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 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 407 417 433
Rank change year-on-year +10 +16 +5
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 178 65 118
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.45% 0.26% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.25% 0.71% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 44 85
10th Percentile £400 £413 £404
25th Percentile £456 £534 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £620 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.48% +12.66% -12.00%
75th Percentile £588 £738 £675
90th Percentile £639 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £505 £608 £547
% change year-on-year -16.87% +11.16% -11.14%

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 14,244 9,205 11,868
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.85% 37.42% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,823 6,454 8,547
10th Percentile £315 £313 £285
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £612 £638 £638
90th Percentile £714 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 436 194 323
10th Percentile £16.13 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.02 £18.13 £15.95
Median hourly rate £45.00 £26.45 £20.97
Median % change year-on-year +70.13% +26.13% -28.92%
75th Percentile £67.50 £42.74 £33.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.75 £61.20
UK median hourly rate £42.59 £27.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +54.88% +30.95% -37.78%

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 24 April 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 24 April 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 +9 115 £522 -16.52% 10
North of England -57 22 £548 -24.48% 7
Midlands -43 16 £500 +5.26%
West Midlands -43 16 £500 +5.26%
North West -29 11 £568 +33.53% 3
South East -48 10 £404 -30.34% 8
North East -11 7 £575 -23.33% 4
East of England -29 7 £530 +0.95% 4
Yorkshire -53 4 £499 -31.21%
South West - 3 £450 - 2
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 (17.42%) Confluence
2 9 (5.06%) nginx
3 5 (2.81%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.25%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.12%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.56%) Apache
6 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.56%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (5.06%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 178 (100.00%) AWS
2 110 (61.80%) Amazon S3
3 102 (57.30%) Amazon EC2
4 87 (48.88%) Serverless
5 84 (47.19%) AWS Lambda
6 72 (40.45%) Amazon EKS
7 68 (38.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 56 (31.46%) AWS CloudFormation
9 44 (24.72%) Route 53
10 40 (22.47%) GitHub
11 39 (21.91%) Azure
12 38 (21.35%) Amazon ECS
13 33 (18.54%) GCP
14 29 (16.29%) GitHub Actions
15 24 (13.48%) AWS KMS
16 20 (11.24%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 20 (11.24%) AWS Control Tower
17 16 (8.99%) AWS CloudTrail
18 15 (8.43%) Amazon ELB
18 15 (8.43%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 50 (28.09%) Firewall
2 37 (20.79%) VPN
3 29 (16.29%) DNS
4 20 (11.24%) TCP/IP
5 16 (8.99%) Network Security
6 14 (7.87%) BGP
7 13 (7.30%) OSPF
8 11 (6.18%) OpenVPN
9 8 (4.49%) WAN
10 6 (3.37%) SSL
11 5 (2.81%) LAN
11 5 (2.81%) SD-WAN
11 5 (2.81%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (2.81%) Wireless
12 4 (2.25%) NGFW
12 4 (2.25%) Reverse Proxy
12 4 (2.25%) VLAN
13 3 (1.69%) Cisco Nexus
13 3 (1.69%) Kerberos
14 2 (1.12%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (35.39%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (8.43%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (8.43%) Power BI
3 12 (6.74%) Amazon Redshift
4 11 (6.18%) Amazon Aurora
4 11 (6.18%) MySQL
5 9 (5.06%) DynamoDB
5 9 (5.06%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (4.49%) Amazon Athena
6 8 (4.49%) NoSQL
6 8 (4.49%) Tableau
7 7 (3.93%) DocumentDB
8 6 (3.37%) MongoDB
8 6 (3.37%) Redis
9 5 (2.81%) Amazon QuickSight
10 4 (2.25%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.69%) Big Data
11 3 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.69%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 61 (34.27%) Jenkins
2 54 (30.34%) GitLab
3 30 (16.85%) JIRA
4 25 (14.04%) Git
5 16 (8.99%) Bitbucket
6 10 (5.62%) SonarQube
7 6 (3.37%) Artifactory
8 5 (2.81%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (2.25%) CircleCI
9 4 (2.25%) Terragrunt
10 3 (1.69%) Snyk
11 2 (1.12%) Burp Suite
11 2 (1.12%) Metasploit
12 1 (0.56%) AppScan
12 1 (0.56%) JUnit
12 1 (0.56%) MLflow
12 1 (0.56%) sqlmap
General
1 56 (31.46%) Social Skills
2 54 (30.34%) Public Sector
3 33 (18.54%) Finance
4 17 (9.55%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (5.06%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.93%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.81%) Banking
8 4 (2.25%) Military
9 3 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.12%) Games
10 2 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.12%) Law
10 2 (1.12%) Police
11 1 (0.56%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 54 (30.34%) Architect
2 32 (17.98%) AWS Engineer
3 29 (16.29%) AWS Architect
4 25 (14.04%) Cloud Architect
5 21 (11.80%) DevOps Engineer
6 18 (10.11%) Cloud Engineer
7 16 (8.99%) Lead
7 16 (8.99%) Senior
8 14 (7.87%) AWS DevOps
9 13 (7.30%) Network Engineer
9 13 (7.30%) Security Engineer
10 12 (6.74%) Delivery Manager
11 11 (6.18%) Technical Manager
12 10 (5.62%) Platform Engineer
12 10 (5.62%) Technical Delivery Manager
13 9 (5.06%) Analyst
13 9 (5.06%) Technical Architect
14 8 (4.49%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 8 (4.49%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 7 (3.93%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (9.55%) Kafka
2 15 (8.43%) OpenID
3 14 (7.87%) AWS CDK
4 9 (5.06%) LDAP
5 8 (4.49%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (4.49%) REST
6 7 (3.93%) OAuth
6 7 (3.93%) OAuth2
6 7 (3.93%) OpenTelemetry
7 6 (3.37%) RESTful
7 6 (3.37%) Spring
7 6 (3.37%) Spring Boot
8 5 (2.81%) JSON
8 5 (2.81%) Node.js
9 4 (2.25%) gRPC
9 4 (2.25%) Hibernate
9 4 (2.25%) JPA
9 4 (2.25%) Spring Cloud
10 3 (1.69%) 802.1X
10 3 (1.69%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 29 (16.29%) Cloud Native
2 17 (9.55%) Data Centre
3 11 (6.18%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (5.62%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (5.06%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.37%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.81%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.81%) Replication
8 4 (2.25%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.69%) SCADA
9 3 (1.69%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.12%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.12%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (1.12%) NHS
10 2 (1.12%) PKI
11 1 (0.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 1 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.56%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 32 (17.98%) Linux
2 9 (5.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (4.49%) Windows
4 7 (3.93%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (1.12%) Unix
6 1 (0.56%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.56%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.56%) VMS
6 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (53.93%) CI/CD
2 87 (48.88%) Infrastructure as Code
3 81 (45.51%) DevOps
4 48 (26.97%) Containerisation
5 40 (22.47%) Observability
6 39 (21.91%) Agile
6 39 (21.91%) Migration
7 35 (19.66%) Roadmaps
8 32 (17.98%) Cloud Security
9 31 (17.42%) Problem-Solving
10 29 (16.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 26 (14.61%) Platform Engineering
12 23 (12.92%) Incident Response
12 23 (12.92%) Microservices
13 21 (11.80%) Cost Optimisation
13 21 (11.80%) Decision-Making
13 21 (11.80%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 19 (10.67%) Cost Management
15 18 (10.11%) Event-Driven
16 17 (9.55%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 72 (40.45%) Python
2 32 (17.98%) Bash
3 27 (15.17%) Java
4 18 (10.11%) SQL
5 17 (9.55%) PowerShell
6 8 (4.49%) Go
7 6 (3.37%) Kotlin
7 6 (3.37%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.81%) Groovy
8 5 (2.81%) Perl
9 4 (2.25%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.25%) Ruby
10 2 (1.12%) Bicep
10 2 (1.12%) Cypher
10 2 (1.12%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.56%) Lisp
11 1 (0.56%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 89 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 81 (45.51%) SC Cleared
3 44 (24.72%) AWS Certification
4 19 (10.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 12 (6.74%) Azure Certification
6 7 (3.93%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (3.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 6 (3.37%) CCNP
8 4 (2.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 4 (2.25%) CISSP
8 4 (2.25%) SAFe Agilist
9 3 (1.69%) Degree
10 2 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.12%) PMI Certification
10 2 (1.12%) PMP
11 1 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.56%) CCNA
11 1 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 14 (7.87%) NIST
2 13 (7.30%) PCI DSS
3 7 (3.93%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.93%) GDPR
3 7 (3.93%) NCSC
3 7 (3.93%) PMO
4 6 (3.37%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (3.37%) QA
5 5 (2.81%) SLA
6 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.56%) COBIT
6 1 (0.56%) GRC
6 1 (0.56%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.56%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 72 (40.45%) Docker
2 11 (6.18%) Squid
3 10 (5.62%) Active Directory
4 6 (3.37%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.12%) HDFS
5 2 (1.12%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.12%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.56%) Firmware
6 1 (0.56%) NLBS
6 1 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 121 (67.98%) Terraform
2 66 (37.08%) Kubernetes
3 38 (21.35%) Prometheus
4 32 (17.98%) Ansible
5 31 (17.42%) Grafana
6 12 (6.74%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (5.62%) FortiGate
8 8 (4.49%) Consul
9 5 (2.81%) Progress Chef
9 5 (2.81%) Puppet
10 4 (2.25%) Karpenter
10 4 (2.25%) Kibana
10 4 (2.25%) Packer
10 4 (2.25%) Salt
11 3 (1.69%) Istio
11 3 (1.69%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (1.12%) Argo
12 2 (1.12%) linkerd
12 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (1.12%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 18 (10.11%) Splunk
2 13 (7.30%) Red Hat
3 12 (6.74%) Google
3 12 (6.74%) Microsoft
3 12 (6.74%) ServiceNow
4 11 (6.18%) Dynatrace
5 10 (5.62%) Fortinet
6 8 (4.49%) Cisco
6 8 (4.49%) Zscaler
7 7 (3.93%) Atlassian
7 7 (3.93%) Citrix
8 6 (3.37%) AVEVA
8 6 (3.37%) CheckPoint
8 6 (3.37%) CloudEndure
9 5 (2.81%) Palo Alto
9 5 (2.81%) Tenable
10 4 (2.25%) Cloudera
10 4 (2.25%) F5
10 4 (2.25%) Oracle
10 4 (2.25%) Qualys