VPN Jobs with Work from Home Options

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for VPN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited VPN over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 206 219 325
Rank change year-on-year +13 +106 -88
Permanent jobs citing VPN 535 640 751
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.58% 1.54% 1.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.24% 13.74% 10.03%
Number of salaries quoted 361 502 623
10th Percentile £31,000 £33,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,313 £38,806
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,875 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £87,500 £81,000
UK median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +5.26% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

VPN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,225 4,658 7,484
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 15.47% 11.23% 10.93%
Number of salaries quoted 3,372 3,460 4,897
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,562 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,316 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £89,852 £88,750
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing VPN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

VPN trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing VPN over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

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 74 (13.83%) SharePoint
2 59 (11.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 57 (10.65%) Apache
4 7 (1.31%) nginx
5 6 (1.12%) Confluence
6 5 (0.93%) IIS
7 4 (0.75%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.19%) CMS
9 1 (0.19%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 48 (8.97%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.75%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.37%) Trello
4 1 (0.19%) 1Password
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.12%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.75%) Carpe Diem
3 1 (0.19%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 208 (38.88%) Azure
2 146 (27.29%) Microsoft 365
3 70 (13.08%) AWS
4 67 (12.52%) Amazon S3
5 52 (9.72%) Entra ID
6 35 (6.54%) SaaS
7 32 (5.98%) IaaS
8 27 (5.05%) PaaS
9 26 (4.86%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (4.11%) GCP
11 20 (3.74%) GitHub
12 19 (3.55%) Amazon EC2
13 16 (2.99%) OneDrive
14 14 (2.62%) Serverless
15 11 (2.06%) Cloud Computing
16 10 (1.87%) AWS CloudFormation
16 10 (1.87%) Azure Monitor
17 9 (1.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 9 (1.68%) AWS Lambda
17 9 (1.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 397 (74.21%) Firewall
2 213 (39.81%) WAN
3 205 (38.32%) LAN
4 133 (24.86%) DNS
5 117 (21.87%) Internet
6 106 (19.81%) DHCP
7 101 (18.88%) IPsec
8 91 (17.01%) Wi-Fi
9 86 (16.07%) TCP/IP
9 86 (16.07%) VLAN
10 81 (15.14%) Network Security
11 65 (12.15%) MPLS
12 61 (11.40%) Wireless
13 58 (10.84%) SNMP
14 49 (9.16%) BGP
15 48 (8.97%) OSPF
16 46 (8.60%) SD-WAN
17 44 (8.22%) VoIP
18 30 (5.61%) Remote Desktop
19 29 (5.42%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (11.03%) Elasticsearch
2 54 (10.09%) MongoDB
3 29 (5.42%) Amazon RDS
4 16 (2.99%) SQL Server
5 15 (2.80%) NoSQL
6 8 (1.50%) MySQL
7 6 (1.12%) BigQuery
7 6 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (0.93%) Power BI
8 5 (0.93%) Redis
9 4 (0.75%) DB2
10 1 (0.19%) Big Data
10 1 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.19%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.19%) PowerPivot
10 1 (0.19%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 16 (2.99%) JIRA
2 15 (2.80%) Jenkins
3 14 (2.62%) Git
4 10 (1.87%) Trac
5 6 (1.12%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.75%) Subversion
7 3 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.19%) GitLab
General
1 154 (28.79%) Social Skills
2 81 (15.14%) Finance
3 38 (7.10%) Retail
4 34 (6.36%) Telecoms
5 22 (4.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (3.55%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (2.62%) German Language
7 14 (2.62%) Legal
8 13 (2.43%) Law
9 7 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.12%) French Language
10 6 (1.12%) Italian Language
10 6 (1.12%) Portuguese Language
10 6 (1.12%) Spanish Language
10 6 (1.12%) Swedish Language
10 6 (1.12%) Turkish Language
11 5 (0.93%) Advertising
11 5 (0.93%) Banking
11 5 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 106 (19.81%) Senior
2 98 (18.32%) Network Engineer
3 75 (14.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 73 (13.64%) Consultant
5 68 (12.71%) Architect
6 54 (10.09%) NetApp Consultant
7 48 (8.97%) Infrastructure Architect
8 41 (7.66%) Analyst
9 36 (6.73%) IT Support
10 35 (6.54%) IT Engineer
11 33 (6.17%) Senior Network Engineer
12 32 (5.98%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 26 (4.86%) Support Analyst
14 24 (4.49%) Lead
15 23 (4.30%) IT Analyst
16 22 (4.11%) IT Support Analyst
17 21 (3.93%) Support Engineer
18 20 (3.74%) Cloud Architect
19 19 (3.55%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
20 18 (3.36%) Network Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (12.34%) YAML
2 54 (10.09%) RabbitMQ
3 15 (2.80%) HTML
4 14 (2.62%) ARM Templates
4 14 (2.62%) CSS
4 14 (2.62%) JSON
