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 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 80 38
Rank change year-on-year +36 -42 +72
Permanent jobs citing VPN 15 9 34
As % of all permanent jobs in Oxfordshire 2.45% 0.83% 4.86%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.15% 7.69% 29.06%
Number of salaries quoted 15 9 32
10th Percentile £27,000 £39,635 -
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,732 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -24.21% - -
75th Percentile £63,500 £48,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £81,500 £70,000 -
South East median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £46,250
% change year-on-year -8.00% +8.11% +15.63%

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 99 117 117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 16.20% 10.74% 16.74%
Number of salaries quoted 82 63 106
10th Percentile £27,250 £25,750 £35,875
25th Percentile £30,500 £31,375 £39,966
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.78% -10.00% +20.48%
75th Percentile £59,688 £62,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £67,375 £70,000 £76,750
South East median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +3.32%

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 16 November 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 November 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 +17 6 £63,750 +34.21% 3
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 3 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (13.33%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 10 (66.67%) Azure
2 5 (33.33%) Mimecast
3 4 (26.67%) AWS
4 3 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 3 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
5 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (6.67%) OCI
5 1 (6.67%) Serverless
5 1 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (80.00%) DNS
2 11 (73.33%) DHCP
3 10 (66.67%) Firewall
4 6 (40.00%) LAN
4 6 (40.00%) WAN
5 5 (33.33%) Wireless
6 3 (20.00%) VoIP
7 2 (13.33%) Network Security
7 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
8 1 (6.67%) BGP
8 1 (6.67%) InfiniBand
8 1 (6.67%) SD-WAN
8 1 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
General
1 3 (20.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Aerospace
3 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support
1 5 (33.33%) Junior
2 3 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) IT Support
2 3 (20.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Senior
2 3 (20.00%) Support Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Network Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Head of Infrastructure
4 1 (6.67%) Head of IT
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Network Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Network Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (6.67%) Security Posture
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (73.33%) Windows
2 5 (33.33%) Android
2 5 (33.33%) Apple iOS
2 5 (33.33%) Mac OS
3 3 (20.00%) Windows 10
4 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
5 1 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) Collaborative Culture
2 3 (20.00%) B2B
2 3 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (13.33%) Business Continuity
3 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (13.33%) Network Architecture
3 2 (13.33%) Service Delivery
3 2 (13.33%) Strategic Planning
4 1 (6.67%) High Availability
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (6.67%) Load Balancing
4 1 (6.67%) Logistics
4 1 (6.67%) Low Latency
4 1 (6.67%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (6.67%) Project Planning
4 1 (6.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (6.67%) SIEM
4 1 (6.67%) Software Engineering
4 1 (6.67%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (6.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) Bash
1 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) CCNP
1 2 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (6.67%) CCIE
2 1 (6.67%) CCNA
2 1 (6.67%) CISSP
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) SLA
2 4 (26.67%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (6.67%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (53.33%) Active Directory
2 5 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (6.67%) NFS
Systems Management
1 8 (53.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (13.33%) Ansible
2 2 (13.33%) Terraform
3 1 (6.67%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 10 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (40.00%) HP
3 5 (33.33%) Barracuda Networks
3 5 (33.33%) Dell
3 5 (33.33%) Sophos
3 5 (33.33%) Ubiquiti
3 5 (33.33%) VMware
4 4 (26.67%) Cisco
5 1 (6.67%) Aruba
5 1 (6.67%) Juniper
5 1 (6.67%) Oracle
5 1 (6.67%) Palo Alto
5 1 (6.67%) Qualys
5 1 (6.67%) Splunk
5 1 (6.67%) Tenable