 2 (8.33%) Business Continuity
7 2 (8.33%) Collaborative Culture
7 2 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
7 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (8.33%) Software Engineering
7 2 (8.33%) Strategic Planning
7 2 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
7 2 (8.33%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 12 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 11 (45.83%) Bash
2 11 (45.83%) Python
3 9 (37.50%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.17%) Bicep
4 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (41.67%) Degree
2 2 (8.33%) CCNP
2 2 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.17%) CCIE
3 1 (4.17%) CCNA
3 1 (4.17%) CISSP
3 1 (4.17%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (37.50%) QA
2 2 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (20.83%) Active Directory
1 5 (20.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.17%) NFS
2 1 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (12.50%) Ansible
2 3 (12.50%) Terraform
3 1 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) Microsoft
2 6 (25.00%) HP
3 5 (20.83%) Barracuda Networks
3 5 (20.83%) Dell
3 5 (20.83%) Sophos
3 5 (20.83%) Ubiquiti
3 5 (20.83%) VMware
4 3 (12.50%) Cisco
5 1 (4.17%) Aruba
5 1 (4.17%) Databricks
5 1 (4.17%) Juniper
5 1 (4.17%) Meraki
5 1 (4.17%) Oracle
5 1 (4.17%) Palo Alto