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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 414 407 437
Rank change year-on-year -7 +30 -3
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 210 104 98
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.46% 0.37% 0.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.32% 1.01% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 73 66
10th Percentile £413 £401 £411
25th Percentile £456 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £582 £630 £658
90th Percentile £646 £700 £685
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -8.33%
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 15,922 10,336 11,178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.95% 37.14% 33.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,615 7,014 7,944
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £423 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £720 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 565 269 232
10th Percentile £15.96 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.85 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £24.59
Median % change year-on-year +36.54% +5.73% -23.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £83.70 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £27.63 £24.84
% change year-on-year +26.67% +11.23% -29.03%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 -14 124 £529 -10.38% 43
Midlands -40 31 £484 +1.95% 3
West Midlands -44 29 £488 +2.63% 3
North of England -43 27 £500 -6.54% 16
North West -28 17 £506 -5.37% 9
East of England -14 9 £450 -12.20% 2
South East -65 9 £669 +15.30% 6
Yorkshire -39 5 £500 - 5
North East -40 5 £544 -9.38% 2
South West -39 4 £450 - 5
East Midlands - 2 £466 -
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 (17.62%) Confluence
2 10 (4.76%) SharePoint
3 8 (3.81%) nginx
4 4 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.43%) Apache
6 2 (0.95%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.95%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (4.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.48%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 207 (98.57%) AWS
2 114 (54.29%) Amazon EC2
3 111 (52.86%) Amazon S3
4 92 (43.81%) Serverless
5 91 (43.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 87 (41.43%) AWS Lambda
7 70 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
8 54 (25.71%) AWS CloudFormation
9 51 (24.29%) Azure
10 38 (18.10%) GitHub
11 35 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
12 32 (15.24%) GCP
13 29 (13.81%) GitHub Actions
14 28 (13.33%) AWS KMS
15 26 (12.38%) AWS CloudTrail
16 18 (8.57%) Route 53
17 16 (7.62%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 16 (7.62%) Datadog
17 16 (7.62%) Power Platform
18 15 (7.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 54 (25.71%) Firewall
2 29 (13.81%) VPN
3 26 (12.38%) TCP/IP
4 21 (10.00%) DNS
5 19 (9.05%) Network Security
6 16 (7.62%) WAN
7 13 (6.19%) BGP
8 11 (5.24%) OSPF
9 10 (4.76%) LAN
9 10 (4.76%) SSL
10 9 (4.29%) OpenVPN
11 7 (3.33%) VLAN
12 6 (2.86%) Cisco Nexus
12 6 (2.86%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 6 (2.86%) SD-WAN
13 5 (2.38%) BIG-IP
13 5 (2.38%) MPLS
13 5 (2.38%) NetScaler
13 5 (2.38%) Reverse Proxy
14 4 (1.90%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (32.86%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (8.10%) Amazon Aurora
2 17 (8.10%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (7.62%) Power BI
4 12 (5.71%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (4.29%) Amazon Athena
6 8 (3.81%) MongoDB
6 8 (3.81%) MySQL
6 8 (3.81%) Tableau
7 6 (2.86%) Redis
7 6 (2.86%) SQL Server
8 5 (2.38%) Amazon QuickSight
8 5 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.90%) DynamoDB
10 3 (1.43%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.43%) Delta Lake
10 3 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.95%) Data Vault
11 2 (0.95%) NoSQL
12 1 (0.48%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 57 (27.14%) GitLab
2 50 (23.81%) Jenkins
3 43 (20.48%) Git
4 33 (15.71%) JIRA
5 16 (7.62%) Bitbucket
6 12 (5.71%) Artifactory
7 10 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (2.86%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.48%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.48%) Maven
9 1 (0.48%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.48%) Snyk
9 1 (0.48%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.48%) sqlmap
General
1 76 (36.19%) Social Skills
2 59 (28.10%) Public Sector
3 24 (11.43%) Finance
4 10 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.33%) Banking
6 7 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.38%) Law
7 5 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.90%) Military
8 4 (1.90%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.43%) Police
10 2 (0.95%) Games
10 2 (0.95%) Legal
11 1 (0.48%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.48%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 49 (23.33%) AWS Engineer
2 47 (22.38%) Architect
3 33 (15.71%) Cloud Engineer
4 31 (14.76%) DevOps Engineer
5 27 (12.86%) AWS DevOps
6 23 (10.95%) Senior
7 20 (9.52%) Security Engineer
8 18 (8.57%) AWS Architect
