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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 140 127
Rank change year-on-year +13 -13 +56
Permanent jobs citing VPN 153 175 191
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.47% 1.95% 2.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.15% 12.54% 15.49%
Number of salaries quoted 130 98 178
10th Percentile £27,500 £35,725 £31,000
25th Percentile £32,906 £43,750 £36,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £55,000 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.36% +27.91% +14.67%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £67,325 £73,750
England median annual salary £41,355 £51,058 £47,500
% change year-on-year -19.00% +7.49% -

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 1,507 1,395 1,233
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 14.52% 15.54% 14.01%
Number of salaries quoted 675 722 1,038
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £42,500 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £59,500 £63,750 £61,738
90th Percentile £73,650 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -4.76%

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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 14 January 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 14 January 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 +21 73 £52,500 -12.50% 18
Thames Valley +12 32 £36,000 -22.16% 19
Kent -6 20 £37,500 -21.05% 5
Surrey -2 17 £82,500 +83.33% 5
Berkshire -8 15 £57,500 +4.55% 16
Oxfordshire +24 11 £36,000 -24.21% 2
West Sussex -11 9 £32,000 -32.63% 5
Buckinghamshire +6 6 £60,000 +41.18% 1
Middlesex - 1 £37,500 - 2
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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 (17.65%) Microsoft Exchange
1 27 (17.65%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.27%) IIS
3 3 (1.96%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (5.23%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.31%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.65%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 4 (2.61%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 65 (42.48%) Azure
2 54 (35.29%) Microsoft 365
3 29 (18.95%) AWS
4 22 (14.38%) Entra ID
5 12 (7.84%) GCP
6 10 (6.54%) OneDrive
7 5 (3.27%) Mimecast
8 4 (2.61%) IaaS
9 3 (1.96%) PaaS
10 2 (1.31%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.31%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.31%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (1.31%) Google Workspace
10 2 (1.31%) SaaS
11 1 (0.65%) Azure API Management
11 1 (0.65%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.65%) GitHub
11 1 (0.65%) Nutanix
11 1 (0.65%) OVHcloud
11 1 (0.65%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 86 (56.21%) Firewall
2 59 (38.56%) WAN
3 58 (37.91%) DNS
4 55 (35.95%) DHCP
5 53 (34.64%) LAN
6 46 (30.07%) VLAN
7 37 (24.18%) Wi-Fi
8 35 (22.88%) TCP/IP
9 25 (16.34%) Network Security
10 24 (15.69%) VoIP
11 23 (15.03%) Wireless
12 20 (13.07%) BGP
13 16 (10.46%) SD-WAN
14 15 (9.80%) MPLS
14 15 (9.80%) Unified Communications
15 12 (7.84%) Wireshark
16 11 (7.19%) OSPF
17 10 (6.54%) Junos
18 9 (5.88%) PBX
19 8 (5.23%) DECT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.27%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.96%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (1.96%) MySQL
2 3 (1.96%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.65%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (1.31%) JIRA
1 2 (1.31%) Snyk
General
1 63 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 23 (15.03%) Telecoms
3 16 (10.46%) Finance
4 12 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (6.54%) Legal
6 9 (5.88%) Marketing
7 7 (4.58%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.92%) Retail
9 5 (3.27%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.61%) German Language
10 4 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.31%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.65%) Automotive
12 1 (0.65%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 37 (24.18%) IT Support
2 33 (21.57%) 2nd Line Support
3 25 (16.34%) Support Engineer
4 21 (13.73%) IT Engineer
4 21 (13.73%) Network Engineer
5 19 (12.42%) Senior
6 18 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 15 (9.80%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 15 (9.80%) IT Support Engineer
8 14 (9.15%) Security Engineer
9 13 (8.50%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 13 (8.50%) Consultant
10 11 (7.19%) 3rd Line Support
10 11 (7.19%) Design Engineer
