Virtual Private Cloud Contracts in England

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 416 441 544
Rank change year-on-year +25 +103 -14
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 119 226 238
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.32% 0.45% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.01% 1.22% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 172 181
10th Percentile £409 £413 £438
25th Percentile £463 £536 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £666 £638
90th Percentile £738 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% +10.00%

All Cloud Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,773 18,509 27,357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.85% 36.62% 38.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,477 13,536 20,079
10th Percentile £290 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 316 348
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £32.50 £65.75 £42.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £64.83
UK median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -5.54%

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Private Cloud in England

Virtual Private Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud in England.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Private Cloud in England

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Private Cloud in England

Virtual Private Cloud
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +10 65 £550 -12.00% 20
North of England +28 32 £575 -9.80% 2
North West +13 26 £663 +1.92% 2
South East 0 8 £568 -5.38% 4
Midlands +28 6 £650 +4.00% 4
Yorkshire +18 6 £463 -2.63%
West Midlands - 6 £650 - 4
East of England +18 3 £550 -12.00%
South West +19 1 - - 2
Virtual Private Cloud
UK

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 5 (4.20%) Apache Spark
1 5 (4.20%) Confluence
2 4 (3.36%) Apache
2 4 (3.36%) nginx
3 2 (1.68%) Traefik
4 1 (0.84%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 119 (100.00%) AWS
2 89 (74.79%) Amazon EC2
3 74 (62.18%) Amazon S3
4 51 (42.86%) Serverless
5 50 (42.02%) AWS Lambda
6 49 (41.18%) Route 53
7 36 (30.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 28 (23.53%) Amazon EKS
9 21 (17.65%) AWS CloudFormation
9 21 (17.65%) Azure
10 19 (15.97%) Amazon SQS
11 16 (13.45%) Amazon ECR
12 12 (10.08%) Amazon ECS
12 12 (10.08%) CloudFront
12 12 (10.08%) GitHub
13 11 (9.24%) AWS CloudTrail
13 11 (9.24%) GCP
14 9 (7.56%) AWS Direct Connect
14 9 (7.56%) Entra ID
14 9 (7.56%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (15.97%) DNS
2 17 (14.29%) Network Security
3 15 (12.61%) Firewall
3 15 (12.61%) VPN
4 9 (7.56%) TCP/IP
5 7 (5.88%) DHCP
6 5 (4.20%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (4.20%) WAN
6 5 (4.20%) Wireless
7 4 (3.36%) OpenLDAP
7 4 (3.36%) SSL
7 4 (3.36%) VLAN
8 3 (2.52%) HTTP
8 3 (2.52%) LAN
9 2 (1.68%) BGP
9 2 (1.68%) WLAN
10 1 (0.84%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.84%) MPLS
10 1 (0.84%) OSPF
10 1 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (43.70%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (15.97%) Amazon Redshift
3 10 (8.40%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (5.04%) Amazon Athena
4 6 (5.04%) Big Data
4 6 (5.04%) Data Lake
5 5 (4.20%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (4.20%) MySQL
5 5 (4.20%) NoSQL
6 4 (3.36%) Parquet
7 3 (2.52%) Apache Hive
7 3 (2.52%) Bigtable
7 3 (2.52%) Hadoop
7 3 (2.52%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.52%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.68%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.68%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.68%) HBase
8 2 (1.68%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.68%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 36 (30.25%) Git
2 35 (29.41%) GitLab
3 27 (22.69%) Jenkins
4 9 (7.56%) webpack
5 5 (4.20%) JIRA
6 2 (1.68%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.68%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.84%) Maven
7 1 (0.84%) Terragrunt
General
1 21 (17.65%) Finance
2 16 (13.45%) Public Sector
2 16 (13.45%) Social Skills
3 8 (6.72%) Retail
3 8 (6.72%) Telecoms
4 6 (5.04%) Electronics
4 6 (5.04%) Manufacturing
4 6 (5.04%) Marketing
5 5 (4.20%) Banking
6 2 (1.68%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.68%) Billing
6 2 (1.68%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.68%) Legal
7 1 (0.84%) Games
7 1 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (36.97%) DevOps Engineer
2 30 (25.21%) AWS Engineer
3 25 (21.01%) AWS DevOps
4 23 (19.33%) Architect
5 20 (16.81%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 18 (15.13%) Cloud Engineer
7 17 (14.29%) Lead
8 14 (11.76%) AWS Architect
9 12 (10.08%) Platform Engineer
10 11 (9.24%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 11 (9.24%) Senior
11 10 (8.40%) Cloud Architect
12 7 (5.88%) Lead Architect
13 6 (5.04%) Developer
13 6 (5.04%) Lead Cloud Architect
13 6 (5.04%) Python Developer
13 6 (5.04%) Security Engineer
13 6 (5.04%) Solutions Architect
13 6 (5.04%) Technical Leader
14 5 (4.20%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.76%) Node.js
2 9 (7.56%) Express.js
2 9 (7.56%) React
2 9 (7.56%) Redux
3 5 (4.20%) OAuth
3 5 (4.20%) OAuth2
3 5 (4.20%) SAML
4 4 (3.36%) Kafka
4 4 (3.36%) LDAP
4 4 (3.36%) YAML
5 3 (2.52%) AWS CDK
5 3 (2.52%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (2.52%) Lambda Expressions
6 2 (1.68%) Apache Avro
6 2 (1.68%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (1.68%) cloud-init
6 2 (1.68%) HornetQ
6 2 (1.68%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (1.68%) REST
6 2 (1.68%) VCL
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.72%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
2 7 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (5.04%) Public Cloud
4 5 (4.20%) Private Cloud
5 4 (3.36%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.52%) Clustering
6 3 (2.52%) Life Science
6 3 (2.52%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.52%) PKI
7 2 (1.68%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.68%) Replication
8 1 (0.84%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.84%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.84%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 22 (18.49%) Linux
2 14 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 13 (10.92%) Windows
4 9 (7.56%) CentOS
5 5 (4.20%) Windows Server
6 3 (2.52%) Debian
6 3 (2.52%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.68%) Unix
7 2 (1.68%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (56.30%) DevOps
2 58 (48.74%) CI/CD
3 39 (32.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 31 (26.05%) Containerisation
5 25 (21.01%) Agile
6 13 (10.92%) Infrastructure Management
7 12 (10.08%) API Development
7 12 (10.08%) Kanban
7 12 (10.08%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (10.08%) Technical Leadership
8 11 (9.24%) DevSecOps
8 11 (9.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 11 (9.24%) Platform Engineering
9 10 (8.40%) Cloud Security
9 10 (8.40%) Configuration Management
9 10 (8.40%) ETL
9 10 (8.40%) Microservices
9 10 (8.40%) Test Automation
10 9 (7.56%) Customer Engagement
10 9 (7.56%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 56 (47.06%) Python
2 19 (15.97%) Bash
3 14 (11.76%) Java
4 6 (5.04%) Go
4 6 (5.04%) TypeScript
5 5 (4.20%) Shell Script
5 5 (4.20%) SQL
6 3 (2.52%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.52%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.68%) Ruby
7 2 (1.68%) U-SQL
8 1 (0.84%) Groovy
8 1 (0.84%) PHP
8 1 (0.84%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 54 (45.38%) Security Cleared
2 53 (44.54%) SC Cleared
3 23 (19.33%) AWS Certification
4 7 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 7 (5.88%) Degree
5 5 (4.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 5 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.52%) CCNP
6 3 (2.52%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.68%) CCNA
7 2 (1.68%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.84%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.84%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.84%) JNCIP
8 1 (0.84%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.84%) OCP
8 1 (0.84%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.56%) QA
2 4 (3.36%) NCSC
3 3 (2.52%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.52%) GDPR
4 2 (1.68%) SLA
5 1 (0.84%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.84%) IFRS
5 1 (0.84%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.84%) NIST
System Software
1 33 (27.73%) Docker
2 13 (10.92%) Active Directory
3 5 (4.20%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (4.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.52%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (1.68%) Varnish
6 1 (0.84%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.84%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 63 (52.94%) Terraform
2 49 (41.18%) Kubernetes
3 30 (25.21%) Ansible
4 16 (13.45%) Prometheus
5 14 (11.76%) Grafana
5 14 (11.76%) Puppet
6 10 (8.40%) Packer
7 9 (7.56%) Progress Chef
8 6 (5.04%) Consul
9 4 (3.36%) HAProxy
9 4 (3.36%) Rancher
10 3 (2.52%) FortiGate
10 3 (2.52%) Istio
11 2 (1.68%) Ambari
11 2 (1.68%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (1.68%) Graphite
11 2 (1.68%) linkerd
11 2 (1.68%) Oozie
11 2 (1.68%) Podman
11 2 (1.68%) Salt
Vendors
1 10 (8.40%) Palo Alto
2 9 (7.56%) Cisco
2 9 (7.56%) VMware
3 8 (6.72%) Red Hat
3 8 (6.72%) SAP
4 7 (5.88%) Google
5 3 (2.52%) Databricks
5 3 (2.52%) Sage
5 3 (2.52%) Splunk
6 2 (1.68%) PagerDuty
6 2 (1.68%) Qualys
6 2 (1.68%) SaltStack
7 1 (0.84%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.84%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.84%) Informatica
7 1 (0.84%) Juniper
7 1 (0.84%) Meraki
7 1 (0.84%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.84%) Oracle
7 1 (0.84%) Talend