VPN Contract Job Trends in Derby

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Derbyshire > Derby

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Derby requiring VPN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 - 17
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing VPN 7 0 7
As % of all contract jobs in Derby 4.40% - 5.30%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 30.43% - 31.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £438 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £160
75th Percentile £513 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Derbyshire median daily rate £475 - £160
% change year-on-year - - -54.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £20.29 - -
25th Percentile £20.96 - -
Median hourly rate £24.28 - -
75th Percentile £25.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Derbyshire median hourly rate £24.28 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Derby

VPN falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Derby.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 23 13 22
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derby 14.47% 15.29% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 15
10th Percentile £450 £168 £241
25th Percentile £469 £171 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £200 £538
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% -62.79% +16.22%
75th Percentile £525 - £588
90th Percentile £533 £290 £595
Derbyshire median daily rate £500 £200 £506
% change year-on-year +150.00% -60.49% +44.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 0
10th Percentile £21.18 - -
25th Percentile £21.33 - -
Median hourly rate £22.81 £25.15 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% - -
75th Percentile £25.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Derbyshire median hourly rate £22.81 £25.15 £25.77
% change year-on-year -9.30% -2.39% -51.39%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Derby

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VPN relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Derby.

VPN job vacancy trend in Derby

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Daily Rate Trend in Derby

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Derby citing VPN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Derby citing VPN

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Hourly Rate Trend in Derby

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Derby citing VPN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Derby citing VPN

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derby by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (71.43%) Entra ID
3 4 (57.14%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (28.57%) AWS
5 1 (14.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (14.29%) IaaS
5 1 (14.29%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) BGP
1 2 (28.57%) OSPF
1 2 (28.57%) SD-WAN
1 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
1 2 (28.57%) VLAN
1 2 (28.57%) WAN
2 1 (14.29%) DNS
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Deployment Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) IT Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) CMDB
2 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 2 (28.57%) Driving Licence
2 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
1 4 (57.14%) Windows 10
2 1 (14.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Migration
2 2 (28.57%) Architectural Design
2 2 (28.57%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
2 2 (28.57%) Project Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Asset Management
3 1 (14.29%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (14.29%) Data Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (14.29%) High Availability
3 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Log Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Observability
3 1 (14.29%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) SC Cleared
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) CCNA
2 2 (28.57%) CCNP
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (57.14%) SCCM
2 2 (28.57%) FortiGate
3 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco
2 2 (28.57%) Fortinet