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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 376 391 434
Rank change year-on-year +15 +43 +10
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 160 94 119
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.50% 0.35% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.32% 0.95% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 47 95
10th Percentile £389 £514 £475
25th Percentile £463 £538 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £614 £578
Median % change year-on-year -6.35% +6.23% -11.08%
75th Percentile £638 £738 £694
90th Percentile £713 £750 £838
UK median daily rate £550 £614 £575
% change year-on-year -10.42% +6.78% -11.54%

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 12,082 9,927 12,171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.04% 36.82% 33.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,365 6,613 8,879
10th Percentile £302 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £422 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £734
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 276 136 236
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.51 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.78 £21.41 £17.72
Median hourly rate £29.00 £28.75 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.87% +27.78% -0.57%
75th Percentile £57.25 £47.81 £50.40
90th Percentile £76.96 £68.75 £74.38
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £27.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year +1.82% +19.57% +2.22%

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 15 January 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 15 January 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 +11 86 £600 +4.35% 10
North of England -29 27 £543 -25.17% 5
West Midlands -11 26 £475 - 2
Midlands -18 26 £475 - 2
Yorkshire -39 16 £525 -27.59% 1
South East -6 12 £525 - 4
North East -7 6 £575 -23.33% 1
North West -21 5 £500 -16.67% 3
South West -26 4 £488 -28.83% 4
East of England -21 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 24 (15.00%) Confluence
2 9 (5.63%) nginx
3 4 (2.50%) SAS
4 2 (1.25%) Apache
4 2 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.63%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.63%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 9 (5.63%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 160 (100.00%) AWS
2 103 (64.38%) Amazon S3
3 96 (60.00%) Amazon EC2
4 76 (47.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 52 (32.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 52 (32.50%) AWS Lambda
5 52 (32.50%) Serverless
6 49 (30.63%) GitHub
7 44 (27.50%) Amazon ELB
8 41 (25.63%) Amazon EKS
9 40 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
10 37 (23.13%) Azure
11 32 (20.00%) Route 53
12 29 (18.13%) AWS KMS
12 29 (18.13%) GitHub Actions
13 24 (15.00%) GCP
14 18 (11.25%) Entra ID
15 17 (10.63%) Datadog
16 16 (10.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 16 (10.00%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 66 (41.25%) Firewall
2 63 (39.38%) DNS
3 45 (28.13%) VPN
4 27 (16.88%) TCP/IP
5 25 (15.63%) Network Security
5 25 (15.63%) SSL
6 15 (9.38%) FTP
6 15 (9.38%) HTTP
6 15 (9.38%) SMTP
6 15 (9.38%) SSH
7 11 (6.88%) WAN
8 10 (6.25%) Wireless
9 9 (5.63%) IMAP
9 9 (5.63%) LAN
9 9 (5.63%) OpenLDAP
10 8 (5.00%) BGP
10 8 (5.00%) OSPF
10 8 (5.00%) SD-WAN
11 6 (3.75%) DHCP
11 6 (3.75%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
2 25 (15.63%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (11.25%) Amazon Aurora
4 17 (10.63%) MongoDB
5 13 (8.13%) MySQL
6 10 (6.25%) DynamoDB
7 8 (5.00%) Data Lake
8 7 (4.38%) Amazon Athena
8 7 (4.38%) DocumentDB
8 7 (4.38%) Redis
9 6 (3.75%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (3.75%) NoSQL
10 5 (3.13%) Relational Database
11 4 (2.50%) Amazon QuickSight
12 3 (1.88%) Big Data
12 3 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.88%) Hadoop
13 2 (1.25%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (1.25%) Apache Hive
13 2 (1.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 89 (55.63%) Jenkins
2 62 (38.75%) GitLab
3 51 (31.88%) Git
4 28 (17.50%) JIRA
5 15 (9.38%) Vagrant
6 8 (5.00%) Terragrunt
7 5 (3.13%) Bitbucket
7 5 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (2.50%) CircleCI
9 2 (1.25%) Snyk
10 1 (0.63%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.63%) JUnit
10 1 (0.63%) Maven
10 1 (0.63%) Metasploit
10 1 (0.63%) MLflow
General
1 45 (28.13%) Public Sector
2 36 (22.50%) Social Skills
3 25 (15.63%) Finance
4 10 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (5.00%) Banking
6 6 (3.75%) Military
7 5 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 48 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 41 (25.63%) AWS Engineer
3 38 (23.75%) Architect
4 35 (21.88%) Senior
5 28 (17.50%) Platform Engineer
6 27 (16.88%) AWS DevOps
7 24 (15.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 22 (13.75%) AWS Architect
8 22 (13.75%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 21 (13.13%) Lead
10 20 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
11 17 (10.63%) Senior DevOps
12 16 (10.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 16 (10.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 12 (7.50%) Network Engineer
14 10 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 9 (5.63%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 8 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
16 8 (5.00%) Lead DevOps
16 8 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (14.38%) Kafka
2 9 (5.63%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (5.63%) LDAP
2 9 (5.63%) REST
3 8 (5.00%) AWS CDK
3 8 (5.00%) Node.js
4 7 (4.38%) RESTful
4 7 (4.38%) Spring
4 7 (4.38%) Spring Boot
5 6 (3.75%) OAuth
5 6 (3.75%) OAuth2
5 6 (3.75%) OpenID
5 6 (3.75%) OpenTelemetry
6 5 (3.13%) cloud-init
6 5 (3.13%) JSON
6 5 (3.13%) Keycloak
7 4 (2.50%) gRPC
7 4 (2.50%) Hibernate
7 4 (2.50%) JPA
7 4 (2.50%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 21 (13.13%) Cloud Native
2 20 (12.50%) Replication
3 14 (8.75%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (7.50%) Data Centre
5 10 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (4.38%) PKI
7 5 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (3.13%) Legacy Applications
7 5 (3.13%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.50%) Enterprise Storage
8 4 (2.50%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.50%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.88%) Life Science
9 3 (1.88%) NHS
10 2 (1.25%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.63%) Cyberattack
11 1 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.63%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 42 (26.25%) Linux
2 22 (13.75%) Windows
3 18 (11.25%) Amazon Linux
4 15 (9.38%) VMS
5 10 (6.25%) Ubuntu
6 6 (3.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (3.75%) Windows Server
7 5 (3.13%) CentOS
7 5 (3.13%) Unix
8 1 (0.63%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.63%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 99 (61.88%) DevOps
3 97 (60.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 48 (30.00%) Incident Response
5 39 (24.38%) High Availability
6 37 (23.13%) Containerisation
7 36 (22.50%) Observability
8 31 (19.38%) Cloud Security
9 28 (17.50%) Infrastructure Automation
9 28 (17.50%) Mentoring
9 28 (17.50%) Platform Engineering
10 27 (16.88%) Configuration Management
11 25 (15.63%) Cost Optimisation
11 25 (15.63%) Migration
12 24 (15.00%) DevSecOps
13 23 (14.38%) Performance Tuning
14 22 (13.75%) Microservices
14 22 (13.75%) Roadmaps
15 19 (11.88%) Root Cause Analysis
16 17 (10.63%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 92 (57.50%) Python
2 48 (30.00%) Bash
3 28 (17.50%) PowerShell
4 24 (15.00%) Java
5 18 (11.25%) SQL
6 15 (9.38%) Groovy
7 11 (6.88%) Go
8 10 (6.25%) Perl
9 5 (3.13%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.50%) JavaScript
10 4 (2.50%) Ruby
10 4 (2.50%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.63%) Cypher
11 1 (0.63%) Korn
11 1 (0.63%) PHP
Qualifications
1 78 (48.75%) Security Cleared
2 69 (43.13%) SC Cleared
3 47 (29.38%) AWS Certification
4 18 (11.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 16 (10.00%) Degree
6 13 (8.13%) Azure Certification
7 8 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (3.13%) CCNP
8 5 (3.13%) CCSP
8 5 (3.13%) CISSP
9 4 (2.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (2.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.88%) CCIE
10 3 (1.88%) CCIE Security
10 3 (1.88%) CCNA
10 3 (1.88%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (1.25%) DV Cleared
11 2 (1.25%) JNCIE
11 2 (1.25%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (11.25%) NIST
2 17 (10.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (10.00%) GDPR
4 13 (8.13%) NCSC
5 12 (7.50%) PCI DSS
6 6 (3.75%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (3.75%) QA
7 2 (1.25%) SLA
8 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.63%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.63%) JSP 440
System Software
1 85 (53.13%) Docker
2 15 (9.38%) DFS Replication
3 10 (6.25%) Active Directory
3 10 (6.25%) Squid
4 9 (5.63%) Dovecot
4 9 (5.63%) Postfix
5 6 (3.75%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (3.75%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (2.50%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (2.50%) VMware NSX
7 2 (1.25%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 133 (83.13%) Terraform
2 58 (36.25%) Ansible
3 47 (29.38%) Kubernetes
4 33 (20.63%) Prometheus
5 30 (18.75%) Grafana
6 10 (6.25%) Nessus
7 9 (5.63%) Proxmox
8 8 (5.00%) Packer
9 7 (4.38%) Puppet
10 6 (3.75%) Jamf Pro
10 6 (3.75%) Kibana
11 5 (3.13%) Argo
11 5 (3.13%) Karpenter
12 4 (2.50%) NetBackup
13 3 (1.88%) FortiGate
13 3 (1.88%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (1.88%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (1.25%) Progress Chef
15 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
15 1 (0.63%) Salt
Vendors
1 34 (21.25%) Palo Alto
2 28 (17.50%) F5
3 26 (16.25%) CheckPoint
4 16 (10.00%) ServiceNow
5 15 (9.38%) Splunk
6 13 (8.13%) Fortinet
7 12 (7.50%) Cisco
8 10 (6.25%) CloudEndure
9 9 (5.63%) Jaspersoft
10 7 (4.38%) Citrix
11 6 (3.75%) Microsoft
11 6 (3.75%) Okta
11 6 (3.75%) VMware
11 6 (3.75%) Zscaler
12 4 (2.50%) Commvault
12 4 (2.50%) Databricks
12 4 (2.50%) Dynatrace
12 4 (2.50%) Meraki
12 4 (2.50%) Oracle
12 4 (2.50%) SnapLogic