VPN Jobs in Scotland

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 201 150 202
Rank change year-on-year -51 +52 -44
Permanent jobs citing VPN 51 61 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.90% 1.61% 0.80%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.88% 10.02% 6.44%
Number of salaries quoted 34 35 40
10th Percentile £22,075 £28,000 £19,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £38,625 £27,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £75,000 £38,250
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +96.08% -19.47%
75th Percentile £52,500 £80,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £55,125 - £55,750
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 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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 516 609 761
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 9.06% 16.05% 12.50%
Number of salaries quoted 314 253 376
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,813 £35,000 £35,433
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,175 £80,000 £79,000
UK median annual salary £49,000 £51,573 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.99% -1.77% +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 26 July 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 26 July 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
Glasgow -76 21 £50,000 -9.09% 5
Edinburgh +19 18 £33,250 -55.67% 2
Banffshire - 4 £22,000 -
Lanarkshire - 3 £50,000 - 3
Aberdeenshire - 3 £28,500 - 1
West Lothian - 2 - - 2
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 (19.61%) Apache
2 9 (17.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (9.80%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (13.73%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (35.29%) Azure
2 14 (27.45%) AWS
3 12 (23.53%) GCP
3 12 (23.53%) IaaS
3 12 (23.53%) PaaS
4 10 (19.61%) Amazon S3
5 7 (13.73%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (9.80%) Entra ID
8 3 (5.88%) Asana
8 3 (5.88%) Slack
9 2 (3.92%) OneDrive
10 1 (1.96%) Google Workspace
10 1 (1.96%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 39 (76.47%) Firewall
2 34 (66.67%) WAN
3 22 (43.14%) LAN
4 21 (41.18%) IPsec
5 16 (31.37%) TCP/IP
6 15 (29.41%) Wireless
7 13 (25.49%) DNS
8 12 (23.53%) SD-WAN
9 11 (21.57%) DHCP
10 10 (19.61%) Internet
10 10 (19.61%) SNMP
11 8 (15.69%) Network Security
12 7 (13.73%) Spanning Tree
13 6 (11.76%) OSPF
14 4 (7.84%) BGP
14 4 (7.84%) IMAP
14 4 (7.84%) SAN
14 4 (7.84%) VoIP
15 3 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
15 3 (5.88%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (23.53%) SQL Server
2 10 (19.61%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (19.61%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (1.96%) JIRA
General
1 22 (43.14%) Social Skills
2 14 (27.45%) Finance
3 4 (7.84%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (3.92%) Manufacturing
4 2 (3.92%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 10 (19.61%) Consultant
1 10 (19.61%) NetApp Consultant
2 9 (17.65%) IT Support
3 7 (13.73%) Network Technician
4 6 (11.76%) Cloud Engineer
4 6 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (11.76%) Network Engineer
4 6 (11.76%) Support Technician
5 5 (9.80%) IT Technician
6 4 (7.84%) IT Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) IT Support Technician
6 4 (7.84%) Systems Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Analyst
7 3 (5.88%) IT Support Specialist
7 3 (5.88%) Network Analyst
7 3 (5.88%) Support Specialist
8 2 (3.92%) IT Support Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Network Support Technician
8 2 (3.92%) Senior Network Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (19.61%) RabbitMQ
1 10 (19.61%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (62.75%) Data Centre
2 13 (25.49%) Public Cloud
3 12 (23.53%) Replication
4 4 (7.84%) Driving Licence
5 3 (5.88%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.92%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.92%) PKI
6 2 (3.92%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.96%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 35 (68.63%) Windows
2 28 (54.90%) Linux
3 18 (35.29%) Windows Server
4 10 (19.61%) Data ONTAP
5 3 (5.88%) Windows 10
5 3 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.96%) Android
6 1 (1.96%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.96%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (29.41%) Disaster Recovery
3 12 (23.53%) DevOps
3 12 (23.53%) Mentoring
3 12 (23.53%) Network Virtualisation
3 12 (23.53%) Project Delivery
4 10 (19.61%) Actionable Insight
4 10 (19.61%) Infrastructure Management
4 10 (19.61%) Project Management
4 10 (19.61%) Project Planning
4 10 (19.61%) Release Management
4 10 (19.61%) Storage Management
5 9 (17.65%) Network Monitoring
6 8 (15.69%) ITSM
7 6 (11.76%) Customer Experience
7 6 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (9.80%) Computer Science
8 5 (9.80%) Patch Management
9 4 (7.84%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (19.61%) Python
2 4 (7.84%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (25.49%) CCNA
3 6 (11.76%) Degree
4 2 (3.92%) CCIE
4 2 (3.92%) CCNP
4 2 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.92%) JNCIP
4 2 (3.92%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.92%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.96%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.92%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.96%) SOC 2
System Software
1 34 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (23.53%) VMware NSX
3 10 (19.61%) Docker
4 6 (11.76%) Active Directory
5 3 (5.88%) Hyper-V
5 3 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (3.92%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 24 (47.06%) Ansible
2 12 (23.53%) FortiGate
2 12 (23.53%) Terraform
3 10 (19.61%) Kubernetes
3 10 (19.61%) Prometheus
3 10 (19.61%) vCenter Server
4 2 (3.92%) Puppet
Vendors
1 34 (66.67%) VMware
2 24 (47.06%) Cisco
3 22 (43.14%) NetApp
4 20 (39.22%) Palo Alto
5 12 (23.53%) Microsoft
6 10 (19.61%) Juniper
6 10 (19.61%) Meraki
6 10 (19.61%) Red Hat
6 10 (19.61%) SolidFire
7 2 (3.92%) ConnectWise
8 1 (1.96%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.96%) Google