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 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 43 -
Rank change year-on-year +4 - -
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.82% 0.28% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.45% 0.96% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £663 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £345 £675 -
Median % change year-on-year -48.89% - -
75th Percentile £440 £688 -
90th Percentile £497 - -
East of England median daily rate £373 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -29.05% -4.55% +0.46%

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 87 104 99
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 23.64% 29.30% 23.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 51 49
10th Percentile £188 £250 £286
25th Percentile £386 £409 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £503 £420
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% +19.64% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £563
90th Percentile £696 £700 £602
East of England median daily rate £490 £518 £420
% change year-on-year -5.36% +23.21% -11.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 14 16
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate - £16.30 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.00%
75th Percentile - £43.75 £21.37
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £17.50 £25.00 £16.30
% change year-on-year -30.00% +53.37% -20.49%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 29 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Private Cloud in Cambridgeshire

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 29 September 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 +5 3 £345 -48.89% 4
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 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EventBridge
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon Kinesis
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Control Tower
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Fargate
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (66.67%) CloudFront
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 1 (33.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (66.67%) DynamoDB
2 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Architect
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Solution Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) AWS CDK
1 2 (66.67%) GraphQL
1 2 (66.67%) gRPC
1 2 (66.67%) Kafka
1 2 (66.67%) RESTful
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (66.67%) Cost Optimisation
1 2 (66.67%) CQRS
1 2 (66.67%) Domain-Driven Design
1 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
1 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (66.67%) FinOps
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (66.67%) Microservices
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Observability
1 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
1 2 (66.67%) Secrets Management
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (66.67%) Technology Roadmap
1 2 (66.67%) Threat Modelling
1 2 (66.67%) Trade-off Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Istio
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) linkerd
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) F5
1 1 (33.33%) VMware