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 21 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 209 231
Rank change year-on-year +99 +22 +2
Permanent jobs citing VPN 917 954 987
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.51% 1.38% 1.58%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.22% 9.81% 8.90%
Number of salaries quoted 390 778 755
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,500 £25,415
25th Percentile £31,500 £31,000 £31,934
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% -
75th Percentile £62,000 £53,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £72,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £46,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.53% -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 5,655 9,723 11,094
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.48% 14.03% 17.75%
Number of salaries quoted 3,014 7,120 4,967
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £43,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.30% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £73,845 £68,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year - -6.86% -2.86%

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 21 April 2025.

Salary histogram for VPN in the UK excluding London

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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 21 April 2025. 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
North of England +119 493 £40,000 - 87
North West +141 424 £34,000 -24.44% 40
South East +30 154 £55,000 +18.28% 132
Midlands +8 88 £40,000 +2.56% 68
East of England +56 83 £37,500 -3.23% 67
South West +85 80 £47,500 +26.67% 40
Yorkshire +24 55 £43,600 +16.27% 40
West Midlands -10 49 £37,500 -5.66% 38
East Midlands +39 39 £40,000 +2.56% 28
Scotland +97 20 £40,000 -20.00% 16
North East +33 14 £36,250 +3.57% 8
Northern Ireland +32 4 - - 13
Wales +25 3 £48,117 +17.17% 7
Isle of Man +10 2 £34,500 -25.81% 2
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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 77 (8.40%) SharePoint
2 72 (7.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 21 (2.29%) IIS
4 6 (0.65%) Confluence
5 2 (0.22%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.22%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.22%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.11%) Office Communications Server
6 1 (0.11%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (0.11%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 47 (5.13%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.98%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.22%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (0.87%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.33%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.22%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 184 (20.07%) Microsoft 365
2 183 (19.96%) Azure
3 77 (8.40%) AWS
4 74 (8.07%) Entra ID
5 31 (3.38%) OneDrive
6 25 (2.73%) SaaS
7 15 (1.64%) GitHub
8 14 (1.53%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (1.53%) GCP
9 12 (1.31%) Azure Sentinel
9 12 (1.31%) IaaS
10 11 (1.20%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 11 (1.20%) Mimecast
11 10 (1.09%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (0.98%) Microsoft Purview
13 8 (0.87%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (0.76%) Power Platform
15 6 (0.65%) Azure Key Vault
15 6 (0.65%) Nutanix
15 6 (0.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 567 (61.83%) DNS
2 308 (33.59%) Firewall
3 178 (19.41%) TCP/IP
4 161 (17.56%) WAN
5 156 (17.01%) LAN
6 121 (13.20%) DHCP
7 97 (10.58%) VLAN
8 96 (10.47%) Network Security
9 62 (6.76%) Wi-Fi
10 47 (5.13%) BGP
11 43 (4.69%) OSPF
12 42 (4.58%) IPsec
12 42 (4.58%) SD-WAN
13 41 (4.47%) MPLS
14 39 (4.25%) Wireless
15 35 (3.82%) Cisco Firepower
16 33 (3.60%) VoIP
17 27 (2.94%) SAN
18 22 (2.40%) Intrusion Detection
19 20 (2.18%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (4.36%) SQL Server
2 15 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (0.65%) Relational Database
4 5 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (0.55%) Power BI
5 4 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.44%) Metabase
5 4 (0.44%) MySQL
6 3 (0.33%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.22%) Big Data
7 2 (0.22%) Data Mining
7 2 (0.22%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 63 (6.87%) Robot Framework
2 62 (6.76%) Cucumber
3 13 (1.42%) JIRA
4 10 (1.09%) Git
4 10 (1.09%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
5 7 (0.76%) GitLab
6 4 (0.44%) Spinnaker
7 2 (0.22%) Apache Archiva
7 2 (0.22%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.22%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.22%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.11%) TeamCity
General
1 475 (51.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 437 (47.66%) Analytical Skills
3 427 (46.56%) Finance
4 203 (22.14%) Social Skills
5 76 (8.29%) Telecoms
6 18 (1.96%) Retail
7 17 (1.85%) Manufacturing
8 11 (1.20%) Public Sector
9 9 (0.98%) Local Government
10 7 (0.76%) Banking
10 7 (0.76%) Electronics
10 7 (0.76%) Law
10 7 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (0.65%) Legal
12 5 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (0.55%) Police
13 4 (0.44%) Automotive
13 4 (0.44%) Back Office
14 3 (0.33%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 391 (42.64%) Developer
1 391 (42.64%) Software Developer
2 87 (9.49%) Network Engineer
3 73 (7.96%) IT Support
4 62 (6.76%) Senior
4 62 (6.76%) Test Automation Engineer
4 62 (6.76%) Test Engineer
5 58 (6.32%) Support Engineer
6 51 (5.56%) Analyst
7 38 (4.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 38 (4.14%) IT Engineer
7 38 (4.14%) Lead
8 35 (3.82%) Cloud Engineer
9 33 (3.60%) 2nd Line Support
10 32 (3.49%) Security Engineer
11 29 (3.16%) Support Analyst
12 28 (3.05%) IT Analyst
13 26 (2.84%) IT Support Analyst
13 26 (2.84%) IT Technician
14 19 (2.07%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.42%) LDAP
2 11 (1.20%) YAML
3 8 (0.87%) 802.1X
4 5 (0.55%) XMPP
5 4 (0.44%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (0.44%) HTML
5 4 (0.44%) JSON
5 4 (0.44%) SOAP
5 4 (0.44%) XML
5 4 (0.44%) XSLT
6 2 (0.22%) Middleware
6 2 (0.22%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.11%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.11%) Jinja
7 1 (0.11%) Kafka
7 1 (0.11%) OpenConfig
7 1 (0.11%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 391 (42.64%) Cyberattack
2 70 (7.63%) Linux Command Line
3 51 (5.56%) Data Centre
4 42 (4.58%) Driving Licence
5 18 (1.96%) Onboarding
6 17 (1.85%) Management Information System
6 17 (1.85%) Security Posture
7 15 (1.64%) Cyber Threat
7 15 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (1.53%) Clustering
8 14 (1.53%) Replication
9 12 (1.31%) Security Operations Centre
10 8 (0.87%) PKI
11 7 (0.76%) CCTV
11 7 (0.76%) Client/Server
11 7 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (0.76%) Operational Technology
12 6 (0.65%) IoT
12 6 (0.65%) Public Cloud
13 5 (0.55%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 535 (58.34%) Linux
2 405 (44.17%) Android
3 307 (33.48%) Windows
4 156 (17.01%) Windows Server
5 41 (4.47%) Windows 10
6 37 (4.03%) Windows Server 2016
7 23 (2.51%) Windows Server 2019
8 22 (2.40%) Mac OS
9 8 (0.87%) Apple iOS
9 8 (0.87%) VMS
10 5 (0.55%) CentOS
10 5 (0.55%) Unix
11 4 (0.44%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.22%) Debian
12 2 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (0.22%) Rocky
12 2 (0.22%) Solaris
12 2 (0.22%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 409 (44.60%) Agile
2 403 (43.95%) Line Management
3 393 (42.86%) Design Patterns
4 391 (42.64%) Android Development
4 391 (42.64%) Mathematics
4 391 (42.64%) OO
4 391 (42.64%) OOP
5 192 (20.94%) Problem-Solving
6 107 (11.67%) Mentoring
7 98 (10.69%) DevOps
8 73 (7.96%) Coaching
9 71 (7.74%) ITIL
10 68 (7.42%) Disaster Recovery
11 65 (7.09%) Test Automation
12 63 (6.87%) System Testing
13 62 (6.76%) Customer Service
13 62 (6.76%) Test Management
14 61 (6.65%) Cybersecurity
15 46 (5.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 40 (4.36%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 500 (54.53%) Python
2 401 (43.73%) C++
3 393 (42.86%) Java
4 391 (42.64%) Go
5 141 (15.38%) PowerShell
6 87 (9.49%) Bash
7 68 (7.42%) JavaScript
8 43 (4.69%) SQL
9 10 (1.09%) Perl
10 6 (0.65%) Bicep
11 4 (0.44%) C
11 4 (0.44%) Jython
11 4 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.33%) R
13 1 (0.11%) Scala
Qualifications
1 488 (53.22%) Security Cleared
2 420 (45.80%) DV Cleared
3 115 (12.54%) Degree
4 74 (8.07%) Cisco Certification
5 59 (6.43%) SC Cleared
6 52 (5.67%) CCNA
6 52 (5.67%) CCNP
7 41 (4.47%) Microsoft Certification
8 31 (3.38%) A+ Certification
9 26 (2.84%) CISM
9 26 (2.84%) CISSP
10 21 (2.29%) JNCIS
11 19 (2.07%) Network+ Certification
12 16 (1.74%) Azure Certification
13 12 (1.31%) MCP
14 11 (1.20%) CompTIA Security+
15 10 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
15 10 (1.09%) MCSA
16 9 (0.98%) JNCIA
17 7 (0.76%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (7.09%) QA
2 30 (3.27%) NIST
3 26 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (2.40%) Cyber Essentials
5 21 (2.29%) SLA
6 18 (1.96%) PCI DSS
7 17 (1.85%) GDPR
7 17 (1.85%) NCSC
8 13 (1.42%) Accessibility
9 6 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 6 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.44%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.33%) GRC
11 3 (0.33%) JSP 440
12 2 (0.22%) COBIT
12 2 (0.22%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.11%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 400 (43.62%) Docker
2 171 (18.65%) Active Directory
3 88 (9.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 82 (8.94%) Hyper-V
5 26 (2.84%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (1.31%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (0.98%) vSphere
8 7 (0.76%) Firmware
9 6 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.44%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.33%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.33%) KVM
11 3 (0.33%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.22%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.22%) NFS
12 2 (0.22%) SRDF
12 2 (0.22%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 2 (0.22%) Xen
13 1 (0.11%) ISA Server
13 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 443 (48.31%) Ansible
2 60 (6.54%) Microsoft Intune
3 32 (3.49%) Terraform
4 20 (2.18%) FortiGate
5 15 (1.64%) Kubernetes
6 13 (1.42%) SCCM
7 10 (1.09%) QRadar
8 9 (0.98%) Puppet
9 8 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.65%) Prometheus
11 5 (0.55%) Dell DRAC
11 5 (0.55%) Failover Clustering
11 5 (0.55%) Jamf Pro
11 5 (0.55%) Microsoft Clustering
12 4 (0.44%) Autotask
12 4 (0.44%) Grafana
12 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 4 (0.44%) Nessus
12 4 (0.44%) Proxmox
12 4 (0.44%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 225 (24.54%) Microsoft
2 126 (13.74%) Cisco
3 106 (11.56%) VMware
4 36 (3.93%) Juniper
5 34 (3.71%) Fortinet
6 27 (2.94%) Citrix
7 24 (2.62%) F5
7 24 (2.62%) Palo Alto
8 21 (2.29%) Veeam
9 19 (2.07%) ServiceNow
10 18 (1.96%) CheckPoint
10 18 (1.96%) SolarWinds
11 15 (1.64%) HP
12 14 (1.53%) Apple
12 14 (1.53%) Meraki
13 10 (1.09%) Dell
13 10 (1.09%) Google
13 10 (1.09%) Splunk
14 8 (0.87%) Sophos
15 7 (0.76%) Oracle