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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 416 459 440
Rank change year-on-year +43 -19 +107
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 82 97 203
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.31% 0.26% 0.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.83% 0.80% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 72 168
10th Percentile £411 £389 £421
25th Percentile £463 £450 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £536 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -10.63% -
75th Percentile £641 £648 £650
90th Percentile £704 £694 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £528 £600
% change year-on-year -0.47% -12.08% -
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 9,828 12,164 17,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.65% 32.54% 36.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,627 8,683 12,603
10th Percentile £311 £308 £320
25th Percentile £410 £417 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 330 288
10th Percentile £15.01 £14.11 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.68 £16.06 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +14.32% -31.89% +50.23%
75th Percentile £39.06 £43.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £27.88 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +26.73% -37.14% +59.09%

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 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Private Cloud in England

Virtual Private Cloud
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 3 July 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 +38 46 £575 +7.48% 57
Midlands +20 12 £475 -26.92% 10
West Midlands +14 12 £475 -26.92% 10
East of England +27 6 £513 -6.82% 3
North of England -9 6 £425 -8.11% 9
South East +39 3 £580 -2.93% 6
Yorkshire -1 2 £500 +8.11% 1
North West -5 2 £425 -23.42% 5
North East - 2 - - 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 9 (10.98%) Confluence
2 2 (2.44%) Apache
2 2 (2.44%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.44%) IIS
2 2 (2.44%) nginx
3 1 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.22%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (2.44%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 82 (100.00%) AWS
2 58 (70.73%) Amazon EC2
3 54 (65.85%) Amazon S3
4 38 (46.34%) Serverless
5 37 (45.12%) AWS Lambda
6 33 (40.24%) AWS CloudFormation
7 29 (35.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 19 (23.17%) Route 53
9 17 (20.73%) AWS KMS
10 16 (19.51%) Amazon EKS
11 15 (18.29%) GitHub
12 14 (17.07%) Amazon ELB
13 13 (15.85%) Amazon ECS
13 13 (15.85%) AWS CloudTrail
14 10 (12.20%) GitHub Actions
15 9 (10.98%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 9 (10.98%) AWS CodePipeline
16 7 (8.54%) Amazon Glacier
16 7 (8.54%) Azure
17 5 (6.10%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 27 (32.93%) Firewall
2 24 (29.27%) DNS
2 24 (29.27%) VPN
3 8 (9.76%) SMTP
4 7 (8.54%) HTTP
4 7 (8.54%) SSL
5 6 (7.32%) FTP
5 6 (7.32%) Network Security
5 6 (7.32%) SSH
6 4 (4.88%) BGP
6 4 (4.88%) OSPF
6 4 (4.88%) Remote Desktop
6 4 (4.88%) WAN
7 3 (3.66%) DHCP
7 3 (3.66%) LAN
7 3 (3.66%) VLAN
8 2 (2.44%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (2.44%) IMAP
8 2 (2.44%) TCP/IP
8 2 (2.44%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (43.90%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (7.32%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (6.10%) DynamoDB
4 4 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.66%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (2.44%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (2.44%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.22%) Big Data
7 1 (1.22%) Cloudera CDH
7 1 (1.22%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.22%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.22%) DocumentDB
7 1 (1.22%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.22%) Metadata
7 1 (1.22%) MySQL
7 1 (1.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 29 (35.37%) Jenkins
2 28 (34.15%) Git
3 16 (19.51%) GitLab
4 13 (15.85%) JIRA
5 9 (10.98%) Vagrant
6 6 (7.32%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (4.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (2.44%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.44%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.22%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.22%) CircleCI
9 1 (1.22%) Snyk
9 1 (1.22%) SpecFlow
9 1 (1.22%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (13.41%) Public Sector
2 9 (10.98%) Finance
3 8 (9.76%) Social Skills
4 2 (2.44%) Banking
5 1 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.22%) Police
5 1 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (35.37%) AWS Engineer
2 26 (31.71%) DevOps Engineer
3 21 (25.61%) AWS DevOps
4 15 (18.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 12 (14.63%) Architect
5 12 (14.63%) AWS Architect
6 8 (9.76%) Cloud Engineer
6 8 (9.76%) Senior
