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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 64 64
Rank change year-on-year -5 0 +6
Contract jobs citing VPN 4 6 14
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.50% 0.76% 1.34%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.89% 6.06% 10.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 13
10th Percentile £183 - -
25th Percentile £259 £518 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £538 £225
Median % change year-on-year -24.65% +138.89% -53.75%
75th Percentile £569 £567 £338
90th Percentile £655 £579 £418
South West median daily rate £550 £450 £400
% change year-on-year +22.22% +12.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.62 - -
Median hourly rate £16.71 - -
75th Percentile £17.79 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £16.71 - £65.98
% change year-on-year - - +127.52%

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 45 99 136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 5.62% 12.55% 13.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 56 88
10th Percentile £285 £335 £230
25th Percentile £335 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £585
Median % change year-on-year -3.28% -20.47% +24.07%
75th Percentile £569 £565 £675
90th Percentile £576 £663 £703
South West median daily rate £533 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +1.43% -4.55% +17.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 14 12
10th Percentile - £11.75 £65.00
25th Percentile £15.62 £64.06 £67.81
Median hourly rate £17.25 £66.25 £73.75
Median % change year-on-year -73.97% -10.17% +13.46%
75th Percentile £29.59 £74.69 £76.44
90th Percentile £50.84 £75.00 £79.70
South West median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -23.08% +15.06% -13.09%

VPN
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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Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VPN in Bristol over the 6 months to 15 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VPN in Bristol

VPN
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 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Wireless
2 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (25.00%) WAN
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre Architect
1 1 (25.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Network Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Asset Management
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (25.00%) Coaching
3 1 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) ITSM
3 1 (25.00%) Low Latency
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Brocade
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) Extreme Networks
1 1 (25.00%) VMware