VPN Job Trends in Wiltshire

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wiltshire requiring VPN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 57 51
Rank change year-on-year -4 -6 +5
Permanent jobs citing VPN 7 19 19
As % of all permanent jobs in Wiltshire 1.26% 2.38% 3.07%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.73% 14.07% 16.81%
Number of salaries quoted 4 15 18
10th Percentile £43,916 - £27,813
25th Percentile £51,845 £32,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £36,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +60.96% +4.29% -7.89%
75th Percentile £64,063 £48,226 £42,188
90th Percentile £66,875 £57,500 £45,000
South West median annual salary £42,500 £36,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year +16.44% -2.67% -1.32%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Wiltshire

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 in Wiltshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 104 135 113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wiltshire 18.74% 16.94% 18.28%
Number of salaries quoted 53 86 90
10th Percentile £30,550 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £60,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -43.33% +22.45% +16.67%
75th Percentile £57,500 £81,250 £51,688
90th Percentile £78,750 £97,250 £70,175
South West median annual salary £34,000 £52,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -34.62% +6.12% +3.16%

VPN
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing VPN relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire.

VPN job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

VPN
Salary Trend in Wiltshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing VPN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing VPN

VPN
Salary Histogram in Wiltshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing VPN in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for VPN in Wiltshire

VPN
Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. 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
Swindon +1 4 £53,449 +46.44%
Salisbury +13 1 £60,000 +71.43% 1
Chippenham -7 1 - -
VPN
South West

VPN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure AKS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Key Vault
2 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
2 2 (28.57%) OCI
2 2 (28.57%) OpenShift
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Storage
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) Firewall
2 4 (57.14%) BGP
2 4 (57.14%) DNS
2 4 (57.14%) LAN
2 4 (57.14%) Network Security
2 4 (57.14%) SD-WAN
2 4 (57.14%) TCP/IP
2 4 (57.14%) WAN
3 3 (42.86%) MPLS
3 3 (42.86%) OSPF
3 3 (42.86%) VLAN
4 2 (28.57%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (28.57%) NGFW
5 1 (14.29%) DHCP
5 1 (14.29%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (14.29%) WLAN
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Engineering Manager
1 3 (42.86%) Network Engineering Manager
1 3 (42.86%) Network Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) IT Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (14.29%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) e-Learning
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Driving Licence
2 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) VMS
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Security
2 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
2 3 (42.86%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 3 (42.86%) Network Architecture
2 3 (42.86%) Project Management
2 3 (42.86%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Cost Reduction
3 2 (28.57%) High Availability
3 2 (28.57%) ITIL
3 2 (28.57%) Line Management
3 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
3 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) RBAC
4 1 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Matrix Organization
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Bash
2 3 (42.86%) Python
3 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) CCNP
1 3 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (42.86%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
1 3 (42.86%) Master's Degree
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
2 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (14.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
2 3 (42.86%) Ansible
3 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Cisco
1 4 (57.14%) Palo Alto
2 3 (42.86%) Fortinet
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 1 (14.29%) Dell
4 1 (14.29%) F5
4 1 (14.29%) Infoblox
4 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
4 1 (14.29%) VMware