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 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 221 147
Rank change year-on-year +80 -74 +50
Permanent jobs citing VPN 22 52 61
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.73% 0.76% 1.40%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.90% 8.02% 8.27%
Number of salaries quoted 17 36 30
10th Percentile - £25,375 £27,700
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £36,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -23.08% +95.49%
75th Percentile £95,000 £52,500 £80,000
90th Percentile - £70,000 -
UK median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +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 373 648 738
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 12.31% 9.48% 16.93%
Number of salaries quoted 194 394 253
10th Percentile - £28,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £23,504 £35,188 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,484 £50,000 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -43.03% -0.99% +5.21%
75th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,775 £70,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £41,500 £47,500 £50,500
% change year-on-year -12.63% -5.94% -3.81%

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 2 June 2025.

Salary histogram for VPN in Scotland

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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 2 June 2025. 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 +13 9 £95,000 +185.71% 34
Perth and Kinross - 5 £33,000 -
Highlands - 4 £40,000 -
Glasgow +145 3 £37,500 -25.00% 38
Dumfries and Galloway - 1 £31,000 -
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 9 (40.91%) SharePoint
2 5 (22.73%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 13 (59.09%) Azure
2 10 (45.45%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (36.36%) AWS
4 4 (18.18%) OneDrive
5 2 (9.09%) Sentry
6 1 (4.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (4.55%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 15 (68.18%) Firewall
2 7 (31.82%) DHCP
2 7 (31.82%) DNS
2 7 (31.82%) Network Security
3 5 (22.73%) DKIM
3 5 (22.73%) DMARC
3 5 (22.73%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (22.73%) Wireless
4 4 (18.18%) IPsec
4 4 (18.18%) SSL
4 4 (18.18%) VLAN
5 3 (13.64%) TCP/IP
6 2 (9.09%) BGP
7 1 (4.55%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (4.55%) EIGRP
7 1 (4.55%) Intranet
7 1 (4.55%) LAN
7 1 (4.55%) MPLS
7 1 (4.55%) OSPF
7 1 (4.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) Data Mining
1 2 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) GitLab
General
1 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 6 (27.27%) Finance
3 3 (13.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (50.00%) Lead
2 6 (27.27%) Cloud Engineer
2 6 (27.27%) Cloud Security Engineer
2 6 (27.27%) Cloud Security Lead
2 6 (27.27%) Lead Cloud Engineer
2 6 (27.27%) Security Engineer
2 6 (27.27%) Senior
3 5 (22.73%) Help Desk Team Lead
3 5 (22.73%) Team Leader
4 4 (18.18%) IT Support
4 4 (18.18%) IT Support Technician
4 4 (18.18%) IT Technician
4 4 (18.18%) Senior IT Support
4 4 (18.18%) Senior IT Technician
4 4 (18.18%) Senior Support Technician
4 4 (18.18%) Senior Technician
4 4 (18.18%) Support Technician
5 3 (13.64%) Network Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Administrator
6 2 (9.09%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (18.18%) Replication
3 3 (13.64%) Driving Licence
4 2 (9.09%) Management Information System
4 2 (9.09%) Mobile App
5 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
5 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
5 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (54.55%) Windows
2 7 (31.82%) Unix
2 7 (31.82%) VMS
3 6 (27.27%) Windows Server
4 4 (18.18%) Linux
4 4 (18.18%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (18.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (31.82%) Network Design
1 7 (31.82%) Roadmaps
2 6 (27.27%) Cloud Security
2 6 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (27.27%) Mentoring
2 6 (27.27%) Strategic Roadmap
2 6 (27.27%) Technology Transformation
2 6 (27.27%) Threat Modelling
3 5 (22.73%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (22.73%) Incident Response
3 5 (22.73%) IT Strategy
3 5 (22.73%) Remote Monitoring and Management
4 4 (18.18%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (18.18%) Customer Service
4 4 (18.18%) Migration
5 2 (9.09%) Information Security
5 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (9.09%) Service Delivery
5 2 (9.09%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) CISM
1 6 (27.27%) CISSP
2 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (9.09%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (4.55%) CCNP
4 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (27.27%) Accessibility
1 6 (27.27%) NCSC
1 6 (27.27%) NIST
2 4 (18.18%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (18.18%) PCI DSS
3 1 (4.55%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (40.91%) Hyper-V
2 5 (22.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.55%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (31.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (18.18%) Dell DRAC
3 3 (13.64%) FortiGate
4 2 (9.09%) Grafana
4 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
4 2 (9.09%) Prometheus
4 2 (9.09%) Puppet
5 1 (4.55%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 12 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 6 (27.27%) VMware
3 5 (22.73%) Apple
4 4 (18.18%) Fortinet
5 3 (13.64%) Cisco
6 2 (9.09%) New Relic
7 1 (4.55%) Aruba
7 1 (4.55%) F5
7 1 (4.55%) Palo Alto
7 1 (4.55%) Riverbed
7 1 (4.55%) SolarWinds