Virtual Private Cloud Contracts in Edinburgh

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 5 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 - 96
Rank change year-on-year - - +38
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 8 0 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.23% - 0.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.13% - 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 7
10th Percentile £469 - £491
25th Percentile £475 - £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £534 - £515
90th Percentile £549 - £523
Scotland median daily rate £500 - £510
% change year-on-year - - -2.90%

All Cloud Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 256 325 456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 39.32% 38.78% 39.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 190 342
10th Percentile £413 £179 £213
25th Percentile £450 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year +9.06% -2.86% -7.35%
75th Percentile £538 £539 £525
90th Percentile £588 £650 £576
Scotland median daily rate £478 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +6.11% -5.26% -3.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 12 1
10th Percentile - £15.24 -
25th Percentile £26.32 £16.50 -
Median hourly rate £27.35 £17.69 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +54.63% -0.18% -11.40%
75th Percentile £28.38 £23.30 -
90th Percentile - £24.18 -
Scotland median hourly rate £21.22 £18.69 £57.50
% change year-on-year +13.55% -67.50% +72.93%

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Virtual Private Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Private Cloud in Edinburgh

Virtual Private Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Private Cloud in Edinburgh

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (75.00%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (75.00%) Amazon S3
3 5 (62.50%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (50.00%) OpenShift
5 3 (37.50%) GitHub
5 3 (37.50%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (25.00%) AWS CodeBuild
6 2 (25.00%) AWS CodeCommit
6 2 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
6 2 (25.00%) AWS KMS
6 2 (25.00%) Azure
6 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (25.00%) Serverless
7 1 (12.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (12.50%) CloudFront
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) MongoDB
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (25.00%) InfluxDB
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (12.50%) DynamoDB
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
2 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (12.50%) GitLab
General
1 4 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Site Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Architect
3 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Solution Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (12.50%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Linux
2 6 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (62.50%) Unix
4 2 (25.00%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (62.50%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) Network Load Balancing
3 4 (50.00%) Observability
3 4 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
4 3 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (37.50%) SIEM
5 2 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (25.00%) DevOps
5 2 (25.00%) FinOps
5 2 (25.00%) Kanban
5 2 (25.00%) Patch Management
5 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (25.00%) Scrum
5 2 (25.00%) Secrets Management
6 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
6 1 (12.50%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Bash
2 5 (62.50%) Python
3 4 (50.00%) Perl
4 3 (37.50%) Shell Script
5 2 (25.00%) Go
5 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
6 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) AWS Certification
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Docker
2 3 (37.50%) KVM
3 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Terraform
2 6 (75.00%) Ansible
2 6 (75.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (62.50%) Grafana
3 5 (62.50%) Prometheus
4 4 (50.00%) Red Hat Satellite
5 3 (37.50%) HAProxy
6 2 (25.00%) Fluentd
6 2 (25.00%) linkerd
6 2 (25.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Oracle
2 4 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 3 (37.50%) Commvault
4 2 (25.00%) Dynatrace
4 2 (25.00%) ForgeRock
5 1 (12.50%) Ping Identity