VPN Jobs in the South East

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 167 164 160
Rank change year-on-year -3 -4 +72
Permanent jobs citing VPN 157 274 282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.62% 1.56% 2.03%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.52% 9.83% 11.46%
Number of salaries quoted 107 215 235
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,250 £24,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,875 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £46,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% +9.41% -5.56%
75th Percentile £66,250 £57,500 £53,125
90th Percentile £77,500 £68,250 £60,750
England 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
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,493 2,788 2,460
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 15.42% 15.82% 17.69%
Number of salaries quoted 763 1,884 1,438
10th Percentile £25,250 £26,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing VPN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for VPN in the South East

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Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VPN in the South East.

Salary trend for VPN in the South East

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Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing VPN in the South East over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for VPN in the South East

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Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the South East region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Thames Valley +50 78 £51,250 -2.38% 31
Hampshire +25 37 £56,500 +50.67% 29
Berkshire +25 32 £52,500 - 12
Buckinghamshire +30 28 £45,000 -30.77% 11
Surrey +40 21 £75,000 +30.43% 8
Kent +36 20 £33,000 -12.00% 10
Oxfordshire +39 18 £37,000 -26.00% 12
West Sussex +27 1 - - 5
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 11 (7.01%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.18%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.64%) Exchange Server 2013
3 1 (0.64%) IIS
3 1 (0.64%) Office Communications Server
3 1 (0.64%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (0.64%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.64%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (3.18%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 30 (19.11%) Azure
2 28 (17.83%) AWS
3 25 (15.92%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (10.19%) SaaS
5 15 (9.55%) Entra ID
6 12 (7.64%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (7.64%) Azure Monitor
7 10 (6.37%) Azure Key Vault
8 7 (4.46%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (4.46%) GitHub
8 7 (4.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (3.82%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 6 (3.82%) IaaS
9 6 (3.82%) PaaS
10 4 (2.55%) Azure AI
10 4 (2.55%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (2.55%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (2.55%) GCP
10 4 (2.55%) Power Automate
10 4 (2.55%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 83 (52.87%) TCP/IP
2 80 (50.96%) Firewall
3 54 (34.39%) DNS
4 32 (20.38%) DHCP
5 28 (17.83%) VLAN
6 26 (16.56%) LAN
6 26 (16.56%) WAN
7 22 (14.01%) BGP
7 22 (14.01%) OSPF
8 15 (9.55%) MPLS
9 14 (8.92%) IPsec
9 14 (8.92%) VoIP
10 13 (8.28%) Network Security
10 13 (8.28%) SD-WAN
11 12 (7.64%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (5.73%) Cisco ASA
12 9 (5.73%) Cisco Firepower
12 9 (5.73%) Ethernet VPN
12 9 (5.73%) Intrusion Detection
12 9 (5.73%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.55%) Data Lake
1 4 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (2.55%) Metabase
1 4 (2.55%) MySQL
1 4 (2.55%) Power BI
1 4 (2.55%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 34 (21.66%) Cucumber
1 34 (21.66%) Robot Framework
2 4 (2.55%) Git
3 1 (0.64%) TeamCity
General
1 84 (53.50%) Social Skills
2 37 (23.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 36 (22.93%) Telecoms
4 18 (11.46%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.10%) Retail
6 6 (3.82%) Back Office
6 6 (3.82%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.55%) Finance
8 2 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.27%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.64%) Advertising
9 1 (0.64%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.64%) Automotive
9 1 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.64%) Legal
9 1 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (21.66%) Test Automation Engineer
1 34 (21.66%) Test Engineer
