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

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 206 222
Rank change year-on-year +64 +16 +108
Permanent jobs citing VPN 472 526 627
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.58% 1.56% 1.54%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.20% 10.13% 13.76%
Number of salaries quoted 151 353 491
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.38% - -
75th Percentile £64,750 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +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 4,629 5,192 4,557
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 25.28% 15.39% 11.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1,702 3,338 3,394
10th Percentile £23,504 £31,250 £31,569
25th Percentile £25,087 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £89,522
UK median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,250
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.47% -4.29%

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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 16 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 34 (7.20%) SharePoint
2 33 (6.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.27%) IIS
4 2 (0.42%) Confluence
4 2 (0.42%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.42%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.42%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.21%) CMS
Applications
1 17 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.21%) 1Password
Business Applications
1 2 (0.42%) Carpe Diem
1 2 (0.42%) Elite 3E
1 2 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (0.42%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 1 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 116 (24.58%) Azure
2 84 (17.80%) Microsoft 365
3 70 (14.83%) AWS
4 54 (11.44%) Entra ID
5 31 (6.57%) SaaS
6 22 (4.66%) IaaS
7 20 (4.24%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (4.24%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 19 (4.03%) PaaS
9 18 (3.81%) Power Platform
10 17 (3.60%) Azure Monitor
11 16 (3.39%) Azure AI
11 16 (3.39%) Azure Key Vault
11 16 (3.39%) Azure Service Bus
11 16 (3.39%) Power Automate
12 13 (2.75%) OneDrive
13 10 (2.12%) AWS Direct Connect
14 9 (1.91%) Mimecast
15 8 (1.69%) Azure Sentinel
15 8 (1.69%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 264 (55.93%) Cisco IOS
2 152 (32.20%) Firewall
3 88 (18.64%) WAN
4 87 (18.43%) DNS
5 56 (11.86%) LAN
6 52 (11.02%) DHCP
7 48 (10.17%) SD-WAN
8 38 (8.05%) VLAN
9 33 (6.99%) TCP/IP
10 31 (6.57%) Wi-Fi
11 30 (6.36%) BGP
11 30 (6.36%) Network Security
12 28 (5.93%) OSPF
13 22 (4.66%) IPsec
14 20 (4.24%) Wireless
15 18 (3.81%) Cisco Firepower
15 18 (3.81%) VoIP
16 17 (3.60%) Cisco ASA
16 17 (3.60%) MPLS
17 13 (2.75%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (3.81%) MySQL
2 16 (3.39%) Data Lake
2 16 (3.39%) Power BI
3 12 (2.54%) SQL Server
4 11 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.42%) Data Mining
6 2 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.42%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.42%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.42%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.21%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 18 (3.81%) Git
2 7 (1.48%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.06%) JIRA
4 2 (0.42%) GitLab
4 2 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.42%) Spinnaker
5 1 (0.21%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.21%) Hudson
5 1 (0.21%) TeamCity
General
1 282 (59.75%) Analytical Skills
1 282 (59.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 45 (9.53%) Social Skills
3 26 (5.51%) Finance
4 9 (1.91%) Legal
5 8 (1.69%) Law
6 7 (1.48%) Banking
6 7 (1.48%) Telecoms
7 6 (1.27%) Local Government
7 6 (1.27%) Public Sector
8 4 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (0.85%) Manufacturing
8 4 (0.85%) Marketing
8 4 (0.85%) Retail
9 2 (0.42%) Automotive
9 2 (0.42%) Electronics
9 2 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.42%) Police
10 1 (0.21%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 283 (59.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 40 (8.47%) Network Engineer
3 38 (8.05%) IT Support
4 32 (6.78%) Analyst
5 30 (6.36%) Senior
6 29 (6.14%) Architect
7 21 (4.45%) Cloud Architect
7 21 (4.45%) Lead
7 21 (4.45%) Support Analyst
8 19 (4.03%) 2nd Line Support
8 19 (4.03%) IT Analyst
9 18 (3.81%) IT Support Analyst
10 14 (2.97%) Cloud Engineer
10 14 (2.97%) IT Engineer
10 14 (2.97%) IT Technician
11 13 (2.75%) Support Engineer
12 11 (2.33%) Cisco Engineer
12 11 (2.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
13 9 (1.91%) Operations Engineer
14 8 (1.69%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 262 (55.51%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (1.06%) 802.1X
