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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 116 157
Rank change year-on-year -1 +41 +18
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 6 6 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.35% 0.28% 0.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.81% 0.68% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 11
10th Percentile £583 £580 £401
25th Percentile £613 £644 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £775 £650
Median % change year-on-year -12.90% +19.23% +6.78%
75th Percentile £688 £819 £681
90th Percentile £748 £838 £688
Central London median daily rate £650 £775 £650
% change year-on-year -16.13% +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 742 879 1,378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 42.84% 40.98% 40.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 475 615 889
10th Percentile £364 £363 £300
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £673 £658 £700
90th Percentile £751 £768 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £538 £580
% change year-on-year +2.23% -7.24% +0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 7 10
10th Percentile £23.84 £12.75 £20.35
25th Percentile £24.66 £17.00 £38.13
Median hourly rate £38.58 £22.50 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +71.44% -66.67% +76.47%
75th Percentile £71.37 £27.00 £88.30
90th Percentile £98.88 £36.30 -
Central London median hourly rate £31.86 £22.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +41.60% -57.14% +54.41%

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 24 June 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 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon S3
3 3 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (16.67%) Route 53
4 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) DNS
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
1 3 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 2 (33.33%) Git
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Specialist
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps Specialist
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 2 (33.33%) Risk Manager
3 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (33.33%) Distributed Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Distributed Architecture
1 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Unix
3 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
3 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 2 (33.33%) High Availability
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Log Aggregation
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) Project Management
4 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (33.33%) Bash
3 2 (33.33%) Java
4 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (50.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Certified Developer
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) HIPAA
1 1 (16.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
2 3 (50.00%) Progress Chef
2 3 (50.00%) Puppet
3 2 (33.33%) Ansible
3 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow