VPN Jobs in Scotland

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 221 148 197
Rank change year-on-year -73 +49 -38
Permanent jobs citing VPN 52 61 61
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.76% 1.40% 1.00%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.02% 8.36% 7.57%
Number of salaries quoted 36 30 44
10th Percentile £25,375 £27,700 £18,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,375 £26,844
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £33,250
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +95.49% -16.88%
75th Percentile £52,500 £80,000 £52,813
90th Percentile £70,000 - £53,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 648 730 806
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 9.48% 16.78% 13.25%
Number of salaries quoted 394 245 381
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,850 £27,125
25th Percentile £35,188 £36,000 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile £62,500 £66,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%

VPN
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for VPN in Scotland

VPN
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for VPN in Scotland

VPN
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing VPN in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for VPN in Scotland

VPN
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 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
Glasgow -112 23 £50,000 +25.00% 3
Edinburgh +20 20 £33,250 -55.67% 8
Banffshire - 4 £22,000 -
Aberdeenshire - 3 £28,500 - 1
Lanarkshire - 1 £52,500 - 1
West Lothian - 1 - - 1
VPN
UK

VPN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 10 (19.23%) Apache
2 8 (15.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (7.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (13.46%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 20 (38.46%) Azure
2 16 (30.77%) AWS
3 14 (26.92%) GCP
4 13 (25.00%) IaaS
4 13 (25.00%) PaaS
5 12 (23.08%) Amazon S3
6 4 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (5.77%) Asana
7 3 (5.77%) Entra ID
7 3 (5.77%) Slack
8 2 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.92%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.92%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.92%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.92%) Google Workspace
9 1 (1.92%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.92%) Serverless
9 1 (1.92%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 40 (76.92%) Firewall
2 33 (63.46%) WAN
3 21 (40.38%) IPsec
4 20 (38.46%) LAN
5 17 (32.69%) TCP/IP
6 13 (25.00%) DNS
6 13 (25.00%) SD-WAN
7 12 (23.08%) DHCP
7 12 (23.08%) Wireless
8 10 (19.23%) Internet
8 10 (19.23%) SNMP
9 8 (15.38%) Spanning Tree
10 6 (11.54%) Network Security
11 5 (9.62%) OSPF
12 4 (7.69%) IMAP
13 3 (5.77%) BGP
13 3 (5.77%) Wi-Fi
13 3 (5.77%) WLAN
14 2 (3.85%) Ethernet
14 2 (3.85%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (26.92%) SQL Server
2 10 (19.23%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (19.23%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.92%) Big Data
3 1 (1.92%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.92%) GitLab
1 1 (1.92%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.92%) JIRA
General
1 24 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 14 (26.92%) Finance
3 4 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (19.23%) Consultant
1 10 (19.23%) NetApp Consultant
2 8 (15.38%) IT Support
2 8 (15.38%) Network Technician
3 7 (13.46%) Cloud Engineer
4 6 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (11.54%) Support Technician
5 5 (9.62%) IT Technician
5 5 (9.62%) Network Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) IT Support Technician
7 3 (5.77%) Analyst
7 3 (5.77%) Architect
7 3 (5.77%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (5.77%) IT Support Specialist
7 3 (5.77%) Network Analyst
7 3 (5.77%) Support Specialist
8 2 (3.85%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (3.85%) Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (3.85%) Network Support
8 2 (3.85%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (19.23%) RabbitMQ
1 10 (19.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (65.38%) Data Centre
2 14 (26.92%) Public Cloud
3 13 (25.00%) Replication
4 4 (7.69%) Driving Licence
5 2 (3.85%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.85%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.85%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.85%) PKI
5 2 (3.85%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.92%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.92%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 35 (67.31%) Windows
2 29 (55.77%) Linux
3 17 (32.69%) Windows Server
4 10 (19.23%) Data ONTAP
5 3 (5.77%) Windows 10
5 3 (5.77%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.92%) Android
6 1 (1.92%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.92%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (34.62%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (32.69%) Disaster Recovery
3 14 (26.92%) DevOps
3 14 (26.92%) Network Virtualisation
4 13 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 13 (25.00%) Project Delivery
5 10 (19.23%) Actionable Insight
5 10 (19.23%) Infrastructure Management
5 10 (19.23%) Project Management
5 10 (19.23%) Project Planning
5 10 (19.23%) Release Management
5 10 (19.23%) Storage Management
6 9 (17.31%) ITSM
6 9 (17.31%) Network Monitoring
7 7 (13.46%) Customer Experience
8 6 (11.54%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 5 (9.62%) Computer Science
10 4 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (7.69%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (19.23%) Python
2 2 (3.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (34.62%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (28.85%) CCNA
3 6 (11.54%) Degree
4 2 (3.85%) CCNP
4 2 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.85%) JNCIP
5 1 (1.92%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.92%) CCIE
5 1 (1.92%) JNCIA
5 1 (1.92%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.92%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.92%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.92%) SOC 2
System Software
1 33 (63.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (25.00%) VMware NSX
3 10 (19.23%) Docker
4 5 (9.62%) Active Directory
5 4 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (5.77%) Hyper-V
7 2 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 25 (48.08%) Ansible
2 15 (28.85%) Terraform
3 13 (25.00%) FortiGate
4 11 (21.15%) Kubernetes
4 11 (21.15%) Prometheus
5 10 (19.23%) vCenter Server
6 2 (3.85%) Puppet
7 1 (1.92%) Grafana
Vendors
1 33 (63.46%) VMware
2 25 (48.08%) Cisco
3 23 (44.23%) NetApp
4 21 (40.38%) Palo Alto
5 11 (21.15%) Juniper
5 11 (21.15%) Meraki
6 10 (19.23%) Microsoft
6 10 (19.23%) Red Hat
6 10 (19.23%) SolidFire
7 2 (3.85%) ConnectWise
7 2 (3.85%) Google
8 1 (1.92%) Atlassian