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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 434 402 441
Rank change year-on-year -32 +39 -4
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 196 111 97
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.43% 0.40% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.23% 1.07% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 79 68
10th Percentile £413 £443 £411
25th Percentile £456 £463 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £554
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -5.19% -7.71%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £675
90th Percentile £650 £704 £708
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £561
% change year-on-year -4.76% -6.46% -6.46%
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 15,874 10,360 11,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.69% 37.33% 34.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,597 7,015 7,852
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £716 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 549 268 195
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.51 £18.33
Median hourly rate £34.13 £26.30 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.75% -12.33% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £59.76
90th Percentile £82.49 £68.63 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.12 £28.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year +15.20% -4.17% -14.29%

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 31 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 31 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 -8 121 £533 -9.75% 54
Midlands -51 27 £477 +0.42% 4
West Midlands -49 24 £482 +1.53% 4
North of England -58 20 £463 -13.55% 14
North West -41 10 £453 -15.33% 4
South East -60 9 £669 +15.30% 5
East of England -14 8 £450 -12.20% 1
North East -34 5 £544 -9.38% 2
Yorkshire -42 5 £500 - 8
South West -40 4 £450 -33.33% 5
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 32 (16.33%) Confluence
2 10 (5.10%) SharePoint
3 8 (4.08%) nginx
4 4 (2.04%) Apache
4 4 (2.04%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (1.02%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.51%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.51%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 193 (98.47%) AWS
2 103 (52.55%) Amazon EC2
3 102 (52.04%) Amazon S3
4 84 (42.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 83 (42.35%) Serverless
6 77 (39.29%) AWS Lambda
7 65 (33.16%) Amazon EKS
8 57 (29.08%) AWS CloudFormation
9 49 (25.00%) Azure
10 39 (19.90%) GitHub
11 34 (17.35%) Amazon ECS
12 30 (15.31%) AWS CloudTrail
12 30 (15.31%) AWS KMS
13 28 (14.29%) GCP
13 28 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
14 21 (10.71%) Route 53
15 18 (9.18%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 13 (6.63%) AWS CodePipeline
16 13 (6.63%) Datadog
17 12 (6.12%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 45 (22.96%) Firewall
2 24 (12.24%) VPN
3 22 (11.22%) DNS
3 22 (11.22%) TCP/IP
4 17 (8.67%) Network Security
5 15 (7.65%) WAN
6 10 (5.10%) LAN
7 9 (4.59%) BGP
7 9 (4.59%) SSL
8 8 (4.08%) OSPF
9 7 (3.57%) OpenVPN
10 6 (3.06%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 6 (3.06%) SSH
10 6 (3.06%) VLAN
11 5 (2.55%) BIG-IP
11 5 (2.55%) Cisco Nexus
11 5 (2.55%) MPLS
11 5 (2.55%) SD-WAN
12 4 (2.04%) Cisco Firepower
12 4 (2.04%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (33.16%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (12.24%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (11.73%) Amazon Aurora
4 12 (6.12%) MySQL
5 11 (5.61%) MongoDB
5 11 (5.61%) Power BI
6 10 (5.10%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (4.59%) Amazon Athena
8 8 (4.08%) Redis
8 8 (4.08%) SQL Server
9 7 (3.57%) DynamoDB
10 5 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (2.04%) Amazon QuickSight
11 4 (2.04%) Tableau
12 3 (1.53%) Data Lake
12 3 (1.53%) Delta Lake
13 2 (1.02%) Data Vault
13 2 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (1.02%) Electronic Patient Records
13 2 (1.02%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 54 (27.55%) GitLab
2 48 (24.49%) Jenkins
3 38 (19.39%) Git
4 28 (14.29%) JIRA
5 11 (5.61%) Artifactory
5 11 (5.61%) Bitbucket
6 9 (4.59%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (2.55%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.02%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.51%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.51%) Maven
9 1 (0.51%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.51%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.51%) sqlmap
General
1 74 (37.76%) Social Skills
2 54 (27.55%) Public Sector
3 17 (8.67%) Finance
4 8 (4.08%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.57%) Banking
6 6 (3.06%) Military
7 5 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.55%) Law
8 4 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.04%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.53%) Police
10 2 (1.02%) Games
10 2 (1.02%) Legal
10 2 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.51%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.51%) Local Government
11 1 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.51%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 47 (23.98%) Architect
1 47 (23.98%) AWS Engineer
2 40 (20.41%) DevOps Engineer
3 31 (15.82%) AWS DevOps
4 24 (12.24%) Cloud Engineer
5 22 (11.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 22 (11.22%) Senior
6 20 (10.20%) AWS Architect
7 19 (9.69%) Platform Engineer
8 14 (7.14%) Technical Architect
9 13 (6.63%) DBA
9 13 (6.63%) Security Engineer
10 12 (6.12%) Lead
10 12 (6.12%) Network Engineer
11 11 (5.61%) Scrum Master
12 10 (5.10%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 9 (4.59%) Administrator
14 8 (4.08%) Network Architect
14 8 (4.08%) Solutions Architect
15 7 (3.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (68.37%) Terraform
2 17 (8.67%) AWS CDK
3 8 (4.08%) SAML
4 6 (3.06%) boto
4 6 (3.06%) Kafka
4 6 (3.06%) OpenID
5 5 (2.55%) LDAP
6 4 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (2.04%) GraphQL
6 4 (2.04%) OpenTofu
6 4 (2.04%) RESTful
7 3 (1.53%) Apollo GraphQL
7 3 (1.53%) OAuth
7 3 (1.53%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (1.53%) React
8 2 (1.02%) Node.js
8 2 (1.02%) OAuth2
8 2 (1.02%) PySpark
8 2 (1.02%) REST
8 2 (1.02%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (18.88%) Cloud Native
2 20 (10.20%) Replication
3 16 (8.16%) Security Posture
4 13 (6.63%) Product Ownership
5 12 (6.12%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (5.61%) Data Centre
7 9 (4.59%) Linux Command Line
8 7 (3.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 7 (3.57%) Management Information System
9 5 (2.55%) NHS
10 4 (2.04%) Cloud Security Posture
10 4 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (2.04%) Onboarding
10 4 (2.04%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.53%) Client/Server
11 3 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.53%) Fixed Income
11 3 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.53%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 47 (23.98%) Linux
2 20 (10.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 18 (9.18%) Windows
4 10 (5.10%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (2.55%) Ubuntu
5 5 (2.55%) Unix
6 4 (2.04%) AIX
7 3 (1.53%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (1.02%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.51%) CentOS
9 1 (0.51%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (62.24%) CI/CD
2 114 (58.16%) Infrastructure as Code
3 110 (56.12%) DevOps
4 53 (27.04%) Agile
5 50 (25.51%) Containerisation
6 47 (23.98%) Platform Engineering
7 44 (22.45%) Cloud Security
8 41 (20.92%) Observability
9 38 (19.39%) Continuous Improvement
10 34 (17.35%) Roadmaps
11 29 (14.80%) Migration
12 27 (13.78%) High Availability
12 27 (13.78%) Secrets Management
13 26 (13.27%) Stakeholder Management
14 25 (12.76%) Microservices
15 23 (11.73%) DevSecOps
16 22 (11.22%) Infrastructure Automation
16 22 (11.22%) ITIL
16 22 (11.22%) SIEM
17 21 (10.71%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 78 (39.80%) Python
2 47 (23.98%) Bash
3 29 (14.80%) Java
3 29 (14.80%) PowerShell
4 27 (13.78%) SQL
5 14 (7.14%) Groovy
6 9 (4.59%) Shell Script
7 7 (3.57%) Perl
8 6 (3.06%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.55%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.53%) Go
11 2 (1.02%) Bicep
11 2 (1.02%) Ruby
12 1 (0.51%) C
12 1 (0.51%) Cypher
12 1 (0.51%) Gremlin
12 1 (0.51%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.51%) R
12 1 (0.51%) SHACL
12 1 (0.51%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 102 (52.04%) Security Cleared
2 92 (46.94%) SC Cleared
3 49 (25.00%) AWS Certification
4 26 (13.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 23 (11.73%) Azure Certification
6 19 (9.69%) Degree
7 11 (5.61%) SAFe Agilist
8 9 (4.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 7 (3.57%) CISSP
10 5 (2.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (2.55%) CCNP
10 5 (2.55%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (2.04%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.53%) CCIE
12 3 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.53%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.51%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 13 (6.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (4.08%) GDPR
4 6 (3.06%) NCSC
5 4 (2.04%) QA
6 3 (1.53%) PMO
7 2 (1.02%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.02%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (1.02%) NIST
7 2 (1.02%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.51%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.51%) SLA
8 1 (0.51%) WCAG
System Software
1 69 (35.20%) Docker
2 15 (7.65%) Active Directory
3 11 (5.61%) Squid
4 9 (4.59%) VMware NSX
5 6 (3.06%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.53%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.53%) vSphere
7 2 (1.02%) DFS Replication
7 2 (1.02%) Dovecot
7 2 (1.02%) Postfix
8 1 (0.51%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 66 (33.67%) Kubernetes
2 42 (21.43%) Grafana
3 39 (19.90%) Ansible
4 37 (18.88%) Prometheus
5 10 (5.10%) Puppet
6 9 (4.59%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (4.08%) Packer
7 8 (4.08%) Progress Chef
8 6 (3.06%) Argo
9 4 (2.04%) Istio
9 4 (2.04%) Salt
9 4 (2.04%) Suricata
10 3 (1.53%) SELinux
10 3 (1.53%) vCenter Server
11 2 (1.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (1.02%) Consul
11 2 (1.02%) Nessus
11 2 (1.02%) Sysdig
11 2 (1.02%) systemd
11 2 (1.02%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 17 (8.67%) Cisco
1 17 (8.67%) Red Hat
1 17 (8.67%) ServiceNow
2 14 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 13 (6.63%) Google
3 13 (6.63%) VMware
4 9 (4.59%) Palo Alto
4 9 (4.59%) Splunk
5 8 (4.08%) Zscaler
6 7 (3.57%) Dynatrace
6 7 (3.57%) F5
7 6 (3.06%) SolarWinds
8 5 (2.55%) PagerDuty
9 4 (2.04%) CheckPoint
9 4 (2.04%) Trend Micro
10 3 (1.53%) Aruba
10 3 (1.53%) Fortinet
10 3 (1.53%) Oracle
10 3 (1.53%) Tenable
10 3 (1.53%) Veeam