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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 115 128
Rank change year-on-year +9 +13 +47
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 13 4 7
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.71% 0.19% 0.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.71% 0.50% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 5
10th Percentile £358 £510 £545
25th Percentile £463 £516 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £526 £594
Median % change year-on-year +11.75% -11.49% -8.62%
75th Percentile £661 £534 £688
90th Percentile £734 £547 £838
Central London median daily rate £600 £526 £594
% change year-on-year +14.12% -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 762 802 1,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.46% 38.93% 40.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 574 511 727
10th Percentile £325 £400 £363
25th Percentile £419 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £662 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £758 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 7
10th Percentile £26.41 - -
25th Percentile £32.13 £77.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £85.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.18% +347.37% -7.32%
75th Percentile £41.89 £92.50 £43.38
90th Percentile £44.72 - £58.75
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.23% +84.21% -7.32%

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 25 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 (7.69%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (61.54%) Amazon S3
3 7 (53.85%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (46.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (38.46%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (30.77%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 4 (30.77%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (30.77%) AWS CloudTrail
6 4 (30.77%) GitHub
6 4 (30.77%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (23.08%) Serverless
8 2 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (15.38%) Amazon ELB
8 2 (15.38%) AWS KMS
8 2 (15.38%) Datadog
8 2 (15.38%) GCP
8 2 (15.38%) Sumo Logic
9 1 (7.69%) Azure
9 1 (7.69%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) DNS
2 3 (23.08%) Network Security
2 3 (23.08%) VPN
3 2 (15.38%) Firewall
3 2 (15.38%) SSL
3 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
4 1 (7.69%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (15.38%) MySQL
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (7.69%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (7.69%) CouchDB
3 1 (7.69%) Power BI
3 1 (7.69%) Redis
3 1 (7.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Jenkins
2 3 (23.08%) Git
3 2 (15.38%) GitLab
4 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket
4 1 (7.69%) JIRA
4 1 (7.69%) Terragrunt
General
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Banking
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Architect
1 6 (46.15%) AWS Architect
2 5 (38.46%) AWS Security Architect
2 5 (38.46%) Security Architect
3 3 (23.08%) Cloud Architect
3 3 (23.08%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Senior
4 2 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Developer
5 1 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) .NET
1 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (7.69%) Memcached
1 1 (7.69%) Node.js
1 1 (7.69%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Cloud Native
2 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
2 2 (15.38%) Replication
3 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) DevOps
2 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
2 7 (53.85%) Cloud Security
2 7 (53.85%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (30.77%) Security Architecture
4 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
4 3 (23.08%) Incident Response
4 3 (23.08%) Network Segmentation
4 3 (23.08%) Zero Trust
5 2 (15.38%) Configuration Management
5 2 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (15.38%) High Availability
5 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (15.38%) Load Balancing
5 2 (15.38%) Observability
5 2 (15.38%) Performance Metrics
5 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (15.38%) Security Operations
5 2 (15.38%) Server Hardening
5 2 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) Bash
3 1 (7.69%) Java
3 1 (7.69%) PHP
3 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) AWS Certification
1 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (30.77%) PCI DSS
2 2 (15.38%) GDPR
2 2 (15.38%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (69.23%) Terraform
2 5 (38.46%) Ansible
3 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
4 1 (7.69%) Argo
4 1 (7.69%) Grafana
4 1 (7.69%) Karpenter
4 1 (7.69%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) CheckPoint
1 2 (15.38%) F5
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
1 2 (15.38%) Palo Alto
2 1 (7.69%) Atlassian
2 1 (7.69%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) Splunk