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 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 375 442 426
Rank change year-on-year +67 -16 +82
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 144 88 161
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 0.28% 0.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.32% 0.78% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 50 132
10th Percentile £400 £475 £464
25th Percentile £463 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £561 £594
Median % change year-on-year -3.12% -5.51% -8.62%
75th Percentile £638 £672 £650
90th Percentile £713 £769 £798
UK median daily rate £550 £570 £579
% change year-on-year -3.51% -1.48% -7.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £36.63 - -
25th Percentile £37.19 - £47.50
Median hourly rate £38.75 - £50.00
75th Percentile £39.69 - £52.50
90th Percentile £39.88 - -
UK median hourly rate £38.75 - £50.00

All Cloud 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 10,868 11,255 14,609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.63% 35.35% 35.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,329 7,489 10,705
10th Percentile £303 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -1.40% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £643 £650
90th Percentile £725 £749 £743
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 158 297
10th Percentile £15.20 £16.21 £14.51
25th Percentile £18.51 £23.80 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +17.77% +32.09%
75th Percentile £43.75 £68.75 £62.00
90th Percentile £67.05 £70.00 £78.30
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year -28.14% +8.36% +44.91%

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 19 October 2025.

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 19 October 2025. 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 +44 65 £600 +9.09% 23
West Midlands +18 34 £475 - 4
Midlands +9 34 £475 - 4
North of England -15 25 £550 +22.22% 13
Yorkshire -13 15 £550 +15.79% 2
North West -12 6 £518 +21.76% 10
South East +16 5 - - 16
North East +1 4 £575 - 1
East of England -7 4 £500 -9.09% 1
South West -6 3 £675 +3.85% 5
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 30 (20.83%) Confluence
2 12 (8.33%) nginx
3 3 (2.08%) Apache
3 3 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.08%) SAS
4 1 (0.69%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.69%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.69%) JBoss
Applications
1 12 (8.33%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 144 (100.00%) AWS
2 101 (70.14%) Amazon S3
3 98 (68.06%) Amazon EC2
4 79 (54.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 51 (35.42%) Amazon ELB
6 46 (31.94%) AWS Lambda
6 46 (31.94%) Serverless
7 39 (27.08%) AWS CloudFormation
8 37 (25.69%) Amazon ECS
9 34 (23.61%) GitHub
10 33 (22.92%) AWS KMS
11 30 (20.83%) Azure
12 22 (15.28%) Amazon EKS
12 22 (15.28%) Route 53
13 20 (13.89%) GitHub Actions
14 18 (12.50%) AWS CloudTrail
15 17 (11.81%) Datadog
16 16 (11.11%) AWS Fargate
17 15 (10.42%) Amazon Glacier
17 15 (10.42%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 70 (48.61%) DNS
2 69 (47.92%) Firewall
3 45 (31.25%) VPN
4 27 (18.75%) TCP/IP
5 26 (18.06%) SSL
6 24 (16.67%) SMTP
7 22 (15.28%) FTP
7 22 (15.28%) HTTP
7 22 (15.28%) Network Security
7 22 (15.28%) SSH
8 12 (8.33%) IMAP
8 12 (8.33%) OpenLDAP
9 8 (5.56%) WAN
10 7 (4.86%) DHCP
11 5 (3.47%) LAN
12 4 (2.78%) BGP
12 4 (2.78%) OSPF
12 4 (2.78%) Remote Desktop
13 3 (2.08%) SD-WAN
13 3 (2.08%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (40.97%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (11.81%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (9.72%) Amazon Aurora
4 13 (9.03%) MongoDB
5 7 (4.86%) DynamoDB
6 6 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (4.17%) Data Lake
7 5 (3.47%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (2.08%) MySQL
10 2 (1.39%) Amazon QuickSight
10 2 (1.39%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.69%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.69%) Big Data
11 1 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.69%) Metadata
11 1 (0.69%) Power BI
11 1 (0.69%) Redis
11 1 (0.69%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 82 (56.94%) Jenkins
2 63 (43.75%) Git
3 44 (30.56%) GitLab
4 32 (22.22%) JIRA
5 24 (16.67%) Vagrant
6 8 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (2.78%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.78%) Terragrunt
8 3 (2.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.69%) Metasploit
General
1 41 (28.47%) Public Sector
2 27 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 15 (10.42%) Finance
4 11 (7.64%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (4.17%) Banking
6 4 (2.78%) Military
7 3 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.69%) Police
9 1 (0.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 59 (40.97%) DevOps Engineer
2 49 (34.03%) AWS Engineer
3 39 (27.08%) AWS DevOps
4 35 (24.31%) Senior
5 32 (22.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 27 (18.75%) Platform Engineer
7 23 (15.97%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 20 (13.89%) Architect
9 17 (11.81%) Senior DevOps
10 16 (11.11%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 16 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 14 (9.72%) AWS Architect
12 13 (9.03%) Lead
13 11 (7.64%) Cloud Engineer
13 11 (7.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 10 (6.94%) DevOps Platform Engineer
14 10 (6.94%) Network Engineer
15 9 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 8 (5.56%) Cloud Architect
16 8 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.42%) Kafka
2 12 (8.33%) LDAP
3 8 (5.56%) AWS CDK
4 7 (4.86%) cloud-init
4 7 (4.86%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (4.86%) Keycloak
5 5 (3.47%) Node.js
6 3 (2.08%) Middleware
7 2 (1.39%) JSON
7 2 (1.39%) REST
8 1 (0.69%) .NET
8 1 (0.69%) CSS
8 1 (0.69%) Django
8 1 (0.69%) HTML
8 1 (0.69%) Memcached
8 1 (0.69%) OAuth
8 1 (0.69%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.69%) OpenID
8 1 (0.69%) RESTful
8 1 (0.69%) ServiceStack
Miscellaneous
1 27 (18.75%) Replication
2 26 (18.06%) Cloud Native
3 9 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (5.56%) PKI
5 5 (3.47%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.47%) Legacy Applications
5 5 (3.47%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.78%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.08%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (2.08%) Enterprise Storage
7 3 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.08%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.39%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (1.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (1.39%) Life Science
8 2 (1.39%) NHS
8 2 (1.39%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.69%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 48 (33.33%) Linux
2 32 (22.22%) Windows
3 24 (16.67%) Amazon Linux
3 24 (16.67%) VMS
4 12 (8.33%) Ubuntu
5 10 (6.94%) Unix
6 9 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (4.86%) CentOS
8 6 (4.17%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.69%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.69%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.69%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (77.78%) DevOps
2 86 (59.72%) CI/CD
3 81 (56.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 40 (27.78%) Cloud Security
4 40 (27.78%) High Availability
5 38 (26.39%) Configuration Management
6 33 (22.92%) Infrastructure Automation
7 32 (22.22%) Incident Response
7 32 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
8 27 (18.75%) Change Management
8 27 (18.75%) Containerisation
9 26 (18.06%) DevSecOps
9 26 (18.06%) Mentoring
10 25 (17.36%) Patch Management
11 21 (14.58%) Observability
12 18 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
13 16 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 15 (10.42%) Cost Optimisation
15 14 (9.72%) Microservices
15 14 (9.72%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 94 (65.28%) Python
2 43 (29.86%) Bash
3 35 (24.31%) PowerShell
4 25 (17.36%) Groovy
5 21 (14.58%) Java
6 18 (12.50%) SQL
7 14 (9.72%) Perl
7 14 (9.72%) Shell Script
8 7 (4.86%) Go
9 4 (2.78%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.08%) CodeQL
10 3 (2.08%) JavaScript
11 2 (1.39%) Ruby
12 1 (0.69%) Korn
12 1 (0.69%) PHP
12 1 (0.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 78 (54.17%) Security Cleared
2 72 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 36 (25.00%) AWS Certification
4 16 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (9.72%) Degree
6 11 (7.64%) Azure Certification
7 7 (4.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (2.78%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 4 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (2.08%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.39%) CCNA
10 2 (1.39%) DV Cleared
10 2 (1.39%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (0.69%) CCNP
11 1 (0.69%) CCSP
11 1 (0.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.33%) GDPR
2 9 (6.25%) NIST
3 8 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (5.56%) NCSC
4 6 (4.17%) QA
5 4 (2.78%) SOC 2
6 3 (2.08%) HIPAA
7 2 (1.39%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (1.39%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.39%) SLA
8 1 (0.69%) JSP 440
System Software
1 72 (50.00%) Docker
2 22 (15.28%) DFS Replication
3 17 (11.81%) Active Directory
4 12 (8.33%) Dovecot
4 12 (8.33%) Postfix
4 12 (8.33%) Squid
5 2 (1.39%) Firmware
5 2 (1.39%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.69%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 114 (79.17%) Terraform
2 45 (31.25%) Ansible
3 38 (26.39%) Grafana
3 38 (26.39%) Prometheus
4 34 (23.61%) Kubernetes
5 13 (9.03%) Nessus
6 11 (7.64%) Puppet
7 10 (6.94%) Proxmox
8 8 (5.56%) Jamf Pro
9 7 (4.86%) Packer
10 6 (4.17%) Progress Chef
11 4 (2.78%) Argo
12 3 (2.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (2.08%) NetBackup
13 2 (1.39%) FortiGate
13 2 (1.39%) Kustomize
13 2 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.69%) Kibana
14 1 (0.69%) Podman
14 1 (0.69%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 26 (18.06%) Palo Alto
2 25 (17.36%) ServiceNow
3 23 (15.97%) CheckPoint
3 23 (15.97%) F5
4 12 (8.33%) Jaspersoft
5 10 (6.94%) Splunk
6 8 (5.56%) Okta
7 7 (4.86%) Microsoft
8 6 (4.17%) Cisco
8 6 (4.17%) Dynatrace
9 5 (3.47%) Zscaler
10 4 (2.78%) CloudEndure
10 4 (2.78%) Databricks
10 4 (2.78%) Fortinet
11 3 (2.08%) AppDynamics
11 3 (2.08%) Commvault
11 3 (2.08%) SnapLogic
11 3 (2.08%) Tenable
11 3 (2.08%) VMware
12 2 (1.39%) Arista