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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 116 119
Rank change year-on-year -12 +3 +43
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 7 5 7
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.32% 0.29% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.77% 0.66% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 3
10th Percentile £463 £523 £583
25th Percentile £481 £548 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £775
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -22.58% +19.23%
75th Percentile £608 £675 £863
90th Percentile £633 £743 £908
Central London median daily rate £575 £580 £775
% change year-on-year -0.86% -25.16% +19.23%

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 905 757 870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.29% 43.51% 38.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 644 495 607
10th Percentile £350 £390 £360
25th Percentile £450 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £661
90th Percentile £750 £738 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £540
% change year-on-year - +1.85% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 9
10th Percentile £31.88 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £39.44 £27.15 £17.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £41.08 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.56% +82.56% -72.73%
75th Percentile £55.94 £87.19 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.53 £143.75 £54.95
Central London median hourly rate £40.50 £34.65 £22.50
% change year-on-year +16.88% +54.00% -57.14%

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 6 April 2026.

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 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (57.14%) Amazon EKS
2 4 (57.14%) Amazon S3
2 4 (57.14%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 2 (28.57%) AWS KMS
4 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (28.57%) Datadog
4 2 (28.57%) GCP
4 2 (28.57%) GitHub
4 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (28.57%) Serverless
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (14.29%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (14.29%) dbt
5 1 (14.29%) Prefect
5 1 (14.29%) Route 53
5 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Network Security
2 1 (14.29%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) GitLab
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) Terragrunt
General
1 1 (14.29%) Banking
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Architect
1 3 (42.86%) AWS Architect
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Security Architect
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Security Architect
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Site Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (14.29%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
1 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (57.14%) Incident Response
4 3 (42.86%) Cloud Security
4 3 (42.86%) Migration
4 3 (42.86%) Observability
4 3 (42.86%) Zero Trust
5 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
5 2 (28.57%) DevOps
5 2 (28.57%) Security Architecture
6 1 (14.29%) Auto-Scaling
6 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps
6 1 (14.29%) Generative AI
6 1 (14.29%) GitOps
6 1 (14.29%) Performance Metrics
6 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (14.29%) Secrets Management
6 1 (14.29%) Server Hardening
6 1 (14.29%) Service-Level Objective
6 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) GDPR
1 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (28.57%) PCI DSS
2 1 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Grafana
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 1 (14.29%) Argo
3 1 (14.29%) Karpenter
3 1 (14.29%) Kibana
3 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) Splunk
2 1 (14.29%) Google