VPN Jobs in Scotland

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 224 160 175
Rank change year-on-year -64 +15 -21
Permanent jobs citing VPN 52 63 75
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.78% 1.36% 1.28%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.96% 8.30% 9.46%
Number of salaries quoted 37 33 57
10th Percentile £25,650 £28,150 £19,800
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,000 £27,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +69.23% -25.71%
75th Percentile £52,500 £80,000 £45,000
90th Percentile £72,433 - £53,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

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 advertised in Scotland with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 653 759 793
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 9.77% 16.40% 13.49%
Number of salaries quoted 395 260 406
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,000 £27,063
25th Percentile £35,375 £36,188 £35,314
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,438 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £84,056 £75,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

VPN
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing VPN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for VPN in Scotland

VPN
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VPN in Scotland.

Salary trend for VPN in Scotland

VPN
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing VPN in Scotland over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for VPN in Scotland

VPN
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 14 May 2024. 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
Glasgow -105 23 £50,000 +5.26% 1
Edinburgh +31 22 £39,500 -47.33% 8
Banffshire - 4 £22,000 -
Aberdeenshire - 3 £28,500 - 2
VPN
UK

VPN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 10 (19.23%) Apache
2 8 (15.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (7.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (13.46%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 20 (38.46%) Azure
2 18 (34.62%) AWS
3 16 (30.77%) GCP
4 13 (25.00%) IaaS
4 13 (25.00%) PaaS
5 12 (23.08%) Amazon S3
6 4 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (5.77%) Asana
7 3 (5.77%) Entra ID
7 3 (5.77%) Slack
8 2 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (3.85%) AWS Direct Connect
9 1 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.92%) Google Compute Engine
9 1 (1.92%) Google Workspace
9 1 (1.92%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.92%) SaaS
9 1 (1.92%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 38 (73.08%) Firewall
2 31 (59.62%) WAN
3 20 (38.46%) IPsec
4 18 (34.62%) LAN
5 17 (32.69%) TCP/IP
6 13 (25.00%) SD-WAN
7 12 (23.08%) DHCP
7 12 (23.08%) DNS
8 10 (19.23%) Internet
8 10 (19.23%) SNMP
8 10 (19.23%) Wireless
9 8 (15.38%) Spanning Tree
10 5 (9.62%) Network Security
11 4 (7.69%) IMAP
11 4 (7.69%) OSPF
12 3 (5.77%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (5.77%) WLAN
13 2 (3.85%) BGP
13 2 (3.85%) Ethernet
13 2 (3.85%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (26.92%) SQL Server
2 10 (19.23%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (19.23%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.92%) Big Data
3 1 (1.92%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Spinnaker
2 1 (1.92%) GitLab
2 1 (1.92%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.92%) JIRA
General
1 22 (42.31%) Social Skills
2 16 (30.77%) Finance
3 4 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (3.85%) Banking
5 1 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 10 (19.23%) Consultant
1 10 (19.23%) NetApp Consultant
2 8 (15.38%) IT Support
2 8 (15.38%) Network Technician
3 7 (13.46%) Cloud Engineer
4 6 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (11.54%) Support Technician
5 5 (9.62%) IT Technician
6 4 (7.69%) IT Support Technician
7 3 (5.77%) Analyst
7 3 (5.77%) Architect
7 3 (5.77%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (5.77%) IT Support Specialist
7 3 (5.77%) Network Analyst
7 3 (5.77%) Network Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Support Specialist
8 2 (3.85%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Network Support Technician
8 2 (3.85%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (19.23%) RabbitMQ
1 10 (19.23%) YAML
2 2 (3.85%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 34 (65.38%) Data Centre
2 16 (30.77%) Public Cloud
3 13 (25.00%) Replication
4 4 (7.69%) Cloud Native
4 4 (7.69%) Driving Licence
5 2 (3.85%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.85%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.92%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.92%) IoT
6 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.92%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 34 (65.38%) Windows
2 29 (55.77%) Linux
3 17 (32.69%) Windows Server
4 10 (19.23%) Data ONTAP
5 3 (5.77%) Windows 10
5 3 (5.77%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.92%) Android
6 1 (1.92%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.92%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (30.77%) DevOps
1 16 (30.77%) Disaster Recovery
1 16 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (28.85%) Project Delivery
3 14 (26.92%) Network Virtualisation
4 13 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 10 (19.23%) Actionable Insight
5 10 (19.23%) Infrastructure Management
5 10 (19.23%) Project Management
5 10 (19.23%) Project Planning
5 10 (19.23%) Release Management
5 10 (19.23%) Storage Management
6 9 (17.31%) ITSM
7 8 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (15.38%) Network Monitoring
8 7 (13.46%) Customer Experience
9 6 (11.54%) Cybersecurity
10 4 (7.69%) Computer Science
10 4 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
10 4 (7.69%) IT Audit
Programming Languages
1 10 (19.23%) Python
2 2 (3.85%) Groovy
3 1 (1.92%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (32.69%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (28.85%) CCNA
3 5 (9.62%) Degree
4 2 (3.85%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.85%) CCNP
4 2 (3.85%) JNCIP
5 1 (1.92%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.92%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.92%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.92%) SOC 2
System Software
1 32 (61.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (25.00%) VMware NSX
3 10 (19.23%) Docker
4 5 (9.62%) Active Directory
5 4 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (5.77%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.92%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 25 (48.08%) Ansible
2 17 (32.69%) Terraform
3 13 (25.00%) FortiGate
3 13 (25.00%) Kubernetes
4 11 (21.15%) Prometheus
5 10 (19.23%) vCenter Server
6 2 (3.85%) Istio
6 2 (3.85%) Puppet
7 1 (1.92%) Grafana
Vendors
1 32 (61.54%) VMware
2 24 (46.15%) Cisco
3 23 (44.23%) NetApp
4 21 (40.38%) Palo Alto
5 11 (21.15%) Juniper
5 11 (21.15%) Meraki
6 10 (19.23%) Microsoft
6 10 (19.23%) Red Hat
6 10 (19.23%) SolidFire
7 2 (3.85%) ConnectWise
7 2 (3.85%) Google
8 1 (1.92%) Atlassian