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 23 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 404 451
Rank change year-on-year +17 +47 -10
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 179 81 110
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.52% 0.32% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.38% 0.84% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 42 87
10th Percentile £368 £421 £415
25th Percentile £453 £561 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £640 £575
Median % change year-on-year -17.97% +11.30% -8.00%
75th Percentile £625 £738 £694
90th Percentile £705 £750 £823
UK median daily rate £519 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -17.03% +8.70% -8.00%

All Cloud Computing 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 12,984 9,650 12,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.43% 37.61% 32.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,962 6,496 9,030
10th Percentile £306 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £418 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 361 148 312
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.38 £14.14
25th Percentile £19.19 £21.25 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £27.63 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.96% +28.51% -14.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £47.63 £46.18
90th Percentile £79.50 £74.28 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £37.54 £27.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +36.51% +27.91% -14.00%

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 23 February 2026.

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 23 February 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
London +26 104 £525 -13.58% 22
North of England -39 29 £525 -27.59% 12
West Midlands -34 22 £513 - 1
Midlands -35 22 £513 - 1
Yorkshire -49 16 £525 -27.59% 1
South East -17 14 £404 - 9
North West -28 7 £400 -5.88% 11
North East -13 6 £575 -23.33%
South West -26 2 £419 -38.87% 4
East of England -29 1 £600 - 1
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 27 (15.08%) Confluence
2 10 (5.59%) nginx
3 2 (1.12%) Apache
3 2 (1.12%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.56%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.56%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (3.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.68%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 179 (100.00%) AWS
2 115 (64.25%) Amazon S3
3 107 (59.78%) Amazon EC2
4 84 (46.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 75 (41.90%) AWS Lambda
5 75 (41.90%) Serverless
6 64 (35.75%) Amazon EKS
7 61 (34.08%) AWS CloudFormation
8 45 (25.14%) GitHub
9 42 (23.46%) Amazon ECS
10 41 (22.91%) Route 53
11 34 (18.99%) Amazon ELB
12 33 (18.44%) Azure
13 31 (17.32%) GCP
14 30 (16.76%) GitHub Actions
15 27 (15.08%) AWS KMS
16 21 (11.73%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 18 (10.06%) Datadog
18 17 (9.50%) AWS CloudTrail
18 17 (9.50%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 59 (32.96%) Firewall
2 48 (26.82%) DNS
3 45 (25.14%) VPN
4 24 (13.41%) TCP/IP
5 21 (11.73%) Network Security
6 16 (8.94%) SSL
7 11 (6.15%) BGP
7 11 (6.15%) OSPF
7 11 (6.15%) WAN
8 10 (5.59%) Wireless
9 9 (5.03%) LAN
10 8 (4.47%) SD-WAN
11 7 (3.91%) OpenVPN
12 6 (3.35%) Wi-Fi
13 5 (2.79%) Cisco ASA
13 5 (2.79%) MPLS
13 5 (2.79%) VLAN
14 4 (2.23%) EIGRP
14 4 (2.23%) SSH
14 4 (2.23%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (39.66%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (10.61%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (8.38%) MongoDB
4 13 (7.26%) MySQL
5 12 (6.70%) Amazon Aurora
6 9 (5.03%) DynamoDB
7 8 (4.47%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (3.91%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (3.91%) Data Lake
8 7 (3.91%) DocumentDB
8 7 (3.91%) Power BI
8 7 (3.91%) Redis
9 6 (3.35%) Amazon Athena
9 6 (3.35%) NoSQL
9 6 (3.35%) Tableau
10 5 (2.79%) Relational Database
11 4 (2.23%) Amazon QuickSight
12 3 (1.68%) Big Data
12 3 (1.68%) Hadoop
13 2 (1.12%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 78 (43.58%) Jenkins
2 61 (34.08%) GitLab
3 40 (22.35%) Git
4 31 (17.32%) JIRA
5 14 (7.82%) Bitbucket
6 7 (3.91%) Terragrunt
7 6 (3.35%) SonarQube
8 5 (2.79%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (2.23%) CircleCI
9 4 (2.23%) Vagrant
10 3 (1.68%) Snyk
11 2 (1.12%) Metasploit
12 1 (0.56%) AppScan
12 1 (0.56%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.56%) Burp Suite
12 1 (0.56%) JUnit
12 1 (0.56%) Maven
12 1 (0.56%) MLflow
General
1 50 (27.93%) Social Skills
2 44 (24.58%) Public Sector
3 30 (16.76%) Finance
4 13 (7.26%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (6.70%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (6.15%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (3.91%) Banking
8 5 (2.79%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.79%) Military
9 3 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (26.82%) Architect
2 38 (21.23%) DevOps Engineer
3 33 (18.44%) AWS Engineer
4 28 (15.64%) AWS Architect
5 26 (14.53%) Senior
6 25 (13.97%) Cloud Architect
7 20 (11.17%) Lead
8 17 (9.50%) Platform Engineer
9 16 (8.94%) AWS DevOps
10 15 (8.38%) Senior DevOps
10 15 (8.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 13 (7.26%) Cloud Engineer
11 13 (7.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 12 (6.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 12 (6.70%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 12 (6.70%) Delivery Manager
