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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 210 193
Rank change year-on-year +92 -17 +140
Permanent jobs citing VPN 1,534 1,354 1,618
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.55% 1.31% 1.90%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.67% 10.42% 11.92%
Number of salaries quoted 649 1,022 1,248
10th Percentile £28,225 £26,250 £30,925
25th Percentile £32,000 £32,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £72,450 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year - -5.56% +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 12,109 12,990 13,572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.16% 12.59% 15.91%
Number of salaries quoted 5,767 8,732 7,625
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £25,087 £32,500 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,000 £47,500 £51,350
Median % change year-on-year -30.53% -7.50% -2.19%
75th Percentile £57,500 £63,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £29,500 £44,132 £45,000
% change year-on-year -33.15% -1.93% -5.26%

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 16 July 2025.

Salary histogram for VPN in the UK

VPN
Top 17 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 16 July 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 +103 1,487 £48,750 +8.33% 561
UK excluding London +113 1,247 £42,500 - 462
North of England +163 765 £40,000 - 85
North West +168 686 £37,000 -16.38% 36
Work from Home +62 475 £52,500 - 222
London +46 257 £60,000 +11.11% 185
South East -2 177 £50,000 +7.53% 149
Midlands +11 106 £40,000 - 70
South West +85 101 £40,000 +14.29% 66
East of England +31 73 £43,000 +7.50% 52
Yorkshire +4 62 £37,500 - 44
West Midlands +25 53 £42,500 +6.58% 46
East Midlands +11 53 £37,500 -6.25% 24
Scotland +53 20 £40,000 -20.00% 27
North East +39 17 £48,750 +62.50% 6
Wales +14 11 £25,875 -42.35% 18
Isle of Man +9 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
1 115 (7.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 105 (6.84%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.17%) IIS
4 4 (0.26%) Confluence
4 4 (0.26%) nginx
4 4 (0.26%) Traefik
5 1 (0.065%) CMS
5 1 (0.065%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (0.065%) Office Communications Server
5 1 (0.065%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (0.065%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.065%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.065%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.065%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 68 (4.43%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (0.91%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 5 (0.33%) Blender
3 5 (0.33%) CINEMA 4D
3 5 (0.33%) Maya
4 3 (0.20%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.065%) 1Password
Business Applications
1 12 (0.78%) Dynamics NAV
2 6 (0.39%) SAP ERP
3 5 (0.33%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.26%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.13%) Carpe Diem
5 2 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.13%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.065%) Eikon
6 1 (0.065%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 388 (25.29%) Azure
2 308 (20.08%) Microsoft 365
3 177 (11.54%) AWS
4 160 (10.43%) Entra ID
5 54 (3.52%) OneDrive
6 47 (3.06%) SaaS
7 45 (2.93%) GCP
8 41 (2.67%) IaaS
9 37 (2.41%) PaaS
10 34 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
10 34 (2.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 31 (2.02%) Azure Sentinel
12 28 (1.83%) Azure Monitor
13 23 (1.50%) Power Platform
14 20 (1.30%) Azure Key Vault
15 17 (1.11%) Power Automate
16 16 (1.04%) AWS Direct Connect
16 16 (1.04%) Azure AI
16 16 (1.04%) Azure Service Bus
16 16 (1.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 694 (45.24%) DNS
2 542 (35.33%) Firewall
3 306 (19.95%) WAN
4 280 (18.25%) Cisco IOS
4 280 (18.25%) TCP/IP
5 267 (17.41%) LAN
6 215 (14.02%) DHCP
7 168 (10.95%) Network Security
7 168 (10.95%) VLAN
