VPN Jobs in Scotland

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for VPN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited VPN over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 230 159 154
Rank change year-on-year -71 -5 +4
Permanent jobs citing VPN 52 63 83
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.77% 1.34% 1.45%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.90% 8.39% 10.43%
Number of salaries quoted 37 36 63
10th Percentile £26,750 £27,500 £19,600
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,750 £27,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +69.23% -7.14%
75th Percentile £52,500 £80,000 £41,750
90th Percentile £72,433 - £52,000
UK median annual salary £46,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -7.00% +5.26% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

VPN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 658 751 796
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 9.80% 15.95% 13.91%
Number of salaries quoted 398 266 415
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,000 £27,050
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +7.95%
75th Percentile £62,500 £64,875 £63,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £85,000 £74,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.47% -4.29% +5.00%

VPN
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in Scotland

VPN
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for VPN in Scotland

VPN
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing VPN in Scotland over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for VPN in Scotland

VPN
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
Edinburgh +32 24 £41,250 -45.00% 9
Glasgow -106 21 £50,000 +25.00% 8
Banffshire - 4 £22,000 - 1
Aberdeenshire - 3 £28,500 - 1
VPN
UK

VPN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 10 (19.23%) Apache
2 7 (13.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (5.77%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (13.46%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 19 (36.54%) Azure
2 17 (32.69%) AWS
3 16 (30.77%) GCP
4 13 (25.00%) IaaS
4 13 (25.00%) PaaS
5 12 (23.08%) Amazon S3
6 4 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (7.69%) Slack
7 3 (5.77%) Asana
7 3 (5.77%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (5.77%) Entra ID
7 3 (5.77%) Google Workspace
8 2 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (3.85%) AWS Direct Connect
9 1 (1.92%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.92%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.92%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.92%) Serverless
9 1 (1.92%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 39 (75.00%) Firewall
2 32 (61.54%) WAN
3 20 (38.46%) IPsec
4 19 (36.54%) LAN
5 17 (32.69%) TCP/IP
6 13 (25.00%) SD-WAN
7 12 (23.08%) DHCP
7 12 (23.08%) DNS
8 11 (21.15%) Wireless
9 10 (19.23%) Internet
9 10 (19.23%) SNMP
10 8 (15.38%) Spanning Tree
11 5 (9.62%) WLAN
12 4 (7.69%) IMAP
12 4 (7.69%) Network Security
12 4 (7.69%) OSPF
13 3 (5.77%) Wi-Fi
14 2 (3.85%) BGP
14 2 (3.85%) Ethernet
14 2 (3.85%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (26.92%) SQL Server
2 10 (19.23%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (19.23%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.92%) Big Data
3 1 (1.92%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (3.85%) GitLab
1 2 (3.85%) JIRA
1 2 (3.85%) Spinnaker
2 1 (1.92%) Jenkins
General
1 21 (40.38%) Social Skills
2 16 (30.77%) Finance
3 4 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (3.85%) Banking
5 1 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 10 (19.23%) Consultant
1 10 (19.23%) NetApp Consultant
2 8 (15.38%) Network Technician
3 7 (13.46%) Cloud Engineer
3 7 (13.46%) IT Support
4 6 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (11.54%) Support Technician
5 5 (9.62%) IT Technician
6 4 (7.69%) IT Support Technician
7 3 (5.77%) Analyst
7 3 (5.77%) Architect
7 3 (5.77%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (5.77%) IT Support Specialist
7 3 (5.77%) Network Analyst
7 3 (5.77%) Support Specialist
8 2 (3.85%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (3.85%) Network Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Network Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (19.23%) RabbitMQ
1 10 (19.23%) YAML
2 2 (3.85%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 34 (65.38%) Data Centre
2 16 (30.77%) Public Cloud
3 13 (25.00%) Replication
4 4 (7.69%) Cloud Native
4 4 (7.69%) Driving Licence
5 2 (3.85%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.85%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.92%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.92%) IoT
6 1 (1.92%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 35 (67.31%) Windows
2 30 (57.69%) Linux
3 17 (32.69%) Windows Server
4 10 (19.23%) Data ONTAP
5 3 (5.77%) Mac OS
5 3 (5.77%) Windows 10
5 3 (5.77%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.92%) Android
6 1 (1.92%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (30.77%) DevOps
1 16 (30.77%) Disaster Recovery
2 15 (28.85%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (28.85%) Project Delivery
3 14 (26.92%) Network Virtualisation
4 13 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 10 (19.23%) Actionable Insight
5 10 (19.23%) Infrastructure Management
5 10 (19.23%) ITSM
5 10 (19.23%) Project Management
5 10 (19.23%) Project Planning
5 10 (19.23%) Release Management
5 10 (19.23%) Storage Management
6 8 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
6 8 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 8 (15.38%) Network Monitoring
7 7 (13.46%) Customer Experience
8 4 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (7.69%) IT Audit
8 4 (7.69%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (19.23%) Python
2 2 (3.85%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 17 (32.69%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (28.85%) CCNA
3 4 (7.69%) Degree
4 2 (3.85%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.85%) CCNP
4 2 (3.85%) JNCIP
5 1 (1.92%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.92%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (5.77%) SOC 2
2 1 (1.92%) SOC 3
System Software
1 31 (59.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (25.00%) VMware NSX
3 10 (19.23%) Docker
4 4 (7.69%) Active Directory
4 4 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (5.77%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 25 (48.08%) Ansible
2 17 (32.69%) Terraform
3 13 (25.00%) FortiGate
3 13 (25.00%) Kubernetes
4 11 (21.15%) Prometheus
5 10 (19.23%) vCenter Server
6 2 (3.85%) Istio
6 2 (3.85%) Puppet
7 1 (1.92%) Grafana
Vendors
1 31 (59.62%) VMware
2 24 (46.15%) Cisco
3 23 (44.23%) NetApp
4 21 (40.38%) Palo Alto
5 11 (21.15%) Juniper
5 11 (21.15%) Meraki
6 10 (19.23%) Red Hat
6 10 (19.23%) SolidFire
7 9 (17.31%) Microsoft
8 4 (7.69%) Google
9 2 (3.85%) Atlassian
9 2 (3.85%) ConnectWise