VPN Job Trends in Surrey

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring VPN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 83 99
Rank change year-on-year -9 +16 -25
Permanent jobs citing VPN 31 13 29
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 1.30% 1.11% 1.57%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.11% 7.93% 6.47%
Number of salaries quoted 28 13 20
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £50,000 £34,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £58,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.80% +30.00% +5.88%
75th Percentile £62,500 £105,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £67,875 - -
South East median annual salary £47,500 £46,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +3.26% -3.16% +4.40%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 279 164 448
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 11.66% 14.03% 24.24%
Number of salaries quoted 185 136 137
10th Percentile £30,200 £25,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £30,500 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £37,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% -28.57% +1.45%
75th Percentile £67,500 £43,750 £61,500
90th Percentile £82,000 £63,125 £65,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £41,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.46% -17.00% -

VPN
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

VPN job vacancy trend in Surrey

VPN
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing VPN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing VPN

VPN
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing VPN in Surrey over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Salary histogram for VPN in Surrey

VPN
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 13 September 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
Guildford - 6 £60,000 - 10
Staines - 6 £46,250 -
Redhill +7 4 £45,000 -10.00% 4
Walton-on-Thames - 3 £32,500 -
Woking -26 2 £81,000 -19.00% 2
Camberley - 2 £47,500 - 1
Egham - 2 £75,000 - 1
VPN
South East

VPN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Cloud Services
1 17 (54.84%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (35.48%) Azure
3 8 (25.81%) AWS
4 7 (22.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (22.58%) GitHub
4 7 (22.58%) GitHub Actions
4 7 (22.58%) Google Workspace
5 6 (19.35%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (12.90%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 20 (64.52%) Firewall
2 10 (32.26%) DNS
3 9 (29.03%) LAN
4 8 (25.81%) WAN
5 5 (16.13%) BGP
5 5 (16.13%) IPsec
6 4 (12.90%) Network Security
6 4 (12.90%) OSPF
6 4 (12.90%) VoIP
7 3 (9.68%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (9.68%) DHCP
7 3 (9.68%) MPLS
7 3 (9.68%) Multicast
7 3 (9.68%) TCP/IP
7 3 (9.68%) VLAN
7 3 (9.68%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (6.45%) 4G
8 2 (6.45%) 5G
8 2 (6.45%) Radio Access Network
9 1 (3.23%) SNMP
General
1 12 (38.71%) Social Skills
2 6 (19.35%) Retail
2 6 (19.35%) Telecoms
3 5 (16.13%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (22.58%) Administrator
1 7 (22.58%) DevOps Administrator
1 7 (22.58%) Systems Administrator
2 6 (19.35%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 6 (19.35%) Cloud Engineer
2 6 (19.35%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (19.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (19.35%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
2 6 (19.35%) Senior
2 6 (19.35%) Senior DevOps
2 6 (19.35%) Senior Systems Administrator
3 5 (16.13%) Network Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) 2nd Line Support
4 3 (9.68%) Lead
5 2 (6.45%) Deployment Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Integration Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) IT Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Support Team Leader
5 2 (6.45%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (22.58%) Terraform
2 4 (12.90%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.81%) Driving Licence
1 8 (25.81%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (22.58%) Private Cloud
3 6 (19.35%) Smartphone
4 2 (6.45%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.23%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.23%) PKI
5 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (38.71%) Windows
2 10 (32.26%) Linux
3 6 (19.35%) Windows 10
4 5 (16.13%) Windows Server
5 1 (3.23%) Android
5 1 (3.23%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (25.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (22.58%) AI
2 7 (22.58%) CI/CD
2 7 (22.58%) Cloud Security
2 7 (22.58%) DevOps
2 7 (22.58%) Infrastructure Automation
2 7 (22.58%) Observability
3 5 (16.13%) Analytics
3 5 (16.13%) Customer Experience
4 4 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (9.68%) Mentoring
5 3 (9.68%) Network Architecture
5 3 (9.68%) Network Design
5 3 (9.68%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (9.68%) Validation
6 2 (6.45%) Configuration Management
6 2 (6.45%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (6.45%) ITIL
6 2 (6.45%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 9 (29.03%) Python
2 6 (19.35%) Bash
2 6 (19.35%) Go
Qualifications
1 7 (22.58%) AWS Certification
2 5 (16.13%) CCNP
2 5 (16.13%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (12.90%) CCNA
3 4 (12.90%) DV Cleared
3 4 (12.90%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.23%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.23%) CompTIA CySA+
4 1 (3.23%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.23%) Degree
4 1 (3.23%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (19.35%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (12.90%) SLA
3 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.23%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (19.35%) Hyper-V
1 6 (19.35%) VMware Server
2 4 (12.90%) Active Directory
3 3 (9.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (22.58%) Ansible
1 7 (22.58%) Grafana
1 7 (22.58%) Prometheus
2 6 (19.35%) Kubernetes
2 6 (19.35%) Proxmox
3 3 (9.68%) FortiGate
3 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (3.23%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 12 (38.71%) VMware
2 11 (35.48%) Microsoft
3 7 (22.58%) Google
4 5 (16.13%) Cisco
5 4 (12.90%) Fortinet
6 2 (6.45%) Ericsson
6 2 (6.45%) Huawei
6 2 (6.45%) Nokia
6 2 (6.45%) Samsung
7 1 (3.23%) Juniper