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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 51 97
Rank change year-on-year 0 +46 -15
Permanent jobs citing VPN 32 21 20
As % of all permanent jobs in Oxfordshire 2.19% 2.91% 1.02%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 30.77% 14.09% 8.47%
Number of salaries quoted 31 11 18
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,750 £29,600
25th Percentile £34,375 £34,125 £41,732
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,166 £55,000 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year -14.24% +12.82% +2.63%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £55,109
90th Percentile - £93,750 £67,875
South East median annual salary £47,166 £52,500 £46,500
% change year-on-year -10.16% +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 104 149 236
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 7.11% 20.67% 12.05%
Number of salaries quoted 75 92 192
10th Percentile £24,500 £25,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £28,125 £36,000 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £41,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.64% -2.35% -
75th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £55,269
90th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £65,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +11.76% -10.53% +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 2 July 2026.

Salary histogram for VPN in Oxfordshire

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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 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 -23 10 £40,583 -14.56% 4
Henley-on-Thames - 5 £43,750 -
Abingdon - 4 £35,000 - 6
Wallingford - 2 £40,000 -
Bicester -12 1 £45,000 - 1
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 9 (28.13%) SharePoint
2 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (3.13%) IIS
Business Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 16 (50.00%) Azure
2 12 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (28.13%) Entra ID
4 6 (18.75%) AWS
5 3 (9.38%) Power Automate
6 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (3.13%) GCP
6 1 (3.13%) IaaS
6 1 (3.13%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (90.63%) DNS
2 24 (75.00%) DHCP
3 22 (68.75%) Firewall
4 19 (59.38%) VLAN
4 19 (59.38%) WAN
5 13 (40.63%) Network Security
6 12 (37.50%) Wi-Fi
7 10 (31.25%) LAN
8 9 (28.13%) BGP
8 9 (28.13%) FTP
8 9 (28.13%) HTTP
8 9 (28.13%) ICMP
8 9 (28.13%) IPsec
8 9 (28.13%) MPLS
8 9 (28.13%) SD-WAN
8 9 (28.13%) SNMP
8 9 (28.13%) SSH
8 9 (28.13%) SSL
9 7 (21.88%) TCP/IP
10 5 (15.63%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 11 (34.38%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.63%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.13%) Aviation
4 1 (3.13%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 10 (31.25%) IT Engineer
2 9 (28.13%) Architect
2 9 (28.13%) Network Architect
2 9 (28.13%) Network Security Architect
2 9 (28.13%) Security Architect
3 6 (18.75%) Network Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) Administrator
4 5 (15.63%) IT Support
4 5 (15.63%) IT Support Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) Network Operations Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) Operations Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) Support Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (6.25%) Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Lead
5 2 (6.25%) Network Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Network Manager
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (28.13%) OAuth
1 9 (28.13%) SAML
2 1 (3.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (28.13%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 8 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (15.63%) CCTV
4 4 (12.50%) Security Posture
5 3 (9.38%) Onboarding
6 1 (3.13%) Clustering
6 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
6 1 (3.13%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (34.38%) Windows
2 10 (31.25%) Windows Server
3 7 (21.88%) Linux
4 5 (15.63%) Mac OS
5 3 (9.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (53.13%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (40.63%) Cybersecurity
3 10 (31.25%) Customer Service
3 10 (31.25%) Disaster Recovery
4 9 (28.13%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 9 (28.13%) Network Segmentation
5 6 (18.75%) Data Protection
5 6 (18.75%) High Availability
5 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure Management
6 5 (15.63%) Business Continuity
6 5 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (15.63%) Software Deployment
6 5 (15.63%) Time Management
7 4 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
7 4 (12.50%) Incident Response
7 4 (12.50%) ISMS
7 4 (12.50%) Mentoring
7 4 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (12.50%) Strategic Planning
7 4 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 11 (34.38%) PowerShell
2 5 (15.63%) Python
3 1 (3.13%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 5 (15.63%) CCNA
1 5 (15.63%) CCNP
1 5 (15.63%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (6.25%) Azure Certification
2 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (6.25%) Degree
3 1 (3.13%) MCSE
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.13%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (34.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (28.13%) NIST
3 6 (18.75%) GDPR
4 4 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (3.13%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (59.38%) Active Directory
2 11 (34.38%) Hyper-V
3 6 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (15.63%) vSphere
5 1 (3.13%) Docker
5 1 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (28.13%) CASB
1 9 (28.13%) FortiGate
2 5 (15.63%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.13%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 31 (96.88%) Microsoft
2 14 (43.75%) Cisco
3 13 (40.63%) Palo Alto
4 10 (31.25%) VMware
5 4 (12.50%) Aruba
5 4 (12.50%) Fortinet