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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 220 213 338
Rank change year-on-year -7 +125 -98
Permanent jobs citing VPN 525 617 780
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.52% 1.60% 1.05%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.07% 13.95% 9.23%
Number of salaries quoted 347 486 629
10th Percentile £31,150 £32,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £39,000 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,625 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +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 5,211 4,424 8,449
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 15.05% 11.45% 11.39%
Number of salaries quoted 3,322 3,293 5,127
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,684
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +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 31 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 75 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 57 (10.86%) Apache
3 53 (10.10%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.33%) nginx
5 6 (1.14%) Confluence
6 4 (0.76%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.57%) IIS
8 1 (0.19%) CMS
8 1 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.19%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 46 (8.76%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.76%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.38%) Trello
4 1 (0.19%) 1Password
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.76%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.57%) Carpe Diem
3 2 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.38%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 1 (0.19%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 195 (37.14%) Azure
2 135 (25.71%) Microsoft 365
3 68 (12.95%) AWS
4 67 (12.76%) Amazon S3
5 48 (9.14%) Entra ID
6 32 (6.10%) SaaS
7 25 (4.76%) IaaS
8 24 (4.57%) PaaS
9 21 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
10 20 (3.81%) GCP
10 20 (3.81%) GitHub
11 17 (3.24%) Amazon EC2
12 16 (3.05%) OneDrive
13 14 (2.67%) Serverless
14 11 (2.10%) Cloud Computing
15 10 (1.90%) AWS CloudFormation
16 9 (1.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 9 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
16 9 (1.71%) Azure Monitor
17 7 (1.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 392 (74.67%) Firewall
2 216 (41.14%) WAN
3 208 (39.62%) LAN
4 128 (24.38%) DNS
5 126 (24.00%) Internet
6 105 (20.00%) IPsec
7 103 (19.62%) DHCP
8 93 (17.71%) TCP/IP
9 91 (17.33%) Wi-Fi
10 86 (16.38%) VLAN
11 84 (16.00%) Network Security
12 64 (12.19%) MPLS
13 58 (11.05%) SNMP
13 58 (11.05%) Wireless
14 50 (9.52%) BGP
15 47 (8.95%) OSPF
16 45 (8.57%) SD-WAN
17 40 (7.62%) VoIP
18 29 (5.52%) IPv4
19 28 (5.33%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (11.24%) Elasticsearch
2 54 (10.29%) MongoDB
3 28 (5.33%) Amazon RDS
4 17 (3.24%) SQL Server
5 15 (2.86%) NoSQL
6 6 (1.14%) BigQuery
6 6 (1.14%) MySQL
6 6 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (0.95%) Power BI
7 5 (0.95%) Redis
8 4 (0.76%) DB2
9 1 (0.19%) Big Data
9 1 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.19%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.19%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 16 (3.05%) JIRA
2 15 (2.86%) Jenkins
3 13 (2.48%) Git
4 10 (1.90%) Trac
5 5 (0.95%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.57%) Subversion
7 1 (0.19%) GitLab
General
1 157 (29.90%) Social Skills
2 82 (15.62%) Finance
3 42 (8.00%) Retail
4 35 (6.67%) Telecoms
5 23 (4.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (3.05%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (2.67%) German Language
8 13 (2.48%) Legal
9 12 (2.29%) Law
10 7 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.14%) French Language
11 6 (1.14%) Italian Language
11 6 (1.14%) Portuguese Language
11 6 (1.14%) Spanish Language
11 6 (1.14%) Swedish Language
11 6 (1.14%) Turkish Language
12 5 (0.95%) Advertising
12 5 (0.95%) Banking
12 5 (0.95%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 104 (19.81%) Network Engineer
2 103 (19.62%) Senior
3 76 (14.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 70 (13.33%) Consultant
5 63 (12.00%) Architect
6 54 (10.29%) NetApp Consultant
7 47 (8.95%) Infrastructure Architect
8 36 (6.86%) Analyst
9 35 (6.67%) IT Support
9 35 (6.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 34 (6.48%) Senior Network Engineer
11 32 (6.10%) IT Engineer
12 26 (4.95%) Lead
13 22 (4.19%) Support Analyst
14 20 (3.81%) IT Analyst
14 20 (3.81%) Support Engineer
15 19 (3.62%) IT Support Analyst
16 17 (3.24%) Cloud Architect
16 17 (3.24%) Cloud Engineer
16 17 (3.24%) Network Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (11.81%) YAML
2 54 (10.29%) RabbitMQ
3 11 (2.10%) CSS
3 11 (2.10%) HTML
4 10 (1.90%) ARM Templates
4 10 (1.90%) JSON
4 10 (1.90%) Web Services
5 8 (1.52%) SOAP
6 7 (1.33%) LDAP
7 6 (1.14%) Ajax
7 6 (1.14%) XML
8 5 (0.95%) GraphQL
