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

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 367 407 428
Rank change year-on-year +40 +21 +36
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 169 97 137
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.54% 0.33% 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.41% 0.91% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 51 109
10th Percentile £368 £506 £463
25th Percentile £463 £538 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £643 £575
Median % change year-on-year -14.40% +11.74% -11.54%
75th Percentile £638 £731 £675
90th Percentile £713 £750 £818
UK median daily rate £550 £628 £575
% change year-on-year -12.46% +9.26% -11.54%

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 11,998 10,622 13,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.15% 36.66% 34.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,240 7,102 9,536
10th Percentile £305 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £536 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.76% +2.14% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £638
90th Percentile £709 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 298 134 249
10th Percentile £14.93 £17.13 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.21 £30.00 £23.24
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% +29.09% +3.29%
75th Percentile £55.00 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £75.50 £68.75 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £26.86 £27.75 £25.00
% change year-on-year -3.23% +11.00% +11.11%

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 December 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 December 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 +21 83 £600 +5.26% 20
West Midlands -2 34 £475 - 11
Midlands -14 34 £475 - 22
North of England -37 27 £550 -24.14% 18
Yorkshire -34 16 £525 -27.59% 11
South East -14 11 £525 - 22
North West -23 6 £518 -13.75% 5
North East -4 5 £575 -23.33% 2
South West -19 4 £488 -28.83% 11
East of England -21 1 £600 - 11
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 (17.16%) Confluence
2 11 (6.51%) nginx
3 4 (2.37%) SAS
4 3 (1.78%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.18%) Apache
6 1 (0.59%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.59%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 11 (6.51%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 169 (100.00%) AWS
2 110 (65.09%) Amazon S3
3 107 (63.31%) Amazon EC2
4 83 (49.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 56 (33.14%) AWS Lambda
5 56 (33.14%) Serverless
6 52 (30.77%) AWS CloudFormation
7 49 (28.99%) GitHub
8 48 (28.40%) Amazon ELB
9 41 (24.26%) Amazon ECS
10 40 (23.67%) Amazon EKS
10 40 (23.67%) Azure
11 37 (21.89%) AWS KMS
12 31 (18.34%) Route 53
13 29 (17.16%) GitHub Actions
14 22 (13.02%) Entra ID
14 22 (13.02%) GCP
15 20 (11.83%) AWS CloudTrail
15 20 (11.83%) AWS Direct Connect
16 18 (10.65%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 72 (42.60%) DNS
2 68 (40.24%) Firewall
3 47 (27.81%) VPN
4 25 (14.79%) SSL
4 25 (14.79%) TCP/IP
5 24 (14.20%) Network Security
6 19 (11.24%) SMTP
7 18 (10.65%) FTP
7 18 (10.65%) HTTP
7 18 (10.65%) SSH
8 11 (6.51%) DHCP
8 11 (6.51%) IMAP
8 11 (6.51%) OpenLDAP
8 11 (6.51%) WAN
9 9 (5.33%) LAN
10 7 (4.14%) SD-WAN
10 7 (4.14%) Wireless
11 6 (3.55%) VLAN
12 5 (2.96%) BGP
12 5 (2.96%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (40.83%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (13.61%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (10.65%) MongoDB
4 16 (9.47%) Amazon Aurora
5 9 (5.33%) Data Lake
6 8 (4.73%) MySQL
7 7 (4.14%) DynamoDB
8 6 (3.55%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (3.55%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (2.96%) Relational Database
10 4 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.78%) Amazon QuickSight
11 3 (1.78%) Big Data
11 3 (1.78%) DocumentDB
11 3 (1.78%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.78%) Redis
11 3 (1.78%) SQL Server
12 2 (1.18%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (1.18%) Impala
12 2 (1.18%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 91 (53.85%) Jenkins
2 61 (36.09%) GitLab
3 56 (33.14%) Git
4 33 (19.53%) JIRA
5 19 (11.24%) Vagrant
6 8 (4.73%) Terragrunt
7 6 (3.55%) Bitbucket
8 5 (2.96%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (1.78%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.59%) JUnit
10 1 (0.59%) Maven
10 1 (0.59%) Metasploit
10 1 (0.59%) MLflow
10 1 (0.59%) Snyk
General
1 49 (28.99%) Public Sector
2 36 (21.30%) Social Skills
3 27 (15.98%) Finance
4 12 (7.10%) Presentation Skills
5 10 (5.92%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.73%) Banking
7 5 (2.96%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.37%) Military
9 1 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.59%) Police
Job Titles
1 57 (33.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 47 (27.81%) AWS Engineer
3 39 (23.08%) Architect
4 38 (22.49%) Senior
5 35 (20.71%) AWS DevOps
6 31 (18.34%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 30 (17.75%) Platform Engineer
8 25 (14.79%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 24 (14.20%) AWS Architect
10 20 (11.83%) Lead
11 18 (10.65%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 18 (10.65%) Cloud Architect
12 17 (10.06%) Senior DevOps
13 16 (9.47%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 11 (6.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 11 (6.51%) Solutions Architect
15 10 (5.92%) Lead DevOps
15 10 (5.92%) Network Engineer
16 9 (5.33%) DevOps Platform Engineer
16 9 (5.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (11.83%) Kafka
2 11 (6.51%) LDAP
3 10 (5.92%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (4.73%) AWS CDK
4 8 (4.73%) Node.js
5 7 (4.14%) cloud-init
5 7 (4.14%) Keycloak
6 5 (2.96%) JSON
6 5 (2.96%) REST
7 3 (1.78%) Lambda Expressions
7 3 (1.78%) RESTful
7 3 (1.78%) Spring
7 3 (1.78%) Spring Boot
7 3 (1.78%) YAML
8 2 (1.18%) Middleware
8 2 (1.18%) OAuth
8 2 (1.18%) OAuth2
8 2 (1.18%) OpenID
8 2 (1.18%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (1.18%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 24 (14.20%) Replication
2 20 (11.83%) Cloud Native
3 14 (8.28%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (6.51%) Data Centre
5 10 (5.92%) PKI
6 6 (3.55%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.96%) Legacy Applications
7 5 (2.96%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.37%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.37%) Enterprise Storage
8 4 (2.37%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.78%) Life Science
9 3 (1.78%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.78%) NHS
9 3 (1.78%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.18%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.59%) Cyberattack
11 1 (0.59%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.59%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.59%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 50 (29.59%) Linux
2 29 (17.16%) Windows
3 22 (13.02%) Amazon Linux
4 19 (11.24%) VMS
5 12 (7.10%) Ubuntu
6 8 (4.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (4.14%) CentOS
7 7 (4.14%) Unix
7 7 (4.14%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.59%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.59%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.59%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (63.31%) DevOps
2 102 (60.36%) CI/CD
3 98 (57.99%) Infrastructure as Code
4 46 (27.22%) Incident Response
5 40 (23.67%) High Availability
6 39 (23.08%) Containerisation
7 38 (22.49%) Cloud Security
8 33 (19.53%) Observability
9 32 (18.93%) Configuration Management
9 32 (18.93%) Infrastructure Automation
10 31 (18.34%) Platform Engineering
11 26 (15.38%) Mentoring
12 25 (14.79%) Migration
13 23 (13.61%) DevSecOps
14 22 (13.02%) Cost Optimisation
15 21 (12.43%) Change Management
15 21 (12.43%) Patch Management
16 19 (11.24%) Roadmaps
17 18 (10.65%) Microservices
18 17 (10.06%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 96 (56.80%) Python
2 49 (28.99%) Bash
3 36 (21.30%) PowerShell
4 21 (12.43%) Java
5 19 (11.24%) Groovy
6 18 (10.65%) SQL
7 12 (7.10%) Perl
8 11 (6.51%) Go
9 6 (3.55%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.37%) JavaScript
10 4 (2.37%) Ruby
10 4 (2.37%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.59%) Korn
11 1 (0.59%) PHP
Qualifications
1 87 (51.48%) Security Cleared
2 77 (45.56%) SC Cleared
3 52 (30.77%) AWS Certification
4 20 (11.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 17 (10.06%) Degree
6 14 (8.28%) Azure Certification
7 8 (4.73%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (2.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 5 (2.96%) CCNP
8 5 (2.96%) CCSP
8 5 (2.96%) CISSP
9 4 (2.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.78%) CCIE
10 3 (1.78%) CCIE Security
10 3 (1.78%) CCNA
10 3 (1.78%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (1.18%) DV Cleared
11 2 (1.18%) JNCIE
11 2 (1.18%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.47%) GDPR
2 15 (8.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (8.88%) NCSC
3 14 (8.28%) NIST
4 10 (5.92%) PCI DSS
5 6 (3.55%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.78%) QA
7 2 (1.18%) HIPAA
7 2 (1.18%) SLA
8 1 (0.59%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.59%) JSP 440
System Software
1 86 (50.89%) Docker
2 18 (10.65%) DFS Replication
3 15 (8.88%) Active Directory
4 12 (7.10%) Squid
5 11 (6.51%) Dovecot
5 11 (6.51%) Postfix
6 6 (3.55%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (3.55%) VMware Infrastructure
7 5 (2.96%) VMware NSX
8 4 (2.37%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (1.18%) HDFS
10 1 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 136 (80.47%) Terraform
2 55 (32.54%) Ansible
3 46 (27.22%) Kubernetes
4 38 (22.49%) Prometheus
5 36 (21.30%) Grafana
6 12 (7.10%) Nessus
7 10 (5.92%) Packer
7 10 (5.92%) Proxmox
8 8 (4.73%) Jamf Pro
9 7 (4.14%) Puppet
10 6 (3.55%) Kibana
11 5 (2.96%) Argo
11 5 (2.96%) Karpenter
12 4 (2.37%) NetBackup
13 3 (1.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (1.78%) FortiGate
13 3 (1.78%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (1.78%) Progress Chef
13 3 (1.78%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.59%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 31 (18.34%) Palo Alto
2 28 (16.57%) F5
3 25 (14.79%) CheckPoint
4 20 (11.83%) ServiceNow
5 15 (8.88%) Splunk
6 11 (6.51%) Cisco
6 11 (6.51%) Jaspersoft
7 10 (5.92%) CloudEndure
8 9 (5.33%) Microsoft
9 8 (4.73%) Fortinet
9 8 (4.73%) Okta
10 7 (4.14%) Citrix
10 7 (4.14%) Dynatrace
10 7 (4.14%) VMware
11 6 (3.55%) Zscaler
12 4 (2.37%) Commvault
12 4 (2.37%) Databricks
12 4 (2.37%) Meraki
12 4 (2.37%) Oracle
12 4 (2.37%) SnapLogic