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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 114 120
Rank change year-on-year -21 +6 +29
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 3 9 7
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.13% 0.50% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.32% 1.22% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 6
10th Percentile £502 £603 £522
25th Percentile £518 £642 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £675 £551
Median % change year-on-year -19.48% +22.45% -7.20%
75th Percentile £569 £756 £739
90th Percentile £585 £798 £819
Central London median daily rate £544 £675 £551
% change year-on-year -19.48% +22.45% -7.20%

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 928 735 833
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.51% 40.83% 39.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 661 497 567
10th Percentile £375 £337 £383
25th Percentile £463 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £553
Median % change year-on-year - -0.45% -3.91%
75th Percentile £656 £665 £675
90th Percentile £750 £758 £768
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 3
10th Percentile £19.45 £23.84 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £26.23 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £34.33 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.08% +27.13% -10.74%
75th Percentile £41.25 £58.96 £59.75
90th Percentile £67.00 £86.43 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year -4.41% +9.68% +2.48%

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 (33.33%) Confluence
1 1 (33.33%) nginx
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Control Tower
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) OpenVPN
2 1 (33.33%) SSH
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) Artifactory
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Law
2 1 (33.33%) Military
2 1 (33.33%) Police
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) boto
2 1 (33.33%) OpenTofu
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Client/Server
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Auto-Scaling
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Management
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 1 (33.33%) Fintech
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (33.33%) Open Source
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Process Management
2 1 (33.33%) Refactoring
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Secrets Management
2 1 (33.33%) Server Management
2 1 (33.33%) Software Deployment
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (33.33%) Puppet
2 1 (33.33%) Salt
2 1 (33.33%) SELinux
2 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow