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 8 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 222 149 277
Rank change year-on-year -73 +128 -30
Permanent jobs citing VPN 941 1,333 1,885
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.25% 2.33% 1.39%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.39% 15.43% 10.92%
Number of salaries quoted 529 1,096 1,459
10th Percentile £28,125 £31,125 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £48,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% +4.35% +2.22%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,598 £84,250 £77,715
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £42,750 £40,000
% change year-on-year -0.58% +6.88% -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 11,214 8,637 17,267
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.85% 15.13% 12.73%
Number of salaries quoted 4,035 6,629 10,904
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £34,250 £37,885
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £72,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%

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 8 November 2024.

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 8 November 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
England -71 883 £47,500 - 316
UK excluding London -74 648 £42,500 -0.58% 235
Work from Home -60 319 £47,500 -5.00% 263
London -82 271 £65,000 +8.33% 98
South East -62 187 £47,500 +4.40% 62
North of England -56 124 £42,500 -5.56% 52
Midlands -58 114 £44,000 +3.53% 44
East of England -10 96 £32,000 -21.95% 44
South West -38 85 £37,000 -9.76% 22
North West -33 68 £42,500 -19.05% 22
West Midlands -63 59 £43,750 +1.74% 30
East Midlands +14 55 £44,000 +30.37% 14
Yorkshire -35 39 £52,500 +50.00% 23
Wales -14 20 £28,000 -16.42% 4
Scotland -20 20 £50,000 -18.70% 13
North East -27 17 £37,500 -20.84% 8
Northern Ireland +14 3 £85,000 +41.67% 6

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
1 174 (18.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 131 (13.92%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.06%) IIS
4 8 (0.85%) Apache
5 7 (0.74%) Confluence
6 6 (0.64%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
8 2 (0.21%) SharePoint 2013
9 1 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.11%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 94 (9.99%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.53%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.11%) InfoPath
5 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
1 5 (0.53%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 2 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.21%) SAP Business One
2 2 (0.21%) SAP EHS
3 1 (0.11%) Carpe Diem
3 1 (0.11%) Magento
3 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 429 (45.59%) Azure
2 371 (39.43%) Microsoft 365
3 147 (15.62%) Entra ID
4 144 (15.30%) AWS
5 51 (5.42%) IaaS
5 51 (5.42%) SaaS
6 43 (4.57%) Cloud Computing
6 43 (4.57%) PaaS
7 31 (3.29%) OneDrive
8 29 (3.08%) GCP
9 22 (2.34%) Mimecast
10 20 (2.13%) Google Workspace
11 17 (1.81%) AWS CloudFormation
12 13 (1.38%) Serverless
13 11 (1.17%) Power Platform
13 11 (1.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 10 (1.06%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 9 (0.96%) Amazon EC2
15 9 (0.96%) WhatsApp
16 8 (0.85%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 596 (63.34%) Firewall
2 317 (33.69%) DNS
3 296 (31.46%) TCP/IP
4 294 (31.24%) LAN
5 290 (30.82%) WAN
6 216 (22.95%) DHCP
7 213 (22.64%) VLAN
8 181 (19.23%) Network Security
9 144 (15.30%) BGP
10 119 (12.65%) Wireless
11 114 (12.11%) OSPF
12 91 (9.67%) Wi-Fi
13 90 (9.56%) IPsec
14 73 (7.76%) WLAN
15 69 (7.33%) Intrusion Detection
16 66 (7.01%) Internet
17 61 (6.48%) SD-WAN
18 59 (6.27%) SSL
19 55 (5.84%) MPLS
19 55 (5.84%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (7.76%) SQL Server
2 19 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
3 17 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (1.59%) Relational Database
