Virtual Private Cloud Contracts in the City of London

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Virtual Private Cloud skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Private Cloud over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 162 169
Rank change year-on-year +42 +7 -21
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 7 16 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.32% 0.44% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.82% 1.15% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 19
10th Percentile £583 £392 £495
25th Percentile £650 £463 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% +13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £863 £675 £634
90th Percentile £908 £694 £663
Central London median daily rate £775 £650 £575
% change year-on-year +19.23% +13.04% +4.55%

All Cloud Skills
City of London

Virtual Private Cloud is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 853 1,389 1,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.83% 38.13% 43.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 606 942 1,449
10th Percentile £363 £313 £405
25th Percentile £450 £463 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £669 £713 £688
90th Percentile £763 £800 £775
Central London median daily rate £538 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.52% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 12
10th Percentile £12.75 £44.75 -
25th Percentile £14.88 £65.57 £13.88
Median hourly rate £22.50 £84.09 £17.22
Median % change year-on-year -73.24% +388.40% -7.43%
75th Percentile £26.19 £88.30 £25.50
90th Percentile £38.63 - £47.78
Central London median hourly rate £22.50 £82.50 £17.22
% change year-on-year -72.73% +379.16% -26.58%

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Virtual Private Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Private Cloud in the City of London

Virtual Private Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Private Cloud in the City of London

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud in the City of London over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Private Cloud in the City of London

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (85.71%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (85.71%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (85.71%) Serverless
3 5 (71.43%) Amazon S3
4 3 (42.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (42.86%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (14.29%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (14.29%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (14.29%) Amazon Macie
6 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (14.29%) AWS CodeBuild
6 1 (14.29%) AWS CodeCommit
6 1 (14.29%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
6 1 (14.29%) Route 53
6 1 (14.29%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) VPN
1 1 (14.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (14.29%) Big Data
2 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
2 1 (14.29%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Git
2 2 (28.57%) GitLab
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) AWS Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Architect
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Principal Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) AWS CDK
1 1 (14.29%) JSON
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (57.14%) DevOps
4 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
5 2 (28.57%) Microservices
5 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (14.29%) Business Case
6 1 (14.29%) Change Management
6 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
6 1 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
6 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
6 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps
6 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
6 1 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
6 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
6 1 (14.29%) Observability
6 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
6 1 (14.29%) Software Testing
6 1 (14.29%) Technical Debt
6 1 (14.29%) Threat Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) Go
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) AWS Certification
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Terraform
2 3 (42.86%) Ansible
3 1 (14.29%) Consul
3 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 1 (14.29%) Packer
3 1 (14.29%) Progress Chef
3 1 (14.29%) Puppet