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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 225 217 338
Rank change year-on-year -8 +121 -95
Permanent jobs citing VPN 1,360 1,642 2,024
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.29% 1.73% 1.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.00% 10.64% 8.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,045 1,227 1,560
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,780 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £35,438 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £76,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +2.41%

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 13,603 15,428 22,577
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.92% 16.28% 13.35%
Number of salaries quoted 9,416 7,727 11,819
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,419 £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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +4 1,220 £45,000 -10.00% 272
UK excluding London -17 952 £40,000 -11.11% 214
Work from Home -14 526 £52,500 - 137
London -18 352 £53,000 -11.67% 75
South East -14 275 £46,500 +9.41% 56
North of England +11 226 £39,750 -11.67% 50
Midlands +16 179 £39,875 -11.39% 38
Yorkshire +63 113 £37,500 -11.76% 17
South West -24 110 £37,500 +1.35% 28
West Midlands -9 103 £39,875 -11.39% 23
North West -49 90 £45,000 -5.26% 29
East of England 0 79 £40,000 -27.27% 22
East Midlands +20 75 £39,500 +12.86% 14
Scotland -76 52 £50,000 -23.08% 17
North East +4 29 £34,000 -12.72% 4
Wales -11 24 £44,886 -0.25% 6
Northern Ireland +16 12 £37,500 -11.76% 5
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
1 226 (16.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 182 (13.38%) SharePoint
3 58 (4.26%) Apache
4 34 (2.50%) IIS
5 31 (2.28%) Exchange Server 2010
6 11 (0.81%) Confluence
7 9 (0.66%) Skype for Business
7 9 (0.66%) WordPress
8 7 (0.51%) nginx
8 7 (0.51%) 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 (13.16%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.74%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.15%) Trello
6 1 (0.074%) 1Password
Business Applications
1 4 (0.29%) Carpe Diem
1 4 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
1 4 (0.29%) Sage 200
2 2 (0.15%) Eikon
2 2 (0.15%) Elite 3E
2 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.15%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 2 (0.15%) Shopify
3 1 (0.074%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 633 (46.54%) Azure
2 519 (38.16%) Microsoft 365
3 195 (14.34%) AWS
4 172 (12.65%) Entra ID
5 87 (6.40%) IaaS
6 79 (5.81%) OneDrive
7 75 (5.51%) PaaS
8 69 (5.07%) Amazon S3
9 65 (4.78%) GCP
10 61 (4.49%) SaaS
11 42 (3.09%) Cloud Computing
12 31 (2.28%) Azure DevOps
12 31 (2.28%) Azure Monitor
13 30 (2.21%) Mimecast
14 21 (1.54%) GitHub
15 19 (1.40%) Amazon EC2
15 19 (1.40%) Serverless
16 17 (1.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
17 15 (1.10%) Power Platform
17 15 (1.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 920 (67.65%) Firewall
2 499 (36.69%) WAN
3 470 (34.56%) LAN
4 408 (30.00%) DNS
5 316 (23.24%) DHCP
6 264 (19.41%) VLAN
7 261 (19.19%) TCP/IP
8 220 (16.18%) Network Security
9 207 (15.22%) Wireless
10 204 (15.00%) Wi-Fi
11 171 (12.57%) IPsec
12 168 (12.35%) Internet
13 130 (9.56%) MPLS
14 129 (9.49%) BGP
15 118 (8.68%) SD-WAN
16 114 (8.38%) SAN
17 110 (8.09%) OSPF
18 106 (7.79%) VoIP
19 83 (6.10%) SSL
20 68 (5.00%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (6.54%) SQL Server
2 67 (4.93%) MongoDB
3 59 (4.34%) Elasticsearch
4 40 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
5 28 (2.06%) NoSQL
6 13 (0.96%) Power BI
7 11 (0.81%) MySQL
8 8 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (0.59%) BigQuery
