Virtual Private Cloud Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Virtual Private Cloud skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 - 61
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 4 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.60% - 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.73% - 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £361 - £413
25th Percentile £366 - £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 - £475
75th Percentile £563 - £503
90th Percentile £598 - £513
North West median daily rate £558 £425 £663
% change year-on-year +31.18% -35.85% +3.92%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 231 140 198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 34.48% 31.18% 35.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 95 130
10th Percentile £328 £291 £265
25th Percentile £358 £357 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £486 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +2.32% -4.28%
75th Percentile £565 £578 £524
90th Percentile £630 £638 £583
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £480
% change year-on-year -5.26% -1.04% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 16
10th Percentile - £21.05 £17.26
25th Percentile £15.50 £21.83 £17.72
Median hourly rate £16.00 £24.18 £19.86
Median % change year-on-year -33.83% +21.75% -53.54%
75th Percentile £19.50 £64.17 £43.75
90th Percentile £29.80 £82.50 -
North West median hourly rate £57.50 £28.75 £17.50
% change year-on-year +100.00% +64.29% -66.97%

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Virtual Private Cloud job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud in Cheshire over the 6 months to 7 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Private Cloud in Cheshire

Virtual Private Cloud
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 7 March 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
Knutsford - 4 £453 -
Virtual Private Cloud
North West

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 EC2
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon MSK
2 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
1 2 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) SIEM
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) Java
3 2 (50.00%) Bash
3 2 (50.00%) Perl
3 2 (50.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (50.00%) CISSP
3 1 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
2 2 (50.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Terraform
3 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat