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

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 114 120
Rank change year-on-year -10 +6 +43
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 8 5 7
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.36% 0.29% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.89% 0.67% 0.81%
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 899 751 866
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.73% 43.04% 38.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 636 483 607
10th Percentile £350 £376 £360
25th Percentile £450 £463 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £673
90th Percentile £749 £738 £755
Central London median daily rate £536 £550 £539
% change year-on-year -2.55% +2.04% -6.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 8
10th Percentile £33.72 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £39.53 £29.64 £15.94
Median hourly rate £48.22 £42.50 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year +13.46% +104.82% -74.85%
75th Percentile £63.54 £74.38 £30.38
90th Percentile £75.53 £135.00 £57.30
Central London median hourly rate £40.64 £34.83 £20.75
% change year-on-year +16.70% +67.83% -60.48%

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
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 13 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 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (62.50%) Amazon S3
3 4 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (37.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (37.50%) Serverless
5 2 (25.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (25.00%) AWS KMS
5 2 (25.00%) Datadog
5 2 (25.00%) GCP
5 2 (25.00%) GitHub
5 2 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (12.50%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (12.50%) Azure
6 1 (12.50%) dbt
6 1 (12.50%) Route 53
6 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
6 1 (12.50%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Network Security
2 1 (12.50%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) GitLab
2 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (12.50%) Artifactory
3 1 (12.50%) Git
3 1 (12.50%) Terragrunt
General
1 1 (12.50%) Banking
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Law
1 1 (12.50%) Military
1 1 (12.50%) Police
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Architect
1 3 (37.50%) AWS Architect
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Security Architect
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Security Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Site Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (12.50%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (12.50%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (50.00%) Incident Response
4 3 (37.50%) Cloud Security
4 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
4 3 (37.50%) DevOps
4 3 (37.50%) Migration
4 3 (37.50%) Observability
4 3 (37.50%) Zero Trust
5 2 (25.00%) Security Architecture
6 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Management
6 1 (12.50%) Load Balancing
6 1 (12.50%) Open Source
6 1 (12.50%) Performance Metrics
6 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (12.50%) Refactoring
6 1 (12.50%) Software Deployment
6 1 (12.50%) Software Testing
6 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) GDPR
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (25.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (87.50%) Terraform
2 3 (37.50%) Ansible
2 3 (37.50%) Grafana
2 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
3 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (12.50%) Argo
4 1 (12.50%) Karpenter
4 1 (12.50%) Kibana
4 1 (12.50%) Puppet
4 1 (12.50%) Salt
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Splunk
3 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
3 1 (12.50%) Google