VPN Jobs in the Thames Valley

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 161 165 177
Rank change year-on-year +4 +12 -8
Permanent jobs citing VPN 82 97 104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.22% 1.57% 1.52%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.57% 9.76% 7.65%
Number of salaries quoted 58 77 95
10th Percentile £29,750 £24,500 £32,200
25th Percentile £40,313 £31,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £53,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £71,125 £68,750 £75,000
South East median annual salary £46,500 £40,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +14.81% -14.74% +5.56%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 957 994 1,360
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.18% 16.14% 19.92%
Number of salaries quoted 686 562 751
10th Percentile £28,675 £26,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £34,500 £30,750 £35,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £59,000 £57,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £78,750
South East median annual salary £46,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -5.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing VPN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for VPN in the Thames Valley

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Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VPN in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for VPN in the Thames Valley

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Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing VPN in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for VPN in the Thames Valley

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Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Berkshire +34 42 £52,500 +50.00% 11
Buckinghamshire -30 23 £65,000 +30.00% 3
Oxfordshire +3 17 £50,000 +5.26% 4
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 27 (32.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (13.41%) Exchange Server 2010
3 8 (9.76%) SharePoint
4 6 (7.32%) Apache
5 5 (6.10%) nginx
6 4 (4.88%) IIS
6 4 (4.88%) WordPress
7 1 (1.22%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 46 (56.10%) Azure
2 38 (46.34%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (20.73%) AWS
4 16 (19.51%) Azure Monitor
5 9 (10.98%) Amazon S3
6 8 (9.76%) GCP
7 6 (7.32%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (7.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (6.10%) GitHub
9 4 (4.88%) Amazon ELB
9 4 (4.88%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (4.88%) Entra ID
9 4 (4.88%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (4.88%) OneDrive
9 4 (4.88%) Power Platform
10 3 (3.66%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 3 (3.66%) Azure Stack
10 3 (3.66%) Azure Storage
11 2 (2.44%) AWS Direct Connect
11 2 (2.44%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 53 (64.63%) Firewall
2 27 (32.93%) DNS
3 20 (24.39%) BGP
4 18 (21.95%) IPsec
5 17 (20.73%) OSPF
6 16 (19.51%) DHCP
6 16 (19.51%) Network Security
6 16 (19.51%) WAN
7 13 (15.85%) VLAN
8 12 (14.63%) LAN
9 10 (12.20%) Wireless
10 9 (10.98%) NAS
10 9 (10.98%) SAN
10 9 (10.98%) SD-WAN
10 9 (10.98%) TCP/IP
11 8 (9.76%) Internet
11 8 (9.76%) SSL
12 7 (8.54%) Cisco ASA
12 7 (8.54%) VoIP
13 6 (7.32%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.10%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (6.10%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (6.10%) MongoDB
1 5 (6.10%) MySQL
1 5 (6.10%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (6.10%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.88%) NoSQL
2 4 (4.88%) Power BI
3 3 (3.66%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.22%) InfluxDB
4 1 (1.22%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 3 (3.66%) JIRA
2 1 (1.22%) Git
General
1 21 (25.61%) Social Skills
2 6 (7.32%) Finance
3 4 (4.88%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (3.66%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.44%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.44%) Electronics
5 2 (2.44%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.22%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.22%) Games
6 1 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.22%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 18 (21.95%) Network Engineer
2 11 (13.41%) Senior
2 11 (13.41%) Support Engineer
3 9 (10.98%) Azure Engineer
4 8 (9.76%) 3rd Line Support
4 8 (9.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (9.76%) IT Support
4 8 (9.76%) Network Support
5 7 (8.54%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 6 (7.32%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (6.10%) Consultant
7 5 (6.10%) IT Engineer
7 5 (6.10%) IT Manager
7 5 (6.10%) IT Support Engineer
7 5 (6.10%) NetApp Consultant
7 5 (6.10%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) Administrator
8 4 (4.88%) Architect
8 4 (4.88%) Developer
8 4 (4.88%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.76%) 802.1X
2 5 (6.10%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (6.10%) YAML
3 4 (4.88%) Azure Blueprints
3 4 (4.88%) CSS
3 4 (4.88%) GraphQL
3 4 (4.88%) gRPC
3 4 (4.88%) HTML
3 4 (4.88%) Knex.js
3 4 (4.88%) LAMP
3 4 (4.88%) LEMP Stack
3 4 (4.88%) Node.js
3 4 (4.88%) React
3 4 (4.88%) React Native
3 4 (4.88%) RESTful
3 4 (4.88%) Sequelize
3 4 (4.88%) Web Services
4 1 (1.22%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.22%) LDAP
4 1 (1.22%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (20.73%) Data Centre
2 8 (9.76%) PKI
3 6 (7.32%) Driving Licence
3 6 (7.32%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (6.10%) IoT
4 5 (6.10%) Management Information System
4 5 (6.10%) Replication
5 4 (4.88%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (4.88%) Mobile App
5 4 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.44%) Fibre Optics
6 2 (2.44%) Molecular Biology
6 2 (2.44%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.44%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (2.44%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.22%) Clustering
7 1 (1.22%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.22%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.22%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.22%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 32 (39.02%) Windows
2 30 (36.59%) Linux
3 14 (17.07%) Windows Server
4 8 (9.76%) Windows Server 2016
4 8 (9.76%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (7.32%) VMS
6 5 (6.10%) Data ONTAP
7 4 (4.88%) Ubuntu
8 3 (3.66%) Kali Linux
8 3 (3.66%) Windows 10
8 3 (3.66%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (2.44%) Android
9 2 (2.44%) Apple iOS
9 2 (2.44%) Mac OS X
10 1 (1.22%) CentOS
10 1 (1.22%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (1.22%) Mac OS
10 1 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (17.07%) Analytics
1 14 (17.07%) Identity Management
1 14 (17.07%) Log Analytics
2 11 (13.41%) Inventory Management
3 9 (10.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (10.98%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (9.76%) Computer Science
4 8 (9.76%) Customer Service
4 8 (9.76%) DevOps
4 8 (9.76%) Project Management
5 7 (8.54%) Data Protection
5 7 (8.54%) ITIL
5 7 (8.54%) Service Delivery
6 6 (7.32%) Actionable Insight
6 6 (7.32%) Infrastructure Management
6 6 (7.32%) IT Strategy
6 6 (7.32%) Service Management
7 5 (6.10%) Project Planning
7 5 (6.10%) Release Management
7 5 (6.10%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (21.95%) PowerShell
2 17 (20.73%) Python
3 10 (12.20%) SQL
4 5 (6.10%) Bash
5 4 (4.88%) JavaScript
5 4 (4.88%) JSX
5 4 (4.88%) R
5 4 (4.88%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.22%) C
6 1 (1.22%) C++
6 1 (1.22%) Korn
6 1 (1.22%) PHP
Qualifications
1 24 (29.27%) Security Cleared
2 20 (24.39%) Degree
3 19 (23.17%) SC Cleared
4 18 (21.95%) Cisco Certification
5 10 (12.20%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (10.98%) CCNA
6 9 (10.98%) CCNP
7 8 (9.76%) Azure Certification
7 8 (9.76%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (4.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 4 (4.88%) MCSE
9 3 (3.66%) AWS Certification
9 3 (3.66%) CISSP
10 2 (2.44%) CCIE
10 2 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (2.44%) JNCIA
11 1 (1.22%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.88%) NIST
2 4 (4.88%) SLA
3 3 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 3 (3.66%) PCI DSS
3 3 (3.66%) QA
4 2 (2.44%) GDPR
System Software
1 24 (29.27%) Active Directory
2 20 (24.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (17.07%) Docker
4 12 (14.63%) Hyper-V
5 5 (6.10%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (4.88%) vSphere
7 2 (2.44%) Firmware
7 2 (2.44%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (1.22%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (1.22%) NFS
Systems Management
1 22 (26.83%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (12.20%) Ansible
2 10 (12.20%) Kubernetes
3 5 (6.10%) Prometheus
3 5 (6.10%) vCenter Server
4 4 (4.88%) SCCM
4 4 (4.88%) Terraform
5 3 (3.66%) Grafana
5 3 (3.66%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (3.66%) Suricata
6 2 (2.44%) Nessus
6 2 (2.44%) SolarWinds Orion
6 2 (2.44%) WSUS
7 1 (1.22%) Icinga
7 1 (1.22%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 32 (39.02%) Microsoft
2 31 (37.80%) VMware
3 20 (24.39%) Cisco
4 18 (21.95%) Juniper
5 14 (17.07%) Palo Alto
6 7 (8.54%) Aruba
6 7 (8.54%) Veeam
7 6 (7.32%) F5
7 6 (7.32%) Fortinet
8 5 (6.10%) NetApp
8 5 (6.10%) Red Hat
8 5 (6.10%) SolidFire
9 4 (4.88%) ProCurve
9 4 (4.88%) SolarWinds
9 4 (4.88%) Synology
9 4 (4.88%) Zerto
10 3 (3.66%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (3.66%) Dell
10 3 (3.66%) Meraki
10 3 (3.66%) Splunk