VPN Jobs in the Thames Valley

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 150 166 187
Rank change year-on-year +16 +21 -31
Permanent jobs citing VPN 94 95 101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.35% 1.62% 1.40%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.63% 10.05% 6.88%
Number of salaries quoted 59 71 93
10th Percentile £29,100 £24,500 £32,100
25th Percentile £38,500 £34,375 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £70,750 £61,250 £75,000
South East median annual salary £46,500 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +9.41% -10.53% +5.56%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 976 945 1,467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.01% 16.12% 20.27%
Number of salaries quoted 684 536 744
10th Percentile £28,605 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,120 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £59,000 £58,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,813 £80,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing VPN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for VPN in the Thames Valley

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Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VPN in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for VPN in the Thames Valley

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Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing VPN in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for VPN in the Thames Valley

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Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 28 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
Berkshire +36 45 £52,500 +5.00% 12
Buckinghamshire -38 32 £65,000 +30.00% 8
Oxfordshire +1 18 £50,000 +5.26% 2
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (36.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (20.21%) Exchange Server 2010
3 11 (11.70%) SharePoint
4 6 (6.38%) Apache
5 5 (5.32%) nginx
6 4 (4.26%) IIS
6 4 (4.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (4.26%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 58 (61.70%) Azure
2 46 (48.94%) Microsoft 365
3 24 (25.53%) Azure Monitor
4 20 (21.28%) AWS
5 9 (9.57%) Amazon S3
5 9 (9.57%) GCP
6 6 (6.38%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (6.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (5.32%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (5.32%) GitHub
7 5 (5.32%) Power Platform
8 4 (4.26%) Amazon ELB
8 4 (4.26%) Entra ID
8 4 (4.26%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (4.26%) OneDrive
9 3 (3.19%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (3.19%) Azure Stack
9 3 (3.19%) Azure Storage
10 2 (2.13%) AWS Direct Connect
10 2 (2.13%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 56 (59.57%) Firewall
2 27 (28.72%) DNS
3 20 (21.28%) Network Security
4 19 (20.21%) BGP
4 19 (20.21%) IPsec
5 17 (18.09%) WAN
6 16 (17.02%) DHCP
6 16 (17.02%) OSPF
7 13 (13.83%) VLAN
8 12 (12.77%) LAN
8 12 (12.77%) Wireless
9 11 (11.70%) SD-WAN
10 10 (10.64%) Internet
11 9 (9.57%) NAS
11 9 (9.57%) SAN
12 8 (8.51%) Cisco ASA
12 8 (8.51%) Intrusion Detection
12 8 (8.51%) SSL
13 7 (7.45%) Cisco ISE
13 7 (7.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.32%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (5.32%) MongoDB
1 5 (5.32%) Power BI
1 5 (5.32%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (4.26%) MySQL
2 4 (4.26%) NoSQL
2 4 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.19%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 3 (3.19%) JIRA
2 1 (1.06%) Git
General
1 22 (23.40%) Social Skills
2 6 (6.38%) Finance
3 4 (4.26%) Manufacturing
3 4 (4.26%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (3.19%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.13%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.13%) Electronics
5 2 (2.13%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.06%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.06%) Automotive
6 1 (1.06%) Billing
6 1 (1.06%) Games
6 1 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.06%) Marketing
6 1 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.06%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (19.15%) Network Engineer
2 13 (13.83%) Support Engineer
3 12 (12.77%) Senior
4 10 (10.64%) IT Support
5 9 (9.57%) Azure Engineer
5 9 (9.57%) Network Support
6 8 (8.51%) 3rd Line Support
6 8 (8.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (7.45%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 6 (6.38%) Architect
8 6 (6.38%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (6.38%) Consultant
8 6 (6.38%) IT Engineer
8 6 (6.38%) IT Support Engineer
9 5 (5.32%) Firewall Engineer
9 5 (5.32%) IT Manager
9 5 (5.32%) NetApp Consultant
9 5 (5.32%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (5.32%) Security Architect
