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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 57 64
Rank change year-on-year -25 +7 +9
Contract jobs citing VPN 7 9 6
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.52% 1.24% 0.67%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.05% 14.75% 4.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 5
10th Percentile £495 - £519
25th Percentile £506 - £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £235 £575
Median % change year-on-year +134.04% -59.13% +158.43%
75th Percentile £581 - £675
90th Percentile £585 £426 -
South West median daily rate £210 £361 £535
% change year-on-year -41.87% -32.48% +9.74%

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 87 61 122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 6.43% 8.40% 13.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 41 61
10th Percentile £213 £235 £400
25th Percentile £450 £293 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £425 £488
Median % change year-on-year +30.82% -12.82% -9.30%
75th Percentile £638 £511 £575
90th Percentile £708 £575 £675
South West median daily rate £550 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 2 22
10th Percentile £15.40 £22.51 £16.95
25th Percentile £19.33 £29.59 -
Median hourly rate £25.75 £41.40 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.79% -36.32% -11.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £53.20 £75.00
90th Percentile £155.00 £60.28 £84.00
South West median hourly rate £26.14 £56.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -53.73% -13.08% +15.06%

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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 5 (71.43%) GCP
2 4 (57.14%) SaaS
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (14.29%) Azure
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (14.29%) Cloudflare
4 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) DNS
2 4 (57.14%) Firewall
2 4 (57.14%) TCP/IP
3 2 (28.57%) Network Security
3 2 (28.57%) tcpdump
3 2 (28.57%) WAN
4 1 (14.29%) BGP
4 1 (14.29%) DHCP
4 1 (14.29%) Internet
4 1 (14.29%) OSPF
4 1 (14.29%) SD-WAN
4 1 (14.29%) SNMP
General
1 2 (28.57%) Banking
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) GCP DevOps
1 3 (42.86%) GCP DevOps Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) GCP Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Site Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
1 5 (71.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
3 3 (42.86%) High Availability
3 3 (42.86%) Network Segmentation
4 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
4 2 (28.57%) Load Balancing
4 2 (28.57%) Service-Level Objective
5 1 (14.29%) Identity Management
5 1 (14.29%) Information Assurance
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (14.29%) ITIL
5 1 (14.29%) Migration
5 1 (14.29%) Network Architecture
5 1 (14.29%) Network Management
5 1 (14.29%) Observability
5 1 (14.29%) Problem Management
5 1 (14.29%) Security Architecture
5 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) Bash
2 3 (42.86%) Go
3 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 1 (14.29%) CCNP
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (14.29%) CISSP
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) SLA
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Istio
3 1 (14.29%) CASB
3 1 (14.29%) FortiGate
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco
1 2 (28.57%) Dynatrace
2 1 (14.29%) F5
2 1 (14.29%) Fortinet
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Netskope
2 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto
2 1 (14.29%) Zscaler