Virtual Private Cloud Contracts in the West Midlands

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 103 - 169
Rank change year-on-year - - -46
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 6 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.31% - 0.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.30% - 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 4
10th Percentile £480 - £454
25th Percentile £625 - £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £494
Median % change year-on-year - - +36.28%
75th Percentile £675 - £544
90th Percentile - - £600
England median daily rate £550 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% +10.00%

All Cloud Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 463 917 1,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 24.05% 38.46% 34.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 358 648 896
10th Percentile £213 £300 £216
25th Percentile £350 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £500 £492
Median % change year-on-year -8.80% +1.78% +15.65%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 17
10th Percentile £14.08 £15.54 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.95 £15.98 £15.04
Median hourly rate £26.00 £20.24 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.46% +15.66% +9.38%
75th Percentile £26.50 £24.47 £20.51
90th Percentile £55.00 £25.31 £23.75
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Private Cloud in the West Midlands

Virtual Private Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Private Cloud in the West Midlands

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Private Cloud in the West Midlands

Virtual Private Cloud
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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
Coventry - 5 £650 -
Birmingham - 1 £350 -
Virtual Private Cloud
England

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) CloudFront
2 5 (83.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (16.67%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) DNS
1 5 (83.33%) Network Security
1 5 (83.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
General
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
1 5 (83.33%) Retail
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Applications Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) OAuth
1 5 (83.33%) OAuth2
1 5 (83.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Application Security
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
1 5 (83.33%) Cloud Security
1 5 (83.33%) Data Security
1 5 (83.33%) Defensive Programming
1 5 (83.33%) DevSecOps
1 5 (83.33%) Identity Access Management
1 5 (83.33%) Incident Response
1 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure Management
1 5 (83.33%) Penetration Testing
1 5 (83.33%) Task Automation
1 5 (83.33%) The Twelve-Factor App
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
1 5 (83.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Google