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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 398 425 424
Rank change year-on-year +27 -1 +24
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 206 62 112
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.49% 0.26% 0.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.39% 0.68% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 42 82
10th Percentile £400 £407 £409
25th Percentile £456 £472 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £550 £547
Median % change year-on-year -5.91% +0.64% -9.67%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £658
90th Percentile £640 £736 £694
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -6.82% +2.80% -10.83%
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 14,773 9,113 11,770
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.18% 37.62% 32.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,059 6,245 8,482
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £745
UK median daily rate £509 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.30% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 509 213 322
10th Percentile £15.60 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.35 £18.13 £15.99
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -38.94%
75th Percentile £67.84 £37.50 £38.75
90th Percentile £81.05 £68.50 £69.43
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £28.00 £21.46
% change year-on-year +28.41% +30.48% -41.21%

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 May 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 May 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 +12 124 £525 -7.49% 17
North of England -57 26 £463 - 7
Midlands -34 25 £488 +2.63% 2
West Midlands -38 25 £488 +2.63% 2
North West -28 17 £495 +16.53% 4
South East -47 12 £533 -8.19% 7
East of England -29 8 £490 -4.39%
North East -19 5 £413 -
South West - 5 £475 - 3
Yorkshire -57 4 £491 -19.80% 3
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 38 (18.45%) Confluence
2 9 (4.37%) nginx
3 5 (2.43%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.94%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.97%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.97%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (4.37%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 203 (98.54%) AWS
2 114 (55.34%) Amazon EC2
2 114 (55.34%) Amazon S3
3 97 (47.09%) Serverless
4 92 (44.66%) AWS Lambda
5 90 (43.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 84 (40.78%) Amazon EKS
7 58 (28.16%) AWS CloudFormation
8 49 (23.79%) Azure
9 40 (19.42%) Route 53
10 38 (18.45%) Amazon ECS
10 38 (18.45%) GCP
10 38 (18.45%) GitHub
11 32 (15.53%) GitHub Actions
12 26 (12.62%) AWS CloudTrail
12 26 (12.62%) AWS KMS
13 22 (10.68%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 21 (10.19%) AWS Control Tower
15 17 (8.25%) AWS CodePipeline
16 16 (7.77%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 61 (29.61%) Firewall
2 35 (16.99%) VPN
3 31 (15.05%) DNS
4 25 (12.14%) TCP/IP
5 20 (9.71%) Network Security
6 14 (6.80%) BGP
7 13 (6.31%) OSPF
8 12 (5.83%) WAN
9 11 (5.34%) OpenVPN
10 8 (3.88%) SSL
11 7 (3.40%) LAN
12 6 (2.91%) Wireless
13 5 (2.43%) SD-WAN
13 5 (2.43%) Wi-Fi
14 4 (1.94%) NGFW
14 4 (1.94%) Reverse Proxy
14 4 (1.94%) VLAN
15 3 (1.46%) Cisco Nexus
16 2 (0.97%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 2 (0.97%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (28.64%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (7.28%) Power BI
3 14 (6.80%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (6.31%) Amazon Aurora
4 13 (6.31%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (4.37%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (3.88%) Amazon Athena
6 8 (3.88%) MySQL
6 8 (3.88%) Tableau
7 7 (3.40%) NoSQL
8 6 (2.91%) Amazon QuickSight
8 6 (2.91%) DocumentDB
9 5 (2.43%) DynamoDB
9 5 (2.43%) Redis
10 4 (1.94%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.97%) Data Vault
11 2 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.97%) Neo4j
12 1 (0.49%) Apache Hive
12 1 (0.49%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 61 (29.61%) GitLab
2 60 (29.13%) Jenkins
3 36 (17.48%) JIRA
4 34 (16.50%) Git
5 20 (9.71%) Bitbucket
6 12 (5.83%) Artifactory
7 11 (5.34%) SonarQube
8 5 (2.43%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.94%) Terragrunt
10 3 (1.46%) Snyk
11 2 (0.97%) Burp Suite
11 2 (0.97%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.97%) Metasploit
12 1 (0.49%) AppScan
12 1 (0.49%) JUnit
12 1 (0.49%) sqlmap
General
1 62 (30.10%) Social Skills
2 59 (28.64%) Public Sector
3 34 (16.50%) Finance
4 19 (9.22%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (3.88%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.40%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.43%) Military
8 4 (1.94%) Banking
9 3 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.46%) Law
9 3 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.46%) Police
10 2 (0.97%) Games
11 1 (0.49%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.49%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.49%) Legal
11 1 (0.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (28.64%) Architect
2 42 (20.39%) AWS Engineer
3 32 (15.53%) AWS Architect
4 29 (14.08%) Cloud Engineer
5 26 (12.62%) Cloud Architect
6 25 (12.14%) DevOps Engineer
7 21 (10.19%) Security Engineer
8 20 (9.71%) Senior
9 19 (9.22%) AWS DevOps
10 16 (7.77%) Lead
10 16 (7.77%) Technical Architect
11 15 (7.28%) Network Engineer
12 12 (5.83%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 12 (5.83%) Delivery Manager
12 12 (5.83%) Platform Engineer
13 11 (5.34%) Technical Manager
14 10 (4.85%) Scrum Master
14 10 (4.85%) Technical Delivery Manager
15 9 (4.37%) Analyst
16 8 (3.88%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (9.22%) AWS CDK
2 17 (8.25%) OpenID
3 14 (6.80%) Kafka
4 11 (5.34%) LDAP
5 9 (4.37%) OAuth
5 9 (4.37%) OAuth2
6 8 (3.88%) RESTful
7 7 (3.40%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (3.40%) OpenTelemetry
7 7 (3.40%) REST
8 5 (2.43%) SAML
8 5 (2.43%) Spring
8 5 (2.43%) Spring Boot
9 4 (1.94%) gRPC
9 4 (1.94%) Hibernate
9 4 (1.94%) JPA
9 4 (1.94%) Spring Cloud
10 3 (1.46%) 802.1X
10 3 (1.46%) Apollo GraphQL
10 3 (1.46%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 43 (20.87%) Cloud Native
2 17 (8.25%) Data Centre
3 13 (6.31%) Product Ownership
3 13 (6.31%) Security Posture
4 10 (4.85%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.40%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (3.40%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.91%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.91%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.43%) Replication
8 3 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.46%) NHS
8 3 (1.46%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.46%) SCADA
9 2 (0.97%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.97%) PKI
10 1 (0.49%) Chip and PIN
10 1 (0.49%) EMV
10 1 (0.49%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 37 (17.96%) Linux
2 19 (9.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 16 (7.77%) Windows
4 5 (2.43%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (0.97%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.97%) Unix
6 1 (0.49%) CentOS
6 1 (0.49%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.49%) VMS
6 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (57.28%) CI/CD
2 101 (49.03%) DevOps
3 94 (45.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 54 (26.21%) Agile
5 49 (23.79%) Containerisation
6 48 (23.30%) Observability
7 47 (22.82%) Roadmaps
8 43 (20.87%) Migration
9 41 (19.90%) Cloud Security
9 41 (19.90%) Continuous Improvement
10 39 (18.93%) Platform Engineering
11 27 (13.11%) Problem-Solving
12 26 (12.62%) Microservices
13 23 (11.17%) SIEM
14 22 (10.68%) Decision-Making
14 22 (10.68%) Scrum
15 21 (10.19%) Cost Optimisation
15 21 (10.19%) ITIL
15 21 (10.19%) Load Balancing
15 21 (10.19%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 78 (37.86%) Python
2 46 (22.33%) Bash
3 29 (14.08%) Java
4 27 (13.11%) PowerShell
5 18 (8.74%) SQL
6 8 (3.88%) Groovy
7 7 (3.40%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.91%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.43%) Go
10 4 (1.94%) Perl
10 4 (1.94%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.46%) Bicep
12 2 (0.97%) Cypher
12 2 (0.97%) JavaScript
12 2 (0.97%) Ruby
13 1 (0.49%) C
13 1 (0.49%) Lisp
13 1 (0.49%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 108 (52.43%) Security Cleared
2 99 (48.06%) SC Cleared
3 44 (21.36%) AWS Certification
4 20 (9.71%) Azure Certification
5 17 (8.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 11 (5.34%) Degree
7 10 (4.85%) SAFe Agilist
8 9 (4.37%) CISSP
9 8 (3.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 6 (2.91%) CCNP
10 6 (2.91%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
13 2 (0.97%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.97%) PMP
14 1 (0.49%) CCIE
14 1 (0.49%) CCNA
14 1 (0.49%) JNCIA
14 1 (0.49%) JNCIS
14 1 (0.49%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.83%) NIST
2 10 (4.85%) PCI DSS
3 9 (4.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (3.88%) NCSC
5 7 (3.40%) Data Quality
5 7 (3.40%) PMO
5 7 (3.40%) QA
6 6 (2.91%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (2.43%) GDPR
7 5 (2.43%) SLA
8 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.49%) COBIT
8 1 (0.49%) GRC
8 1 (0.49%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.49%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 73 (35.44%) Docker
2 18 (8.74%) Squid
3 14 (6.80%) Active Directory
4 6 (2.91%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (2.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (2.43%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.46%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.46%) vSphere
7 1 (0.49%) Firmware
7 1 (0.49%) HDFS
7 1 (0.49%) NLBS
7 1 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 136 (66.02%) Terraform
2 75 (36.41%) Kubernetes
3 43 (20.87%) Grafana
3 43 (20.87%) Prometheus
4 36 (17.48%) Ansible
5 12 (5.83%) Progress Chef
5 12 (5.83%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (4.85%) FortiGate
7 9 (4.37%) Puppet
8 8 (3.88%) Consul
9 5 (2.43%) Salt
10 4 (1.94%) Argo
10 4 (1.94%) Istio
10 4 (1.94%) Karpenter
10 4 (1.94%) Kibana
10 4 (1.94%) Packer
10 4 (1.94%) Suricata
11 3 (1.46%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.97%) linkerd
12 2 (0.97%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 21 (10.19%) Red Hat
2 18 (8.74%) Google
3 15 (7.28%) Dynatrace
3 15 (7.28%) ServiceNow
3 15 (7.28%) Splunk
4 12 (5.83%) Microsoft
5 11 (5.34%) Cisco
6 10 (4.85%) Fortinet
7 8 (3.88%) Citrix
7 8 (3.88%) Zscaler
8 7 (3.40%) Atlassian
8 7 (3.40%) Tenable
9 6 (2.91%) AVEVA
9 6 (2.91%) CheckPoint
9 6 (2.91%) CloudEndure
9 6 (2.91%) Palo Alto
10 5 (2.43%) VMware
11 4 (1.94%) F5
11 4 (1.94%) Qualys
11 4 (1.94%) Trend Micro