Virtual Private Cloud Contract Job Trends in England

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
UK > England

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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 370 434 436
Rank change year-on-year +64 +2 +48
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 150 85 145
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 0.27% 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.31% 0.77% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 45 120
10th Percentile £386 £486 £461
25th Percentile £463 £525 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £579
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +3.71% -10.99%
75th Percentile £629 £685 £650
90th Percentile £713 £814 £782
UK median daily rate £530 £600 £577
% change year-on-year -11.67% +4.08% -9.21%
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 - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £50.00

All Cloud Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,456 11,098 13,991
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.89% 35.69% 35.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,762 7,360 10,209
10th Percentile £300 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £530
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £623 £645 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 142 287
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.35 £14.44
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £18.27
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +17.77% +32.09%
75th Percentile £43.75 £64.73 £58.75
90th Percentile £71.56 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.15
% change year-on-year -28.14% +8.86% +45.61%

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Virtual Private Cloud job vacancy trend in England

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud in England over the 6 months to 6 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Private Cloud in England

Virtual Private Cloud
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Virtual Private Cloud.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Virtual Private Cloud

Virtual Private Cloud
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 6 November 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
London +14 65 £600 +9.09% 76
West Midlands +9 37 £475 - 4
Midlands -2 37 £475 - 8
North of England -12 28 £535 +12.63% 17
Yorkshire -13 18 £525 -8.70% 3
South East +6 6 £300 - 55
North West -12 6 £518 +21.76% 12
North East -7 4 £575 - 2
East of England -12 4 £500 - 4
South West -4 3 £675 +3.85% 3
Virtual Private Cloud
UK

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 31 (20.67%) Confluence
2 12 (8.00%) nginx
3 3 (2.00%) SAS
4 2 (1.33%) Apache
4 2 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.67%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.67%) JBoss
Applications
1 12 (8.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 150 (100.00%) AWS
2 105 (70.00%) Amazon S3
3 104 (69.33%) Amazon EC2
4 82 (54.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 51 (34.00%) Amazon ELB
6 48 (32.00%) AWS Lambda
6 48 (32.00%) Serverless
7 41 (27.33%) GitHub
8 40 (26.67%) Amazon ECS
9 38 (25.33%) AWS CloudFormation
10 33 (22.00%) AWS KMS
10 33 (22.00%) Azure
11 27 (18.00%) Route 53
12 25 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
13 22 (14.67%) AWS Direct Connect
13 22 (14.67%) GitHub Actions
14 18 (12.00%) AWS CloudTrail
15 17 (11.33%) Datadog
16 15 (10.00%) AWS Fargate
16 15 (10.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 74 (49.33%) DNS
2 72 (48.00%) Firewall
3 44 (29.33%) VPN
4 27 (18.00%) TCP/IP
5 24 (16.00%) SMTP
5 24 (16.00%) SSL
6 22 (14.67%) FTP
6 22 (14.67%) HTTP
6 22 (14.67%) Network Security
6 22 (14.67%) SSH
7 12 (8.00%) IMAP
7 12 (8.00%) OpenLDAP
8 11 (7.33%) DHCP
9 10 (6.67%) WAN
10 7 (4.67%) LAN
10 7 (4.67%) SD-WAN
10 7 (4.67%) VLAN
11 6 (4.00%) BGP
11 6 (4.00%) OSPF
11 6 (4.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (44.00%) Amazon RDS
2 22 (14.67%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (10.67%) Amazon Aurora
4 15 (10.00%) MongoDB
5 8 (5.33%) DynamoDB
6 7 (4.67%) MySQL
7 6 (4.00%) Data Lake
8 5 (3.33%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (3.33%) Relational Database
9 4 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (2.00%) SQL Server
11 2 (1.33%) Amazon QuickSight
12 1 (0.67%) Big Data
12 1 (0.67%) DocumentDB
12 1 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.67%) Metadata
12 1 (0.67%) Power BI
12 1 (0.67%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 90 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 64 (42.67%) Git
3 48 (32.00%) GitLab
4 35 (23.33%) JIRA
5 24 (16.00%) Vagrant
6 8 (5.33%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (4.00%) Bitbucket
8 4 (2.67%) Terragrunt
9 2 (1.33%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.67%) Maven
10 1 (0.67%) Metasploit
General
1 41 (27.33%) Public Sector
2 31 (20.67%) Social Skills
3 15 (10.00%) Finance
4 12 (8.00%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (5.33%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.33%) Banking
6 5 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.67%) Military
8 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.67%) Police
8 1 (0.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 62 (41.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 50 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
3 36 (24.00%) AWS DevOps
3 36 (24.00%) Senior
4 32 (21.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 30 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
6 26 (17.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 24 (16.00%) Architect
8 19 (12.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 18 (12.00%) Senior DevOps
10 17 (11.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 14 (9.33%) AWS Architect
12 13 (8.67%) Lead
13 12 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
14 11 (7.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 11 (7.33%) Solutions Architect
15 10 (6.67%) DevOps Platform Engineer
15 10 (6.67%) Network Engineer
16 9 (6.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 8 (5.33%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (10.67%) Kafka
2 12 (8.00%) LDAP
3 8 (5.33%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (4.67%) AWS CDK
4 7 (4.67%) cloud-init
4 7 (4.67%) Keycloak
5 6 (4.00%) Node.js
6 4 (2.67%) JSON
6 4 (2.67%) REST
7 3 (2.00%) Lambda Expressions
7 3 (2.00%) Middleware
8 2 (1.33%) Swagger
9 1 (0.67%) FastAPI
9 1 (0.67%) Flask
9 1 (0.67%) Jinja
9 1 (0.67%) LAPP Stack
9 1 (0.67%) OAuth2
9 1 (0.67%) OpenTelemetry
9 1 (0.67%) React
9 1 (0.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 28 (18.67%) Replication
2 19 (12.67%) Cloud Native
3 9 (6.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (5.33%) PKI
5 7 (4.67%) Data Centre
6 5 (3.33%) Legacy Applications
6 5 (3.33%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.33%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.67%) Public Cloud
8 3 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.00%) Enterprise Storage
8 3 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (2.00%) NHS
9 2 (1.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (1.33%) Life Science
10 1 (0.67%) CSOC
10 1 (0.67%) Cyberattack
10 1 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.67%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.67%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 50 (33.33%) Linux
2 32 (21.33%) Windows
3 27 (18.00%) Amazon Linux
4 24 (16.00%) VMS
5 12 (8.00%) Ubuntu
6 9 (6.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (4.67%) CentOS
7 7 (4.67%) Unix
8 6 (4.00%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.67%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.67%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.67%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (74.67%) DevOps
2 88 (58.67%) CI/CD
3 83 (55.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 38 (25.33%) Cloud Security
4 38 (25.33%) High Availability
5 37 (24.67%) Incident Response
6 36 (24.00%) Configuration Management
7 34 (22.67%) Infrastructure Automation
7 34 (22.67%) Platform Engineering
8 28 (18.67%) Mentoring
9 27 (18.00%) Containerisation
10 26 (17.33%) Change Management
11 25 (16.67%) Patch Management
12 24 (16.00%) Observability
13 23 (15.33%) DevSecOps
14 20 (13.33%) Cost Optimisation
15 17 (11.33%) Performance Tuning
16 16 (10.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 14 (9.33%) Migration
17 14 (9.33%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 97 (64.67%) Python
2 43 (28.67%) Bash
3 37 (24.67%) PowerShell
4 25 (16.67%) Groovy
5 20 (13.33%) Java
6 17 (11.33%) SQL
7 16 (10.67%) Perl
8 11 (7.33%) Shell Script
9 9 (6.00%) Go
10 4 (2.67%) Ruby
11 3 (2.00%) CodeQL
11 3 (2.00%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.67%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.67%) Korn
12 1 (0.67%) PHP
Qualifications
1 82 (54.67%) Security Cleared
2 75 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 38 (25.33%) AWS Certification
4 16 (10.67%) Degree
5 14 (9.33%) Azure Certification
6 12 (8.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (2.67%) CCNP
8 4 (2.67%) CCSP
9 3 (2.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (2.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (2.00%) CCIE
9 3 (2.00%) CCIE Security
9 3 (2.00%) CISSP
9 3 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.33%) CCNA
10 2 (1.33%) JNCIE
10 2 (1.33%) JNCIP
10 2 (1.33%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.00%) GDPR
2 13 (8.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (8.00%) NIST
4 8 (5.33%) NCSC
5 6 (4.00%) PCI DSS
5 6 (4.00%) QA
6 2 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.33%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.33%) SLA
6 2 (1.33%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.67%) JSP 440
System Software
1 77 (51.33%) Docker
2 22 (14.67%) DFS Replication
3 17 (11.33%) Active Directory
4 12 (8.00%) Dovecot
4 12 (8.00%) Postfix
4 12 (8.00%) Squid
5 6 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (3.33%) VMware NSX
7 4 (2.67%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 122 (81.33%) Terraform
2 51 (34.00%) Ansible
3 40 (26.67%) Prometheus
4 38 (25.33%) Grafana
5 34 (22.67%) Kubernetes
6 13 (8.67%) Nessus
7 10 (6.67%) Packer
7 10 (6.67%) Proxmox
8 8 (5.33%) Jamf Pro
8 8 (5.33%) Puppet
9 4 (2.67%) Argo
10 3 (2.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (2.00%) NetBackup
10 3 (2.00%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.33%) FortiGate
11 2 (1.33%) Kibana
11 2 (1.33%) Kustomize
11 2 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.67%) Podman
12 1 (0.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 30 (20.00%) Palo Alto
2 27 (18.00%) F5
3 25 (16.67%) ServiceNow
4 23 (15.33%) CheckPoint
5 15 (10.00%) Splunk
6 12 (8.00%) Jaspersoft
7 8 (5.33%) Cisco
7 8 (5.33%) Fortinet
7 8 (5.33%) Okta
8 7 (4.67%) Dynatrace
8 7 (4.67%) Microsoft
8 7 (4.67%) VMware
9 5 (3.33%) SolarWinds
9 5 (3.33%) Zscaler
10 4 (2.67%) CloudEndure
10 4 (2.67%) Meraki
10 4 (2.67%) Oracle
11 3 (2.00%) AppDynamics
11 3 (2.00%) Commvault
11 3 (2.00%) SnapLogic