Virtual Private Network (VPN)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 211 233
Rank change year-on-year +80 +22 +69
Permanent jobs citing VPN 1,190 1,414 1,674
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.31% 1.44% 1.59%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 18.19% 10.39% 10.41%
Number of salaries quoted 604 1,117 1,271
10th Percentile £29,250 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -7.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £66,250 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £75,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 6,543 13,614 16,074
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.68% 13.87% 15.28%
Number of salaries quoted 4,245 9,523 8,270
10th Percentile £23,731 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £30,625 £32,500 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.94% -3.81%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,715 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £43,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -8.05% -3.33% -

VPN
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in the UK

VPN
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for VPN in the UK

VPN
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing VPN over the 6 months to 26 April 2025.

Salary histogram for VPN in the UK

VPN
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the UK over the 6 months to 26 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
England +72 1,145 £50,000 +7.53% 630
UK excluding London +109 925 £42,500 +6.25% 419
North of England +130 499 £40,000 - 118
North West +158 427 £35,000 -22.22% 48
London -1 235 £62,500 +13.64% 259
Work from Home -36 207 £46,250 -11.90% 309
South East +33 157 £55,000 +18.28% 122
Midlands +2 88 £38,750 -0.64% 55
South West +84 80 £47,500 +26.67% 46
East of England +54 80 £37,500 -3.23% 55
Yorkshire +17 57 £43,600 +16.27% 59
West Midlands +21 49 £37,500 -5.66% 35
East Midlands +31 39 £40,000 +2.56% 18
Scotland +103 21 £40,000 -20.00% 27
North East +39 15 £37,500 +6.38% 16
Northern Ireland +30 4 - - 7
Wales +18 4 £37,733 -8.12% 9
Isle of Man +10 2 £34,500 -25.81% 2

VPN
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
1 108 (9.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 104 (8.74%) SharePoint
3 21 (1.76%) IIS
4 8 (0.67%) Confluence
5 2 (0.17%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.17%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.17%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.084%) CMS
6 1 (0.084%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.084%) Office Communications Server
6 1 (0.084%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (0.084%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 69 (5.80%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.92%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.42%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 5 (0.42%) Blender
3 5 (0.42%) CINEMA 4D
3 5 (0.42%) Maya
4 2 (0.17%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.084%) 1Password
5 1 (0.084%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (0.76%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.34%) SAP ERP
3 3 (0.25%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.17%) Carpe Diem
4 2 (0.17%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.17%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 359 (30.17%) Azure
2 293 (24.62%) Microsoft 365
3 144 (12.10%) AWS
4 130 (10.92%) Entra ID
5 46 (3.87%) OneDrive
6 36 (3.03%) SaaS
7 31 (2.61%) GCP
8 28 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
9 25 (2.10%) GitHub
10 24 (2.02%) IaaS
10 24 (2.02%) Mimecast
11 23 (1.93%) Azure Sentinel
12 22 (1.85%) PaaS
13 19 (1.60%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 14 (1.18%) Azure Monitor
14 14 (1.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 13 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
15 13 (1.09%) Power Platform
16 11 (0.92%) AWS CloudFormation
16 11 (0.92%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 637 (53.53%) DNS
2 479 (40.25%) Firewall
3 261 (21.93%) WAN
4 236 (19.83%) LAN
5 229 (19.24%) TCP/IP
6 169 (14.20%) DHCP
7 164 (13.78%) Network Security
8 130 (10.92%) VLAN
9 112 (9.41%) Wi-Fi
10 96 (8.07%) BGP
11 80 (6.72%) OSPF
12 78 (6.55%) SD-WAN
13 72 (6.05%) MPLS
14 69 (5.80%) IPsec
14 69 (5.80%) Wireless
15 46 (3.87%) Cisco Firepower
15 46 (3.87%) VoIP
16 35 (2.94%) Cisco ASA
17 33 (2.77%) Intrusion Detection
17 33 (2.77%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (4.03%) SQL Server
2 20 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (0.76%) MySQL
3 9 (0.76%) Power BI
4 8 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (0.59%) Relational Database
6 6 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (0.42%) MongoDB
8 4 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.34%) Metabase
9 3 (0.25%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.17%) Big Data
10 2 (0.17%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.17%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.17%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.17%) Oracle Exadata
10 2 (0.17%) Tableau
11 1 (0.084%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.084%) Electronic Patient Records
11 1 (0.084%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 65 (5.46%) Robot Framework
2 64 (5.38%) Cucumber
3 20 (1.68%) JIRA
4 12 (1.01%) Git
4 12 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
5 10 (0.84%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.50%) GitLab
7 4 (0.34%) Spinnaker
8 2 (0.17%) Apache Archiva
8 2 (0.17%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.17%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.17%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.084%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.084%) Hudson
9 1 (0.084%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.084%) TeamCity
General
1 500 (42.02%) Finance
1 500 (42.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 484 (40.67%) Analytical Skills
3 302 (25.38%) Social Skills
4 85 (7.14%) Telecoms
5 38 (3.19%) Banking
6 25 (2.10%) Retail
7 24 (2.02%) Law
8 21 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
9 18 (1.51%) Legal
9 18 (1.51%) Manufacturing
10 13 (1.09%) Public Sector
11 12 (1.01%) Local Government
12 10 (0.84%) Marketing
13 8 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (0.59%) Electronics
14 7 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.50%) Back Office
15 6 (0.50%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 402 (33.78%) Developer
2 397 (33.36%) Software Developer
3 155 (13.03%) Network Engineer
4 114 (9.58%) Senior
5 99 (8.32%) IT Support
6 88 (7.39%) Analyst
7 83 (6.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 76 (6.39%) Support Engineer
9 64 (5.38%) Lead
9 64 (5.38%) Test Automation Engineer
9 64 (5.38%) Test Engineer
10 59 (4.96%) IT Engineer
11 52 (4.37%) Cloud Engineer
12 46 (3.87%) Support Analyst
13 42 (3.53%) IT Analyst
14 37 (3.11%) Security Engineer
15 36 (3.03%) 2nd Line Support
15 36 (3.03%) Architect
16 35 (2.94%) IT Support Analyst
17 32 (2.69%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (1.34%) 802.1X
2 15 (1.26%) LDAP
3 13 (1.09%) YAML
4 5 (0.42%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (0.42%) GraphQL
4 5 (0.42%) gRPC
4 5 (0.42%) HTML
4 5 (0.42%) JSON
4 5 (0.42%) Node.js
4 5 (0.42%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (0.42%) React
4 5 (0.42%) React Native
4 5 (0.42%) RESTful
4 5 (0.42%) Sequelize
4 5 (0.42%) SOAP
4 5 (0.42%) XML
4 5 (0.42%) XMPP
5 4 (0.34%) Web Services
5 4 (0.34%) XSLT
6 2 (0.17%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 397 (33.36%) Cyberattack
2 93 (7.82%) Data Centre
3 74 (6.22%) Linux Command Line
4 51 (4.29%) Driving Licence
5 34 (2.86%) Onboarding
6 32 (2.69%) Management Information System
7 25 (2.10%) Security Posture
8 20 (1.68%) Security Operations Centre
9 19 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
10 18 (1.51%) Cyber Threat
11 17 (1.43%) PKI
12 16 (1.34%) Cloud Native
13 15 (1.26%) Replication
14 14 (1.18%) Clustering
14 14 (1.18%) Public Cloud
15 11 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
16 9 (0.76%) IoT
17 8 (0.67%) Client/Server
18 7 (0.59%) CCTV
18 7 (0.59%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 570 (47.90%) Linux
2 430 (36.13%) Windows
3 415 (34.87%) Android
4 215 (18.07%) Windows Server
5 84 (7.06%) Windows 10
6 44 (3.70%) Windows Server 2016
7 42 (3.53%) Mac OS
8 31 (2.61%) Windows Server 2019
9 14 (1.18%) Apple iOS
9 14 (1.18%) VMS
10 8 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 7 (0.59%) Unix
12 5 (0.42%) CentOS
12 5 (0.42%) Mac OS X
12 5 (0.42%) Ubuntu
13 4 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.17%) Debian
14 2 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
14 2 (0.17%) Solaris
14 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 423 (35.55%) Agile
2 412 (34.62%) Line Management
3 399 (33.53%) Design Patterns
4 397 (33.36%) Android Development
4 397 (33.36%) Mathematics
4 397 (33.36%) OO
4 397 (33.36%) OOP
5 289 (24.29%) Problem-Solving
6 144 (12.10%) ITIL
7 129 (10.84%) DevOps
7 129 (10.84%) Mentoring
8 106 (8.91%) Disaster Recovery
9 101 (8.49%) Cybersecurity
9 101 (8.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 91 (7.65%) Customer Service
11 76 (6.39%) Coaching
12 72 (6.05%) Continuous Improvement
12 72 (6.05%) Test Automation
13 67 (5.63%) High Availability
14 65 (5.46%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 532 (44.71%) Python
2 407 (34.20%) C++
3 400 (33.61%) Java
4 397 (33.36%) Go
5 179 (15.04%) PowerShell
6 102 (8.57%) Bash
7 76 (6.39%) JavaScript
8 49 (4.12%) SQL
9 10 (0.84%) Perl
10 7 (0.59%) Bicep
11 5 (0.42%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.34%) C
12 4 (0.34%) Jython
12 4 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.25%) R
14 1 (0.084%) Groovy
14 1 (0.084%) Ruby
14 1 (0.084%) Scala
Qualifications
1 501 (42.10%) Security Cleared
2 429 (36.05%) DV Cleared
3 151 (12.69%) Cisco Certification
4 147 (12.35%) Degree
5 106 (8.91%) CCNP
6 103 (8.66%) CCNA
7 63 (5.29%) SC Cleared
8 57 (4.79%) Microsoft Certification
9 38 (3.19%) Azure Certification
10 35 (2.94%) CISSP
11 34 (2.86%) A+ Certification
12 28 (2.35%) CISM
13 25 (2.10%) Network+ Certification
14 23 (1.93%) CCIE
15 22 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
16 21 (1.76%) JNCIS
17 16 (1.34%) AWS Certification
18 14 (1.18%) MCP
19 12 (1.01%) MCSA
20 11 (0.92%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (5.63%) QA
2 52 (4.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 47 (3.95%) NIST
4 42 (3.53%) SLA
5 35 (2.94%) GDPR
6 32 (2.69%) Cyber Essentials
7 23 (1.93%) PCI DSS
8 17 (1.43%) NCSC
9 14 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 13 (1.09%) Accessibility
11 11 (0.92%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.67%) SOC 2
13 7 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.25%) COBIT
14 3 (0.25%) GRC
14 3 (0.25%) JSP 440
14 3 (0.25%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.17%) ISO 22301
15 2 (0.17%) ISO 9001
16 1 (0.084%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 412 (34.62%) Docker
2 278 (23.36%) Active Directory
3 128 (10.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 111 (9.33%) Hyper-V
5 34 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (1.68%) Virtual Desktop
7 18 (1.51%) Firmware
7 18 (1.51%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (0.84%) vSphere
9 7 (0.59%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.25%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.25%) KVM
10 3 (0.25%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.17%) NFS
11 2 (0.17%) SRDF
11 2 (0.17%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 2 (0.17%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.17%) Xen
12 1 (0.084%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 462 (38.82%) Ansible
2 125 (10.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 54 (4.54%) Terraform
4 33 (2.77%) FortiGate
5 23 (1.93%) SCCM
6 18 (1.51%) Kubernetes
6 18 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (1.01%) Jamf Pro
7 12 (1.01%) Nagios
8 10 (0.84%) QRadar
9 8 (0.67%) Dell DRAC
9 8 (0.67%) Puppet
10 7 (0.59%) Prometheus
10 7 (0.59%) vCenter Server
11 5 (0.42%) Failover Clustering
11 5 (0.42%) Microsoft Clustering
11 5 (0.42%) Proxmox
11 5 (0.42%) WSUS
12 4 (0.34%) Backup Exec
12 4 (0.34%) Nessus
Vendors
1 329 (27.65%) Microsoft
2 227 (19.08%) Cisco
3 151 (12.69%) VMware
4 66 (5.55%) Fortinet
4 66 (5.55%) Meraki
5 59 (4.96%) Palo Alto
6 56 (4.71%) CheckPoint
7 48 (4.03%) SolarWinds
8 47 (3.95%) Citrix
9 45 (3.78%) Juniper
10 34 (2.86%) F5
11 31 (2.61%) Veeam
12 26 (2.18%) HP
12 26 (2.18%) ServiceNow
13 25 (2.10%) Google
14 24 (2.02%) Apple
15 19 (1.60%) Arista
16 18 (1.51%) Dell
17 14 (1.18%) Sophos
18 12 (1.01%) Splunk