Virtual Private Cloud Contracts in England

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Virtual Private Cloud skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Private Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 421 423 436
Rank change year-on-year +2 +13 +110
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 64 119 225
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.26% 0.32% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.71% 1.00% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 85 171
10th Percentile £413 £409 £413
25th Percentile £525 £463 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £614 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year +11.68% -12.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £738 £675 £663
90th Percentile £750 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £590 £550 £615
% change year-on-year +7.27% -10.57% +11.82%

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 9,062 11,852 18,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.21% 31.87% 36.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,341 8,544 13,518
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 321 311
10th Percentile £15.03 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.85 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%
75th Percentile £40.50 £32.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £73.38 £61.60 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Virtual Private Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Private Cloud in England

Virtual Private Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud in England.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Private Cloud in England

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Private Cloud in England

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 1 May 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 +12 39 £616 +12.05% 64
North of England -1 12 £725 +26.09% 9
Yorkshire +8 6 £725 +56.76% 2
East of England +30 3 £525 -4.55% 1
North West -6 3 £425 -35.85% 7
North East - 3 £750 -
South East +40 2 £580 +2.16% 13
Midlands +18 2 £475 -26.92% 4
West Midlands +10 2 £475 -26.92% 3
Virtual Private Cloud
UK

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (18.75%) nginx
1 12 (18.75%) Traefik
2 2 (3.13%) Confluence
2 2 (3.13%) IIS
3 1 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.56%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.56%) MQSeries
Cloud Services
1 64 (100.00%) AWS
2 40 (62.50%) Amazon EC2
3 39 (60.94%) AWS CloudFormation
4 35 (54.69%) Amazon S3
5 27 (42.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 27 (42.19%) Serverless
6 26 (40.63%) AWS Lambda
7 20 (31.25%) Amazon ECS
8 15 (23.44%) AWS Fargate
8 15 (23.44%) Entra ID
9 12 (18.75%) Route 53
10 11 (17.19%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (14.06%) AWS CodePipeline
12 6 (9.38%) AWS KMS
12 6 (9.38%) GitHub
13 5 (7.81%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 5 (7.81%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (7.81%) IaaS
13 5 (7.81%) PaaS
14 4 (6.25%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 24 (37.50%) DNS
2 14 (21.88%) TCP/IP
2 14 (21.88%) VPN
3 13 (20.31%) Firewall
4 5 (7.81%) SSL
5 3 (4.69%) Network Security
6 2 (3.13%) DHCP
6 2 (3.13%) X.509
7 1 (1.56%) HTTP
7 1 (1.56%) Kerberos
7 1 (1.56%) NAS
7 1 (1.56%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (1.56%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (32.81%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (23.44%) MongoDB
3 7 (10.94%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (4.69%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (3.13%) DynamoDB
5 2 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.56%) Cloudera CDH
6 1 (1.56%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.56%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.56%) DocumentDB
6 1 (1.56%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.56%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 26 (40.63%) GitLab
1 26 (40.63%) Jenkins
2 14 (21.88%) Git
3 6 (9.38%) JIRA
4 3 (4.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (3.13%) Bitbucket
5 2 (3.13%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.56%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.56%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.56%) Snyk
6 1 (1.56%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.56%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.56%) Vagrant
General
1 8 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 7 (10.94%) Public Sector
3 5 (7.81%) Finance
3 5 (7.81%) Military
4 1 (1.56%) Banking
4 1 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (40.63%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (31.25%) Senior
3 19 (29.69%) AWS Engineer
4 16 (25.00%) Senior DevOps
5 13 (20.31%) AWS DevOps
6 11 (17.19%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 10 (15.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 6 (9.38%) Architect
9 5 (7.81%) AWS Architect
9 5 (7.81%) Security Engineer
10 3 (4.69%) Cloud Architect
10 3 (4.69%) Cloud Engineer
10 3 (4.69%) Lead
11 2 (3.13%) AWS Developer
11 2 (3.13%) AWS Specialist
11 2 (3.13%) Data Engineer
11 2 (3.13%) Developer
11 2 (3.13%) DevOps Specialist
11 2 (3.13%) Infrastructure Specialist
11 2 (3.13%) Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (25.00%) Kafka
2 14 (21.88%) cloud-init
2 14 (21.88%) Keycloak
3 4 (6.25%) AWS CDK
3 4 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (3.13%) Node.js
5 1 (1.56%) Akka
5 1 (1.56%) boto
5 1 (1.56%) CSS
5 1 (1.56%) HTML
5 1 (1.56%) JSON
5 1 (1.56%) Play Framework
5 1 (1.56%) REST
5 1 (1.56%) Serverless Framework
5 1 (1.56%) SOAP
5 1 (1.56%) Web Services
5 1 (1.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (25.00%) PKI
2 5 (7.81%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.25%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.13%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.13%) Clustering
4 2 (3.13%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.56%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.56%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.56%) Replication
5 1 (1.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (40.63%) Linux
2 17 (26.56%) CentOS
3 16 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 16 (25.00%) Unix
4 11 (17.19%) Windows
5 2 (3.13%) Mac OS
5 2 (3.13%) Windows Server
5 2 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (73.44%) CI/CD
2 44 (68.75%) DevOps
3 40 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 28 (43.75%) Cloud Security
5 26 (40.63%) Continuous Integration
6 17 (26.56%) Observability
7 16 (25.00%) Containerisation
8 15 (23.44%) Secrets Management
9 14 (21.88%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
9 14 (21.88%) Identity Management
9 14 (21.88%) Static Application Security Testing
10 13 (20.31%) Task Automation
11 12 (18.75%) Mobile Device Management
12 11 (17.19%) Agile
12 11 (17.19%) Deployment Automation
12 11 (17.19%) Microservices
13 8 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
13 8 (12.50%) Infrastructure Management
14 7 (10.94%) Configuration Management
15 6 (9.38%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 42 (65.63%) Python
2 34 (53.13%) Bash
3 15 (23.44%) Go
4 10 (15.63%) PowerShell
5 4 (6.25%) Shell Script
6 3 (4.69%) Java
7 2 (3.13%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.13%) SQL
8 1 (1.56%) Ruby
8 1 (1.56%) Scala
8 1 (1.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 33 (51.56%) Security Cleared
2 31 (48.44%) AWS Certification
2 31 (48.44%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 6 (9.38%) Degree
5 5 (7.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.13%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (3.13%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 2 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.56%) VCAP
7 1 (1.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (23.44%) NCSC
2 8 (12.50%) GDPR
3 7 (10.94%) NIST
4 6 (9.38%) SOC 2
5 5 (7.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (4.69%) HIPAA
7 2 (3.13%) FIPS 140-2
7 2 (3.13%) NIST 800
7 2 (3.13%) PCI DSS
8 1 (1.56%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (1.56%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (28.13%) Docker
2 7 (10.94%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (3.13%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.56%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 50 (78.13%) Terraform
2 32 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 26 (40.63%) Prometheus
4 21 (32.81%) Grafana
5 18 (28.13%) Ansible
6 16 (25.00%) Packer
6 16 (25.00%) ZABBIX
7 15 (23.44%) Consul
7 15 (23.44%) Rancher
8 14 (21.88%) Istio
8 14 (21.88%) Jamf Pro
8 14 (21.88%) linkerd
9 12 (18.75%) HAProxy
10 10 (15.63%) Puppet
11 8 (12.50%) Progress Chef
12 2 (3.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (3.13%) Argo
12 2 (3.13%) Nagios
13 1 (1.56%) Apache Ranger
13 1 (1.56%) Cilium
Vendors
1 15 (23.44%) Splunk
2 14 (21.88%) Okta
3 12 (18.75%) Apple
3 12 (18.75%) ESET
4 4 (6.25%) Tenable
5 3 (4.69%) Microsoft
5 3 (4.69%) Qualys
5 3 (4.69%) VMware
6 2 (3.13%) Dell
6 2 (3.13%) HP
6 2 (3.13%) IBM
6 2 (3.13%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.56%) Black Duck
7 1 (1.56%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.56%) Confluent
7 1 (1.56%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.56%) MKS
7 1 (1.56%) New Relic
7 1 (1.56%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.56%) ServiceNow