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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 449 387 440
Rank change year-on-year -62 +53 +1
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 195 130 91
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.42% 0.47% 0.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.23% 1.22% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 89 54
10th Percentile £400 £398 £475
25th Percentile £438 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £561
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -6.46% -6.46%
75th Percentile £578 £638 £675
90th Percentile £652 £708 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% -0.74%
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 15,857 10,675 11,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.39% 38.22% 34.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,546 7,222 7,541
10th Percentile £320 £305 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -3.67%
75th Percentile £631 £625 £644
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 255 165
10th Percentile £15.36 £15.35 £15.99
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +6.87%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £26.00 £34.47
% change year-on-year +15.38% -24.56% +4.44%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -23 125 £525 -12.50% 116
North of England -66 24 £447 -16.45% 19
Midlands -54 22 £477 +0.42% 12
West Midlands -63 19 £482 +1.53% 8
North West -39 11 £447 -13.62% 13
South East -51 11 £638 - 11
Yorkshire -35 9 £463 -9.76% 5
South West -36 4 £425 -37.04% 7
North East -38 4 £425 -26.09% 1
East of England -24 3 £345 -25.41% 8
East Midlands - 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 25 (12.82%) Confluence
2 10 (5.13%) Apache
3 9 (4.62%) Apache Spark
4 8 (4.10%) nginx
5 5 (2.56%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (1.03%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.51%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.51%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.51%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 192 (98.46%) AWS
2 104 (53.33%) Amazon EC2
3 102 (52.31%) Amazon S3
4 92 (47.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 76 (38.97%) Serverless
6 73 (37.44%) Amazon EKS
7 71 (36.41%) AWS Lambda
8 65 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
9 46 (23.59%) Azure
10 40 (20.51%) Amazon ECS
11 37 (18.97%) GitHub
12 32 (16.41%) AWS KMS
12 32 (16.41%) GCP
13 29 (14.87%) AWS CloudTrail
14 27 (13.85%) GitHub Actions
15 22 (11.28%) Route 53
16 16 (8.21%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 13 (6.67%) Datadog
18 12 (6.15%) Amazon SQS
18 12 (6.15%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 38 (19.49%) Firewall
2 23 (11.79%) DNS
3 19 (9.74%) TCP/IP
4 17 (8.72%) Network Security
5 14 (7.18%) VPN
5 14 (7.18%) WAN
6 8 (4.10%) LAN
6 8 (4.10%) SSL
7 7 (3.59%) BGP
8 6 (3.08%) SD-WAN
8 6 (3.08%) SSH
9 5 (2.56%) MPLS
9 5 (2.56%) OSPF
10 4 (2.05%) BIG-IP
10 4 (2.05%) Cisco ASA
10 4 (2.05%) Cisco Firepower
10 4 (2.05%) IPsec
10 4 (2.05%) OpenVPN
10 4 (2.05%) Reverse Proxy
10 4 (2.05%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (33.85%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (13.85%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (12.31%) Amazon Aurora
4 15 (7.69%) MongoDB
5 14 (7.18%) MySQL
6 11 (5.64%) SQL Server
7 10 (5.13%) Amazon Athena
8 9 (4.62%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (4.62%) DynamoDB
8 9 (4.62%) Redis
9 8 (4.10%) Data Lake
10 5 (2.56%) Electronic Patient Records
11 4 (2.05%) Amazon QuickSight
11 4 (2.05%) Big Data
12 3 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.54%) Delta Lake
12 3 (1.54%) Flink
12 3 (1.54%) Metadata
13 2 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (1.03%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 57 (29.23%) GitLab
2 46 (23.59%) Jenkins
3 41 (21.03%) Git
4 25 (12.82%) JIRA
5 9 (4.62%) Artifactory
5 9 (4.62%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (4.10%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.05%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.03%) Maven
8 2 (1.03%) Spinnaker
8 2 (1.03%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.51%) Cucumber
General
1 77 (39.49%) Social Skills
2 46 (23.59%) Public Sector
3 18 (9.23%) Finance
4 9 (4.62%) Banking
5 8 (4.10%) Military
6 7 (3.59%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.08%) Law
8 5 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.05%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.54%) Police
11 2 (1.03%) Legal
11 2 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.51%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.51%) Games
12 1 (0.51%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.51%) Local Government
12 1 (0.51%) Prime Brokerage
12 1 (0.51%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 46 (23.59%) DevOps Engineer
2 43 (22.05%) AWS Engineer
3 41 (21.03%) Architect
4 27 (13.85%) AWS DevOps
5 24 (12.31%) Cloud Engineer
6 22 (11.28%) Platform Engineer
6 22 (11.28%) Senior
7 21 (10.77%) AWS Architect
7 21 (10.77%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 15 (7.69%) DBA
9 12 (6.15%) Administrator
10 11 (5.64%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 11 (5.64%) Lead
10 11 (5.64%) Security Engineer
10 11 (5.64%) Technical Architect
11 10 (5.13%) Senior DevOps
11 10 (5.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 9 (4.62%) Solutions Architect
13 8 (4.10%) Network Architect
13 8 (4.10%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (76.41%) Terraform
2 14 (7.18%) AWS CDK
3 10 (5.13%) Kafka
4 8 (4.10%) SAML
5 6 (3.08%) boto
5 6 (3.08%) RESTful
6 5 (2.56%) GraphQL
6 5 (2.56%) OpenID
6 5 (2.56%) PySpark
7 4 (2.05%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (2.05%) LDAP
7 4 (2.05%) OAuth
7 4 (2.05%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (2.05%) OpenTofu
7 4 (2.05%) React
7 4 (2.05%) REST
8 3 (1.54%) Apollo GraphQL
8 3 (1.54%) Keycloak
8 3 (1.54%) OAuth2
8 3 (1.54%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (22.05%) Cloud Native
2 24 (12.31%) Replication
3 17 (8.72%) Security Posture
4 11 (5.64%) Data Centre
4 11 (5.64%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (5.64%) Product Ownership
5 10 (5.13%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (4.10%) Management Information System
6 8 (4.10%) Public Cloud
7 7 (3.59%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (3.59%) Onboarding
8 6 (3.08%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 6 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (3.08%) NHS
9 5 (2.56%) PKI
9 5 (2.56%) Private Cloud
10 4 (2.05%) Cloud Security Posture
10 4 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.54%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 50 (25.64%) Linux
2 23 (11.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 20 (10.26%) Windows
4 10 (5.13%) Amazon Linux
5 7 (3.59%) Ubuntu
6 6 (3.08%) Unix
7 4 (2.05%) AIX
8 3 (1.54%) Windows Server
8 3 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (1.03%) CentOS
10 1 (0.51%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (69.74%) CI/CD
2 129 (66.15%) Infrastructure as Code
3 118 (60.51%) DevOps
4 56 (28.72%) Agile
5 54 (27.69%) Containerisation
5 54 (27.69%) Observability
6 46 (23.59%) Cloud Security
6 46 (23.59%) Platform Engineering
7 41 (21.03%) Continuous Improvement
8 37 (18.97%) Secrets Management
9 35 (17.95%) Stakeholder Management
10 31 (15.90%) High Availability
11 27 (13.85%) Roadmaps
11 27 (13.85%) Root Cause Analysis
12 25 (12.82%) Infrastructure Automation
13 24 (12.31%) Disaster Recovery
13 24 (12.31%) Microservices
13 24 (12.31%) Migration
13 24 (12.31%) Performance Tuning
14 23 (11.79%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 83 (42.56%) Python
2 50 (25.64%) Bash
3 27 (13.85%) Java
4 26 (13.33%) PowerShell
4 26 (13.33%) SQL
5 13 (6.67%) Groovy
6 8 (4.10%) Shell Script
7 7 (3.59%) Go
7 7 (3.59%) Perl
8 6 (3.08%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.54%) Bicep
10 2 (1.03%) C#
10 2 (1.03%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.51%) C
11 1 (0.51%) Cypher
11 1 (0.51%) Gremlin
11 1 (0.51%) R
11 1 (0.51%) SHACL
11 1 (0.51%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 93 (47.69%) Security Cleared
2 85 (43.59%) SC Cleared
3 50 (25.64%) AWS Certification
4 27 (13.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 22 (11.28%) Degree
6 18 (9.23%) Azure Certification
7 9 (4.62%) CISSP
8 8 (4.10%) SAFe Agilist
9 6 (3.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 6 (3.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 6 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (2.05%) DV Cleared
11 4 (2.05%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.54%) CCNP
12 3 (1.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 2 (1.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (1.03%) CCIE
13 2 (1.03%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (5.13%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.13%) GDPR
3 9 (4.62%) NCSC
4 6 (3.08%) QA
5 3 (1.54%) NIST
6 2 (1.03%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.03%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (1.03%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.03%) SLA
7 1 (0.51%) WCAG
System Software
1 71 (36.41%) Docker
2 13 (6.67%) Active Directory
3 9 (4.62%) Squid
4 7 (3.59%) VMware NSX
5 4 (2.05%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.54%) vSphere
7 2 (1.03%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (1.03%) DFS Replication
7 2 (1.03%) Dovecot
7 2 (1.03%) Postfix
7 2 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.51%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 74 (37.95%) Kubernetes
2 51 (26.15%) Grafana
3 45 (23.08%) Prometheus
4 41 (21.03%) Ansible
5 14 (7.18%) Puppet
6 9 (4.62%) Packer
6 9 (4.62%) Progress Chef
7 7 (3.59%) Argo
7 7 (3.59%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (2.56%) Istio
9 4 (2.05%) Salt
9 4 (2.05%) Suricata
10 3 (1.54%) Consul
10 3 (1.54%) SELinux
10 3 (1.54%) systemd
10 3 (1.54%) vCenter Server
10 3 (1.54%) ZABBIX
11 2 (1.03%) linkerd
11 2 (1.03%) Nessus
11 2 (1.03%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 17 (8.72%) ServiceNow
2 16 (8.21%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.21%) Red Hat
3 14 (7.18%) Cisco
4 13 (6.67%) Google
5 12 (6.15%) VMware
6 11 (5.64%) Splunk
7 8 (4.10%) Palo Alto
8 7 (3.59%) Dynatrace
9 6 (3.08%) SolarWinds
10 4 (2.05%) Databricks
10 4 (2.05%) F5
10 4 (2.05%) PagerDuty
11 3 (1.54%) Aruba
11 3 (1.54%) Fortinet
11 3 (1.54%) Ping Identity
11 3 (1.54%) Tenable
11 3 (1.54%) Trend Micro
11 3 (1.54%) Veeam
12 2 (1.03%) Confluent