Virtual Private Cloud Contracts in the South East

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 192 192 247
Rank change year-on-year 0 +55 -46
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 8 34 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.14% 0.58% 0.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.58% 1.99% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 28 13
10th Percentile £484 £494 £368
25th Percentile £515 £581 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +26.32% -
75th Percentile £602 £638 £525
90th Percentile £607 £658 £574
England median daily rate £550 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% +10.00%

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,382 1,706 2,447
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 25.01% 29.27% 31.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 924 1,250 1,797
10th Percentile £250 £252 £204
25th Percentile £406 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £635 £601
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 53 65
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.72 £12.52
25th Percentile £17.80 £18.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £23.22 £24.00 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year -3.27% +14.01% -4.32%
75th Percentile £59.50 £67.50 £35.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £75.00 £62.15
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 the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Private Cloud in the South East

Virtual Private Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Private Cloud in the South East

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Private Cloud in the South East

Virtual Private Cloud
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley +5 3 £600 -7.69% 1
East Sussex - 3 £530 -
Hampshire +2 2 £595 +16.10% 2
Berkshire -6 2 £600 -7.69%
Oxfordshire - 1 £425 - 1
Virtual Private Cloud
England

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (25.00%) Apache
1 2 (25.00%) Confluence
1 2 (25.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (87.50%) Amazon EC2
2 7 (87.50%) Amazon S3
3 5 (62.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (62.50%) Route 53
4 4 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (50.00%) Serverless
5 3 (37.50%) CloudFront
6 2 (25.00%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (25.00%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudTrail
6 2 (25.00%) AWS Direct Connect
6 2 (25.00%) Azure
6 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (25.00%) Datadog
6 2 (25.00%) Fastly
6 2 (25.00%) GitHub
7 1 (12.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Firewall
1 3 (37.50%) Network Security
2 2 (25.00%) DNS
2 2 (25.00%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (12.50%) LAN
3 1 (12.50%) VPN
3 1 (12.50%) WAN
3 1 (12.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Git
2 2 (25.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (25.00%) GitLab
2 2 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Linux DevOps Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Django
1 2 (25.00%) HornetQ
1 2 (25.00%) LDAP
1 2 (25.00%) Node.js
1 2 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (25.00%) VCL
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 1 (12.50%) Life Science
1 1 (12.50%) Private Cloud
1 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Debian
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
1 3 (37.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) High Availability
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) Kanban
2 2 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (12.50%) Coaching
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
3 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
3 1 (12.50%) Open Source
3 1 (12.50%) Software Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Bash
2 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (12.50%) CCNA
2 1 (12.50%) CCNP
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Network+ Certification
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (25.00%) Varnish
2 2 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
2 3 (37.50%) Ansible
3 2 (25.00%) HAProxy
3 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (12.50%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Cisco
1 3 (37.50%) Palo Alto
1 3 (37.50%) Red Hat
2 2 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (12.50%) Fortinet