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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 46 82
Rank change year-on-year -7 +36 -44
Permanent jobs citing VPN 48 21 13
As % of all permanent jobs in Oxfordshire 2.60% 3.10% 1.08%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.92% 15.91% 10.08%
Number of salaries quoted 44 11 13
10th Percentile £33,625 - £26,850
25th Percentile £44,750 £35,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £55,000 £44,089
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +24.75% -7.18%
75th Percentile £62,500 £77,500 £48,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £93,750 £69,500
South East median annual salary £47,750 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.50% +5.26% +4.40%

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 166 132 129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 9.00% 19.47% 10.71%
Number of salaries quoted 103 73 80
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £29,575
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £39,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £41,500 £45,048
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% -7.88% -9.90%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £59,875
90th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £67,500
South East median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% -

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -25 14 £47,166 -32.62% 7
Abingdon - 5 £35,000 -
Henley-on-Thames - 4 £43,750 -
Bicester -11 3 £50,000 - 1
Wallingford - 2 - - 2
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 12 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 6 (12.50%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 23 (47.92%) Azure
2 16 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (27.08%) Entra ID
4 6 (12.50%) AWS
4 6 (12.50%) Google Workspace
5 3 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (6.25%) Azure Key Vault
5 3 (6.25%) PaaS
5 3 (6.25%) Power Automate
6 2 (4.17%) GCP
7 1 (2.08%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (75.00%) DNS
2 34 (70.83%) DHCP
3 32 (66.67%) VLAN
4 27 (56.25%) Firewall
5 21 (43.75%) Network Security
5 21 (43.75%) WAN
6 18 (37.50%) Wi-Fi
7 13 (27.08%) BGP
7 13 (27.08%) SD-WAN
7 13 (27.08%) TCP/IP
8 11 (22.92%) Wireless
9 10 (20.83%) FTP
9 10 (20.83%) HTTP
9 10 (20.83%) ICMP
9 10 (20.83%) IPsec
9 10 (20.83%) LAN
9 10 (20.83%) MPLS
9 10 (20.83%) SNMP
9 10 (20.83%) SSH
9 10 (20.83%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (6.25%) SQL Server
General
1 14 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (2.08%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 15 (31.25%) Network Engineer
2 14 (29.17%) IT Engineer
3 11 (22.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (20.83%) Architect
4 10 (20.83%) IT Support
4 10 (20.83%) Network Architect
4 10 (20.83%) Network Security Architect
4 10 (20.83%) Security Architect
5 8 (16.67%) IT Support Engineer
5 8 (16.67%) Support Engineer
6 6 (12.50%) Infrastructure Support
6 6 (12.50%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 6 (12.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (12.50%) Network Operations Engineer
6 6 (12.50%) Operations Engineer
7 4 (8.33%) Security Engineer
7 4 (8.33%) Senior
8 3 (6.25%) Administrator
8 3 (6.25%) Network Security Engineer
8 3 (6.25%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (20.83%) OAuth
1 10 (20.83%) SAML
2 2 (4.17%) Terraform
3 1 (2.08%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.83%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 9 (18.75%) Onboarding
2 9 (18.75%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (12.50%) CCTV
3 6 (12.50%) Replication
4 4 (8.33%) Security Posture
5 3 (6.25%) Virtual Team
6 2 (4.17%) IoT
6 2 (4.17%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 15 (31.25%) Windows
2 8 (16.67%) Linux
3 6 (12.50%) Rocky
3 6 (12.50%) Ubuntu
4 5 (10.42%) Windows Server
5 4 (8.33%) Windows 10
6 2 (4.17%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (35.42%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 15 (31.25%) Cybersecurity
4 12 (25.00%) Customer Service
5 11 (22.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 10 (20.83%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 10 (20.83%) Network Segmentation
7 8 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (16.67%) Mentoring
8 7 (14.58%) Data Protection
8 7 (14.58%) High Availability
8 7 (14.58%) Infrastructure Management
8 7 (14.58%) Technical Leadership
9 6 (12.50%) Asset Management
9 6 (12.50%) IT Asset Management
9 6 (12.50%) Server Management
9 6 (12.50%) Time Management
10 5 (10.42%) Business Continuity
10 5 (10.42%) DevOps
10 5 (10.42%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 21 (43.75%) PowerShell
2 8 (16.67%) Python
3 3 (6.25%) Bicep
4 2 (4.17%) Go
4 2 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (22.92%) CCNP
1 11 (22.92%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (16.67%) CCNA
3 2 (4.17%) Azure Certification
3 2 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.17%) Degree
4 1 (2.08%) MCSE
4 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.08%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (22.92%) NIST
3 9 (18.75%) GDPR
4 4 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 23 (47.92%) Active Directory
2 13 (27.08%) Hyper-V
3 6 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (12.50%) vSphere
4 3 (6.25%) Firmware
5 2 (4.17%) iptables
6 1 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (33.33%) FortiGate
2 10 (20.83%) CASB
3 8 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (6.25%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 39 (81.25%) Microsoft
2 23 (47.92%) Cisco
3 16 (33.33%) VMware
4 14 (29.17%) Palo Alto
5 13 (27.08%) Fortinet
6 6 (12.50%) Dell
6 6 (12.50%) Google
6 6 (12.50%) Veeam
7 4 (8.33%) Aruba
8 3 (6.25%) Apple
8 3 (6.25%) Meraki