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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 113 131
Rank change year-on-year -1 +18 +42
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 10 5 4
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.53% 0.27% 0.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.28% 0.67% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 2
10th Percentile £350 £511 £543
25th Percentile £438 £519 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £700
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -23.21% +7.69%
75th Percentile £632 £588 £838
90th Percentile £656 £618 £898
Central London median daily rate £575 £538 £700
% change year-on-year +6.98% -23.21% +7.69%

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 779 743 959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.30% 39.52% 38.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 581 472 699
10th Percentile £340 £404 £363
25th Percentile £414 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £744
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 11
10th Percentile £26.66 - -
25th Percentile £34.19 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.64 - £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.50%
75th Percentile £46.11 - £43.38
90th Percentile £49.83 - £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -27.23% +55.56% +9.76%

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 24 January 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 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (70.00%) Amazon S3
3 6 (60.00%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (30.00%) GitHub
6 3 (30.00%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (20.00%) Amazon ELB
7 2 (20.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (20.00%) AWS KMS
7 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (20.00%) Datadog
7 2 (20.00%) GCP
7 2 (20.00%) Serverless
7 2 (20.00%) Sumo Logic
8 1 (10.00%) Apigee
8 1 (10.00%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) DNS
2 3 (30.00%) Network Security
3 2 (20.00%) Firewall
3 2 (20.00%) SSL
3 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (20.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (20.00%) MySQL
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (10.00%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (10.00%) CouchDB
3 1 (10.00%) Power BI
3 1 (10.00%) Redis
3 1 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (30.00%) Git
3 2 (20.00%) GitLab
4 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
4 1 (10.00%) JIRA
4 1 (10.00%) Terragrunt
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Banking
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Architect
1 4 (40.00%) AWS Architect
2 3 (30.00%) AWS Security Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Security Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Developer
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
1 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (10.00%) Memcached
1 1 (10.00%) Node.js
1 1 (10.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (20.00%) Replication
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (50.00%) DevOps
3 4 (40.00%) Cloud Security
4 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (30.00%) Incident Response
4 3 (30.00%) Zero Trust
5 2 (20.00%) Configuration Management
5 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (20.00%) High Availability
5 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Migration
5 2 (20.00%) Observability
5 2 (20.00%) Performance Metrics
5 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (20.00%) Security Architecture
5 2 (20.00%) Server Hardening
6 1 (10.00%) Agile
6 1 (10.00%) Business Continuity
6 1 (10.00%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) Bash
3 1 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) PHP
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) GDPR
1 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (20.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (80.00%) Terraform
2 5 (50.00%) Ansible
3 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (10.00%) Argo
4 1 (10.00%) Grafana
4 1 (10.00%) Karpenter
4 1 (10.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (20.00%) F5
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (20.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (10.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (10.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) Splunk