Virtual Private Cloud Contracts in London

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 329 349 484
Rank change year-on-year +20 +135 -89
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 65 155 120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.37% 0.57% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.97% 1.47% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 124 94
10th Percentile £382 £430 £475
25th Percentile £469 £550 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £658 £675 £665
90th Percentile £808 £700 £700
England median daily rate £550 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% +10.00%

All Cloud Skills
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 London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,678 10,550 16,165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.70% 39.01% 41.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,925 7,702 12,100
10th Percentile £341 £375 £400
25th Percentile £444 £475 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £688
90th Percentile £775 £781 £763
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 90 86
10th Percentile £17.78 £20.00 £16.08
25th Percentile £21.06 £24.63 £21.10
Median hourly rate £25.00 £40.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +14.29% +5.50%
75th Percentile £38.28 £70.00 £61.44
90th Percentile £62.13 £88.30 £79.13
England median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
% change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -4.55%

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Private Cloud in London

Virtual Private Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Private Cloud in London

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud in London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Private Cloud in London

Virtual Private Cloud
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 28 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
South London +19 11 £377 -28.19%
Central London +27 7 £775 +19.23% 4
West London -16 2 - - 2
East London - 1 £775 - 1
Virtual Private Cloud
England

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (7.69%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.62%) Confluence
3 2 (3.08%) Apache
4 1 (1.54%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 65 (100.00%) AWS
2 50 (76.92%) Amazon EC2
3 44 (67.69%) Amazon S3
4 36 (55.38%) Serverless
5 35 (53.85%) AWS Lambda
6 23 (35.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 23 (35.38%) Route 53
7 17 (26.15%) Amazon EKS
8 15 (23.08%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (15.38%) Azure
10 9 (13.85%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (13.85%) AWS CloudTrail
11 7 (10.77%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (9.23%) Amazon ECR
12 6 (9.23%) Amazon Kinesis
12 6 (9.23%) IaaS
13 5 (7.69%) Amazon EMR
13 5 (7.69%) GCP
13 5 (7.69%) GitHub
14 4 (6.15%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (13.85%) Firewall
1 9 (13.85%) Network Security
2 7 (10.77%) DNS
3 4 (6.15%) DHCP
3 4 (6.15%) TCP/IP
3 4 (6.15%) VPN
3 4 (6.15%) WAN
3 4 (6.15%) Wireless
4 3 (4.62%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (4.62%) HTTP
5 2 (3.08%) BGP
5 2 (3.08%) LAN
5 2 (3.08%) OpenLDAP
5 2 (3.08%) SSL
5 2 (3.08%) WLAN
6 1 (1.54%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (1.54%) MPLS
6 1 (1.54%) OSPF
6 1 (1.54%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (52.31%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (9.23%) Big Data
4 5 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (7.69%) Data Lake
4 5 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (4.62%) Apache Hive
5 3 (4.62%) Bigtable
5 3 (4.62%) Hadoop
5 3 (4.62%) MongoDB
5 3 (4.62%) Parquet
6 2 (3.08%) BigQuery
6 2 (3.08%) DynamoDB
6 2 (3.08%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (3.08%) HBase
6 2 (3.08%) IBM BigInsights
6 2 (3.08%) MySQL
6 2 (3.08%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.08%) SQL Server
6 2 (3.08%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 23 (35.38%) Git
2 16 (24.62%) Jenkins
3 11 (16.92%) GitLab
4 3 (4.62%) JIRA
5 2 (3.08%) Liquibase
6 1 (1.54%) Maven
6 1 (1.54%) Terragrunt
6 1 (1.54%) webpack
General
1 11 (16.92%) Public Sector
2 10 (15.38%) Finance
2 10 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.69%) Telecoms
4 3 (4.62%) Banking
4 3 (4.62%) Electronics
4 3 (4.62%) Manufacturing
4 3 (4.62%) Marketing
5 2 (3.08%) Billing
5 2 (3.08%) Investment Banking
5 2 (3.08%) Legal
5 2 (3.08%) Retail
6 1 (1.54%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.54%) Games
6 1 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 21 (32.31%) AWS Engineer
3 16 (24.62%) AWS DevOps
4 15 (23.08%) Architect
4 15 (23.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 11 (16.92%) AWS Architect
6 10 (15.38%) Senior
7 9 (13.85%) Cloud Engineer
8 8 (12.31%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 8 (12.31%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (9.23%) Lead
10 5 (7.69%) Cloud Architect
10 5 (7.69%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 4 (6.15%) Data Architect
11 4 (6.15%) Developer
11 4 (6.15%) Lead Architect
11 4 (6.15%) Python Developer
11 4 (6.15%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 4 (6.15%) Solutions Architect
12 3 (4.62%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.15%) Kafka
1 4 (6.15%) Node.js
2 3 (4.62%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (4.62%) YAML
3 2 (3.08%) Apache Avro
3 2 (3.08%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (3.08%) LDAP
4 1 (1.54%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.54%) Express.js
4 1 (1.54%) JSON
4 1 (1.54%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (1.54%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (1.54%) React
4 1 (1.54%) Redux
4 1 (1.54%) REST
4 1 (1.54%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.77%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (4.62%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.62%) Data Centre
2 3 (4.62%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (4.62%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.62%) Public Cloud
3 2 (3.08%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.08%) Life Science
3 2 (3.08%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (3.08%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.54%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.54%) PKI
4 1 (1.54%) Replication
4 1 (1.54%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (15.38%) Linux
2 5 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (7.69%) Windows
3 3 (4.62%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.08%) CentOS
4 2 (3.08%) Ubuntu
4 2 (3.08%) Unix
4 2 (3.08%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (56.92%) DevOps
2 32 (49.23%) CI/CD
3 28 (43.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (23.08%) Agile
5 14 (21.54%) Containerisation
6 11 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (13.85%) Microservices
7 9 (13.85%) Technical Leadership
8 8 (12.31%) Data Protection
8 8 (12.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 8 (12.31%) Platform Engineering
9 7 (10.77%) Configuration Management
10 6 (9.23%) DevSecOps
10 6 (9.23%) Kanban
10 6 (9.23%) Migration
11 5 (7.69%) Computer Science
11 5 (7.69%) Requirements Gathering
11 5 (7.69%) Roadmaps
11 5 (7.69%) Scrum
11 5 (7.69%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 36 (55.38%) Python
2 13 (20.00%) Java
3 9 (13.85%) Bash
4 4 (6.15%) SQL
4 4 (6.15%) TypeScript
5 3 (4.62%) Go
5 3 (4.62%) Shell Script
6 2 (3.08%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.08%) U-SQL
7 1 (1.54%) Groovy
7 1 (1.54%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.54%) PHP
Qualifications
1 33 (50.77%) Security Cleared
2 32 (49.23%) SC Cleared
3 10 (15.38%) AWS Certification
4 6 (9.23%) Degree
5 5 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (6.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (4.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.08%) CCNP
8 2 (3.08%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (3.08%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.54%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (1.54%) CCNA
9 1 (1.54%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (1.54%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.62%) GDPR
2 2 (3.08%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.08%) NCSC
2 2 (3.08%) SLA
3 1 (1.54%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.54%) NIST
3 1 (1.54%) QA
System Software
1 18 (27.69%) Docker
2 7 (10.77%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.62%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (4.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.54%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 39 (60.00%) Terraform
2 25 (38.46%) Kubernetes
3 20 (30.77%) Ansible
4 11 (16.92%) Grafana
5 10 (15.38%) Prometheus
6 9 (13.85%) Progress Chef
7 8 (12.31%) Puppet
8 4 (6.15%) Consul
8 4 (6.15%) Packer
9 2 (3.08%) Ambari
9 2 (3.08%) FortiGate
9 2 (3.08%) Oozie
9 2 (3.08%) Salt
10 1 (1.54%) Argo
10 1 (1.54%) Istio
10 1 (1.54%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 5 (7.69%) Palo Alto
1 5 (7.69%) Red Hat
1 5 (7.69%) SAP
1 5 (7.69%) VMware
2 4 (6.15%) Cisco
3 3 (4.62%) Databricks
3 3 (4.62%) Google
4 2 (3.08%) Qualys
4 2 (3.08%) SaltStack
5 1 (1.54%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.54%) Confluent
5 1 (1.54%) Informatica
5 1 (1.54%) Juniper
5 1 (1.54%) Meraki
5 1 (1.54%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.54%) Sage
5 1 (1.54%) Talend
5 1 (1.54%) Trend Micro