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 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 112 120
Rank change year-on-year -13 +8 +32
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 5 6 7
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.22% 0.35% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.56% 0.80% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 4
10th Percentile £569 £583 £601
25th Percentile £579 £613 £697
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £675 £788
Median % change year-on-year -11.85% -14.29% +21.15%
75th Percentile £624 £688 £872
90th Percentile £641 £748 £911
Central London median daily rate £610 £650 £788
% change year-on-year -6.15% -17.46% +21.15%

All Cloud Computing 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 894 752 857
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.79% 43.32% 39.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 619 477 601
10th Percentile £350 £364 £363
25th Percentile £451 £459 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -9.24%
75th Percentile £650 £664 £665
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 6
10th Percentile £20.51 £24.39 £12.75
25th Percentile £23.16 £24.66 £14.88
Median hourly rate £40.50 £38.58 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.99% +71.44% -72.99%
75th Percentile £59.72 £61.56 £26.19
90th Percentile £75.35 £126.25 £38.63
Central London median hourly rate £40.50 £34.65 £22.50
% change year-on-year +16.88% +54.00% -72.73%

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
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 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (80.00%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (80.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (60.00%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (60.00%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (60.00%) Serverless
4 2 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (40.00%) GCP
5 1 (20.00%) Apigee
5 1 (20.00%) AWS Control Tower
5 1 (20.00%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (20.00%) Azure
5 1 (20.00%) Datadog
5 1 (20.00%) dbt
5 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (20.00%) GitHub
5 1 (20.00%) Prefect
5 1 (20.00%) Route 53
5 1 (20.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) GitLab
2 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (20.00%) Artifactory
3 1 (20.00%) Git
3 1 (20.00%) Terragrunt
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Law
1 1 (20.00%) Military
1 1 (20.00%) Police
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Architect
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Site Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (20.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (60.00%) Observability
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (20.00%) Auto-Scaling
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (20.00%) Fintech
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
4 1 (20.00%) Open Source
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (20.00%) Refactoring
4 1 (20.00%) SDLC
4 1 (20.00%) Software Deployment
4 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 3 (60.00%) Grafana
2 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (40.00%) Ansible
3 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (20.00%) Argo
4 1 (20.00%) Karpenter
4 1 (20.00%) Kibana
4 1 (20.00%) Puppet
4 1 (20.00%) Salt
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Splunk
3 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (20.00%) Google