Virtual Private Cloud Contracts in Central London

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Virtual Private Cloud skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Private Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 126 155
Rank change year-on-year +3 +29 +21
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 6 7 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.30% 0.29% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.70% 0.73% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 10
10th Percentile £570 £583 £392
25th Percentile £580 £650 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £775 £650
Median % change year-on-year -19.35% +19.23% +13.04%
75th Percentile £688 £863 £675
90th Percentile £748 £908 £694
London median daily rate £616 £550 £625
% change year-on-year +12.05% -12.00% +4.17%

All Cloud Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 859 955 1,486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 43.01% 39.04% 38.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 556 689 1,022
10th Percentile £370 £350 £313
25th Percentile £458 £438 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -6.52% -
75th Percentile £663 £650 £700
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
London median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 9
10th Percentile £24.66 £12.75 £24.20
25th Percentile £26.00 £17.39 £35.00
Median hourly rate £34.83 £22.50 £82.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.78% -72.73% +379.16%
75th Percentile £45.00 £24.56 £88.30
90th Percentile £94.88 £33.98 -
London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +16.28% -37.50% +1.27%

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Virtual Private Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Private Cloud in Central London

Virtual Private Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Private Cloud in Central London

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Private Cloud in Central London

Virtual Private Cloud
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London +6 5 £650 -16.13% 2
West End of London - 1 £580 -
Camden - 1 £580 -
Virtual Private Cloud
London

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (83.33%) Amazon S3
3 3 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (33.33%) Route 53
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) DNS
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
1 3 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (16.67%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
1 2 (33.33%) Risk Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Architect
2 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Cloud Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
4 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
4 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps
4 1 (16.67%) High Availability
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) Log Aggregation
4 1 (16.67%) Microservices
4 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Project Management
4 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) Bash
3 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
4 1 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) HIPAA
1 1 (16.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
2 3 (50.00%) Ansible
2 3 (50.00%) Progress Chef
2 3 (50.00%) Puppet
3 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow