VPN Jobs in the UK excluding London

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 202 191 260
Rank change year-on-year -11 +69 -66
Permanent jobs citing VPN 823 930 1,078
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.26% 1.93% 1.38%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.23% 10.26% 9.54%
Number of salaries quoted 607 702 960
10th Percentile £26,150 £28,250 £25,988
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,500 £30,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £41,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +8.43% -2.35%
75th Percentile £53,750 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £77,500 £67,500
UK median annual salary £46,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -7.00% +5.26% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 8,042 9,068 11,294
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.32% 18.83% 14.42%
Number of salaries quoted 5,374 4,409 6,985
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £49,000 £51,573 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.99% -1.77% +5.00%

VPN
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing VPN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for VPN in the UK excluding London

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Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VPN in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for VPN in the UK excluding London

VPN
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing VPN in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for VPN in the UK excluding London

VPN
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the UK excluding London 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
South East -16 243 £47,500 +4.40% 55
North of England -6 188 £38,000 -25.85% 39
Midlands +10 157 £40,000 -4.19% 31
South West -10 96 £34,500 -15.85% 22
Yorkshire +43 92 £37,500 -6.25% 13
North West -18 86 £45,000 -22.41% 19
West Midlands -11 83 £41,250 -8.33% 21
East Midlands +21 73 £40,000 +16.79% 10
East of England -12 63 £42,500 -15.00% 12
Scotland -51 51 £50,000 -33.33% 13
Wales -11 22 £41,067 +26.36% 3
North East -8 16 £34,000 -18.81% 8
Northern Ireland +17 11 £37,500 -37.50% 2
Isle of Man - 4 £46,500 -
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 151 (18.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 108 (13.12%) SharePoint
3 50 (6.08%) Apache
4 24 (2.92%) Exchange Server 2010
5 20 (2.43%) IIS
6 5 (0.61%) nginx
6 5 (0.61%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.61%) SAS
7 4 (0.49%) Exchange Server 2007
7 4 (0.49%) Exchange Server 2013
7 4 (0.49%) WordPress
8 3 (0.36%) Confluence
9 2 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.24%) Resin
10 1 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
10 1 (0.12%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 122 (14.82%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.85%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.24%) Trello
7 1 (0.12%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 4 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.49%) PeopleSoft HCM
1 4 (0.49%) Sage 200
2 2 (0.24%) Shopify
3 1 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 368 (44.71%) Azure
2 327 (39.73%) Microsoft 365
3 104 (12.64%) Entra ID
4 102 (12.39%) AWS
5 54 (6.56%) Amazon S3
6 47 (5.71%) OneDrive
7 44 (5.35%) IaaS
8 41 (4.98%) GCP
9 37 (4.50%) Cloud Computing
10 31 (3.77%) PaaS
11 23 (2.79%) SaaS
12 22 (2.67%) Azure Monitor
13 15 (1.82%) Mimecast
14 14 (1.70%) GitHub
15 13 (1.58%) Power Platform
16 12 (1.46%) Azure Sentinel
17 11 (1.34%) Google Workspace
18 9 (1.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 9 (1.09%) WhatsApp
19 8 (0.97%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 533 (64.76%) Firewall
2 257 (31.23%) WAN
3 245 (29.77%) DNS
4 240 (29.16%) LAN
5 187 (22.72%) TCP/IP
6 181 (21.99%) DHCP
7 175 (21.26%) VLAN
8 147 (17.86%) Network Security
9 130 (15.80%) IPsec
10 106 (12.88%) Wi-Fi
11 102 (12.39%) Wireless
12 76 (9.23%) Internet
13 69 (8.38%) OSPF
14 68 (8.26%) BGP
15 67 (8.14%) SAN
16 60 (7.29%) SD-WAN
17 59 (7.17%) VoIP
18 53 (6.44%) SNMP
18 53 (6.44%) SSL
19 51 (6.20%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (6.68%) SQL Server
2 54 (6.56%) Elasticsearch
3 50 (6.08%) MongoDB
4 24 (2.92%) Amazon RDS
5 14 (1.70%) NoSQL
6 12 (1.46%) Power BI
7 9 (1.09%) MySQL
8 7 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (0.85%) Redis
9 3 (0.36%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.24%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.24%) Looker
10 2 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.12%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.12%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.12%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 22 (2.67%) JIRA
2 21 (2.55%) Git
3 13 (1.58%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.09%) Trac
5 5 (0.61%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.12%) Selenium
6 1 (0.12%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 235 (28.55%) Social Skills
2 109 (13.24%) Finance
3 94 (11.42%) Telecoms
4 64 (7.78%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (3.40%) Manufacturing
6 25 (3.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 24 (2.92%) Retail
8 19 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
9 17 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
10 14 (1.70%) Law
11 9 (1.09%) Legal
11 9 (1.09%) Local Government
12 8 (0.97%) Public Sector
13 6 (0.73%) Marketing
13 6 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.61%) Games
15 4 (0.49%) Advertising
15 4 (0.49%) Agriculture
15 4 (0.49%) Back Office
15 4 (0.49%) Police
Job Titles
1 161 (19.56%) Network Engineer
2 106 (12.88%) Support Engineer
3 99 (12.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 91 (11.06%) IT Engineer
5 88 (10.69%) IT Support
6 77 (9.36%) Senior
7 73 (8.87%) Analyst
8 60 (7.29%) Consultant
9 49 (5.95%) NetApp Consultant
10 48 (5.83%) IT Support Engineer
11 39 (4.74%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 39 (4.74%) Service Analyst
12 37 (4.50%) Service Desk Analyst
13 36 (4.37%) IT Manager
14 35 (4.25%) IT Technician
15 31 (3.77%) 2nd Line Engineer
16 30 (3.65%) Architect
16 30 (3.65%) IT Analyst
16 30 (3.65%) Network Manager
17 26 (3.16%) Project Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (6.93%) YAML
2 49 (5.95%) RabbitMQ
3 20 (2.43%) 802.1X
4 12 (1.46%) Web Services
5 10 (1.22%) JSON
6 7 (0.85%) CSS
6 7 (0.85%) HTML
7 6 (0.73%) React
7 6 (0.73%) SOAP
8 5 (0.61%) Middleware
8 5 (0.61%) Node.js
8 5 (0.61%) RESTful
9 4 (0.49%) Azure Blueprints
9 4 (0.49%) GraphQL
9 4 (0.49%) Knex.js
9 4 (0.49%) LAMP
9 4 (0.49%) LDAP
9 4 (0.49%) LEMP Stack
9 4 (0.49%) Oracle Fusion
9 4 (0.49%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 148 (17.98%) Data Centre
2 62 (7.53%) Driving Licence
3 38 (4.62%) Management Information System
4 35 (4.25%) Replication
5 25 (3.04%) Clustering
6 23 (2.79%) Onboarding
7 21 (2.55%) Public Cloud
8 20 (2.43%) Self-Motivation
9 16 (1.94%) Product Ownership
10 14 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
11 13 (1.58%) PKI
12 11 (1.34%) Video Conferencing
13 10 (1.22%) Smartphone
14 9 (1.09%) Security Posture
15 8 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
16 7 (0.85%) Algorithms
16 7 (0.85%) PMI
16 7 (0.85%) Security Operations Centre
17 6 (0.73%) Blackberry
17 6 (0.73%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 453 (55.04%) Windows
2 234 (28.43%) Windows Server
3 162 (19.68%) Linux
4 102 (12.39%) Windows 10
5 49 (5.95%) Data ONTAP
6 48 (5.83%) Windows Server 2019
7 40 (4.86%) Windows Server 2016
8 35 (4.25%) Windows Server 2012
9 34 (4.13%) Android
10 33 (4.01%) Apple iOS
11 25 (3.04%) Mac OS
12 14 (1.70%) Windows Server 2008
13 12 (1.46%) Ubuntu
14 10 (1.22%) Windows 7
15 8 (0.97%) VMS
16 6 (0.73%) Mac OS X
17 5 (0.61%) Debian
17 5 (0.61%) Kali Linux
17 5 (0.61%) Unix
18 4 (0.49%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (25.27%) Problem-Solving
2 169 (20.53%) Customer Service
3 121 (14.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 106 (12.88%) ITIL
5 87 (10.57%) Project Management
6 85 (10.33%) Cybersecurity
7 77 (9.36%) Computer Science
8 67 (8.14%) Actionable Insight
9 61 (7.41%) Infrastructure Management
10 58 (7.05%) Project Delivery
11 57 (6.93%) Service Delivery
12 55 (6.68%) Disaster Recovery
12 55 (6.68%) Mentoring
13 54 (6.56%) Patch Management
14 53 (6.44%) Release Management
15 52 (6.32%) Storage Management
16 51 (6.20%) Kalman Filter
16 51 (6.20%) Project Planning
17 50 (6.08%) DevOps
17 50 (6.08%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 117 (14.22%) PowerShell
2 93 (11.30%) Python
3 54 (6.56%) SQL
4 13 (1.58%) Bash
5 11 (1.34%) JavaScript
6 9 (1.09%) C#
7 6 (0.73%) Java
8 5 (0.61%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.49%) JSX
9 4 (0.49%) R
9 4 (0.49%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.24%) Go
10 2 (0.24%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.24%) VBScript
11 1 (0.12%) C
11 1 (0.12%) C++
11 1 (0.12%) Korn
11 1 (0.12%) PHP
11 1 (0.12%) VBA
Qualifications
1 162 (19.68%) Cisco Certification
2 123 (14.95%) Degree
3 111 (13.49%) CCNA
4 95 (11.54%) Security Cleared
5 93 (11.30%) CCNP
6 67 (8.14%) SC Cleared
7 60 (7.29%) Microsoft Certification
8 40 (4.86%) Computer Science Degree
9 38 (4.62%) CISSP
10 35 (4.25%) Azure Certification
11 24 (2.92%) MCSE
12 22 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
12 22 (2.67%) DV Cleared
13 21 (2.55%) CCIE
14 18 (2.19%) JNCIA
14 18 (2.19%) MCP
15 16 (1.94%) MCSA
16 14 (1.70%) ITIL Certification
17 12 (1.46%) CISM
18 10 (1.22%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (7.05%) SLA
2 31 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 28 (3.40%) GDPR
4 21 (2.55%) NIST
5 19 (2.31%) Cyber Essentials
6 10 (1.22%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (0.36%) GRC
9 3 (0.36%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.24%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.24%) FedRAMP
10 2 (0.24%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.12%) COBIT
11 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.12%) ISO 31000
11 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (0.12%) NCSC
11 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.12%) QA
System Software
1 326 (39.61%) Active Directory
2 205 (24.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 137 (16.65%) Hyper-V
4 65 (7.90%) Docker
5 52 (6.32%) Virtual Machines
6 26 (3.16%) vSphere
7 25 (3.04%) VMware ESXi
8 19 (2.31%) VMware NSX
9 18 (2.19%) pfSense
10 10 (1.22%) Virtual Servers
11 9 (1.09%) NFS
11 9 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
12 6 (0.73%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 5 (0.61%) Terminal Server
14 4 (0.49%) Firmware
14 4 (0.49%) vCloud
15 2 (0.24%) XenDesktop
16 1 (0.12%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 128 (15.55%) Microsoft Intune
2 84 (10.21%) Ansible
3 57 (6.93%) Kubernetes
4 56 (6.80%) vCenter Server
5 54 (6.56%) Prometheus
6 51 (6.20%) SCCM
7 43 (5.22%) Terraform
8 32 (3.89%) WSUS
9 29 (3.52%) FortiGate
10 24 (2.92%) ZABBIX
11 20 (2.43%) Grafana
12 16 (1.94%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 15 (1.82%) Jamf Pro
13 15 (1.82%) SCDPM
14 13 (1.58%) Autotask
14 13 (1.58%) Microsoft Clustering
15 11 (1.34%) Failover Clustering
16 9 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
16 9 (1.09%) SmoothWall
17 7 (0.85%) SCOM
Vendors
1 400 (48.60%) Microsoft
2 279 (33.90%) VMware
3 233 (28.31%) Cisco
4 110 (13.37%) Palo Alto
5 90 (10.94%) Juniper
6 84 (10.21%) Veeam
7 70 (8.51%) Meraki
8 64 (7.78%) NetApp
9 58 (7.05%) Red Hat
10 50 (6.08%) Fortinet
11 49 (5.95%) SolidFire
12 38 (4.62%) Citrix
13 35 (4.25%) HP
14 28 (3.40%) Apple
14 28 (3.40%) Dell
15 25 (3.04%) Sophos
16 24 (2.92%) Aruba
17 22 (2.67%) SolarWinds
18 19 (2.31%) CheckPoint
18 19 (2.31%) Google