Virtual Private Cloud Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Virtual Private Cloud skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 124 145
Rank change year-on-year +14 +21 +30
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 9 6 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.51% 0.29% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.27% 0.71% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 7
10th Percentile £603 £521 £411
25th Percentile £642 £525 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £538 £594
Median % change year-on-year +25.58% -9.51% -4.96%
75th Percentile £756 £788 £675
90th Percentile £798 £825 £688
Central London median daily rate £675 £538 £594
% change year-on-year +25.58% -9.51% -4.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47.50
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £50.00

All Cloud Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 708 847 1,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.16% 40.37% 41.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 489 562 846
10th Percentile £339 £388 £325
25th Percentile £435 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £564 £570
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.10% -0.87%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £751 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £560 £563
% change year-on-year -1.79% -0.44% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 6
10th Percentile £23.84 - £14.63
25th Percentile £26.23 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.33 £27.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year +27.13% +30.12% -38.97%
75th Percentile £58.96 £59.75 £34.44
90th Percentile £86.43 £79.40 £45.25
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% -37.59%

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Private Cloud in the City of London

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Virtual Private Cloud.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Virtual Private Cloud

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud in the City of London over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Private Cloud in the City of London

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (44.44%) Amazon S3
3 3 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon ELB
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 2 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (22.22%) AWS CloudTrail
4 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (22.22%) Serverless
5 1 (11.11%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (11.11%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (11.11%) GitHub
5 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) VPN
2 4 (44.44%) DNS
2 4 (44.44%) Firewall
3 2 (22.22%) SSL
3 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
4 1 (11.11%) Network Security
4 1 (11.11%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Jenkins
2 3 (33.33%) Git
3 2 (22.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (11.11%) GitLab
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Architect
2 3 (33.33%) AWS Architect
2 3 (33.33%) AWS Security Architect
2 3 (33.33%) Security Architect
2 3 (33.33%) Senior
3 2 (22.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Specialist
3 2 (22.22%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Cloud Security Architect
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps Specialist
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Cloud Native
2 2 (22.22%) Distributed Applications
2 2 (22.22%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (22.22%) Virtual Team
3 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
1 2 (22.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 4 (44.44%) Cloud Security
3 3 (33.33%) High Availability
3 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
4 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
4 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Deployment
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (22.22%) DevSecOps
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Log Aggregation
4 2 (22.22%) Microservices
4 2 (22.22%) Project Management
4 2 (22.22%) Security Architecture
4 2 (22.22%) Security Operations
4 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (11.11%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 2 (22.22%) Bash
3 2 (22.22%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 3 (33.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Certified Developer
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (22.22%) NIST
1 2 (22.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Terraform
2 3 (33.33%) Ansible
3 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 2 (22.22%) Progress Chef
3 2 (22.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) CheckPoint
1 2 (22.22%) F5
1 2 (22.22%) Palo Alto