2 5 (1.06%) JSON
3 4 (0.85%) YAML
4 3 (0.64%) HTML
4 3 (0.64%) LDAP
4 3 (0.64%) SOAP
4 3 (0.64%) XML
5 2 (0.42%) Middleware
5 2 (0.42%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (0.42%) XSLT
6 1 (0.21%) Ajax
6 1 (0.21%) boto
6 1 (0.21%) CSS
6 1 (0.21%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 262 (55.51%) Cyberattack
2 60 (12.71%) Data Centre
3 21 (4.45%) Onboarding
4 18 (3.81%) NHS
5 17 (3.60%) Driving Licence
6 14 (2.97%) Management Information System
7 9 (1.91%) Cloud Native
7 9 (1.91%) Cyber Threat
8 7 (1.48%) Security Posture
9 6 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.27%) PKI
9 6 (1.27%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.27%) Security Operations Centre
9 6 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.85%) Video Conferencing
11 3 (0.64%) Clustering
11 3 (0.64%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (0.64%) Replication
12 2 (0.42%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 363 (76.91%) Windows
2 297 (62.92%) Linux
3 268 (56.78%) Android
4 65 (13.77%) Windows Server
5 10 (2.12%) Windows Server 2016
6 7 (1.48%) Mac OS
6 7 (1.48%) Windows 10
7 6 (1.27%) Apple iOS
8 5 (1.06%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.42%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.42%) Solaris
9 2 (0.42%) Unix
9 2 (0.42%) VMS
10 1 (0.21%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 313 (66.31%) Problem-Solving
2 304 (64.41%) DevOps
3 293 (62.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 269 (56.99%) Risk Management
5 267 (56.57%) Task Automation
6 266 (56.36%) Line Management
7 263 (55.72%) Platform Engineering
8 262 (55.51%) Mathematics
8 262 (55.51%) Storage Management
9 49 (10.38%) ITIL
10 35 (7.42%) Cybersecurity
11 32 (6.78%) Disaster Recovery
12 30 (6.36%) Change Management
12 30 (6.36%) CI/CD
13 29 (6.14%) Infrastructure as Code
14 26 (5.51%) Roadmaps
15 25 (5.30%) Service Management
16 21 (4.45%) Analytics
16 21 (4.45%) Project Management
17 20 (4.24%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 306 (64.83%) PowerShell
2 274 (58.05%) Python
3 269 (56.99%) Bash
4 27 (5.72%) SQL
5 16 (3.39%) Bicep
6 3 (0.64%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.42%) C
7 2 (0.42%) Java
7 2 (0.42%) Jython
7 2 (0.42%) Perl
7 2 (0.42%) R
8 1 (0.21%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 30 (6.36%) Cisco Certification
1 30 (6.36%) Security Cleared
2 27 (5.72%) Azure Certification
3 21 (4.45%) Degree
4 20 (4.24%) DBS Check
4 20 (4.24%) SC Cleared
5 17 (3.60%) CCNP
6 14 (2.97%) CCNA
6 14 (2.97%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (2.97%) Network+ Certification
7 11 (2.33%) AWS Certification
8 10 (2.12%) A+ Certification
9 8 (1.69%) CISSP
10 7 (1.48%) CCIE
11 5 (1.06%) DV Cleared
12 4 (0.85%) CISM
12 4 (0.85%) CompTIA Security+
13 3 (0.64%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.64%) MCP
13 3 (0.64%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (2.12%) NIST
2 9 (1.91%) Cyber Essentials
2 9 (1.91%) GDPR
2 9 (1.91%) SLA
3 8 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 5 (1.06%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.64%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.42%) COBIT
7 2 (0.42%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.42%) SOC 2
System Software
1 291 (61.65%) Hyper-V
2 267 (56.57%) vSphere
3 265 (56.14%) Docker
4 262 (55.51%) VMware NSX
5 80 (16.95%) Active Directory
6 34 (7.20%) VMware Infrastructure
7 30 (6.36%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (1.91%) Firmware
9 4 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.42%) KVM
10 2 (0.42%) NFS
10 2 (0.42%) SRDF
10 2 (0.42%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 2 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.42%) Xen
11 1 (0.21%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.21%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 280 (59.32%) Ansible
1 280 (59.32%) Terraform
2 36 (7.63%) Microsoft Intune
3 23 (4.87%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (2.33%) Kubernetes
5 6 (1.27%) Puppet
6 4 (0.85%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.64%) SCCM
8 2 (0.42%) Grafana
8 2 (0.42%) NetBackup
8 2 (0.42%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.21%) Autotask
9 1 (0.21%) CASB
9 1 (0.21%) Dell DRAC
9 1 (0.21%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.21%) HP UCMDB
9 1 (0.21%) Plesk
Vendors
1 319 (67.58%) Cisco
2 276 (58.47%) Juniper
3 263 (55.72%) Splunk
4 262 (55.51%) 3PAR
5 96 (20.34%) Microsoft
6 40 (8.47%) VMware
7 35 (7.42%) Meraki
8 25 (5.30%) CheckPoint
9 18 (3.81%) Palo Alto
10 16 (3.39%) Databricks
11 15 (3.18%) SolarWinds
12 12 (2.54%) Fortinet
13 10 (2.12%) Dynatrace
13 10 (2.12%) F5
14 8 (1.69%) Google
14 8 (1.69%) Infoblox
15 6 (1.27%) Apple
15 6 (1.27%) Oracle
16 5 (1.06%) ServiceNow
16 5 (1.06%) Sophos