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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 442 411 441
Rank change year-on-year -31 +30 -7
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 196 110 94
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.43% 0.40% 0.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.23% 1.06% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 80 61
10th Percentile £412 £446 £409
25th Percentile £456 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £584 £638 £664
90th Percentile £650 £704 £685
UK median daily rate £513 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -3.30% -3.64% -8.33%
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 15,887 10,359 11,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.78% 37.34% 33.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,607 7,010 7,887
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £719 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 547 275 200
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £17.24
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £26.99
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -3.65% -18.23%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £83.10 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £28.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year +21.39% +3.70% -22.86%

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 24 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 24 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 -15 117 £537 -8.98% 11
Midlands -45 28 £477 +0.42% 1
West Midlands -48 25 £477 +0.42% 1
North of England -52 22 £488 -8.88% 8
North West -35 13 £464 -13.27% 2
East of England -21 9 £450 -12.20%
South East -60 9 £669 +15.30% 3
North East -37 5 £544 -9.38% 2
Yorkshire -36 4 £510 +2.00% 4
South West -41 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 30 (15.31%) Confluence
2 10 (5.10%) SharePoint
3 7 (3.57%) nginx
4 6 (3.06%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (2.04%) Apache
6 3 (1.53%) Apache Spark
7 2 (1.02%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.51%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 193 (98.47%) AWS
2 101 (51.53%) Amazon EC2
3 99 (50.51%) Amazon S3
4 83 (42.35%) Serverless
5 81 (41.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 78 (39.80%) AWS Lambda
7 67 (34.18%) Amazon EKS
8 54 (27.55%) AWS CloudFormation
9 51 (26.02%) Azure
10 37 (18.88%) GitHub
11 33 (16.84%) GCP
12 32 (16.33%) Amazon ECS
13 28 (14.29%) AWS CloudTrail
13 28 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
14 26 (13.27%) AWS KMS
15 20 (10.20%) Route 53
16 16 (8.16%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 16 (8.16%) Datadog
17 15 (7.65%) Snowflake
18 12 (6.12%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 50 (25.51%) Firewall
2 28 (14.29%) VPN
3 25 (12.76%) TCP/IP
4 21 (10.71%) DNS
5 20 (10.20%) Network Security
6 16 (8.16%) WAN
7 13 (6.63%) BGP
8 11 (5.61%) OSPF
9 10 (5.10%) LAN
9 10 (5.10%) SSL
10 8 (4.08%) OpenVPN
11 7 (3.57%) VLAN
12 6 (3.06%) Cisco Nexus
12 6 (3.06%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 6 (3.06%) SD-WAN
13 5 (2.55%) BIG-IP
13 5 (2.55%) MPLS
13 5 (2.55%) NetScaler
14 4 (2.04%) SSH
14 4 (2.04%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (31.63%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (10.71%) Amazon Aurora
2 21 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (5.61%) Power BI
4 10 (5.10%) Amazon Redshift
4 10 (5.10%) MongoDB
4 10 (5.10%) MySQL
5 8 (4.08%) Amazon Athena
5 8 (4.08%) Redis
5 8 (4.08%) SQL Server
6 5 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (2.55%) DynamoDB
7 4 (2.04%) Amazon QuickSight
7 4 (2.04%) Tableau
8 3 (1.53%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.53%) Delta Lake
8 3 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.02%) Data Vault
9 2 (1.02%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (1.02%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 56 (28.57%) GitLab
2 50 (25.51%) Jenkins
3 36 (18.37%) Git
4 26 (13.27%) JIRA
5 12 (6.12%) Bitbucket
6 11 (5.61%) Artifactory
7 10 (5.10%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (2.55%) SonarQube
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 69 (35.20%) Social Skills
2 52 (26.53%) Public Sector
3 17 (8.67%) Finance
4 9 (4.59%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (3.57%) Banking
6 6 (3.06%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.55%) Law
7 5 (2.55%) Military
8 4 (2.04%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
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%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.51%) Local Government
11 1 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.51%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 48 (24.49%) Architect
2 46 (23.47%) AWS Engineer
3 35 (17.86%) DevOps Engineer
4 28 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
5 27 (13.78%) Cloud Engineer
6 24 (12.24%) Senior
7 19 (9.69%) AWS Architect
7 19 (9.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 17 (8.67%) Platform Engineer
9 15 (7.65%) Network Engineer
9 15 (7.65%) Security Engineer
10 14 (7.14%) Technical Architect
11 13 (6.63%) DBA
12 12 (6.12%) Lead
13 11 (5.61%) Scrum Master
14 9 (4.59%) Administrator
14 9 (4.59%) Network Architect
14 9 (4.59%) Solutions Architect
15 8 (4.08%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 7 (3.57%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (68.88%) Terraform
2 17 (8.67%) AWS CDK
3 8 (4.08%) SAML
4 6 (3.06%) OpenID
5 5 (2.55%) boto
5 5 (2.55%) Kafka
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%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (1.53%) React
8 2 (1.02%) ARM Templates
8 2 (1.02%) cloud-init
8 2 (1.02%) OAuth
8 2 (1.02%) OAuth2
8 2 (1.02%) PySpark
8 2 (1.02%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 36 (18.37%) Cloud Native
2 18 (9.18%) Replication
3 17 (8.67%) Security Posture
4 14 (7.14%) Data Centre
5 13 (6.63%) Hybrid Cloud
6 12 (6.12%) Product Ownership
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%) Public Cloud
12 2 (1.02%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 44 (22.45%) Linux
2 20 (10.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 17 (8.67%) Windows
4 8 (4.08%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (2.55%) Unix
6 4 (2.04%) AIX
7 3 (1.53%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (1.02%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.51%) CentOS
9 1 (0.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (62.24%) CI/CD
2 108 (55.10%) Infrastructure as Code
3 105 (53.57%) DevOps
4 50 (25.51%) Agile
5 48 (24.49%) Containerisation
6 44 (22.45%) Platform Engineering
7 43 (21.94%) Observability
8 42 (21.43%) Cloud Security
9 37 (18.88%) Continuous Improvement
10 35 (17.86%) Roadmaps
11 32 (16.33%) Migration
12 26 (13.27%) High Availability
12 26 (13.27%) Secrets Management
12 26 (13.27%) Stakeholder Management
13 24 (12.24%) Microservices
14 23 (11.73%) Infrastructure Automation
15 22 (11.22%) ITIL
15 22 (11.22%) Scrum
16 21 (10.71%) DevSecOps
16 21 (10.71%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 80 (40.82%) Python
2 48 (24.49%) Bash
3 30 (15.31%) Java
4 29 (14.80%) PowerShell
5 24 (12.24%) SQL
6 12 (6.12%) Groovy
7 8 (4.08%) Shell Script
8 7 (3.57%) Perl
9 6 (3.06%) Kotlin
10 4 (2.04%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.53%) Go
12 2 (1.02%) Bicep
12 2 (1.02%) Ruby
13 1 (0.51%) C
13 1 (0.51%) Cypher
13 1 (0.51%) Gremlin
13 1 (0.51%) JavaScript
13 1 (0.51%) R
13 1 (0.51%) SHACL
13 1 (0.51%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 99 (50.51%) Security Cleared
2 89 (45.41%) SC Cleared
3 48 (24.49%) AWS Certification
4 26 (13.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 23 (11.73%) Azure Certification
6 18 (9.18%) Degree
7 11 (5.61%) SAFe Agilist
8 9 (4.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 8 (4.08%) CCNP
9 8 (4.08%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (3.57%) CISSP
11 5 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (2.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 4 (2.04%) DV Cleared
13 3 (1.53%) CCIE
13 3 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (1.53%) Master's Degree
13 3 (1.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (4.08%) GDPR
4 6 (3.06%) NCSC
5 4 (2.04%) SLA
6 3 (1.53%) PMO
6 3 (1.53%) QA
7 2 (1.02%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.02%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (1.02%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.51%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.51%) NIST
8 1 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.51%) WCAG
System Software
1 70 (35.71%) Docker
2 15 (7.65%) Active Directory
3 10 (5.10%) 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 1 (0.51%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.51%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 68 (34.69%) Kubernetes
2 43 (21.94%) Grafana
3 39 (19.90%) Ansible
4 37 (18.88%) Prometheus
5 10 (5.10%) Progress Chef
5 10 (5.10%) Puppet
5 10 (5.10%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (4.08%) Packer
7 6 (3.06%) Argo
8 4 (2.04%) Istio
8 4 (2.04%) Salt
8 4 (2.04%) Suricata
9 3 (1.53%) Consul
9 3 (1.53%) SELinux
9 3 (1.53%) vCenter Server
10 2 (1.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (1.02%) FortiGate
10 2 (1.02%) Sysdig
10 2 (1.02%) systemd
10 2 (1.02%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 19 (9.69%) Red Hat
2 18 (9.18%) Cisco
2 18 (9.18%) Google
3 16 (8.16%) Microsoft
4 15 (7.65%) ServiceNow
5 13 (6.63%) VMware
6 9 (4.59%) Dynatrace
6 9 (4.59%) Palo Alto
6 9 (4.59%) Splunk
7 7 (3.57%) F5
7 7 (3.57%) SolarWinds
7 7 (3.57%) Zscaler
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%) Ping Identity
10 3 (1.53%) Veeam