5 12 (1.28%) MySQL
6 11 (1.17%) Power BI
7 6 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (0.64%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.21%) Couchbase
9 2 (0.21%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.21%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.21%) Oracle Exadata
9 2 (0.21%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.11%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.11%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.11%) PowerPivot
10 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 22 (2.34%) JIRA
2 16 (1.70%) Git
3 11 (1.17%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.53%) GitLab
4 5 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.11%) Apache Archiva
6 1 (0.11%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.11%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.11%) Subversion
6 1 (0.11%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.11%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 316 (33.58%) Social Skills
2 73 (7.76%) Finance
3 67 (7.12%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (5.95%) Telecoms
5 36 (3.83%) Manufacturing
6 35 (3.72%) Retail
7 29 (3.08%) Public Sector
8 28 (2.98%) Documentation Skills
9 26 (2.76%) Law
10 21 (2.23%) Back Office
11 19 (2.02%) Legal
12 16 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 13 (1.38%) Banking
13 13 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
14 12 (1.28%) Local Government
15 9 (0.96%) Financial Institution
15 9 (0.96%) Mandarin Language
16 7 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
17 6 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
18 5 (0.53%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 210 (22.32%) Network Engineer
2 122 (12.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 103 (10.95%) Analyst
4 99 (10.52%) IT Support
5 88 (9.35%) Senior
6 84 (8.93%) Support Engineer
7 78 (8.29%) IT Engineer
8 45 (4.78%) IT Technician
9 44 (4.68%) 2nd Line Support
10 43 (4.57%) Cloud Engineer
10 43 (4.57%) Support Technician
11 41 (4.36%) Administrator
11 41 (4.36%) Service Analyst
12 39 (4.14%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
12 39 (4.14%) IT Analyst
12 39 (4.14%) Service Desk Analyst
13 37 (3.93%) Systems Administrator
14 36 (3.83%) Lead
15 35 (3.72%) Consultant
16 33 (3.51%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (5.31%) 802.1X
2 34 (3.61%) LDAP
3 8 (0.85%) RESTful
4 7 (0.74%) ARM Templates
4 7 (0.74%) YAML
5 5 (0.53%) Node.js
5 5 (0.53%) Oracle Fusion
5 5 (0.53%) SAML
5 5 (0.53%) Web Services
6 4 (0.43%) Ajax
6 4 (0.43%) CSS
6 4 (0.43%) HTML
6 4 (0.43%) LAPP Stack
6 4 (0.43%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (0.43%) SOAP
6 4 (0.43%) XML
7 3 (0.32%) CSS3
7 3 (0.32%) JSON
7 3 (0.32%) OAuth
7 3 (0.32%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 98 (10.41%) Data Centre
2 84 (8.93%) Driving Licence
3 42 (4.46%) Self-Motivation
4 32 (3.40%) Management Information System
5 27 (2.87%) Smartphone
6 26 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
6 26 (2.76%) PKI
7 25 (2.66%) Video Conferencing
8 23 (2.44%) Public Cloud
9 22 (2.34%) Security Operations Centre
10 20 (2.13%) Clustering
11 14 (1.49%) CMDB
11 14 (1.49%) Cyber Threat
12 13 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
12 13 (1.38%) Onboarding
12 13 (1.38%) Replication
13 12 (1.28%) Client/Server
13 12 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
14 11 (1.17%) Cloud Native
15 10 (1.06%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 492 (52.28%) Windows
2 239 (25.40%) Windows Server
3 161 (17.11%) Linux
4 110 (11.69%) Windows 10
5 42 (4.46%) Windows Server 2019
6 38 (4.04%) Windows Server 2016
7 24 (2.55%) Android
7 24 (2.55%) Apple iOS
8 21 (2.23%) Windows Server 2012
9 19 (2.02%) Mac OS
10 14 (1.49%) CentOS
11 11 (1.17%) VMS
12 10 (1.06%) Debian
13 9 (0.96%) Ubuntu
14 8 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 8 (0.85%) Windows 7
14 8 (0.85%) Windows Server 2008
