VPN Jobs in the South West

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 187 169 159
Rank change year-on-year -18 -10 +2
Permanent jobs citing VPN 113 107 171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.20% 1.59% 2.07%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.13% 8.29% 12.93%
Number of salaries quoted 96 80 133
10th Percentile £25,000 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £27,500 £28,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £36,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -24.21% +57.02%
75th Percentile £50,000 £52,813 £66,250
90th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

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 South West with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,238 1,291 1,322
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 13.19% 19.20% 15.99%
Number of salaries quoted 932 537 727
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £32,403
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £57,500 £62,833 £63,625
90th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing VPN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for VPN in the South West

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Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for VPN in the South West

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Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing VPN in the South West over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for VPN in the South West

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Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the South West region over the 6 months to 20 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
Bristol +24 35 £37,500 -23.08% 14
Gloucestershire -8 32 £30,000 -7.69% 3
Devon -2 22 £57,500 +48.20% 3
Somerset +8 8 £31,000 -29.14% 3
Cornwall -11 7 £30,000 -3.23% 1
Dorset -36 5 £42,500 -19.05% 2
Wiltshire -33 2 £35,000 - 4
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 24 (21.24%) SharePoint
2 14 (12.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.54%) Apache
3 4 (3.54%) Confluence
4 1 (0.88%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 16 (14.16%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.77%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 57 (50.44%) Azure
2 43 (38.05%) Microsoft 365
3 32 (28.32%) Entra ID
4 16 (14.16%) OneDrive
5 13 (11.50%) AWS
6 4 (3.54%) Amazon S3
6 4 (3.54%) WhatsApp
7 3 (2.65%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.77%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (1.77%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.77%) GCP
8 2 (1.77%) Mimecast
8 2 (1.77%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.77%) Serverless
8 2 (1.77%) Slack
9 1 (0.88%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.88%) Google Sheets
9 1 (0.88%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.88%) Pulumi
9 1 (0.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 62 (54.87%) Firewall
2 52 (46.02%) LAN
3 44 (38.94%) WAN
4 41 (36.28%) DNS
5 29 (25.66%) DHCP
6 28 (24.78%) Wi-Fi
7 25 (22.12%) Wireless
8 24 (21.24%) TCP/IP
9 22 (19.47%) VLAN
10 18 (15.93%) SD-WAN
11 15 (13.27%) IPsec
11 15 (13.27%) Network Security
12 10 (8.85%) OSPF
13 6 (5.31%) BGP
13 6 (5.31%) NetScaler
14 5 (4.42%) MPLS
15 4 (3.54%) 802.11
15 4 (3.54%) Cisco Nexus
15 4 (3.54%) Intrusion Detection
15 4 (3.54%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.31%) MongoDB
2 5 (4.42%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (3.54%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.65%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.77%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.77%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.88%) Power BI
6 1 (0.88%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 3 (2.65%) JIRA
2 2 (1.77%) Git
2 2 (1.77%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.88%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 31 (27.43%) Social Skills
2 21 (18.58%) Telecoms
3 6 (5.31%) Law
4 4 (3.54%) Finance
5 3 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.65%) Legal
5 3 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.77%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.77%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.88%) Games
7 1 (0.88%) Marketing
7 1 (0.88%) Military
7 1 (0.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (23.01%) IT Engineer
1 26 (23.01%) Support Engineer
2 24 (21.24%) IT Support
3 20 (17.70%) IT Support Engineer
4 15 (13.27%) Analyst
5 14 (12.39%) Network Manager
6 13 (11.50%) Service Analyst
6 13 (11.50%) Service Desk Analyst
7 12 (10.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (7.08%) Field Engineer
8 8 (7.08%) Network Engineer
9 7 (6.19%) IT Analyst
9 7 (6.19%) Lead
9 7 (6.19%) Network Operations Manager
9 7 (6.19%) NOC Manager
9 7 (6.19%) Operations Manager
10 6 (5.31%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 6 (5.31%) Network Security Manager
10 6 (5.31%) Project Engineer
10 6 (5.31%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.54%) 802.1X
1 4 (3.54%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (3.54%) YAML
2 2 (1.77%) .NET
2 2 (1.77%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (1.77%) Node.js
2 2 (1.77%) React
2 2 (1.77%) RESTful
2 2 (1.77%) X-Windows
3 1 (0.88%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 26 (23.01%) Data Centre
2 10 (8.85%) Driving Licence
3 7 (6.19%) Replication
4 4 (3.54%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.54%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.77%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.77%) iPhone
6 2 (1.77%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.88%) CMDB
7 1 (0.88%) Digital Signage
7 1 (0.88%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 73 (64.60%) Windows
2 36 (31.86%) Windows Server
3 8 (7.08%) Linux
4 7 (6.19%) Windows 10
5 6 (5.31%) Windows 7
5 6 (5.31%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (4.42%) Apple iOS
6 5 (4.42%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (3.54%) Data ONTAP
8 3 (2.65%) Mac OS
8 3 (2.65%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (1.77%) Android
9 2 (1.77%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (38.94%) Customer Service
2 25 (22.12%) ITIL
3 21 (18.58%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (16.81%) Cybersecurity
4 19 (16.81%) Project Delivery
5 17 (15.04%) Service Delivery
6 16 (14.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 14 (12.39%) Office Automation
7 14 (12.39%) Security Patching
8 13 (11.50%) Mentoring
9 12 (10.62%) Customer Experience
9 12 (10.62%) Project Management
9 12 (10.62%) Service Management
10 11 (9.73%) B2B
10 11 (9.73%) Fault Analysis
11 10 (8.85%) Change Management
12 8 (7.08%) Agile
12 8 (7.08%) Data Security
12 8 (7.08%) Incident Management
12 8 (7.08%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (13.27%) Python
2 8 (7.08%) PowerShell
3 6 (5.31%) C#
3 6 (5.31%) SQL
4 5 (4.42%) Bash
5 4 (3.54%) Java
6 3 (2.65%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.88%) Groovy
7 1 (0.88%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.88%) Ruby
7 1 (0.88%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (7.96%) A+ Certification
2 7 (6.19%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (5.31%) CCNP
4 5 (4.42%) CCNA
5 4 (3.54%) Degree
5 4 (3.54%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.65%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (2.65%) MCSE
6 3 (2.65%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.65%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.88%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.88%) CCSP
7 1 (0.88%) CISSP
7 1 (0.88%) MCITP
7 1 (0.88%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.39%) SLA
2 4 (3.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.88%) GDPR
3 1 (0.88%) GRC
3 1 (0.88%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.88%) NIST
3 1 (0.88%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.88%) SOC 2
System Software
1 49 (43.36%) Active Directory
2 18 (15.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (5.31%) Docker
4 5 (4.42%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (3.54%) Firmware
5 4 (3.54%) Hyper-V
5 4 (3.54%) vSphere
6 3 (2.65%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (2.65%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.77%) Terminal Server
7 2 (1.77%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 21 (18.58%) WSUS
2 18 (15.93%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (7.08%) Ansible
3 8 (7.08%) vCenter Server
4 6 (5.31%) Kubernetes
4 6 (5.31%) SCCM
5 5 (4.42%) Prometheus
5 5 (4.42%) Terraform
6 4 (3.54%) Puppet
7 2 (1.77%) FortiGate
7 2 (1.77%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.88%) Consul
8 1 (0.88%) Kibana
8 1 (0.88%) Packer
8 1 (0.88%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 44 (38.94%) Microsoft
2 33 (29.20%) Cisco
3 23 (20.35%) VMware
4 14 (12.39%) Citrix
5 12 (10.62%) Meraki
6 8 (7.08%) Veeam
7 7 (6.19%) Fortinet
7 7 (6.19%) Sophos
8 6 (5.31%) Aderant
8 6 (5.31%) iManage
8 6 (5.31%) NetApp
8 6 (5.31%) Palo Alto
8 6 (5.31%) ServiceNow
9 5 (4.42%) SolarWinds
10 4 (3.54%) HP
10 4 (3.54%) Red Hat
10 4 (3.54%) SolidFire
11 3 (2.65%) Apple
12 2 (1.77%) Dell
12 2 (1.77%) Google