8 18 (8.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 17 (8.10%) Platform Engineer
10 15 (7.14%) Network Engineer
10 15 (7.14%) Technical Architect
11 12 (5.71%) Delivery Manager
12 11 (5.24%) Lead
12 11 (5.24%) Scrum Master
13 10 (4.76%) Technical Delivery Manager
13 10 (4.76%) Technical Manager
14 9 (4.29%) DBA
14 9 (4.29%) Network Architect
14 9 (4.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (9.52%) AWS CDK
2 8 (3.81%) SAML
3 7 (3.33%) OpenID
4 6 (2.86%) LDAP
5 5 (2.38%) boto
5 5 (2.38%) Kafka
6 4 (1.90%) GraphQL
6 4 (1.90%) RESTful
7 3 (1.43%) Apollo GraphQL
7 3 (1.43%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (1.43%) React
8 2 (0.95%) ARM Templates
8 2 (0.95%) cloud-init
8 2 (0.95%) OAuth
8 2 (0.95%) OAuth2
8 2 (0.95%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (0.95%) REST
9 1 (0.48%) .NET
9 1 (0.48%) JSON
9 1 (0.48%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (19.05%) Cloud Native
2 19 (9.05%) Security Posture
3 14 (6.67%) Data Centre
4 13 (6.19%) Replication
5 12 (5.71%) Product Ownership
6 10 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (3.81%) Linux Command Line
7 8 (3.81%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 5 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (2.38%) NHS
10 4 (1.90%) Cloud Security Posture
10 4 (1.90%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.90%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.43%) Client/Server
11 3 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.43%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.95%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (0.95%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 46 (21.90%) Linux
2 25 (11.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 20 (9.52%) Windows
4 7 (3.33%) Amazon Linux
5 6 (2.86%) Unix
6 4 (1.90%) AIX
7 3 (1.43%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.43%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.48%) CentOS
8 1 (0.48%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 109 (51.90%) Infrastructure as Code
3 106 (50.48%) DevOps
4 64 (30.48%) Agile
5 50 (23.81%) Containerisation
6 46 (21.90%) Cloud Security
6 46 (21.90%) Platform Engineering
7 45 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
8 43 (20.48%) Observability
9 37 (17.62%) Roadmaps
10 34 (16.19%) Migration
11 26 (12.38%) Stakeholder Management
12 24 (11.43%) Infrastructure Automation
12 24 (11.43%) Scrum
12 24 (11.43%) Secrets Management
12 24 (11.43%) SIEM
13 23 (10.95%) Change Management
13 23 (10.95%) DevSecOps
14 22 (10.48%) ITIL
14 22 (10.48%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 83 (39.52%) Python
2 51 (24.29%) Bash
3 30 (14.29%) Java
3 30 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 24 (11.43%) SQL
5 11 (5.24%) Shell Script
6 10 (4.76%) Groovy
7 6 (2.86%) Kotlin
8 5 (2.38%) Perl
9 4 (1.90%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.95%) Bicep
10 2 (0.95%) Go
10 2 (0.95%) Ruby
11 1 (0.48%) Cypher
11 1 (0.48%) Gremlin
11 1 (0.48%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.48%) R
11 1 (0.48%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.48%) SHACL
11 1 (0.48%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 115 (54.76%) Security Cleared
2 104 (49.52%) SC Cleared
3 44 (20.95%) AWS Certification
4 24 (11.43%) Azure Certification
5 22 (10.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 19 (9.05%) Degree
7 11 (5.24%) SAFe Agilist
8 9 (4.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 9 (4.29%) CISSP
9 8 (3.81%) CCNP
9 8 (3.81%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (1.90%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.43%) CCIE
12 3 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.43%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.48%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.33%) GDPR
3 7 (3.33%) PMO
4 6 (2.86%) NCSC
5 4 (1.90%) SLA
6 3 (1.43%) QA
7 2 (0.95%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.95%) NIST
7 2 (0.95%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.48%) WCAG
System Software
1 72 (34.29%) Docker
2 14 (6.67%) Active Directory
3 11 (5.24%) Squid
4 9 (4.29%) VMware NSX
5 6 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.43%) vSphere
7 1 (0.48%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 139 (66.19%) Terraform
2 70 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 41 (19.52%) Ansible
3 41 (19.52%) Grafana
4 37 (17.62%) Prometheus
5 12 (5.71%) Progress Chef
6 11 (5.24%) Puppet
7 10 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (3.81%) Packer
9 6 (2.86%) Argo
10 5 (2.38%) Istio
10 5 (2.38%) Salt
11 4 (1.90%) Consul
11 4 (1.90%) Suricata
12 3 (1.43%) FortiGate
12 3 (1.43%) SELinux
12 3 (1.43%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.95%) Sysdig
13 2 (0.95%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 23 (10.95%) Red Hat
2 22 (10.48%) ServiceNow
3 20 (9.52%) Google
4 18 (8.57%) Cisco
4 18 (8.57%) Microsoft
5 13 (6.19%) VMware
6 10 (4.76%) Dynatrace
6 10 (4.76%) Splunk
7 9 (4.29%) Palo Alto
8 7 (3.33%) F5
8 7 (3.33%) SolarWinds
8 7 (3.33%) Zscaler
9 5 (2.38%) PagerDuty
10 4 (1.90%) CheckPoint
10 4 (1.90%) Fortinet
10 4 (1.90%) Trend Micro
11 3 (1.43%) Aruba
11 3 (1.43%) Databricks
11 3 (1.43%) Oracle
11 3 (1.43%) Veeam