Virtual Private Cloud Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Virtual Private Cloud skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 41 -
Rank change year-on-year +7 - -
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 1.10% 0.36% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.63% 1.09% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 £663 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £675 -
Median % change year-on-year -21.48% - -
75th Percentile £535 £688 -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £490 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -4.39% -6.82% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 71 92 93
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 19.56% 33.33% 17.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 44 31
10th Percentile £356 £359 £225
25th Percentile £434 £462 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £514 £420
Median % change year-on-year -0.73% +22.32% -1.18%
75th Percentile £548 £619 £488
90th Percentile £677 £700 £563
East of England median daily rate £495 £501 £451
% change year-on-year -1.25% +11.08% +0.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 19 49
10th Percentile £21.81 - £14.00
25th Percentile £26.50 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £29.50 £15.14 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +94.85% -7.12% +5.16%
75th Percentile £35.48 £16.30 £21.37
90th Percentile £35.91 £17.16 £21.39
East of England median hourly rate £21.72 £18.31 £16.30
% change year-on-year +18.60% +12.33% -25.91%

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Virtual Private Cloud job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Virtual Private Cloud
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Cambridge 0 4 £530 -21.48%
Virtual Private Cloud
East of England

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Direct Connect
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (25.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 2 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 2 (50.00%) LAN
2 2 (50.00%) VPN
2 2 (50.00%) WAN
3 1 (25.00%) BGP
3 1 (25.00%) DNS
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Change Management
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 2 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Observability
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (50.00%) CCNP
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (25.00%) CCIE
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (50.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
1 2 (50.00%) F5
1 2 (50.00%) Google
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft