VPN Jobs in the UK excluding London

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 216 213 247
Rank change year-on-year -3 +34 -51
Permanent jobs citing VPN 941 981 1,054
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.31% 1.66% 1.46%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.64% 9.05% 9.47%
Number of salaries quoted 756 731 926
10th Percentile £25,500 £26,250 £25,875
25th Percentile £30,375 £32,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% -
75th Percentile £53,938 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £66,250 £72,500 £70,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 9,765 10,845 11,129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.63% 18.33% 15.45%
Number of salaries quoted 7,075 4,722 6,496
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £26,680
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £74,919
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.47% -4.29% +5.00%

VPN
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing VPN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for VPN in the UK excluding London

VPN
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VPN in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for VPN in the UK excluding London

VPN
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing VPN in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for VPN in the UK excluding London

VPN
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 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
South East +5 278 £46,500 +9.41% 49
North of England +11 225 £40,000 -11.11% 61
Midlands +30 167 £39,750 -11.67% 46
Yorkshire +90 114 £37,500 -25.00% 26
South West -7 110 £37,500 +4.17% 33
West Midlands +14 98 £39,875 -11.63% 24
North West -41 89 £45,000 - 27
East of England +8 79 £37,500 -28.57% 22
East Midlands +21 68 £39,000 +11.43% 22
Scotland -83 52 £50,000 -9.09% 18
North East +11 28 £35,250 -11.27% 8
Wales -11 23 £44,886 -0.25% 3
Northern Ireland +19 12 £37,500 -11.76% 3
Isle of Man - 6 £46,500 - 1
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UK