2 31 (19.75%) Senior
3 30 (19.11%) Support Engineer
4 27 (17.20%) Network Engineer
5 17 (10.83%) Technical Support
6 14 (8.92%) Analyst
7 13 (8.28%) IT Engineer
8 11 (7.01%) IT Support
8 11 (7.01%) IT Support Engineer
9 10 (6.37%) Cloud Engineer
9 10 (6.37%) Technical Engineer
9 10 (6.37%) Technical Support Engineer
10 8 (5.10%) Lead
10 8 (5.10%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 8 (5.10%) Senior Network Engineer
11 7 (4.46%) Architect
11 7 (4.46%) Senior Support Engineer
12 6 (3.82%) 1st Line Support
12 6 (3.82%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.37%) YAML
2 5 (3.18%) 802.1X
3 4 (2.55%) JSON
4 2 (1.27%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 39 (24.84%) Linux Command Line
2 35 (22.29%) Data Centre
3 11 (7.01%) Driving Licence
4 8 (5.10%) Security Posture
5 7 (4.46%) Security Operations Centre
6 5 (3.18%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (3.18%) Operational Technology
7 4 (2.55%) Clustering
7 4 (2.55%) NHS
8 3 (1.91%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.91%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.27%) PKI
9 2 (1.27%) Replication
10 1 (0.64%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.64%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 74 (47.13%) Windows
2 42 (26.75%) Linux
3 21 (13.38%) Windows Server
4 14 (8.92%) Windows 10
5 13 (8.28%) Mac OS
6 6 (3.82%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (1.91%) Android
7 3 (1.91%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.27%) VMS
8 2 (1.27%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.64%) CentOS
9 1 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (47.13%) Problem-Solving
2 49 (31.21%) Mentoring
3 47 (29.94%) DevOps
4 35 (22.29%) Coaching
4 35 (22.29%) Test Automation
5 34 (21.66%) System Testing
5 34 (21.66%) Test Management
6 22 (14.01%) Project Delivery
7 20 (12.74%) Disaster Recovery
8 17 (10.83%) Cybersecurity
9 16 (10.19%) Analytics
10 13 (8.28%) CI/CD
10 13 (8.28%) Incident Response
10 13 (8.28%) Infrastructure as Code
11 12 (7.64%) High Availability
11 12 (7.64%) Log Analytics
12 11 (7.01%) SIEM
12 11 (7.01%) Threat Detection
13 10 (6.37%) Infrastructure Automation
13 10 (6.37%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 56 (35.67%) PowerShell
2 52 (33.12%) Python
3 41 (26.11%) Bash
4 34 (21.66%) JavaScript
5 14 (8.92%) SQL
6 10 (6.37%) Bicep
7 6 (3.82%) Kusto Query Language
8 4 (2.55%) C++
9 1 (0.64%) R
Qualifications
1 47 (29.94%) Degree
2 33 (21.02%) Security Cleared
3 27 (17.20%) Cisco Certification
4 21 (13.38%) CCNP
5 17 (10.83%) SC Cleared
6 15 (9.55%) CCNA
6 15 (9.55%) DV Cleared
7 8 (5.10%) DBS Check
8 7 (4.46%) MCP
8 7 (4.46%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (4.46%) OSCP
9 6 (3.82%) A+ Certification
9 6 (3.82%) Azure Certification
9 6 (3.82%) CISM
9 6 (3.82%) CISSP
10 4 (2.55%) CEH
10 4 (2.55%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (2.55%) Dell Certification
10 4 (2.55%) JNCIA
11 3 (1.91%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (21.66%) QA
2 5 (3.18%) GDPR
2 5 (3.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.55%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (2.55%) HIPAA
3 4 (2.55%) NIST
4 2 (1.27%) SLA
5 1 (0.64%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.64%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 24 (15.29%) Hyper-V
2 20 (12.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (12.10%) Active Directory
4 11 (7.01%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.27%) BitLocker
5 2 (1.27%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (1.27%) Terminal Services
5 2 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.27%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.64%) ISA Server
6 1 (0.64%) KVM
6 1 (0.64%) NFS
6 1 (0.64%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (3.82%) Terraform
2 5 (3.18%) Ansible
2 5 (3.18%) FortiGate
3 4 (2.55%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (2.55%) QRadar
3 4 (2.55%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.27%) vCenter Server
4 2 (1.27%) vMotion
5 1 (0.64%) Dell DRAC
5 1 (0.64%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.64%) SCCM
Vendors
1 42 (26.75%) Microsoft
2 30 (19.11%) Cisco
3 23 (14.65%) VMware
4 14 (8.92%) Juniper
5 10 (6.37%) Databricks
6 9 (5.73%) Splunk
7 8 (5.10%) Fortinet
8 7 (4.46%) Dell
9 6 (3.82%) Atlassian
9 6 (3.82%) CheckPoint
10 5 (3.18%) Citrix
10 5 (3.18%) F5
10 5 (3.18%) Palo Alto
11 4 (2.55%) Apple
11 4 (2.55%) Meraki
11 4 (2.55%) SonicWALL
12 2 (1.27%) ServiceNow
12 2 (1.27%) Veeam
13 1 (0.64%) Broadcom
13 1 (0.64%) Riverbed