15 7 (0.74%) Unix
16 5 (0.53%) Oracle Linux
17 3 (0.32%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (21.89%) Problem-Solving
2 173 (18.38%) ITIL
3 162 (17.22%) Customer Service
4 154 (16.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 141 (14.98%) Cybersecurity
6 90 (9.56%) Disaster Recovery
7 76 (8.08%) Cloud Security
8 68 (7.23%) Business Continuity
8 68 (7.23%) Information Security
9 65 (6.91%) Agile
10 64 (6.80%) Migration
11 63 (6.70%) Computer Science
12 62 (6.59%) High Availability
12 62 (6.59%) ITSM
13 61 (6.48%) Vulnerability Assessment
14 57 (6.06%) SIEM
15 56 (5.95%) Project Management
16 53 (5.63%) Mentoring
17 45 (4.78%) Network Monitoring
18 43 (4.57%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 136 (14.45%) PowerShell
2 69 (7.33%) Python
3 59 (6.27%) SQL
4 32 (3.40%) Bash
5 14 (1.49%) Java
6 11 (1.17%) C#
7 10 (1.06%) JavaScript
8 9 (0.96%) Go
9 7 (0.74%) VBScript
10 6 (0.64%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.64%) VB
11 4 (0.43%) Bicep
11 4 (0.43%) Perl
12 2 (0.21%) C++
12 2 (0.21%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 202 (21.47%) Cisco Certification
2 140 (14.88%) Security Cleared
3 133 (14.13%) Degree
4 116 (12.33%) CCNA
5 112 (11.90%) CCNP
6 83 (8.82%) DV Cleared
7 60 (6.38%) SC Cleared
8 49 (5.21%) Microsoft Certification
9 44 (4.68%) CISSP
10 41 (4.36%) Azure Certification
11 33 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
12 22 (2.34%) CCIE
13 19 (2.02%) MCP
14 17 (1.81%) AWS Certification
14 17 (1.81%) MCSE
15 14 (1.49%) JNCIA
15 14 (1.49%) JNCIP
15 14 (1.49%) Network+ Certification
16 12 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
16 12 (1.28%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (9.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 48 (5.10%) SLA
3 46 (4.89%) GDPR
4 33 (3.51%) Cyber Essentials
5 29 (3.08%) NIST
6 24 (2.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 12 (1.28%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.96%) HIPAA
8 9 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (0.64%) IASME
9 6 (0.64%) NCSC
10 5 (0.53%) ISO 9001
10 5 (0.53%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.32%) QA
12 2 (0.21%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.21%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.11%) GRC
13 1 (0.11%) ISO 14001
13 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 383 (40.70%) Active Directory
2 186 (19.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 144 (15.30%) Hyper-V
4 34 (3.61%) VMware ESXi
5 31 (3.29%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (2.13%) Firmware
7 18 (1.91%) Docker
8 15 (1.59%) Virtual Desktop
9 13 (1.38%) vSphere
10 8 (0.85%) Terminal Server
11 6 (0.64%) VMware NSX
12 5 (0.53%) VMware Workstation
13 3 (0.32%) pfSense
13 3 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.21%) VMware Server
15 1 (0.11%) NFS
15 1 (0.11%) Postfix
15 1 (0.11%) Terminal Services
15 1 (0.11%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 119 (12.65%) Microsoft Intune
2 70 (7.44%) Ansible
2 70 (7.44%) Terraform
3 55 (5.84%) FortiGate
4 35 (3.72%) SCCM
5 26 (2.76%) WSUS
6 23 (2.44%) vCenter Server
7 22 (2.34%) Single Sign-On
8 20 (2.13%) Puppet
9 19 (2.02%) Kubernetes
10 13 (1.38%) Progress Chef
11 10 (1.06%) Failover Clustering
11 10 (1.06%) Jamf Pro
11 10 (1.06%) QRadar
12 7 (0.74%) Nagios
12 7 (0.74%) Nessus
13 6 (0.64%) Backup Exec
13 6 (0.64%) Microsoft Clustering
13 6 (0.64%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 5 (0.53%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 431 (45.80%) Microsoft
2 254 (26.99%) VMware
3 252 (26.78%) Cisco
4 96 (10.20%) Palo Alto
5 84 (8.93%) Juniper
6 66 (7.01%) Fortinet
7 63 (6.70%) Citrix
7 63 (6.70%) HP
8 56 (5.95%) Meraki
9 49 (5.21%) Veeam
10 40 (4.25%) Apple
11 39 (4.14%) CheckPoint
11 39 (4.14%) Google
11 39 (4.14%) SolarWinds
12 28 (2.98%) Aruba
13 22 (2.34%) Dell
14 18 (1.91%) Barracuda Networks
14 18 (1.91%) F5
14 18 (1.91%) Zscaler
15 17 (1.81%) Nimble Storage