VPN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 176 (18.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 146 (15.52%) SharePoint
3 51 (5.42%) Apache
4 31 (3.29%) Exchange Server 2010
5 25 (2.66%) IIS
6 7 (0.74%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.64%) Exchange Server 2007
7 6 (0.64%) Exchange Server 2013
7 6 (0.64%) SAS
8 5 (0.53%) Confluence
8 5 (0.53%) nginx
9 4 (0.43%) WordPress
10 2 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2003
10 2 (0.21%) Resin
11 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 152 (16.15%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.53%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.21%) Trello
6 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.43%) Sage 200
2 2 (0.21%) Shopify
3 1 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 459 (48.78%) Azure
2 423 (44.95%) Microsoft 365
3 136 (14.45%) Entra ID
4 124 (13.18%) AWS
5 68 (7.23%) OneDrive
6 61 (6.48%) Amazon S3
7 58 (6.16%) IaaS
8 52 (5.53%) GCP
9 46 (4.89%) PaaS
10 34 (3.61%) SaaS
11 28 (2.98%) Azure Monitor
12 23 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
12 23 (2.44%) Mimecast
13 16 (1.70%) Azure DevOps
13 16 (1.70%) GitHub
14 15 (1.59%) Amazon EC2
15 14 (1.49%) Azure Sentinel
16 11 (1.17%) Google Workspace
16 11 (1.17%) Power Platform
17 10 (1.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 616 (65.46%) Firewall
2 302 (32.09%) DNS
3 292 (31.03%) WAN
4 279 (29.65%) LAN
5 236 (25.08%) DHCP
6 202 (21.47%) TCP/IP
7 193 (20.51%) VLAN
8 139 (14.77%) Network Security
9 125 (13.28%) Wi-Fi
10 118 (12.54%) IPsec
11 109 (11.58%) Wireless
12 90 (9.56%) Internet
13 87 (9.25%) VoIP
14 81 (8.61%) SAN
15 66 (7.01%) OSPF
15 66 (7.01%) SD-WAN
16 63 (6.70%) BGP
17 53 (5.63%) SNMP
18 51 (5.42%) MPLS
18 51 (5.42%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (7.76%) SQL Server
2 55 (5.84%) Elasticsearch
3 51 (5.42%) MongoDB
4 36 (3.83%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (1.70%) NoSQL
6 12 (1.28%) MySQL
7 10 (1.06%) Power BI
8 8 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (0.74%) Redis
10 6 (0.64%) BigQuery
10 6 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.32%) Oracle Database
13 2 (0.21%) DynamoDB
13 2 (0.21%) Looker
13 2 (0.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 1 (0.11%) Big Data
14 1 (0.11%) Data Warehouse
14 1 (0.11%) MariaDB
14 1 (0.11%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 18 (1.91%) Git
2 17 (1.81%) JIRA
3 16 (1.70%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.06%) Trac
5 2 (0.21%) Spinnaker
5 2 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.11%) GitLab
6 1 (0.11%) Selenium
6 1 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 264 (28.06%) Social Skills
2 117 (12.43%) Finance
3 78 (8.29%) Telecoms
4 66 (7.01%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (2.76%) Manufacturing
6 25 (2.66%) Retail
7 23 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 23 (2.44%) Law
8 19 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
9 16 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
10 14 (1.49%) German Language
11 13 (1.38%) Legal
12 12 (1.28%) Back Office
13 10 (1.06%) Local Government
14 9 (0.96%) Games
15 6 (0.64%) Italian Language
15 6 (0.64%) Portuguese Language
15 6 (0.64%) Spanish Language
15 6 (0.64%) Swedish Language
15 6 (0.64%) Turkish Language
Job Titles
1 148 (15.73%) Network Engineer
2 140 (14.88%) IT Support
3 139 (14.77%) Support Engineer
4 129 (13.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 126 (13.39%) IT Engineer
6 106 (11.26%) Analyst
7 94 (9.99%) Senior
8 76 (8.08%) IT Support Engineer
9 57 (6.06%) Consultant
10 51 (5.42%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 49 (5.21%) Architect
11 49 (5.21%) NetApp Consultant
12 42 (4.46%) Service Analyst
12 42 (4.46%) Service Desk Analyst
13 41 (4.36%) 3rd Line Support
13 41 (4.36%) IT Analyst
14 39 (4.14%) IT Manager
15 35 (3.72%) IT Technician
16 34 (3.61%) Lead
16 34 (3.61%) Network Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (6.70%) YAML
2 49 (5.21%) RabbitMQ
3 17 (1.81%) 802.1X
3 17 (1.81%) JSON
4 11 (1.17%) ARM Templates
5 10 (1.06%) Web Services
6 6 (0.64%) .NET
6 6 (0.64%) LAMP
6 6 (0.64%) Node.js
6 6 (0.64%) React
6 6 (0.64%) RESTful
7 5 (0.53%) Middleware
8 4 (0.43%) Azure Blueprints
8 4 (0.43%) CSS
8 4 (0.43%) GraphQL
8 4 (0.43%) HTML
8 4 (0.43%) Knex.js
8 4 (0.43%) LEMP Stack
8 4 (0.43%) React Native
8 4 (0.43%) Sequelize
Miscellaneous
1 161 (17.11%) Data Centre
2 68 (7.23%) Driving Licence
3 50 (5.31%) Replication
4 39 (4.14%) Management Information System
5 35 (3.72%) Public Cloud
6 31 (3.29%) Onboarding
7 23 (2.44%) Clustering
7 23 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
8 22 (2.34%) Hybrid Cloud
9 16 (1.70%) Product Ownership
10 15 (1.59%) PKI
11 10 (1.06%) Cloud Native
11 10 (1.06%) Private Cloud
11 10 (1.06%) Security Operations Centre
12 9 (0.96%) Security Posture
13 8 (0.85%) Client/Server
13 8 (0.85%) iPad
14 7 (0.74%) IoT
14 7 (0.74%) Mobile App
14 7 (0.74%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 555 (58.98%) Windows
2 314 (33.37%) Windows Server
3 192 (20.40%) Linux
4 107 (11.37%) Windows 10
5 67 (7.12%) Windows Server 2019
6 59 (6.27%) Windows Server 2016
7 49 (5.21%) Data ONTAP
8 46 (4.89%) Windows Server 2012
9 36 (3.83%) Apple iOS
10 33 (3.51%) Android
11 29 (3.08%) Mac OS
12 18 (1.91%) Windows 7
13 15 (1.59%) Ubuntu
13 15 (1.59%) Windows Server 2008
14 13 (1.38%) Unix
15 10 (1.06%) VMS
16 8 (0.85%) Mac OS X
16 8 (0.85%) Windows 8
16 8 (0.85%) Windows Server 2003
17 6 (0.64%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (23.80%) Problem-Solving
2 181 (19.23%) Customer Service
3 157 (16.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 118 (12.54%) ITIL
5 97 (10.31%) Cybersecurity
6 96 (10.20%) Project Management
7 79 (8.40%) DevOps
8 75 (7.97%) Disaster Recovery
9 74 (7.86%) Service Delivery
10 73 (7.76%) Project Delivery
11 70 (7.44%) Computer Science
12 69 (7.33%) Actionable Insight
13 68 (7.23%) Mentoring
14 65 (6.91%) Infrastructure Management
15 63 (6.70%) Migration
16 62 (6.59%) Service Management
17 56 (5.95%) Storage Management
18 55 (5.84%) Release Management
19 54 (5.74%) Customer Experience
20 53 (5.63%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 137 (14.56%) PowerShell
2 99 (10.52%) Python
3 75 (7.97%) SQL
4 20 (2.13%) Bash
5 8 (0.85%) C#
6 6 (0.64%) Java
6 6 (0.64%) Shell Script
7 5 (0.53%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.43%) JSX
8 4 (0.43%) R
8 4 (0.43%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.32%) Groovy
9 3 (0.32%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.11%) C
10 1 (0.11%) C++
10 1 (0.11%) Korn
10 1 (0.11%) PHP
10 1 (0.11%) Ruby
10 1 (0.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 151 (16.05%) Cisco Certification
2 128 (13.60%) Degree
3 100 (10.63%) CCNA
4 87 (9.25%) CCNP
4 87 (9.25%) Security Cleared
5 69 (7.33%) SC Cleared
6 66 (7.01%) Microsoft Certification
7 41 (4.36%) Azure Certification
8 37 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
9 35 (3.72%) CISSP
10 32 (3.40%) MCSE
11 22 (2.34%) CCIE
12 19 (2.02%) MCSA
13 18 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
14 16 (1.70%) MCP
15 15 (1.59%) JNCIA
16 14 (1.49%) A+ Certification
17 13 (1.38%) AWS Certification
18 12 (1.28%) ITIL Certification
19 9 (0.96%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (8.71%) SLA
2 30 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 28 (2.98%) GDPR
4 25 (2.66%) NIST
5 13 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials
6 10 (1.06%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 4 (0.43%) QA
9 3 (0.32%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.32%) ISO 22301
9 3 (0.32%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.21%) GRC
10 2 (0.21%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.11%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.11%) COBIT
11 1 (0.11%) HITRUST
11 1 (0.11%) ISO 31000
11 1 (0.11%) NCSC
11 1 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 409 (43.46%) Active Directory
2 240 (25.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 192 (20.40%) Hyper-V
4 75 (7.97%) Docker
5 66 (7.01%) Virtual Machines
6 48 (5.10%) vSphere
7 43 (4.57%) VMware ESXi
8 23 (2.44%) Virtual Desktop
9 20 (2.13%) pfSense
10 19 (2.02%) VMware NSX
11 12 (1.28%) Virtual Servers
12 11 (1.17%) NFS
13 9 (0.96%) Firmware
14 7 (0.74%) Terminal Services
15 5 (0.53%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 5 (0.53%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 4 (0.43%) vCloud
16 4 (0.43%) XenDesktop
17 3 (0.32%) Terminal Server
18 2 (0.21%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 149 (15.83%) Microsoft Intune
2 92 (9.78%) Ansible
3 71 (7.55%) Kubernetes
4 58 (6.16%) Terraform
5 57 (6.06%) vCenter Server
6 56 (5.95%) Prometheus
7 55 (5.84%) SCCM
8 33 (3.51%) WSUS
9 29 (3.08%) FortiGate
10 26 (2.76%) ZABBIX
11 24 (2.55%) Grafana
12 18 (1.91%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 16 (1.70%) Jamf Pro
13 16 (1.70%) SCDPM
14 15 (1.59%) Autotask
15 12 (1.28%) Failover Clustering
16 11 (1.17%) Microsoft Clustering
16 11 (1.17%) SmoothWall
17 8 (0.85%) SCOM
18 6 (0.64%) Puppet
Vendors
1 439 (46.65%) Microsoft
2 330 (35.07%) VMware
3 247 (26.25%) Cisco
4 106 (11.26%) Palo Alto
5 98 (10.41%) Veeam
6 90 (9.56%) Juniper
7 80 (8.50%) Meraki
8 66 (7.01%) NetApp
9 65 (6.91%) Citrix
10 58 (6.16%) Red Hat
11 49 (5.21%) Fortinet
11 49 (5.21%) SolidFire
12 37 (3.93%) Apple
13 36 (3.83%) Sophos
14 31 (3.29%) HP
15 30 (3.19%) Dell
16 29 (3.08%) F5
17 28 (2.98%) Aruba
17 28 (2.98%) SolarWinds
18 25 (2.66%) Google