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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 404 416 443
Rank change year-on-year +12 +27 -22
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 180 68 111
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.46% 0.28% 0.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.27% 0.74% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 45 79
10th Percentile £400 £413 £407
25th Percentile £456 £538 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £608 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.11% +10.45% -12.00%
75th Percentile £593 £738 £694
90th Percentile £650 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £513 £597 £540
% change year-on-year -14.19% +10.55% -10.70%

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 14,147 9,154 12,012
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.16% 37.61% 32.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,771 6,438 8,636
10th Percentile £313 £313 £281
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 434 185 317
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.23 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.28 £18.50 £15.85
Median hourly rate £42.69 £26.50 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +61.08% +27.59% -23.78%
75th Percentile £67.50 £41.97 £32.75
90th Percentile £80.76 £75.30 £59.97
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £27.43 £20.97
% change year-on-year +45.85% +30.78% -27.69%

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 11 April 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 11 April 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 -2 114 £525 -13.58% 18
North of England -56 22 £550 -24.14% 5
West Midlands -45 19 £500 +5.26% 2
Midlands -47 19 £500 +5.26% 2
North West -21 10 £568 +33.53% 3
South East -47 10 £404 -30.34% 9
East of England -25 8 £530 +0.95% 3
North East -13 6 £600 -20.00% 1
Yorkshire -51 6 £521 -28.10% 1
South West - 3 £450 - 4
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 28 (15.56%) Confluence
2 9 (5.00%) nginx
3 5 (2.78%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.11%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.56%) Apache
6 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.56%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 180 (100.00%) AWS
2 107 (59.44%) Amazon S3
3 100 (55.56%) Amazon EC2
4 87 (48.33%) Serverless
5 84 (46.67%) AWS Lambda
6 70 (38.89%) Amazon EKS
7 68 (37.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 59 (32.78%) AWS CloudFormation
9 45 (25.00%) Route 53
10 41 (22.78%) Azure
11 39 (21.67%) GitHub
12 38 (21.11%) GCP
13 35 (19.44%) Amazon ECS
14 28 (15.56%) GitHub Actions
15 21 (11.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 21 (11.67%) AWS KMS
16 20 (11.11%) AWS Control Tower
17 18 (10.00%) AWS CloudTrail
18 15 (8.33%) Amazon ELB
18 15 (8.33%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 55 (30.56%) Firewall
2 42 (23.33%) VPN
3 32 (17.78%) DNS
4 19 (10.56%) TCP/IP
5 18 (10.00%) BGP
6 17 (9.44%) OSPF
7 15 (8.33%) Network Security
8 12 (6.67%) WAN
9 11 (6.11%) OpenVPN
10 9 (5.00%) LAN
10 9 (5.00%) SD-WAN
10 9 (5.00%) Wireless
11 8 (4.44%) VLAN
12 6 (3.33%) EIGRP
13 5 (2.78%) Cisco ASA
13 5 (2.78%) DHCP
13 5 (2.78%) MPLS
13 5 (2.78%) SSL
13 5 (2.78%) VXLAN
13 5 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (34.44%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (8.33%) Power BI
3 13 (7.22%) MySQL
4 12 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
5 9 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (4.44%) Amazon Athena
6 8 (4.44%) DynamoDB
6 8 (4.44%) NoSQL
6 8 (4.44%) Tableau
7 7 (3.89%) DocumentDB
8 6 (3.33%) Amazon QuickSight
8 6 (3.33%) MongoDB
8 6 (3.33%) Redis
9 4 (2.22%) Data Lake
9 4 (2.22%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.67%) Big Data
10 3 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.67%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 62 (34.44%) Jenkins
2 54 (30.00%) GitLab
3 27 (15.00%) JIRA
4 24 (13.33%) Git
5 15 (8.33%) Bitbucket
6 10 (5.56%) SonarQube
7 6 (3.33%) Artifactory
8 4 (2.22%) CircleCI
8 4 (2.22%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (2.22%) Terragrunt
9 3 (1.67%) Snyk
10 2 (1.11%) Burp Suite
10 2 (1.11%) Metasploit
11 1 (0.56%) AppScan
11 1 (0.56%) JUnit
11 1 (0.56%) Maven
11 1 (0.56%) MLflow
11 1 (0.56%) sqlmap
General
1 56 (31.11%) Social Skills
2 53 (29.44%) Public Sector
3 32 (17.78%) Finance
4 18 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
5 13 (7.22%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.78%) Banking
8 4 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.22%) Military
9 3 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.11%) Games
10 2 (1.11%) Law
10 2 (1.11%) Police
11 1 (0.56%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 56 (31.11%) Architect
2 29 (16.11%) AWS Engineer
3 28 (15.56%) AWS Architect
4 25 (13.89%) Cloud Architect
5 19 (10.56%) DevOps Engineer
6 18 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 18 (10.00%) Senior
7 16 (8.89%) Lead
8 13 (7.22%) Network Engineer
8 13 (7.22%) Security Engineer
9 12 (6.67%) Delivery Manager
10 11 (6.11%) AWS DevOps
10 11 (6.11%) Technical Manager
11 10 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
11 10 (5.56%) Technical Delivery Manager
12 9 (5.00%) Analyst
12 9 (5.00%) Technical Architect
13 8 (4.44%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 8 (4.44%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (9.44%) Kafka
2 14 (7.78%) OpenID
3 13 (7.22%) AWS CDK
4 9 (5.00%) LDAP
4 9 (5.00%) REST
5 8 (4.44%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (4.44%) OpenTelemetry
6 7 (3.89%) OAuth
6 7 (3.89%) OAuth2
6 7 (3.89%) Spring
6 7 (3.89%) Spring Boot
7 6 (3.33%) RESTful
8 5 (2.78%) JSON
8 5 (2.78%) Node.js
9 4 (2.22%) gRPC
9 4 (2.22%) Hibernate
9 4 (2.22%) JPA
9 4 (2.22%) Spring Cloud
10 3 (1.67%) 802.1X
10 3 (1.67%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 30 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 22 (12.22%) Data Centre
3 11 (6.11%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (6.11%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (4.44%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.67%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.67%) SCADA
6 3 (1.67%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.11%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.11%) NHS
7 2 (1.11%) PKI
7 2 (1.11%) Replication
8 1 (0.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.56%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.56%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (15.56%) Linux
2 9 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (4.44%) Windows
4 4 (2.22%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.56%) Kali Linux
5 1 (0.56%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.56%) Unix
5 1 (0.56%) VMS
5 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (54.44%) CI/CD
2 89 (49.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 80 (44.44%) DevOps
4 47 (26.11%) Containerisation
5 43 (23.89%) Migration
6 42 (23.33%) Observability
7 41 (22.78%) Roadmaps
8 37 (20.56%) Agile
9 31 (17.22%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (16.67%) Cloud Security
11 29 (16.11%) Incident Response
12 27 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 25 (13.89%) Platform Engineering
14 22 (12.22%) Cost Optimisation
14 22 (12.22%) Microservices
15 21 (11.67%) Decision-Making
15 21 (11.67%) Load Balancing
15 21 (11.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 20 (11.11%) Cost Management
17 17 (9.44%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 73 (40.56%) Python
2 34 (18.89%) Bash
3 24 (13.33%) Java
4 19 (10.56%) SQL
5 16 (8.89%) PowerShell
6 7 (3.89%) Go
7 6 (3.33%) Kotlin
8 5 (2.78%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.22%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.22%) Ruby
10 2 (1.11%) Bicep
10 2 (1.11%) Cypher
10 2 (1.11%) Perl
10 2 (1.11%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.56%) Groovy
11 1 (0.56%) Lisp
11 1 (0.56%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 87 (48.33%) Security Cleared
2 78 (43.33%) SC Cleared
3 45 (25.00%) AWS Certification
4 19 (10.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 13 (7.22%) Azure Certification
6 10 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (5.00%) CCNP
8 7 (3.89%) CISSP
9 6 (3.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 6 (3.33%) Degree
10 4 (2.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (2.22%) CCIE
10 4 (2.22%) CCSP
11 3 (1.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (1.67%) CCIE Security
11 3 (1.67%) SAFe Agilist
12 2 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (1.11%) JNCIP
12 2 (1.11%) PMI Certification
12 2 (1.11%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 18 (10.00%) NIST
2 17 (9.44%) PCI DSS
3 11 (6.11%) GDPR
4 7 (3.89%) Data Quality
4 7 (3.89%) NCSC
4 7 (3.89%) PMO
5 6 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (3.33%) QA
6 5 (2.78%) SLA
7 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.56%) COBIT
7 1 (0.56%) GRC
7 1 (0.56%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.56%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 69 (38.33%) Docker
2 11 (6.11%) Squid
3 10 (5.56%) Active Directory
4 6 (3.33%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (3.33%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.11%) HDFS
5 2 (1.11%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.56%) Firmware
6 1 (0.56%) NLBS
6 1 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 125 (69.44%) Terraform
2 67 (37.22%) Kubernetes
3 39 (21.67%) Ansible
4 34 (18.89%) Prometheus
5 28 (15.56%) Grafana
6 11 (6.11%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (5.56%) FortiGate
8 7 (3.89%) Consul
9 6 (3.33%) Kibana
10 5 (2.78%) Karpenter
10 5 (2.78%) Progress Chef
10 5 (2.78%) Puppet
11 4 (2.22%) Salt
12 3 (1.67%) Argo
12 3 (1.67%) Istio
12 3 (1.67%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (1.67%) Packer
13 2 (1.11%) linkerd
13 2 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (1.11%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 17 (9.44%) Splunk
2 14 (7.78%) Fortinet
3 13 (7.22%) Google
3 13 (7.22%) Red Hat
4 12 (6.67%) Cisco
4 12 (6.67%) Dynatrace
4 12 (6.67%) Microsoft
5 9 (5.00%) CloudEndure
5 9 (5.00%) Palo Alto
5 9 (5.00%) ServiceNow
6 8 (4.44%) F5
6 8 (4.44%) Zscaler
7 7 (3.89%) Atlassian
7 7 (3.89%) Citrix
8 6 (3.33%) AVEVA
8 6 (3.33%) CheckPoint
8 6 (3.33%) VMware
9 5 (2.78%) Meraki
9 5 (2.78%) SolarWinds
9 5 (2.78%) Tenable