VPN Job Trends in Derby

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Derbyshire > Derby

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Derby requiring VPN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 17 -
Rank change year-on-year -19 - -
Permanent jobs citing VPN 2 7 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Derby 0.92% 4.83% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.70% 25.00% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -
Derbyshire median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £43,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% +16.28% -21.82%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Derby.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 54 28 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Derby 24.77% 19.31% 18.90%
Number of salaries quoted 52 20 27
10th Percentile £25,075 £23,500 £21,750
25th Percentile £25,750 £26,875 £23,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,750 £37,500 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.00% +25.00% -18.92%
75th Percentile £31,000 £42,500 £50,000
90th Percentile £34,425 £48,500 £56,250
Derbyshire median annual salary £28,000 £37,500 £26,500
% change year-on-year -25.33% +41.51% -33.75%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Derby

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

VPN job vacancy trend in Derby

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Salary Trend in Derby

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Derby citing VPN.

Salary 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) NAS
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Architect
1 1 (50.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
1 1 (50.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Network Design
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Refactoring
1 1 (50.00%) TestOps
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (50.00%) Meraki
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) VMware