VPN Job Trends in the South East

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring VPN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 112 171
Rank change year-on-year -23 +59 +7
Permanent jobs citing VPN 175 152 245
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.24% 2.22% 1.52%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.48% 16.58% 9.08%
Number of salaries quoted 147 106 225
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,250 £26,700
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £55,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +18.28% +16.25%
75th Percentile £63,750 £66,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £68,250
England median annual salary £43,000 £50,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year -14.00% +7.53% -7.00%

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 1,670 917 2,697
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 11.88% 13.42% 16.73%
Number of salaries quoted 811 715 1,918
10th Percentile £27,250 £25,500 £25,985
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £46,625
Median % change year-on-year - +1.88% +3.61%
75th Percentile £63,750 £60,625 £59,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,700 £70,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing VPN relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

VPN job vacancy trend in the South East

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Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VPN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VPN

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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 18 April 2026.

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 18 April 2026. 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
Hampshire -20 51 £50,000 -16.67% 19
Thames Valley -31 50 £37,500 -21.05% 13
Surrey -20 27 £43,750 -41.67% 8
Kent -25 26 £34,500 +9.52% 5
Berkshire +5 24 £43,000 -18.10% 5
Oxfordshire -13 13 £34,000 -4.90% 4
Buckinghamshire -38 13 £60,000 +33.33% 4
West Sussex -8 12 £47,500 - 7
Sussex - 8 £31,500 -
Middlesex - 1 £37,500 - 1
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 27 (15.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (12.57%) SharePoint
3 7 (4.00%) IIS
4 3 (1.71%) nginx
5 2 (1.14%) Apache
Applications
1 9 (5.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.29%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 78 (44.57%) Microsoft 365
2 66 (37.71%) Azure
3 37 (21.14%) AWS
4 30 (17.14%) Entra ID
5 15 (8.57%) GCP
6 9 (5.14%) Google Workspace
7 8 (4.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (4.57%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (4.57%) GitHub
7 8 (4.57%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (4.57%) OneDrive
8 7 (4.00%) IaaS
9 6 (3.43%) PaaS
10 5 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.57%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (0.57%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (0.57%) Mimecast
11 1 (0.57%) Nutanix
11 1 (0.57%) SaaS
11 1 (0.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 121 (69.14%) Firewall
2 80 (45.71%) WAN
3 63 (36.00%) DNS
4 56 (32.00%) LAN
5 50 (28.57%) DHCP
6 43 (24.57%) VLAN
7 35 (20.00%) VoIP
8 23 (13.14%) BGP
9 20 (11.43%) TCP/IP
9 20 (11.43%) Wi-Fi
10 19 (10.86%) PBX
10 19 (10.86%) Wireless
11 17 (9.71%) MPLS
12 16 (9.14%) DECT
12 16 (9.14%) Unified Communications
13 14 (8.00%) Wireshark
14 13 (7.43%) DSL
15 12 (6.86%) Network Security
15 12 (6.86%) OSPF
16 10 (5.71%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.71%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.86%) MySQL
2 5 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (1.71%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (1.71%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (1.14%) JIRA
2 1 (0.57%) Git
General
1 59 (33.71%) Social Skills
2 24 (13.71%) Telecoms
3 19 (10.86%) Organisational Skills
4 18 (10.29%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (8.00%) Retail
6 13 (7.43%) Marketing
7 12 (6.86%) Finance
8 8 (4.57%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.86%) Electronics
10 4 (2.29%) Manufacturing
10 4 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.71%) Legal
12 2 (1.14%) German Language
12 2 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.57%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.57%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 50 (28.57%) IT Support
2 38 (21.71%) Support Engineer
3 33 (18.86%) 2nd Line Support
3 33 (18.86%) IT Engineer
3 33 (18.86%) Senior
4 32 (18.29%) IT Support Engineer
5 17 (9.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 17 (9.71%) Support Technician
6 15 (8.57%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 12 (6.86%) Architect
