VPN Contracts in Bristol

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol requiring VPN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VPN over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 65 81
Rank change year-on-year +11 +16 0
Contract jobs citing VPN 11 13 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 1.69% 1.17% 0.52%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.50% 7.88% 4.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 4
10th Percentile - £469 £199
25th Percentile - £493 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £235 £535 £373
Median % change year-on-year -56.07% +43.62% -17.22%
75th Percentile £333 £631 £556
90th Percentile £663 £675 £590
South West median daily rate £575 £481 £500
% change year-on-year +19.48% -3.75% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - £12.45 -
25th Percentile - £12.57 £16.54
Median hourly rate - £13.13 £16.94
Median % change year-on-year - -22.50% -62.86%
75th Percentile - £13.67 £17.33
90th Percentile - £13.78 -
South West median hourly rate - £13.13 £62.00
% change year-on-year - -78.83% +1.77%

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 88 165 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 13.56% 14.85% 12.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 81 74
10th Percentile £235 £260 £222
25th Percentile £250 £430 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £515 £460
Median % change year-on-year -27.18% +11.96% -3.16%
75th Percentile £456 £638 £609
90th Percentile £601 £688 £689
South West median daily rate £540 £538 £525
% change year-on-year +0.47% +2.38% +11.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 23 40
10th Percentile £22.51 £12.97 -
25th Percentile £29.59 - -
Median hourly rate £41.40 £65.00 £9.80
Median % change year-on-year -36.32% +563.27% -84.71%
75th Percentile £53.20 £75.00 £11.68
90th Percentile £60.28 £83.60 £84.00
South West median hourly rate £17.79 £56.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year -68.51% +113.17% -50.93%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Job postings citing VPN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Job vacancy trend for VPN in Bristol

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VPN in Bristol.

Daily rate trend for VPN in Bristol

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Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VPN in Bristol over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VPN in Bristol

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VPN in Bristol.

Hourly rate trend for VPN in Bristol

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (63.64%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (63.64%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon Cognito
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (9.09%) GitHub
2 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) LAN
1 3 (27.27%) WAN
1 3 (27.27%) WLAN
2 2 (18.18%) BGP
2 2 (18.18%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (18.18%) EIGRP
2 2 (18.18%) Firewall
2 2 (18.18%) HSRP
2 2 (18.18%) OSPF
2 2 (18.18%) VRRP
3 1 (9.09%) DHCP
3 1 (9.09%) DNS
3 1 (9.09%) HTTP
3 1 (9.09%) SD-WAN
3 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
3 1 (9.09%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (9.09%) DynamoDB
General
1 8 (72.73%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Desktop Engineer
1 7 (63.64%) Desktop Support
1 7 (63.64%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 7 (63.64%) Support Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Network Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (9.09%) Node.js
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Case Management
1 7 (63.64%) Collaborative Working
1 7 (63.64%) Customer Service
1 7 (63.64%) ITIL
1 7 (63.64%) ITSM
1 7 (63.64%) Service Delivery
2 2 (18.18%) High Availability
2 2 (18.18%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (18.18%) Patch Management
3 1 (9.09%) Agile
3 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Load Balancing
3 1 (9.09%) Matrix Organization
3 1 (9.09%) Network Architecture
3 1 (9.09%) Network Design
3 1 (9.09%) Network Management
3 1 (9.09%) Open Source
3 1 (9.09%) Protective Monitoring
3 1 (9.09%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
1 1 (9.09%) Perl
1 1 (9.09%) Python
1 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) Degree
1 7 (63.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 2 (18.18%) DV Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) CCIE
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (63.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (63.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (18.18%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Citrix
1 7 (63.64%) Microsoft
1 7 (63.64%) ServiceNow
2 3 (27.27%) Cisco
3 2 (18.18%) SolarWinds