Virtual Private Cloud Contracts in the Thames Valley

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 133 148 159
Rank change year-on-year +15 +11 -18
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 3 4 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.11% 0.14% 0.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.41% 0.47% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 5
10th Percentile £450 £616 £408
25th Percentile £506 £622 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +36.84% -10.04%
75th Percentile - £756 £513
90th Percentile - £903 £547
South East median daily rate £568 £600 £475
% change year-on-year -5.38% +26.32% -

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 730 856 1,089
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 27.46% 29.54% 30.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 513 617 848
10th Percentile £269 £317 £182
25th Percentile £413 £425 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 21 18
10th Percentile £15.99 £17.25 £12.57
25th Percentile £19.37 £21.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.00 £21.03
Median % change year-on-year +70.00% +18.91% -0.12%
75th Percentile £59.95 £57.50 £25.81
90th Percentile £61.60 £79.19 £71.37
South East median hourly rate £23.22 £23.08 £21.05
% change year-on-year +0.61% +9.62% -4.32%

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Private Cloud in the Thames Valley

Virtual Private Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Private Cloud in the Thames Valley

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Private Cloud in the Thames Valley

Virtual Private Cloud
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 5 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
Berkshire -5 2 £600 -27.27%
Oxfordshire - 1 £425 - 1
Virtual Private Cloud
South East

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EMR
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
2 1 (33.33%) Wireless
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) CCNA
2 1 (33.33%) CCNP
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Network+ Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
1 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto