VPN Jobs in the UK excluding London

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 211 224 230
Rank change year-on-year +13 +6 -28
Permanent jobs citing VPN 963 980 1,108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.37% 1.59% 1.57%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.86% 8.87% 10.14%
Number of salaries quoted 777 744 967
10th Percentile £25,500 £25,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,000 £32,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - -
75th Percentile £54,500 £55,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £66,250 £72,500 £70,000
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 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 UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 9,766 11,047 10,929
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.94% 17.88% 15.48%
Number of salaries quoted 7,096 4,889 6,514
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £26,600
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,750 £32,638
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £73,750
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +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

VPN
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 27 April 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 27 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
South East +25 273 £46,500 +14.81% 57
North of England +37 234 £40,000 -11.11% 52
Midlands +42 167 £39,000 -13.33% 44
Yorkshire +95 122 £37,500 -28.57% 16
South West -6 112 £37,500 +1.35% 28
West Midlands +28 100 £39,750 -12.15% 28
North West -24 90 £45,000 - 30
East of England +23 88 £40,000 -19.60% 24
East Midlands +23 66 £39,000 +11.43% 16
Scotland -72 52 £50,000 -9.09% 25
Wales +1 29 £41,067 -8.74% 5
North East +8 28 £35,250 -12.96% 6
Northern Ireland +27 12 £37,500 -16.67% 5
Isle of Man - 6 £46,500 - 1
VPN
UK

VPN
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
1 179 (18.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 140 (14.54%) SharePoint
3 51 (5.30%) Apache
4 28 (2.91%) Exchange Server 2010
5 25 (2.60%) IIS
6 7 (0.73%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.62%) Exchange Server 2007
7 6 (0.62%) Exchange Server 2013
8 5 (0.52%) Confluence
8 5 (0.52%) nginx
8 5 (0.52%) SAS
9 4 (0.42%) WordPress
10 2 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2003
10 2 (0.21%) Resin
11 1 (0.10%) WebSphere
Applications
1 150 (15.58%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.52%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.21%) Trello
6 1 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.42%) Sage 200
2 2 (0.21%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 464 (48.18%) Azure
2 438 (45.48%) Microsoft 365
3 140 (14.54%) Entra ID
4 127 (13.19%) AWS
5 67 (6.96%) OneDrive
6 61 (6.33%) Amazon S3
6 61 (6.33%) IaaS
7 53 (5.50%) GCP
8 46 (4.78%) PaaS
9 31 (3.22%) SaaS
10 27 (2.80%) Mimecast
11 23 (2.39%) Azure Monitor
12 21 (2.18%) Cloud Computing
13 17 (1.77%) Azure DevOps
14 16 (1.66%) Amazon EC2
14 16 (1.66%) GitHub
15 15 (1.56%) Google Workspace
16 14 (1.45%) Azure Sentinel
17 11 (1.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 9 (0.93%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 634 (65.84%) Firewall
2 312 (32.40%) DNS
3 298 (30.94%) WAN
4 284 (29.49%) LAN
5 248 (25.75%) DHCP
6 206 (21.39%) TCP/IP
7 200 (20.77%) VLAN
8 141 (14.64%) Network Security
9 130 (13.50%) Wi-Fi
10 121 (12.56%) IPsec
11 115 (11.94%) Wireless
12 93 (9.66%) Internet
13 90 (9.35%) VoIP
14 80 (8.31%) SAN
15 69 (7.17%) OSPF
16 67 (6.96%) BGP
16 67 (6.96%) SD-WAN
17 54 (5.61%) SSL
18 53 (5.50%) SNMP
19 51 (5.30%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (7.48%) SQL Server
2 55 (5.71%) Elasticsearch
3 51 (5.30%) MongoDB
4 43 (4.47%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (1.66%) NoSQL
6 13 (1.35%) MySQL
7 8 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (0.73%) Power BI
8 7 (0.73%) Redis
9 6 (0.62%) BigQuery
9 6 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (0.52%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.21%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.21%) Looker
11 2 (0.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.21%) SQLPlus
12 1 (0.10%) Big Data
12 1 (0.10%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.10%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 19 (1.97%) JIRA
2 17 (1.77%) Git
3 15 (1.56%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.04%) Trac
5 2 (0.21%) GitLab
5 2 (0.21%) Spinnaker
5 2 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.10%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.10%) Selenium
6 1 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 269 (27.93%) Social Skills
2 125 (12.98%) Finance
3 78 (8.10%) Telecoms
4 70 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (2.49%) Manufacturing
6 23 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 23 (2.39%) Retail
7 20 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
8 19 (1.97%) Law
9 17 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
10 16 (1.66%) Legal
11 14 (1.45%) German Language
12 12 (1.25%) Back Office
13 11 (1.14%) Games
13 11 (1.14%) Public Sector
14 10 (1.04%) Local Government
15 6 (0.62%) Italian Language
15 6 (0.62%) Portuguese Language
15 6 (0.62%) Spanish Language
15 6 (0.62%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 149 (15.47%) Network Engineer
2 144 (14.95%) IT Support
3 138 (14.33%) Support Engineer
4 132 (13.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 130 (13.50%) IT Engineer
6 112 (11.63%) Analyst
7 103 (10.70%) Senior
8 72 (7.48%) IT Support Engineer
9 61 (6.33%) Consultant
10 54 (5.61%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 49 (5.09%) NetApp Consultant
12 47 (4.88%) Architect
13 46 (4.78%) IT Analyst
14 43 (4.47%) 3rd Line Support
15 40 (4.15%) IT Manager
16 38 (3.95%) Service Analyst
16 38 (3.95%) Service Desk Analyst
17 37 (3.84%) Support Analyst
18 34 (3.53%) IT Technician
18 34 (3.53%) Network Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (6.54%) YAML
2 49 (5.09%) RabbitMQ
3 18 (1.87%) JSON
4 17 (1.77%) 802.1X
5 11 (1.14%) ARM Templates
6 8 (0.83%) Web Services
7 6 (0.62%) .NET
7 6 (0.62%) LAMP
7 6 (0.62%) Node.js
7 6 (0.62%) React
7 6 (0.62%) RESTful
8 5 (0.52%) Middleware
9 4 (0.42%) Azure Blueprints
9 4 (0.42%) CSS
9 4 (0.42%) GraphQL
9 4 (0.42%) HTML
9 4 (0.42%) Knex.js
9 4 (0.42%) LDAP
9 4 (0.42%) LEMP Stack
9 4 (0.42%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 166 (17.24%) Data Centre
2 74 (7.68%) Driving Licence
3 54 (5.61%) Replication
4 39 (4.05%) Public Cloud
5 36 (3.74%) Management Information System
6 34 (3.53%) Onboarding
7 23 (2.39%) Clustering
8 22 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
9 20 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
10 16 (1.66%) PKI
10 16 (1.66%) Product Ownership
11 12 (1.25%) Security Operations Centre
12 11 (1.14%) Private Cloud
13 9 (0.93%) Cloud Native
14 8 (0.83%) Client/Server
14 8 (0.83%) iPad
15 7 (0.73%) IoT
15 7 (0.73%) Mobile App
15 7 (0.73%) PMI
15 7 (0.73%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 578 (60.02%) Windows
2 329 (34.16%) Windows Server
3 196 (20.35%) Linux
4 107 (11.11%) Windows 10
5 69 (7.17%) Windows Server 2019
6 58 (6.02%) Windows Server 2016
7 49 (5.09%) Data ONTAP
8 48 (4.98%) Windows Server 2012
9 40 (4.15%) Apple iOS
10 33 (3.43%) Android
11 31 (3.22%) Mac OS
12 19 (1.97%) Windows 7
13 18 (1.87%) Windows Server 2008
14 13 (1.35%) Ubuntu
14 13 (1.35%) Unix
15 10 (1.04%) VMS
15 10 (1.04%) Windows 8
16 8 (0.83%) Mac OS X
16 8 (0.83%) Windows Server 2003
17 6 (0.62%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (23.47%) Problem-Solving
2 187 (19.42%) Customer Service
3 160 (16.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 130 (13.50%) ITIL
5 106 (11.01%) Cybersecurity
6 100 (10.38%) Project Management
7 81 (8.41%) Service Delivery
8 80 (8.31%) DevOps
9 79 (8.20%) Disaster Recovery
10 78 (8.10%) Project Delivery
11 73 (7.58%) Actionable Insight
12 67 (6.96%) Mentoring
12 67 (6.96%) Service Management
13 66 (6.85%) Computer Science
14 65 (6.75%) Migration
15 64 (6.65%) Infrastructure Management
16 61 (6.33%) Customer Experience
17 57 (5.92%) Release Management
18 56 (5.82%) Storage Management
19 54 (5.61%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 142 (14.75%) PowerShell
2 97 (10.07%) Python
3 82 (8.52%) SQL
4 22 (2.28%) Bash
5 8 (0.83%) C#
6 6 (0.62%) Java
6 6 (0.62%) Shell Script
7 5 (0.52%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.42%) JSX
8 4 (0.42%) R
8 4 (0.42%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.31%) Groovy
9 3 (0.31%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.10%) C
10 1 (0.10%) C++
10 1 (0.10%) Korn
10 1 (0.10%) PHP
10 1 (0.10%) Ruby
10 1 (0.10%) VBA
Qualifications
1 153 (15.89%) Cisco Certification
2 123 (12.77%) Degree
3 100 (10.38%) CCNA
4 96 (9.97%) Security Cleared
5 89 (9.24%) CCNP
6 75 (7.79%) SC Cleared
7 70 (7.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 42 (4.36%) Azure Certification
9 36 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
10 33 (3.43%) CISSP
11 32 (3.32%) MCSE
12 22 (2.28%) CCIE
13 21 (2.18%) MCSA
14 19 (1.97%) A+ Certification
15 16 (1.66%) MCP
16 15 (1.56%) JNCIA
17 13 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
18 12 (1.25%) ITIL Certification
19 11 (1.14%) AWS Certification
20 9 (0.93%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (9.76%) SLA
2 31 (3.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 28 (2.91%) GDPR
4 23 (2.39%) NIST
5 14 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (0.73%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (0.52%) QA
8 5 (0.52%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.42%) ISO 22301
10 3 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.21%) GRC
11 2 (0.21%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.21%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.10%) COBIT
12 1 (0.10%) FISMA
12 1 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 1 (0.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.10%) SOC 3
System Software
1 425 (44.13%) Active Directory
2 250 (25.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 204 (21.18%) Hyper-V
4 78 (8.10%) Docker
5 70 (7.27%) Virtual Machines
6 54 (5.61%) vSphere
7 42 (4.36%) VMware ESXi
8 23 (2.39%) Virtual Desktop
9 20 (2.08%) pfSense
10 19 (1.97%) VMware NSX
11 13 (1.35%) Firmware
12 11 (1.14%) NFS
12 11 (1.14%) Virtual Servers
13 7 (0.73%) Terminal Services
14 5 (0.52%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 4 (0.42%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.42%) vCloud
15 4 (0.42%) XenDesktop
16 3 (0.31%) Terminal Server
17 2 (0.21%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 156 (16.20%) Microsoft Intune
2 94 (9.76%) Ansible
3 74 (7.68%) Kubernetes
4 61 (6.33%) Terraform
5 58 (6.02%) SCCM
6 57 (5.92%) vCenter Server
7 56 (5.82%) Prometheus
8 36 (3.74%) FortiGate
9 33 (3.43%) WSUS
10 25 (2.60%) Grafana
10 25 (2.60%) ZABBIX
11 21 (2.18%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 18 (1.87%) Jamf Pro
13 16 (1.66%) SCDPM
14 15 (1.56%) Autotask
14 15 (1.56%) Failover Clustering
15 11 (1.14%) SCOM
15 11 (1.14%) SmoothWall
16 7 (0.73%) Microsoft Clustering
16 7 (0.73%) Puppet
Vendors
1 445 (46.21%) Microsoft
2 344 (35.72%) VMware
3 258 (26.79%) Cisco
4 108 (11.21%) Veeam
5 106 (11.01%) Palo Alto
6 93 (9.66%) Juniper
7 86 (8.93%) Meraki
8 69 (7.17%) Citrix
9 66 (6.85%) NetApp
10 58 (6.02%) Red Hat
11 49 (5.09%) Fortinet
11 49 (5.09%) SolidFire
12 38 (3.95%) Apple
12 38 (3.95%) HP
12 38 (3.95%) Sophos
13 34 (3.53%) Aruba
13 34 (3.53%) F5
14 33 (3.43%) Dell
15 30 (3.12%) SolarWinds
16 29 (3.01%) Google