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 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 61 73
Rank change year-on-year -4 +12 -4
Contract jobs citing VPN 6 7 9
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.77% 0.84% 0.86%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.11% 6.54% 6.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 8
10th Percentile - - £204
25th Percentile - £518 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £235 £540 £223
Median % change year-on-year -56.48% +142.70% -56.59%
75th Percentile £354 £588 £333
90th Percentile £569 £640 £458
South West median daily rate £525 £498 £450
% change year-on-year +5.53% +10.56% +2.27%

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 54 107 134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 6.92% 12.88% 12.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 56 86
10th Percentile £235 £334 £240
25th Percentile £325 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £591
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -19.66% +24.47%
75th Percentile £550 £571 £675
90th Percentile £575 £669 £706
South West median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 17 12
10th Percentile £22.51 £11.75 £65.00
25th Percentile £29.59 - £67.81
Median hourly rate £41.40 £65.00 £73.75
Median % change year-on-year -36.32% -11.86% +13.46%
75th Percentile £53.20 £73.75 £76.44
90th Percentile £60.28 £75.00 £79.70
South West median hourly rate £56.50 £65.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -13.08% +15.06% -10.66%

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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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Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VPN in Bristol over the 6 months to 24 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VPN in Bristol

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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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) WAN
2 2 (33.33%) BGP
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (33.33%) EIGRP
2 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) HSRP
2 2 (33.33%) LAN
2 2 (33.33%) OSPF
2 2 (33.33%) VRRP
2 2 (33.33%) WLAN
3 1 (16.67%) SD-WAN
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Desktop Support
1 3 (50.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Data Centre Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Network Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Case Management
1 3 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
1 3 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 3 (50.00%) High Availability
1 3 (50.00%) ITIL
1 3 (50.00%) ITSM
1 3 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (33.33%) Patch Management
3 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity
3 1 (16.67%) Coaching
3 1 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (16.67%) Low Latency
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 1 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
1 3 (50.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 2 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco
1 3 (50.00%) Citrix
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (33.33%) SolarWinds
3 1 (16.67%) Brocade
3 1 (16.67%) Extreme Networks
3 1 (16.67%) VMware