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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 398 422 445
Rank change year-on-year +24 +23 -6
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 204 67 104
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.48% 0.27% 0.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.36% 0.72% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 46 76
10th Percentile £400 £409 £404
25th Percentile £456 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £571 £633 £663
90th Percentile £625 £694 £694
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -2.38% -1.87% -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 14,961 9,318 12,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.99% 37.78% 32.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,143 6,346 8,595
10th Percentile £325 £311 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £511 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.59% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 527 228 333
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.68 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.33 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.97% +17.79% -36.10%
75th Percentile £68.75 £38.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £71.63 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £28.25 £21.64
% change year-on-year +30.97% +30.55% -38.17%

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 14 June 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 14 June 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 +5 127 £519 -5.72% 14
North of England -44 27 £481 +13.24% 7
West Midlands -35 25 £494 +3.95% 1
Midlands -38 25 £494 +3.95% 1
North West -25 17 £495 +16.53% 4
East of England -26 8 £490 -4.39% 1
South East -59 7 £445 -23.23% 11
North East -30 5 £413 - 1
Yorkshire -47 5 £500 - 2
South West - 5 £475 - 6
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 (18.63%) Confluence
2 9 (4.41%) nginx
3 5 (2.45%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.98%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.98%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (4.41%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 201 (98.53%) AWS
2 115 (56.37%) Amazon EC2
3 114 (55.88%) Amazon S3
4 98 (48.04%) Serverless
5 93 (45.59%) AWS Lambda
6 92 (45.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 87 (42.65%) Amazon EKS
8 49 (24.02%) AWS CloudFormation
8 49 (24.02%) Azure
9 39 (19.12%) Amazon ECS
9 39 (19.12%) Route 53
10 36 (17.65%) GitHub
11 33 (16.18%) GCP
12 29 (14.22%) GitHub Actions
13 19 (9.31%) AWS CloudTrail
13 19 (9.31%) AWS KMS
14 18 (8.82%) AWS CodePipeline
15 16 (7.84%) Power Platform
16 14 (6.86%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 14 (6.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 62 (30.39%) Firewall
2 33 (16.18%) VPN
3 28 (13.73%) DNS
4 27 (13.24%) TCP/IP
5 21 (10.29%) Network Security
6 14 (6.86%) BGP
7 13 (6.37%) OSPF
8 12 (5.88%) WAN
9 11 (5.39%) OpenVPN
10 9 (4.41%) SSL
11 7 (3.43%) Wireless
12 6 (2.94%) LAN
13 5 (2.45%) SD-WAN
13 5 (2.45%) Wi-Fi
14 4 (1.96%) NGFW
14 4 (1.96%) Reverse Proxy
14 4 (1.96%) VLAN
15 3 (1.47%) Cisco Nexus
16 2 (0.98%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 2 (0.98%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (29.41%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (7.84%) Power BI
3 13 (6.37%) Amazon Aurora
3 13 (6.37%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (5.39%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (4.41%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (3.92%) Amazon Athena
6 8 (3.92%) Tableau
7 7 (3.43%) MySQL
8 6 (2.94%) Amazon QuickSight
8 6 (2.94%) DynamoDB
8 6 (2.94%) NoSQL
9 5 (2.45%) DocumentDB
10 4 (1.96%) Redis
11 2 (0.98%) Data Vault
11 2 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.98%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.98%) Neo4j
12 1 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.49%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 63 (30.88%) GitLab
2 59 (28.92%) Jenkins
3 37 (18.14%) JIRA
4 34 (16.67%) Git
5 21 (10.29%) Bitbucket
6 12 (5.88%) Artifactory
7 11 (5.39%) SonarQube
8 5 (2.45%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.98%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.98%) Metasploit
9 2 (0.98%) Snyk
10 1 (0.49%) AppScan
10 1 (0.49%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.49%) JUnit
10 1 (0.49%) sqlmap
10 1 (0.49%) Terragrunt
General
1 67 (32.84%) Social Skills
2 54 (26.47%) Public Sector
3 28 (13.73%) Finance
4 19 (9.31%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.43%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.94%) Military
8 5 (2.45%) Banking
9 4 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.96%) Law
10 3 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.47%) Police
11 2 (0.98%) Games
11 2 (0.98%) Legal
12 1 (0.49%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.49%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.49%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 50 (24.51%) Architect
2 46 (22.55%) AWS Engineer
3 31 (15.20%) DevOps Engineer
4 30 (14.71%) Cloud Engineer
5 25 (12.25%) AWS Architect
5 25 (12.25%) AWS DevOps
6 20 (9.80%) Security Engineer
7 19 (9.31%) Senior
8 17 (8.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 16 (7.84%) Network Engineer
10 15 (7.35%) Cloud Architect
10 15 (7.35%) Technical Architect
11 13 (6.37%) Delivery Manager
12 12 (5.88%) Lead
12 12 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
13 11 (5.39%) Scrum Master
13 11 (5.39%) Technical Manager
14 10 (4.90%) Solutions Architect
14 10 (4.90%) Technical Delivery Manager
15 9 (4.41%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (9.80%) AWS CDK
2 17 (8.33%) OpenID
3 11 (5.39%) Kafka
3 11 (5.39%) LDAP
4 9 (4.41%) OAuth
4 9 (4.41%) OAuth2
5 7 (3.43%) OpenTelemetry
5 7 (3.43%) RESTful
5 7 (3.43%) SAML
6 6 (2.94%) REST
7 4 (1.96%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (1.96%) gRPC
7 4 (1.96%) Hibernate
7 4 (1.96%) JPA
7 4 (1.96%) Spring
7 4 (1.96%) Spring Boot
7 4 (1.96%) Spring Cloud
8 3 (1.47%) 802.1X
8 3 (1.47%) Apollo GraphQL
8 3 (1.47%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 44 (21.57%) Cloud Native
2 19 (9.31%) Data Centre
3 14 (6.86%) Security Posture
4 13 (6.37%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (3.43%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (3.43%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.94%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.45%) Replication
9 4 (1.96%) NHS
10 3 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.47%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.47%) SCADA
11 2 (0.98%) Cloud Security Posture
11 2 (0.98%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.98%) Fixed Income
12 1 (0.49%) Distributed Architecture
12 1 (0.49%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 38 (18.63%) Linux
2 20 (9.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 17 (8.33%) Windows
4 5 (2.45%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (0.98%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.98%) Unix
5 2 (0.98%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.49%) CentOS
6 1 (0.49%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.49%) VMS
6 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (59.80%) CI/CD
2 110 (53.92%) DevOps
3 100 (49.02%) Infrastructure as Code
4 57 (27.94%) Agile
5 54 (26.47%) Containerisation
6 46 (22.55%) Observability
7 45 (22.06%) Continuous Improvement
8 42 (20.59%) Roadmaps
9 41 (20.10%) Cloud Security
9 41 (20.10%) Platform Engineering
10 36 (17.65%) Migration
11 27 (13.24%) Problem-Solving
12 26 (12.75%) Microservices
13 23 (11.27%) Decision-Making
13 23 (11.27%) Infrastructure Automation
13 23 (11.27%) Scrum
13 23 (11.27%) SIEM
14 22 (10.78%) Stakeholder Management
15 21 (10.29%) Change Management
15 21 (10.29%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 79 (38.73%) Python
2 46 (22.55%) Bash
3 29 (14.22%) Java
4 27 (13.24%) PowerShell
5 18 (8.82%) SQL
6 8 (3.92%) Groovy
7 7 (3.43%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.94%) Kotlin
9 4 (1.96%) Go
9 4 (1.96%) Perl
9 4 (1.96%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.47%) Bicep
11 2 (0.98%) Cypher
11 2 (0.98%) Ruby
12 1 (0.49%) C
12 1 (0.49%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.49%) Lisp
12 1 (0.49%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 105 (51.47%) Security Cleared
2 97 (47.55%) SC Cleared
3 37 (18.14%) AWS Certification
4 20 (9.80%) Azure Certification
5 13 (6.37%) Degree
6 12 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (5.39%) SAFe Agilist
8 9 (4.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 9 (4.41%) CISSP
9 6 (2.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (2.45%) CCNP
10 5 (2.45%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.98%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.98%) PMP
13 1 (0.49%) CCIE
13 1 (0.49%) CEH
13 1 (0.49%) JNCIA
13 1 (0.49%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.39%) NIST
2 10 (4.90%) PCI DSS
3 9 (4.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (3.43%) Data Quality
4 7 (3.43%) PMO
4 7 (3.43%) QA
5 6 (2.94%) GDPR
6 5 (2.45%) SLA
7 1 (0.49%) COBIT
7 1 (0.49%) GRC
7 1 (0.49%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.49%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.49%) NCSC
System Software
1 74 (36.27%) Docker
2 18 (8.82%) Squid
3 13 (6.37%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.45%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.47%) vSphere
6 1 (0.49%) Firmware
6 1 (0.49%) NLBS
6 1 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 135 (66.18%) Terraform
2 78 (38.24%) Kubernetes
3 44 (21.57%) Grafana
3 44 (21.57%) Prometheus
4 37 (18.14%) Ansible
5 12 (5.88%) Progress Chef
5 12 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (4.90%) Puppet
7 9 (4.41%) FortiGate
8 8 (3.92%) Consul
9 5 (2.45%) Argo
9 5 (2.45%) Packer
9 5 (2.45%) Salt
10 4 (1.96%) Istio
10 4 (1.96%) Suricata
11 3 (1.47%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.98%) Karpenter
12 2 (0.98%) linkerd
12 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.98%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 22 (10.78%) Red Hat
2 18 (8.82%) Google
3 15 (7.35%) Dynatrace
3 15 (7.35%) ServiceNow
4 14 (6.86%) Splunk
5 12 (5.88%) Cisco
6 11 (5.39%) Microsoft
7 9 (4.41%) Fortinet
8 8 (3.92%) Zscaler
9 7 (3.43%) Atlassian
9 7 (3.43%) Palo Alto
10 6 (2.94%) AVEVA
10 6 (2.94%) CheckPoint
10 6 (2.94%) Tenable
11 5 (2.45%) Aruba
11 5 (2.45%) VMware
12 4 (1.96%) F5
12 4 (1.96%) PagerDuty
12 4 (1.96%) Trend Micro
13 3 (1.47%) Ping Identity