Virtual Private Network (VPN)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 216 220 327
Rank change year-on-year +4 +107 -85
Permanent jobs citing VPN 1,354 1,653 2,001
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.34% 1.68% 1.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.06% 10.60% 9.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,056 1,235 1,561
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £35,313 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £58,750 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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 requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,460 15,589 21,774
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.34% 15.83% 13.29%
Number of salaries quoted 9,379 7,833 11,758
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.47% -4.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.22% -5.26% +5.56%

VPN
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in the UK

VPN
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for VPN in the UK

VPN
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing VPN over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for VPN in the UK

VPN
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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
England +11 1,216 £45,000 -10.00% 291
UK excluding London -2 943 £40,000 -11.11% 207
Work from Home +11 525 £52,500 - 140
London -12 354 £55,000 -8.33% 89
South East +1 275 £46,500 +9.41% 44
North of England +27 226 £39,750 -11.67% 55
Midlands +15 169 £39,750 -11.67% 39
Yorkshire +84 117 £37,500 -16.67% 21
South West -10 113 £37,500 +7.14% 34
West Midlands +6 98 £39,750 -11.91% 21
North West -45 87 £45,000 - 28
East of England +15 80 £38,750 -26.19% 26
East Midlands +25 70 £39,000 +11.43% 18
Scotland -66 51 £50,000 -9.09% 12
North East +7 28 £35,250 -11.27% 6
Wales -7 22 £44,886 -0.25% 2
Northern Ireland +21 12 £37,500 -16.67% 3
Isle of Man - 6 £46,500 -

