Virtual Private Cloud Contract Job Trends in Dorset

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring Virtual Private Cloud skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 1.11% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.45% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - -
South West median daily rate £488 £685 £563
% change year-on-year -28.83% +21.78% +2.27%

All Cloud Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 29 37 50
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 32.22% 36.27% 21.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 21 31
10th Percentile £230 £223 £300
25th Percentile £270 £313 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £460 £558
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -17.49% +11.50%
75th Percentile £591 £550 £638
90th Percentile £690 £675 £650
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £13.25
Median hourly rate - - £15.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile - - £17.31
90th Percentile - - £18.95
South West median hourly rate £22.50 £30.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year -25.00% +46.34% -64.50%

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Virtual Private Cloud relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset.

Virtual Private Cloud job vacancy trend in Dorset

Virtual Private Cloud
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 16 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bournemouth - 1 £300 -
Virtual Private Cloud
South West

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) tcpdump
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) F5