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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 215 224 312
Rank change year-on-year +9 +88 -72
Permanent jobs citing VPN 1,377 1,671 2,004
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.39% 1.65% 1.28%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.19% 10.59% 9.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,078 1,249 1,584
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,450 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £58,750 £66,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £43,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -8.05% +2.35% +1.56%

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 13,519 15,777 20,936
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.64% 15.57% 13.34%
Number of salaries quoted 9,433 8,018 11,667
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,625 £45,000 £46,223
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.64% +2.72%

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 9 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 9 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 +20 1,234 £45,000 -10.00% 291
UK excluding London +6 953 £40,000 -8.05% 216
Work from Home +13 535 £52,500 - 161
London 0 366 £55,000 -8.33% 84
South East +4 280 £46,500 +12.05% 46
North of England +31 230 £40,000 -11.11% 56
Midlands +19 164 £39,750 -11.67% 56
Yorkshire +98 118 £37,500 -23.08% 16
South West -23 110 £37,500 +0.67% 25
West Midlands +8 98 £39,875 -11.39% 28
North West -33 90 £45,000 - 31
East of England +25 84 £38,750 -22.50% 21
East Midlands +16 65 £39,000 +11.43% 28
Scotland -79 52 £50,000 -9.09% 15
North East +7 28 £35,250 -11.27% 9
Wales -12 26 £42,977 -4.50% 1
Northern Ireland +21 12 £37,500 -16.67% 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
1 239 (17.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 184 (13.36%) SharePoint
3 58 (4.21%) Apache
4 34 (2.47%) IIS
5 32 (2.32%) Exchange Server 2010
6 10 (0.73%) Confluence
7 9 (0.65%) Skype for Business
7 9 (0.65%) 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
1 181 (13.14%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.65%) 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 6 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.36%) Carpe Diem
3 4 (0.29%) Sage 200
4 3 (0.22%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.15%) Eikon
5 2 (0.15%) Shopify
6 1 (0.073%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 644 (46.77%) Azure
2 552 (40.09%) Microsoft 365
3 195 (14.16%) AWS
4 177 (12.85%) Entra ID
5 91 (6.61%) IaaS
6 81 (5.88%) OneDrive
7 80 (5.81%) PaaS
8 69 (5.01%) Amazon S3
9 65 (4.72%) GCP
10 60 (4.36%) SaaS
11 40 (2.90%) Cloud Computing
12 36 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
13 34 (2.47%) Mimecast
14 33 (2.40%) Azure Monitor
15 21 (1.53%) GitHub
16 19 (1.38%) Amazon EC2
16 19 (1.38%) Serverless
17 16 (1.16%) Azure ExpressRoute
17 16 (1.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 15 (1.09%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 922 (66.96%) Firewall
2 496 (36.02%) WAN
3 465 (33.77%) LAN
4 423 (30.72%) DNS
5 329 (23.89%) DHCP
6 272 (19.75%) VLAN
7 258 (18.74%) TCP/IP
8 216 (15.69%) Network Security
9 209 (15.18%) Wireless
10 203 (14.74%) Wi-Fi
11 164 (11.91%) IPsec
12 163 (11.84%) Internet
13 127 (9.22%) MPLS
14 125 (9.08%) BGP
15 118 (8.57%) SAN
16 117 (8.50%) SD-WAN
17 112 (8.13%) VoIP
18 108 (7.84%) OSPF
19 84 (6.10%) SSL
20 68 (4.94%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (6.75%) SQL Server
2 67 (4.87%) MongoDB
3 60 (4.36%) Elasticsearch
4 42 (3.05%) Amazon RDS
5 28 (2.03%) NoSQL
6 13 (0.94%) MySQL
6 13 (0.94%) Power BI
7 8 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (0.58%) BigQuery
8 7 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (0.51%) Redis
9 5 (0.36%) DB2
9 5 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (0.29%) 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 35 (2.54%) JIRA
2 25 (1.82%) Git
3 21 (1.53%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.87%) GitLab
5 10 (0.73%) Trac
6 7 (0.51%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.36%) 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
1 423 (30.72%) Social Skills
2 171 (12.42%) Finance
3 108 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (7.70%) Telecoms
5 64 (4.65%) Retail
6 50 (3.63%) Law
7 42 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 29 (2.11%) Manufacturing
9 26 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
10 22 (1.60%) Banking
10 22 (1.60%) Legal
11 21 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
12 15 (1.09%) Billing
13 14 (1.02%) German Language
14 13 (0.94%) Games
14 13 (0.94%) Public Sector
15 12 (0.87%) Back Office
16 10 (0.73%) Local Government
16 10 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
17 7 (0.51%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 250 (18.16%) Network Engineer
2 186 (13.51%) IT Support
3 185 (13.44%) Senior
4 171 (12.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 165 (11.98%) Support Engineer
6 159 (11.55%) Analyst
7 154 (11.18%) IT Engineer
8 109 (7.92%) Architect
9 95 (6.90%) IT Support Engineer
10 89 (6.46%) Consultant
11 67 (4.87%) IT Analyst
12 63 (4.58%) Infrastructure Architect
13 59 (4.28%) Support Analyst
14 56 (4.07%) Service Analyst
15 54 (3.92%) Lead
15 54 (3.92%) NetApp Consultant
15 54 (3.92%) Senior Network Engineer
16 53 (3.85%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 53 (3.85%) Service Desk Analyst
17 51 (3.70%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (5.88%) YAML
2 54 (3.92%) RabbitMQ
3 38 (2.76%) 802.1X
4 33 (2.40%) JSON
5 32 (2.32%) LDAP
6 28 (2.03%) HTML
6 28 (2.03%) XML
7 26 (1.89%) SOAP
8 20 (1.45%) Web Services
9 17 (1.23%) REST
10 14 (1.02%) ARM Templates
10 14 (1.02%) CSS
11 11 (0.80%) LAMP
11 11 (0.80%) NETCONF
11 11 (0.80%) RESTCONF
11 11 (0.80%) YANG
12 8 (0.58%) .NET
12 8 (0.58%) Ajax
12 8 (0.58%) SAML
13 7 (0.51%) ADSI
Miscellaneous
1 255 (18.52%) Data Centre
2 78 (5.66%) Public Cloud
3 72 (5.23%) Management Information System
4 71 (5.16%) Driving Licence
5 70 (5.08%) Replication
6 47 (3.41%) PKI
7 36 (2.61%) Hybrid Cloud
8 35 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
9 34 (2.47%) Onboarding
10 23 (1.67%) Clustering
11 21 (1.53%) Client/Server
12 20 (1.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 20 (1.45%) Video Conferencing
13 17 (1.23%) Private Cloud
14 16 (1.16%) Product Ownership
15 15 (1.09%) Security Posture
16 13 (0.94%) CMDB
17 11 (0.80%) Cloud Native
17 11 (0.80%) Linux Command Line
17 11 (0.80%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 743 (53.96%) Windows
2 391 (28.40%) Windows Server
3 307 (22.29%) Linux
4 141 (10.24%) Windows 10
5 83 (6.03%) Windows Server 2019
6 77 (5.59%) Windows Server 2016
7 70 (5.08%) Windows Server 2012
8 67 (4.87%) Ubuntu
9 54 (3.92%) Data ONTAP
10 50 (3.63%) VMS
11 45 (3.27%) Mac OS
12 44 (3.20%) Apple iOS
13 36 (2.61%) Unix
14 35 (2.54%) Android
15 23 (1.67%) Windows Server 2008
16 20 (1.45%) Windows 7
17 18 (1.31%) CentOS
18 16 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
19 14 (1.02%) Mac OS X
20 12 (0.87%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 279 (20.26%) Problem-Solving
2 220 (15.98%) ITIL