7 6 (7.32%) AWS Specialist
7 6 (7.32%) Security Engineer
8 5 (6.10%) Cloud Architect
8 5 (6.10%) Lead
9 4 (4.88%) Administrator
9 4 (4.88%) DevOps Specialist
9 4 (4.88%) Platform Engineer
10 3 (3.66%) AWS Developer
10 3 (3.66%) Developer
10 3 (3.66%) Infrastructure Specialist
10 3 (3.66%) Site Engineer
10 3 (3.66%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.54%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (6.10%) AWS CDK
3 3 (3.66%) Node.js
4 2 (2.44%) JSON
4 2 (2.44%) Kafka
4 2 (2.44%) LDAP
4 2 (2.44%) REST
5 1 (1.22%) Akka
5 1 (1.22%) boto
5 1 (1.22%) cloud-init
5 1 (1.22%) CSS
5 1 (1.22%) HTML
5 1 (1.22%) Keycloak
5 1 (1.22%) Middleware
5 1 (1.22%) Play Framework
5 1 (1.22%) Serverless Framework
5 1 (1.22%) ServiceStack
5 1 (1.22%) SOAP
5 1 (1.22%) Web Services
5 1 (1.22%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (17.07%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.54%) Replication
3 4 (4.88%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.88%) PKI
4 3 (3.66%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (3.66%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.66%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.44%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.44%) Clustering
5 2 (2.44%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.44%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (2.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (2.44%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.22%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.22%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (29.27%) Linux
2 16 (19.51%) Windows
3 8 (9.76%) Amazon Linux
3 8 (9.76%) VMS
4 5 (6.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (4.88%) CentOS
5 4 (4.88%) Unix
6 3 (3.66%) Windows Server
7 2 (2.44%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.22%) SUSE
8 1 (1.22%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.22%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (68.29%) DevOps
2 47 (57.32%) CI/CD
3 37 (45.12%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (35.37%) Cloud Security
5 17 (20.73%) Configuration Management
5 17 (20.73%) Containerisation
6 15 (18.29%) Infrastructure Automation
7 14 (17.07%) Continuous Integration
8 12 (14.63%) Platform Engineering
8 12 (14.63%) Task Automation
9 11 (13.41%) Change Management
9 11 (13.41%) High Availability
10 10 (12.20%) Deployment Automation
10 10 (12.20%) Microservices
10 10 (12.20%) Patch Management
11 9 (10.98%) Agile
12 8 (9.76%) Load Balancing
12 8 (9.76%) Observability
12 8 (9.76%) Problem-Solving
13 7 (8.54%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 52 (63.41%) Python
2 21 (25.61%) Bash
3 17 (20.73%) PowerShell
4 11 (13.41%) Java
5 10 (12.20%) Shell Script
6 9 (10.98%) Groovy
7 6 (7.32%) Perl
7 6 (7.32%) SQL
8 3 (3.66%) CodeQL
9 2 (2.44%) Go
9 2 (2.44%) JavaScript
9 2 (2.44%) Scala
10 1 (1.22%) Ruby
10 1 (1.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 36 (43.90%) Security Cleared
2 34 (41.46%) SC Cleared
3 23 (28.05%) AWS Certification
4 11 (13.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (8.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (4.88%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 4 (4.88%) Degree
7 3 (3.66%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (2.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.22%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.41%) NIST
2 9 (10.98%) GDPR
3 8 (9.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (9.76%) SOC 2
4 4 (4.88%) PCI DSS
5 3 (3.66%) HIPAA
5 3 (3.66%) QA
6 2 (2.44%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (2.44%) FIPS 140-2
6 2 (2.44%) NIST 800
7 1 (1.22%) NCSC
7 1 (1.22%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (32.93%) Docker
2 12 (14.63%) Active Directory
3 6 (7.32%) DFS Replication
4 3 (3.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.66%) VMware NSX
5 2 (2.44%) Dovecot
5 2 (2.44%) Firmware
5 2 (2.44%) Postfix
5 2 (2.44%) Squid
5 2 (2.44%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 61 (74.39%) Terraform
2 25 (30.49%) Ansible
3 23 (28.05%) Kubernetes
4 19 (23.17%) Prometheus
5 16 (19.51%) Grafana
6 13 (15.85%) Puppet
7 9 (10.98%) Progress Chef
8 3 (3.66%) Nagios
8 3 (3.66%) Packer
9 2 (2.44%) Argo
9 2 (2.44%) Kustomize
9 2 (2.44%) Nessus
9 2 (2.44%) ZABBIX
10 1 (1.22%) Apache Ranger
10 1 (1.22%) Cilium
10 1 (1.22%) Consul
10 1 (1.22%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (1.22%) Podman
10 1 (1.22%) PowerCLI
10 1 (1.22%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 9 (10.98%) ServiceNow
2 4 (4.88%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.88%) Splunk
2 4 (4.88%) Tenable
2 4 (4.88%) VMware
3 3 (3.66%) Qualys
3 3 (3.66%) SolarWinds
4 2 (2.44%) Arista
4 2 (2.44%) Cisco
4 2 (2.44%) Dell
4 2 (2.44%) Fortinet
4 2 (2.44%) HP
4 2 (2.44%) Huawei
4 2 (2.44%) IBM
4 2 (2.44%) Jaspersoft
5 1 (1.22%) Black Duck
5 1 (1.22%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.22%) Databricks
5 1 (1.22%) Okta
5 1 (1.22%) UiPath