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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 39 80
Rank change year-on-year -8 +41 -37
Permanent jobs citing VPN 46 25 13
As % of all permanent jobs in Oxfordshire 2.76% 3.65% 1.00%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 33.09% 17.48% 10.74%
Number of salaries quoted 41 15 13
10th Percentile £36,250 £30,750 £26,850
25th Percentile £46,189 £35,000 £41,732
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £36,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +44.44% -24.21% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £63,500 £52,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £92,250 £65,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £46,000 £47,000
% change year-on-year +3.26% -2.13% +3.30%

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 139 143 121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 8.33% 20.88% 9.29%
Number of salaries quoted 90 82 90
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,438 £35,000 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £41,500 £44,982
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% -7.74% -5.30%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £55,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £67,375 £66,550
South East median annual salary £47,500 £41,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.46% -17.00% -

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -27 13 £47,166 -18.68% 5
Abingdon - 5 £35,000 -
Henley-on-Thames - 5 £43,750 -
Bicester -12 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 (26.09%) SharePoint
2 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.17%) IIS
Business Applications
1 6 (13.04%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 23 (50.00%) Azure
2 15 (32.61%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (26.09%) Entra ID
4 7 (15.22%) AWS
5 5 (10.87%) Google Workspace
6 3 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (6.52%) Azure Key Vault
6 3 (6.52%) PaaS
6 3 (6.52%) Power Automate
7 2 (4.35%) GCP
8 1 (2.17%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (78.26%) DNS
2 34 (73.91%) DHCP
3 29 (63.04%) VLAN
4 26 (56.52%) Firewall
5 21 (45.65%) Network Security
6 19 (41.30%) WAN
7 18 (39.13%) Wi-Fi
8 13 (28.26%) BGP
8 13 (28.26%) SD-WAN
9 11 (23.91%) TCP/IP
10 10 (21.74%) FTP
10 10 (21.74%) HTTP
10 10 (21.74%) ICMP
10 10 (21.74%) IPsec
10 10 (21.74%) MPLS
10 10 (21.74%) SNMP
10 10 (21.74%) SSH
10 10 (21.74%) SSL
11 9 (19.57%) Wireless
12 8 (17.39%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.70%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.52%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 12 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.52%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (2.17%) Aviation
3 1 (2.17%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 15 (32.61%) Network Engineer
2 11 (23.91%) IT Engineer
3 10 (21.74%) Architect
3 10 (21.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (21.74%) Network Architect
3 10 (21.74%) Network Security Architect
3 10 (21.74%) Security Architect
4 7 (15.22%) IT Support
5 6 (13.04%) Network Operations Engineer
5 6 (13.04%) Operations Engineer
6 5 (10.87%) Infrastructure Support
6 5 (10.87%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 5 (10.87%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (10.87%) IT Support Engineer
6 5 (10.87%) Support Engineer
7 4 (8.70%) Security Engineer
7 4 (8.70%) Senior
8 3 (6.52%) Administrator
8 3 (6.52%) Network Security Engineer
8 3 (6.52%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (21.74%) OAuth
1 10 (21.74%) SAML
2 2 (4.35%) Terraform
3 1 (2.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (21.74%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 9 (19.57%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (17.39%) Onboarding
4 6 (13.04%) CCTV
4 6 (13.04%) Replication
5 4 (8.70%) Security Posture
6 3 (6.52%) Virtual Team
7 2 (4.35%) IoT
7 2 (4.35%) Robotics
8 1 (2.17%) Clustering
8 1 (2.17%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 13 (28.26%) Windows
2 8 (17.39%) Linux
3 6 (13.04%) Windows Server
4 5 (10.87%) Rocky
4 5 (10.87%) Ubuntu
5 4 (8.70%) Windows 10
6 2 (4.35%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (32.61%) Cybersecurity
3 14 (30.43%) Disaster Recovery
4 11 (23.91%) Customer Service
5 10 (21.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 10 (21.74%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 10 (21.74%) Network Segmentation
6 8 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (17.39%) Mentoring
7 7 (15.22%) Data Protection
7 7 (15.22%) High Availability
7 7 (15.22%) Infrastructure Management
7 7 (15.22%) Technical Leadership
8 6 (13.04%) Time Management
9 5 (10.87%) Asset Management
9 5 (10.87%) Business Continuity
9 5 (10.87%) DevOps
9 5 (10.87%) Incident Response
9 5 (10.87%) IT Asset Management
9 5 (10.87%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (45.65%) PowerShell
2 8 (17.39%) Python
3 3 (6.52%) Bicep
4 2 (4.35%) Go
4 2 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (23.91%) CCNP
1 11 (23.91%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (17.39%) CCNA
3 2 (4.35%) Azure Certification
3 2 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.35%) Degree
4 1 (2.17%) MCSE
4 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.17%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (28.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (23.91%) NIST
3 7 (15.22%) GDPR
4 4 (8.70%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (2.17%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 12 (26.09%) Hyper-V
3 6 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (13.04%) vSphere
4 2 (4.35%) iptables
5 1 (2.17%) Docker
5 1 (2.17%) Firmware
5 1 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (34.78%) FortiGate
2 10 (21.74%) CASB
3 8 (17.39%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (6.52%) Stealthwatch
5 1 (2.17%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 39 (84.78%) Microsoft
2 22 (47.83%) Cisco
3 15 (32.61%) VMware
4 14 (30.43%) Palo Alto
5 11 (23.91%) Fortinet
6 5 (10.87%) Dell
6 5 (10.87%) Google
6 5 (10.87%) Veeam
7 4 (8.70%) Aruba
8 1 (2.17%) Apple
8 1 (2.17%) Meraki