3 215 (15.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 213 (15.47%) Customer Service
5 143 (10.38%) Agile
5 143 (10.38%) Cybersecurity
6 133 (9.66%) Project Management
7 126 (9.15%) DevOps
8 114 (8.28%) Disaster Recovery
9 108 (7.84%) Actionable Insight
10 103 (7.48%) Service Management
11 98 (7.12%) Mentoring
12 96 (6.97%) Service Delivery
13 95 (6.90%) Project Delivery
14 93 (6.75%) Roadmaps
15 91 (6.61%) Infrastructure Management
16 88 (6.39%) Computer Science
17 82 (5.95%) Migration
18 75 (5.45%) Load Balancing
19 70 (5.08%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 204 (14.81%) PowerShell
2 147 (10.68%) Python
3 129 (9.37%) SQL
4 38 (2.76%) Bash
5 21 (1.53%) JavaScript
6 16 (1.16%) C#
7 10 (0.73%) Java
8 6 (0.44%) Perl
8 6 (0.44%) Shell Script
9 5 (0.36%) Groovy
9 5 (0.36%) JSX
9 5 (0.36%) R
9 5 (0.36%) TypeScript
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 (0.073%) C
12 1 (0.073%) VBA
Qualifications
1 219 (15.90%) Cisco Certification
2 167 (12.13%) Degree
3 137 (9.95%) Security Cleared
4 135 (9.80%) CCNA
5 121 (8.79%) CCNP
6 89 (6.46%) Microsoft Certification
7 81 (5.88%) SC Cleared
8 54 (3.92%) Azure Certification
9 52 (3.78%) CISSP
10 47 (3.41%) MCSE
11 45 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
12 37 (2.69%) MCSA
13 36 (2.61%) DV Cleared
14 33 (2.40%) CCIE
15 24 (1.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 20 (1.45%) CISM
17 19 (1.38%) AWS Certification
18 18 (1.31%) A+ Certification
18 18 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
18 18 (1.31%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (8.57%) SLA
2 45 (3.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 35 (2.54%) GDPR
4 33 (2.40%) NIST
5 23 (1.67%) PCI DSS
6 17 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 9 (0.65%) HIPAA
8 7 (0.51%) GRC
8 7 (0.51%) NCSC
9 6 (0.44%) QA
10 5 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
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%) Accessibility
14 1 (0.073%) COBIT
14 1 (0.073%) FISMA
14 1 (0.073%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 587 (42.63%) Active Directory
2 320 (23.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 238 (17.28%) Hyper-V
4 103 (7.48%) Docker
5 80 (5.81%) vSphere
6 71 (5.16%) Virtual Machines
7 69 (5.01%) VMware ESXi
8 29 (2.11%) Virtual Desktop
9 21 (1.53%) pfSense
10 20 (1.45%) VMware NSX
11 18 (1.31%) Virtual Servers
12 16 (1.16%) vCloud
13 14 (1.02%) NFS
13 14 (1.02%) Terminal Services
14 11 (0.80%) Firmware
15 5 (0.36%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 4 (0.29%) XenDesktop
17 3 (0.22%) Terminal Server
17 3 (0.22%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 190 (13.80%) Microsoft Intune
2 149 (10.82%) Ansible
3 118 (8.57%) Terraform
4 105 (7.63%) Kubernetes
5 83 (6.03%) SCCM
6 64 (4.65%) Prometheus
7 63 (4.58%) vCenter Server
8 51 (3.70%) WSUS
9 48 (3.49%) FortiGate
10 29 (2.11%) ZABBIX
11 28 (2.03%) Jamf Pro
12 26 (1.89%) Grafana
13 22 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
14 20 (1.45%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
15 18 (1.31%) Puppet
16 16 (1.16%) SCDPM
17 15 (1.09%) Autotask
18 14 (1.02%) AirWatch
18 14 (1.02%) Failover Clustering
19 11 (0.80%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 617 (44.81%) Microsoft
2 433 (31.45%) VMware
3 406 (29.48%) Cisco
4 159 (11.55%) Palo Alto
5 123 (8.93%) Meraki
6 122 (8.86%) Juniper
7 119 (8.64%) Veeam
8 105 (7.63%) Citrix
9 89 (6.46%) Fortinet
10 76 (5.52%) Red Hat
11 72 (5.23%) NetApp
12 65 (4.72%) HP
13 61 (4.43%) SolarWinds
14 57 (4.14%) CheckPoint
15 54 (3.92%) SolidFire
16 49 (3.56%) F5
17 47 (3.41%) Apple
18 46 (3.34%) Aruba
19 43 (3.12%) Sophos
20 40 (2.90%) Google