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

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 418 415 457
Rank change year-on-year -3 +42 -17
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 208 87 95
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.47% 0.33% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.35% 0.87% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 63 70
10th Percentile £400 £401 £386
25th Percentile £456 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £536
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.10% -10.63%
75th Percentile £569 £638 £645
90th Percentile £622 £703 £694
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -3.81% -0.47% -12.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £38.75 -
UK median hourly rate - £38.75 -

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 15,409 9,998 12,167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.90% 37.66% 32.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,359 6,739 8,678
10th Percentile £325 £313 £308
25th Percentile £415 £410 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 555 258 330
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £23.08 £17.88 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% +14.32% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £39.69 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.15 £67.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £27.63 £22.00
% change year-on-year +35.72% +25.59% -37.14%

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 July 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 6 July 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 +4 124 £518 -8.72% 18
West Midlands -44 28 £488 +2.63% 4
Midlands -47 28 £488 +2.63% 4
North of England -54 28 £475 +2.70% 10
North West -28 18 £475 +11.76% 9
South East -43 11 £533 -8.19% 9
East of England -27 8 £490 -4.39%
North East -33 5 £413 -
Yorkshire -48 5 £500 - 1
South West - 4 £500 - 6
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 37 (17.79%) Confluence
2 9 (4.33%) nginx
3 6 (2.88%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.96%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.96%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (4.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.48%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 205 (98.56%) AWS
2 120 (57.69%) Amazon EC2
3 117 (56.25%) Amazon S3
4 99 (47.60%) Serverless
5 94 (45.19%) AWS Lambda
6 90 (43.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 83 (39.90%) Amazon EKS
8 50 (24.04%) Azure
9 48 (23.08%) AWS CloudFormation
10 38 (18.27%) Amazon ECS
11 33 (15.87%) Route 53
12 32 (15.38%) GCP
12 32 (15.38%) GitHub
13 25 (12.02%) GitHub Actions
14 21 (10.10%) AWS CloudTrail
15 20 (9.62%) AWS KMS
16 18 (8.65%) AWS CodePipeline
17 16 (7.69%) Power Platform
18 15 (7.21%) Amazon GuardDuty
18 15 (7.21%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 64 (30.77%) Firewall
2 38 (18.27%) VPN
3 28 (13.46%) DNS
3 28 (13.46%) TCP/IP
4 21 (10.10%) Network Security
5 18 (8.65%) WAN
6 16 (7.69%) BGP
7 14 (6.73%) OSPF
8 11 (5.29%) OpenVPN
9 10 (4.81%) LAN
10 8 (3.85%) SD-WAN
10 8 (3.85%) SSL
11 7 (3.37%) VLAN
12 6 (2.88%) Cisco Nexus
12 6 (2.88%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 6 (2.88%) MPLS
13 5 (2.40%) BIG-IP
13 5 (2.40%) IPsec
14 4 (1.92%) Cisco ASA
14 4 (1.92%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (28.85%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (7.69%) Power BI
3 13 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
4 10 (4.81%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (4.81%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (4.33%) Amazon Athena
5 9 (4.33%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (3.85%) Tableau
7 6 (2.88%) Amazon QuickSight
8 4 (1.92%) MySQL
9 3 (1.44%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.44%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.44%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.96%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.96%) DocumentDB
10 2 (0.96%) Neo4j
11 1 (0.48%) Redis
11 1 (0.48%) SAP HANA
11 1 (0.48%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 62 (29.81%) GitLab
2 58 (27.88%) Jenkins
3 37 (17.79%) JIRA
4 36 (17.31%) Git
5 21 (10.10%) Bitbucket
6 13 (6.25%) Artifactory
7 11 (5.29%) SonarQube
8 6 (2.88%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.96%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.96%) Metasploit
9 2 (0.96%) Snyk
10 1 (0.48%) AppScan
10 1 (0.48%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.48%) sqlmap
General
1 67 (32.21%) Social Skills
2 52 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 28 (13.46%) Finance
4 18 (8.65%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (3.37%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.37%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (2.88%) Banking
7 5 (2.40%) Military
7 5 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.92%) Law
8 4 (1.92%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.44%) Police
10 2 (0.96%) Games
10 2 (0.96%) Legal
11 1 (0.48%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.48%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.48%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 54 (25.96%) Architect
2 46 (22.12%) AWS Engineer
3 32 (15.38%) Cloud Engineer
3 32 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 26 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
5 23 (11.06%) AWS Architect
6 21 (10.10%) Security Engineer
7 19 (9.13%) Technical Architect
8 18 (8.65%) Senior
9 17 (8.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 15 (7.21%) Network Engineer