8 5 (0.95%) gRPC
8 5 (0.95%) Knex.js
8 5 (0.95%) LEMP Stack
8 5 (0.95%) Middleware
8 5 (0.95%) Node.js
8 5 (0.95%) React Native
8 5 (0.95%) RESTful
8 5 (0.95%) Sequelize
Miscellaneous
1 142 (27.05%) Data Centre
2 29 (5.52%) Public Cloud
3 17 (3.24%) PKI
4 15 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
4 15 (2.86%) Management Information System
5 14 (2.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 13 (2.48%) Client/Server
7 12 (2.29%) Private Cloud
8 11 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.71%) Cloud Native
9 9 (1.71%) Driving Licence
10 8 (1.52%) iPad
11 7 (1.33%) CMDB
11 7 (1.33%) IoT
12 5 (0.95%) Algorithms
12 5 (0.95%) Data Structures
12 5 (0.95%) Mobile App
12 5 (0.95%) Video Conferencing
13 4 (0.76%) iPhone
13 4 (0.76%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 243 (46.29%) Windows
2 159 (30.29%) Linux
3 87 (16.57%) Windows Server
4 54 (10.29%) Data ONTAP
5 40 (7.62%) Ubuntu
5 40 (7.62%) VMS
6 28 (5.33%) Windows 10
7 16 (3.05%) Windows Server 2019
8 15 (2.86%) Windows Server 2016
9 14 (2.67%) Apple iOS
9 14 (2.67%) Windows Server 2012
10 11 (2.10%) Unix
11 8 (1.52%) Android
12 6 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 6 (1.14%) Windows 7
13 3 (0.57%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.57%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.38%) Oracle Linux
15 1 (0.19%) CentOS
15 1 (0.19%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 103 (19.62%) Actionable Insight
3 101 (19.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 85 (16.19%) Agile
5 80 (15.24%) Project Management
6 69 (13.14%) Infrastructure Management
7 60 (11.43%) DevOps
8 59 (11.24%) Release Management
8 59 (11.24%) Storage Management
9 58 (11.05%) ITIL
10 55 (10.48%) Project Planning
11 45 (8.57%) Collaborative Culture
12 44 (8.38%) Application Security
13 40 (7.62%) DevSecOps
13 40 (7.62%) Roadmaps
14 38 (7.24%) Infrastructure as Code
15 35 (6.67%) Computer Science
16 34 (6.48%) Mentoring
17 32 (6.10%) Customer Service
17 32 (6.10%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 89 (16.95%) Python
2 53 (10.10%) PowerShell
3 32 (6.10%) SQL
4 12 (2.29%) JavaScript
5 8 (1.52%) Bash
6 6 (1.14%) C#
7 5 (0.95%) JSX
7 5 (0.95%) R
7 5 (0.95%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.76%) Java
9 3 (0.57%) Groovy
9 3 (0.57%) Ruby
10 2 (0.38%) Korn
10 2 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.38%) PHP
11 1 (0.19%) C
11 1 (0.19%) C++
11 1 (0.19%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.19%) VBA
Qualifications
1 94 (17.90%) Cisco Certification
2 75 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 57 (10.86%) CCNA
4 55 (10.48%) CCNP
5 54 (10.29%) Degree
6 37 (7.05%) DV Cleared
7 30 (5.71%) SC Cleared
8 27 (5.14%) CISSP
9 24 (4.57%) CCIE
10 21 (4.00%) Azure Certification
11 20 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
12 18 (3.43%) Microsoft Certification
13 16 (3.05%) APMP
14 9 (1.71%) MCSE
14 9 (1.71%) TOGAF Certification
15 6 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
16 5 (0.95%) CCIE Security
16 5 (0.95%) CCSP
16 5 (0.95%) JNCIA
16 5 (0.95%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (5.14%) SLA
2 17 (3.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.52%) NIST
4 6 (1.14%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (0.76%) GDPR
5 4 (0.76%) QA
6 3 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (0.57%) GRC
7 2 (0.38%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.38%) 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
1 172 (32.76%) Active Directory
2 120 (22.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 82 (15.62%) Hyper-V
4 79 (15.05%) Docker
5 48 (9.14%) Virtual Machines
6 41 (7.81%) VMware ESXi
7 21 (4.00%) vSphere
8 19 (3.62%) Virtual Desktop
9 16 (3.05%) pfSense
10 13 (2.48%) NFS
11 4 (0.76%) vCloud
12 3 (0.57%) Firmware
13 2 (0.38%) Terminal Server
13 2 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.38%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.38%) XenDesktop
14 1 (0.19%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 122 (23.24%) Ansible
2 86 (16.38%) Terraform
3 74 (14.10%) Kubernetes
4 63 (12.00%) Prometheus
5 58 (11.05%) vCenter Server
6 45 (8.57%) Microsoft Intune
7 34 (6.48%) WSUS
8 23 (4.38%) Grafana
9 18 (3.43%) ZABBIX
10 11 (2.10%) FortiGate
11 10 (1.90%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 10 (1.90%) SCDPM
12 7 (1.33%) SCCM
13 6 (1.14%) SCOM
14 4 (0.76%) EMC NetWorker
14 4 (0.76%) HP UCMDB
14 4 (0.76%) Puppet
15 3 (0.57%) Cisco Prime
15 3 (0.57%) Packer
15 3 (0.57%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 169 (32.19%) Cisco
2 161 (30.67%) Microsoft
3 156 (29.71%) VMware
4 104 (19.81%) Palo Alto
5 67 (12.76%) Meraki
6 60 (11.43%) Red Hat
7 55 (10.48%) Juniper
8 54 (10.29%) NetApp
8 54 (10.29%) SolidFire
9 41 (7.81%) Fortinet
10 28 (5.33%) Citrix
11 27 (5.14%) Veeam
12 22 (4.19%) HP
12 22 (4.19%) SolarWinds
13 17 (3.24%) Ruckus Wireless
14 16 (3.05%) CheckPoint
15 15 (2.86%) Zscaler
16 14 (2.67%) Oracle
17 12 (2.29%) Aruba
17 12 (2.29%) F5