OpenVPN Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

OpenVPN
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 394 584 666
Rank change year-on-year +190 +82 +171
Permanent jobs citing OpenVPN 3 8 7
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.020% 0.024% 0.016%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.12% 0.15% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 3 8 3
10th Percentile - £67,375 -
25th Percentile - £77,500 £67,310
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £72,709
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +10.03% -9.11%
75th Percentile £83,125 £82,500 £79,316
90th Percentile £91,000 - £80,040
UK median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £33,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +138.81% -52.14%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,513 5,294 4,791
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 16.80% 15.65% 11.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,608 3,435 3,553
10th Percentile £23,504 £31,250 £31,300
25th Percentile £25,087 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% -8.70% +1.77%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £47,500 £47,875 £50,250
% change year-on-year -0.78% -4.73% -4.29%

OpenVPN
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing OpenVPN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

OpenVPN trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

OpenVPN
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing OpenVPN.

OpenVPN salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

OpenVPN
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing OpenVPN over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

OpenVPN salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

OpenVPN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
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