11 13 (6.25%) Delivery Manager
12 11 (5.29%) Lead
12 11 (5.29%) Network Architect
12 11 (5.29%) Platform Engineer
12 11 (5.29%) Scrum Master
12 11 (5.29%) Technical Manager
13 10 (4.81%) Cloud Architect
13 10 (4.81%) Solutions Architect
13 10 (4.81%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (9.62%) AWS CDK
2 13 (6.25%) OpenID
3 11 (5.29%) LDAP
4 8 (3.85%) Kafka
5 6 (2.88%) SAML
6 5 (2.40%) OAuth
6 5 (2.40%) OAuth2
7 4 (1.92%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (1.92%) RESTful
8 3 (1.44%) Apollo GraphQL
8 3 (1.44%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (1.44%) GraphQL
8 3 (1.44%) REST
9 2 (0.96%) React
10 1 (0.48%) AngularJS
10 1 (0.48%) boto
10 1 (0.48%) PySpark
10 1 (0.48%) Spring Boot
10 1 (0.48%) Spring Cloud
10 1 (0.48%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 46 (22.12%) Cloud Native
2 21 (10.10%) Data Centre
3 16 (7.69%) Security Posture
4 13 (6.25%) Product Ownership
5 9 (4.33%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (3.85%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.88%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.40%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (2.40%) Private Cloud
8 5 (2.40%) Replication
9 4 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.92%) NHS
10 3 (1.44%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (1.44%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.44%) SCADA
11 2 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.96%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.96%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 40 (19.23%) Linux
2 23 (11.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 21 (10.10%) Windows
4 5 (2.40%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (1.44%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.96%) AIX
6 2 (0.96%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.96%) Unix
7 1 (0.48%) CentOS
7 1 (0.48%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.48%) VMS
7 1 (0.48%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (60.10%) CI/CD
2 110 (52.88%) DevOps
3 103 (49.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 63 (30.29%) Agile
5 54 (25.96%) Containerisation
6 45 (21.63%) Cloud Security
6 45 (21.63%) Continuous Improvement
7 43 (20.67%) Roadmaps
8 42 (20.19%) Observability
9 41 (19.71%) Platform Engineering
10 35 (16.83%) Migration
11 27 (12.98%) Decision-Making
11 27 (12.98%) Problem-Solving
12 25 (12.02%) Infrastructure Automation
13 24 (11.54%) DevSecOps
13 24 (11.54%) Scrum
14 23 (11.06%) Change Management
14 23 (11.06%) Microservices
15 22 (10.58%) SIEM
16 21 (10.10%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 83 (39.90%) Python
2 49 (23.56%) Bash
3 27 (12.98%) Java
3 27 (12.98%) PowerShell
4 15 (7.21%) SQL
5 8 (3.85%) Groovy
6 7 (3.37%) Shell Script
7 6 (2.88%) Kotlin
8 4 (1.92%) Perl
8 4 (1.92%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.44%) Bicep
9 3 (1.44%) Go
10 2 (0.96%) Cypher
10 2 (0.96%) Ruby
11 1 (0.48%) C
11 1 (0.48%) Gremlin
11 1 (0.48%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.48%) Lisp
11 1 (0.48%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.48%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 109 (52.40%) Security Cleared
2 97 (46.63%) SC Cleared
3 38 (18.27%) AWS Certification
4 22 (10.58%) Azure Certification
5 18 (8.65%) Degree
6 13 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (5.29%) SAFe Agilist
8 9 (4.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 9 (4.33%) CISSP
9 8 (3.85%) CCNP
9 8 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (2.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.92%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.44%) CCIE
12 3 (1.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 2 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.96%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.96%) PMP
14 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.85%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.37%) PMO
3 6 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.88%) PCI DSS
4 5 (2.40%) GDPR
4 5 (2.40%) NCSC
4 5 (2.40%) NIST
4 5 (2.40%) SLA
5 4 (1.92%) QA
6 1 (0.48%) COBIT
6 1 (0.48%) GRC
6 1 (0.48%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.48%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 72 (34.62%) Docker
2 17 (8.17%) Squid
3 13 (6.25%) Active Directory
4 9 (4.33%) VMware NSX
5 6 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.44%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.44%) vSphere
7 1 (0.48%) Firmware
7 1 (0.48%) NLBS
7 1 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 138 (66.35%) Terraform
2 76 (36.54%) Kubernetes
3 46 (22.12%) Prometheus
4 45 (21.63%) Grafana
5 40 (19.23%) Ansible
6 13 (6.25%) Progress Chef
7 12 (5.77%) Puppet
8 11 (5.29%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (4.33%) FortiGate
10 8 (3.85%) Consul
11 7 (3.37%) Packer
12 6 (2.88%) Salt
13 4 (1.92%) Argo
13 4 (1.92%) Istio
13 4 (1.92%) Suricata
14 3 (1.44%) vCenter Server
15 2 (0.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 2 (0.96%) linkerd
15 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
15 2 (0.96%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 24 (11.54%) Red Hat
2 20 (9.62%) Google
3 16 (7.69%) Cisco
3 16 (7.69%) ServiceNow
4 15 (7.21%) Dynatrace
4 15 (7.21%) Microsoft
5 13 (6.25%) Splunk
6 11 (5.29%) VMware
7 9 (4.33%) Palo Alto
8 7 (3.37%) Atlassian
8 7 (3.37%) F5
8 7 (3.37%) SolarWinds
8 7 (3.37%) Zscaler
9 6 (2.88%) AVEVA
10 5 (2.40%) Fortinet
10 5 (2.40%) PagerDuty
10 5 (2.40%) Tenable
11 4 (1.92%) CheckPoint
11 4 (1.92%) Trend Micro
12 3 (1.44%) Oracle