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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 125 131
Rank change year-on-year +12 +6 +54
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 11 4 9
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.62% 0.19% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.48% 0.48% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 7
10th Percentile £354 £510 £473
25th Percentile £463 £516 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £526 £594
Median % change year-on-year +9.37% -11.49% -8.62%
75th Percentile £664 £534 £688
90th Percentile £743 £547 £788
Central London median daily rate £575 £526 £594
% change year-on-year +9.37% -11.49% -8.62%

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 744 841 1,105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.99% 39.28% 41.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 552 542 784
10th Percentile £343 £400 £358
25th Percentile £425 £466 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £767 £775
Central London median daily rate £539 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.30% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 8
10th Percentile £32.35 £32.05 -
25th Percentile £37.56 £39.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £42.89 £56.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -23.41% +169.88% +1.22%
75th Percentile £58.96 £76.13 £40.69
90th Percentile £72.53 £85.95 £56.25
Central London median hourly rate £37.25 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year +6.43% +68.67% +1.22%

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Virtual Private Cloud job vacancy trend 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 1 December 2025.

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

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (54.55%) Amazon S3
3 5 (45.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (45.45%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (36.36%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 4 (36.36%) AWS CloudTrail
5 3 (27.27%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (27.27%) GitHub
5 3 (27.27%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (18.18%) Amazon ELB
6 2 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (18.18%) AWS KMS
6 2 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (18.18%) Datadog
6 2 (18.18%) Serverless
6 2 (18.18%) Sumo Logic
7 1 (9.09%) AWS Direct Connect
7 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
7 1 (9.09%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) DNS
1 3 (27.27%) Network Security
1 3 (27.27%) VPN
2 2 (18.18%) Firewall
2 2 (18.18%) SSL
2 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
3 1 (9.09%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (18.18%) MySQL
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (9.09%) CouchDB
3 1 (9.09%) Power BI
3 1 (9.09%) Redis
3 1 (9.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Jenkins
2 3 (27.27%) Git
3 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
3 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Architect
1 5 (45.45%) AWS Architect
1 5 (45.45%) AWS Security Architect
1 5 (45.45%) Security Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security Architect
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Developer
4 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) .NET
1 1 (9.09%) Memcached
1 1 (9.09%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
1 2 (18.18%) Data Centre
1 2 (18.18%) Replication
2 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) DevOps
2 6 (54.55%) Cloud Security
3 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (36.36%) Security Architecture
5 3 (27.27%) Network Segmentation
6 2 (18.18%) Agile
6 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
6 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
6 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (18.18%) High Availability
6 2 (18.18%) Incident Response
6 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (18.18%) Migration
6 2 (18.18%) Performance Metrics
6 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (18.18%) Security Operations
6 2 (18.18%) Server Hardening
6 2 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (18.18%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) Bash
3 1 (9.09%) Java
3 1 (9.09%) PHP
3 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) AWS Certification
1 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (36.36%) PCI DSS
2 2 (18.18%) GDPR
2 2 (18.18%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (63.64%) Terraform
2 4 (36.36%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) CheckPoint
1 2 (18.18%) F5
1 2 (18.18%) Palo Alto
2 1 (9.09%) Atlassian
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft