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I'm currently investigating getting a (private) SIP account and have looked around various providers.

As far as I can see they all give you addresses like myname@sip-provider.com but if I would distribute that to friends and would want to switch providers later I would have to tell everyone that I can now be reached at my.name@another-provider.com.

This reminds me of the 90s where everyone had email addresses issued by their ISP and I don't want to repeat that. Basically I want a SIP address that I can transfer from one provider to another. I have an Ubuntu VPS and I'm wondering if I can some sort of redirect from my VPS to the actual SIP provider?

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You don't "redirect" VPSes, you redirect domain names. Like you would do with email -- except instead of MX records you set up SRVs. See RFC 3263: Locating SIP Servers.

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I think ekiga.net is what you're looking for, it provides provider agnostic SIP address that you can have your provider forward your calls to

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