13 11 (6.15%) Network Engineer
13 11 (6.15%) Solutions Architect
13 11 (6.15%) Technical Manager
14 10 (5.59%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (12.29%) Kafka
2 13 (7.26%) OpenID
3 12 (6.70%) AWS CDK
4 10 (5.59%) LDAP
4 10 (5.59%) REST
5 9 (5.03%) Elastic Stack
6 8 (4.47%) Node.js
6 8 (4.47%) OAuth
6 8 (4.47%) OAuth2
6 8 (4.47%) OpenTelemetry
7 7 (3.91%) RESTful
7 7 (3.91%) Spring
7 7 (3.91%) Spring Boot
8 6 (3.35%) JSON
9 4 (2.23%) gRPC
9 4 (2.23%) Hibernate
9 4 (2.23%) JPA
9 4 (2.23%) Spring Cloud
10 3 (1.68%) 802.1X
10 3 (1.68%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 26 (14.53%) Cloud Native
2 17 (9.50%) Data Centre
3 11 (6.15%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.03%) Replication
5 7 (3.91%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (3.91%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.79%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.79%) PKI
7 4 (2.23%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.68%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.68%) Life Science
8 3 (1.68%) NHS
8 3 (1.68%) SCADA
9 2 (1.12%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.12%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.12%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.56%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 37 (20.67%) Linux
2 11 (6.15%) Windows
3 10 (5.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (4.47%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (2.79%) Ubuntu
5 5 (2.79%) VMS
6 4 (2.23%) Unix
7 3 (1.68%) CentOS
8 1 (0.56%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.56%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.56%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (59.22%) CI/CD
2 97 (54.19%) Infrastructure as Code
3 96 (53.63%) DevOps
4 44 (24.58%) Containerisation
5 43 (24.02%) Incident Response
6 41 (22.91%) Observability
7 34 (18.99%) Migration
8 32 (17.88%) High Availability
8 32 (17.88%) Roadmaps
9 30 (16.76%) Agile
10 28 (15.64%) Cost Optimisation
10 28 (15.64%) Mentoring
10 28 (15.64%) Problem-Solving
11 27 (15.08%) Cloud Security
12 26 (14.53%) Infrastructure Automation
13 24 (13.41%) Platform Engineering
14 23 (12.85%) Microservices
15 21 (11.73%) DevSecOps
16 20 (11.17%) Continuous Improvement
17 19 (10.61%) Cost Management
Programming Languages
1 79 (44.13%) Python
2 42 (23.46%) Bash
3 22 (12.29%) Java
4 18 (10.06%) SQL
5 16 (8.94%) PowerShell
6 10 (5.59%) Go
7 6 (3.35%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.79%) Perl
9 4 (2.23%) Groovy
9 4 (2.23%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.23%) Ruby
9 4 (2.23%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.12%) Bicep
10 2 (1.12%) Cypher
11 1 (0.56%) Lisp
11 1 (0.56%) PHP
11 1 (0.56%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 90 (50.28%) Security Cleared
2 79 (44.13%) SC Cleared
3 50 (27.93%) AWS Certification
4 19 (10.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 12 (6.70%) Degree
6 9 (5.03%) Azure Certification
7 8 (4.47%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (3.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (3.35%) CISSP
9 5 (2.79%) CCNP
9 5 (2.79%) CCSP
9 5 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (2.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.68%) CCIE
11 3 (1.68%) CCIE Security
11 3 (1.68%) CCNA
11 3 (1.68%) Network+ Certification
12 2 (1.12%) JNCIE
12 2 (1.12%) JNCIP
12 2 (1.12%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.61%) NIST
2 17 (9.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (8.94%) GDPR
4 15 (8.38%) PCI DSS
5 11 (6.15%) NCSC
6 6 (3.35%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (3.35%) QA
7 4 (2.23%) PMO
7 4 (2.23%) SLA
8 2 (1.12%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.56%) COBIT
9 1 (0.56%) GRC
9 1 (0.56%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.56%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.56%) JSP 440
System Software
1 75 (41.90%) Docker
2 11 (6.15%) Squid
3 6 (3.35%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.35%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (2.23%) DFS Replication
4 4 (2.23%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (2.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.23%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.68%) Dovecot
5 3 (1.68%) Postfix
6 2 (1.12%) HDFS
7 1 (0.56%) NLBS
7 1 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 132 (73.74%) Terraform
2 60 (33.52%) Kubernetes
3 52 (29.05%) Ansible
4 35 (19.55%) Prometheus
5 28 (15.64%) Grafana
6 10 (5.59%) FortiGate
6 10 (5.59%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (3.35%) Argo
7 6 (3.35%) Consul
7 6 (3.35%) Kibana
7 6 (3.35%) Packer
8 5 (2.79%) Karpenter
8 5 (2.79%) Nessus
9 4 (2.23%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (2.23%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.68%) Istio
10 3 (1.68%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (1.68%) Proxmox
10 3 (1.68%) Puppet
11 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 25 (13.97%) Palo Alto
2 19 (10.61%) F5
3 17 (9.50%) CheckPoint
3 17 (9.50%) Splunk
4 14 (7.82%) ServiceNow
5 13 (7.26%) Fortinet
6 11 (6.15%) Dynatrace
7 10 (5.59%) Cisco
7 10 (5.59%) CloudEndure
8 9 (5.03%) Red Hat
9 8 (4.47%) Microsoft
10 7 (3.91%) Atlassian
10 7 (3.91%) Citrix
11 6 (3.35%) AVEVA
11 6 (3.35%) Databricks
11 6 (3.35%) Tenable
12 5 (2.79%) Google
13 4 (2.23%) Cloudera
13 4 (2.23%) Meraki
13 4 (2.23%) Qualys