VPN Jobs in Oxfordshire

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire requiring VPN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited VPN over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 97 82
Rank change year-on-year +45 -15 +29
Permanent jobs citing VPN 21 20 30
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 2.90% 1.02% 2.33%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.09% 8.47% 15.71%
Number of salaries quoted 11 18 27
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,600 £37,750
25th Percentile £34,125 £41,732 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% +2.63% -34.48%
75th Percentile £77,500 £55,109 £58,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £67,875 £64,250
South East median annual salary £52,500 £46,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +12.90% +3.33% -

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 149 236 191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 20.58% 12.05% 14.82%
Number of salaries quoted 92 192 150
10th Percentile £25,750 £29,250 £26,200
25th Percentile £36,000 £35,750 £30,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.35% - -15.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £55,269 £58,625
90th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
South East median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
% change year-on-year -10.53% +3.83% -3.68%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VPN in Oxfordshire.

Salary trend for VPN in Oxfordshire

VPN
Salary Histogram in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing VPN in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 2 July 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 2 July 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 +41 11 £47,500 - 6
Kidlington +8 2 - -
Chinnor - 2 - -
Bicester +15 1 - - 2
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 (9.52%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 6 (28.57%) SaaS
2 4 (19.05%) AWS
3 2 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (9.52%) Amazon S3
3 2 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (9.52%) Azure
3 2 (9.52%) Serverless
3 2 (9.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (4.76%) Azure AI
4 1 (4.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.76%) IaaS
4 1 (4.76%) OCI
4 1 (4.76%) PaaS
4 1 (4.76%) Power Automate
4 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 16 (76.19%) TCP/IP
2 11 (52.38%) DNS
3 7 (33.33%) Firewall
4 3 (14.29%) DHCP
5 2 (9.52%) SD-WAN
5 2 (9.52%) WAN
6 1 (4.76%) InfiniBand
6 1 (4.76%) LAN
6 1 (4.76%) Network Security
6 1 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.76%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.76%) MySQL
2 1 (4.76%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (42.86%) Cucumber
1 9 (42.86%) Robot Framework
2 1 (4.76%) Git
General
1 16 (76.19%) Social Skills
2 9 (42.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 9 (42.86%) Telecoms
3 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Test Automation Engineer
1 9 (42.86%) Test Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Support Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Analyst
3 3 (14.29%) Senior
3 3 (14.29%) Support Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (9.52%) IT Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) IT Support
4 2 (9.52%) IT Support Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Service Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Service Delivery Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Service Delivery Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Technical Support
5 1 (4.76%) Technical Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 10 (47.62%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (9.52%) Data Centre
2 2 (9.52%) Virtual Team
3 1 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 17 (80.95%) Windows
2 10 (47.62%) Linux
3 5 (23.81%) Mac OS
4 2 (9.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (52.38%) Mentoring
3 10 (47.62%) DevOps
4 9 (42.86%) Coaching
4 9 (42.86%) System Testing
4 9 (42.86%) Test Automation
4 9 (42.86%) Test Management
5 5 (23.81%) Data Entry
6 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (19.05%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (19.05%) Service Delivery
7 3 (14.29%) Project Delivery
8 2 (9.52%) Collaborative Culture
8 2 (9.52%) Identity Access Management
8 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Automation
8 2 (9.52%) Platform Engineering
8 2 (9.52%) Software Engineering
8 2 (9.52%) Strategic Planning
8 2 (9.52%) Technical Leadership
8 2 (9.52%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 12 (57.14%) PowerShell
2 11 (52.38%) Bash
2 11 (52.38%) Python
3 9 (42.86%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.76%) Bicep
4 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (47.62%) Degree
2 4 (19.05%) SC Cleared
2 4 (19.05%) Security Cleared
3 2 (9.52%) CCNP
3 2 (9.52%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.76%) CCIE
4 1 (4.76%) CCNA
4 1 (4.76%) CISSP
4 1 (4.76%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (42.86%) QA
2 2 (9.52%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) NFS
1 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Ansible
1 3 (14.29%) Terraform
2 1 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Cisco
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.76%) Aruba
3 1 (4.76%) Databricks
3 1 (4.76%) HP
3 1 (4.76%) Juniper
3 1 (4.76%) Meraki
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle
3 1 (4.76%) Palo Alto