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 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 72 73
Rank change year-on-year +24 +1 +32
Permanent jobs citing VPN 13 4 26
As % of all permanent jobs in Oxfordshire 1.53% 0.52% 2.07%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.87% 3.74% 13.33%
Number of salaries quoted 13 4 25
10th Percentile - £34,250 £30,350
25th Percentile £27,000 £38,750 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £56,250 £41,000
Median % change year-on-year -39.56% +37.20% -13.68%
75th Percentile £38,750 £70,000 £50,000
90th Percentile £54,750 - £62,544
South East median annual salary £47,500 £60,000 £44,500
% change year-on-year -20.83% +34.83% +18.67%

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 101 107 195
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 11.87% 13.90% 15.51%
Number of salaries quoted 73 63 168
10th Percentile £25,400 - £28,350
25th Percentile £27,250 £25,750 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £40,000 £42,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -4.76% +20.00%
75th Percentile £45,000 £63,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £66,250 £95,000 £65,750
South East median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +15.79% +3.83%

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 15 February 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 15 February 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 - 7 £34,000 -
Wallingford - 2 £40,000 - 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 4 (30.77%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (84.62%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (76.92%) Azure
3 9 (69.23%) Entra ID
4 2 (15.38%) AWS
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 13 (100.00%) Firewall
2 9 (69.23%) DNS
3 5 (38.46%) LAN
3 5 (38.46%) TCP/IP
3 5 (38.46%) WAN
4 4 (30.77%) DHCP
4 4 (30.77%) VoIP
5 1 (7.69%) BGP
5 1 (7.69%) Network Security
General
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (30.77%) Telecoms
4 2 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (7.69%) Aerospace
5 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
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%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Network Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
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%) Network Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Security Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Driving Licence
2 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (76.92%) Windows
2 6 (46.15%) Linux
3 5 (38.46%) Mac OS
3 5 (38.46%) Windows Server
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%) Data Loss Prevention
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (7.69%) Logistics
4 1 (7.69%) Migration
4 1 (7.69%) Network Architecture
4 1 (7.69%) Runbook
4 1 (7.69%) SIEM
4 1 (7.69%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (7.69%) Vulnerability Scanning
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (30.77%) SLA
3 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (7.69%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (69.23%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) Hyper-V
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (7.69%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 11 (84.62%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco
2 1 (7.69%) Qualys
2 1 (7.69%) Splunk
2 1 (7.69%) Tenable
2 1 (7.69%) VMware