8 132 (8.60%) Wi-Fi
9 113 (7.37%) BGP
10 103 (6.71%) OSPF
11 101 (6.58%) SD-WAN
12 86 (5.61%) MPLS
13 82 (5.35%) Wireless
14 66 (4.30%) IPsec
15 57 (3.72%) VoIP
16 42 (2.74%) Cisco ASA
17 39 (2.54%) Cisco Firepower
18 37 (2.41%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (2.61%) SQL Server
2 28 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
3 25 (1.63%) MySQL
4 18 (1.17%) Data Lake
4 18 (1.17%) Power BI
5 8 (0.52%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.26%) Metabase
6 4 (0.26%) MongoDB
6 4 (0.26%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.20%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.13%) Big Data
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle Exadata
8 2 (0.13%) Tableau
9 1 (0.065%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.065%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 65 (4.24%) Robot Framework
2 64 (4.17%) Cucumber
3 25 (1.63%) Git
4 18 (1.17%) JIRA
5 13 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
6 7 (0.46%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.20%) GitLab
8 1 (0.065%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.065%) Hudson
8 1 (0.065%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.065%) Snyk
General
1 773 (50.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 763 (49.74%) Analytical Skills
3 526 (34.29%) Finance
4 378 (24.64%) Social Skills
5 111 (7.24%) Telecoms
6 47 (3.06%) Banking
7 31 (2.02%) Manufacturing
8 29 (1.89%) Law
9 27 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
10 25 (1.63%) Retail
11 21 (1.37%) Legal
12 15 (0.98%) Marketing
12 15 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
13 13 (0.85%) Back Office
14 9 (0.59%) Public Sector
15 7 (0.46%) Games
15 7 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (0.46%) Local Government
15 7 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (0.39%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 401 (26.14%) Developer
2 397 (25.88%) Software Developer
3 356 (23.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 182 (11.86%) Network Engineer
5 126 (8.21%) Analyst
6 114 (7.43%) IT Support
7 97 (6.32%) Support Engineer
8 96 (6.26%) Senior
9 83 (5.41%) Lead
10 76 (4.95%) Support Analyst
11 64 (4.17%) 2nd Line Support
11 64 (4.17%) Test Automation Engineer
11 64 (4.17%) Test Engineer
12 63 (4.11%) IT Engineer
13 55 (3.59%) Architect
14 50 (3.26%) Technical Support
15 48 (3.13%) IT Analyst
16 40 (2.61%) Cloud Engineer
16 40 (2.61%) IT Support Analyst
16 40 (2.61%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 265 (17.28%) Elastic Stack
2 22 (1.43%) 802.1X
3 17 (1.11%) LDAP
4 4 (0.26%) EDI
4 4 (0.26%) GraphQL
4 4 (0.26%) gRPC
4 4 (0.26%) Kafka
4 4 (0.26%) Node.js
4 4 (0.26%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (0.26%) React
4 4 (0.26%) React Native
4 4 (0.26%) RESTful
4 4 (0.26%) Sequelize
4 4 (0.26%) YAML
5 3 (0.20%) Jinja
6 2 (0.13%) JSON
6 2 (0.13%) Web Services
7 1 (0.065%) CSS
7 1 (0.065%) HTML
7 1 (0.065%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 659 (42.96%) Cyberattack
2 120 (7.82%) Data Centre
3 75 (4.89%) Linux Command Line
4 62 (4.04%) Driving Licence
5 31 (2.02%) Onboarding
6 30 (1.96%) Management Information System
7 28 (1.83%) Security Posture
8 24 (1.56%) Operational Technology
8 24 (1.56%) Security Operations Centre
9 22 (1.43%) NHS
10 18 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
10 18 (1.17%) PKI
11 17 (1.11%) Cloud Native
11 17 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
12 14 (0.91%) Public Cloud
12 14 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (0.85%) Clustering
14 12 (0.78%) Client/Server
15 10 (0.65%) Replication
16 6 (0.39%) IPTV
Operating Systems
1 830 (54.11%) Linux
2 696 (45.37%) Windows
3 676 (44.07%) Android
4 222 (14.47%) Windows Server
5 98 (6.39%) Windows 10
6 51 (3.32%) Mac OS
7 34 (2.22%) Windows Server 2016
8 25 (1.63%) Windows Server 2019
9 15 (0.98%) Apple iOS
10 13 (0.85%) Unix
11 12 (0.78%) VMS
12 7 (0.46%) Mac OS X
13 6 (0.39%) CentOS
13 6 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 6 (0.39%) Ubuntu
14 5 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
15 3 (0.20%) Debian
15 3 (0.20%) Rocky
16 2 (0.13%) AIX
16 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 678 (44.20%) Line Management
2 659 (42.96%) Mathematics
3 620 (40.42%) Problem-Solving
4 437 (28.49%) Agile
5 400 (26.08%) Design Patterns
6 399 (26.01%) DevOps
7 397 (25.88%) Android Development
7 397 (25.88%) OO
7 397 (25.88%) OOP
8 374 (24.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 288 (18.77%) Task Automation
10 283 (18.45%) Risk Management
11 279 (18.19%) Platform Engineering
12 266 (17.34%) Storage Management
13 178 (11.60%) ITIL
14 165 (10.76%) Mentoring
15 140 (9.13%) Customer Service
16 129 (8.41%) Cybersecurity
17 108 (7.04%) Disaster Recovery
18 84 (5.48%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 817 (53.26%) Python
2 470 (30.64%) PowerShell
3 407 (26.53%) C++
4 403 (26.27%) Java
5 401 (26.14%) Go
6 370 (24.12%) Bash
7 69 (4.50%) JavaScript
8 47 (3.06%) SQL
9 18 (1.17%) Bicep
10 11 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
11 6 (0.39%) Perl
12 5 (0.33%) R
13 4 (0.26%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.13%) Groovy
14 2 (0.13%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.065%) Ruby
15 1 (0.065%) Scala
Qualifications
1 495 (32.27%) Security Cleared
2 429 (27.97%) DV Cleared
3 176 (11.47%) Degree
4 170 (11.08%) Cisco Certification
5 119 (7.76%) CCNA
6 117 (7.63%) CCNP
7 69 (4.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 60 (3.91%) Azure Certification
9 59 (3.85%) SC Cleared
10 42 (2.74%) CISSP
11 39 (2.54%) A+ Certification
12 36 (2.35%) Network+ Certification
13 34 (2.22%) CISM
14 30 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
15 26 (1.69%) CCIE
16 24 (1.56%) JNCIA
17 21 (1.37%) DBS Check
18 20 (1.30%) AWS Certification
19 19 (1.24%) CompTIA Security+
20 17 (1.11%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (4.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 65 (4.24%) QA
3 59 (3.85%) NIST
4 47 (3.06%) GDPR
5 40 (2.61%) SLA
6 37 (2.41%) Cyber Essentials
7 18 (1.17%) PCI DSS
8 17 (1.11%) NCSC
9 15 (0.98%) Accessibility
9 15 (0.98%) HIPAA
10 14 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (0.33%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.20%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.20%) PMO
13 2 (0.13%) COBIT
13 2 (0.13%) GRC
13 2 (0.13%) ISO 22301
13 2 (0.13%) NIST 800
System Software
1 671 (43.74%) Docker
2 374 (24.38%) Hyper-V
3 281 (18.32%) Active Directory
4 272 (17.73%) vSphere
5 270 (17.60%) VMware NSX
6 138 (9.00%) VMware Infrastructure
7 43 (2.80%) Virtual Machines
8 17 (1.11%) Firmware
9 16 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
9 16 (1.04%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.33%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 4 (0.26%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.20%) ProxySG
13 2 (0.13%) KVM
13 2 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.13%) NFS
13 2 (0.13%) Terminal Services
13 2 (0.13%) VMware Server
14 1 (0.065%) Kamailio
14 1 (0.065%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 725 (47.26%) Ansible
2 319 (20.80%) Terraform
3 153 (9.97%) Microsoft Intune
4 36 (2.35%) FortiGate
5 32 (2.09%) Single Sign-On
6 25 (1.63%) SCCM
7 19 (1.24%) Kubernetes
8 18 (1.17%) QRadar
9 14 (0.91%) Nagios
10 13 (0.85%) Autotask
11 12 (0.78%) Jamf Pro
12 9 (0.59%) vCenter Server
13 8 (0.52%) Proxmox
14 7 (0.46%) CASB
15 6 (0.39%) Cisco CUCM
15 6 (0.39%) Dell DRAC
16 5 (0.33%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
16 5 (0.33%) VxRail
17 4 (0.26%) HAProxy
17 4 (0.26%) WSUS
Vendors
1 515 (33.57%) Cisco
2 382 (24.90%) Microsoft
3 308 (20.08%) Juniper
4 293 (19.10%) Splunk
5 262 (17.08%) 3PAR
6 158 (10.30%) VMware
7 92 (6.00%) Meraki
8 85 (5.54%) Fortinet
9 65 (4.24%) SolarWinds
10 61 (3.98%) CheckPoint
11 59 (3.85%) Palo Alto
12 38 (2.48%) Citrix
13 30 (1.96%) HP
14 28 (1.83%) Apple
15 26 (1.69%) F5
15 26 (1.69%) ServiceNow
16 25 (1.63%) Google
17 23 (1.50%) Arista
18 22 (1.43%) Veeam
19 18 (1.17%) Sophos