8 8 (0.59%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (0.51%) Redis
10 5 (0.37%) DB2
11 4 (0.29%) 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 (2.57%) JIRA
2 26 (1.91%) Git
3 21 (1.54%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.88%) GitLab
5 10 (0.74%) Trac
6 5 (0.37%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.22%) Subversion
9 1 (0.074%) Selenium
General
1 425 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 160 (11.76%) Finance
3 114 (8.38%) Telecoms
4 99 (7.28%) Analytical Skills
5 71 (5.22%) Retail
6 52 (3.82%) Law
7 44 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 29 (2.13%) Manufacturing
9 26 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
10 22 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
11 21 (1.54%) Legal
12 19 (1.40%) Banking
13 14 (1.03%) German Language
14 13 (0.96%) Back Office
14 13 (0.96%) Billing
15 12 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
16 11 (0.81%) Games
17 10 (0.74%) Local Government
18 7 (0.51%) Investment Banking
18 7 (0.51%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 264 (19.41%) Network Engineer
2 177 (13.01%) IT Support
3 173 (12.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 172 (12.65%) Senior
5 171 (12.57%) Support Engineer
6 152 (11.18%) Analyst
7 145 (10.66%) IT Engineer
8 102 (7.50%) Architect
9 96 (7.06%) IT Support Engineer
10 85 (6.25%) Consultant
11 62 (4.56%) IT Analyst
12 61 (4.49%) Service Analyst
13 60 (4.41%) Infrastructure Architect
14 58 (4.26%) Service Desk Analyst
15 57 (4.19%) Lead
16 55 (4.04%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 54 (3.97%) NetApp Consultant
18 53 (3.90%) Senior Network Engineer
19 49 (3.60%) Support Analyst
20 47 (3.46%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (5.81%) YAML
2 54 (3.97%) RabbitMQ
3 37 (2.72%) 802.1X
4 29 (2.13%) LDAP
5 28 (2.06%) JSON
6 26 (1.91%) XML
7 25 (1.84%) SOAP
8 23 (1.69%) HTML
9 18 (1.32%) Web Services
10 17 (1.25%) REST
11 13 (0.96%) CSS
12 12 (0.88%) NETCONF
12 12 (0.88%) RESTCONF
13 11 (0.81%) LAMP
13 11 (0.81%) YANG
14 10 (0.74%) ARM Templates
15 8 (0.59%) Ajax
15 8 (0.59%) SAML
16 7 (0.51%) .NET
16 7 (0.51%) ADSI
Miscellaneous
1 248 (18.24%) Data Centre
2 71 (5.22%) Driving Licence
2 71 (5.22%) Management Information System
3 64 (4.71%) Replication
4 62 (4.56%) Public Cloud
5 43 (3.16%) PKI
6 36 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
7 33 (2.43%) Onboarding
8 32 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
9 25 (1.84%) Clustering
10 21 (1.54%) Client/Server
11 19 (1.40%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 19 (1.40%) Video Conferencing
12 16 (1.18%) Product Ownership
13 15 (1.10%) Security Posture
14 13 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
14 13 (0.96%) Private Cloud
15 12 (0.88%) Cloud Native
16 10 (0.74%) IoT
16 10 (0.74%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 719 (52.87%) Windows
2 369 (27.13%) Windows Server
3 307 (22.57%) Linux
4 143 (10.51%) Windows 10
5 77 (5.66%) Windows Server 2019
6 70 (5.15%) Windows Server 2016
7 69 (5.07%) Ubuntu
8 60 (4.41%) Windows Server 2012
9 54 (3.97%) Data ONTAP
10 53 (3.90%) VMS
11 43 (3.16%) Mac OS
12 42 (3.09%) Apple iOS
13 37 (2.72%) Android
13 37 (2.72%) Unix
14 20 (1.47%) Windows Server 2008
15 19 (1.40%) Windows 7
16 18 (1.32%) CentOS
17 17 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 12 (0.88%) Mac OS X
19 9 (0.66%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (19.78%) Problem-Solving
2 219 (16.10%) Customer Service
3 212 (15.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 209 (15.37%) ITIL
5 138 (10.15%) Agile
6 135 (9.93%) Cybersecurity
7 129 (9.49%) Project Management
8 117 (8.60%) DevOps
9 111 (8.16%) Disaster Recovery
10 105 (7.72%) Actionable Insight
11 100 (7.35%) Mentoring
12 95 (6.99%) Service Management
13 94 (6.91%) Roadmaps
14 92 (6.76%) Computer Science
15 91 (6.69%) Infrastructure Management
16 89 (6.54%) Project Delivery
17 87 (6.40%) Service Delivery
18 79 (5.81%) Migration
19 73 (5.37%) Network Monitoring
20 71 (5.22%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 191 (14.04%) PowerShell
2 146 (10.74%) Python
3 115 (8.46%) SQL
4 35 (2.57%) Bash
5 19 (1.40%) JavaScript
6 13 (0.96%) C#
7 11 (0.81%) Java
8 7 (0.51%) Perl
8 7 (0.51%) Shell Script
9 5 (0.37%) JSX
9 5 (0.37%) R
9 5 (0.37%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.22%) Groovy
10 3 (0.22%) Ruby
10 3 (0.22%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.15%) Korn
11 2 (0.15%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.15%) PHP
12 1 (0.074%) C
12 1 (0.074%) C++
Qualifications
1 223 (16.40%) Cisco Certification
2 176 (12.94%) Degree
3 145 (10.66%) CCNA
4 133 (9.78%) Security Cleared
5 124 (9.12%) CCNP
6 85 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
7 75 (5.51%) SC Cleared
8 52 (3.82%) CISSP
9 50 (3.68%) Azure Certification
10 45 (3.31%) MCSE
11 44 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
12 39 (2.87%) DV Cleared
13 34 (2.50%) MCSA
14 31 (2.28%) CCIE
15 21 (1.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 20 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
16 20 (1.47%) CISM
17 19 (1.40%) ITIL Certification
18 17 (1.25%) AWS Certification
18 17 (1.25%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (7.94%) SLA
2 47 (3.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 36 (2.65%) GDPR
4 32 (2.35%) NIST
5 23 (1.69%) PCI DSS
6 19 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 9 (0.66%) HIPAA
8 8 (0.59%) NCSC
9 7 (0.51%) GRC
10 6 (0.44%) QA
11 5 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 4 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.22%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.15%) ISO 22301
14 2 (0.15%) ISO 9001
15 1 (0.074%) COBIT
15 1 (0.074%) ISO 31000
15 1 (0.074%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 1 (0.074%) NIST 800
System Software
1 569 (41.84%) Active Directory
2 298 (21.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 222 (16.32%) Hyper-V
4 99 (7.28%) Docker
5 69 (5.07%) Virtual Machines
6 68 (5.00%) vSphere
7 64 (4.71%) VMware ESXi
8 26 (1.91%) Virtual Desktop
9 21 (1.54%) pfSense
10 20 (1.47%) VMware NSX
11 15 (1.10%) Virtual Servers
12 14 (1.03%) NFS
13 13 (0.96%) Terminal Services
13 13 (0.96%) vCloud
14 10 (0.74%) Firmware
15 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 4 (0.29%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 4 (0.29%) XenDesktop
17 3 (0.22%) Terminal Server
17 3 (0.22%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 180 (13.24%) Microsoft Intune
2 149 (10.96%) Ansible
3 119 (8.75%) Terraform
4 98 (7.21%) Kubernetes
5 80 (5.88%) SCCM
6 64 (4.71%) Prometheus
6 64 (4.71%) vCenter Server
7 50 (3.68%) WSUS
8 43 (3.16%) FortiGate
9 31 (2.28%) ZABBIX
10 24 (1.76%) Grafana
10 24 (1.76%) Jamf Pro
10 24 (1.76%) Single Sign-On
11 18 (1.32%) Puppet
12 17 (1.25%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 16 (1.18%) Autotask
13 16 (1.18%) SCDPM
14 13 (0.96%) AirWatch
14 13 (0.96%) Microsoft Clustering
15 12 (0.88%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 601 (44.19%) Microsoft
2 408 (30.00%) VMware
3 398 (29.26%) Cisco
4 159 (11.69%) Palo Alto
5 118 (8.68%) Juniper
5 118 (8.68%) Meraki
6 111 (8.16%) Veeam
7 94 (6.91%) Citrix
8 89 (6.54%) Fortinet
9 78 (5.74%) Red Hat
10 72 (5.29%) NetApp
11 59 (4.34%) HP
11 59 (4.34%) SolarWinds
12 54 (3.97%) SolidFire
13 51 (3.75%) CheckPoint
14 47 (3.46%) F5
15 44 (3.24%) Apple
16 42 (3.09%) Aruba
16 42 (3.09%) Sophos
17 37 (2.72%) Google