4 14 (2.62%) Web Services
5 11 (2.06%) LDAP
5 11 (2.06%) SOAP
6 10 (1.87%) XML
7 8 (1.50%) Ajax
8 5 (0.93%) GraphQL
8 5 (0.93%) gRPC
8 5 (0.93%) Knex.js
8 5 (0.93%) LEMP Stack
8 5 (0.93%) Middleware
8 5 (0.93%) Node.js
8 5 (0.93%) React Native
8 5 (0.93%) RESTful
8 5 (0.93%) Sequelize
Miscellaneous
1 146 (27.29%) Data Centre
2 39 (7.29%) Public Cloud
3 18 (3.36%) PKI
4 16 (2.99%) Private Cloud
5 15 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
5 15 (2.80%) Management Information System
6 14 (2.62%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 13 (2.43%) Client/Server
8 12 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (1.87%) CMDB
10 9 (1.68%) Driving Licence
11 8 (1.50%) Cloud Native
11 8 (1.50%) iPad
12 7 (1.31%) IoT
13 5 (0.93%) Algorithms
13 5 (0.93%) Data Structures
13 5 (0.93%) Mobile App
13 5 (0.93%) Video Conferencing
13 5 (0.93%) Virtual Team
14 4 (0.75%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 249 (46.54%) Windows
2 154 (28.79%) Linux
3 95 (17.76%) Windows Server
4 54 (10.09%) Data ONTAP
5 37 (6.92%) VMS
6 36 (6.73%) Ubuntu
7 27 (5.05%) Windows 10
8 17 (3.18%) Windows Server 2012
9 15 (2.80%) Apple iOS
9 15 (2.80%) Windows Server 2016
9 15 (2.80%) Windows Server 2019
10 11 (2.06%) Unix
11 8 (1.50%) Android
12 6 (1.12%) Mac OS
12 6 (1.12%) Windows 7
13 5 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 5 (0.93%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.19%) CentOS
14 1 (0.19%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (19.63%) Problem-Solving
2 104 (19.44%) Actionable Insight
3 99 (18.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 87 (16.26%) Agile
5 81 (15.14%) Project Management
6 69 (12.90%) Infrastructure Management
7 65 (12.15%) DevOps
8 60 (11.21%) ITIL
9 59 (11.03%) Release Management
9 59 (11.03%) Storage Management
10 55 (10.28%) Project Planning
11 42 (7.85%) Infrastructure as Code
12 41 (7.66%) Collaborative Culture
12 41 (7.66%) Roadmaps
13 40 (7.48%) Application Security
14 36 (6.73%) Customer Service
14 36 (6.73%) DevSecOps
15 34 (6.36%) CI/CD
15 34 (6.36%) Cybersecurity
16 31 (5.79%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 90 (16.82%) Python
2 64 (11.96%) PowerShell
3 37 (6.92%) SQL
4 16 (2.99%) JavaScript
5 10 (1.87%) Bash
6 6 (1.12%) C#
7 5 (0.93%) JSX
7 5 (0.93%) R
7 5 (0.93%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.75%) Java
9 3 (0.56%) Groovy
9 3 (0.56%) Ruby
10 2 (0.37%) Korn
10 2 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.37%) PHP
11 1 (0.19%) C
11 1 (0.19%) C++
11 1 (0.19%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.19%) VBA
Qualifications
1 90 (16.82%) Cisco Certification
2 78 (14.58%) Security Cleared
3 54 (10.09%) CCNP
4 53 (9.91%) CCNA
5 50 (9.35%) Degree
6 35 (6.54%) SC Cleared
7 33 (6.17%) DV Cleared
8 28 (5.23%) CISSP
9 24 (4.49%) CCIE
10 19 (3.55%) Azure Certification
10 19 (3.55%) Microsoft Certification
11 17 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
12 16 (2.99%) APMP
13 10 (1.87%) MCSE
14 9 (1.68%) TOGAF Certification
15 6 (1.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 6 (1.12%) CCIE Security
15 6 (1.12%) CCSP
15 6 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
16 5 (0.93%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (5.61%) SLA
2 16 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (1.68%) NIST
4 6 (1.12%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.75%) GDPR
5 4 (0.75%) QA
6 3 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (0.56%) GRC
6 3 (0.56%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.37%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.19%) COBIT
8 1 (0.19%) ISO 31000
8 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.19%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 180 (33.64%) Active Directory
2 127 (23.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 90 (16.82%) Hyper-V
4 81 (15.14%) Docker
5 47 (8.79%) Virtual Machines
6 45 (8.41%) VMware ESXi
7 27 (5.05%) vSphere
8 21 (3.93%) Virtual Desktop
9 16 (2.99%) pfSense
10 12 (2.24%) NFS
11 4 (0.75%) vCloud
11 4 (0.75%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.37%) Firmware
12 2 (0.37%) Terminal Server
12 2 (0.37%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.37%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.19%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 120 (22.43%) Ansible
2 86 (16.07%) Terraform
3 77 (14.39%) Kubernetes
4 63 (11.78%) Prometheus
5 57 (10.65%) vCenter Server
6 50 (9.35%) Microsoft Intune
7 36 (6.73%) WSUS
8 24 (4.49%) Grafana
9 17 (3.18%) ZABBIX
10 11 (2.06%) FortiGate
11 10 (1.87%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 10 (1.87%) SCDPM
12 7 (1.31%) SCCM
13 6 (1.12%) HP UCMDB
13 6 (1.12%) SCOM
14 5 (0.93%) Jamf Pro
15 4 (0.75%) AirWatch
15 4 (0.75%) EMC NetWorker
15 4 (0.75%) Puppet
15 4 (0.75%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 173 (32.34%) Cisco
2 165 (30.84%) Microsoft
3 162 (30.28%) VMware
4 103 (19.25%) Palo Alto
5 73 (13.64%) Meraki
6 59 (11.03%) Red Hat
7 54 (10.09%) Juniper
7 54 (10.09%) NetApp
7 54 (10.09%) SolidFire
8 43 (8.04%) Fortinet
9 33 (6.17%) Citrix
10 28 (5.23%) Veeam
11 24 (4.49%) HP
12 23 (4.30%) SolarWinds
13 21 (3.93%) CheckPoint
14 18 (3.36%) Ruckus Wireless
15 16 (2.99%) Zscaler
16 15 (2.80%) Aruba
17 14 (2.62%) F5
18 12 (2.24%) Oracle