VPN Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 238 199 220
Rank change year-on-year -39 +21 +104
Permanent jobs citing VPN 209 549 658
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.27% 1.62% 1.55%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.72% 10.41% 13.81%
Number of salaries quoted 160 370 516
10th Percentile £29,975 £28,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £38,750 £41,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -
75th Percentile £65,313 £68,750 £70,438
90th Percentile £84,250 £88,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £46,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.53% -7.00% +5.26%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,109 5,274 4,765
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.95% 15.58% 11.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,624 3,414 3,541
10th Percentile £23,504 £31,250 £31,569
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% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £47,500 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -4.76%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

VPN trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

VPN salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing VPN over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

VPN salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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 38 (18.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 37 (17.70%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.87%) IIS
4 2 (0.96%) Confluence
4 2 (0.96%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.96%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.96%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.48%) CMS
Applications
1 19 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.48%) 1Password
Business Applications
1 2 (0.96%) Carpe Diem
1 2 (0.96%) Elite 3E
1 2 (0.96%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (0.96%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (0.96%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 1 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 111 (53.11%) Azure
2 89 (42.58%) Microsoft 365
3 54 (25.84%) AWS
4 40 (19.14%) Entra ID
5 15 (7.18%) SaaS
6 13 (6.22%) OneDrive
7 10 (4.78%) AWS Direct Connect
8 9 (4.31%) Mimecast
9 8 (3.83%) Azure Sentinel
9 8 (3.83%) GitHub
9 8 (3.83%) Microsoft Purview
10 7 (3.35%) GCP
10 7 (3.35%) IaaS
10 7 (3.35%) Route 53
11 6 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (2.87%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 5 (2.39%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (2.39%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (2.39%) Serverless
12 5 (2.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 153 (73.21%) Firewall
2 88 (42.11%) WAN
3 76 (36.36%) DNS
4 67 (32.06%) LAN
5 55 (26.32%) DHCP
6 42 (20.10%) SD-WAN
7 41 (19.62%) VLAN
8 36 (17.22%) TCP/IP
9 34 (16.27%) Network Security
10 33 (15.79%) BGP
10 33 (15.79%) Wi-Fi
11 28 (13.40%) OSPF
12 24 (11.48%) IPsec
13 23 (11.00%) Wireless
14 20 (9.57%) MPLS
14 20 (9.57%) VoIP
15 18 (8.61%) Cisco Firepower
16 17 (8.13%) Cisco ASA
17 13 (6.22%) WLAN
18 12 (5.74%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.78%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (4.78%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.44%) MySQL
2 3 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.96%) Data Mining
3 2 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (0.96%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.96%) Oracle Database
3 2 (0.96%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.48%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.48%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (4.31%) Jenkins
2 5 (2.39%) JIRA
3 4 (1.91%) Spinnaker
4 3 (1.44%) Git
5 2 (0.96%) GitLab
5 2 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.48%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.48%) Hudson
6 1 (0.48%) TeamCity
General
1 48 (22.97%) Social Skills
2 28 (13.40%) Finance
3 22 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (9.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (4.31%) Banking
5 9 (4.31%) Legal
5 9 (4.31%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.83%) Law
6 8 (3.83%) Local Government
7 7 (3.35%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.39%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.39%) Retail
9 4 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.91%) Marketing
10 3 (1.44%) Automotive
11 2 (0.96%) Electronics
11 2 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.96%) Police
12 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (22.49%) Network Engineer
2 38 (18.18%) IT Support
3 34 (16.27%) Senior
4 32 (15.31%) Analyst
5 22 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 21 (10.05%) Support Analyst
7 20 (9.57%) 2nd Line Support
8 19 (9.09%) IT Analyst
8 19 (9.09%) Lead
9 18 (8.61%) IT Support Analyst
9 18 (8.61%) IT Technician
10 17 (8.13%) Cloud Engineer
11 16 (7.66%) Architect
12 15 (7.18%) IT Engineer
13 13 (6.22%) Cisco Engineer
13 13 (6.22%) Cisco Network Engineer
14 12 (5.74%) Support Engineer
15 9 (4.31%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
