VPN Jobs in the South West

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for VPN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited VPN over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 183 155 143
Rank change year-on-year -28 -12 +10
Permanent jobs citing VPN 111 114 180
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.20% 1.65% 2.24%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.85% 8.63% 14.48%
Number of salaries quoted 94 87 140
10th Percentile £25,000 £27,500 £27,425
25th Percentile £27,500 £28,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £37,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - -16.67% +45.16%
75th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £60,625
90th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £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 is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,254 1,321 1,243
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 13.59% 19.07% 15.46%
Number of salaries quoted 930 558 703
10th Percentile £26,475 £28,000 £26,350
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,852 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £63,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +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 5 May 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 5 May 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 +24 33 £37,500 -23.08% 10
Gloucestershire -10 30 £35,000 +7.69% 7
Devon +3 23 £57,500 +28.92% 1
Somerset +12 8 £31,000 -31.11% 7
Cornwall -14 8 £33,750 +8.87% 1
Dorset -33 5 £42,500 -19.05% 1
Wiltshire -33 2 £35,000 - 3
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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 24 (21.62%) SharePoint
2 15 (13.51%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.60%) Apache
3 4 (3.60%) Confluence
4 1 (0.90%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (0.90%) IIS
Applications
1 13 (11.71%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.80%) Trello
3 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 55 (49.55%) Azure
2 45 (40.54%) Microsoft 365
3 33 (29.73%) Entra ID
4 17 (15.32%) OneDrive
5 12 (10.81%) AWS
6 4 (3.60%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (2.70%) WhatsApp
8 2 (1.80%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (1.80%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.80%) GCP
8 2 (1.80%) Mimecast
8 2 (1.80%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.80%) Serverless
8 2 (1.80%) Slack
9 1 (0.90%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.90%) Dropbox
9 1 (0.90%) Google Sheets
9 1 (0.90%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 60 (54.05%) Firewall
2 50 (45.05%) LAN
3 43 (38.74%) WAN
4 42 (37.84%) DNS
5 30 (27.03%) DHCP
6 29 (26.13%) Wi-Fi
7 25 (22.52%) Wireless
8 23 (20.72%) VLAN
9 21 (18.92%) TCP/IP
10 18 (16.22%) SD-WAN
11 16 (14.41%) IPsec
12 15 (13.51%) Network Security
13 10 (9.01%) OSPF
14 6 (5.41%) BGP
14 6 (5.41%) NetScaler
15 5 (4.50%) MPLS
16 4 (3.60%) 802.11
16 4 (3.60%) Intrusion Detection
16 4 (3.60%) IPv4
16 4 (3.60%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.41%) MongoDB
2 5 (4.50%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (4.50%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (3.60%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.80%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.80%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.90%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 3 (2.70%) JIRA
2 2 (1.80%) Git
2 2 (1.80%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.90%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 29 (26.13%) Social Skills
2 17 (15.32%) Telecoms
3 6 (5.41%) Law
4 4 (3.60%) Finance
5 3 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.70%) Legal
5 3 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.80%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.80%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.90%) Games
7 1 (0.90%) Marketing
7 1 (0.90%) Military
7 1 (0.90%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (23.42%) IT Engineer
2 25 (22.52%) Support Engineer
3 21 (18.92%) IT Support
4 18 (16.22%) IT Support Engineer
5 14 (12.61%) Analyst
5 14 (12.61%) Network Manager
6 13 (11.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (10.81%) Service Analyst
7 12 (10.81%) Service Desk Analyst
8 9 (8.11%) Field Engineer
9 8 (7.21%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 7 (6.31%) Lead
10 7 (6.31%) Network Engineer
10 7 (6.31%) Network Operations Manager
10 7 (6.31%) NOC Manager
10 7 (6.31%) Operations Manager
11 6 (5.41%) IT Analyst
11 6 (5.41%) Network Security Manager
11 6 (5.41%) Project Engineer
11 6 (5.41%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.60%) 802.1X
1 4 (3.60%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (3.60%) YAML
2 2 (1.80%) .NET
2 2 (1.80%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (1.80%) JSON
2 2 (1.80%) Node.js
2 2 (1.80%) React
2 2 (1.80%) RESTful
2 2 (1.80%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 26 (23.42%) Data Centre
2 11 (9.91%) Driving Licence
3 7 (6.31%) Replication
4 4 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.70%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.80%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.80%) iPhone
6 2 (1.80%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.90%) CMDB
7 1 (0.90%) Digital Signage
7 1 (0.90%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 73 (65.77%) Windows
2 38 (34.23%) Windows Server
3 9 (8.11%) Linux
4 7 (6.31%) Windows 10
5 6 (5.41%) Windows 7
5 6 (5.41%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (4.50%) Apple iOS
6 5 (4.50%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (3.60%) Data ONTAP
8 3 (2.70%) Mac OS
8 3 (2.70%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (1.80%) Android
9 2 (1.80%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (37.84%) Customer Service
2 24 (21.62%) ITIL
3 21 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (18.02%) Cybersecurity
5 19 (17.12%) Project Delivery
6 18 (16.22%) Service Delivery
7 17 (15.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 14 (12.61%) Office Automation
8 14 (12.61%) Security Patching
9 12 (10.81%) Project Management
10 11 (9.91%) Customer Experience
10 11 (9.91%) Mentoring
10 11 (9.91%) Service Management
11 10 (9.01%) Change Management
12 9 (8.11%) B2B
12 9 (8.11%) Data Security
12 9 (8.11%) Fault Analysis
13 8 (7.21%) DevOps
13 8 (7.21%) Network Monitoring
13 8 (7.21%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (13.51%) Python
2 10 (9.01%) PowerShell
3 8 (7.21%) SQL
4 6 (5.41%) C#
5 5 (4.50%) Bash
6 4 (3.60%) Java
7 3 (2.70%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.90%) Groovy
8 1 (0.90%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.90%) Ruby
8 1 (0.90%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (9.91%) A+ Certification
2 6 (5.41%) CCNP
2 6 (5.41%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (3.60%) CCNA
3 4 (3.60%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (2.70%) Degree
4 3 (2.70%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (2.70%) MCSE
4 3 (2.70%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.70%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.90%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.90%) CCSP
5 1 (0.90%) CISSP
5 1 (0.90%) MCITP
5 1 (0.90%) MOS
5 1 (0.90%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.61%) SLA
2 3 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.90%) GDPR
3 1 (0.90%) GRC
3 1 (0.90%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.90%) NIST
3 1 (0.90%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.90%) SOC 2
System Software
1 50 (45.05%) Active Directory
2 17 (15.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (5.41%) Docker
4 4 (3.60%) Firmware
4 4 (3.60%) Hyper-V
4 4 (3.60%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (3.60%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (3.60%) vSphere
5 2 (1.80%) Terminal Server
5 2 (1.80%) XenDesktop
6 1 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (18.92%) WSUS
2 19 (17.12%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (7.21%) Ansible
3 8 (7.21%) vCenter Server
4 6 (5.41%) Kubernetes
4 6 (5.41%) SCCM
5 5 (4.50%) Prometheus
5 5 (4.50%) Terraform
6 4 (3.60%) Puppet
7 2 (1.80%) FortiGate
7 2 (1.80%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.90%) Consul
8 1 (0.90%) Kibana
8 1 (0.90%) Packer
Vendors
1 40 (36.04%) Microsoft
2 32 (28.83%) Cisco
3 22 (19.82%) VMware
4 15 (13.51%) Citrix
5 12 (10.81%) Meraki
6 8 (7.21%) Veeam
7 7 (6.31%) Fortinet
7 7 (6.31%) Sophos
8 6 (5.41%) Aderant
8 6 (5.41%) iManage
8 6 (5.41%) NetApp
8 6 (5.41%) ServiceNow
8 6 (5.41%) SolarWinds
9 5 (4.50%) HP
9 5 (4.50%) Palo Alto
10 4 (3.60%) Red Hat
10 4 (3.60%) SolidFire
11 3 (2.70%) Apple
12 2 (1.80%) Dell
12 2 (1.80%) Google