VPN Job Trends in Derbyshire

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
East Midlands > Derbyshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Derbyshire 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 52 33 38
Rank change year-on-year -19 +5 +24
Permanent jobs citing VPN 2 7 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Derbyshire 0.40% 2.64% 0.36%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.98% 11.29% 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 1
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +16.28% -21.82%
East Midlands median annual salary £36,250 £41,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year -11.59% +17.14% -22.22%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 204 62 54
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Derbyshire 40.56% 23.40% 19.64%
Number of salaries quoted 55 29 49
10th Percentile £25,300 £23,500 £22,750
25th Percentile £25,750 £29,000 £24,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,000 £37,500 £26,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.33% +41.51% -33.75%
75th Percentile £31,000 £42,500 £44,000
90th Percentile £34,200 £54,500 £56,250
East Midlands median annual salary £30,000 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -25.00% -5.88% -10.53%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Derbyshire

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

VPN job vacancy trend in Derbyshire

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Salary Trend in Derbyshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Derbyshire citing VPN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Derbyshire citing VPN

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Job Locations in Derbyshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the Derbyshire region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Derby -19 2 £60,000 +20.00%
VPN
East Midlands

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derbyshire 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