8 11 (6.29%) Analyst
9 10 (5.71%) 2nd Line Support Technician
9 10 (5.71%) 3rd Line Support
9 10 (5.71%) Administrator
9 10 (5.71%) Consultant
9 10 (5.71%) Systems Administrator
10 9 (5.14%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
10 9 (5.14%) Infrastructure Support
10 9 (5.14%) Support Analyst
11 8 (4.57%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.57%) REST
2 5 (2.86%) ARM Templates
3 3 (1.71%) 802.1X
3 3 (1.71%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.29%) Driving Licence
2 16 (9.14%) Web Conferencing
3 15 (8.57%) Data Centre
4 9 (5.14%) PKI
5 8 (4.57%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (4.57%) Private Cloud
6 7 (4.00%) Client/Server
6 7 (4.00%) Onboarding
6 7 (4.00%) Smartphone
7 6 (3.43%) Replication
8 5 (2.86%) Cloud Native
9 4 (2.29%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (2.29%) Life Science
9 4 (2.29%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.14%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.14%) Video Conferencing
11 1 (0.57%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.57%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.57%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 85 (48.57%) Windows
2 54 (30.86%) Windows Server
3 29 (16.57%) Windows 10
4 26 (14.86%) Linux
5 9 (5.14%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.14%) CentOS
6 2 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.57%) AIX
7 1 (0.57%) Android
7 1 (0.57%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.57%) FreeBSD
7 1 (0.57%) OpenBSD
7 1 (0.57%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.57%) Unix
7 1 (0.57%) VMS
7 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (20.00%) ITIL
2 34 (19.43%) Disaster Recovery
3 31 (17.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 30 (17.14%) Customer Service
5 28 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 18 (10.29%) Business Continuity
7 18 (10.29%) Cybersecurity
7 18 (10.29%) Infrastructure as Code
8 17 (9.71%) Cloud Security
8 17 (9.71%) Presales
8 17 (9.71%) Process Improvement
9 15 (8.57%) Time Management
10 14 (8.00%) DevOps
10 14 (8.00%) Infrastructure Automation
11 13 (7.43%) Case Management
11 13 (7.43%) CI/CD
11 13 (7.43%) Service Management
12 12 (6.86%) Root Cause Analysis
12 12 (6.86%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 30 (17.14%) PowerShell
2 24 (13.71%) Python
3 12 (6.86%) Bash
4 8 (4.57%) Go
5 6 (3.43%) Bicep
5 6 (3.43%) SQL
6 3 (1.71%) PHP
7 2 (1.14%) C
Qualifications
1 23 (13.14%) Degree
2 22 (12.57%) Cisco Certification
3 16 (9.14%) Security Cleared
4 15 (8.57%) CCNP
5 12 (6.86%) DV Cleared
6 11 (6.29%) CCNA
6 11 (6.29%) SC Cleared
7 9 (5.14%) AWS Certification
8 6 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (2.29%) Network+ Certification
11 3 (1.71%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.71%) DBS Check
11 3 (1.71%) MCSE
11 3 (1.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (1.14%) A+ Certification
12 2 (1.14%) NVQ Level 3
12 2 (1.14%) RHCE
12 2 (1.14%) RHCSA
13 1 (0.57%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (14.29%) SLA
2 8 (4.57%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (3.43%) NIST
3 6 (3.43%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.71%) QA
5 2 (1.14%) GDPR
5 2 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.57%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.57%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 75 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 42 (24.00%) Hyper-V
3 17 (9.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (5.71%) Docker
5 2 (1.14%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (1.14%) Samba
5 2 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.57%) Firmware
6 1 (0.57%) KVM
6 1 (0.57%) pfSense
6 1 (0.57%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (13.71%) Ansible
2 21 (12.00%) Terraform
3 20 (11.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 18 (10.29%) Kubernetes
5 10 (5.71%) FortiGate
6 9 (5.14%) Backup Exec
6 9 (5.14%) Grafana
6 9 (5.14%) Proxmox
7 8 (4.57%) Endace
7 8 (4.57%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.57%) AirWatch
8 1 (0.57%) Dell DRAC
8 1 (0.57%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.57%) Netcool
8 1 (0.57%) Puppet
8 1 (0.57%) SCCM
8 1 (0.57%) SCOM
8 1 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.57%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 96 (54.86%) Microsoft
2 37 (21.14%) VMware
3 29 (16.57%) Cisco
4 17 (9.71%) Google
5 15 (8.57%) Meraki
6 13 (7.43%) Fortinet
7 12 (6.86%) Citrix
7 12 (6.86%) Juniper
8 11 (6.29%) Veeam
9 7 (4.00%) F5
10 5 (2.86%) ServiceNow
11 4 (2.29%) Sage
11 4 (2.29%) SolarWinds
11 4 (2.29%) Zscaler
12 3 (1.71%) Apple
12 3 (1.71%) Dell
12 3 (1.71%) Red Hat
13 2 (1.14%) D-Link
13 2 (1.14%) HP
13 2 (1.14%) Palo Alto