OpenVPN
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring OpenVPN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited OpenVPN over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 699 900 950
Rank change year-on-year +201 +50 +279
Permanent jobs citing OpenVPN 3 7 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% 0.007% 0.019%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.030% 0.052% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 3 7 12
10th Percentile - £64,000 £27,500
25th Percentile - £77,500 £27,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £68,854
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +16.19% +2.01%
75th Percentile £83,125 £82,500 £82,893
90th Percentile £91,000 - £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary - £47,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year - +58.33% -40.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

OpenVPN 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 10,094 13,581 15,458
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.08% 13.10% 16.14%
Number of salaries quoted 4,436 9,413 7,713
10th Percentile £23,504 £26,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £26,625 £32,500 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -5.94% -3.81%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £44,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -20.45% -2.22% -5.26%

OpenVPN
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing OpenVPN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for OpenVPN in the UK

OpenVPN
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing OpenVPN.

Salary trend for OpenVPN in the UK

OpenVPN
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing OpenVPN over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for OpenVPN in the UK

OpenVPN
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OpenVPN within the UK over the 6 months to 31 May 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
England +167 3 £70,000 -12.50% 2
Work from Home +117 3 £70,000 -12.50% 2
London +102 3 £70,000 -12.50%

OpenVPN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (33.33%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
2 2 (66.67%) Google Workspace
2 2 (66.67%) SaaS
2 2 (66.67%) Slack
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Technology Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Mac OS
2 2 (66.67%) VMS
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Network Monitoring
1 2 (66.67%) Patch Management
1 2 (66.67%) Task Automation
1 2 (66.67%) User Experience
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Open Source
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Go
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (66.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Jamf Pro
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (66.67%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (33.33%) Puppet
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) Google
1 2 (66.67%) Meraki
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) SaltStack