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 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 155 139 232
Rank change year-on-year -16 +93 -78
Permanent jobs citing VPN 243 282 333
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.61% 2.43% 1.51%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.44% 12.74% 9.45%
Number of salaries quoted 180 232 293
10th Percentile £26,225 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £34,438 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.40% +1.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £61,525
90th Percentile £66,250 £61,125 £71,250
England median annual salary £46,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -7.00% +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 2,328 2,213 3,525
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 15.42% 19.10% 15.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,452 1,346 2,049
10th Percentile £26,660 £27,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,250 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £71,000 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £48,500 £50,985 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.87% -2.89% +5.00%

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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 26 July 2024.

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 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
Thames Valley 0 83 £52,500 +5.00% 15
Hampshire -6 81 £46,500 +8.14% 10
Berkshire +19 38 £53,000 +8.16% 5
Surrey -9 37 £52,500 +34.62% 9
Buckinghamshire -6 29 £62,500 +25.00% 7
Kent -46 19 £37,500 -14.77% 10
Oxfordshire -26 17 £47,500 -17.39% 3
East Sussex +18 16 £43,500 -4.40%
West Sussex +15 6 £38,875 +21.48% 7
Middlesex -16 1 - -
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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 56 (23.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (10.29%) SharePoint
3 20 (8.23%) Exchange Server 2010
4 10 (4.12%) IIS
5 6 (2.47%) Apache
6 5 (2.06%) nginx
7 4 (1.65%) WordPress
8 2 (0.82%) SAS
Applications
1 24 (9.88%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.82%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 107 (44.03%) Azure
2 99 (40.74%) Microsoft 365
3 32 (13.17%) AWS
4 25 (10.29%) Entra ID
5 22 (9.05%) Azure Monitor
6 14 (5.76%) GitHub
7 12 (4.94%) Cloud Computing
7 12 (4.94%) IaaS
8 11 (4.53%) OneDrive
8 11 (4.53%) SaaS
9 10 (4.12%) GCP
10 9 (3.70%) Amazon S3
10 9 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 7 (2.88%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (2.88%) Azure Sentinel
12 6 (2.47%) Twilio
13 4 (1.65%) Amazon ELB
13 4 (1.65%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (1.65%) PaaS
13 4 (1.65%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 142 (58.44%) Firewall
2 78 (32.10%) DNS
3 62 (25.51%) TCP/IP
4 56 (23.05%) VLAN
5 51 (20.99%) DHCP
6 50 (20.58%) LAN
7 49 (20.16%) WAN
8 42 (17.28%) Network Security
9 34 (13.99%) BGP
9 34 (13.99%) OSPF
10 33 (13.58%) IPsec
11 32 (13.17%) Wireless
12 25 (10.29%) Cisco Firepower
13 24 (9.88%) SSL
14 20 (8.23%) Cisco ASA
15 18 (7.41%) iSCSI
15 18 (7.41%) Wi-Fi
16 17 (7.00%) SAN
17 16 (6.58%) Ethernet VPN
18 15 (6.17%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.35%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (3.29%) NoSQL
3 7 (2.88%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (2.06%) MongoDB
5 4 (1.65%) MySQL
5 4 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.65%) Power BI
6 3 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 11 (4.53%) Git
2 10 (4.12%) Jenkins
2 10 (4.12%) JIRA
3 9 (3.70%) Trac
General
1 85 (34.98%) Social Skills
2 41 (16.87%) Telecoms
3 19 (7.82%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (6.58%) Finance
5 12 (4.94%) Manufacturing
6 6 (2.47%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.06%) Games
8 4 (1.65%) Legal
9 3 (1.23%) Back Office
9 3 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.82%) Advertising
10 2 (0.82%) Electronics
10 2 (0.82%) Law
10 2 (0.82%) Marketing
10 2 (0.82%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.41%) Automotive
11 1 (0.41%) Billing
11 1 (0.41%) Military
11 1 (0.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 49 (20.16%) Network Engineer
1 49 (20.16%) Support Engineer
2 37 (15.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 33 (13.58%) Senior
4 28 (11.52%) IT Support
5 25 (10.29%) IT Engineer
6 22 (9.05%) IT Support Engineer
7 20 (8.23%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 13 (5.35%) Architect
9 11 (4.53%) Analyst
9 11 (4.53%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
9 11 (4.53%) Infrastructure Support
9 11 (4.53%) IT Analyst
9 11 (4.53%) Network Support
10 10 (4.12%) 3rd Line Support
10 10 (4.12%) Azure Engineer
11 9 (3.70%) Consultant
11 9 (3.70%) IT Technician
12 8 (3.29%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
12 8 (3.29%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (8.23%) 802.1X