15 9 (4.31%) Operations Engineer
16 8 (3.83%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.39%) 802.1X
1 5 (2.39%) HTML
1 5 (2.39%) JSON
1 5 (2.39%) SOAP
1 5 (2.39%) XML
2 4 (1.91%) XSLT
2 4 (1.91%) YAML
3 3 (1.44%) LDAP
4 2 (0.96%) Middleware
4 2 (0.96%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.48%) Ajax
5 1 (0.48%) boto
5 1 (0.48%) CSS
5 1 (0.48%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 48 (22.97%) Data Centre
2 18 (8.61%) Onboarding
3 17 (8.13%) Driving Licence
4 16 (7.66%) Management Information System
5 10 (4.78%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (4.31%) Cyber Threat
7 8 (3.83%) Cloud Native
7 8 (3.83%) Public Cloud
8 7 (3.35%) Security Posture
9 6 (2.87%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (2.87%) PKI
9 6 (2.87%) Security Operations Centre
9 6 (2.87%) Video Conferencing
10 3 (1.44%) Clustering
10 3 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.44%) Replication
10 3 (1.44%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 2 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.96%) Biopharmaceutical
11 2 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 110 (52.63%) Windows
2 68 (32.54%) Windows Server
3 39 (18.66%) Linux
4 12 (5.74%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (3.35%) Mac OS
5 7 (3.35%) Windows 10
5 7 (3.35%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (2.87%) Android
6 6 (2.87%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.91%) Unix
8 2 (0.96%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.96%) Solaris
8 2 (0.96%) VMS
9 1 (0.48%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (23.44%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (17.22%) Cybersecurity
3 35 (16.75%) Disaster Recovery
3 35 (16.75%) ITIL
4 34 (16.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 32 (15.31%) Change Management
6 30 (14.35%) DevOps
7 20 (9.57%) Cloud Security
7 20 (9.57%) Mentoring
8 19 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (9.09%) Customer Service
8 19 (9.09%) Load Balancing
9 18 (8.61%) Information Security
10 17 (8.13%) Network Architecture
11 15 (7.18%) SIEM
12 14 (6.70%) CI/CD
12 14 (6.70%) Data Loss Prevention
12 14 (6.70%) Infrastructure as Code
12 14 (6.70%) Security Operations
13 13 (6.22%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 28 (13.40%) PowerShell
2 14 (6.70%) SQL
3 12 (5.74%) Python
4 8 (3.83%) Bash
5 5 (2.39%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.91%) C
6 4 (1.91%) Jython
6 4 (1.91%) Perl
7 2 (0.96%) Java
7 2 (0.96%) R
8 1 (0.48%) Bicep
8 1 (0.48%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 35 (16.75%) Cisco Certification
2 29 (13.88%) Security Cleared
3 23 (11.00%) Degree
4 20 (9.57%) CCNP
5 19 (9.09%) SC Cleared
6 16 (7.66%) CCNA
7 14 (6.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (6.70%) Network+ Certification
8 12 (5.74%) Azure Certification
9 11 (5.26%) AWS Certification
10 10 (4.78%) A+ Certification
11 8 (3.83%) CCIE
11 8 (3.83%) CISSP
12 5 (2.39%) DBS Check
12 5 (2.39%) DV Cleared
13 4 (1.91%) CISM
13 4 (1.91%) CompTIA Security+
14 3 (1.44%) Master's Degree
14 3 (1.44%) MCP
14 3 (1.44%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (4.78%) NIST
2 9 (4.31%) Cyber Essentials
2 9 (4.31%) GDPR
2 9 (4.31%) SLA
3 8 (3.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 6 (2.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (2.39%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.44%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.96%) COBIT
7 2 (0.96%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.96%) SOC 2
System Software
1 84 (40.19%) Active Directory
2 34 (16.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (14.83%) Hyper-V
4 15 (7.18%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (5.74%) Firmware
6 4 (1.91%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.91%) vSphere
7 3 (1.44%) Docker
8 2 (0.96%) KVM
8 2 (0.96%) NFS
8 2 (0.96%) SRDF
8 2 (0.96%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 2 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.96%) Xen
9 1 (0.48%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.48%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 37 (17.70%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (7.66%) Ansible
2 16 (7.66%) Terraform
3 10 (4.78%) Kubernetes
4 8 (3.83%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (3.35%) Puppet
6 6 (2.87%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.96%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (0.96%) Grafana
7 2 (0.96%) NetBackup
7 2 (0.96%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.48%) Autotask
8 1 (0.48%) CASB
8 1 (0.48%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.48%) HP UCMDB
8 1 (0.48%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.48%) SCCM
Vendors
1 102 (48.80%) Microsoft
2 66 (31.58%) Cisco
3 42 (20.10%) VMware
4 29 (13.88%) CheckPoint
5 25 (11.96%) Meraki
6 21 (10.05%) Palo Alto
7 17 (8.13%) SolarWinds
8 14 (6.70%) Fortinet
8 14 (6.70%) Juniper
9 12 (5.74%) Dynatrace
10 10 (4.78%) F5
11 8 (3.83%) Google
11 8 (3.83%) Infoblox
12 6 (2.87%) Apple
12 6 (2.87%) Oracle
13 5 (2.39%) HP
13 5 (2.39%) ServiceNow
13 5 (2.39%) Sophos
13 5 (2.39%) Veeam
13 5 (2.39%) Zscaler