Virtual Private Cloud Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Virtual Private Cloud skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 34 -
Rank change year-on-year -35 - -
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.23% 0.40% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.90% 1.19% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £790 - -
South East median daily rate £533 £580 £598
% change year-on-year -8.19% -2.93% -0.42%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Buckinghamshire

Virtual Private Cloud falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 221 84 127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 25.55% 34.01% 27.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 52 86
10th Percentile £394 £287 £225
25th Percentile £456 £325 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £469 £463
Median % change year-on-year +11.30% +1.41% -11.90%
75th Percentile £596 £550 £519
90th Percentile £640 £599 £598
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £13.25 £15.85
Median hourly rate £17.50 £13.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.63% -40.00% +23.29%
75th Percentile - £14.75 £23.82
90th Percentile - £15.35 £24.07
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £26.21 £30.00
% change year-on-year +109.84% -12.63% +6.53%

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Virtual Private Cloud relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

Virtual Private Cloud job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Virtual Private Cloud.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Virtual Private Cloud

Virtual Private Cloud
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 20 June 2026. 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
Milton Keynes -36 2 £790 - 1
Virtual Private Cloud
South East

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) ICMP
1 2 (100.00%) IPsec
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) MPLS
1 2 (100.00%) NGFW
1 2 (100.00%) OSPF
1 2 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Lead
2 1 (50.00%) Lead Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (100.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (50.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 2 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) DDoS Mitigation
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (50.00%) CCNP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) F5
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 2 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 2 (100.00%) VMware