VPN Jobs in the South West

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 169 159 168
Rank change year-on-year -10 +9 -8
Permanent jobs citing VPN 96 101 183
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.09% 1.62% 2.00%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.22% 9.05% 13.45%
Number of salaries quoted 78 83 154
10th Percentile £25,000 £27,700 £30,500
25th Percentile £27,054 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,500 £41,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.85% -14.58% +37.14%
75th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £59,688
90th Percentile £61,250 £76,050 £75,000
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 West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,041 1,116 1,361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 11.84% 17.93% 14.87%
Number of salaries quoted 751 565 807
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,500 £24,770
25th Percentile £31,750 £33,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,839 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.53% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £64,500 £64,330
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,250 £77,500
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in the South West

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Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for VPN in the South West

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Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing VPN in the South West over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for VPN in the South West

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Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the South West 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
Bristol +15 31 £32,500 -27.78% 2
Gloucestershire +10 30 £30,000 -33.33% 5
Devon +11 18 £57,500 +74.24%
Somerset +4 6 £26,750 -37.06% 4
Wiltshire -34 5 £38,750 +10.71% 8
Cornwall -13 3 £28,500 -10.24%
Dorset -26 2 £115,000 +172.19% 2
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 14 (14.58%) SharePoint
2 10 (10.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (4.17%) Apache
4 2 (2.08%) Confluence
Applications
1 18 (18.75%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.08%) Trello
3 1 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 44 (45.83%) Azure
2 33 (34.38%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (13.54%) Entra ID
4 11 (11.46%) AWS
5 7 (7.29%) OneDrive
6 4 (4.17%) Amazon S3
6 4 (4.17%) WhatsApp
7 3 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (3.13%) IaaS
7 3 (3.13%) SaaS
7 3 (3.13%) Serverless
8 2 (2.08%) Azure Stack
8 2 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (2.08%) PaaS
8 2 (2.08%) Slack
9 1 (1.04%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (1.04%) GCP
9 1 (1.04%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 60 (62.50%) Firewall
2 42 (43.75%) LAN
3 38 (39.58%) WAN
4 25 (26.04%) TCP/IP
5 20 (20.83%) Wi-Fi
6 19 (19.79%) Network Security
7 18 (18.75%) SD-WAN
7 18 (18.75%) VLAN
8 16 (16.67%) DNS
9 13 (13.54%) DHCP
10 9 (9.38%) Wireless
11 8 (8.33%) IPsec
12 4 (4.17%) Internet
12 4 (4.17%) Intrusion Detection
12 4 (4.17%) SAN
12 4 (4.17%) SNMP
12 4 (4.17%) Software-Defined Networking
13 3 (3.13%) Remote Desktop
13 3 (3.13%) VoIP
14 2 (2.08%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.21%) MongoDB
2 4 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.08%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.04%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.04%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.04%) Power BI
5 1 (1.04%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 6 (6.25%) JIRA
2 1 (1.04%) Git
General
1 30 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 24 (25.00%) Telecoms
3 8 (8.33%) Finance
4 3 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.08%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.08%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.04%) Legal
6 1 (1.04%) Marketing
6 1 (1.04%) Military
Job Titles
1 21 (21.88%) IT Engineer
2 20 (20.83%) IT Support
3 17 (17.71%) Support Engineer
4 14 (14.58%) Analyst
4 14 (14.58%) IT Support Engineer
5 13 (13.54%) Network Manager
6 10 (10.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (10.42%) IT Analyst
6 10 (10.42%) Service Analyst
6 10 (10.42%) Service Desk Analyst
7 7 (7.29%) Network Operations Manager
7 7 (7.29%) NOC Manager
7 7 (7.29%) Operations Manager
8 6 (6.25%) Network Engineer
8 6 (6.25%) Project Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) IT Manager
9 5 (5.21%) IT Security Manager
9 5 (5.21%) Network Security Manager
9 5 (5.21%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (4.17%) YAML
2 2 (2.08%) X-Windows
3 1 (1.04%) .NET
3 1 (1.04%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.04%) Node.js
3 1 (1.04%) OAuth
3 1 (1.04%) React
3 1 (1.04%) RESTful
3 1 (1.04%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (21.88%) Data Centre
2 12 (12.50%) Driving Licence
3 4 (4.17%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.13%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.13%) Replication
5 2 (2.08%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.04%) Digital Signage
6 1 (1.04%) PKI
6 1 (1.04%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 59 (61.46%) Windows
2 20 (20.83%) Windows Server
3 7 (7.29%) Linux
4 6 (6.25%) Apple iOS
4 6 (6.25%) Windows 10
5 5 (5.21%) Windows 7
6 4 (4.17%) Data ONTAP
6 4 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (3.13%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (2.08%) Android
8 2 (2.08%) Mac OS
8 2 (2.08%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (2.08%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (41.67%) Customer Service
2 19 (19.79%) Project Delivery
3 17 (17.71%) Cybersecurity
4 16 (16.67%) ITIL
4 16 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (16.67%) Service Delivery
5 14 (14.58%) Customer Experience
6 13 (13.54%) B2B
6 13 (13.54%) Fault Analysis
6 13 (13.54%) Office Automation
6 13 (13.54%) Security Patching
7 12 (12.50%) Project Management
8 9 (9.38%) Service Management
9 8 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 8 (8.33%) Network Monitoring
10 7 (7.29%) Agile
11 6 (6.25%) Computer Science
11 6 (6.25%) Mentoring
11 6 (6.25%) Presales
11 6 (6.25%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 9 (9.38%) Python
2 5 (5.21%) C#
3 4 (4.17%) Java
4 2 (2.08%) SQL
4 2 (2.08%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.04%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.04%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.04%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (13.54%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (10.42%) CCNP
2 10 (10.42%) Degree
3 6 (6.25%) CCNA
3 6 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.13%) A+ Certification
5 3 (3.13%) CCSP
5 3 (3.13%) CISSP
5 3 (3.13%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (3.13%) MCSE
6 2 (2.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (2.08%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.08%) CISA
6 2 (2.08%) CISM
6 2 (2.08%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.04%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.04%) JNCIA
7 1 (1.04%) MCITP
7 1 (1.04%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.25%) SLA
2 2 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.08%) FedRAMP
2 2 (2.08%) GDPR
2 2 (2.08%) GRC
2 2 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.08%) NIST
3 1 (1.04%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.04%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.04%) SOC 2
System Software
1 32 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 17 (17.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (7.29%) Hyper-V
3 7 (7.29%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (5.21%) vSphere
5 4 (4.17%) Docker
5 4 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (2.08%) Terminal Server
6 2 (2.08%) XenDesktop
7 1 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 16 (16.67%) WSUS
2 15 (15.63%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (8.33%) vCenter Server
4 5 (5.21%) SCCM
5 4 (4.17%) Ansible
5 4 (4.17%) Kubernetes
5 4 (4.17%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.13%) ServiceCenter
7 2 (2.08%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (1.04%) SCVMM
8 1 (1.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 50 (52.08%) Microsoft
2 30 (31.25%) Cisco
3 21 (21.88%) VMware
4 8 (8.33%) Palo Alto
5 7 (7.29%) Meraki
6 6 (6.25%) HP
6 6 (6.25%) NetApp
7 5 (5.21%) Veeam
8 4 (4.17%) Apple
8 4 (4.17%) Red Hat
8 4 (4.17%) SolidFire
9 3 (3.13%) Sophos
10 2 (2.08%) Atlassian
10 2 (2.08%) Citrix
10 2 (2.08%) Dell
10 2 (2.08%) Juniper
10 2 (2.08%) Meru Networks
10 2 (2.08%) Okta
10 2 (2.08%) OneLogin
11 1 (1.04%) Google