2 8 (3.29%) Web Services
3 5 (2.06%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (2.06%) YAML
4 4 (1.65%) Azure Blueprints
4 4 (1.65%) CSS
4 4 (1.65%) GraphQL
4 4 (1.65%) gRPC
4 4 (1.65%) HTML
4 4 (1.65%) Knex.js
4 4 (1.65%) LAMP
4 4 (1.65%) LEMP Stack
4 4 (1.65%) Node.js
4 4 (1.65%) React
4 4 (1.65%) React Native
4 4 (1.65%) RESTful
4 4 (1.65%) Sequelize
5 3 (1.23%) EDI
5 3 (1.23%) REST
5 3 (1.23%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 32 (13.17%) Data Centre
2 20 (8.23%) Driving Licence
3 12 (4.94%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (4.12%) Management Information System
4 10 (4.12%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (3.70%) Replication
6 7 (2.88%) Algorithms
6 7 (2.88%) Video Conferencing
7 6 (2.47%) Blackberry
8 5 (2.06%) Client/Server
8 5 (2.06%) IoT
8 5 (2.06%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.06%) PKI
8 5 (2.06%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.65%) Clustering
9 4 (1.65%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.65%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.65%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.65%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 128 (52.67%) Windows
2 75 (30.86%) Windows Server
3 43 (17.70%) Linux
4 30 (12.35%) Windows 10
5 22 (9.05%) Windows Server 2019
6 16 (6.58%) Android
7 12 (4.94%) Windows Server 2016
8 9 (3.70%) Apple iOS
9 7 (2.88%) Windows Server 2012
10 6 (2.47%) Ubuntu
11 5 (2.06%) Data ONTAP
11 5 (2.06%) Kali Linux
12 4 (1.65%) Mac OS
12 4 (1.65%) VMS
13 3 (1.23%) Unix
13 3 (1.23%) Windows 7
14 2 (0.82%) Windows 8
15 1 (0.41%) CentOS
15 1 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
15 1 (0.41%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (20.99%) Problem-Solving
2 50 (20.58%) Customer Service
3 44 (18.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 39 (16.05%) ITIL
5 29 (11.93%) Cybersecurity
6 27 (11.11%) Analytics
7 26 (10.70%) Project Management
8 23 (9.47%) Actionable Insight
8 23 (9.47%) Customer Experience
9 22 (9.05%) Identity Management
9 22 (9.05%) Log Analytics
10 21 (8.64%) Computer Science
11 19 (7.82%) Configuration Management
11 19 (7.82%) Inventory Management
12 18 (7.41%) Patch Management
13 17 (7.00%) DevOps
13 17 (7.00%) Service Delivery
14 15 (6.17%) Agile
14 15 (6.17%) Validation
15 14 (5.76%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 52 (21.40%) PowerShell
2 34 (13.99%) Python
3 7 (2.88%) Bash
3 7 (2.88%) SQL
4 6 (2.47%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.65%) JSX
5 4 (1.65%) R
5 4 (1.65%) TypeScript
6 2 (0.82%) C#
6 2 (0.82%) Go
7 1 (0.41%) C
7 1 (0.41%) C++
7 1 (0.41%) Korn
7 1 (0.41%) PHP
Qualifications
1 76 (31.28%) Security Cleared
2 58 (23.87%) SC Cleared
3 48 (19.75%) Cisco Certification
4 35 (14.40%) Degree
5 31 (12.76%) CCNP
6 30 (12.35%) CCNA
7 22 (9.05%) BPSS Clearance
7 22 (9.05%) DV Cleared
8 18 (7.41%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (4.94%) MCP
10 9 (3.70%) Azure Certification
10 9 (3.70%) JNCIA
11 8 (3.29%) ITIL Certification
12 7 (2.88%) CISSP
12 7 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
13 6 (2.47%) CCIE
13 6 (2.47%) HND
13 6 (2.47%) JNCIS
13 6 (2.47%) MCSA
14 5 (2.06%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.35%) GDPR
2 12 (4.94%) SLA
3 9 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials
4 8 (3.29%) NIST
5 7 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 5 (2.06%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.41%) QA
System Software
1 90 (37.04%) Active Directory
2 52 (21.40%) Hyper-V
3 27 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
4 25 (10.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 18 (7.41%) Docker
6 16 (6.58%) pfSense
7 9 (3.70%) NFS
8 8 (3.29%) VMware ESXi
9 7 (2.88%) vSphere
10 6 (2.47%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
13 2 (0.82%) Firmware
14 1 (0.41%) Terminal Server
14 1 (0.41%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 36 (14.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 24 (9.88%) Ansible
3 16 (6.58%) ZABBIX
4 15 (6.17%) Grafana
4 15 (6.17%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 15 (6.17%) SCDPM
5 13 (5.35%) SCCM
6 8 (3.29%) Terraform
7 5 (2.06%) Kubernetes
7 5 (2.06%) Prometheus
7 5 (2.06%) Suricata
7 5 (2.06%) vCenter Server
7 5 (2.06%) WSUS
8 4 (1.65%) Autotask
9 3 (1.23%) FortiGate
9 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Clustering
9 3 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.82%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (0.41%) Graphite
11 1 (0.41%) Nagios
Vendors
1 127 (52.26%) Microsoft
2 62 (25.51%) Cisco
3 56 (23.05%) VMware
4 48 (19.75%) Juniper
5 30 (12.35%) Veeam
6 25 (10.29%) Fortinet
7 24 (9.88%) Palo Alto
8 16 (6.58%) McAfee
9 12 (4.94%) Dell
10 11 (4.53%) F5
11 9 (3.70%) Meraki
12 8 (3.29%) Aruba
13 7 (2.88%) Barracuda Networks
13 7 (2.88%) Splunk
14 6 (2.47%) Dell Compellent
14 6 (2.47%) HP
14 6 (2.47%) Mitel
14 6 (2.47%) Zerto
15 5 (2.06%) NetApp
15 5 (2.06%) Red Hat