Virtual Private Cloud Contracts with Work from Home Options

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 276 330 481
Rank change year-on-year +54 +151 -80
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 61 139 144
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.40% 0.54% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.12% 1.38% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 108 98
10th Percentile £405 £488 £425
25th Percentile £501 £550 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +11.11% +8.00%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £715 £691
UK median daily rate £538 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -14.00% +13.64% +10.00%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,467 10,106 18,481
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.09% 39.52% 41.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,928 7,421 13,809
10th Percentile £350 £371 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 129 171
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.82 £21.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +96.36% -29.49%
75th Percentile £46.88 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £66.25 £75.20 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -6.52%

Virtual Private Cloud
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Virtual Private Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Virtual Private Cloud trend for jobs with a WFH option

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Virtual Private Cloud.

Virtual Private Cloud daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Virtual Private Cloud over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Virtual Private Cloud daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Virtual Private Cloud
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Virtual Private Cloud.

Virtual Private Cloud hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (6.56%) Confluence
2 2 (3.28%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 61 (100.00%) AWS
2 39 (63.93%) Amazon EC2
3 27 (44.26%) Amazon S3
3 27 (44.26%) Route 53
4 20 (32.79%) Amazon EKS
5 18 (29.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 18 (29.51%) AWS Lambda
5 18 (29.51%) Serverless
6 15 (24.59%) Azure
7 10 (16.39%) IaaS
8 9 (14.75%) Amazon ECR
8 9 (14.75%) Entra ID
9 8 (13.11%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (13.11%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (11.48%) PaaS
11 6 (9.84%) AWS Direct Connect
11 6 (9.84%) CloudFront
11 6 (9.84%) GitHub
12 5 (8.20%) AWS CloudTrail
13 3 (4.92%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 14 (22.95%) Network Security
2 12 (19.67%) VPN
3 11 (18.03%) Firewall
4 7 (11.48%) DNS
5 5 (8.20%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (6.56%) TCP/IP
7 3 (4.92%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (4.92%) WAN
8 2 (3.28%) BGP
8 2 (3.28%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (3.28%) MPLS
8 2 (3.28%) Wireless
9 1 (1.64%) DHCP
9 1 (1.64%) LAN
9 1 (1.64%) VLAN
9 1 (1.64%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (45.90%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (4.92%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (4.92%) Big Data
2 3 (4.92%) MySQL
2 3 (4.92%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.28%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.64%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.64%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.64%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.64%) Power BI
4 1 (1.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (1.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (26.23%) Jenkins
2 14 (22.95%) Git
3 10 (16.39%) GitLab
4 4 (6.56%) JIRA
5 3 (4.92%) webpack
6 1 (1.64%) Maven
General
1 17 (27.87%) Finance
2 10 (16.39%) Public Sector
3 8 (13.11%) Retail
3 8 (13.11%) Social Skills
4 6 (9.84%) Electronics
4 6 (9.84%) Manufacturing
4 6 (9.84%) Marketing
4 6 (9.84%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.28%) Banking
5 2 (3.28%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.64%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (34.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (26.23%) AWS Engineer
3 14 (22.95%) Architect
4 12 (19.67%) AWS Architect
5 11 (18.03%) AWS DevOps
5 11 (18.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 11 (18.03%) Cloud Engineer
5 11 (18.03%) Lead
6 9 (14.75%) Cloud Architect
7 6 (9.84%) Lead Architect
7 6 (9.84%) Lead Cloud Architect
7 6 (9.84%) Senior
8 5 (8.20%) Applications Engineer
8 5 (8.20%) Security Engineer
9 4 (6.56%) Consultant
9 4 (6.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (4.92%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 3 (4.92%) Kubernetes Consultant
10 3 (4.92%) Platform Engineer
11 2 (3.28%) AWS Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.84%) Node.js
2 5 (8.20%) OAuth
2 5 (8.20%) OAuth2
2 5 (8.20%) SAML
3 3 (4.92%) AWS CDK
3 3 (4.92%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (4.92%) Express.js
3 3 (4.92%) LDAP
3 3 (4.92%) React
3 3 (4.92%) Redux
4 1 (1.64%) .NET
4 1 (1.64%) ADO
4 1 (1.64%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.84%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.56%) Data Centre
2 4 (6.56%) Private Cloud
3 3 (4.92%) Distributed Applications
3 3 (4.92%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.28%) Clustering
4 2 (3.28%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (3.28%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.64%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.64%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (21.31%) Windows
2 11 (18.03%) Linux
3 3 (4.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (4.92%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.28%) Unix
5 1 (1.64%) CentOS
5 1 (1.64%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.64%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (50.82%) CI/CD
2 30 (49.18%) DevOps
3 25 (40.98%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (19.67%) Agile
5 11 (18.03%) Containerisation
6 9 (14.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 7 (11.48%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (11.48%) Configuration Management
7 7 (11.48%) DevSecOps
7 7 (11.48%) Requirements Gathering
7 7 (11.48%) Service Design
8 6 (9.84%) Cloud Security
8 6 (9.84%) Digital Marketing
8 6 (9.84%) Identity Access Management
8 6 (9.84%) Open Source
8 6 (9.84%) Programme Management
8 6 (9.84%) Roadmaps
8 6 (9.84%) Service Management
8 6 (9.84%) Software Engineering
8 6 (9.84%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 21 (34.43%) Python
2 8 (13.11%) Java
3 6 (9.84%) Bash
4 4 (6.56%) Go
5 3 (4.92%) Perl
5 3 (4.92%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.28%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.28%) SQL
6 2 (3.28%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.64%) C#
7 1 (1.64%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.64%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (31.15%) Security Cleared
2 18 (29.51%) AWS Certification
2 18 (29.51%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 3 (4.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (3.28%) CCNP
4 2 (3.28%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.28%) Degree
4 2 (3.28%) JNCIP
5 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.64%) OCP
5 1 (1.64%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.28%) QA
1 2 (3.28%) SLA
2 1 (1.64%) IFRS
2 1 (1.64%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 21 (34.43%) Docker
2 8 (13.11%) Active Directory
3 5 (8.20%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (8.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.28%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.64%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 36 (59.02%) Terraform
2 20 (32.79%) Kubernetes
3 12 (19.67%) Ansible
4 9 (14.75%) Grafana
4 9 (14.75%) Prometheus
5 8 (13.11%) Progress Chef
6 7 (11.48%) Puppet
7 3 (4.92%) Consul
7 3 (4.92%) Packer
8 2 (3.28%) Salt
9 1 (1.64%) Data Guard
9 1 (1.64%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 8 (13.11%) VMware
2 6 (9.84%) Palo Alto
2 6 (9.84%) SAP
3 5 (8.20%) Cisco
3 5 (8.20%) Red Hat
4 2 (3.28%) Google
4 2 (3.28%) Juniper
4 2 (3.28%) Qualys
4 2 (3.28%) SaltStack
5 1 (1.64%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.64%) Oracle
5 1 (1.64%) Splunk