VPN Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring VPN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 52 62
Rank change year-on-year -20 +10 +27
Contract jobs citing VPN 7 11 17
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.54% 1.84% 1.56%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.31% 12.50% 10.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 7
10th Percentile - - £469
25th Percentile £563 - £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £235 £535
Median % change year-on-year +144.68% -56.07% +143.18%
75th Percentile £588 £333 £631
90th Percentile - £663 £675
South West median daily rate £525 £575 £475
% change year-on-year -8.70% +21.05% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £12.45
25th Percentile - - £12.57
Median hourly rate - - £13.13
75th Percentile - - £13.67
90th Percentile - - £13.78
South West median hourly rate £12.56 - £13.13
% change year-on-year - - -78.83%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 111 88 158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 8.54% 14.69% 14.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 43 81
10th Percentile £206 £235 £260
25th Percentile £450 £250 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £382 £533
Median % change year-on-year +24.35% -28.33% +12.21%
75th Percentile £565 £500 £649
90th Percentile £643 £603 £688
South West median daily rate £500 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 3 14
10th Percentile £19.33 £27.23 £12.49
25th Percentile £25.94 £41.40 £26.33
Median hourly rate £61.25 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% - +563.27%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £76.31
90th Percentile £99.88 £73.00 £85.00
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £41.40 £40.00
% change year-on-year +44.95% +3.49% +308.16%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

VPN job vacancy trend in Bristol

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Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing VPN

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Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing VPN

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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%) GCP
2 4 (57.14%) SaaS
3 3 (42.86%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) DNS
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) GCP Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) GCP DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
1 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
1 4 (57.14%) High Availability
1 4 (57.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Bash
1 4 (57.14%) Go
1 4 (57.14%) Python
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 3 (42.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Google