VPN Jobs in Reading

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 107 115
Rank change year-on-year +43 +8 -9
Permanent jobs citing VPN 7 21 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 1.38% 1.15% 1.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.28% 7.24% 7.59%
Number of salaries quoted 6 9 4
10th Percentile £30,000 - -
25th Percentile £35,625 £37,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £47,500 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year +39.47% -2.56% -11.36%
75th Percentile £81,563 £63,750 £67,188
90th Percentile £87,500 £75,000 £73,375
Berkshire median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 43 290 224
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 8.45% 15.90% 14.55%
Number of salaries quoted 32 190 90
10th Percentile £30,125 £31,000 £23,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £33,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,750 £54,500 £50,900
Median % change year-on-year -19.72% +7.07% -7.45%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £74,250
90th Percentile £87,000 £78,750 £80,500
Berkshire median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing VPN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for VPN in Reading

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Salary Trend in Reading

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

Salary trend for VPN in Reading

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Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing VPN in Reading over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for VPN in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 1 (14.29%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (14.29%) Azure AI
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 1 (14.29%) IaaS
3 1 (14.29%) PaaS
3 1 (14.29%) Power Automate
3 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 1 (14.29%) SaaS
3 1 (14.29%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) DNS
1 5 (71.43%) Firewall
2 3 (42.86%) SD-WAN
2 3 (42.86%) TCP/IP
2 3 (42.86%) WAN
3 2 (28.57%) Broadband
3 2 (28.57%) DMZ
3 2 (28.57%) DWDM
3 2 (28.57%) Internet
3 2 (28.57%) LAN
3 2 (28.57%) MPLS
3 2 (28.57%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (28.57%) VoIP
3 2 (28.57%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (14.29%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Lead
1 2 (28.57%) Support Specialist
1 2 (28.57%) Technical Specialist
1 2 (28.57%) Technical Support
1 2 (28.57%) Technical Support Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Clustering
2 1 (14.29%) NHS
2 1 (14.29%) Replication
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Load Balancing
1 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Capacity Management
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (28.57%) Risk Management
3 1 (14.29%) Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) API Management
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (14.29%) IT Strategy
3 1 (14.29%) Log Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
3 1 (14.29%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) RBAC
3 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
3 1 (14.29%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) Bicep
2 1 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) A+ Certification
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 1 (14.29%) CCNA
2 1 (14.29%) CCNP
2 1 (14.29%) DBS Check
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco
1 1 (14.29%) Databricks
1 1 (14.29%) Meraki
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft