Virtual Private Cloud Contracts in the North of England

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 149 174 208
Rank change year-on-year +25 +34 -31
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 35 36 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.75% 0.62% 0.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.54% 1.71% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 22 32
10th Percentile £409 £513 £438
25th Percentile £456 £551 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £638 £625
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +2.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £694 £650 £641
90th Percentile £716 £675 £688
England median daily rate £550 £625 £563
% change year-on-year -12.00% +11.11% +12.50%

All Cloud Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,378 2,109 2,492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 29.36% 36.40% 34.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 979 1,579 1,895
10th Percentile £263 £300 £189
25th Percentile £375 £419 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £638 £685 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 37 61
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.22 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £20.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.06 £39.60 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -59.44% +111.20% -1.32%
75th Percentile £20.77 £65.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £43.75 £70.00 £56.25
England median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.04
% change year-on-year -35.70% +53.52% -4.36%

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Private Cloud in the North of England

Virtual Private Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Private Cloud in the North of England

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud in the North of England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Private Cloud in the North of England

Virtual Private Cloud
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 4 May 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
North West +17 26 £663 +1.92% 6
Yorkshire +22 9 £463 -2.63% 1
Virtual Private Cloud
England

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 3 (8.57%) Apache
1 3 (8.57%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (5.71%) nginx
2 2 (5.71%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 35 (100.00%) AWS
2 30 (85.71%) Amazon EC2
3 22 (62.86%) Amazon S3
4 16 (45.71%) Route 53
5 9 (25.71%) Amazon EKS
5 9 (25.71%) Amazon SQS
5 9 (25.71%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (25.71%) Serverless
6 8 (22.86%) Amazon ECR
7 5 (14.29%) GCP
8 4 (11.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (11.43%) Amazon ELB
8 4 (11.43%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (11.43%) AWS KMS
8 4 (11.43%) Azure
9 3 (8.57%) AWS Direct Connect
9 3 (8.57%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (8.57%) IaaS
9 3 (8.57%) PaaS
9 3 (8.57%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.29%) DNS
1 5 (14.29%) TCP/IP
2 3 (8.57%) DHCP
2 3 (8.57%) VLAN
2 3 (8.57%) VPN
3 2 (5.71%) SSL
4 1 (2.86%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (31.43%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (22.86%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (11.43%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (11.43%) MySQL
4 3 (8.57%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.86%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 19 (54.29%) GitLab
2 12 (34.29%) Git
3 10 (28.57%) Jenkins
4 8 (22.86%) webpack
General
1 5 (14.29%) Finance
1 5 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 3 (8.57%) Electronics
2 3 (8.57%) Manufacturing
2 3 (8.57%) Marketing
2 3 (8.57%) Telecoms
3 2 (5.71%) Banking
4 1 (2.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (31.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (28.57%) Lead
3 6 (17.14%) Architect
3 6 (17.14%) AWS DevOps
4 4 (11.43%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Technical Leader
5 3 (8.57%) AWS Architect
5 3 (8.57%) Cloud Architect
5 3 (8.57%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Lead Architect
5 3 (8.57%) Lead Cloud Architect
5 3 (8.57%) Network Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) AWS Developer
6 2 (5.71%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Cloud Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Python Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (22.86%) Express.js
1 8 (22.86%) Node.js
1 8 (22.86%) React
1 8 (22.86%) Redux
2 2 (5.71%) cloud-init
2 2 (5.71%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (2.86%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (5.71%) Clustering
2 2 (5.71%) PKI
2 2 (5.71%) Private Cloud
2 2 (5.71%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (20.00%) Linux
2 6 (17.14%) CentOS
2 6 (17.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.86%) Windows
3 1 (2.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (54.29%) CI/CD
2 18 (51.43%) DevOps
3 14 (40.00%) Containerisation
4 8 (22.86%) Agile
4 8 (22.86%) API Development
4 8 (22.86%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 8 (22.86%) Customer Engagement
4 8 (22.86%) End-to-End Testing
4 8 (22.86%) ETL
4 8 (22.86%) Front End Development
4 8 (22.86%) Full Stack Development
4 8 (22.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (22.86%) QA Automation
4 8 (22.86%) Test Automation
5 7 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
6 5 (14.29%) Migration
7 4 (11.43%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (11.43%) Refactoring
7 4 (11.43%) Scrum
7 4 (11.43%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (48.57%) Python
2 10 (28.57%) Bash
3 3 (8.57%) SQL
4 2 (5.71%) Go
4 2 (5.71%) Ruby
5 1 (2.86%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.86%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 20 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.57%) AWS Certification
2 3 (8.57%) Degree
3 1 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (22.86%) QA
2 2 (5.71%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (25.71%) Docker
2 2 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 15 (42.86%) Terraform
3 6 (17.14%) Ansible
3 6 (17.14%) Packer
3 6 (17.14%) Puppet
4 5 (14.29%) Prometheus
5 4 (11.43%) Rancher
6 3 (8.57%) Grafana
7 2 (5.71%) Consul
7 2 (5.71%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (5.71%) Graphite
7 2 (5.71%) HAProxy
7 2 (5.71%) Istio
7 2 (5.71%) linkerd
7 2 (5.71%) Podman
7 2 (5.71%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 3 (8.57%) Google
1 3 (8.57%) Informatica
1 3 (8.57%) SAP
2 2 (5.71%) PagerDuty
2 2 (5.71%) Sage
2 2 (5.71%) Splunk
2 2 (5.71%) VMware