10 4 (4.26%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.51%) 802.1X
2 6 (6.38%) Web Services
3 5 (5.32%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (5.32%) YAML
4 4 (4.26%) Azure Blueprints
4 4 (4.26%) CSS
4 4 (4.26%) GraphQL
4 4 (4.26%) gRPC
4 4 (4.26%) HTML
4 4 (4.26%) Knex.js
4 4 (4.26%) LAMP
4 4 (4.26%) LEMP Stack
4 4 (4.26%) Node.js
4 4 (4.26%) React
4 4 (4.26%) React Native
4 4 (4.26%) RESTful
4 4 (4.26%) Sequelize
5 1 (1.06%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.06%) LDAP
5 1 (1.06%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (20.21%) Data Centre
2 8 (8.51%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (7.45%) Driving Licence
3 7 (7.45%) Management Information System
3 7 (7.45%) PKI
4 5 (5.32%) IoT
4 5 (5.32%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (4.26%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (4.26%) Mobile App
5 4 (4.26%) Replication
5 4 (4.26%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.13%) Fibre Optics
6 2 (2.13%) Molecular Biology
6 2 (2.13%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (2.13%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.06%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.06%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.06%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.06%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 32 (34.04%) Windows
2 31 (32.98%) Linux
3 14 (14.89%) Windows Server
4 8 (8.51%) Windows Server 2016
4 8 (8.51%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (6.38%) Ubuntu
5 6 (6.38%) VMS
6 5 (5.32%) Data ONTAP
6 5 (5.32%) Kali Linux
7 3 (3.19%) Android
7 3 (3.19%) Mac OS
8 2 (2.13%) Apple iOS
8 2 (2.13%) Mac OS X
8 2 (2.13%) Windows 10
8 2 (2.13%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (1.06%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (1.06%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (23.40%) Analytics
1 22 (23.40%) Identity Management
1 22 (23.40%) Log Analytics
2 19 (20.21%) Inventory Management
3 10 (10.64%) Computer Science
3 10 (10.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 10 (10.64%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (9.57%) Data Protection
4 9 (9.57%) ITIL
4 9 (9.57%) Project Management
5 8 (8.51%) Customer Service
5 8 (8.51%) DevOps
6 7 (7.45%) Service Delivery
6 7 (7.45%) Software Engineering
7 6 (6.38%) Actionable Insight
7 6 (6.38%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (6.38%) Identity Access Management
7 6 (6.38%) Incident Response
7 6 (6.38%) Infrastructure Management
7 6 (6.38%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (21.28%) PowerShell
2 19 (20.21%) Python
3 9 (9.57%) SQL
4 5 (5.32%) Bash
5 4 (4.26%) JavaScript
5 4 (4.26%) JSX
5 4 (4.26%) R
5 4 (4.26%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.06%) C
6 1 (1.06%) C++
6 1 (1.06%) Korn
6 1 (1.06%) PHP
Qualifications
1 31 (32.98%) Security Cleared
2 27 (28.72%) SC Cleared
3 23 (24.47%) Degree
4 20 (21.28%) Cisco Certification
5 18 (19.15%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (12.77%) CCNP
7 10 (10.64%) CCNA
8 9 (9.57%) Azure Certification
9 8 (8.51%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (6.38%) CISSP
11 5 (5.32%) AWS Certification
12 4 (4.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 4 (4.26%) MCSE
13 2 (2.13%) CCIE
13 2 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
13 2 (2.13%) Network+ Certification
14 1 (1.06%) CCSA
14 1 (1.06%) CCSE
14 1 (1.06%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (6.38%) NIST
3 5 (5.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 5 (5.32%) PCI DSS
4 4 (4.26%) SLA
5 3 (3.19%) QA
6 2 (2.13%) GDPR
System Software
1 24 (25.53%) Active Directory
2 19 (20.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (14.89%) Docker
4 9 (9.57%) Hyper-V
5 5 (5.32%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (4.26%) vSphere
7 2 (2.13%) Firmware
7 2 (2.13%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (1.06%) NFS
Systems Management
1 29 (30.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (10.64%) Ansible
2 10 (10.64%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.32%) Prometheus
3 5 (5.32%) Suricata
3 5 (5.32%) vCenter Server
4 4 (4.26%) SCCM
5 3 (3.19%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (2.13%) Grafana
6 2 (2.13%) Nessus
6 2 (2.13%) SolarWinds Orion
6 2 (2.13%) Terraform
6 2 (2.13%) WSUS
Vendors
1 41 (43.62%) Microsoft
2 30 (31.91%) VMware
3 23 (24.47%) Cisco
4 19 (20.21%) Juniper
5 17 (18.09%) Palo Alto
6 8 (8.51%) Aruba
7 7 (7.45%) F5
7 7 (7.45%) Veeam
8 6 (6.38%) Fortinet
9 5 (5.32%) NetApp
9 5 (5.32%) Red Hat
9 5 (5.32%) SolidFire
9 5 (5.32%) Splunk
10 4 (4.26%) ProCurve
10 4 (4.26%) SolarWinds
10 4 (4.26%) Synology
10 4 (4.26%) Zerto
11 3 (3.19%) CheckPoint
11 3 (3.19%) Dell
11 3 (3.19%) Meraki