10 11 (7.19%) Network Design Engineer
11 10 (6.54%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
11 10 (6.54%) Senior Network Engineer
11 10 (6.54%) Support Technician
12 9 (5.88%) IT Support Technician
12 9 (5.88%) Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.58%) REST
2 3 (1.96%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (1.31%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.65%) .NET
4 1 (0.65%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.65%) OAuth
4 1 (0.65%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 23 (15.03%) Data Centre
2 8 (5.23%) Driving Licence
2 8 (5.23%) Onboarding
2 8 (5.23%) Web Conferencing
3 7 (4.58%) Operational Technology
4 4 (2.61%) Client/Server
4 4 (2.61%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.61%) Life Science
4 4 (2.61%) Renewable Energy
4 4 (2.61%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (1.96%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (1.31%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (1.31%) Clustering
6 2 (1.31%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (1.31%) PKI
6 2 (1.31%) Replication
7 1 (0.65%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.65%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 66 (43.14%) Windows
2 43 (28.10%) Windows Server
3 41 (26.80%) Windows 10
4 10 (6.54%) Linux
5 7 (4.58%) Mac OS
6 6 (3.92%) Android
7 5 (3.27%) Apple iOS
8 3 (1.96%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (1.31%) Ubuntu
9 2 (1.31%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (1.31%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (28.76%) Problem-Solving
2 39 (25.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 24 (15.69%) ITIL
4 22 (14.38%) ITSM
5 20 (13.07%) High Availability
6 19 (12.42%) Business Continuity
7 17 (11.11%) Data Protection
7 17 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
7 17 (11.11%) Network Design
8 16 (10.46%) Customer Service
8 16 (10.46%) Project Delivery
8 16 (10.46%) Service Delivery
9 15 (9.80%) Incident Response
9 15 (9.80%) Requirements Gathering
10 13 (8.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (8.50%) Infrastructure as Code
10 13 (8.50%) Security Operations
10 13 (8.50%) Service Management
11 12 (7.84%) Project Management
11 12 (7.84%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 17 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 9 (5.88%) Python
3 3 (1.96%) PHP
4 2 (1.31%) Bicep
5 1 (0.65%) Bash
Qualifications
1 34 (22.22%) CCNP
1 34 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
2 23 (15.03%) Security Cleared
3 20 (13.07%) DV Cleared
3 20 (13.07%) SC Cleared
4 19 (12.42%) Degree
5 18 (11.76%) CCNA
6 11 (7.19%) Azure Certification
7 10 (6.54%) AWS Certification
7 10 (6.54%) JNCIS
8 8 (5.23%) JNCIA
9 7 (4.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (4.58%) Master's Degree
9 7 (4.58%) PMI Certification
9 7 (4.58%) PMP
10 5 (3.27%) DBS Check
10 5 (3.27%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (1.31%) A+ Certification
11 2 (1.31%) CISSP
11 2 (1.31%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.19%) NIST
2 10 (6.54%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (3.27%) SLA
4 3 (1.96%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.31%) QA
6 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.65%) GDPR
6 1 (0.65%) GRC
6 1 (0.65%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.65%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 66 (43.14%) Active Directory
2 34 (22.22%) Hyper-V
3 28 (18.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.61%) Docker
5 2 (1.31%) KVM
5 2 (1.31%) RHEV
5 2 (1.31%) Xen
6 1 (0.65%) pfSense
6 1 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (21.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (8.50%) Ansible
3 12 (7.84%) FortiGate
4 8 (5.23%) Terraform
5 5 (3.27%) Endace
5 5 (3.27%) Kubernetes
6 3 (1.96%) Proxmox
7 2 (1.31%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (1.31%) Nagios
7 2 (1.31%) SCCM
8 1 (0.65%) AirWatch
8 1 (0.65%) Dell DRAC
8 1 (0.65%) Grafana
8 1 (0.65%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.65%) Puppet
8 1 (0.65%) SCOM
8 1 (0.65%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 69 (45.10%) Microsoft
2 58 (37.91%) Cisco
3 33 (21.57%) VMware
4 26 (16.99%) Juniper
5 20 (13.07%) Meraki
6 14 (9.15%) Fortinet
7 7 (4.58%) HP
8 6 (3.92%) Dell
8 6 (3.92%) F5
8 6 (3.92%) Ubiquiti
9 5 (3.27%) Barracuda Networks
9 5 (3.27%) Google
9 5 (3.27%) Sophos
10 4 (2.61%) Apple
10 4 (2.61%) Sage
10 4 (2.61%) ServiceNow
10 4 (2.61%) SolarWinds
10 4 (2.61%) Zscaler
11 3 (1.96%) Aruba
11 3 (1.96%) Qualys