Virtual Private Cloud Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Virtual Private Cloud skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 83 109
Rank change year-on-year -19 +26 +16
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 3 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.16% 0.20% 0.053%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.74% 0.76% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
England median daily rate £525 £608 £570
% change year-on-year -13.58% +6.58% -8.80%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 403 264 306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 20.94% 26.69% 16.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 161 189
10th Percentile £204 £200 £187
25th Percentile £363 £318 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £657
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 29 52
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.95 £14.48
Median hourly rate £21.00 £21.46 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +19.22% +2.86%
75th Percentile £41.56 £30.00 £21.46
90th Percentile £60.00 £71.00 £65.75
England median hourly rate £37.50 £26.50 £21.19
% change year-on-year +41.51% +25.09% -16.10%

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Virtual Private Cloud job vacancy trend in the East of England

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Virtual Private Cloud.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Virtual Private Cloud

Virtual Private Cloud
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 20 March 2026. 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
Cambridgeshire - 3 £600 -
Virtual Private Cloud
England

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Control Tower
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (33.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (33.33%) Route 53
3 1 (33.33%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) BGP
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) GitLab
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Network Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Network Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Architect
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Architect
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Solution Architect
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Principal Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Principal Solutions Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Management
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (66.67%) CCNP
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (33.33%) CCIE
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) CloudEndure
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft