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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 427 405 439
Rank change year-on-year -22 +34 -10
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 201 107 94
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.44% 0.38% 0.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.26% 1.04% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 76 63
10th Percentile £413 £413 £410
25th Percentile £456 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £584 £638 £660
90th Percentile £650 £705 £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 15,983 10,336 11,198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.97% 37.18% 33.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,666 6,998 7,938
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.49% -2.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £720 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 552 274 221
10th Percentile £15.53 £15.02 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.22 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.36 £26.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.22% +4.60% -22.62%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £83.58 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £28.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% +12.00% -28.15%

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 17 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 17 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 -11 118 £536 -9.15% 8
Midlands -43 28 £477 +0.42% 1
North of England -52 26 £510 -4.67% 6
West Midlands -52 25 £477 +0.42% 1
North West -26 16 £538 +0.47% 2
East of England -17 9 £450 -12.20%
South East -56 9 £669 +15.30% 1
Yorkshire -32 5 £500 - 2
North East -40 5 £544 -9.38% 2
South West -40 4 £450 -33.33% 4
East Midlands - 3 £450 -
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 29 (14.43%) Confluence
2 10 (4.98%) SharePoint
3 7 (3.48%) nginx
4 5 (2.49%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.49%) Apache
6 2 (1.00%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.00%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (1.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.50%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 198 (98.51%) AWS
2 102 (50.75%) Amazon EC2
3 100 (49.75%) Amazon S3
4 86 (42.79%) Serverless
5 83 (41.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 81 (40.30%) AWS Lambda
7 68 (33.83%) Amazon EKS
8 55 (27.36%) AWS CloudFormation
9 53 (26.37%) Azure
10 37 (18.41%) GitHub
11 36 (17.91%) GCP
12 34 (16.92%) Amazon ECS
13 29 (14.43%) AWS CloudTrail
14 28 (13.93%) GitHub Actions
15 24 (11.94%) AWS KMS
16 19 (9.45%) Route 53
17 17 (8.46%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 17 (8.46%) Datadog
18 15 (7.46%) Snowflake
19 14 (6.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 53 (26.37%) Firewall
2 28 (13.93%) VPN
3 25 (12.44%) TCP/IP
4 21 (10.45%) DNS
5 20 (9.95%) Network Security
6 16 (7.96%) WAN
7 13 (6.47%) BGP
8 11 (5.47%) OSPF
9 10 (4.98%) LAN
9 10 (4.98%) SSL
10 8 (3.98%) OpenVPN
11 7 (3.48%) VLAN
12 6 (2.99%) Cisco Nexus
12 6 (2.99%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 6 (2.99%) SD-WAN
13 5 (2.49%) BIG-IP
13 5 (2.49%) MPLS
13 5 (2.49%) NetScaler
13 5 (2.49%) Reverse Proxy
14 4 (1.99%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (30.85%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (9.95%) Amazon Aurora
2 20 (9.95%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (5.97%) Amazon Redshift
3 12 (5.97%) Power BI
4 10 (4.98%) MongoDB
4 10 (4.98%) MySQL
5 9 (4.48%) Amazon Athena
6 8 (3.98%) Redis
6 8 (3.98%) SQL Server
7 5 (2.49%) Amazon QuickSight
7 5 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (2.49%) Tableau
8 4 (1.99%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.49%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.49%) Delta Lake
9 3 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.00%) Data Vault
10 2 (1.00%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.50%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 56 (27.86%) GitLab
2 49 (24.38%) Jenkins
3 36 (17.91%) Git
4 25 (12.44%) JIRA
5 12 (5.97%) Artifactory
5 12 (5.97%) Bitbucket
6 10 (4.98%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (2.49%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.50%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.50%) Maven
8 1 (0.50%) Metasploit
8 1 (0.50%) Snyk
8 1 (0.50%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.50%) sqlmap
General
1 68 (33.83%) Social Skills
2 53 (26.37%) Public Sector
3 20 (9.95%) Finance
4 10 (4.98%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (3.48%) Banking
6 6 (2.99%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.49%) Law
8 4 (1.99%) Military
8 4 (1.99%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.49%) Police
10 2 (1.00%) Games
10 2 (1.00%) Legal
10 2 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.50%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.50%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.50%) Local Government
11 1 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 49 (24.38%) AWS Engineer
2 47 (23.38%) Architect
3 33 (16.42%) DevOps Engineer
4 31 (15.42%) Cloud Engineer
5 28 (13.93%) AWS DevOps
6 25 (12.44%) Senior
7 19 (9.45%) AWS Architect
7 19 (9.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 18 (8.96%) Platform Engineer
8 18 (8.96%) Security Engineer
9 15 (7.46%) Network Engineer
10 14 (6.97%) Technical Architect
11 12 (5.97%) DBA
11 12 (5.97%) Lead
12 11 (5.47%) Scrum Master
13 9 (4.48%) Administrator
13 9 (4.48%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 9 (4.48%) Network Architect
13 9 (4.48%) Solutions Architect
14 7 (3.48%) AWS Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.46%) AWS CDK
2 8 (3.98%) SAML
3 6 (2.99%) Kafka
3 6 (2.99%) OpenID
4 5 (2.49%) boto
4 5 (2.49%) LDAP
5 4 (1.99%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (1.99%) GraphQL
5 4 (1.99%) RESTful
6 3 (1.49%) Apollo GraphQL
6 3 (1.49%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (1.49%) React
6 3 (1.49%) REST
7 2 (1.00%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.00%) cloud-init
7 2 (1.00%) OAuth
7 2 (1.00%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.50%) JMX
8 1 (0.50%) JSON
8 1 (0.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (19.90%) Cloud Native
2 19 (9.45%) Security Posture
3 17 (8.46%) Replication
4 14 (6.97%) Data Centre
5 13 (6.47%) Hybrid Cloud
6 12 (5.97%) Product Ownership
7 9 (4.48%) Linux Command Line
8 8 (3.98%) Management Information System
9 7 (3.48%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 5 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (2.49%) NHS
11 4 (1.99%) Cloud Security Posture
11 4 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.99%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.99%) Private Cloud
12 3 (1.49%) Client/Server
12 3 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.49%) Fixed Income
12 3 (1.49%) Public Cloud
13 2 (1.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 47 (23.38%) Linux
2 24 (11.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 20 (9.95%) Windows
4 7 (3.48%) Amazon Linux
5 6 (2.99%) Unix
6 4 (1.99%) AIX
7 3 (1.49%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.49%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.50%) CentOS
8 1 (0.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (63.18%) CI/CD
2 111 (55.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 107 (53.23%) DevOps
4 52 (25.87%) Agile
5 50 (24.88%) Containerisation
6 46 (22.89%) Cloud Security
6 46 (22.89%) Observability
7 44 (21.89%) Platform Engineering
8 37 (18.41%) Roadmaps
9 36 (17.91%) Continuous Improvement
10 32 (15.92%) Migration
11 27 (13.43%) Secrets Management
12 26 (12.94%) Stakeholder Management
13 25 (12.44%) High Availability
13 25 (12.44%) Infrastructure Automation
13 25 (12.44%) SIEM
14 24 (11.94%) Microservices
14 24 (11.94%) Scrum
15 23 (11.44%) DevSecOps
15 23 (11.44%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 84 (41.79%) Python
2 53 (26.37%) Bash
3 32 (15.92%) Java
4 31 (15.42%) PowerShell
5 24 (11.94%) SQL
6 11 (5.47%) Groovy
7 8 (3.98%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.99%) Kotlin
8 6 (2.99%) Perl
9 4 (1.99%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.49%) Go
11 2 (1.00%) Bicep
11 2 (1.00%) Ruby
12 1 (0.50%) Cypher
12 1 (0.50%) Gremlin
12 1 (0.50%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.50%) R
12 1 (0.50%) Search Processing Language
12 1 (0.50%) SHACL
12 1 (0.50%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 101 (50.25%) Security Cleared
2 90 (44.78%) SC Cleared
3 49 (24.38%) AWS Certification
4 25 (12.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 25 (12.44%) Azure Certification
5 19 (9.45%) Degree
6 11 (5.47%) SAFe Agilist
7 9 (4.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 9 (4.48%) CISSP
8 8 (3.98%) CCNP
8 8 (3.98%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (1.99%) DV Cleared
11 3 (1.49%) CCIE
11 3 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.49%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.97%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (3.98%) GDPR
4 6 (2.99%) NCSC
5 4 (1.99%) SLA
6 3 (1.49%) PMO
6 3 (1.49%) QA
7 2 (1.00%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.00%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (1.00%) NIST
7 2 (1.00%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.50%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 73 (36.32%) Docker
2 15 (7.46%) Active Directory
3 10 (4.98%) Squid
4 9 (4.48%) VMware NSX
5 6 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.49%) vSphere
7 1 (0.50%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 140 (69.65%) Terraform
2 72 (35.82%) Kubernetes
3 44 (21.89%) Grafana
4 39 (19.40%) Ansible
5 38 (18.91%) Prometheus
6 12 (5.97%) Progress Chef
7 11 (5.47%) Puppet
8 10 (4.98%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (3.98%) Packer
10 6 (2.99%) Argo
11 5 (2.49%) Istio
11 5 (2.49%) Salt
12 4 (1.99%) Suricata
13 3 (1.49%) Consul
13 3 (1.49%) SELinux
13 3 (1.49%) vCenter Server
14 2 (1.00%) FortiGate
14 2 (1.00%) Sysdig
14 2 (1.00%) systemd
14 2 (1.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 22 (10.95%) Red Hat
2 21 (10.45%) Google
3 18 (8.96%) Cisco
3 18 (8.96%) Microsoft
4 15 (7.46%) ServiceNow
5 13 (6.47%) VMware
6 10 (4.98%) Splunk
7 9 (4.48%) Dynatrace
7 9 (4.48%) Palo Alto
8 7 (3.48%) F5
8 7 (3.48%) SolarWinds
8 7 (3.48%) Zscaler
9 5 (2.49%) PagerDuty
10 4 (1.99%) CheckPoint
10 4 (1.99%) Fortinet
10 4 (1.99%) Trend Micro
11 3 (1.49%) Aruba
11 3 (1.49%) Databricks
11 3 (1.49%) Oracle
11 3 (1.49%) Veeam