VPN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 230 (16.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 186 (13.74%) SharePoint
3 58 (4.28%) Apache
4 33 (2.44%) IIS
5 32 (2.36%) Exchange Server 2010
6 10 (0.74%) Confluence
7 9 (0.66%) Skype for Business
7 9 (0.66%) WordPress
8 7 (0.52%) nginx
8 7 (0.52%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2007
9 6 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2013
9 6 (0.44%) SAS
9 6 (0.44%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.15%) CMS
10 2 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2003
10 2 (0.15%) Resin
11 1 (0.074%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.074%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 179 (13.22%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.66%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.15%) Trello
6 1 (0.074%) 1Password
6 1 (0.074%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.37%) Carpe Diem
1 5 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.30%) Sage 200
3 3 (0.22%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.15%) Eikon
4 2 (0.15%) Shopify
5 1 (0.074%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.074%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.074%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.074%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 632 (46.68%) Azure
2 528 (39.00%) Microsoft 365
3 194 (14.33%) AWS
4 177 (13.07%) Entra ID
5 89 (6.57%) IaaS
6 82 (6.06%) OneDrive
7 75 (5.54%) PaaS
8 69 (5.10%) Amazon S3
9 64 (4.73%) GCP
10 61 (4.51%) SaaS
11 41 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
12 33 (2.44%) Azure Monitor
13 32 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
14 30 (2.22%) Mimecast
15 21 (1.55%) GitHub
16 19 (1.40%) Serverless
17 18 (1.33%) Amazon EC2
18 17 (1.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
19 15 (1.11%) Power Platform
19 15 (1.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 912 (67.36%) Firewall
2 492 (36.34%) WAN
3 462 (34.12%) LAN
4 412 (30.43%) DNS
5 317 (23.41%) DHCP
6 266 (19.65%) VLAN
7 257 (18.98%) TCP/IP
8 214 (15.81%) Network Security
9 204 (15.07%) Wireless
10 202 (14.92%) Wi-Fi
11 170 (12.56%) IPsec
12 164 (12.11%) Internet
13 131 (9.68%) MPLS
14 127 (9.38%) BGP
15 118 (8.71%) SD-WAN
16 113 (8.35%) SAN
17 111 (8.20%) OSPF
18 106 (7.83%) VoIP
19 83 (6.13%) SSL
20 68 (5.02%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (6.65%) SQL Server
2 67 (4.95%) MongoDB
3 60 (4.43%) Elasticsearch
4 40 (2.95%) Amazon RDS
5 28 (2.07%) NoSQL
6 13 (0.96%) Power BI
7 11 (0.81%) MySQL
8 8 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (0.59%) BigQuery
9 7 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (0.52%) Redis
10 5 (0.37%) DB2
11 4 (0.30%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (0.15%) DynamoDB
13 2 (0.15%) Looker
13 2 (0.15%) Oracle Database
13 2 (0.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 1 (0.074%) Big Data
14 1 (0.074%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 35 (2.58%) JIRA
2 25 (1.85%) Git
3 21 (1.55%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.89%) GitLab
5 10 (0.74%) Trac
6 6 (0.44%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.30%) Subversion
8 3 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.074%) Selenium
10 1 (0.074%) Spinnaker
General
1 420 (31.02%) Social Skills
2 167 (12.33%) Finance
3 111 (8.20%) Telecoms
4 101 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
5 69 (5.10%) Retail
6 52 (3.84%) Law
7 42 (3.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 30 (2.22%) Manufacturing
9 26 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
10 22 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
11 21 (1.55%) Banking
12 20 (1.48%) Legal
13 14 (1.03%) Billing
13 14 (1.03%) German Language
14 12 (0.89%) Back Office
15 11 (0.81%) Games
15 11 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
16 10 (0.74%) Local Government
17 8 (0.59%) Public Sector
18 7 (0.52%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 250 (18.46%) Network Engineer
2 183 (13.52%) IT Support
3 175 (12.92%) Senior
4 174 (12.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 171 (12.63%) Support Engineer
6 152 (11.23%) Analyst
7 147 (10.86%) IT Engineer
8 102 (7.53%) Architect
9 97 (7.16%) IT Support Engineer
10 87 (6.43%) Consultant
11 63 (4.65%) IT Analyst
12 60 (4.43%) Infrastructure Architect
13 57 (4.21%) Service Analyst
14 56 (4.14%) Lead
15 54 (3.99%) NetApp Consultant
15 54 (3.99%) Service Desk Analyst
16 53 (3.91%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 53 (3.91%) Support Analyst
17 52 (3.84%) Senior Network Engineer
18 47 (3.47%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (5.76%) YAML
2 54 (3.99%) RabbitMQ
3 38 (2.81%) 802.1X
4 30 (2.22%) JSON
5 29 (2.14%) LDAP
6 26 (1.92%) XML
7 25 (1.85%) SOAP
8 24 (1.77%) HTML
9 18 (1.33%) Web Services
10 17 (1.26%) REST
11 13 (0.96%) CSS
12 12 (0.89%) NETCONF
12 12 (0.89%) RESTCONF
13 11 (0.81%) ARM Templates
13 11 (0.81%) LAMP
13 11 (0.81%) YANG
14 8 (0.59%) .NET
14 8 (0.59%) Ajax
14 8 (0.59%) SAML
15 7 (0.52%) ADSI
Miscellaneous
1 250 (18.46%) Data Centre
2 69 (5.10%) Driving Licence
2 69 (5.10%) Management Information System
3 67 (4.95%) Public Cloud
4 66 (4.87%) Replication
5 43 (3.18%) PKI
6 36 (2.66%) Hybrid Cloud
7 34 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
8 33 (2.44%) Onboarding
9 24 (1.77%) Clustering
10 21 (1.55%) Client/Server
11 20 (1.48%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 20 (1.48%) Video Conferencing
12 16 (1.18%) Product Ownership
13 15 (1.11%) Security Posture
14 14 (1.03%) Private Cloud
15 12 (0.89%) CMDB
15 12 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
16 11 (0.81%) Cloud Native
17 10 (0.74%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 727 (53.69%) Windows
2 375 (27.70%) Windows Server
3 309 (22.82%) Linux
4 141 (10.41%) Windows 10
5 79 (5.83%) Windows Server 2019
6 72 (5.32%) Windows Server 2016
7 69 (5.10%) Ubuntu
8 64 (4.73%) Windows Server 2012
9 54 (3.99%) Data ONTAP
10 53 (3.91%) VMS
11 42 (3.10%) Apple iOS
11 42 (3.10%) Mac OS
12 37 (2.73%) Unix
13 35 (2.58%) Android
14 20 (1.48%) Windows 7
14 20 (1.48%) Windows Server 2008
15 17 (1.26%) CentOS
15 17 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 14 (1.03%) Mac OS X
17 10 (0.74%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 270 (19.94%) Problem-Solving
2 217 (16.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 211 (15.58%) Customer Service
4 208 (15.36%) ITIL
5 139 (10.27%) Agile
6 133 (9.82%) Cybersecurity
7 130 (9.60%) Project Management
8 121 (8.94%) DevOps
9 111 (8.20%) Disaster Recovery
10 105 (7.75%) Actionable Insight
11 99 (7.31%) Mentoring
12 96 (7.09%) Service Management
13 94 (6.94%) Roadmaps
14 91 (6.72%) Infrastructure Management
14 91 (6.72%) Service Delivery
15 90 (6.65%) Project Delivery
16 87 (6.43%) Computer Science
17 80 (5.91%) Migration
18 74 (5.47%) Load Balancing
19 69 (5.10%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 192 (14.18%) PowerShell
2 148 (10.93%) Python
3 119 (8.79%) SQL
4 35 (2.58%) Bash
5 19 (1.40%) JavaScript
6 14 (1.03%) C#
7 10 (0.74%) Java
8 7 (0.52%) Perl
8 7 (0.52%) Shell Script
9 5 (0.37%) JSX
9 5 (0.37%) R
9 5 (0.37%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.30%) Groovy
11 3 (0.22%) Ruby
11 3 (0.22%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.15%) Korn
12 2 (0.15%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.15%) PHP
13 1 (0.074%) Go
13 1 (0.074%) Rust
Qualifications
1 216 (15.95%) Cisco Certification
2 167 (12.33%) Degree
3 137 (10.12%) CCNA
4 130 (9.60%) Security Cleared
5 120 (8.86%) CCNP
6 84 (6.20%) Microsoft Certification
7 74 (5.47%) SC Cleared
8 53 (3.91%) CISSP
9 51 (3.77%) Azure Certification
10 45 (3.32%) MCSE
11 42 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
12 38 (2.81%) DV Cleared
13 34 (2.51%) MCSA
14 31 (2.29%) CCIE
15 22 (1.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 20 (1.48%) CISM
17 18 (1.33%) AWS Certification
17 18 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
17 18 (1.33%) ITIL Certification
18 16 (1.18%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (7.98%) SLA
2 46 (3.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 35 (2.58%) GDPR
4 33 (2.44%) NIST
5 23 (1.70%) PCI DSS
6 18 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 9 (0.66%) HIPAA
8 8 (0.59%) NCSC
9 7 (0.52%) GRC
10 5 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 5 (0.37%) QA
11 4 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.22%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.15%) ISO 22301
13 2 (0.15%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.074%) COBIT
14 1 (0.074%) FISMA
14 1 (0.074%) ISO 31000
14 1 (0.074%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 572 (42.25%) Active Directory
2 303 (22.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 226 (16.69%) Hyper-V
4 101 (7.46%) Docker
5 72 (5.32%) vSphere
6 70 (5.17%) Virtual Machines
7 67 (4.95%) VMware ESXi
8 27 (1.99%) Virtual Desktop
9 21 (1.55%) pfSense
10 20 (1.48%) VMware NSX
11 16 (1.18%) Virtual Servers
12 15 (1.11%) NFS
13 14 (1.03%) Terminal Services
13 14 (1.03%) vCloud
14 9 (0.66%) Firmware
15 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 4 (0.30%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 4 (0.30%) XenDesktop
17 3 (0.22%) Terminal Server
17 3 (0.22%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 185 (13.66%) Microsoft Intune
2 149 (11.00%) Ansible
3 116 (8.57%) Terraform
4 101 (7.46%) Kubernetes
5 79 (5.83%) SCCM
6 64 (4.73%) Prometheus
6 64 (4.73%) vCenter Server
7 51 (3.77%) WSUS
8 44 (3.25%) FortiGate
9 30 (2.22%) ZABBIX
10 25 (1.85%) Grafana
10 25 (1.85%) Jamf Pro
11 23 (1.70%) Single Sign-On
12 19 (1.40%) Puppet
13 18 (1.33%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
14 16 (1.18%) SCDPM
15 15 (1.11%) Autotask
16 14 (1.03%) AirWatch
17 12 (0.89%) Failover Clustering
17 12 (0.89%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 604 (44.61%) Microsoft
2 413 (30.50%) VMware
3 400 (29.54%) Cisco
4 160 (11.82%) Palo Alto
5 119 (8.79%) Juniper
6 117 (8.64%) Meraki
7 114 (8.42%) Veeam
8 97 (7.16%) Citrix
9 87 (6.43%) Fortinet
10 78 (5.76%) Red Hat
11 72 (5.32%) NetApp
12 59 (4.36%) HP
12 59 (4.36%) SolarWinds
13 54 (3.99%) SolidFire
14 53 (3.91%) CheckPoint
15 48 (3.55%) F5
16 45 (3.32%) Apple
17 42 (3.10%) Aruba
18 41 (3.03%) Sophos
19 37 (2.73%) Google