Virtual Private Cloud Contracts in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Virtual Private Cloud skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Private Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 119 154
Rank change year-on-year +4 +35 +27
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 9 6 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.50% 0.28% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.17% 0.68% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 11
10th Percentile £593 £580 £401
25th Percentile £638 £644 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £775 £650
Median % change year-on-year -12.90% +19.23% +6.78%
75th Percentile £756 £819 £681
90th Percentile £798 £838 £688
Central London median daily rate £675 £775 £650
% change year-on-year -12.90% +19.23% +6.78%
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 770 882 1,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 42.49% 41.29% 40.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 497 617 922
10th Percentile £363 £363 £282
25th Percentile £463 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £700
90th Percentile £751 £765 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 10
10th Percentile £24.02 £12.75 £20.35
25th Percentile £25.18 £14.88 £38.13
Median hourly rate £38.58 £24.75 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.86% -63.33% +35.00%
75th Percentile £63.37 £27.00 £88.30
90th Percentile £96.63 £38.63 -
Central London median hourly rate £34.65 £24.75 £52.50
% change year-on-year +40.00% -52.86% +26.51%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud in the City of London.

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

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 4 July 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 5 (55.56%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (55.56%) Amazon S3
3 3 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 2 (22.22%) AWS CloudTrail
4 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (22.22%) Serverless
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (11.11%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (11.11%) GitHub
5 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (11.11%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) VPN
2 3 (33.33%) DNS
2 3 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (11.11%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 2 (22.22%) Git
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) GitLab
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Architect
2 2 (22.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Security Architect
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Specialist
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Security Architect
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps Specialist
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 2 (22.22%) Risk Manager
2 2 (22.22%) 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
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Unix
3 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) DevOps
2 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 3 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
4 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Deployment
4 2 (22.22%) DevSecOps
4 2 (22.22%) High Availability
4 2 (22.22%) Log Aggregation
4 2 (22.22%) Microservices
4 2 (22.22%) Network Segmentation
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%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (11.11%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 2 (22.22%) Bash
3 2 (22.22%) Java
4 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 3 (33.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Certified Developer
3 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
2 1 (11.11%) GDPR
2 1 (11.11%) HIPAA
2 1 (11.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Terraform
2 3 (33.33%) Progress Chef
2 3 (33.33%) Puppet
3 2 (22.22%) Ansible
3 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow