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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 224 223 329
Rank change year-on-year -1 +106 -87
Permanent jobs citing VPN 1,361 1,669 1,999
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.36% 1.68% 1.24%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.10% 10.68% 9.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,066 1,244 1,571
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,344 £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 £44,800 £42,500
% change year-on-year -10.71% +5.41% +2.00%

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 13,478 15,631 21,424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.49% 15.76% 13.33%
Number of salaries quoted 9,397 7,898 11,750
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 £77,580 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% -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 18 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 18 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 +8 1,220 £45,000 -10.00% 287
UK excluding London -4 941 £40,000 -10.71% 217
Work from Home +19 529 £52,500 - 136
London -5 361 £55,000 -8.33% 94
South East +10 278 £46,500 +10.71% 46
North of England +25 225 £40,000 -11.11% 58
Midlands +22 167 £39,750 -11.67% 46
Yorkshire +91 114 £37,500 -25.00% 24
South West -23 110 £37,500 +4.17% 28
West Midlands +10 98 £39,875 -11.63% 23
North West -38 89 £45,000 - 26
East of England +11 79 £38,750 -26.19% 20
East Midlands +24 68 £39,000 +11.43% 23
Scotland -75 52 £50,000 -9.09% 18
North East +7 28 £35,250 -11.27% 8
Wales -9 23 £44,886 -0.25% 3
Northern Ireland +16 12 £37,500 -11.76% 3
Isle of Man - 6 £46,500 - 1

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
1 231 (16.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 186 (13.67%) SharePoint
3 58 (4.26%) Apache
4 35 (2.57%) IIS
5 32 (2.35%) Exchange Server 2010
6 10 (0.73%) 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 (0.073%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.073%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 179 (13.15%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.66%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.15%) Trello
6 1 (0.073%) 1Password
6 1 (0.073%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.37%) Carpe Diem
1 5 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.29%) Sage 200
3 3 (0.22%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.15%) Eikon
4 2 (0.15%) Shopify
5 1 (0.073%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 632 (46.44%) Azure
2 535 (39.31%) Microsoft 365
3 194 (14.25%) AWS
4 172 (12.64%) Entra ID
5 89 (6.54%) IaaS
6 81 (5.95%) OneDrive
7 77 (5.66%) PaaS
8 69 (5.07%) Amazon S3
9 64 (4.70%) GCP
10 60 (4.41%) SaaS
11 40 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
12 34 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
13 33 (2.42%) Azure Monitor
14 31 (2.28%) Mimecast
15 21 (1.54%) GitHub
16 19 (1.40%) Amazon EC2
16 19 (1.40%) Serverless
17 16 (1.18%) Azure ExpressRoute
17 16 (1.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 15 (1.10%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 910 (66.86%) Firewall
2 492 (36.15%) WAN
3 463 (34.02%) LAN
4 417 (30.64%) DNS
5 321 (23.59%) DHCP
6 269 (19.76%) VLAN
7 260 (19.10%) TCP/IP
8 214 (15.72%) Network Security
9 205 (15.06%) Wireless
10 202 (14.84%) Wi-Fi
11 165 (12.12%) IPsec
12 164 (12.05%) Internet
13 128 (9.40%) MPLS
14 126 (9.26%) BGP
15 116 (8.52%) SAN
15 116 (8.52%) SD-WAN
16 109 (8.01%) VoIP
17 108 (7.94%) OSPF
18 83 (6.10%) SSL
19 68 (5.00%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (6.91%) SQL Server
2 67 (4.92%) MongoDB
3 60 (4.41%) Elasticsearch
4 40 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
5 28 (2.06%) NoSQL
6 13 (0.96%) MySQL
6 13 (0.96%) Power BI
7 8 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (0.59%) BigQuery
8 7 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (0.51%) Redis
9 5 (0.37%) DB2
10 4 (0.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.22%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.22%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.15%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.15%) InfluxDB
12 2 (0.15%) Looker
12 2 (0.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 1 (0.073%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 34 (2.50%) JIRA
2 25 (1.84%) Git
3 21 (1.54%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.88%) GitLab
5 10 (0.73%) Trac
6 7 (0.51%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.37%) Subversion
8 3 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.15%) Spinnaker
9 2 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.073%) Selenium
General
1 420 (30.86%) Social Skills
2 170 (12.49%) Finance
3 109 (8.01%) Telecoms
4 105 (7.71%) Analytical Skills
5 67 (4.92%) Retail
6 52 (3.82%) Law
7 41 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 30 (2.20%) Manufacturing
9 26 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
10 23 (1.69%) Banking
11 21 (1.54%) Legal
12 20 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
13 14 (1.03%) Billing
13 14 (1.03%) German Language
14 12 (0.88%) Back Office
15 11 (0.81%) Games
16 10 (0.73%) Local Government
16 10 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
16 10 (0.73%) Public Sector
17 7 (0.51%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 250 (18.37%) Network Engineer
2 183 (13.45%) IT Support
3 178 (13.08%) Senior
4 169 (12.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 166 (12.20%) Support Engineer
6 156 (11.46%) Analyst
7 149 (10.95%) IT Engineer
8 106 (7.79%) Architect
9 95 (6.98%) IT Support Engineer
10 87 (6.39%) Consultant
11 66 (4.85%) IT Analyst
12 61 (4.48%) Infrastructure Architect
13 58 (4.26%) Service Analyst
14 56 (4.11%) Lead
14 56 (4.11%) Support Analyst
15 55 (4.04%) Service Desk Analyst
16 54 (3.97%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 54 (3.97%) NetApp Consultant
17 52 (3.82%) Senior Network Engineer
18 48 (3.53%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (5.88%) YAML
2 54 (3.97%) RabbitMQ
3 38 (2.79%) 802.1X
4 32 (2.35%) JSON
5 30 (2.20%) LDAP
6 27 (1.98%) XML
7 26 (1.91%) HTML
8 25 (1.84%) SOAP
9 19 (1.40%) Web Services
10 17 (1.25%) REST
11 13 (0.96%) ARM Templates
11 13 (0.96%) CSS
12 11 (0.81%) LAMP
12 11 (0.81%) NETCONF
12 11 (0.81%) RESTCONF
12 11 (0.81%) YANG
13 8 (0.59%) .NET
13 8 (0.59%) SAML
14 7 (0.51%) ADSI
14 7 (0.51%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 252 (18.52%) Data Centre
2 72 (5.29%) Public Cloud
3 71 (5.22%) Management Information System
4 70 (5.14%) Driving Licence
5 67 (4.92%) Replication
6 45 (3.31%) PKI
7 36 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
8 34 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
9 33 (2.42%) Onboarding
10 24 (1.76%) Clustering
11 21 (1.54%) Client/Server
12 20 (1.47%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 20 (1.47%) Video Conferencing
13 16 (1.18%) Private Cloud
13 16 (1.18%) Product Ownership
14 15 (1.10%) Security Posture
15 12 (0.88%) Cloud Native
15 12 (0.88%) CMDB
16 10 (0.73%) IoT
16 10 (0.73%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 731 (53.71%) Windows
2 380 (27.92%) Windows Server
3 305 (22.41%) Linux
4 142 (10.43%) Windows 10
5 82 (6.02%) Windows Server 2019
6 76 (5.58%) Windows Server 2016
7 68 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
8 67 (4.92%) Ubuntu
9 54 (3.97%) Data ONTAP
10 51 (3.75%) VMS
11 43 (3.16%) Apple iOS
12 42 (3.09%) Mac OS
13 37 (2.72%) Unix
14 35 (2.57%) Android
15 22 (1.62%) Windows Server 2008
16 20 (1.47%) Windows 7
17 18 (1.32%) CentOS
17 18 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 14 (1.03%) Mac OS X
19 11 (0.81%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (20.21%) Problem-Solving
2 214 (15.72%) ITIL
3 213 (15.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 212 (15.58%) Customer Service
5 142 (10.43%) Agile
6 138 (10.14%) Cybersecurity
7 133 (9.77%) Project Management
8 124 (9.11%) DevOps
9 111 (8.16%) Disaster Recovery
10 105 (7.71%) Actionable Insight
11 100 (7.35%) Service Management
12 98 (7.20%) Mentoring
13 93 (6.83%) Project Delivery
13 93 (6.83%) Roadmaps
13 93 (6.83%) Service Delivery
14 91 (6.69%) Infrastructure Management
15 90 (6.61%) Computer Science
16 81 (5.95%) Migration
17 76 (5.58%) Load Balancing
18 68 (5.00%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 194 (14.25%) PowerShell
2 146 (10.73%) Python
3 124 (9.11%) SQL
4 34 (2.50%) Bash
5 20 (1.47%) JavaScript
6 15 (1.10%) C#
7 10 (0.73%) Java
8 7 (0.51%) Perl
9 6 (0.44%) Shell Script
10 5 (0.37%) Groovy
10 5 (0.37%) JSX
10 5 (0.37%) R
10 5 (0.37%) TypeScript
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 (0.073%) Rust
13 1 (0.073%) VBA
Qualifications
1 219 (16.09%) Cisco Certification
2 168 (12.34%) Degree
3 137 (10.07%) CCNA
4 132 (9.70%) Security Cleared
5 121 (8.89%) CCNP
6 87 (6.39%) Microsoft Certification
7 77 (5.66%) SC Cleared
8 52 (3.82%) Azure Certification
8 52 (3.82%) CISSP
9 46 (3.38%) MCSE
10 45 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
11 36 (2.65%) DV Cleared
11 36 (2.65%) MCSA
12 32 (2.35%) CCIE
13 23 (1.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 20 (1.47%) CISM
15 19 (1.40%) AWS Certification
16 18 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
16 18 (1.32%) ITIL Certification
17 17 (1.25%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (8.16%) SLA
2 45 (3.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 35 (2.57%) GDPR
4 33 (2.42%) NIST
5 23 (1.69%) PCI DSS
6 17 (1.25%) 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 5 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 5 (0.37%) QA
11 4 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.22%) ISO 22301
12 3 (0.22%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.15%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.073%) FISMA
14 1 (0.073%) ISO 31000
14 1 (0.073%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 1 (0.073%) NIST 800
System Software
1 575 (42.25%) Active Directory
2 309 (22.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 228 (16.75%) Hyper-V
4 101 (7.42%) Docker
5 76 (5.58%) vSphere
6 69 (5.07%) VMware ESXi
7 68 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
8 29 (2.13%) Virtual Desktop
9 21 (1.54%) pfSense
10 20 (1.47%) VMware NSX
11 17 (1.25%) Virtual Servers
12 15 (1.10%) NFS
12 15 (1.10%) vCloud
13 14 (1.03%) Terminal Services
14 10 (0.73%) Firmware
15 5 (0.37%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 4 (0.29%) XenDesktop
17 3 (0.22%) Terminal Server
17 3 (0.22%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 182 (13.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 148 (10.87%) Ansible
3 117 (8.60%) Terraform
4 103 (7.57%) Kubernetes
5 81 (5.95%) SCCM
6 64 (4.70%) Prometheus
6 64 (4.70%) vCenter Server
7 51 (3.75%) WSUS
8 44 (3.23%) FortiGate
9 30 (2.20%) ZABBIX
10 25 (1.84%) Grafana
10 25 (1.84%) Jamf Pro
11 22 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
12 19 (1.40%) Puppet
13 18 (1.32%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
14 16 (1.18%) SCDPM
15 15 (1.10%) Autotask
16 14 (1.03%) AirWatch
17 12 (0.88%) Failover Clustering
17 12 (0.88%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 608 (44.67%) Microsoft
2 419 (30.79%) VMware
3 401 (29.46%) Cisco
4 159 (11.68%) Palo Alto
5 118 (8.67%) Juniper
5 118 (8.67%) Meraki
6 114 (8.38%) Veeam
7 100 (7.35%) Citrix
8 88 (6.47%) Fortinet
9 77 (5.66%) Red Hat
10 72 (5.29%) NetApp
11 61 (4.48%) HP
12 59 (4.34%) SolarWinds
13 54 (3.97%) CheckPoint
13 54 (3.97%) SolidFire
14 48 (3.53%) F5
15 44 (3.23%) Apple
16 43 (3.16%) Aruba
16 43 (3.16%) Sophos
17 37 (2.72%) Google