VPN Jobs in the South West

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring VPN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited VPN over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 181 154 170
Rank change year-on-year -27 +16 -13
Permanent jobs citing VPN 119 105 168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.13% 1.63% 1.93%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.28% 8.54% 12.14%
Number of salaries quoted 97 81 136
10th Percentile £25,000 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £27,500 £28,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £39,289 £47,750
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -17.72% +46.92%
75th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £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 falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,283 1,229 1,384
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 12.15% 19.06% 15.90%
Number of salaries quoted 953 527 731
10th Percentile £26,500 £28,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £31,680
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -6.25% +8.11%
75th Percentile £58,750 £62,833 £65,000
90th Percentile £71,725 £77,715 £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 13 June 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 13 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
Bristol +9 43 £37,500 -30.56% 4
Gloucestershire -9 33 £30,000 -7.69% 4
Devon -1 23 £57,500 +59.08% 6
Somerset -2 6 £26,750 -37.06% 2
Cornwall -13 5 £30,000 -6.25%
Dorset -38 5 £42,500 -24.44% 5
Wiltshire -32 2 £35,000 - 6
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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 22 (18.49%) SharePoint
2 13 (10.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.36%) Apache
3 4 (3.36%) Confluence
4 1 (0.84%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 17 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.68%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 60 (50.42%) Azure
2 44 (36.97%) Microsoft 365
3 29 (24.37%) Entra ID
4 16 (13.45%) AWS
5 14 (11.76%) OneDrive
6 4 (3.36%) Amazon S3
6 4 (3.36%) WhatsApp
7 3 (2.52%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (2.52%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.52%) Serverless
8 2 (1.68%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (1.68%) GCP
8 2 (1.68%) Mimecast
8 2 (1.68%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.68%) SaaS
8 2 (1.68%) Slack
9 1 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.84%) GitHub
9 1 (0.84%) IaaS
9 1 (0.84%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 67 (56.30%) Firewall
2 53 (44.54%) LAN
3 43 (36.13%) WAN
4 40 (33.61%) DNS
5 30 (25.21%) TCP/IP
6 28 (23.53%) DHCP
7 26 (21.85%) Wi-Fi
8 25 (21.01%) Wireless
9 23 (19.33%) VLAN
10 18 (15.13%) Network Security
10 18 (15.13%) SD-WAN
11 13 (10.92%) IPsec
12 7 (5.88%) OSPF
13 6 (5.04%) NetScaler
14 4 (3.36%) 802.11
14 4 (3.36%) BGP
14 4 (3.36%) Cisco Nexus
14 4 (3.36%) Internet
14 4 (3.36%) SAN
14 4 (3.36%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.04%) MongoDB
2 4 (3.36%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (3.36%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.68%) DynamoDB
3 2 (1.68%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.68%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.84%) Power BI
4 1 (0.84%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 5 (4.20%) JIRA
2 2 (1.68%) Git
3 1 (0.84%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.84%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 33 (27.73%) Social Skills
2 23 (19.33%) Telecoms
3 6 (5.04%) Finance
3 6 (5.04%) Law
4 3 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (2.52%) Legal
4 3 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (1.68%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.84%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.84%) Games
6 1 (0.84%) Marketing
6 1 (0.84%) Military
6 1 (0.84%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.84%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (22.69%) IT Engineer
1 27 (22.69%) IT Support
1 27 (22.69%) Support Engineer
2 21 (17.65%) IT Support Engineer
3 19 (15.97%) Analyst
4 16 (13.45%) Service Analyst
4 16 (13.45%) Service Desk Analyst
5 14 (11.76%) Network Manager
6 10 (8.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (8.40%) IT Analyst
6 10 (8.40%) Network Engineer
7 7 (5.88%) Field Engineer
7 7 (5.88%) Lead
7 7 (5.88%) Network Operations Manager
7 7 (5.88%) NOC Manager
7 7 (5.88%) Operations Manager
8 6 (5.04%) Network Security Manager
8 6 (5.04%) Project Engineer
8 6 (5.04%) Security Manager
9 5 (4.20%) Network Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.36%) 802.1X
1 4 (3.36%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (3.36%) YAML
2 2 (1.68%) .NET
2 2 (1.68%) Node.js
2 2 (1.68%) React
2 2 (1.68%) RESTful
2 2 (1.68%) X-Windows
3 1 (0.84%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 26 (21.85%) Data Centre
2 14 (11.76%) Driving Licence
3 7 (5.88%) Replication
4 4 (3.36%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.36%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.52%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.52%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.68%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.68%) iPhone
7 1 (0.84%) Digital Signage
7 1 (0.84%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 76 (63.87%) Windows
2 34 (28.57%) Windows Server
3 8 (6.72%) Linux
3 8 (6.72%) Windows 10
4 7 (5.88%) Apple iOS
5 6 (5.04%) Windows 7
5 6 (5.04%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (4.20%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (3.36%) Data ONTAP
8 3 (2.52%) Mac OS
8 3 (2.52%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (1.68%) Android
9 2 (1.68%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (39.50%) Customer Service
2 26 (21.85%) ITIL
3 24 (20.17%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (16.81%) Cybersecurity
5 19 (15.97%) Project Delivery
6 16 (13.45%) Service Delivery
7 14 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 14 (11.76%) Office Automation
7 14 (11.76%) Security Patching
7 14 (11.76%) Service Management
8 13 (10.92%) Customer Experience
8 13 (10.92%) Project Management
9 12 (10.08%) B2B
9 12 (10.08%) Fault Analysis
9 12 (10.08%) Network Monitoring
10 11 (9.24%) Mentoring
11 10 (8.40%) Change Management
12 8 (6.72%) Agile
12 8 (6.72%) Incident Management
12 8 (6.72%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (10.92%) Python
2 6 (5.04%) C#
2 6 (5.04%) PowerShell
3 4 (3.36%) Java
3 4 (3.36%) SQL
4 3 (2.52%) Bash
4 3 (2.52%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.84%) Groovy
5 1 (0.84%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.84%) Ruby
5 1 (0.84%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (9.24%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (7.56%) CCNP
2 9 (7.56%) Degree
3 7 (5.88%) A+ Certification
4 5 (4.20%) CCNA
4 5 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.36%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.52%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (2.52%) MCSE
6 3 (2.52%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.52%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.68%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.68%) CCSP
7 2 (1.68%) CISSP
8 1 (0.84%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.84%) CISA
8 1 (0.84%) CISM
8 1 (0.84%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.84%) MCITP
8 1 (0.84%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (12.61%) SLA
2 4 (3.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.68%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.84%) FedRAMP
4 1 (0.84%) GDPR
4 1 (0.84%) GRC
4 1 (0.84%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.84%) NIST
4 1 (0.84%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.84%) SOC 2
System Software
1 50 (42.02%) Active Directory
2 18 (15.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (5.04%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (4.20%) Docker
4 5 (4.20%) Hyper-V
5 4 (3.36%) Firmware
5 4 (3.36%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (3.36%) vSphere
6 2 (1.68%) Terminal Server
6 2 (1.68%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.68%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 21 (17.65%) WSUS
2 20 (16.81%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (6.72%) vCenter Server
4 7 (5.88%) Ansible
5 6 (5.04%) SCCM
6 5 (4.20%) Kubernetes
6 5 (4.20%) Prometheus
6 5 (4.20%) Terraform
7 3 (2.52%) Puppet
8 2 (1.68%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.84%) Consul
9 1 (0.84%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.84%) Packer
9 1 (0.84%) SCVMM
9 1 (0.84%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 50 (42.02%) Microsoft
2 35 (29.41%) Cisco
3 23 (19.33%) VMware
4 13 (10.92%) Citrix
5 11 (9.24%) Meraki
6 8 (6.72%) Veeam
7 7 (5.88%) Sophos
8 6 (5.04%) Aderant
8 6 (5.04%) Fortinet
8 6 (5.04%) iManage
8 6 (5.04%) NetApp
8 6 (5.04%) Palo Alto
8 6 (5.04%) ServiceNow
9 5 (4.20%) Apple
9 5 (4.20%) HP
10 4 (3.36%) Red Hat
10 4 (3.36%) SolarWinds
10 4 (3.36%) SolidFire
11 2 (1.68%) Okta
11 2 (1.68%) OneLogin