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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 99 109
Rank change year-on-year +35 +10 -5
Permanent jobs citing VPN 6 20 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 1.16% 1.17% 1.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.63% 7.22% 8.04%
Number of salaries quoted 5 9 5
10th Percentile £39,000 - -
25th Percentile £52,500 £37,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -24.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £57,500 £63,750 £66,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £72,900
Berkshire median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -16.00% +13.64%

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 41 277 224
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 7.93% 16.19% 14.22%
Number of salaries quoted 27 182 88
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £23,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £34,500 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £54,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £74,438
90th Percentile £84,500 £77,250 £85,375
Berkshire median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year - +2.04% -7.55%

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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 9 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 3 (50.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure AI
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (16.67%) IaaS
2 1 (16.67%) PaaS
2 1 (16.67%) Power Automate
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) DNS
1 5 (83.33%) Firewall
2 4 (66.67%) TCP/IP
3 3 (50.00%) DHCP
4 2 (33.33%) SD-WAN
4 2 (33.33%) WAN
5 1 (16.67%) Broadband
5 1 (16.67%) DMZ
5 1 (16.67%) DWDM
5 1 (16.67%) Internet
5 1 (16.67%) LAN
5 1 (16.67%) MPLS
5 1 (16.67%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (16.67%) VoIP
5 1 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (16.67%) MySQL
2 1 (16.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 1 (16.67%) Retail
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Support Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Support
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Support Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Data Centre
2 3 (50.00%) Clustering
2 3 (50.00%) Replication
3 1 (16.67%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
1 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) High Availability
1 2 (33.33%) IT Strategy
1 2 (33.33%) Server Management
1 2 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (16.67%) Agile
2 1 (16.67%) API Management
2 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (16.67%) Capacity Management
2 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
2 1 (16.67%) Log Analytics
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) RBAC
2 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
2 1 (16.67%) Service Management
2 1 (16.67%) TOGAF
2 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
2 1 (16.67%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) Bicep
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) A+ Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 1 (16.67%) CCNP
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (16.67%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) Meraki