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 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 120 138
Rank change year-on-year +10 +18 +46
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 9 4 9
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.54% 0.19% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.29% 0.48% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 6
10th Percentile £346 £521 £463
25th Percentile £469 £523 £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £643 £532 £594
Median % change year-on-year +20.77% -10.44% -8.62%
75th Percentile £706 £630 £664
90th Percentile £760 £762 £688
Central London median daily rate £643 £532 £594
% change year-on-year +20.77% -10.44% -8.62%
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 699 828 1,150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.61% 39.77% 40.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 514 531 788
10th Percentile £340 £400 £361
25th Percentile £442 £463 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £768 £781
Central London median daily rate £550 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 8
10th Percentile £22.30 £32.05 £15.58
25th Percentile £26.75 £39.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £56.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -39.29% +169.88% +1.22%
75th Percentile £56.75 £76.13 £40.69
90th Percentile £70.21 £85.95 £49.88
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -2.86% +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 27 October 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 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (55.56%) Amazon S3
3 4 (44.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (44.44%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (33.33%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (22.22%) Amazon ELB
5 2 (22.22%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (22.22%) GitHub
5 2 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (22.22%) Serverless
6 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (11.11%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (11.11%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (11.11%) Datadog
6 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
6 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
6 1 (11.11%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) DNS
1 4 (44.44%) VPN
2 3 (33.33%) 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 3 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (11.11%) CouchDB
2 1 (11.11%) MySQL
2 1 (11.11%) Power BI
2 1 (11.11%) Redis
2 1 (11.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Jenkins
2 3 (33.33%) Git
3 1 (11.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
3 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Architect
1 3 (33.33%) AWS Architect
1 3 (33.33%) AWS Security Architect
1 3 (33.33%) Security Architect
1 3 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Security Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Developer
3 1 (11.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
1 1 (11.11%) Memcached
1 1 (11.11%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (11.11%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 1 (11.11%) Replication
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) Cloud Security
3 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) High Availability
3 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
4 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) Security Architecture
4 2 (22.22%) Security Operations
4 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (11.11%) Design Thinking
5 1 (11.11%) DevSecOps
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (11.11%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) Bash
2 2 (22.22%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) PHP
3 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Certification
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) 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 5 (55.56%) Terraform
2 3 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 1 (11.11%) Progress Chef
3 1 (11.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) CheckPoint
1 2 (22.22%) F5
1 2 (22.22%) Palo Alto
2 1 (11.11%) Atlassian
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft